AURORA I wished I knew the reason why I was pissed, because it was not even his fault. He had arranged to come here but he did not know that there was only going to be one room. Maybe I was the problem. I could go back to the room and lay down far from him and resist all of the urges that came with the room but that would be torture and I wasn’t sure if I was going to sleep well from that. When I left the corridor, I realized that most of the people in the ball were back in their rooms. People were not bustling in again, only a few of the people that were looking at art and speaking to the people by them. I sighed, staring down at my long blue gown before I looked back up at the people and they had suddenly changed. They were not wearing the same attire and even their faces were different. I felt fear course through my veins as I turned away from them and then headed out towards the exit of Elantine’s mansion. I knew it was not wise. Leaving out this place at night was going to
DAMIAN I didn't know what I was going to do with Aurora. When we came into the room, I suddenly felt everything. The sexual urge that overwhelmed every living cell of my body, but I was not going to act on it. I knew that I was going to be able to stop myself from acting on the urges because I was in love with Amara. I was not going to betray what we have because of this. I knew better than to. But before I could explain to her that she could stay back, she had already left. I watched her leave the room and I didn’t know what to say to stop her, because she was the most stubborn person I knew. She was not going to stop just because I asked her to. I sighed as I lay on the bed and closed my eyes. She said that she was going to look for the woman who had directed us to the room, which was a witch. I hoped that Aurora was not going to go outside the building because she would be met with a fate that was going to terrify her. I remembered something similar happening the last time that
AURORA A dull ache at the side of my head woke me up, making me groan as I lifted myself up from the bed I was lying on. I was confused as I looked around the room, trying to decipher where I was but it was not making any sense. It took me a while as I laid my head back and tried to remember where I was so hard until it dawned to be that I was at the Elantine’s ball. Suddenly, all of the memories from yesterday started to pour in and I remembered every single detail. I groaned as I laid my head back on the headboard. The fucking witch that stole my day. It did not feel like I had spent a day dead. I tried to check all of the functions of my body and it seemed like I was perfectly alright, but they felt amplified. It was like every single sense of my body was suddenly feeling more than it usually felt, and it was euphoric. I tried to get up on my feet and I failed on the first time attempt but when I tried again, I was able to walk perfectly. I threaded to the toilet while the
DAMIAN “No fucking way.” Cole’s mouth had slacked as I told him all about the experience that I had faced during the Elantine’s ball. I told him all about how Aurora had left, and Amara had come to my room and pretended to be Aurora. I told him about how I woke up the next day and saw the letter that she had left me, and how I dressed and went to the ball hoping to see her but she was nowhere to be found. After what had happened after the ball, I wanted to let her go. She was playing games with me, and I did not want to be part of them. I wanted to have her and if she was not going to come to me the easy way, then it would be better for me to just let her be. “I am done.” I told him with a slight shake of my head. “You don’t mean that.” He laughed. “Oh, I do,” I told him. “There was a reason that she was at the Elantine’s ball. She did not just come to spend the night with me and leave without even attending the ball. She had planned it, down to the clothes and hairstyl
AURORA The trauma was fading faster than I expected it to. With Nancy by my side, it was easy for me to start letting go of what I had seen in the palace. Damian was there for me too. He came to check up on me every day and often, he brought me food and books to take my mind off my thoughts. On the first few days, they did not work but as time went on they did and I was so happy about it. Logan has been taken back to the dungeon, also. Damian was nice enough to not take him to the dungeon where he kept the rest of his prisoners even though he had broken the law. He took him back to his old room and increased his security. He has also limited the amount of time that people used to visit him to once a week, and I was grateful for that. He was giving him the best healthcare, and har granted him a lot even with what he did. I knew that Damian did what he did for me and I was so grateful for that. I was beginning to see the soft spot he had for me. It was both heart warming and sca
AURORA I had never kept a secret from Nancy before. She was the one person that I could tell everything to, but since I came back from seeing my brother, I could not find a way to tell her. There was something in me that the vampires wanted, and I had no idea what it was. I tried to connect every dot, but there was nothing that was making sense. The heightened feelings that I felt were increasing every single day and the more I tried to push the feelings away, the more they came at me with full force. We were approaching the full moon and soon I was going to shift. Instead of feeling my bones prepare to shift, all I felt was hunger. Nancy was confused at my newfound food obsession, and she told me that perhaps it was because I was lonely. I partly agreed with her, because I was lonely. I haven’t gone to meet my brother in weeks now, and Damian has been away on a trip. It wasn’t like I missed him, but I was used to him checking up on me always and no one had come to my room since
