Things were going from bad to worse, Quanah had not come back and unfortunately Nikolai was right, I wish a lot so that he was wrong, especially after a day that Quanah did not give news, I tried to think positive, hopeful he was on his way back with the answers. But reality hit me after two days, Peta was already organizing a search, I had to insist that he would not lead the group, my fear was that no one would come back, because if they had managed to disappear with Quanah, they would have no problem doing the same with the others. Peta agreed to stay and let Denah lead the first group, but after they returned without answers I could no longer hold him, Peta led one group while Denah led another. If they let me go I would certainly also be helping in the searches, but I was forbidden to put my feet out of the house, and I was really complying, I did not want to risk and put another person in the hands of my father. Today was making a week that Quanah had disappeared, Nikolai h
I was inside the meeting room, the elders were slow to give in and let they get in there, but finally I was facing Nikolai, Kalina and Alice on one side, while on the other was Blanca, Agnes, Flora and all the rest of the witches and wizards who had arrived. Nikolai wanted to help and was the right one, I needed to do that, but all the others insisted that I should not get involved with her, Kalina, according to Blanca mess with black magic had a great consequences, not only for our body, but for our soul."Send this woman away from here, we can fix this." Agnes said again. I was already tired of that incessant conversation that was leading nowhere. "If you could then why haven’t you done it yet? Why have you left all this time pass, with Quanah captured and she suffering here?" Kalina spoke before anyone could speak. "The answer is you all know that this kind of magic only I can do, and I will say more, that they are happy for..." "Kalina, you really don’t know when to shut up, d
Shock was the word of the day apparently, I could not think straight, even less give an answer to everything they had told me. After what Peta told me, Nikolai decided to open his mouth and speak at once what he knew of my father, swearing that this would be a plausible excuse for me not to face my father, but I was their best chance, they would not leave me behind and I would never allow it. No witch of my clan accompanied us, as much as Alice wanted to come Blanca forbade anyone to follow me and I could not let my friend be in danger, each one who was there was already a disadvantage for me, because I would be more concerned with the well-being of all, not to mention Quanah. "How are you?" Flora approached Peta, who carried me on his back, as he marched in his wolf form. "I’m fine." It wasn’t true, but I didn’t want to worry everyone again. Every time Hades invaded Quanah mind my cry took the silence of the night. I was trying to stay firm and avoid screaming, but the pain was
"There you are!" Hades spoke with a smile on his face after he had just woken me with a blow. "Thought he would sleep all night? No, no. Look, gods don’t need to sleep, so why would I waste time watching you sleep?" "No need, just kill me and get it over with." I was tired, I didn’t know if it had been weeks or months, but certainly there hadn’t been a couple of days in that hell. "And risk my daughter being heartbroken? You know what people are capable of after a deception, imagine a half-goddess witch. It’s the same as signing my death." the mention of Bridget made an alarm ring in my head, I had seen her. "As long as she’s hopeful of finding you and keeping everyone else busy searching, I’ll be happy." "Searches? Others? What are you talking about?" I wanted to ask how many he was talking about, send our best hunters away and leave Bri alone was a mistake, a mistake I hoped Peta hadn’t made. I shook before his silence, no longer caring about the chains burning my body, my conc
Seth! It was the only word that was repeated in my mind as the image of him being impaled by the sword of fire. My blood boiled in the veins and at the same instant all the fire that Hades had use was extinguished, while a turmoil was created within me, I could feel something powerful and dark growing, as well as the sky moving above us. I couldn’t say anything, I stared at Quanah holding Seth’s now inert body, the cheerful boy now had no more life, his eyes so bright were now dull and paralyzed. It was looking into his eyes that I raised my left hand and closed my fist, the earthquake of the earth increased as I concentrated my power at the base of the mountain. Seth didn’t deserve that, none of them would be there if it wasn’t for me, and now he’s dead. I opened my fist with this realization and the mountain exploded into hundreds of pieces, just as I was going to do with that bastard who said to be a god. I held my arm high, keeping the shield invisible over everyone who was st
I was still facing the small army that now obeyed Bridget, she had succeeded despite not having so much training time, put the mountain down, ended the vampires at once and made Hades run like a scared rat. Unfortunately not all of them made it out well, apart from Seth another two were killed in the fight against the vampires. "Let’s get out of here, he can come back with more people and we are not prepared for another attack!" I said gathering all the forces I had. I held Bri’s limp body against mine, I might even be injured, but I wouldn’t stop taking care of her, I’d carry her if was necessary. "Bridget! Are you okay?" the voice of that worm invaded my ears and I wishy it to be a hallucination or some nightmare, but I saw just face to face, him was walking straight to us. "What are you doing here?" I growled my words, but it didn’t seem to shake him at all. Nikolai stopped beside Bri and held her face, touching her as if to prove that she was okay. But that lasted only the s
"You don’t seem to have missed me that much." I muttered as we went up to the room.I needed an urgent shower, needed to remove that dirt and clean those wounds that did not heal. But not as much as I wanted to understand what had happened between her and that sneaky creature."I didn’t know you were that jealous." Bri smiled, trying to lighten the mood, but no joke would be able to make me laugh after seeing them so intimate.I entered the room quietly and placed her on the floor, before turning towards the bathroom.I tore off my shirt, which was a pile of dirty rags at that height and the pants. When I raised my face I was frightened by the man I saw reflected there.My eyes were faded, the gold that reflected in any light was now lifeless. Around the eyes were two purple spots, showing how little I had been able to rest that week.My arms and torso were marked by the burns of the chains, just as my body was filled with dust from the battle and Seth’s blood.My wounds should have h
I had finally opened my heart and laid out everything that had taken me long to realize. Quanah was broken, I could see it, but that’s not why I said it all at once, was because I knew we could be apart again tomorrow, and now he would know that I loved him even if we were separated.He slid his hands down my abdomen, contouring my waist and tearing my blouse over my head. His hands flew to the bra clasp as his mouth attacked me again.I felt his warm palm against my naked breast and could not contain the groan, I pushed my breast against his hand, wanting more of his touch. Quanah trapped the nipple between the forefinger and thumb and spun it, felt it right in my cunt, which pulsed in response.I moved my hip, wanting to feel his erection, needed some relief and only he would give me this the right way. I got up in a hurry and he understood the message, his hands held the waistband and he pulled my jeans hard, taking my panties along. I almost fell as he tore off one leg, then went
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