Nicolette's POV
Beck let out a snarl and lifted his hand to punch my couch as I lifted my shirt up to show bruises lining my abdomen. I quickly caught his hand and rolled my eyes."You're going to tear a hole into my couch if you keep punching it," I say calmly. He scowled at me and sat back down."How are you so calm. If he keeps doing this shit it'll get worse," he snarls. The bruises on my abdomen were tender and I winced as I rubbed my finger over them."Because I can't control what he does, it won't kill me because I'm basically almost indestructible and him having sex with a she-wolf isn't on the list of things that could kill me."Bull crap Nicolette. I have never seen you wince from a bruise. But look they're all over your stomach," he points out. I sigh and pull my shirt back down as he runs his hand through his hair."What the he'll are we gonna do Nicolette?" He asks me. I let out a scoff and push myself of the couch and pick up the spilt blood packet off my carpet."You are not going to do anything to try and stop this. I'll handle it," I mumble. I bring a small cup to the blood stain on the carpet and hold my hands right above it. I said a quick chant a the blood peeled itself off the carpet and into a ball in front of my hands. I bring the blood to the cup and closed my hands to break the spell.The blood fell into the cup and I picked it up and dumped it out in the sink and washed the cup."You're heat will be coming soon," he realizes. My hands freeze and I let out a curse. I forgot to think about that. Once I meet my mate my heat starts to come regularly."So you can't keep going through this because without your mate to help you get through your heats or you will eventually die," he said. I let out another chuckle that made my stomach hurt."I won't die it'll just get more painful," I sigh. Basically the only thing that can kill me is a wooden stakes and through the heart, my head decapitated. And a very strong mixture of vervain, wolfsbane, and witch hazel."When my heat starts you need to leave. I'll come find you when it's over if you'd like but I don't know if you can handle the extent of my heat," I start to explain."I can handle it also I have a mate so it won't affect me as much," he said trying to make excuses to stay. I put the cup in the drying rack and sit back down."You do know that vampires and werewolves both have heat. That makes it twice as hard to resist. I'll be fine but I need you to leave," I tell him."And what if I don't leave?" He asks. I roll my eyes and swing my feet onto the couch."I'll forcefully make you leave," I said leaning back into the arm rest. He sighs and shook his head."You're going to fell awful if your heat starts now. You already have bruises all over you stomach your heat will make it worse," he says."Why can't you just listen to me," I said getting up off the couch again. I felt my wolf start to stir."Heat is coming soon. You need to get him to leave," she said. My eyes widened but I easily hid my shook."Um Beck I'm kinda running out of blood bags can you go to the town hospital and grab some more for me?" I ask him. I was trying to get him to leave so I could lock him out of my place."I'm going to stay here and watch over you," he huffs. I let out a groan and grabbed my bag."Then I'm going to go myself and the last time I checked there a pack of werewolves living near there so if my heat starts it's not my fault," I said reaching for my door handle."Fine but I'll be back in 40 minutes," he grumbles and slams my door on his way out. I let out a breath and flopped down back on the couch.I started cleaning around the house again and sorting my stuff. I have a bad habit of impulsively cleaning things.I felt a sharp pain in my stomach that was worse than hours before. I let out a gasp and fell to my knees and clutches my stomach. I let out a curse and quickly grabbed pain killers out of the top cabinet.Not like they'll do anything but it'll help slightly I take a glass of water and gulp down two pills. Another long wave of pain spread through my body and I let out a whimper."Shit," I mumble and I stumble to my bedroom. My body felt warm and felt like fire ants all over my body. I let out a scream when my skin felt like it was on fire.My mom never informed me how bad my heat would be. As a witch she didn't get them but since my demon and wolf had heat it was worse then I expected.My arm swung and I turned on the cold water. I quickly got in clothes and all. I let out a breath but then it felt like the water surrounding my body was boiling.I quickly got out of the water and let out a sob. I sat on the bath rug and another wave of pain coursed through me. I let out a scream and my