AURORA The door to my room burst open, and I stumbled inside. My mouth was filled with the metallic taste of blood, which made me nauseous, but it still did not stop me from wanting more. My mouth watered as I remembered the blood I had seen. “You are already back—” I heard someone say before I turned around to see who it was, and Nancy was standing behind me. She looked terrified when she saw the blood on my face and she rushed to me. I could feel the throbbing in her neck, making me want to suck off her blood too but I knew I could control it. If the blood was not in front of me, then maybe the urge to feed was not going to come as much as it did. I felt stupid and pained just thinking of how I was going to do that to an innocent person. What the hell was wrong with me? What did I do to deserve this, and who the hell turned me this way? Perhaps it was the witch that had taken a day in my life. Maybe she had given me a potion that was going to change me into a vampire, even t
DAMIAN The trip to the urgent meeting that the alphas of the packs around my pack had called a week ago and I had to attend, was not that bad. It was a two days long trip to the destination where the meeting was going to happen, because they had chosen to have the meeting as far away as possible from our packs, and they had a good reason to. It seemed like it was not only my pack that had the vampire problem. They did too. Vampires had been coming into their packs and going on killing sprees. Sybil had gotten protection for us that was going to keep them away from my pack. None of them were going to come in and if they were inside, then they would not be able to leave. They would be trapped in and be forced to feed. We had laced the town water with vervain, so they will not be able to. In the end, they will start desiccating because of lack of food and then I will be able to catch them. For now, we were just going to take security measures. We didn’t know much about vampires b
AURORA It was raining. It never rains around here. I heard people whispering about it, saying that the earth knew that someone had just taken a great man, which was why it was weeping. I would not be surprised if they were right, even though I was not the type that believed in superstition. Today was the burial of Damian. I had cried so much for the past three days that I could not even recognize myself when I looked into the mirror. It was like a stranger was looking back at me every single time, and it terrified me to my bones. Damian’s body had been prepared as usual by the elders, and he was about to be cremated in the boat and sent in the ocean, so he could find peace. It was how burials happened apparently, since I have never really been to one. The last time I lost someone, I was not allowed to stay back for either of their funerals. I was shipped off to marry this man. The man that I was cremating now, and sending back to the earth that had brought him to life. I won
AURORA I wished there was a way to leave the fucking pack. Finally, Nancy had gotten me some blood even though it was not one that I would like to drink. It was animal blood, and it tasted low quality but at least it kept me alive. I felt like I had not unlocked all of the potential that I had until I was able to feed on normal blood from a person. I was looking forward to that. I had stayed with my brother mainly because I did not want him to feel alone after all of the months he spent alone. Counting down, it has already been a year since he was captured. Just a few more months to come. I also wanted to ask Damian why the hell hadn’t he brought back Silas to life until I realized that the day had passed. I was in the prison, and I had missed my only chance of getting back my true love. I cried for the entire day, and Logan and Nancy tried to comfort me but there was very little they could say. I couldn’t even say it was Damian’s fault. I was the one that made him do whatever he
DAMIAN I tried to get back into schedule after I waited three hours for Aurora to come and meet me but she did not. I had wanted to go and check if she was alright but that did not sound like a great idea. If she needed space, then perhaps I should grant her that. If she wanted to speak to me, then she would come and meet me. I paced in my room until I couldn’t anymore, so I headed to my bathroom and got ready for the day. I popped some of the hangover pills I had to help with the headache that was still prominent. Then I checked my reflection before I headed outside to my office where I was going to sign some documents for the new houses that are been built in the pack. When Alpha Matthew eventually surrenders, I would like to start building on the land so I was already starting to prepare it now. The birth rate had increased by some percentage, and in a few years to come there would be a shortage of homes people could afford. We needed something on a budget but also good qual
