RICK FORSONTHE PAST DAYS have been a whole Rollercoaster for Rick and the Red Moon pack. Omega slaves have all been raised and were not integrated members of the pack and they have been shared into different branches of the pack. He found some very strong wolves amongst them that became part of the warriors; some became trackers and scout patrols, and some became nurses and healers of the pack. The newly added numbers made the pack run even smoother than it used to.Although many people, especially the high-ranked wolves, did not like this new change. Most of the high-ranked wolves felt that it was disrespectful for them to work with "omega slaves" as equals, and they still tried to impose their authority in secret.Beth and Charles were also among the people that hated this change.Rick knew what was going on between his wife and the man from the council, but if he pretended not to know. He preferred to be underrated by his enemies. A small knock came through his bedroom door; think
AS THE SUN went down, vampires came out of their sleeping places. It could be caves, or basements, anywhere away from the rays of daylight. The night was the active time for the undead bloodsuckers, and this night was no exception. In the darkened corners of the streets, vampires hung around, biting and sucking blood on unsuspecting victims, oftentimes leaving them for dead where they dropped."I do not mind killing every one of them myself," Vladimir said, holding a glass cup filled with a red liquid. "Bunch of mindless animals.""They are your creation, Vlad," Vorenus said. "You should be proud."Vladimir scoffed and took a small sip from his cup. "You," he said pointing at Vorenus and Alice. "You two are my creations... They," He gestured outside. "They are YOUR creations. And they disgust me."Vorenus looked away. "They'll come around soon.""You haven't even come around," Vladimir snorted. "You still drink blood like an animal.""We're all animals..." Vorenus countered."And her
FEW CENTURIES AGO, 50 B.C.EA POORLY DRESSED man marched through the stone-cobbled street, dragging a little dirty boy roughly. "Faster, boy!" The man snarled. They splashed barefoot through the puddle that muddied the road. The man barged through a small wooden shack. It was a rowdy bar filled with loud, half-drunk men.The man dragged the boy through the crowd and to the far back of the bar. He sat on a keg opposite another fat man and pushed the boy forward. "Here he is," the man said. "He can clean, and he will do anything you want him to. Anything."The fat man chuckled and leaned forward with some difficulty. "Is that so?"The man nodded and slapped the boy on the back, pushing him forward. The boy clasped his hands and looked as the fat man regarded him like a slab of meat."He is a bit skinny for my taste," The fat man said."Oh I can have him fattened up," The first man replied urgently. "He will have the family's portion for a week, he will become fat."The young boy did not
ANNA KYLIN CHESTER I CAME AWAKE slowly. I vaguely realized that it wasn't on the bed I slept off on. My vision cleared and I saw that I wasn't in Lorna's house anymore. These lights were too bright, and the smell... it reminded me of a hospital.I looked around and confirmed my suspicions. I was in a hospital, and the smell of fire and soot hung around my body. I had never really been to the hospital in the kingdom before. It was barely used, it had been built just because I was studying medicine.But today, I could hear another breath coming from the room next to mine. It was deep and ragged. I struggled to sit up, but Lorna immediately came into my room. "YOU shouldn't be getting up," She said, pressing my shoulder down."Taking over my job now, are you?" I chuckled dryly, but my voice was hoarse and my throat was dry. Lorna shook her head as she handed me a Styrofoam cup of water and a straw. I sipped it slowly to wet my parched throat.Lorna smiled sadly, "I can't, even if I wan
MITCH CHESTERGOING BACK TO the territory of the Kylin pack was something Mitch never thought would happen. Not even in his wildest thoughts. But he needed to know everything he could that could tell him more about what Vladimir wanted with Anna. Feeling a little remorse for the fight and the effect it had on Lorna, he went to the hospital to check on his uncle. Enrique was lying on the bed; he was awake but unmoving, and Mitch could see the healing process on the burn scars all over Enrique's chest and arms. He turned his head and followed Mitch with his eyes as Mitch walked in, "Have you come to your senses and decided to end her life?"Mitch snorted and pulled a chair closer. He sat down heavily and sighed. "Anna is nothing like her father.""That is what you would like to think," Enrique snarled, weakly."Are you anything like my father?" Mitch asked. "My father was a... pacifist. Are you anything like that?"Enrique scoffed and turned away, muttering, "That's different and you k
RICK FORSON"CHARLES CALLED FOR a meeting," Jones said, walking into the study and sitting down with a grunt. Rick looked up from the iPad he was holding and raised an eyebrow. "Charles doesn't call for anything. I have made it clear that this is my pack. If he wants to talk with me, my office door is always open."Jones smiled. "I'd like to tell that to himself, but I am not ready to start hearing about his ramblings of how he is alpha blood and how I am just a simple Beta..."Rick laughed and stood up. "I will see him," he said. "Although he will only be repeating the same thing he had been talking about since Anna left."Jones sniggered. "Backup from the council will be here soon, and you will stand trial for obstruction of the law..." he mimicked."Obstruction of the law my ass," Rick chuckled. "I am the alpha of this pack, and I never held her prisoner. The Luna left on her own free will. She didn't 'escape' because she was never prisoner."Jones knew that that was not entirely
