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2024-10-29 19:42:56He crawled on the wooden front deck as his body was gradually returning to his human form. He tried to reach for the doorknob but unable to. His body was weakening for some reasons and the pain was throbbing harder than before. His wolf kept trying to force him to shift once more but Cohen resisted the temptation. Ever since he had lost Mira, the transition between his human and wolf forms was always excruciating.
Cohen just curled on the front deck, naked. The pain was too much again. Too much for him to bear at this point. Every muscle in his body numb. Every breath he took was just adding more pain to his chest as if something had crushed his chest.
Too much pain to bear.
He was suffocating. He needed something to survive. No, he needed his mate to survive. At this rate, Cohen didn’t know if he would ever s
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“What the hell were you thinking?” Liam yelled at Amanda as soon as he returned. “You know how fragile his control is. You should have kept it to yourself.”“The migraine was not a migraine, Liam. I spoke the truth. His mating bond is constructing and that is something that should have not happened.”“But couldn’t you keep it to yourself for a little bit?”Liam was frustrated. He thought doing a friendly hunting match would help Cohen could keep his mind a little bit better. But as soon as they returned, this happened.Brandon knocked on the door and said, “Liam, Cohen already reached the lake house. His mother is there too. Should I put a team to overwatch?”
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Jane arrived in front of an enormous dark castle located in the mountains. Her wings folded behind her and disappeared. The thunder struck the dark sky once again but she remained unfazed. She glanced over her shoulder and saw thousands of dark armies waiting for her instruction. Jane walked into the castle, greeted by the elite guards that she chose by herself to protect Trinity although Trinity didn’t need any sort of security. Her dark magic was strong enough to repel her enemies without a second thought.As she continued to walk deeper into the castle, hundreds of skeletal slaves were moving corpses out of the castle for disposal. Jane arrived in the bathing chamber. It was a room that only had a large hot tub. Instead of filled with warm water, it was filled with the blood of those corpses. Trinity was relaxing in the hot tub.“My Lady,&r
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It took her five hours to get her final conclusion. But, she was not sure if she could tell Cohen about it just yet. Although her heart was against keeping secret from Cohen, Amanda valued her life. She couldn’t die without helping him to get Mira back. It didn’t matter if his mate was resurrected or not. They just needed to get her back. That was the goal.Yes, it would be better if Mira was resurrected. At least, that would give Cohen a second chance. But, Amanda feared someone resurrected Mira for a bigger goal that hung between life and death.The white witch returned to the pack mansion and prayed that she wouldn’t face Cohen. Three Enforcers came from the office and carried the broken desk and chair before another group of Enforcers came with the new replacements. Amanda entered the office and let out a sigh of relief. There were just Li
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The housekeeper stood straight in front of the castle with an umbrella in hand, ready to greet the family’s oldest friend, Clavier Hubert, a doctor and a friend to Stefano. A black SUV stopped and Josef greeted the doctor while he was shielding him from the rain. The weather was terrible lately.“What is the hassle for me to come this quick?” Clavier grunted in annoyance.There was a time where Stefano would threaten him with empty threats but considering what Stefano was capable of, Clavier was rather not testing his theory.“Lord Stefano is—” The housekeeper paused, unable to form the proper words.Clavier waited patiently for the housekeeper to finish his sentence as they made their way to the stairs. Josef sighed in defeat. He coul
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“You know this is against what your council is preaching,” Clavier said.Stefano nodded. He knew the rules of the Council. The law of nature should never be disturbed no matter what it was. Stefano broke that law when he resurrected her from the dead. Though she wasn’t his Adeline, her face was enough for him to ease the burden of missing the woman he loved. For hundreds of years, he suppressed his feelings deep inside himself after her death.“It’s going to cause an uproar,” Clavier continued on glancing to the second floor where Stefano’s stepmother’s bedroom used to be. “She won’t stay quiet, you know.”“She will not be a problem if she knows her place,” Stefano replied.“Tell me