AURORA “Have you seen him?” Nancy burst through my room, startling me until I sat down, leaving my previously lying position. She looked excited, which was odd because there was absolutely nothing to be excited about. My life was in shambles and I was in desperate need to feed. She could not find any place to get blood for me because all of the blood banks in the hospitals around had vervain in them. It seemed like it was not only Damian who took the caution to have all of the subjects take vervain to prevent them from being food to vampires. I wished I could tell him but after what he had done yesterday, I could not bring myself to do it again. Not when the incident of yesterday still haunted me. He obviously did not take me with respect. If not, he wouldn’t have done that. “Who?” I asked her. The first person that came to mind was Damian . Perhaps something had happened to him. “Logan. He is out!” I did not expect to hear that early in the morning. I got off my bed an
DAMIAN I was disappointed in myself. I did not know that I had fucked up so much until when I woke up in the morning on my bed and my head felt like it was spitting into two. I was severely hungover from the other night. The only thing I remembered at first was that I was with Kai and we were celebrating the fact that Aurora knew that I was her mate. I was not sure of it, but I knew that there were high chances of that since I had gotten my own mate bond just a few days ago. I was so excited. The celebration morphed into a party, and then when I realized I was too drunk, Kai told me to stay back until tomorrow because it was a bad idea to go to her room and speak to her in that state. I had agreed with him but as the night passed and he was asleep, my urges got the better of me and then I was on my way to her room. I remembered going there and I remembered kissing her, and she pushed me away. Now that I was sober, my ego felt even more injured than it was but I still felt so fuck
AURORA I had a hard time writing the letter because I was not sure of what he wanted to hear. I did not know if he brought me out on his own accord or because he needed me for something regarding bringing his lost girlfriend back home. Because as time passed, since the two days that I was released, he had not come to see me. It was on the second day that I finally decided to send out of the letter to him. If he released me because he still believed that we were friends, then he was going to come and see me. If not, then it is what it is. I would just forget I ever wrote the letter and bury myself out of shame. Moments after I had sent the letter a few hours ago, I had started to pace in my room out of anxiety when Nancy came back into the room. I gave her a questioning look because it couldn’t have taken her this short period of time to have taken it to the alpha and yet here she was, already back. “Why are you already back?” I asked her. “One of his sisters collected it,”
DAMIAN I had very little time to decide if I wanted her to be in my pack or if I wanted her to take her away. The anti vampire committee had been trying to get someone who would be their sample, but I did not know if I would be able to just give her away because I was selfish. It was something I was not ashamed of admitting. I didn’t want to be away from my mate. She was the closest we could get to getting the work done but I couldn’t do it. Whenever I thought of giving her away, something stopped me from doing it. I had not told Kai yet because I knew what he was going to say. He did not like Aurora that much so of course he was going to tell me to let her go. She was my mate, and this was her secret so I had to protect it. I was going to do everything to make her feel better. It has been two days since I instructed that she was let out of the cage and I have been doing everything in my power to go and meet her because I did not know how the conversation was going to go. Of c
AURORA It almost felt unrealistic as I felt the cold air of the night hit my skin. I have been so starved of this and wanted to experience it again for the entire time that I was in the cell. I hoped that Logan was going to feel that way soon too. The cold, iron bars of the dungeon door clanged shut behind me, it marked the end of a nightmarish chapter. The moon bathed the streets in its ethereal glow as I stepped into the night, my senses acutely aware of every rustle and heartbeat around me. The guards that were holding on to me had let me go and I was free to roam. My legs hurt from being trapped in one place for so long and it took me a while to stop myself from limping as I headed towards the palace. I wished there was somewhere else that I could be, but I didn’t really have a choice. The palace was the only place I could go to. On my way back, I stumbled on so many random things on the way. I hissed. If Damian wanted me to be out then at least he should have sent so
AURORA I sat there in silence, hearing what my brother was telling me about my identity that I had not found out for a long time. I could not believe what I was hearing. It was all adding up, with every word he spoke. It made sense why my parents never really liked me in the first place. I was not their daughter. I was adopted into the family when their real daughter had died, and I was replaced by her. Only the immediate family knew, and it had been kept a secret all till today. I was surprised, but it was fleeting because it all made sense to me. He said that I was a hybrid, which meant that I was a werewolf and a vampire in one body. When I had died at the Elantine’s palace, that was when my vampire side was activated. I had technically been dead since then. My heart was not beating and I would not shift on the full moon because I had the power to do that now. Not even an alpha had the same potential as I did. He was stronger than me, but I could beat him in a combat because o