Emily shrieked, using her hands to fight off her captors while saying countless spells in her head."Em?" A familiar voice asked.She pried her eyes open."Josh, Brenda! You guys terrified me!"The young teenage boy holding her grinned at the female beside him. Both of them were quite lanky in the dark cloaks they wore."I told you she'd be here." He teased.The girl, Brenda, rolled her eyes and pried off shuddering Emily from his grasp. "You gave her a scare." She admonished. Cleaning dust off Emily's body."Brenda and Josh." Emily whispered sternly. "What was that!"Josh giggled, "We were trying out a new spell that binds a supernatural being and makes them unable to use their powers." Brenda groaned, palming her face."I told him it was a bad idea." "And I was your test bunny?" Emily asked incredulously, with her brows raised."Sorry." They murmured.Emily heaved, thanking the stars and spirits that they were not actual Witch hunters or worse werewolves."We came to warn you a
"What secret?" Andrew asked again, leaning on the door post.He read the room, seeing the shock that was quickly wiped off their faces."Laura?" He asked.Laura shrugged apologizingly. Caleb's rant to her were nothing but smoke without fire. As long as Caleb spewed it she didn't listen to it.Caleb snickered, freeing himself from Laura's grasp and straightening his clothes."You see brother…" he started,Andrew smacked him in the face, sending him to the ground. "That's for what you did!" Caleb jumped up and grabbed Andrew's collar."How dare you!" He growled.Andrew snorted,Elbowing his belly and freeing himself from his grasp. He felt proud that Laura's lessons were paying off.Caleb tried to reach for him again, but he maneuvered out of his way, grabbing his shoulders and sending him to the floor.Caleb's veins bulged."You think you're smart ehh? You think you're now stronger because of Laura's lessons right?" Caleb challenged.Laura held Caleb back before he advanced again."Y
"Larry?" Andrew called out, facing his friend.Larry, who had begun munching his food, looked up. "I need to confirm something." He said.Larry scrunched his brows "This better not be one of your elaborate schemes."Andrew smirked, "No it isn't, just give me some time, I'll be back before you know it." He said jumping out of the car."Andrew?!" Larry warned.Andrew took off, running towards Emily's scent. When he was sure he was far off from Larry, the truck produced a small bottle of lotion from his pockets, then hurriedly shed his clothes and applied it.The lotion would mask his scent and give him some time with Emily. Smiling, he pocketed his hands and strolled towards the human gathering where Emily's scent was coming from.Andrew followed it, also enticed by the scent of corn dogs, popcorn and humans drifting through the air until he came to a dirt road that led to a fair yards away. A wide grin spread across his face. He ran his hair through his hair and hastened into the
Emily stood arms folded, staring out of the window of her new bedroom in her apartment in Manhattan.Behind her, boxes and pieces of furniture were scattered about. The only thing that seemed to be in its rightful position was the Queen bed that lay at the center of the room.She sighed, wishing her mom had agreed to follow her to New York. During the few days that followed, Emily did what she considered her best to convince her mom.She'd even told her to come to help her search for a new apartment, but her mom was adamant."I can't leave here. I have to know what's going on with the coven." She had said."Mom, this is the best time, they're busy planning to battle those beasts, they wouldn't know that we're gone."Her mother chuckled darkly, piling her chestnut brown hair into a bun."They will always do. Shirley will know, the moment you step out of this city."The fear in her mother's eyes made her strongly reconsider her decision. She chose to leave the coven behind and wanted to
The Old Alpha growled as he stomped out of the dungeon house.Mendez, Laura, and Dominic scurried after him, each of them panting heavily. "Send him away," Mendez said. "Caleb is spiraling out of control. You need him gone before he does something you can't handle."Douglas fumed,How did he sire that fool? He wondered. The moron didn't know when to stop."Laura!" He bellowed. "Instructed you to take him to The Room. How did he escape?" "I'm sorry Alpha, I didn't know that he had other plans.""You didn't know?! Laura has old age gotten to you? Do I need to reevaluate your importance to me?" Douglas roared."First he attacks his brother before the pack, then he escapes and goes around threatening pack members!" "Send him away," Mendez repeated, "I can arrange it, he'll go with me since I'll be leaving the pack soon.""No!" Douglas bellowed, his power radiating around him. "We can't have him running around spewing nonsense. We need to contain him here." They shivered as the old Alp
Laura and Andrew froze, then slowly peered into the cell room."What are both of you doing here?" Douglas questioned again, staring menacingly at Andrew and Laura."You killed her?!" Andrew screamed. His wolf was immediately riled up. "Fuck!" He screamed, "I cannot believe you father, I can't." "I believe I asked both of you a question!" Douglas retorted.Sweat drenched his body as he breathed heavily.Laura stared mutely at the body sprawled before them."What have you done?" Laura gritted out. "Fuck! What the hell are we going to do now?" Douglas growled and charged at them. Gold slits flashed in his darkened eyes, signaling that his wolf had taken control.Andrew quickly pushed Laura behind him and faced his father's wolf."What are you doing here?" It asked, his dominance hung in the air, triggering Andrew's wolf. Andrew bared his teeth at him, his wolf almost at the surface.Laura had begun whimpering behind him. Douglas's wolf snarled."I am still your Alpha boy. You will
