Samantha was panicking.
She was hiding, despite it being her wedding day. She knew that if she left the room before her friends returned, Jordan would want to get the wedding started without them, and she wasn’t having that.
What she didn’t know was that she was already being protected.
Jordan paced his office, wondering why he couldn’t find his bride. It’s like she’d completely disappeared, and the more he thought about it, the angrier he got. The only species that can teleport are vampires, and he’d only come across one group of vampires that could teleport in the past week.
Calypso’s ‘friends’.
Samantha’s scent had just disappeared into thin air, and no one could find her, much to his frustration. His guests would be arriving within the hour, and he knew that they wouldn’t be impressed if she didn’t show up for their wedding.
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Cain was stunned into silence. Of all the things that he’d expected Killian to say, what he ended up revealing was something he would’ve never thought in a million years, especially given the situation Killian and Calypso are in.“How?” Nathan and Cassidy asked from the doorway. They’d just walked in with Zen and Caiaphas as Killian was giving his response.“Channing knew from Elma Dae that he was going to die from when he was thirteen already. He also knew that he would meet his mate and he would die, leaving her pregnant with their child. I was eleven at the time, and I met him when I accompanied Jordan’s father to the Silver Moon Pack. His parents were still ruling at the time, so he was still the Alpha to be. From the moment he met me, he knew that he wanted me to be the one his mate ended up with, and that’s when I learnt of his and my fate. I was against it, but I learnt that I had no choice. My memory of him and ou
Jeremiah was getting more and more pissed off as the seconds ticked by. He knew that he couldn’t very well trust the young Alpha before him, but he hadn’t expected to be as greatly disappointed as he was. Jordan Williams had disappointed him almost as greatly as his father.“You had one job,” he said impassively.“Your Highness, I don’t know where to look for her anymore. Her scent just vanished and-” Jordan said before stopping himself.“And what?” Jeremiah raised an eyebrow. Jordan knew not to lie to him.“We think the vampires are behind it,” he replied.Jeremiah scowled. “Vampires? Where does your mate know vampires from?”“Not her, but that friend of hers Calypso,” Jordan corrected. Jeremiah’s interest piqued.“Calypso Henriques?” he asked.“You know her?” Jordan asked in surprise.“I know of
“That is a crime which you are admitting to,” Jeremiah was the one to point out.“It is also my job. He killed my best friend and brought my mate a lot of pain,” Killian growled.“Your mate? Is it Calypso?” Jordan asked.“Wouldn’t you like to know,” Killian replied.“I actually would, and I would appreciate it if you would be straight with me for once,” Jordan said genuinely.“If only you deserved such an honour. You and I are barely acquaintances. You think I’ve been oblivious to what you and your friend here have been up to? You think I don’t know that you tried to find me just so that you could kill me? Some friend you turned out to be! Sam is ready, so you’d better get to the aisle if you still want to be married,” Killian said coldly before storming out of the room.“He knows,” Jeremiah commented.“I don’t know
“My, my, my Antoinette. You look more and more beautiful every day I look at you,” he told her. She sneered at him.“Why the terrible mood my dear?” he asked.“Let me go!” she spat.He raised an eyebrow at her. “Now, now, you know I can’t do that. I need that mate of yours to come and find you. You did signal him to find you right?”“It’s been twenty years Royco. You’re not getting it. Odus hates me. He will never come for me,” she repeated.“I’m not talking about Odus,” he frowned. A lump formed in her throat.“Julio is dead,” she whispered.He rolled his eyes. “Fine then! I guess I’ll settle for the Vampire Kingdom.”“I just told you that Odus hates me,” she said.“That’s madness! He’s your mate. You’ve been missing for so long. He should know better,” h
“I’m not telling you what you want to know, so you may as well kill me or let me go,” Jeremiah said, spitting blood out of his mouth.They watched in disbelief as Jeremiah screamed out. Calypso was breaking his joints. She was making sure that he felt pain, but also that she wasn’t killing him. She was torturing him. If he wasn’t going to give up her son’s location, then she would make him.She left him with his bones in awkward positions. She then told her friends not to touch him. She wanted him to get used to the pain he was in, so that she could come back and reset his bones, before leaving him alone, and then returning to repeat the process.“Nymph, what is going on? Who’s Xavier?” Killian asked his mate after closing the door. They were in Calypso’s room in the vampire house.“Xavier is my son,” she replied, looking out the window.“And who is his father?” he