MITCH CHESTERMITCH DRUMMED HIS hand on the steering as he waited for the Alpha of this pack to come. He noticed that it was becoming a habit of his. He sighed and stopped, but the nervous energy went to his foot, and he tapped it against the floor softly.Driving for 4 hours without stopping made his joints stiff and his back ached, but he did not want to step out of the car until the alpha came. The patrol guards hovered around his car as one of them went to call Alpha Rick under Mitch's command.He looked around the pack where Anna grew up. The pack that had led the antagonism on his father and his father's father for generations. It was a pretty boring surroundings. He was so used to seeing mountains everywhere, not like here. There were evergreen woods and plains around the borders.After a few minutes, he saw the men approaching. He stayed behind the tinted glass of the Gwagon, observing the man who had been Anna's first mate. He was a plain man; his hair was blonde streaked with
RICK FORSONAS RICK AND Jones left the inn where Mitch was going to be staying, Rick said, "He is here for something. I know it.""You do not believe him?" Jones asked.Rick scoffed. "I trust him as far as I can throw him," he muttered. "And that's not far at all."Jones sniggered."Something happened," Rick said. "I can feel it in my guts," he turned and looked at the inn as they walked forward. "The last time a Lycan came down from the mountains, apart from his father, it was for war.""How do you know that?" Jones asked, frowning. "None of us were alive at that period.""I read about the great war," Rick replied dryly. "While you were in Spain reading some architectural stuff...""It's Barcelona," Jones muttered. "And I studied engineering."Rick scoffed."Are you going to tell Charles that the Lycan is here?" Jones asked as they entered the pack house."Why would I do that?" Rick asked, shrugging off his jacket and hanging it on a rack.Jones snorted and poured a drink into two gl
FIVE MONTHS LATER,I RUB my belly fondly. It has become a subconscious habit of mine since the belly bump sprouted. On some nights, I wake up from the nightmares and horrors of being locked up in the prison underground. It has been 5 months already, but the remnants of what we lost were still vivid. Every fallen warrior was given a befitting burial. After the death of the vampires, Paige started having recurring dreams of her lost memories. I had Lorna suppress it again. i also had Lorna wipe out the memory of Janet the mistress, now she was a servant in the palace... "Are we almost there yet?" Addison asked from the back seat. Mitch grunted. "Almost." I turn and look at him. The scar he had gotten from the battle that ran across his eyes was now white, it was healing well. The cut missed his eyes by less than an inch, but the scar added to his dangerous look. I reach out and touch his hand. He turns and looks at me, but I can not decipher what is going on in his head as his eyes
MITCH CHESTERAS HE TORE through the vampires, his eyes wavered back, and he looked at Anna. He could not believe she was nearby again, even as all the odds were against him all this while. Arranging the warriors for battle on such short notice was not an easy feat as most of his warriors were not familiar with guns, but he had made them ready and prepped for battle under a few hoursHe grunted as a vampire sank his fang into his arm. He growled grabbed the vampire by its head and slammed it into the ground."Keep your head in the fight, Mitch," Draco snapped. "Don't die when she is just a few feet away."Mitch chuckled. He turned and looked at his mate again. She was holding her own well against the vampires surrounding her and Alphonso."Do these things ever finish?" Mitch asked, looking around at the vampires still swarming over the field."We have to take out the elder vampires, or Vladimir himself," Draco said, stabbing a vampire dead on the floor. He shook his spear loose and lo
ANNA KYLIN CHESTERI WATCHED THE moon rise to its peak and anticipated when the witch Agatha walked up to Vladimir and said, “It is time.“Vladimir nodded and came to stand beside me.I closed my eyes, resigning myself to my fate as Agatha came closer, muttering a long string of spells under her breath. “I will offer the blood of the current grand witch…” She grabbed Lorna's hand and slit it at the wrist. I saw Lorna clench her jaws in pain as Agatha squeezed her blood into a cup, which she mixed with some herbs and gave to Vladimir. He drank it all in one gulp. Dark red veins streaked up his neck, and his eyes went bloodshot.She walked to me and added, “I will offer the life of the reincarnated grand witch, Annika, and use it to bind the soul of the vampire king, giving him immense power and immunity to the mountain ash wood…““I heard her raise her hand. The air stretched with tension, and time seemed to slow down. I opened my eyes, expecting to see my life flash before my eyes, bu