"We'll handle it from here," Douglas announced as the Pack's advisors filed in to take their seats.Andrew raised his brows at his father. Handle was not what the old alpha had been doing recently, he'd been making things a lot worse instead. He folded his arms with a questioning look. Even Laura seemed hesitant. How were they sure that he wouldn't do something worse out of anger? Andrew didn't want to risk anything that would ruin his chances of leaving the pack for good. The old alpha had to be stable enough to handle the pack affairs. "Douglas?" Laura questioned. "We could stay, you know?"Douglas breathed out heavily. "Laura, remember what I instructed you to do? We have no time. You need to begin preparations immediately. You guys go on.""Father, shouldn't I stay with you?" Andrew probed. He could feel his father's wolf prowling at the surface, the slightest provocation was going to set it off and the Pack's advisors weren't people to mince their words or hide their emotions
"Thank you for coming in," Emily said, standing up from her desk and firmly shaking the mountain of the man she'd discussed with for the past minutes. He nodded curtly and strode out of her office.Emily fell back on her seat with a slow grin widening across her face. She'd never been so grateful or felt so wholesome.The past few days at Elrold corps had been startling. She'd been out on the streets investigating cases of domestic violence, mental illness, and drug abuse on children, interviewing the victims and witnesses, compiling reports of these cases, monitoring and updating her reports, providing counsel, scheduling court appointments, giving counsel, and so on.She picked up her pen and scribbled on her notepad. She had just officially concluded a case of a fairy kid whose guardians had forced to use her powers to earn them a living. Emily and her team had successfully pried her out of their hands and taken her to a fairy family in need of a child.She stretched her arms and
"Did he agree?" Emily asked as soon as her mother reappeared. "Yeah, after a lot of persuasion."Emily released a shaky breath. Her body was burning like she'd been bathed with acid. "Let's get into position then." She said, lifting herself up. The pain was too much had she found herself unable to stand. She staggered backward and fell to the bed. "Emily! What's wrong?" "It's like my body is on fire." Emily hissed,Vanessa came to her and inspected her body."It's the mark from hell. He's suffering from the mark from hell. Are you sure you can do this? I can tell Andrew the plan, I'm sure he'd be happy to do it in your place.""No." Emily said forcefully. The truth was that no one could execute the plan effectively apart from her. Even if they collected the totem from Caleb, she was the only one powerful enough to destroy it. Andrew's strength couldn't break it, and neither could her mother's magic. But her body burned and she wanted to crawl into bed and cry. She'd have to make
Emily purposely ignored Andrew.She also purposely ignored the nudges her mother was giving her, as she narrated her experience to everyone. She also tried to ignore the sparks that were ignited in her body when he pecked her and whispered that he had to go but he'll be back.But when her mother, who'd been attentively listening to her, rose up, dragged him by the side, and hugged him. Envy, heavily laced with anger as she'd never felt before, coursed through her body. It felt as if her mother was betraying her. Jacqueline was the first to notice the change in her countenance.She smirked,"Girl, that's what you get for ignoring your man. Now he's in the arms of another woman." Emily growled and Jacqueline burst into laughter."When did you start behaving like a she-wolf? Hold your horses Em, it's only your mother. It makes me wonder what you'd have done if it was another female."Amelia laughed,"She would have probably hexed her entire generation." She said,"Nah, Em's feeling m
Emily had given up on trying to escape her imprisonment before she realized that it wasn't real. It had been days, yet she'd not felt hungry and she woke up the exact way every time. The sun didn't set, her clothes didn't change, she didn't want to use the bathroom and everything was still and lifeless.The only thing that changed each time she awoke was her strength. It was as if something was sucking out her energy. On the second day of her entrapment, she remembered wandering around the sheet/film that locked her in search of a weak spot or way out until she got bored and forced herself to sleep.Now she could hardly move a limb. Anger at Andrew and his Kingdom burned within her chest. She allowed it to blind her reasoning and she began to blame him for everything that happened.She promised herself that she would hunt Andrew if she died there.She'd been making such plans when she noticed the potted gardenia again.With a lot of effort, she stood up, walked to it, and lifted it of