When they arrived downstairs, their friends and family were sitting in the lounge. The vampires had been thankful for thinking to soundproof the rooms because from the fading marks on Calypso’s neck, it was obvious what the couple had been up to.Jeremiah’s disfigured body was in the corner of the room. The situation would’ve been both funny and disturbing to anyone who didn’t know what was going on since the friends were ignoring him like he wasn’t even there.He’d apparently passed out from the pain, and when the friends watched the Lycan Alphas approach him, silence settled upon them as they watched to see what they would do to him. Calypso indicated for Killian to proceed, which he gladly did. He approached Jeremiah and begun to put his bones back in place.Jeremiah’s eyes flew wide open as immense pain rattled him. He’d been one to torture many people before, but what had been done to him by the mother of his
“Jer did say that you would come for Xavier, but I didn’t think you’d be stupid enough to actually come into the castle,” she said menacingly.“Do you even know who I am?” Calypso asked, turning to face the woman. Only when she saw Calypso’s eyes, did she gasp as she put two and two together in her head.“This is impossible! Jeremiah said that you’re dead!” she said in denial.“What else did your mate tell you exactly?” Killian was the one to ask.“He told me that he found Xavier on the side of the road, and that he’d been abandoned,” Keely replied.“And did you really believe that?” Calypso asked with a raised eyebrow.“I wanted to, for so long, but Xavier’s scent has a little bit of Jer’s in it, though I realize now that it has more of yours in it. Also, he has your eyes,” Keely said to Calypso.“That&r
“Have you heard anything about my mother yet?” Zen asked Killian.“I’ve only received feedback from three of the seven teams I’ve sent out and they found nothing. The other four are still searching,” Killian replied.“You said something about a Lycan ability back when we went to get Xavier. Shouldn’t I be able to track my mother too?” Calypso asked her mate.“You’d have to be close to her,” Killian informed.“Try it. For all you know, we probably are close to her,” Zen suggested.Calypso wasn’t about to shoot the idea down given that they needed to find her mother under all circumstances. Killian talked her through getting into it, and she could feel herself searching. Just as she thought she found something, a screeching sound filled her mind.“Well what do you know? Someone is looking for you,” Royco told Antoinette.“How do y
That was the last straw and Phillip commanded the wolves to attack. The pack members watched on in amazement from their hiding places as the Werewolf Prince and Princess took on the rogues by themselves.“Are we even needed here?” Harlan joked lowly, causing silent laughter amongst everyone.It wasn’t long before the rogues were down to half. As Killian had suspected, Phillip had a backup plan as more rogues showed up. Harlan’s question was answered when it started to look like there were too many for the royal siblings to face.And so, the pack came out of hiding to join the fight.Phillip was acting on intel he’d received from his spies and The Assembly of Warriors, but as he watched the fight before him, he realized that he’d been deceived. The intel he’d received led him to believe that this was a fight he could win.And he finally understood then why the crown was never meant to be his.He’d lived in Julio’s shadow for as long as he could remember, and he knew what the people thou
Killian turned to Nathan. “Are you ready to take him on and take the crown?”Nathan nodded. “As I’ll ever be.”Killian turned back to Hunter. “Any sighting of Jeremiah?”Hunter linked Wayne who was at the border before responding. “According to Wayne, he doesn’t seem to be with the group.”“So, how are we going about this?” Cassidy asked.“Well, one can only assume Phillip rallied up some rogues. If that’s the case, we take them out. If, by some off chance, he’s rallied the royal pack, then we only knock them out. They would be under his command, and as King, I’d be able to break it,” Nathan took charge.“Then there’s no need to involve the Lycans. I’d like for them to remain a secret for as long as we can keep the secret. The werewolves will take this fight. You’ll relay the instructions to them,” Killian told the Werewolf Prince.“We’ll also lay back and watch,” Zen added on behalf of the vampires.Killian linked the pack, asking the werewolves to meet him outside. Thanks to Cain’s
Back at Calypso’s pack house, the weather was changing. The skies were unexpectedly darkening, something that thrilled Calypso for whatever reason. She headed to her room to change, before heading outside.Noticing her change in outfit, Cassidy was confused. “Cals, why are you in your training gear?”Calypso shrugged. “Haven’t trained in a while.”It had been almost a year.Cassidy made the realization too. “Huh, guess we can go for some rounds. I’ll be back.”Calypso decided to stretch while waiting for her sister. Word was getting around to the pack members as they gathered around to wacth. Cassidy joined her in stretching just as word got around to Nathan, Cain, and Zen.“Isn’t this an unfair fight?” Zen questioned.“They’re both fantastic fighters in their human forms. The fight becomes uneven if Cally shifts,” Cain corrected.Nathan was particularly excited to see his mate fight. He’d only seen her fight a handful of times, and never against an opponent as powerful as Calypso. No
