I looked in the mirror for the thousandth time, not liking what I was seeing there. I wasn’t used to that kind of outfit, so I understood all my clumsiness, even if I felt sexy.
"You look beautiful now from the license and let me finish getting ready, or we’ll just get there tomorrow."
Alice banged her hip into mine, pushing me away from the mirror.
Unlike me she wore a red dress, which did not reach the half of her thighs, matching high heels and blonde hair, almost platinum, descended in layers wavy her back.I was wearing dark denim shorts, so short that they showed the pulp of my ass, and a black tank top, which left my strappy bra. Which was the only thing I was wearing that belonged to me, everything else had ripped from Alice’s wardrobe.
"Are you sure I need to wear these heels? I’m sure I’ll twist my foot before I even enter the club." I grumbled staring at the black sandals she had separated for me. "Speaking of which, you didn’t tell me the name of the place.
"You ask too many questions, Bri!" she snorted away from the mirror, now with her face beautifully made up. " Yes, you have to wear the heels! You want to get the attention of a hot man, don’t you? 'Cause then you’re gonna wear the heels, to get taller and not look so... you."
I could be offended by the comment, but I had asked for exactly that when we started to get ready. I wanted to look like someone else, a confident, empowered woman, not the young woman who just turned twenty.
"I just hope have fun before I break my face in those heels!"
"You’ll see, this will be our night!"
We arrived at the LYNC nightclub almost midnight, the line to get in was still long, but thanks to the colorful bracelets that Alice had gotten somewhere, we did not have to wait for anything.
The tall and strong security guard gave us a suspicious look when she reached out her hand showing the bracelet to be scanned. He looked more like a closet dressed in a sleeveless vest, which further evidenced his muscles and a huge tattoo covering his shoulder tan.
When her brown eyes, focused on mine I could swear I felt a shiver go up my spine, concentrating on my neck. I took a deep breath, trying to look as calm as possible and extended my wrist, I thought the man would hold my wrist as he did with Alice, but all he did was walk away, keeping his eyes glued to mine and giving me passage, without even passing the machine on the bracelet.
"Come Bri!" she cried making me look away from the man and let me be dragged by her into the place.
The loud and sensual music invaded my ears as soon as the red lights hit me. The warm and cozy air cheered me up, taking away the strangeness of the security guard at the entrance, now I was focused on the bodies screwing around the place, dancing excited.
The bar was full and I saw that it might be difficult to get drinks tonight. Alice dragged me straight there, pushing people in her way without bothering to apologize, that was my friend, a blonde hurricane.
"What will you have?"
"Anything with alcohol." I wanted to have fun, do everything I ever wanted, but this time without guilt.
I turned to people as she tried to gain the waiter’s attention, people were dancing squeezing on the dance floor, in front of the DJ’s stage. I couldn’t help but notice the pole-dancing poles, where some women came up and vied for space, dancing and rolling looking up at the floor.
The VIP area, it was taken by men, but not those suits I used to hear about. They were too beautiful men, but a wild beauty, strong as well as security, some with big hair, messy, wearing jeans and leather jackets. They reminded me of bikers, but I hadn’t seen any bikes in the driveway.
"Here!" Alice screamed beside me, handing me a glass with glowing blue liquid. "Our night!"
"Our night!" we toasted laughing and took the glass to the mouth. The sweet taste invaded my mouth and I took a bigger sip than I intended. "What is this? I think I can take that all night."
"I don’t doubt that I can, but I’m already warning you two glasses of this and you’ll be drunk."
I didn’t find it difficult, but I still couldn’t drink slowly. I danced with Alice, following her footsteps to the sound of the sensual beat, turning her body against mine, passing my hands through her body in the same way she did with me.
We laughed like two crazy on the dance floor, not caring about anything or anyone, with the glasses up we shook the body in the loud beat that seemed to reverberate in my chest.
"I need to go to the bathroom!" I screamed trying to be heard despite the music.
