Back at Markus Newman's prison: . . . ••• Elise's face fell the moment she recognized that voice and the daunting silhouette that stood in the shadows. His wicked gaze and lips stretched in a smirk as he came forward and into the light. Kaide. Elise had never felt such grappling rage and hatred from seeing a person, Kaide, whom she once trusted and almost gave her love and affection to. Now she could see him as nothing less than a revolting monster standing with a wicked smile on his face. “You…” Elise muttered, and Rygan answered beside her with a low growl in response to sighting Kaide. He hissed out in response to his throbbing wound that was still healing slowly from Elise's blood, but no one was aware of it, not yet. Elise's body trembled with an unfathomable rage in her blood that boiled seeing him; it caused a lot of memories to emerge, especially when he locked her up and lied—she killed the virus baby—and how he threw her away with no hesitation. “Hello, E
Rygan was in a rut. Elise was frozen by the fact that his body was in a rut while they were trapped in a dungeon; it was dangerous for him to be unguarded and so powerless to his feral side right now. “Elise, mate,” he grunts, his breath getting hotter as Elise approaches closer to where he sits up. She raises her arms to palm and caresses his face in her hold, feeling how warm his skin was. “Rygan, look at me. Can you control it? You have to," she mutters to him. She held his face, peering at his gaze and studying his storm-grey pupils that were now dilated and glazed with lust. His temperature was getting hotter, and it wasn’t good for the healing. “Fuck..it can't-ugh,” he groaned. Elise felt panic take over as she didn’t know what to do at that moment. If it was anything like the first time they met in that dark cell, she knew it wouldn’t take long before he completely lost himself. They were just an earshot from the door, but he couldn’t hold his lust any longer as he
Rygan’s rut had seemingly calmed from their five minutes of pleasure, and now his mind felt clearer with each passing minute. “I think I have a plan that can get us out of here,” she said to him. The tiredness in his gaze cleared; they knew there was no time to spare. “You might not like it, but you only need to trust me, and no matter what, don’t stop me,” she muttered to Rygan as she relayed the plan to him. As he fully understood it, the plan was set in place. Elise crept up slowly to the barred window; one of the bars was weakened and shaky, almost undone. She prayed the guards were occupied enough as she dug in slowly, hoping the metal wouldn't make a sound. Rygan was her lookout as she watched the shadows pass, but “Someone is coming, El; you need to get down,” he warned. “I’ve almost got it,” she whispered back. Even as her hands burned from exerting a bit of strength, she didn’t care as this was their only chance. “El!” He barked again. And just in the nick of time
When Kaide left the dungeon, he felt like an accomplished man who had finally gotten his revenge; now his only problem left was how he was going to bring Taz to his side. And if Taz didn’t join and accept him as the new king, he would have to kill him. He took each stride with pride and a wicked smile on his face, recalling the look of despair on their faces and how distraught they were about their son. Revenge was so sweet it was almost too perfect. But he didn’t need to worry about them anymore, now that they'd be dead by sunrise. "Well, if it isn’t the man of the hour,” Newman's drunk voice called as he rushed his drink to cheer the minute Kaide entered the door. He tried his best not to squirm or squint his nose away from the intrusion of different scents around the table. Now it was filled with women and the smell of sex; they all lounged on the sofas, drunk and lavished on the expensive wine that Newman had to offer. Who knew that the human hunt guild boss was so shall
Rygan and Elise make their way stealthily out of the prison cell. With their strength back and a quest for vengeance, they get to work with their first obstacle. Elise first maneuvers past the guards; she lands a direct hit to a human head as he slams it against the wall. Rygan is close behind, snapping the neck of another guard, which they quickly and quietly dispose of. Elise had mastered shadow techniques from Hayden, using them to her advantage as adrenaline coursed through her veins with each kill. She stealthily reached behind another guard, snapping his neck before they took his body and placed him in the bushes with the rest. “Here!” Elise whispers, passing him a gun; she could see the grimace on his face as he held it. He wasn’t a big fan of these weapons that inflicted so much pain on the people he cared about. “Such a small thing but a dangerous beast,” he says, placing the gun in a criss-cross motion on his chest. “You might hate it, but we still need
The battle had begun the moment Rygan and Elise rushed past the once heavily guarded hallway of the east wing, which had fallen eerily silent with no guard in sight. But Elise could detect her father's ashy scent from a mile away. Rygan gave her one last look. "Be careful," he noted before he raced down the hallway to his target while Elise headed in the opposite direction. She should have known it was far from peaceful when she saw two suited men run up with guns and begin shooting at her. She reached both males at lightning speed, but they could barely react as she clawed at their arms, with them both screaming in agony as they heard a crack, their arms crushed on impact. A cold queen with no mercy, only a quest to destroy anyone who tried to stop her fire from reaching her goal, she pushed the large white doors, staining them with blood on her hands as she walked into the room. It was eerily silent, but from the pheromones of her ex-father's potent scents, she knew the mo
Elise watched with eyes blown wide in shock at the brawl below her, how both wolves were ready to charge at each other for a moment her eyes locked with Kaide's wolf, she says no words to him, he didn't deserve any, she sees the hate in his gaze before she hears Rygan's promise one last time , she knew the bloodshed that was about to begin. Rygan had told Elise to go and look for Ethan and not to worry about him, she knew their main goal was their son, so she raced to the end of the hallway. She pushed in the large doors of an open suite, and she was met with multiple doors, already making it a difficult place to search for her son in many rooms, but she tried to track with her sense of smell, taking in different pheromones scattered in the space. Her eyes were alert the moment she heard a noise. As she pushed open the doors to the main room to see Kayla, who began screaming when she saw the blood on Elise's clothes, "Agh, stay away from me, scary lady!” She cried as
Elise watched from a distance as Newman's estate went up in flames, and as much as she’d like to kill Alvira there and then, what difference would she be from her monstrous ex-father if she took that small girl's mother away? No one deserved that trauma. “Mom? You ok?” Ethan says in her hands as he tugs on her shirt; she responds by holding him tightly in her arm and nodding to assure him; she then takes them to the garage of the large house, stealing one of the cars that was easily accessible because of the chaos. She steeled herself, nodding her head and assuring her son as she took Ethan to the back seat, covering him up with a clean cloth before she got into the front seat, turning on the ignition of the car, and watching the engine roar to life. The only reason she knew how to drive was that Hayden had helped her learn how; she could still recall how she drove into a ditch the first time she tried and how much he laughed; every memory of him hurts. “I’m ok, baby... I will