Jordan sat in the dark, completely exhausted. His wolf had finally settled down, but he found himself feeling empty. Something didn’t feel right. He felt like he’d been played somehow, but couldn’t think of how he even came to that conclusion.He tried to think about why his wolf had lost control, and the beast had shut him out. His pack had gone into hiding, and his memories were filled with a woman he couldn’t recall the name of.He just knew that she meant the world to him.And yet he didn’t feel a mate pull to her.In fact, he felt the very opposite. He felt mateless, like there was still someone out there for him. Something about the notion unsettled him, and the harder he thought about why that was, the more his headache worsened.What he didn’t know was that Amaya had managed to manipulate his memories of Samantha, with help from the Moon Goddess. With Samantha no longer being his mate, they felt that he didn’t need to remember her.Jeremiah arrived at the Twilight Moon Pack an
Elsewhere, the Grey family had just arrived at the area where Amaya’s pack used to be. The older woman felt her heart constrict at the loss she experienced when she was last here. Edward reached out to hold her hand, squeezing it.“How come there’s nothing here?” Samantha asked as they stared out at the nothingness.Amaya sighed. “That’s probably my fault. I lost everyone important to me that day, except you three, and out of anger, I lashed out and cursed the land. I don’t doubt that people tried over the years to occupy the land, but my spell would’ve eventually driven them away.”Killian touched his mother’s shoulder out of comfort. “Did you guys ever find out who attacked the pack?”Edward shook his head. “We’ve had our theories over the years, but no concrete evidence ever led us down a certain path.”“What about Hans’ descendants?” Kill
They arrived to an empty pack house, unaware that everyone had been instructed to steer clear. They searched the house, finding it strange that the massive pack had disappeared. It wasn’t until they got outside that they were truly mystified.“Where did everyone go?” Vera asked her mate.He was about to respond when his sense caught the high-speed arrow headed their way. He managed to dodge it and get Vera behind him at the same time. There were many more arrows shot their way, and he realized they were under attack.“Go back inside,” he told Vera.He didn’t question why she willingly complied as he was focused on defending his sister’s home. “Whoever you are, show your face.”Instead of a face, a dagger was flung his way, and soon the daggers replaced the arrows. He dodged them all with ease before a group of vampires he’d never before encountered came out of the woods.“Is t
He had locked himself away in the war room, and Vera sighed to herself when she realized that he hadn’t paid her any attention in a while. She couldn’t complain though – not when she knew that he was holding things in.A lot had happened since Calypso had come back into his life, and things were already shaky even before she did. It had only been a couple of months since they’d gotten married, and with the vampire kingdom struggling with unrest, it was almost a reflection of their relationship.She loved Zen with her entire being, that much she’d never contest, but she found herself curious about what life would’ve looked like had she been mated with a normal vampire. Things with Zen had been passionate from the moment they met, but he’d always carried a burden with him.A burden she finally had unravelled before her.There was a lot happening around them, but she was grateful for it all – grateful
While rooms were being prepared for them, Killian led his parents to his office, while Samantha grabbed Calypso’s hand, leading them outside. Calypso understood that Samantha needed someone to talk to, and in that moment she was that person.“I’m so confused,” Samantha started off.“I can just imagine,” Calypso commented.“It makes sense, but at the same time it doesn’t you know? I mean, what the hell is a Lycan? There’s so much going on and I’m just so lost,” Samantha panicked.“The first thing you’re going to do is breathe, and then you’re going to listen to me ok?” Calypso told her.She nodded before Calypso fully let her in on everything. Now that it was clear which side Samantha was on, Calypso knew that she would need to know everything, especially with the looming danger everywhere.Samantha sat, listening intently. Calypso filled her in on the g
Jeremiah felt like his life stood still. For the first time since his father has said it, it settled on him that his son was gone, but what his mate was saying terrified him even more. He knew many people with blue eyes, but none like Calypso and his son.“The girl had blue eyes like Xavier’s?” he questioned.“She told me what you did to her. They told me that they had you held hostage, and when I tried to protect Xavier, her mate knocked me out. When I woke up, Xavier was gone,” she explained.Jeremiah’s head was spinning as he tried to make sense of what she was saying. According to her, Calypso and Killian had come to fetch Xavier, and they did so while they had him hostage, and yet all he could remember was coming to the castle straight from the wedding.Nothing made sense to him.However, how else would his mate have known about Calypso if she wasn’t telling the truth?“Somebody i