"Let’s go!"
She grabbed my right hand and started pulling me through the crowd. Alice did the same thing beforehand, pushing people out of her way, but I was too focused on not falling with those jumps in the crowd, to care now.
"Hey!" a deep voice sounded in front of us making me look up.
A tanned, tall and strong man stood in our way, arms crossed making him even more intimidating, brown hair beat at the height of his waist and I saw two braids dangling between the strands, which looked too silky.
"Hi beautiful!" Alice said in a sly voice that didn’t suit her.
His free hand went up the arm of the unknown and he opened a sexy smile towards her, almost making me feel butterflies in the womb and it was not even for me.
"I’m going to the bathroom." I muttered to her ear and left before the two of them began to dock with me hand in hand with her.
It wouldn’t have been the first time.
By a miracle the bathroom was not crowded, I tripped in my heels entering the blessed cabin and held myself on the walls, doing the greatest juggling to be able to use the bathroom without touching the toilet.
When I left I stared at the wide mirror in front of the sinks, my cheeks were red by alcohol and all the dancing, my light lipstick was still intact, but I retouched the mascara and threw some water on my cheeks and neck, trying to erase some of that heat.
After all, red was enough for my hair.
But before I left the bathroom light blinked, making me close my eyes and this second I saw those flames. The fire consuming the wood, reaching the woman, who instead of screaming kept the green eyes stuck in me.
I opened my eyes, tapping my eyelashes quickly, to forget that disturbing image. I curled in the sink and threw water on my face, not caring about the makeup, wet my neck until my hair was dripping.
It was my night! I wasn’t going to surrender those crazy visions and look like a crazy lunatic, not today!
I dried the excess water, checking my face one last time and left the bathroom determined to make that night worth every second.
Alice and the strong Greek god were at the door, at this point I could bet that she would be clinging to him as if her life depended on it, but the two were in a conversation that seemed very interesting.
"What happened?" she asked as soon as she spotted me, the two turned around looking worried, but I just gave her my brightest smile.
"Nothing happened and that’s just the problem!"
I don’t know what took me, but I bit my lower lip, marking it as if I was really excited about the wet kisses on my neck, but I couldn’t be more oblivious to the man who was with me. My attention was all over the male who was watching me, now with his eyes half closed.
I raised my leg, rubbing myself even more on the blond and took her hand to my naked thigh, her lips rose to my ear and the noise of her tongue could have made me drop it at the time, but the brunette watching me was what kept me there.
I opened my lips, simulating a groan and watched him support his arms on the parapet of the area, showing even more interest. Then taken by an insane fire I leaned on the shoulders of the man who was there and propelled myself to sit on the bar counter, his eyes shone in response and I let the other settle between my legs, sliding his hands by my thighs, caressing my uncovered skin.
"Wow, you really are a hurricane!"
Without averting my eyes from the two golden spheres, I laid my body on the counter, the man rose from the parapet looking fascinated. But the blond blocked my field of vision down my head towards my breasts.
I stood up the same minute, my eyes focused on the upstairs looking for my wild cat. But I couldn’t find it, I looked through every inch of the VIP, but I couldn’t find it anywhere.
"What happened beautiful?" the baboon asked and I tried to get his hands off my thighs. " Went crazy? Will not dismiss me so bitch!"
The white face suddenly turned blood red and his hand closed around my wrist, squeezing me tightly, in a way that would surely leave marks, I knew it well.
"Let me go! You’re hurting me stupid!"
I wasn’t going to show fear, he wasn’t scary at all and I knew how to handle it.
"I don’t think you understand, friend, she told you to let go of her arm." the bartender’s voice sounded behind me.
"Or you’ll leave without your hand!"
I raised my gaze with the last threat and saw the man who talked to Alice, the face now was few friends.
The asshole looked around, seeing that he would not stand a chance, one of them was already twice his, even worse against both. He raised his hands as a sign of redemption and walked away from us without saying a word.