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“My lord,” Josef called after Clavier had left the castle.Stefano turned his attention to his housekeeper and nodded in acknowledgement. The expression that Josef had was enough to confirm everything. His council had gathered without giving him a notice. That was something Stefano disliked.“Watch over her for me,” Stefano said to Josef before leaving.“Yes, my lord.”Stefano vanished in thin air and a moment later, he arrived in the Council’s building. Everyone was shocked by his sudden appearance. Usually, someone would inform everyone of his arrival. This time, he didn’t have the time for formal courtesy. He walked to the Great Hall.“So, you’ve gathered,”
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Amanda drove out of the territory, heading to one place that she might have the answer to the things that happened lately. She didn’t want to waste more time just in case her suspicion was true. She feared that Mira was already resurrected which answered why Cohen’s mating bond was reconstructed. If Mira was actually resurrected, the balance of the world would fall.After driving nearly two hours, she stopped at a horse ranch and wheat farm. There, a two storey wooden house was located. A woman was working outside the barn, raking some dried grasses outside of it. Amanda came out of her car and looked at the woman. The woman turned at her before approaching her.“What are you doing here?” the woman asked.“I need to know something,” Amanda replied.The woman’s expression changed. “I don’t know anything.”She quickly left. Amanda chased after her and said, “Matilda, you know something
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Daemon was different from a demon or the demon wolf. Daemon was known as a godlike deity. They had power incomparable to any other creatures ever walked on Earth. It was said that daemons were the first creature to walk on Earth before anything else. That made them the world’s oldest species. However, there was no confirmation they ever existed. People passed down stories like that. Just like how the stories of demon wolf happened. If a demon wolf could exist through a myth, then daemon could too.And according to the legend, a daemon was the only powerful creature that could use the resurrection spell without causing a catastrophic event.“Should we be happy that Mira was resurrected or should we fear what this—” Vincent trailed off, “— daemon could do to her?”A question t
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Mira’s pen hovered on the paper. She couldn’t think of anything else to add to her journal. Her eyes scanned every word she had written on the page. It amazed her that she could write this much of the story of her life. She never had a formal education, but she was lucky that a woman taught her how to read and write during their enslavement.Mira didn’t write the story of her life to remind herself how she got this far. But she wrote it for her kids when they faced hardship in their lives and thought of giving it up. She wanted them to know how many hardships their parents had to endure to get this far.Everyone questioned; what happened now? Dalton Forest had proven the two Councilors of the Werewolf’s Council, Ophelia Jade and Robert, were guilty of numerous charges, including the murdered case of his younger brother, Winston, who was
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Two months later, somewhere in Cuba.Cohen parked his car before coming out and walking to the bar of the town. He had been in town nearly one week now. He slipped a few hundred dollar bills to the bouncer on the front door before he was let to enter. There was no time to waste as Cohen made his way to the basement where the real fun was.An illegal fight match.People were roaring at the ongoing match, but that didn’t bother him as he kept going until he entered a changing room. Taking his shirt off, he prepared for his own fight, which would be after the current one. He wrapped his hands with boxing tape. For someone like him, he had to fight carefully—without taking life unless intended to. The match wasn’t what he was looking for. It was the guests who attended the match that was his main prior
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Two hours into the celebration, everyone was having a good time. Mira spotted Amanda stealing glances at Vincent a few times. She realized the former couple had yet to reconcile. Now and then, they would steal glances at each other. Vincent was busy talking and laughing to some single female pack members. He looked like he was having a good time while Amanda looked like she was about to commit homicide.“Oh, get over it!” Mira groaned as she was annoyed by Amanda’s stealing glances. “Just go there and talk to him.”“He hates my guts. I swear it; he hates me,” Amanda said, trying hard not to look at Vincent.“Can I steal her for a moment?” Cohen asked Amanda.“Sure, Mister Happily Ever After,” Amanda replie
