Prologue
If only she was prepared for what she saw. On the ground was a dead Trisha and on her neck were neck bites and it was obvious who had killed her. Next to her, was Kyle on his knees with chains carrying silver over them. He had wounds all over his body. His hair was damp with blood and so was his shirt; he was coughing out blood. "Kyle, can you hear me? I'm here. I'm going to save you," Jasmine said as she tried to remove the golden stake that was pierced through his heart but flinched when the silver on the chains burned her. "I'm sorry Jasmine. I'm so…sorry. I love you, Jasmine," Kyle said, coughing out more blood and wincing from the pain. "Tell me that when we are out of here," Jasmine said and tried to help him to get up again but flinched. The silver was fucking much, she wondered how he was holding on."I can't," Kyle said, blood gushing out from all his openings—his mouth, his nostrils, and his ears. Dried blood was coated everywhere on his face with splits and different stages of old and new wounds."You can please… for me… for us… for our baby," Jasmine said through sobs, and Kyle's half-opened eyes widened a fraction. His eyes glistened with regret and at that moment he knew there was nothing left of him but was gladdened that not just something but someone was coming to reign after him. The prophecies might not have happened with him, and that was his sole regret but after hearing Jasmine's confession his regrets burnt. "Take care of them for me," he said, looking past Jasmine. Jasmine turned and saw Dominic standing and looking helpless behind her. "Kyle…please…" Jasmine begged but Kyle cut her in."If it is a boy… name… name him Kyle Junior," more blood spewed from his mouth. "If it is a girl, Kayla… Trisha's father... find him and kill him for me!" "I'm so sorry. I should have come sooner," Jasmine sobbed but Kyle ignored her plea and stuck out his fingers. Jasmine took the clue and brought her face closer so he could touch it. After touching her face with his bloody fingers, he pointed to her belly so she dropped to the ground so he could reach it. At that moment, she wished the work would end. But it didn't. Aggressive footsteps sounded behind them and when she turned to look, it was the other members of the vampire's parliament. They all just stared at Kyle where he still knelt, the dagger sticking out of his chest as he kept on coughing out blood in pure pain. His eyes were red as he fell to the floor, still struggling to breathe but no one did anything to help him. They couldn't… Jasmine couldn't watch it anymore but she couldn't take her eyes off him. She was screaming his name, begging him not to leave her alone—begging him not to leave her and their children alone. Raul just stood, his eyes strained on Kyle, bidding him farewell. Athens stood there with wide eyes… frozen in place. Ariel was the same, frozen and speechless and Drake was on the floor on his knees, his face palmed as he sobbed silently.Jasmine looked back at Kyle and it was his ashes that were staring back at her. Jasmine was screaming but she felt dead—like it, all wasn't really around her: she wasn't really experiencing all of these. Kyle couldn't be dead, he couldn't… her heart got heavy and began to beat really fast as she lost her bearings too and fell on her knees trying to catch her breath. She was having a panic attack. Dominic left where everyone gathered and picked her up, dropping her head on his lap, he was speaking but his voice was barely an echo as he begged her to stay with him."I could have saved him," was all she said before she passed out too… Kyle was dead, gone forever and she hoped that I could join him…But she didn't, her eyes remained wide open, glaring through the wickedness of the world. Looking at the remnant of the man she'd ever loved. Laying on her back, on the cold floor, she swore to make Jamieson and his posterity pay for what he did to Kyle. She was going to find him and every descendant and ancestor and kill them. Still crying she went over to Kyle's ashes and knelt before them, gathering the particles in her palm. "I'd avenged you, Kyle. I will make them pay, as many as they are that caused your death… I'll make them pay with their life. Jamieson and Bernard would go through ten times the pain they made me go through. I'll make them go through hell until they finally die in the hands of the torture I'll put them through. I promise… I promise to be the best mother to our baby. I promise to never be late in reaching out to them and I promise to love you, forever, Kyle. I'm grateful for you and I'm sorry. I love you," as said, crying and clutching Kyle's ash as my tears fell on them until everything turned dark. Dominic and the vampires present all looked surprised at what was happening. Jasmine's Fangs elongated and so did her fingers. Her eyes held fire—she spelled doom. Thunders and lightning went off and the earth shook! "What the hell?" Raul asked nobody in particular. ****The werewolves all came out as the witches were assembled to interpret what was going