Andrew and the Compliant narrowed their eyes at Vanessa."Do you understand it? Can you see how clear the prophecy has become?" Vanessa asked,The Compliant and Andrew glanced at themselves and then back at Vanessa."You," She pointed at Andrew, "became the enemy, you were the destroyer. He used your body to commit all these atrocities. Right now your people do not trust you. You'll need to do a lot to regain their trust. The second prophecy has come to pass. Can't you see it? You aligned with the enemies, you brought harm to your people and if I didn't save you, you would have perished.""Oh." Andrew agreed, nodding. "Now I'm very curious about the 3rd and 4th ones. I wasn't one to believe in those prophecies. My husband did and I often mocked it for it. I didn't think the prophecy concerned us witches and hoped you didn't find the key. I even hexed you."Andrew shrugged, he didn't understand where she was going or what she was trying to say.Vanessa chuckled mirthlessly, "And afte
"Where am I?" Andrew growled. His eyes were still shut and he wasn't fully awake.Vanessa, who had been standing behind her kitchen counter from the moment she dropped him, shivered. He's not going to rip you apart. You saved him, remember? She repeated in her head."Where am I?" Andrew asked again, propping his eyes open, then shielding his face with his arms.His wolf prowled around restlessly in his head. It wanted blood and it wanted it now.Vanessa steadied herself by gripping her kitchen counter. Her knuckles turned white and the bones in her fingers threatened to snap.Andrew jolted up."Where the fuck am I?"A shudder ran through her body and she swallowed involuntarily."My home." She said, her voice sounding more confident than she'd expected.Andrew's head snapped in her direction and he growled. Vanessa could see the malice in his eyes and feel the anger rolling out from his pores. Gathering as much courage as could muster she stepped forward. "I've been waiting for
The first thing Shirley did when the bodies exchanged was to try to get hold of Caleb before he fell to the ground.Later on, she would regret it deeply and ask herself why she didn't disappear like she normally did. Maybe it had something to do with the mark from hell that she'd seen reappearing on Caleb's body.Shirley's illusion flickered and she could feel her powers waning out as she bent to check on Caleb and wondered why. After confirming that he hadn't been knocked dead, she vented out her frustration on him and tried to wake him up. After trying several spells that didn't work she shook him roughly and punched and kicked him but he remained unresponsive. She'd also said another couple of spells that were supposed to be potent and yet the effect remained the same."Coma!" She yelled, "You're in an induced Coma you son of a bitch! Motherfucker, you get to sleep while I think of a way to save us!"If she had stopped screaming then and paused to do the actual thinking, she would
The next morning Vanessa snuck into Brighton and stood amidst the crowd of werewolves standing before the platform in the form of a man. She had to dig up her husband's old spell books and read and practice them throughout the night before she was able to perfect the spell. She stood within wolves knowing that any mistake she made meant death. She trembled, her hands were balmy and her forehead was clouded with sweat. Although she was terrified about being exposed, she was more terrified about failing. It seemed like the fate of the whole world weighed on her shoulders and that was enough to make her shake. Before leaving Andrew, she'd given him a sleeping potion and was glad that it was still in effect when they dragged him out of the dungeon that morning."Who are you and what have you done with Vanessa?" She muttered under her breath. Never in a million years could she imagine that she, Vanessa, would dare to do what she'd been doing in the past few hours. It was very out of char
It was the time of reckoning. Caleb thought, trying as much as he could to keep a grim expression on his face when he was bouncing with excitement inside him. The platform had once again been set and the pack members gathered beneath it chatting away as they awaited the death of Brighton's number one enemy. The gates of the dungeon creaked open, shushing the crowd of onlookers. The advisors and some stakeholders, followed by a barrage of guards and warriors who dragged Caleb's unconscious body processed solemnly to the platform and ascended it. Caleb had never felt so powerful in his entire life and he loved it. Thrills of victory ran down his spine and he clasped his eyes shut and struggled to keep at bay, the smile that had been threatening to break out from his lips. "I still don't understand why we are hurrying his death." Someone murmured dispassionately.Caleb scowled as his head snapped toward the direction of the sound. It had come from one of the stakeholders.He sneered
A thrum of energy buzzed in Shirley's brain signifying that some of her spells had been activated. And she knew the exact ones, it was those she'd said to trap the moon witch.A slow smirk spread across her face and she ignored Vanessa's righteous rant. She'd come on her own with the idea of threatening her into submission. But the once pale woman had suddenly developed a backbone of her own and was now shooting back and matching Shirley word to word.Of course, Shirley was irritated and had started thinking that maybe it was time to slice her throat. Shirley's threats were like water on a rock to Vanessa and it amazed Shirley to see her fired up like that.Unexpectedly, the new members of the circle swooped in, grabbed her, and secured her. They'd been hunting for a few days now. Yet, instead of Vanessa cowering like she normally would, she screamed some more and accused Shirley of doing everything under the sun. It had started grating Shirley's nerves when her spells suddenly activa