"Are you all right, friend?" Alice asked stopping by my side, but the truth is that I didn’t want to think about it now, or I would surely ruin our night altogether.
"It’s our night and no one will spoil it!"
I took the forgotten glass from the counter and turned, feeling the taste now much weaker than the first time tonight.
Beyoncé’s voice exploded in my ears when she started singing Partition, the beat enveloped me and I pulled Alice to the bar counter. We fumbled, but quickly she was on top, in a jump we were standing rolling in the rhythm of the music, letting each sound dictate our steps.
I bent over to fish the bottle from the bar, making sure to stick my butt up, knowing that the short shorts wouldn’t hide much. Alice laid her head on my breasts and I filled her mouth with the clear liquid, which I was pretty sure was tequila. She did the same to me and we danced again using the microphone bottle.
I towed not caring about anything, I had the slight notion that we were giving a great show, but I was not calling for anything but having fun and forgetting all my problems.
"I brought all this for you, follow my steps
Just tell me if it’s okay, baby"
I rolled down, looked back sensualized to no one in particular, but there he was, his golden eyes. Not in the VIP area, now he was right there in the bar, watching me closely with the golden eyes stuck in every move of mine.My moves became even more daring, I curled my ass, rolled my hip, felt like one of the professional dancers, sexy and powerful.
"I do it all for you baby enjoy the view
And tell me if I’m okay, baby"
I sang facing him, dancing with my hands sliding from my hair, to my breasts, down the waist, hips. He raised his eyebrow and for a minute I felt the heat spread through my body, even stronger.One second, it was all I needed to lose balance and slip the jump on the wet counter, going straight to the ground.
But before I hit the ground he was there, one second I was ready to find the ground and the next I was snuggled in his strong arms.
"I caught you dangerous." the guttural voice sent a wave of chills through my body, putting my body on fire. "Now you don’t escape me!"
The golden eyes attracted me like magnets and didn’t seem to have anyone around us. I could only concentrate on him. The big brown hair, the full and arched eyebrows, the wild and shaggy beard that contoured the thin lips, which I was dying to kiss.That’s because I was focused on his face, I was still in his arms, but I could get an idea of what was under his clothes, because I could feel all the hardness of his muscles."I don’t intend to go anywhere." I replied feeling confident to be bold, after all I had attracted the attention of the man luring down there."What is your name?" he asked, with his eyes still focused on mine, as if we were not in a ballad, surrounded by people staring at us as he held me in his lap."Are you sure you want to have this conversation like this? With me in your arms?"The thick eyebrow rose with fun and his lips rose sideways, a smile so nasty that just made him even sexier."You weigh nothing." as if he wanted to prove his point, he let go of the arm
I woke up feeling all my body complaining about all the "exercise" I did last night, but I wasn’t complaining, it had been a wonderful night. Wonderful did not reach the feet, it was little to describe everything that Parker had made me feel.I moved on the bed and felt the pain bother between my legs, reminding me of the huge man I had inside me last night. As if that wasn’t enough of a reminder Parker squeezed an arm around my waist, pulling me closer to his body.I had lost count of how many times he had made me explode into an intense orgasm. The man was really insatiable and Alice was totally right when she said that there I would find the perfect person.I shook my ass, enjoying the warmth of your body and felt your erection mold between my legs."If you keep shaking like that, I’ll forget you’re sore and slide into that tight, hot pussy." the husky voice, almost like a growl, sent a heat wave rising up my spine and spreading all over my body."Don’t you ever get tired?""Only a
