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 I nearly backed out after I had met Damian. I didn’t know that he was going to come back to the pack that day and when I saw him, I did not know how to feel. All I could think about was the impending betrayal that I had coming for him. I had behaved off and I could see that he noticed. It was not the same way that I acted towards him before he left. I knew he was planning to back off from me and I supported that. He had told me that he had laced the town's water with vervain, and I had spoken to Nancy about it. Since then, she had been getting me water at odd hours of the night so I didn’t need to use the tap water. She also has my food double checked, so it will not be laced with any kind of danger. All of her works had gone unnoticed but I knew it was about time before someone found out. Before the time was here, we would be long gone to find out what the hell was wrong with me. The incident happened over a week ago and now, we were ready to go on with the plan. We had
DAMIAN I had decided to sleep when I heard knocking coming from my door aggressively. I groaned as I opened my eyes and straightened my body so I could stand up from my bed. I had a rough day and the last thing that I wanted to do was deal with whoever it was that was behind the door. I was also battling insomnia, so that too. I hissed as the knock came again and I stood up, hoping the person had a good excuse for knocking on my door this way at this odd hour of the night. I headed to my door and opened it. Inez was standing behind it, and she looked like she was about to combust as she panted uncontrollably. I wanted to envelop her in my arms and ask what was wrong, but that would pass the wrong message to her so I made way for her to enter my room and she thanked me before she did. She let out a breath to calm herself down. “What is wrong?” I asked her, heading towards her. Her throat bobbed before she spoke, “There is something that you need to know, Damian. I think your
AURORA “Get down on your knees, now.” The guards shouted from all of the corners that they had surrounded and torched me. I turned to look at Damian and he looked livid. I shouldn’t have done that. I should have known better. She had it out for me for a long time, of course, she was going to look into me and find everything bad I have ever done to use it against me. Inez’s smirk was almost palpable and she came and stood in front of me while I was going down on my knees to check on my brother who had slumped down. I soon realized that he had passed out. I couldn’t even yell for help because they were not going to get him any medical attention after what I had done. It was all my damn fault. I shouldn’t have tried to break him out. “See, I told you that she was up to something. I knew that she couldn’t be trusted.” She glared at me like I was the most despicable thing she had ever laid eyes on. I turned to face Damian and her reaction mirrored his. He looked disgusted with me
DAMIAN ‘It was the full moon.’ I tried to convince myself for the next seven days that came. The full moon was approaching us and I was getting ready to shift and accommodate for my subjects to shift also. When it was this time for the month, everything became suddenly amplified. My feelings and urges became stronger and this time, I wasn’t expecting Aurora to be the person that I would be thinking about all through it. I was hurt by what she had done to me, but what else could I do now that she was already locked away? I couldn’t not bring her out because it was going to stir a lot of talk in the pack. I had locked away a lot of people for far less. Inez had also made sure that she had spread the word in the pack about what Aurora had done. It made it even more impossible for me to do anything about the situation now that my head was cleared and I wasn’t as angry as I was. I told myself that he was her brother. I might not have one, but the closest I had to doing that was Kai
AURORA I was being treated worse than a dog. I knew that staying in the place where Damian termed to be where he kept his lowly criminals was not going to be a fun stay, but I had expected anything but what I was experiencing. The food they gave us had begun to spoil and we were only allowed to use the toilet once a day. I had told myself that I would be able to survive it for the past few days and I have been surviving through it, but my brother was who I was afraid for. With the injury he had, I wasn’t sure if he was going to survive it. I had to speak to him multiple times a day because I did not want him to slip into unconsciousness. His wound had infected and he had been burning up with fever and there was nothing I could do. I tried to open up the gates but I was weak because I had not fed in so long and a regular werewolf wouldn’t be able to break the barriers of the cage. The guards also did not agree to take him to the hospital to get treatment because apparently it was
DAMIAN My eyes twitched as I felt a drip of water land on my face. I frowned as I struggled to get up to find the source, but my body felt like it was being held down by a rock and my eyes refused to open. I wondered what the hell was happening to me as I struggled to open my eyes and after a while when I was about to give up, thinking perhaps I was dead, they opened up. I was in the woods. The events of what had happened before this moment suddenly came to my mind, and my face screeched up in confusion. I was sure that I had been in Aurora’s room the last time that I was conscious. How come that I was in the woods? I looked up at the sky and it was still dark. It was still night. The full moon. Perhaps I sleepwalked out of the palace and fell here. Whatever it was, it was the least of my concerns when I remembered what my wolf had told me. I suddenly felt the urge to protect her more than anything in the world. It was a feeling that came based on instinct. As an alpha, we feel
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