I sat on the bed, trying to control my breathing. I didn’t care if my hands were bleeding, if I still had goo from that thing in my hair and my clothes. My heart seemed about to come out of my mouth and a small nausea took me, bile went up my throat and I chipped my teeth trying to send the vomit elsewhere."What the fuck were you thinking? See what you caused?" Peta’s unmistakable voice rumbled through the door and I focused on him. "Open the door now, we’ve seen that we can’t trust you to keep it safe.""I told you to stay away from that door! No one’s going in there until I’m sure any threat has been properly killed.""You can’t leave the girl alone and locked up, especially after all the shit that got her through." Peta sounded unfriendly.I could only imagine his despair by being paralyzed on the ground, powerless, unable to do anything, not even defend himself."It’s best for her, at least here no one will be able to attack her." Quanah’s voice did not falter at any time and I a
The door closed behind me and I stared at the wood for a few seconds. I knew no one would get in there, the spell guaranteed that only those I released would have access. Bridget would be safe there.Peta had annoyed me, I needed to punch him mercilessly. I could see in his eyes all the reprobation, and that did not surprise me, because I felt the same way.I had caused it, brought the mermaids from the underworld here.I hurried down the stairs, even though I knew he was there with her, I was not at ease, I did not feel confidence in Peta at that time.He had not been able to protect her before, who assured me that he would be able now? My brother wasn’t a wimp, but he hadn’t kill the two mermaids, how could I trust he would handle something worse?"I want to know how the situation is?" I shouted as soon as the elevator opened the door.The mess in the club had been contained, enchanted beings, human beings, they all had already left the place."Gas leak, that’s what we told the ever
"Go to sleep, girl. I’ll stay here and make sure nothing happens to you." Peta got up and went to the door. "Rest, your day was full."I didn’t answer anything, I just lay down and got under the sheets. It would be difficult to sleep there, my cut had stopped hurting, but my thoughts were not silent. I’ve relived every second of my day since I decided to leave Blanca’s house.I turned around, I did not want to remember those horrible things, it just made my mood even worse. It was not pleasant to remember how much they hated me and wanted me dead, not only me, but my son too.I put the sheet over my head and started humming like my mother sang. In Latin, today I bet it could be even a spell, but I did not care, it always calmed me down and helped me fall asleep.The smell of Quanah, impregnated in bed, invaded my nostrils. I don’t know if it helped to reduce my state of stress, but it didn’t take long to me go to sleep.I felt my body relaxed, the birds were singing and I could even f
After I was properly dressed I found Peta in the door, he looked at me as if nothing had happened, as if a few minutes ago he wasn't hugging my naked body.But I did as him and put on the best mask pretend that is all well.He didn’t tell me anything while we were walking around the place, that I had no idea it could be that big. We entered a corridor and I could already hear the shouting, several people argued and talking at the same time, without me being able to distinguish who was saying what.Two men guarded the door, but did not stop Peta, who passed like a hurricane, opening the wooden doors and silencing everyone."Bridget is communicating with the under world." the people hubbub as soon as Peta spoke. I looked at him like he was crazy, I hadn’t done any of that. "You keep repeating that she has a lot of dreams and visions, but it’s not that, her ancestors are trying to make contact."That didn’t make sense... or did?I faced the huge table in front of me, Quanah was on one si
I was still trying to understand how it all happened, I had never seen a witch conjure an element without professing a spell, let alone so many elements at once.Looking at her in front of me, seemed so helpless, harmless even, not like the witch without control, with her bright red eyes, who made the ground tremble and the fire and the wind destroy everything around us."Your mother preferred to hide all this from you, she chose to say that you were a fire conjurer." Blanca spoke, trying to keep calm after seeing one of her friends die."There’s something wrong with this whole story, something that didn’t fit." I interrupted her. "I’ve never heard of a witch who could conjure more than one element. If what my brother says is true and her ancestors are contacting her, something in that dream has awakened her powers. Something that was there when she was born.""There were only us there..." Agnes tried to, but I wouldn’t believe another word that came out of her mouth."There wasn’t ju
I entered into the bedroom, obeying the orders of Quanah and Peta. The two wolves so physically equal, but so different in the rest.Their words did not come out of my head. The creature from underworld had a devotion to me, but how did he know me? And why did he have my son killed? If he wanted only my power why not kill me, as he had done with the witches of the past?I thought when I could conjure it all up it would make more sense to me, that things would get clearer. But everything was even more confusing, even more without answers.I looked at the bed, still wet after the madness from that dream. Had I done that? Or was it the creature? The other Bridget was already dead, she could only contact me through dreams because she was my ancestor. But he, how did he get into my dream?My thoughts dind't stop, the questions were sprouting like in waves. The more I learned about myself and this world, the less I seemed to know.But now I couldn’t help thinking that maybe, just maybe, the
I was still static, staring at Quanah without knowing what to say."What went through your head?" he insisted and I kept looking from Seth’s fallen body and back to him. He held my shoulders and shook me. "Bridget, look at me!""I don’t know! I don’t know!" I yelled at him. "I told Seth it might be dangerous, but he assured me that you had increased security and that the entire perimeter of the tribe was secure.""What the fuck, you have no idea what happened here, do you?" he lifted Seth’s body over his shoulder, as if it weighed nothing and with an impulse he climbed half the hill.I faced him from the end of the hill surprised at what he had done, but I was even more shocked that he was going to leave me there, just because he was angry with me.I waited a few seconds and looked back where I was, the mud had already sunk my foot and I was still dirty and scratched.I couldn’t believe it that he really left me there?"You fucking asshole!" I screamed and started trying to move.Then
My back hit the nearest tree and he didn’t give me even a moment to recover from the shock, just swallowed my breath and continued to kiss me.His hands strolled through my body, spreading sparks of fire everywhere he touched. I groaned against her lips, squeezing my legs even tighter around her hip.I needed him, wanted to feel his body taking mine with brutality."That’s wrong." I muttered without much confidence in the words.I should not give myself to him, to a person who does not want me and who has only treated me badly in recent weeks.But I couldn’t get my hands out of his hair, or push him away or divert his mouth from him."Ask me to stop and I’ll stop." He passed down his mouth by my neck, His tongue slid through my skin ripping me a low groan. "Do you want me to stop?" he questioned, while get down his mouth by my collarbone, I felt when his tongue touched the neckline of my blouse."No." I whispered.Quanah pushed his hip against mine, pinning me with his legs against th
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