hands grabbed my hair.I heard a loud bang and glass was everywhere. I guess my outburst caused my powers to overload. I heard a slam at my door and something drop."Nicolette?" I heard Beck call. Fuck I forgot to put the barrier back up after he left. I quickly flung my hand at the door and the lock turned."It hurts, it hurts," I cry as I shift my body. I let out another cry and clinch on my stomach."Nicolette I can hear you in there I'm going to break open the door," Beck days from the other side. I heard the doorknob jiggle and I let out a sob."Don't Beck," I choke out. Another large wave passed which was worse than all the rest. I let out a scream and then my bathroom door was in splinters."Oh my god Nicole," he whispered as I lay on the floor crying. He picked me up and I tried to push him off of me."I won't do anything to you I'm controlling myself fine," he said. He brought me to my bed and turned my ac all the way down."It hurts so bad," I whisper to him. He sighs and backs up to the door. He was having trouble staying in the same room as me. Tears rolled down my cheek and land on my pillow. I let out a scream and grab my blanket as tight as I could."Make it stop, make it stop," I beg. This hasn't been the worse pain I've ever felt. Watching my parents die was the worse pain I've felt."I'm sorry Lette I wish I could do something but I'm not the right person to help you," he apologized. My mind raced with different spells I could use to help me but none could work. My witch can't interfere with my wolf and daemon side."Here," Beck said putting a cold towel on my forehead. His eyes glowed red when his fingertips accidentally grazed my forehead. He had to leave he can't stay here."Beck y-you need to leave now," I start to stutter. The pain started to get worse and worse. It made my words start to falter."No I'm staying here," he said. I shook my head and started to get up."What do you think you're doing," he snapped. I let out a whimper."I told you I was going to make you leave forcefully if you don't go when I told you," I said holding my hands up to him and let my eyes glow a bright blue. He sighed and I lauded back down with a grunt."I'm coming back soon," he huffs. He slams my door and I weakly wipe my tears dry. I heard a few seconds latter my door swing open and a large crash.I quickly got up with pain and looked outside. I stumbled to get past my hallway and winced with every step. The first wave of the heat had just gone by but the second one was coming."He's here," my wolf says."Who is here?" I ask her. I see Beck fly down the hall way almost hitting me and I let out a gasp. My hand still clutches onto my stomach them I heard a loud growl at the opening of my hallway.She was right, he was here. Malcom.Malcom's POV
Morgan's chest heaved up and down as I put my pants back on. She gave me a little smile as I start to button my shirt back up."So I was thinking about asking you about Lun-,""Get out," I cut her off. She stared at me with her mouth wide open. I lean on my desk as she still stared at me."What do you mean get out?" She snapped back at me. I let out a chuckle and crossed my arms and stared at her."I can speak it to you in Latin if you'd like since you don't seem to understand English," I growl.She let out a huff and changes back into her clothes and storms out of my office. I slump back into my office chair and let out a sigh. I pick up my pen and start to twirl it in between my fingers.My wolf wanted to run but I had no time for that. I was already behind on paperwork dealing with pack lands between the vampire king and witch queen. There has been dispute on who should have the uncharted land the rendezvous Morgan and I had set me back.I don't really need this land because I don't think anymore packs are rising up but it could be useful to train troops.I sit back in my chair after a few more hours of paperwork and stare at the picture of my mom and I. If you look around the house you can only find one picture of my father. His portrait in the hallway of remembrance that he was king for a time.You will never see him in any family pictures or family paintings. He was banished from our family decades ago. I stared at the scars on my arm inflicted my him and roll my sleeve back down to hide them.My wolf kept begging to be let out and I finally slammed my hand on my desk and unbuttoned my shirt. I couldn't focus with all his whining. I slipped my pants off and opened the door to my balcony.I jumped off the edge and shifted in the air landing swiftlyon my paws. I sat back and let my wolf take control. The sun was starting to set and he began to run. I smelt a few deers in the distance but he ran past them.
