Word gets fast. Super fast in their hometown. Ken was pretty good at spreading the news of his impromptu homecoming. Even Chris who was living in the next town was quick to come home when he received the text from Ken. He wanted to be with family, sure. But he wanted to be with them and not the whole community of ranchers and cattle breeders. It was nice to catch up and make up for lost time but he was here for family and serendipity. A time entirely devoted for him and his family because there was some insane feeling inside his head that tells him that this was a good idea and that this might be his last time to visit them. It was a preposterous idea but that is how he felt.While the jeeps and ATV’s started to fill up the lawn in front and the back yard was also starting to get ready for the simple dinner but was now turning out to be not simple at all because tables and chairs started to pop up from no where and grills increased in number and his parents, with Chris’ heavily preg
“Julienne!” Solandra screamed the moment she appeared in the mansion. She was more relaxed now and judging by the color of her skin now, which was awesomely tanned, not by the sun but by the only place that she trusts to get her airbrushed tan --the Duchess was in Vegas for the past two days and was now seeking the attention of her house staff.The butler, as efficient as ever came to her as soon as he was summoned. “Welcome back, Mistress.” “Who was in Nicolas’ study?” She asked, her eyes were boring deep into the eyes of the old man.“I have no idea, the study is open to only three people. You, Maddox and Helena.” “And you.”“Yes, what is the matter?” Julienne asked calmly, although he kind of knew where this was all leading to. His friend’s eccentric wife was not dumb and having been staying at that study, she could have known where everything was supposed to be. A missing book will not be missed by a human eye, but not by sin-eaters. Solandra had eye for detail and Julienne knew
He could not imagine himself eating steak in what used to be their favorite steak house in New York when he and Kathy were still happily in love with each other. His steak would always be well done while his girlfriend would often times roll her eyes on him for doing so. Kathy liked her steak medium rare. He would always tease her for this and would often get punched on the side so lovingly for telling her that she might as well chew on a live, breathing cow than ordering a seventy dollar worth of steak. Her’s would come so pink inside and oozing with juice. He did not understand this types of people but looking at the huge lump of meat in his hand right now,barely cooked and there was nothing left of it but bones--Zac feared himself but the funny thing there is, he wanted more and he felt, well, better and stronger.“”This must be how, cellphones feel after being recharged.” He muttered to himself. He washed his hands and brushed his teeth, he was almost finished when Chris came in
Zac was torn in two, he wanted to excuse Helena from his family. In less than an hour, his entire family adored the woman and he cannot afford to remove the happy smiles and laughter from his mother’s face. He knew that face. That was the same face that his mother had when Chris finally brought his then serious relationship partner--his wife now--and the soon to be mother of his child home. He loved to expose her too but what good will that idea be? He could not remove her from that group even if he wanted to, he will need a crow bar to do that. So he spent the time trying to make man conversations with his childhood friends and his brothers, lazily lounging away while the rest of the world happens, beer in hand and watching the little kids who appeared out of nowhere. Apparently, they are all his godsons and goddaughters and they were all hoping to see him and maybe get icecream money from him. His friends are almost all married and he and Ken are the oddities. Still single and no
Julienne’s tragic death had caused another turmoil in the House of Hesse-Dermsadt. It happened in the highway and the police was informed right away and was sent to the area to conduct investigation. The Duchess was in her bed chambers when a house staff knocked on her door to inform her of the uniformed guests waiting for her.“What? You should have told them that I needed my beauty rest.”“I did, mistress, but they were rather persistent. Mr. Julienne is dead.” The way she said it made it all so formal. “He is what?”Solandra did not waste time. On normal occasion, she will dismiss the men and have her servants tell them to come back when she is done with her beauty regime. Her skin care routine can take up to a number of hours. She does not necessarily need all the fuss, her beauty will stay as long as she feeds on a regular basis. Blood consumption is the only skin care that sin-eaters need. There was no acne break out inthir world. She only indulges in expensive skin care routin
The last of the guests have left and said their goodbyes. A draft of tomorrow's lunch at the cabin was ready and for finalizing by the first hour in the morning. Jane Oliver was giddy and she and Helena were busy in the kitchen doing the dishes, while happily discussing what food to prepare for tomorrow. Jane even asked her favorites.Ken and Zac along with their snoring father was watching a game in the 32 inch Television set that was mounted on the wall. Their last TV unit was destroyed by their lovely cat, Dingles, who by the way is so comfortable with Helena touching and petting her while they are now in the kitchen doing the dishes and having a very cheerful conversation. Dingles is not a very cooperating cat, but he liked Helena. Zac watched this scene at the side of his vision as he did not want Ken to think that something was amiss.“Pst..” Ken hissed.“What?”“You told me that you were just travel buddies and now you bring her here as your girlfriend. What is the fuss all abo
