Emma:
Sam is a nice, well-trained pair, even though she’s one of those snobs. We went blow for blow, really having fun until the beast growl started to haunt me.
I ask Sam to stop and take a water break. My mouth is dry, not only because of the training, but also for catching a glimpse of Cole’s muscular arms. His t-shirt, which has become semitransparent, practically sticks to his sculpted body. I can almost feel the droplets of sweat carrying heat running over his skin.
The beast keeps growling, sometimes excitedly, sometimes irritably.
I’m not sure it’s from Cole or Avery because this pair are too close. They are good fighters with graceful movements. But I find myself hard to focus on both of them because my attention is always drawn back to Cole.
After giving Avery a powerful punch, Cole ends up locking eyes with me and I see a flash in his eyes. And then it returns to normal. At first I thought it was light reflection but when I step closer to see the flash again, I find it is a hint of pure gold.
But there is no time for me to get to the bottom of it, Avery's fist crashes down upon Cole's face. I gasps with my heart heavily beating, almost wanting to jump in to help. But Cole turns to give such a vicious look at Avery as if he is about to kill him. At this moment, he is almost like a tyrant.
“Enough!”
Our trainer Corstin blows a whistle to stop them. I breathe a sigh of relief.
The hidden beast grunts peacefully instead of growl as well.
“Alright, I’ve seen all of your combat skills. Now I’m going to separate you guys in groups of four.” He motions to Avery, Cole, Sam and me. “I expect you guys to be our best group. Anyone knows how to use a gun?”
I raise my hand. To my surprise, the other three don’t. Given how proficiently they fight, I feel weird that they never had a gun training.
“Perfect. One with the ability to use a weapon is okay.” He hands out to me, “By the way, well done on solving the case. Keep it up.”
“Yes, I will.” When I let go of his hand, the growl gets back, just like whining.
“OK, my little detectives, next time you’ll work with your leader, our crime profiler, Detective Dashwood. I’m looking forward to your performance and --” Corstin gives a glimpse at Cole, “-- please get a hold of yourself. Because you’ll see a lot of bloody scenes.”
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I’m running in the forest with panic.
There are footfalls behind me. My left shoe gets off but I know I can’t go back for it.
While I run over a set of pebbled stones, one of the sharper ones catches the underneath of my left foot causing a shooting pain. The monster chasing me growls loudly as if it’s thrilling at my state.
I just keep running as the monster catches up with something which lets out a piercing scream. It sounds not like an animal, but a woman.
Listening to a set of howls, I head deeper into the forest but have no clue which direction to go. There is a big tree ahead, which might be my best option. I attempt to climb on it but I can’t stop myself from sliding down because my foot is bleeding profusely. I take my t-shirt off, wrap it around my foot and make another attempt.
It doesn’t help. I groan with frustration and the monster finally rounds the edge of the trees and stares directly at me!
It’s Him. Black and huge, with red eyes and sharp, large canines. I almost have the vision of my blood dropping from his teeth.
He growls deeply and viciously, walking towards me --
I startle up in my bed, with my heart beating faster than ever. My entire body soaked with sweat. My left foot is sore as if it was really injured.
I take a look at my phone: 4 am. It’s impossible to sleep again. The anxious energy from the nightmare must be run out. It appears that my nightmare has gotten more intense.
I look over at Lei. She is dead to the world. I sigh, wasting no time to take a quick shower, put on my sports bra, yoga pants, sketchers and vest set, and head out of the dormitory without awaking anyone.
Once arriving at the empty gym, I go straight to the treadmill. It’s a safe place to run now.
I am still shivering for the pieces of the nightmare. It was updated which made it much more horrible than ever. Who was that woman killed by the beast? Why did she show up in my nightmare?
Dad. Rye. They have never come to my dream no matter how I’ve missed them. I’ve been alone with the beast for so many years. Why was she?!
I hold back my tears, seeing my red eyes reflected on the treadmill panel screen, which reminds me of the beast’s eyes.
I shake my head restlessly, feeling the familiar gaze with the beast growl everywhere, just like right now --
At a glance to the gym door, I find Cole gazing at me.