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Mira stood by the full-length mirror, looking at her own reflection as she continued to fix her hair. It had been an hour since she stood there, fixing whatever she felt needed some fixing. Tonight was Cohen’s thirty-fifth birthday celebration. He was officially old and grumpy at everyone who agreed to do the celebration. He told them that he didn’t need to be reminded that he was an older man now, but everyone insisted that he would have a good time during the celebration.Believe it or not, Mira was intended to make it a good time for her mate. He had been working hard lately as he was trying to get many things done and catch up with Liam’s work during Cohen’s nine months of absence. He worked until late hours, and Mira began to worry that he might throw himself into work again, but he promised her that this would be temporary. Once he got the hang of everything again, his schedul
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A week had passed since the war. After that, Cohen was busy visiting families of those who lost their sons and daughters during the two battles. Then, Mira had to return to Stefano’s realm with Clavier, Vito, and the army. She went there so that Stefano could check the extent of her demon wolf’s transformation and see if she could stay in the demon wolf’s form longer without losing control. Dalton, Karmille, and the first battalion returned to the Council’s land. Dalton launched an investigation against everyone in the Council after receiving dozens of reports from Clavier about the Werewolf’s Council’s dark secrets. After spending a week in Stefano’s realm, Mira returned to Cohen’s arms. It had been three days since she returned. Cohen had been keeping Mira to himself first. She hadn’t got the chance to meet his parents again because obviously, the Alpha nee
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Everyone stopped as if the time had stopped ticking and just focused on the sound of the cracking on the stone table. At the same time, Amanda successfully dispelled the dome that covered the stone table and the people who were meant to be the sacrifices. The packs began to pull those people out of the danger zone as they didn’t know what would happen when Mira was fully shifted into her demon wolf.Clavier was crouching next to Stefano, trying to heal the High Lord, stabbed with his own spear. But their eyes focused at the stone table. Cohen couldn’t take his eyes off Mira as she shifted into a demon wolf. The moment the shifting was completed, the battlefield fell into a deep silence. The first time Cohen saw Mira’s demon wolf was when Amanda sent him to the back of her mind—to the realm of the demon wolf. He never thought the beast could be that magnificent. The demon wolf’
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In her demon wolf’s realm, Mira was forced to exit to another part of its realm. There, she saw the same gates that Amanda put up to control Mira’s bad memories from affecting her deeply. Now, the gates were opened. She wondered what would happen if she walked past the broken gate. Her demon wolf was too busy causing suffering to others. Mira knew she had to find a way to stop her demon wolf from causing more trouble. She had to find a way to make her demon wolf acknowledge Cohen as the Alpha and answer only to him.If she could find an answer, it should be where it all began for her. The opened gates were where it began for her. Cohen walked through those gates when he came to save her from her demon wolf nine months ago. She knew the memories that were hiding beyond the gates, and for years, she chose to ignore those memories. Mira chose not to confront her painful past because she thought sh
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Stefano ran towards Alistair as his spear materialized in his hands. He knew his father’s death had something to do with Alistair. After all, the de Lucca family dedicated their lives to prevent Alistair from gaining power. Only Eleanor de Lucca brought disgrace to the de Lucca family’s name as she chose to serve Alistair and his goal.Stefano rose into the air and brought the Angel of Death along with him as they battled in the sky. The Knights of Death charged towards Cohen and the armies he brought along. The people who were meant to be the sacrifices remained rooted on the ground. Their mouths continued to the incantation that was spoken by Mira’s demon wolf. Trinity created a smaller dome covering the stone table and the sacrifices. The Knights of Death began to form protective lines around the dome, protecting the ritual with their lives. They didn’t care about their lives as
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Cohen looked out the window of his office and noticed the sky was changing color slowly. In a few minutes, the sun would start to take over the moon slowly. His heart became restless as he was nowhere close. No matter how hard he didn’t want to think about being late to save her, he couldn’t ignore it. Last time, he was late saving her. He didn’t want to be late this time, but he had no clues about finding her.For the first time, Cohen felt useless. All those years and knowledge couldn’t help him find the one person he needed to find.The office door was slammed open, and Liam walked in as he breathed heavily. Sweats rolled down his forehead as if he was in a marathon. Cohen looked at him, and his eyes widened. Words weren’t needed between them. Liam didn’t need to tell him a word because his expression said it all.