“The hell is wrong with you? Are you a magician? How the heck did that happen?”The thing with humans, they believe a lot in magic.A whole lot. The whole nine yards. Disney had a lot of contribution at this matter and it sucks for Helena and her kind. It makes the explaining part for new sin-eaters a horrible experience. Take Zachary for an example, now he thinks that Helena is a magician and is very good at it. The woman chose to be dramatic in hopes that Zac would somehow get the gist or at least pick something up from the trick that she had just shown.“Come with me, I will explain everything to you.” “Where?”“Outside.” “Mom will not be happy if we go out at night.”“We are not gonna go out like a normal---whatever.” It was Helena’s turn to grab him by the arm and forcefully threw him out the huge window where she just came in from. Zac’s expression was hard to read, maybe it was amusement or maybe fear or maybe he was getting aroused because in his panic, he looked for somewhe
The Accidental Vampire Chapter 41Harvey Stone is filthy rich, he is an arms dealer and have other businesses under his name, both legal and illega and he likes to live his best life whenever he visits the concrete jungles of the big apple. Single and not necessarily attractive, he spends his time more on Mexico, where his arms dealing thrive. He is the king pin of arms there that ships globally. He often takes pride in spending his money on only the best things in life. He checks-i on only the best, eats the best foods and fucks only the best girls that his fat bank account can pay. He was not handsome and in this part of the world, your money speaks for you. Women will not entertain a handsome guy who can’t afford two cocktail drinks for her and her friend. That is just the harsh truth that is why he is a slave for money. Money gets you respect, it gives you power and most importantly it can manipulate other people. Harvey lives to manipulate. For him, he is the top dog.For tonight
A message from the author to my readers: Thank you. I was trying to figure my life when I was writing this story--with only one thing in my mind: Escaping from reality. This book holds a special place in my heart because I was not at the top of my game while patcing sentence after sentence, imaginging sequences and mending a broken heart. This had been my escape. My characters are all a part of me. Each were given a piece of me , so I can feel less burdened. i might not have written this perfectly or top notch, but I am sure that this is the best that I can offer while trying not to break down into pieces.I am a mother of two and I am messed up right now but the growing numbers of subscribers and readers gives me the push that I needed to type away, to put my thoughts into words. To hone the talent that I have (although I admit that I am a mediocre) and to pay it forward to the writers who have influenced me to write and to the friends who kept me going whenever I feel backing d
Helena’s POVAll my life I thought that I was destined to live and die by myself. My mother does not love me or so I thought , but it turns out that she loved me the way that she knew how. I could have not found this if not for Zachary Oliver who turned my boring, sin-eater life into a full three hundred and sixty throttle mode.And yet, here I am.Happily married to the man that my brother, Maddox had bitten. So, he was not a mystery. He was under the influence of the Goddess Persephone, who was in return--under the manipulation of my husband’s very own grandfather. We both have dysfunctional families but we both share the same goals--to maintain our happy family.I have kids that always remind me to keep my feet on the ground and to always love one another. I have completely abandoned my life as a high end Bulgarian high end bachelorette for a life of simplicity and endless laundry and and I believe that I am already qualified to compete in the national rapping competition.I rap
They say that a family is the basic unit of a community. For Zac, family is everything. He could not ask for anything more. Having two set of parents and a lovely wife, with three beautiful kids who do not let them live in peace and keeps them up on their toes all day is what a family really is.Their house is a mess all the time and he and Helena cannot have enough time for themselves unless they visit Bulgaria, where every house staff was eager to take care of the three kids and the entire estate is their playground.Zac was staring at the sky, sipping his third cup of coffee, because is essential when you are a parent. Helena left her work and takes good care of the children full time, she has her hands full with three kids to feed and a husband to reprimand on spoiling the children. Zac still works with the firm and he is now senior partner. George is still working there and he is the other senior partner. Helena bought the firm in secret.They really do not need to work because he