Cole: The yoga pants gluing to her body perfectly shows her body shape. She’s not skinny but more curvaceous. I see a tattoo on her lower back when her t-shirt rolled up as she raised her hands to coil her black hair into a bun. Every time she moves, the tattoo ripples on her silky skin. My wolf growls. I feel dizzy again. She suddenly turns around with her fear blowing to me. I become alert and tense my body. “You shouldn’t be here now.” It’s my shift to patrol around. I realized by scent that someone was in the gym. I thought it was because of the distance that the scent was ambiguous. She must have walked along the path near the forest to the gym. And dawn is dangerous for a human girl, especially here. We have wolves everywhere; besides, God knows what those witc
Emma: "What kind of monster are you? How are you even real? And who the hell are you calling a witch? Do I look like a fucking witch to you" I try to shove his hands off my neck. He looks like a maniac. Cole looks at me with his brow furrowed. I know I am not going crazy, everything about him points to something supernatural that I have come across in books. He adds more pressure to my neck making it a bit difficult to breathe properly. "Don't play innocent here" "Maybe we should take a few steps back" Gryphon interrupts. "What the hell is going on?" some guy screams and Cole's hands on my neck relaxes and I use all my strength to shove him off me. "She is a witch Ty" Cole points towards me. "No I am not and you are a monster" I try to get as far as I can away from him but he catches me by the back of my shirt. "I can solve this" Gryphon pipes in and we all turn towa
Emma: I am running again in the forest and the beast is just behind me. The exit of the woods seems so close and just as I turn out I come across a field full of wolves fighting with other wolves. There is different colors in the air and I can see people standing there. I turn looking for someone but I can't remember who. I run to the middle and something slams into me from behind. Then I see Lei and she is on fire. I can't control the pain that radiates through me and I fall. I awake with a splitting headache. I look towards the clock and it is after 6, well I have to admit that is first time. For the past two years my nightmare always woke me at 4. Rubbing my eyes I turn towards Lei and she is sitting there staring at me. “What?” “Who are you and what have you done to my best friend?” I look at her with confusion “Huh?” “You are late for work” “Oh shit” I run into the bath room and see that I have my sport
Cole:I was having such a relaxing evening and then trouble came in the form of Emma. I tried my best to keep my eyes off her when she was on the dance floor but once Malcom put his hands on her my wolf took over. Avery just agitates him more by flirting with Emma. I keep reminding my wolf that we belong to Silver.“What the hell is your problem?” Emma asks and I turn towards her and get a proper look of her up close and her scent fills my senses and my wolf starts fighting for control again. Wanting to show everyone that she belongs to us. I manage to shove him back and notice that Emma was not talking to Malcom but to me.“Come again” I say.“I could have handled that myself” she shoves me.“No doubt, trouble” I smirk at her because I know that pisses her off.“Huh?” she looks at me in confusion. Memory can be such a fickle thing.“Well what do expect to happen to you
Emma:Of course having a shitty night and tons of alcohol does not even stop the dreams from flooding in and here I am up at 4am. I have a quick shower and head out of the silent dorm because who would be up this early.I head to the gym and see that it is closed, I can’t take it I need to let out all this excess energy so ignore the rules and put my air pods on and strap my phone to my thighs and start to run. I know the route in the back of my head so I close my eyes and continue a head. The only good thing is that the running trail does not go into the forest.A sense of peace settles in me and I let my body do all the work.So caught up running I stumble on something, opening my eyes I see piece of a bloody arm on the ground and I let out a scream into the dead silence thinking that I am in my dream and that the monster is going to come for me next. I shut my eyes in the hopes that I am just imagining things.Someone grabs me and I scream
Cole: There was no way someone can fake their fear like that so that what makes me curious as in what the hell is she? And how did she end up exactly where the body part was when it was so far from the running track and it was obvious what she was doing, I noticed that she ran every day in the mornings. I head back to Ty and Skye and I see Uncle Aiden and some enforcers scanning the area. “Is she okay?” Skye asks and I just nod my head in agreement and bend down to take a look at the arm and the weirdest thing is that the arm has no scent at all, I look towards the ground and look for the leaves that Emma said that she saw the blood on it hoping that maybe we can’t pick up a scent because the limb might be spelled. So I stay low to the ground until I found the leaf with a tiny speck of blood. I bring it to my nose and there is a faint scent on it. “I have a slight scent here” I say and everyone rushes towards me but I stop Skye from grabbing i