He kept running deeper into the forest letting every leaf and twig snap under his pressure. He started to near the border of the pack but didn't turn away from it.He ran until he crossed the border thanks he shifted his run to the left. He crossed through the trees and came to an abrupt stop. He made me shift back and I let out a grumble.I smelt nothing here. I found some clothes that fit me and female clothes around the trees. I came across a large clearing and a river. I made my way across the clearing to make my way to the river then the scenery around me seemed to change.Instead of a clearing a small house and a garden stood in front of me. What the hell? I heard a loud scream and my wolf let out a whimper."Mate," he called out. I didn't want to go in. My mind wanted to leave and never come back to whatever this place was but my wolf had different plans. He took over my body and I struggled with him to get control back but he overpowered me.He kicked the door open and saw a male. He let out a growl and swung and tried to hit him. He lets out a snarl and dogged it with speed.A vampire. What was he doing in my mate's house, or whatever this was. My wolf let out a growl and swung again."Why the hell are you here you bastard," he snarls and moves with speed again. My wolf grabbed his neck and threw him down the hallway.I heard a door open and I see my mate come out of the door. Her scent was heavenly an stronger than before."Heat, she's in heat," my wolf said. Her eyes meet mine and her eyes widen."He got in because he's basically made for you do except for appearance and actions y'all are the same," The man says.She turns back to me and growls. She opened her mouth to say something but instead, she let out a whimper and fell to her knees, clutching her stomach.---Nicolette's POVMy wanted him. To run into his arms and accept him, but I wasn't going to give into her wants. I heard a snarl come out of Beck then I couldn't hear anything. I saw Malcom's mouth make movement but I couldn't hear. It's was like everything moved in slow motion. A soft ringing started in my ear. It gradually grew louder until I couldn't stand it.I put my hands to my ears to try and drown the sound out but I didn't work. Suddenly, the ringing stopped and I was bombarded with noise. I let out a whimper and grabbed my stomach and fell to the ground."Nicolette are you okay?" I heard beck call out. I quickly said a quick spell and a small barrier formed around me."Don't touch me," I choked out. I took deep breaths trying to calm myself but the pain was a lot to take in at once. Wave 2. There was a total of 5 waves. Depending on how fast each waves passes it could last the next 4 days."Beck t-the third cabinet f-from the right is my h-herbs b-bring the w-witch hazel, w-wo
Nicolette's POVI let out a groan as I sit up. The pain in my stomach had gone down and I felt more relaxed. I looked around my room and saw that the glass from my episode had been cleaned up. I let out a groan and laid back down. I turned to see what time it was and I saw Malcom sleeping on the arm rest chair. I let out a scream and fell off the side of the bed."Beck," I tell for him but there was no answer. I look at the door expecting it to swing open but it never did."I wouldn't bother waiting for him. He cleaned up and left to see his mate," Malcom said. I roll my eyes and get my blanket back up on the bed."What are y'all know, besties?" I scoff. I start to open the door to the hallway but Malcom stopped me."What are you doing?" He asks me."I'm opening the door for you so you can leave," I said letting out a growl. I didn't have enough energy to fight with him and I definitely didn't want to be in the same room with a mate that didn't want me."I wouldn't tell me to leave if
Nicolette's POVEverything hurt. My whole body ached. I could barely move my leg without something hurting. The pain grew worse and worse everyday. I groan as I reach for my water on my bedside table.It has been about 6 days since my heat ended, and i rather be in heat than have bruises all over my body. It hurt my wolf worse than me. She had to deal with the fact that her math, her other half, was cheating on her. I honestly didn't care because I knew better."When I first met your dad, we were both at the meeting between the werewolves, vampires, and witches," my mom started to tell me. I was maybe 42 years old at this time. I had already stopped aging at 21. I was supposedly supposed to find my mate at 18 but after 23 years, I kinda gave up. My mom would always tell this story."My mother was leader of the coven at the time and your father's father was Alpha of the Crimson Shadow Pack. We sat in the audience watching all the three Royalty leaders as they talked in the meeting. I w
Nicolette's POV"Y-you taught my mom?" I start to stutter. She would never tell me who taught her and I never knew the reason why."She never told you?" She questions. "Huh, anyway yes I did teach your mom. I was never part of a coven and I stumbled across your mom when she was still learning how to control her powers. Everyday I would find her in the woods and I would teach her something new about magic.""So what about the spells. That book that she has filled with nothing but spells. You taught her all of them?" I ask her. The book of spells I've kept since my mom died. Were they all Denali's spells."Oh no," she laughs. "She found and made all of those herself. I guess that's means I didn't teach her everything she knows. She spent a lot of time finding and making those spells.""Did you um know when I was born?" I asked her. She shakes her head and leans back in her chair. I felt uncomfortable siting next to her while she told me about my mom. What if she was lying to me? What if
Nicolette's POVRemembering what happened before all I could see was darkness. I've been sitting in the dark trying to come up with reasons on how I got here. I tried to reach through all my memories, trying to find out why the logo on that syringe looked so familiar.You know how in movies a character is in the middle of telling a story and it flashbacks to that memory. Then, the person the character is talking to says something that is not what happened in the memory but what someone in real time actually said.I was thinking of a memory with my mom then suddenly, her voice was replaced with a long ringing noise. I let out a gasp and my eyes opened to see a ceiling with cheap paneling and fluorescent lights.My leg had waves of pain going through it and I felt like I was missing something. I move my head slightly to the right and see needles stuck in my body that led to machines.I tried to reach for my wolf but she seemed weak. I lifted one of my hands, doing a simple spell, but no