on. "It is the cry of an unborn child and the pain of a mother that seeks vengeance—they are a force to be reckoned with. The only way to travel over them is to kill the mother before the child is born or kill the child after the mother delivers. Whatever way, one of them must die!" The head witch said.It'd been four weeks since Kyle died. A whole month since Jasmine and the entire Vampire assembly has been mourning over the death of their king and for the last seven days, Jasmine had neither eaten anything nor drank anything.She was standing by the sea shore, staring into space and reminiscing over the last couple of years. The beginning and mid part of the last seven hundred and thirty-one days of her life were bright and eventful so how did everything turn out so blue and forlorn?The last week of her life at the vampire's camp was unbearable and that was why the heads of the vampire dynasty decided to send her off on a vacation. She needed a breather and a new space as everything back home reminded her of Kyle."Kyle, why did you?" She broke down once again, catching her stomach tightened as she sobbed on. Feeling the child in her stomach gave her reassurance that Kyle was close to her and this time even, she hoped he'd answer. "Tell me why, Kyle?"Dominic was inside the sea ho
Dominic looked at Jasmine after she made her request for him to watch over Rob and she was staring at him too, waiting for a reply. He smiled and took her hands "Of course Jasmine, I'd gladly do that for you," he said and gently pushed her hair that had gotten in her face back before he took her hand again and stared at her. "Thank you, Dom, I'm grateful for your kindness," she said and he shook his head "I want to do it, Jasmine, Rob is like a son to me too okay," he insisted and she nodded her head with a smile still on her face. "If you insist," she replied and turned to walk down the shoreline of the beach."C'mon, let's go on a walk," she urged Dominico and he followed her as she took slow and steady steps down the shoreline while they still held hands and talked for a while. Jasmine suddenly felt tired and wanted to sit so he let her and they sat on the sand at the beach and watched the sunset while he played with her hair and watched her scribble meaningless things on the sand
Jasmine jerked up the moment the wheels of the plane she was riding in touched the ground. The public addresser went off, informing the occupants of the plane that they had reached their destination. Groggily, Jasmine stood up and wiped sleep off her face. Her golden-green eyes instantly changed colors mirroring her mood. She was tired after the long ride and felt jet lagged. "I'll see you around," Dominic said to Jasmine, engulfing her in a short but warm hug. "Be careful, okay? And tell Rob I'll come to see him soon. Tell him I love him and that I really miss him," Jasmine said, the calm of her hybrid eyes returning to her pupils."I will. Call me when you get home," Dominic said and Jasmine nodded. She came outside the plane and waited until it was her turn to grab her luggage. When she actually did, she heaved a relief sigh."Here comes everything!" Jasmine murmured to herself as she strolled out of the airport with her luggage. Her skin at once registered the familiar feeling o
PRESENT DAY (END OF FLASHBACK)Jasmine still sat in her room alone with her thoughts. The tears weren't coming anymore, due to the relief she felt from baby Kyle's kick… but her heart felt heavy, her eyes were puffy and she couldn't exactly put a finger on what she was feeling at that moment.A knock came on the door and she looked at the door immediately, wondering who it could be until the person spoke up. "Hey, Jasmine, it's Loretta," she said and Jasmine released a breath of relief before she stood up and opened the door to let her in.Loretta took one look at her face and knew she had been crying. She didn't want to talk about it though because Jasmine was pregnant and her mood would be all over the place so she decided to fix it the best way she could."You should wash up before coming out, it's time for dinner," she said and Jasmine shook her head before sitting back on the bed. "I'm not hungry, Loretta. I just want to rest," she replied and Loretta rolled her eyes before going
"I've got five members of the directory board on our side; two more and we shouldn't have to worry about the company's ownership," Ariel said to Raul and he nodded."And the members of the pack?" Raul asked Ariel."I'm working on it. Quite a number of us are rooting for you to be our leader and not some goddamn woman, who knew nothing about the brotherhood? I mean how can a werewolf rule the vampire kingdom because of a certain transformation?""Totally stupid! This is why we must work together to ensure Jasmine doesn't get to sit on the ruler's seat. What if their goddess plays a round on us and mates her as the wife of the werewolf boy?" Raul asked begrudgingly. "Then she'd sell us out to the werewolves and make them use us as slaves!" A third voice spoke from behind the curtains and immediately, Raul and Ariel turned to look at the intruder. Two weeks had passed since Arturo made that suggestion at the dinner table and it had been two weeks since neither Raul nor Ariel rested. The