Emma:After another shower, I try my best not to focus on the fact that someone actually died on campus and that I was able to find a body part. Am I having some form of visions… my nightmares, are they actually real?The girls take long to wake up and I am so hungry but I don’t want to go to the cafeteria so I decided to cook something.“Damn girl that smells good” Liz states and continues to stare at the pot.“This is not healthy girl, you are up early looking like that even after the night we had and here you are cooking. What are you?” Shanny says and drops her head onto the counter top.“A freaking robot!” Lei marches out of our room and plants her ass on the other stool.“No I was hungry!” I say and now I feel bad for disturbing them so early, they probably wanted to sleep in today.“Well, lucky you make meanest pasta ever” Lei says and smiles at me obvious
Emma:“Calm down Lei” I say to her as she keeps pacing the room “and do not say a word to my mother” I point a finger at her. The two of them can be as thick as thieves when it comes to me.“Yeah don’t worry, my dad will handle everything and we have top en-, er I mean we have top security” Sam says.“Lei, you worked with cadavers and it is my line of work so chill” I pull her to sit next to me.“Finding a body part means that someone was murdered or gravely hurt” Lei says. I try very hard to push my fear from the nightmare away.“Most probably dead” I say and she hits my arm “Not funny”“Police will handle it and I don’t think it was murder it was an animal attack, probably someone that was attacked climbing that huge ass mountain” I say and she calms down meanwhile the rest of the girls look at me weirdly “The arm was bitten &n
Cole:As soon as I felt something wrong in the air, I raced towards her room. When the earth started to shake my wolf pushed me even faster and then I threw myself over her.“Cole” she says as she begins to shiver so I rub my hands on her arms “I’m here”The ground then stops shaking and Em is practically frozen now and barely moving. I lift her from her best-friend who looks at her in concern and place her flat on the ground. Her body is so cold to the touch and my wolf is panicking and a small groan comes out.“Is she okay? Did something happen to her?” she places her hand against Em’s forehead and pulls back “Shit she is ice… do I need to hold her hand like yesterday?”I nod my head knowing I should do something but my body can’t move. I never even care for my pack, my first instinct was Em but she is my mate they would understand.Lei grabs Em’s hand and starts rubbing it and then Skye comes flying through the door with Sam behind him “Everyone okay?” he asks but his gaze is fixed
Cole: In a matter of minutes my life changed. The hope that I held onto has finally became a reality, at times I thought that I would never see her again. And then she turned out to be the one thing that I was avoiding. The person that I thought was making me betray my Silver turned out to be my Silver. What an absolute clusterfuck! I slam the stuff off the table. ‘I can’t do this now’ rings in my ears as I picture her running away from me and my wolf eats at me to chase her. Skye rushes into the room and pauses “Cole?” he calls out. I look at him knowing that he is my best friend, family and brother. He pulls me away from the broken shit on the floor “It will be okay, just give her some time. She is still in shock that her life took a complete 180 degree turn” “She is strong, I don’t think that her finding out that she is a supernatural is affecting as much as the fact that betrayed her. I betrayed my mate and she wants nothing to do with me” “I don’t think she wants anything t
Emma: We are back in that medical room and my mind is spinning, the last time that I was here… Cole had Gryphon remove my memories. He allowed him to tamper with my mind. I let out a growl of frustration and it seems to be heightened by what’s inside of me. ‘You know I have a name right’ the voice says distracting from wanting to attack all the people in this room and letting Lei have free reign to burn it all down. ‘Wow that’s dark’ the voice continues. ‘Yeah well I know monsters are created not born’ I say back ‘and what should I call you?’ ‘Moon Goddess’ and I laugh. Lei looks out at me weirdly. I shrug my shoulders “I have a voice in my head now” “Come again” she screeches out. I roll my eyes at her “There is a voice in my head that says that she is a Goddess” at that everyone in the room looks at me and start speaking at once. “Did you just say goddess?” “This is so insane” “Damn spitfire”
