“Where’s Evan?” Vanessa had spent the whole ride being quite as a mouse. When the car came to a halt, it was too late to talk about something else, gauge if she’d get a straight answer or not. “In Morocco.” Noah opened the trunk of his car and grabbed her bags, headed for the cabin.“Why? Is there something that requires…?” Requires his set of skills, like he was a plumber or electrician. It felt blase to think of what he did as another job.“Yes. The money trail led to central europe but the offshore accounts of Desmond famly would never dirty their hands in money. They have valuables in Eastern Europe. It wasn’t hard to figure since Nora’s mother grew up in Morocco.” Noah was off-putting when he got this way. Answering her for the sake of it. He hardly could tell her things before, but she would rather have that than this automation in his tone that made him feel subversive.“Oh”. Noah didn’t look at her, simply climbed the stairs to open the door. Her oh could’ve meant anything,
"Only one of them." His ears still rang with the thud of a heavy body flopping fish belly white. There wasn't a drop of blood, the wolf beheaded him surgically. And the other one. It will take a miracle for him to walk again. But Noah spared her the fine details. She nodded. Then pinched the sleeves of her sweater in fists and hugged him. She hugged him, a bear hug. Beatrice called it that. For someone so small, she had a fierce strength in her hug. Noah lifted his arms then dropped them. "Why are you doing this?" He kind of didn't want to hear it. But if in truth or dare, he won't dare take comfort like he hadn't been the cause of her pain, physical pain this time around. And truth was a bitter pill to swallow. Her willow soft body pressed against his was a sweet benediction he was trying to hold out on. "Why not?" She shuddered. That's when he pulled her closer. His wolf settled with a happy sigh. Because why not."Kiss me." Her muscles wound with winches right enough to snap.
Jodie felt neutered. In her periphery, she felt Maudar move in, Thiago covered him. She wanted to put them back in their places but with what power? She didn’t even know his name. The guy who was easy to laugh at. As if he wore skin after skin, was quick to like, at least she thought so. Or her body thought so. Her team wouldn’t once they figured out he could escape so easily. For the first time, her team seemed to be a liability. There was a reason he was standing near a window. His impact, and it’d be a hefty one, he might appear lean but h wasn’t fooling her, can break through the glass of the window. The couple fighting in there, oblivious to the do or die outside would shriek, scramble but he will be out of their door in the apartment directly across the hallway that led to the main road. Gone. And what will she do? Take in her men dressed in S.W.A.T-like gear with guns blazing at houses of civilians? She bit the inside of her cheek so hard she tasted blood. “What’s your name?”
"Jodie." Deceptively calm. He patted the empty space next to him, compelling her to sit down. On the bed. With him. Next to him. Even her anger stared like a confused child. She could count on one hand the number of times he had indulged her. He looked weary though. Weary of her probably, like a parent is, knowing how despicable their actions might feel but they had no choice in the matter. Except he did. He always did. If there was one person in her life who had the choice to make decisions, it'd be him. "You never go behind my back. You never order my men behind my back without talking to me first." She planted her stubborn feet. Her black leathers caught the humidity in the room, perspiration gathered at the juncture where her back ended. And she realized it was more than heat. She was nervous. Jodie couldn't remember the last time she had felt betrayed to such a degree, where he couldn't reach her. They were seven years apart in age. And yet Calvin and his mother were the only
In the year 1948, at the height of tensions after the end of World War 2, there was a decree drafted to put peace as first and foremost responsibility. The events of Nazi Germany only solidified the fact that no world was isolated from each other. The supernatural can't go on living as they had without concerns for their human brethren. Despite the factors that led to war being entirely homosapien, creatures had to live with the consequences too. They supplied armaments, regimented their soldiers and lost a lot of their population to casualties. A decree between New World Order and The Communion, the council for creatures, changeling and wolves alike, drafted the decree which entailed assistance should the other species need it. Otherwise they'd go on living as they had. The 'assistance' part was ambiguously defined. So it fell into the hands of deciding entities what it meant and how it meant. To the world, it was mainly but not limited to medical interventions. The supernaturals h
Vanessa powered her rental car, still reeling over what she had read. The text further vaporized into past she knew from a distance, an estranged traveler looking for traffic signals in thick fog, breathing mist for air and never finding what they were looking for. It was hard to concentrate at the road ahead in morning traffic. It was also always good to travel during busy hour of the day. Nobody notices anyone unless they create a ruckus. And she was farther from hysterics today. No, she felt right at home. Disappearing and running away were where she belonged. Never had she thought she'd find purpose in it again but here she was.Seating her silver-grey sedan behind a towtruck, she opened the book again. 'Since wolves were now infected with same disease, their leader, Desmond Sr. had proposed a solution much like that for changelings. To open a an academy where wolves since their birth would learn to control their blood lust, their transition into civilisation would begin at early
"Did you hear the news?" "What news?" "It's all over the TV. How come you miss it? You are in there, cleaning rooms half the time." Their hushed whispers completely stopped once Nora Desmond walked in. Something like a hollow imprint of a smile made them look even more suspicious but she had no idea what they were talking about. In return, she smiled the only way she knew how to, bright and beautiful. It'd put the manic-pixie-dream girl complex to shame. Her wolf did wonder what they were talking about. She kept herself away, religiously so, from the news. Her father's gloating face appeared in her life often, seeing it on a screen would ruin what little entertainment it provided her at times. The other screen, she was fond of. Her phone rang precisely the minute she left the house maids to gossip. Or work. Never could tell what they got paid for. But unlike her father, she respected them in ways nobody else understood. Well, except one person. The same who had been put on her det
Noah tore down the sixth tree, standing tall and proud in his path. In span of two weeks, he had lost almost everything. No one does that to anyone unless they want something in return. He was sad, affixed to anger that was turning into despair and his despair affected everyone else. Mikhail. Rhys. All the other elite soldiers, academy trained to be under his command. They had built an army foraging the most vicious group of them all. Suffice to say, it was a gnawing hurt, the one that ate from inside. To believe he was so blinded by his plan, by his ministrations that he couldn't see what lay right in front of him. And now, he didn't have that. Mikhail and Rhys still followed his orders. Sam led the trackers on a goose chase to keep them from knowing more details, the more people knew, more the chances of them turning on him. But at the bottom of things lay a heap-his dirty laundry. His lack of trust on rogues. His lack of understanding anything when it came to Vanessa Flynn. She wa