ANNA KYLIN CHESTER“COME HERE!“ THE grating of the cell on its hinges made me look up. One of the vampires was on the other side. She reached in and pulled me out harshly. My knees scraped the rough floor; I bit my lips to keep the pain in. Another one reached in and tried to grab Lorna but gasped in pain, pulling back immediately. “I will come out myself,“ Lorna said coolly. “But try to touch me again, and it will be the last thing you ever do.“ The vampire stared daggers at her but did not move to grab her again. She cradled her hand, rubbing it fondly. Lorna must have secured herself with some sort of spell. “And you will unhand the Luna immediately too.“ Lorna said in a cold voice to the vampire who had her fingers wrapped tightly on my upper arm. The vampire looked uncertain, but she saw the cold and threatening look on Lorna's face. I was also shocked, but it did the trick. The vampire released me. “Where are we going?“ Lorna asked, but I could guess already. “It is time for
THE FIGHT WAS OVER almost as quickly as it started. We did not stand a chance against Vladimir and he was already getting empowered by the forthcoming blood moon. Lorna was sprawled on the floor, blood seeped from her mouth and her back was twisted in an unnatural angle. I was on my feet, but it was threatening to give way any second.And Vladimir?He did look like he had done anything. No sweat. No hair out of place. He had his sinister smile plastered on his face as he walked towards me. He stopped a few feet away and brushed my cheek with his icy-cold fingers. “Your last few hours should have been enjoyable, Annika.“ he said softly. “But instead, you let that witch,“ he turned and looked at Lorna before he continued, “...to spoil it. Tch.“ she chuffed and walked away. “It is back to square one now.“The woods around were suddenly alive, and things moved in the shadows. I thought I was hallucinating; maybe I had hit my head harder than I thought, and I was concussed as we were surro
ANNA KYLIN CHESTERI SAT UP in my bed, my heart was racing, and adrenaline surged as my wolf leaped to the surface, enhancing my vision, but I could not still make out the shape of the person in my room. I was about to jump through the door, not minding that I would alert the whole mansion, but I felt a pair of fingers wrap around my upper arm. Gasping in shock, I turned sharply, trying to wrestle my arm away from the stranger's grip, but to no avail. I am being attacked by two people, I thought anxiously to myself. I started to yell, but the person holding me stepped out of the shadows and my scream died in my throat."Lorna?!" I gaped.She put a finger to her lip to keep me silent. Then she cocked her head. I swung my legs out of the bed. My mind was spinning with imagination. I still felt like I was in a dream. I reached out and touched her. She was real."Quickly," she said to me. She muttered some words under her breath and the lock in the door snapped apart. The door opened
MITCH CHESTER “HAVE GUARDS PATROL the area,“ Mitch said, trying hard to rein in the panic he was feeling. “Quickly.“ Draco nodded and gave out his commands to every available guards to be on the search for Lorna. “No one knows how long she has been gone for. She might be out of the kingdom now.“ Mitch growled. “Just tell them to search.“ “We should probably get back,“ Draco said, turning to look around. Mitch nodded. He looked at Vorenus. Draco could see the hesitation in Mitch's body language. He knew what mitch was about to do. He dipped his hand into his pocket and tossed a small object at Vorenus who caught it easily, confused at what it was. Suddenly there was a sizzling sound and vorenus dropped the object quickly. The smell of burnt flesh filled the air and Drcao nodded in satisfaction. “What was that?“ Vorenus growled. “Silver, “Draco said. “Silver bullets. It is going to be our trump card.“ Vorenus shook his palm gingerly as the wound healed back immediately. “I can i
MITCH CHESTER“YOU ARE GOING to crash the car,“ Draco said, holding on to the side of his seat as Mitch drove like a blind bat.Mitch scoffed without slowing down. He pressed down on the pedal, and the car shot even faster. “This fucking snow,“ he growled as he screeched to a stop. The tires of the car were stuck in the thick layer of snow. He got out of the car; his legs sank almost to his knees.Draco came out too, cursing under his breath. “I wonder whose idea it was to get electric cars to drive over snow,“ he looked at Mitch and added sarcastically. “Oh wait, it was your brilliant idea.“Mitch rubbed his chin and said, “Maybe I should have gone with your idea and bought electric sleds instead.“Draco scoffed, kicking at the snow.Mitch looked around. His breath vaporized from his mouth as he breathed out. “Come, we are not far,“ he said to Draco.“Sometimes I wonder why I follow you,“ Draco said as they walked away from the stuck car. “This is crazy. You can't just stand up and w
MITCH CHESTERMITCH KNEW HIS mind should be at rest now that he had reinforcements, but his mind was still worried. He had no doubts that it was because his mate was still out there in danger, his son was lying in bed, unconscious and blind, and his kingdom was on the brink of civil war.He paced the length of the room anxiously, his eyes drifting into the dancing fireplace as he walked past. A small knock came at the door. “Come in,“ he called.The door opened, and Draco came in. He took a look around the small, almost empty room and shook his head, saying, “You are still sleeping here.“Mitch chuffed and nodded, “I can't stay in the master chambers alone. Anna should be with me.“Draco nodded and said, “I understand that, but…“ He looked around again. “I am sure you can do better than a tiny room. There is even no air conditon -““No one uses air conditioning here, Draco,“ Mitch said. He sat on the bed heavily; it creaked under his weight.“There is no ventilation,“ Draco continued,