Emma: I remember now… they kept on erasing my memories and I thought that I was going crazy. I look at Cole and I touch my lips. I kissed him first and he removed that. I ignore the intense voice insisting that he is what I need but I shove him away from me “Don’t touch me” and I move closer to Lei. Lei looks at me “Can someone please explain what the hell is happening? Did you do this to us?” She points her hand at Gryphon and fire shoots out of her finger and it barely misses his ear. “ARGH” she jumps up waving her hand as the fire starts to spread “Help, I’m on fucking fire” “You’re a fire elemental” Gryphon holds his hand to his ear and I think that this might not really be happening… maybe I am dreaming. “Put it out. Put it out” she keeps on screaming but it does not look like she is actually getting harmed. I am so dreaming, wow it seems so real. ‘You are not dreaming girl, she is so on fire’ I hear and look around but ev
Cole:We were losing people on both ends, witches and wolves were dying. The dark witch is too powerful and the monster heals very quickly. Cinnamon infiltrates my nose and then I turn my head as I see Emma jumping in the middle of the witches. All the magic hit her and I feel so dizzy as if I am going to die. We all start howling as does the black monster.I run towards her but I am shoved back by some form of magic and change back to my human form. My wolf enraged that he can’t get to Emma and keeps growling at anyone else that comes close.I shake my head as everyone has come to a standstill as the smoke clears from the area. There is a silver and red shield over both the girls and I can barely see them. I hear a scream and turn to see that uncle Aiden had taken a piece of flesh out of the dark witch. She then vanishes and appears next to the monster and they both disappear.Skye shifts next to me “What the fuck just happened?” he ask
Cole: Tonight we have the hopes of catching the witch but it is as if the forest is on her side. That toxic smell permeates it completely confusing the shit out of all of us. We joined forces with the Jewel coven and some of them are working on the spell to contain the witch, while others cast a spell on the dorms so that the rest of the humans sleeps through the ensuing chaos about to take place. Some of wolves up ahead starts to chase something and that triggers my senses to zone in, I hear something huge and heavy treading through the forest. I shift and start chasing, I can only see flashes of something black and it is moving very fast. Then a scream pierces the forest and light shoots into the sky… a witch just died. We move in that direction until we come across an open field and a hooded figure is dancing around a mutilated body on the ground. I can barely make out the face but I know that it is a female. “Come on’ welcome to my party”
Emma: I rub my lips as the overwhelming feelings crash over me and I keep losing focus. What in the ever-loving shit just happened? Cole kissed me. He kissed the shit out of me. Oh my god. I am so going freaking crazy. I’m pretty sure I saw myself running past me and then Cole crashes into me and takes my lips hostage. My body is such a traitor, Cole is an A-grade asshole but then my rational side turns to mush as soon as I come into contact with him. That heated sensations gives me a feeling of déjà vu and I picture myself in a room pressing my lips to Cole’s ones. “Are you okay?” Avery asks bringing me back to reality. I look at him in confusion and I notice that Cole left and anger starts to settle in. “I’m fine” I move away, I can’t handle this,
Emma: I awake with a splitting headache and take a look at my surroundings white walls, an IV connected to my veins and consistent beeping from the machine on the side of me. Hospital. I look to my side and see Lei fast asleep on a single chair with a blanket covering her. I try to sit up and the machine’s beeping increases… Lei rushes over to my side “You’re awake” she says pressing a button on the side of the bed. “I was so worried about you” I look at her confused “What happened?” “You had a concussion and were in a temporary coma for about 18 hours” I can’t remember a thing. Every time I try to focus I get this stabbing pain in my head. “Don’t do that” Skye says as he walks into the room dressed in a white coat and a stethoscope around his neck. A doctor. Never would have guessed what with his body shape and all. “What do you mean?” I ask. “Stop forcing yourself to remember, you will only make it worse.” He says as
Cole: My wolf has been going insane with pride ever since I entered the room and when I realized that Emma was using my shirt I was in complete shock. For a wolf’s scent to be on someone is a sign as marking them. Trying to force my wolf back, I did not see Emma move and the next thing I know her lips press against mines and then it was as if fireworks went off throughout my entire body. I was completely unable to force my wolf back. He was in complete control and all he wanted was this trouble in front of me. He wanted all of her, he does not even care that she is human. “What are you?” she asks with some distance between us and I move away quickly. I use all my strength and shove my wolf aside putting up a mental wall to block him from influencing my actions “You were in a coma so there will be side effects. Skye wants to do a check-up” She continues to look at me shocked and then her hand touches her lips and that intense feeling courses th