Raul's screams didn't stop the venom coming from the lowermost trench of Jasmine's stomach, it was even accentuated. The ambivalence of It was that Jasmine wasn't the regulator of the force. It was the baby in her womb.Jealousy flocked in his heart, as unborn as he was, he was still the danger, hegemony, and possession of his mate and the only person he had loved.Kyle grabbed Raul's neck in such a way he knew he couldn't survive, even if he did, he would spend half of his remaining life, bedridden. He could forever regret the way he wanted to backbite him, daring his mate.Raul was now above the floor, mouth dipped of foams, tongue sprouting out and his hands were up in the air as a form of surrender. His eyes were so red as a form of suffocation. His eyes were swirling as if the earth rotated on its own. Everything in Jasmine's room became two, the cabinet, bed, dressing table, and more.The feeling of being drained over obscured him, like a person drowning inside the blue sea, fee
Raul was still up in the air. "What're you doing, Jasmine?" Asher screeched in shock. The others weren't left behind, their mouths were wide open, terrified.Even with Asher's outcries, Jasmine did as if she didn't hear. She was pinned in a spot."Jasmine please!" The others succumbed to weeping and pleading."Jasmine pleaseeee!" Their screams deciphered Jasmine and she turned her head toward the door where they were, some were on the knee, pleading in tears.The atmosphere was so taut mixed with distress and awful moments. Jasmine's face was ruddy and her hand trembled."It isn't me! I am not the one controlling my hand," she cried out."How can you say that? You have your hand on his neck, do you intend to kill him?" Asher shrieked in anger.His chest was racing as anger muddied his reason. The fact that she and the person she intended to kill were contesting for the leadership post was not helping the matter. He, Asher could endorse Raul because he could become the second in comma
Raul was still up in the air. "What're you doing, Jasmine?" Asher screeched in shock. The others weren't left behind, their mouths were wide open, terrified.Even with Asher's outcries, Jasmine did as if she didn't hear. She was pinned in a spot."Jasmine please!" The others succumbed to weeping and pleading."Jasmine pleaseeee!" Their screams deciphered Jasmine and she turned her head toward the door where they were, some were on the knee, pleading in tears.The atmosphere was so taut mixed with distress and awful moments. Jasmine's face was ruddy and her hand trembled."It isn't me! I am not the one controlling my hand," she cried out."How can you say that? You have your hand on his neck, do you intend to kill him?" Asher shrieked in anger.His chest was racing as anger muddied his reason. The fact that she and the person she intended to kill were contesting for the leadership post was not helping the matter. He, Asher could endorse Raul because he could become the second in comma
Raul's screams didn't stop the venom coming from the lowermost trench of Jasmine's stomach, it was even accentuated. The ambivalence of It was that Jasmine wasn't the regulator of the force. It was the baby in her womb.Jealousy flocked in his heart, as unborn as he was, he was still the danger, hegemony, and possession of his mate and the only person he had loved.Kyle grabbed Raul's neck in such a way he knew he couldn't survive, even if he did, he would spend half of his remaining life, bedridden. He could forever regret the way he wanted to backbite him, daring his mate.Raul was now above the floor, mouth dipped of foams, tongue sprouting out and his hands were up in the air as a form of surrender. His eyes were so red as a form of suffocation. His eyes were swirling as if the earth rotated on its own. Everything in Jasmine's room became two, the cabinet, bed, dressing table, and more.The feeling of being drained over obscured him, like a person drowning inside the blue sea, fee
"I've got five members of the directory board on our side; two more and we shouldn't have to worry about the company's ownership," Ariel said to Raul and he nodded."And the members of the pack?" Raul asked Ariel."I'm working on it. Quite a number of us are rooting for you to be our leader and not some goddamn woman, who knew nothing about the brotherhood? I mean how can a werewolf rule the vampire kingdom because of a certain transformation?""Totally stupid! This is why we must work together to ensure Jasmine doesn't get to sit on the ruler's seat. What if their goddess plays a round on us and mates her as the wife of the werewolf boy?" Raul asked begrudgingly. "Then she'd sell us out to the werewolves and make them use us as slaves!" A third voice spoke from behind the curtains and immediately, Raul and Ariel turned to look at the intruder. Two weeks had passed since Arturo made that suggestion at the dinner table and it had been two weeks since neither Raul nor Ariel rested. The