The kitchen in that modern bungalow house down in Maine was a mess. Three children ages four, three and two were busy making breakfast for themselves.Not your ordinary, edible breakfast. They took everything out from the fridge and poured flour all over their stash.The kid's names were---"Solandra, Maddox and Hades! Oh my.. What the fudge!" she was not allowed to cuss, most especially in front of her children. It had been five years, three kids and a consistently dirty kitchen later, Helena is now a mother.Yep, she named their children after the people they lost to remind them each passing day that there is nothing that love cannot conquer. She and Zachary, the new hero of Mount Olympus hitched up and settled down. They were no longer sin eaters. After Zac saved the world, he asked for one thing and that was to be human. They got what they wanted and the grand parents from Olympus gets to visit the kids as often as they want as long as they promise not to spoil the kids. Their ch
“Oh my God! I found my gift!” “Yes, you did.” Zac was so happy for Helena, he truly was. For so long , all she wanted was to discover her gift because it had been one of her greatest frustrations and now that she had found hers. She was always envious of Maddox who got his gift early and the rest of the sin-eaters who did not had a hard time finding what they were endowed.he only wish that they were another gift, Damn, she had two. “Are you having second thoughts now in marrying me?” Helena knew how his mind works now, nbut she was wrong in thinking abut the second thoughts. “What? No. Just because your gifts are extra deadly combination for a soon to be husband---you think I am gonna be scared? Well, let me tell you one thing, Miss Mountbatten and you have to listen very carefully---I am not scared of you or you powers, I have my own powers too.” Zac was now a full pledged Elven Mage and a demi God, he has a range of powers that none of the other Gods had and his parents could ne
The cave that leads to the endless tunnel and cave where Cronos’ body and containment box was locked and double locked. Freya, made sure of that, she used all the ancient runes that she knew of and exhausted every containment magic she had to ensure that the door will never be found.Zachary was wounded and because a God had given her these wounds, it did not heal right away.his mother gave him some healing leaves to alleviate the pain because they won’t go off right now. They will be like mortal wounds. The whole nine yards. He was just glad that Helena stood by him through all these fights and battles and there is just one thing that he would want to hear from her right now.“Some day, huh?” he voiced out for everyone to hear.“Yeah, some day.” Zeus answered. He and Freya were now huddled up against each other. “Sooo, you two are like okay now?”As an answer to that, Zeus gave Freya a quick kiss on the lips which soon developed into a passionate kiss. Zachary covered Helena’s eyes
Zac’s POVHelena have this weird and crazy idea that I do not know if I should give it a shot or no. He was a quarter close to successfully freeing himself from the containment box. It is now or never really. I try to focus on the people I love. My family in Texas who by now might be calling the police and dead worried because me and my girlfriend had been missing. My biological parents who are now mourning the death of my uncle Hades who did his best to convince his wife to call it quits.Helena’s losses. Her entire family was taken from her. She deserved to be happy with a family of her own and he badly wanted to get out of here alive and to continue living his life.With this in mind, Zac runs and jumps inside the containment box to everyone’s horror.“You! What did you told him to do?” Freya panicked when she saw what Zachary chose to do.“I-I told him to use the bolt to shut the lid and weld it together. I did not ask him to jump into this own death!”Inside the containment box.
“We will.”Zeus’ voice boomed from the upper staircase. It was not just him. There was Poseidon and Hades and Freya.When Persephone saw her husband free, she was furious. ” Who let you out?”Hades took a few steps and touched a half creature and it quickly turned into a heap of dust. Those who were in a close proximity to the ascending God of the underworld took a few steps back.the Hades she left imprisoned in his own kingdom that looked sad, poor and unshaven was very different as he came closer.“Dear wife, you believed that you are smart, but I am cunning and I would like to thank my nephew here for finally following my orders to the T. ““You’re welcome uncle.” Zac said and he bowed low.“Impossible.”“I will tell you what is impossible, okay? Releasing the man who put us all in danger is impossible.”“Why, because you will try to stop me?”“We won’t do that. We are only here to get rid of the monstrosities that our father unleashed to make it fair and square. Zac will take care
Zeus and Freya was still arguing when they finally noticed that their son was gone and so was his bolt. He had a smug grin on his face when he finally found the heir that is worthy of the bolt.“What are you grinning at?” Freya said.“You know what this means, don’t you?” “That you are an asshole for underestimating my son?”“He is also my son.”“Oh, now he is?”“I have to annoy him so we don’t have to force him into wielding the bolt. He did i on his own accord and the bolt chose him!”“That was your parenting skill?!” Freya could not believe how Zeus handled this. It worked but it was annoying and Zeus was so proud of himself.“I am sorry for all the times that we wasted without each other, Freya. You know I still loved you. I never stopped.”Freya did not stop loving the God too. The truth was, she had never loved anyone after Zeus. Elves, like the creatures of the dark can only love once and her love of her life was unfortunately the God of thunder, the father of her son. How can