"Witch?" Alice had all the names in his mouth, but witch was the first time.Will raised his eyes from the book and stared at me, looking uncertain for the first time since I walked through the door."That’s a figure of speech, because she manipulates you in a way that looks like a spell." he snorted dropping the book next to him and taking off his glasses to stare at me. "Don’t you see? She’s not good for you!"My mother always loved Alice, she is the daughter of my mother’s best friend, Agnes. I was not a girl of many friends, but since childhood she has always been there with me."Mother and Agnes were friends even before I was born and she never saw evil in my friendship with Alice.""Your mother is not here to see everything this girl is causing in your life." he sighed and got up from the couch, heading towards the kitchen. " You’ll see that I only want your good, I’ll get you out of town and you’ll thank me for it.""I won’t!" I screamed, but he just ignored me continuing his w
I woke up with a bird song, the smell of flowers in the air and the cozy warmth of the sheets, almost made me want to continue there enjoying the comfort. But I need to know what had happened to me, where I was and who the hell was that man in my room.I opened my eyes and was almost blinded by the clarity. I blinked several times until my eyes could stay open without hurting and faced the walls confused.Instead of being surrounded by the usual light green walls of the room I loved so much, I was staring at pink walls covered in flowers. I had seen this room before, I just couldn’t remember where. Who lived there? And most importantly, why was I there?I lifted my body from the bed and the whole room turned, making me fall against the soft pillows again. What the fuck was going on with me?"Hey, let’s take it easy. You’ve been through a lot lately." A brunette woman came into the r
I woke up from a sleep with strange dreams, it was nothing new, it was also nothing new that I was in the flower room at Grandma Blanca’s house.Lately I had been dreaming of babies with golden eyes and fire hair like mine, or with my green eyes and tanned skin and father’s long brown hair.But it was even understandable to dream about it, because since I discovered pregnancy I have spent all my time thinking about it, thinking about this life that is growing in my belly.I needed to take action, I had to go after arrangements, decide how I would take care of this child, whether to tell the father or not. There were so many doubts and everything only increased with my confinement.I was forbidden to leave the room, should not leave there for nothing, because according to Agnes, Will could come back and attack me. On the other side Alice insisted that we should go after Parker, tell him the truth and ask for shelter. She was confident that he would take care of me and the child. I no l
"Fairy tales are real, at least the ones with werewolves, witches and the bloody vampires. We have existed since before Christ, the world has always been full of magical creatures.""Where did you get these things from?" I asked staring at Alice as if she were an alien, or had gone crazy at once."You want to know the truth, don’t you? So listen to the end without interruption."I just nodded in agreement, if she wanted silence to make up some fantasy story, I’d give it to her."You descend from a line of powerful witches, just as I come from a long line of werewolves." Flora entered the conversation, leaving me even more shocked. How far would they take the fantasy story?"Your name is Bridget Bishop in honor of your great-great-grandmother, the first witch to be tried and convicted in the attack on the witches of Salem." Agnes took the lead, filling her chest and speaking with pride. "She became famous and with her leftover ashes, we were able to channel even more power into our cla
It didn’t take long for everyone to start packing the things we would take, only what was necessary, the trip would be by car and we didn’t want to draw any attention to the road. Unfortunately Grandma Blanca’s house was much further away from the center of Salem, it would take us four hours to get to the club, if we were lucky and had no unforeseen on the way. "Don’t worry, it’ll be all right." Alice tried to reassure me when she got in the back seat between Flora and me. "Peta will be waiting for us, don’t worry." Flora joined her, giving me a wide smile. I wanted to ask why Peta would be waiting for us and not Parker? What happened between him and Alice? And how far was he involved in making me sleep with Parker? Even if she didn’t assume that it was all a setup, I was sure that our night had been orchestrated from the beginning. I never believed in fate and I wasn’t going to start now, especially when there was an evil force that wanted to keep me and Parker from being togethe