PRESENT DAY (END OF FLASHBACK)Jasmine still sat in her room alone with her thoughts. The tears weren't coming anymore, due to the relief she felt from baby Kyle's kick… but her heart felt heavy, her eyes were puffy and she couldn't exactly put a finger on what she was feeling at that moment.A knock came on the door and she looked at the door immediately, wondering who it could be until the person spoke up. "Hey, Jasmine, it's Loretta," she said and Jasmine released a breath of relief before she stood up and opened the door to let her in.Loretta took one look at her face and knew she had been crying. She didn't want to talk about it though because Jasmine was pregnant and her mood would be all over the place so she decided to fix it the best way she could."You should wash up before coming out, it's time for dinner," she said and Jasmine shook her head before sitting back on the bed. "I'm not hungry, Loretta. I just want to rest," she replied and Loretta rolled her eyes before going
Jasmine jerked up the moment the wheels of the plane she was riding in touched the ground. The public addresser went off, informing the occupants of the plane that they had reached their destination. Groggily, Jasmine stood up and wiped sleep off her face. Her golden-green eyes instantly changed colors mirroring her mood. She was tired after the long ride and felt jet lagged. "I'll see you around," Dominic said to Jasmine, engulfing her in a short but warm hug. "Be careful, okay? And tell Rob I'll come to see him soon. Tell him I love him and that I really miss him," Jasmine said, the calm of her hybrid eyes returning to her pupils."I will. Call me when you get home," Dominic said and Jasmine nodded. She came outside the plane and waited until it was her turn to grab her luggage. When she actually did, she heaved a relief sigh."Here comes everything!" Jasmine murmured to herself as she strolled out of the airport with her luggage. Her skin at once registered the familiar feeling o
Dominic looked at Jasmine after she made her request for him to watch over Rob and she was staring at him too, waiting for a reply. He smiled and took her hands "Of course Jasmine, I'd gladly do that for you," he said and gently pushed her hair that had gotten in her face back before he took her hand again and stared at her. "Thank you, Dom, I'm grateful for your kindness," she said and he shook his head "I want to do it, Jasmine, Rob is like a son to me too okay," he insisted and she nodded her head with a smile still on her face. "If you insist," she replied and turned to walk down the shoreline of the beach."C'mon, let's go on a walk," she urged Dominico and he followed her as she took slow and steady steps down the shoreline while they still held hands and talked for a while. Jasmine suddenly felt tired and wanted to sit so he let her and they sat on the sand at the beach and watched the sunset while he played with her hair and watched her scribble meaningless things on the sand
It'd been four weeks since Kyle died. A whole month since Jasmine and the entire Vampire assembly has been mourning over the death of their king and for the last seven days, Jasmine had neither eaten anything nor drank anything.She was standing by the sea shore, staring into space and reminiscing over the last couple of years. The beginning and mid part of the last seven hundred and thirty-one days of her life were bright and eventful so how did everything turn out so blue and forlorn?The last week of her life at the vampire's camp was unbearable and that was why the heads of the vampire dynasty decided to send her off on a vacation. She needed a breather and a new space as everything back home reminded her of Kyle."Kyle, why did you?" She broke down once again, catching her stomach tightened as she sobbed on. Feeling the child in her stomach gave her reassurance that Kyle was close to her and this time even, she hoped he'd answer. "Tell me why, Kyle?"Dominic was inside the sea ho
Prologue If only she was prepared for what she saw. On the ground was a dead Trisha and on her neck were neck bites and it was obvious who had killed her. Next to her, was Kyle on his knees with chains carrying silver over them. He had wounds all over his body. His hair was damp with blood and so was his shirt; he was coughing out blood. "Kyle, can you hear me? I'm here. I'm going to save you," Jasmine said as she tried to remove the golden stake that was pierced through his heart but flinched when the silver on the chains burned her. "I'm sorry Jasmine. I'm so…sorry. I love you, Jasmine," Kyle said, coughing out more blood and wincing from the pain. "Tell me that when we are out of here," Jasmine said and tried to help him to get up again but flinched. The silver was fucking much, she wondered how he was holding on."I can't," Kyle said, blood gushing out from all his openings—his mouth, his nostrils, and his ears. Dried blood was coated everywhere on his face with splits and d