I passed by my brother, ignoring his face of few friends, if he wanted to flatter the lying witch was his problem, I would not condone it.My people were happy, there was no denying it, finally we could live as a united pack again, as it had been years ago. The exile was over. But at what cost?I had accepted that the curse would never be broken by me, I vowed never to touch a virgin woman. So I had gone the opposite way, went against everything and everyone to never get close to an innocent girl.I opened the club to make sure I was as far away as possible from any virgin witch, I slept with several women and they were all fiery, uninhibited and knew very well what they were doing.Is that why I couldn’t stop thinking about what the hell happened to me so I could sleep with Bridget?Part of me keeps saying that her staging, with the skinny boy from the beginning of the night, is what led me to think she was my type. But when she stood up to me in front of everyone, I realized that sh
And that’s what we did, Kalina created a circle calling him to be in our presence.I tried to insist that Quanah stay outside to protect Karl, but he refused and stood by me. He was still afraid of what had happened in the last days and I couldn’t even blame him for it. "Well, well, you again." the man appeared before us, the same as always, the black overcoat and the combat boots in the same color, but this time he looked younger, the hair had been cut. "What do you want now?" "Let it be known that we are the new ladies of the underworld. Hades is dead." he looked at each of us, as if he didn’t believe. "We need to talk about Nikolai." "I was afraid it would happen one day, just didn’t think it would be four ladies." he snorted, coming out of character right and showing his real side. "You don’t think just because you’ve become underworld commanders you can bring whoever wants to live, do you?" Well I wouldn’t deny that I thought of it, but it would be too easy and nothing with a
I couldn’t believe I was finally holding my son in my arms, Karl was beautiful, he had a lot of his father’s especially golden eyes, but the hair was mine at least. I couldn’t say how happy I was, I knew I should be surprised and go after Hera asking everything she had done, how time had passed only for my son and why, which led her to accept to help me.But they were questions for another time, because I was tired of the confrontation with Hades, tired of all the problems and emotions I lived on the last day and especially tired of gods, for now I just wanted to stay with my family without thinking about problems. "When do you think you’ll get tired and give it to me?" Quanah questioned, complaining about what seemed like the fifth time.He hadn’t left my side since childbirth, everyone congratulated us and left, one by one until he left us alone. And Quanah stood there beside me, drooling on our enchanted boy with the small, fragile being in my arms. "Probably in about fifteen ye
I ran to her, tearing her inert body from the arms of the unknown man and my heart broke when I saw her state. So helpless, fragile, it hurt me not to see her beautiful eyes, her smile, or even her cheeks getting flushed by something silly. "She lost a lot of blood, she needs to go to the hospital!" Kalina spoke above all the buzz around us. "No, she needs to lie down and let me do the rest!" Hera ordered and knowing who she was I did not do otherwise. "Let’s get this baby born!" "You can’t! It’s not time!" I protested at the idea of bringing our son to life, him wasn’t nine months yet. "It will be. Now take her inside." she was categorical, leaving no room for discussion and this time I could only trust. I took Bridget inside, hoping it wasn’t a complete mistake to bring a crazy goddess there. One that obviously knew what was going on with Bridget and her biological father, but claims they couldn’t interfere. "Bri felt something before she blacked out, she spoke of the baby."
When Denah made me come back home, horrified that I was bleeding through my eyes and nose, but I knew what was going on, it was Bridget and she was dying! "I need to go after her! How can this fucking connection not be working? Because I can sense what’s happening to her, but I can’t locate her!" The healers were there, as were the ancestors, who tried at all costs to medicate me or to calm me down, but I couldn’t do it, couldn’t calm down, not when I felt Bridget increasingly weak and bleeding even more."Because she is not in this plan!" Irma, a former healer said. For a second the air lacked me and the floor seemed to no longer exist. My world would end if someday Bri was no longer here. I loved that woman with all my strength, with every atom in my body and until the day of my last breath that would not change. "No, that’s not true! I can still feel what’s happening to her, Bridget is weak, but she’s not gone!" "Quanah, she didn’t mean it that way. She’s not dead, she’s on a
The place where Hades was hidden wasn’t exactly on earth, it was between our world and the underworld, according to Will and Kalina there was only one way to access this part of the universe, traveling by magic. "Just make sure we’re not going to hell." Brooke insisted once again, she was terrified that we might end up in hell, after all we all believed it was where Hades lived. "No Brooke, we are not going to hell. Only souls, demons and gods are allowed in that place and we are nothing like that." "Nikolai knew what he was doing, it is safe there, Hades believes to be protected and hidden, there are not many people who know this place and after the spell you cast on him something strange was happening." Spell? I swore nothing had happened to him after Alice started going against us. "Alice’s spell worked, didn’t it? The hate she was feeling for him killing Peta made her words more powerful than ours?" "Yes, Alice wished he would be trapped in agony and nightmares, and that’s h
I was dissatisfied with having to stay away from Bridget once again, I understood her need to protect her friend, but I still wanted her to stay where I could keep an eye on her. I snorted around the office again, my restlessness had increased since I felt a sadness coming from her, it killed me not knowing what had happened to her feel that way, I had called more than once, but had no answer, no one was answering the fucking phone and that was just to make me more anxious. This time I could only contain my impulses and trust that she would be safe, Bri was powerful and could take care of herself. I just had to trust it and keep my negative thoughts locked away. "Quanah!" Denah’s voice took me out of my thoughts. "You have to do something about, or I will!" "What did he do now?" I said feeling the irritation overflow inside me. Peta was not being easy to deal with, since he had returned he was unbearable, impulsive, making decisions without asking or at least caring about others
I was clinging to him and crying, in a way even the pain in my arm had been in the background. I didn’t care if he did what he did at Nikolai’s behest, he had stood by my side and that’s what matters. "I missed you so much, redhead." he muttered against my hair, hugging me tight like he always did when I was scared. "I wanted to see you so many times, I had so many questions." I raised my eyes to look better at him and held his face. "But now I’m just glad that you’re here." I was happy, even with all the shit going on around us, the only man I knew as a father, the last two people I have as family were there with me. "You’ll have time for that later, now Bridget needs to pay her debt with death. Before she takes it." "Nikolai is right, we did not come here just for reunions." Will stood up and lifted me up. "Nik has a gift for you." I frowned at Will, didn’t want to argue with him, especially now that we were together after so long. "The only gift Nikolai could give me was thi
We left the house quickly, Brooke, Kalina and Jenna were with me, after all the aversion that Peta was demonstrating to Alice, I would not trust leaving any of them behind. "I didn’t understand why he was acting like this, they seemed so united when they came to get me, the two fought Hades and she suffered so much when he was being tortured, almost looking like it was her." Jenna confided, but the truth is none of us understood how that was happening. "And he did it to hurt her, just as he killed Peta just to distract us, he uses people without any shame." I didn’t know where we could go, we didn’t have any resources, Quanah gave me the key to the truck and some money, but we needed to locate Alice in a hurry. "Maybe bringing him back was a mistake." Brooke muttered. I was starting to think that too, but I was trying to stay focused and remember who he was, who he was since I got here. "Alice needs us now. Let’s focus on that." Kalina was doing a locator spell right about now,
"No, there’s no way that Alice did anything like that!" I screamed for the thousandth time in front of the council. "She might be angry at her mother and scared of everything, but she wouldn’t do that." The elders, Peta, Quanah and Kalina were in the meeting room, discussing what we needed to do, what decision to make now. Alice was missing, but they wanted to hunt her down to find out what really happened, but I knew it wasn’t true, they would hunt her down to kill. They wanted to make her pay for the lives of the two guards, after all they did not care about Agnes. "You have to face the facts, Bridget! Alice was the only one in that room with her mother and the two guards, they’re dead and she’s missing. Do the math!" I was mad at Peta, I never thought I’d feel that way about him, but that’s how I was feeling. Maybe it was a mistake to bring him back after all, he had not thanked, fought with Alice and now raised the flag that she should be hunted. "Go to hell Peta!" I shouted b