Nicolette's POVAfter a few hours, most of it had passed. I spent those hours watching the sun set and worrying about my house. I tried to practice some simple spells, but my energy was too drained. I watched the moon come out. It's a few days to the full moon, but I doesn't really affect me.I heard the howling of wolves under the moonlight and listened to them hunt. I looked at the digital clock on the cabinets across from me and it read 1:27 AM. There was a soft knock at the door and my head snapped over to it."I'm going to leave for tonight. If you need help, press this button," Dr. Lauren said walking in. "If it's an emergency, press this red button. A doctor will come up here and notify me."I nod and she cleans up a bit and left me a glass of water next to my bed. I press a button on the side which dimmed the lights. The howling went on but I didn't mind.I haven't been near werewolves in so long, but I needed to leave. If I stayed here too long, more people could find out. I'
Nicolette's POV"All you can do is just stand there and watch me in pain. You're just going to keep doing it. I can't die from this, but it feels like I'm dying. Let me out of here," I growl. He growled at me using his Alpha tone. He didn't like being ordered around."You're growl doesn't affect me," I growl with more dominance than he did. "Keep having sex with your she-wolves. Just let me go. Let me be in pain in the comfort of my own house. You don't ever have to see me again.""Why don't you just reject me?" He asks."Because my mother didn't raise me to be that type of person," I growled back. I stood up mumbling to myself and faced the long, thick silver bars and lifted my hands towards them. I said a spell and let my eyes glow. The metal bars started to bend and create an opening.Malcom realized what I was doing and leaked but I moved one of my hams away and help him back.I brought my wolf forward and ran towards the window. My body crashed through the window and I shifted in
Nicolette's POVGuards were stationed in front of the cell I was put in. There was a small hole at the bottom of the call to slide small portions of food under it.The guards had masks over their face to protect them from the wolfsbane. Even though vervain doesn't affect me as much, it was still effecting me. They never stopped pumping contaminated oxygen.I leaned against the only non thing silver in this cell, a rock wall, but there was a wall of pure silver behind it if I try to escape.What if I just leave my hand on the silver? Technically it won't kill me. I brought my demon out and let my eyes glow red. I sat up and walked over to the bars. I grabbed them and started pulling. It burned the crap out of my hands. Steam started to come up from where I was touching it. It started to pull apart but the pain got to me."Why would you do that?" I heard someone say. It wasn't anyone I recognized and it wasn't the guards. I look up from my hands and see Lucas, the beta."Well any natura
I could hear her gurgling next to me, followed by giggling and Caden's voice soft as possible and quiet, whispering to her."Are you a pretty girl? Of course you're a pretty girl."He hummed to her and my eyes fluttered open.The sight in front of me made my heart soar. Caden sat against the headboard, he had his knees up and had our daughter lying on them her feet just barely touching his stomach.His huge hand covered most of her chest and stomach. The other hand was held by his index finger, by her.She stared up at him and he softly and gently massaged her stomach whispering things to her."My beautiful Adira."He coed and she smiled at him squeezing his index finger. Her free hand rested on top of her father's.I watched them for a bit longer before sitting up and leaning against Caden. He leaned over and kissed me on the lips, his short beard rubbing against the bottom side of my chin.He pulled back and I smiled at him. He smiled back then we put both our attention on our small daughte
"Thats awful. Thats a no-no. Maybe he actaully lost track of time but he should have been listening to you."She replied and I nodded, wiping my makeup off roughly."Well make him pay, you know what to do."She announced and I nodded. I got into my comfy pjs and we watched N*****x, but I kept zoning out.I really thought Caden and I were getting somewhere, but no, we're just two stubborn hot heads fighting constantly.Maybe he wasn't right for me, maybe it was just, I don't know. Are couples supposed to fight this much?I guess my parents had a really rough patch that they both hate to talk about.But their situation was worse and much more different from my own. It sucked. It really did.I was so confused. I sighed and cleared my mind of my thoughts and tried focusing on happy thoughts.I continued to watch the movie with Ellie until I fell asleep. Three days later I avoided Caden everywhere. I avoided him for three whole days. He began to grow stubble and had bags under his eyes.I began to
The man put both wrists in his one hand and pulled my shirt up, exposing my sports bra.I struggled in the mans grasp and David smirked."Yes, do show them off."He commented and I stopped, letting my head hang.David's cold hand was suddenly on my breast, underneath my bra and I screamed. Caden lunged at him and recieved another punch to the face.I squeezed my eyes shut and looked away."Don't touch her."Caden snapped and a tear slid down my cheek.Suddenly my wrists were released and I fell to my knees. I pulled my shirt down and held myself, my eyes still shut."Get away from her."Caden warned when suddenly a fistful of my hair was grabbed and my head was forced upwards.I looked up at David and he lifted me off the ground. He grabbed my shirt and ripped the fabric.My hands went over my chest while the shards of my shirt fell to the ground. I stared at the ground when suddenly David pulled me into him. He licked the side of my neck and I gagged.He shoved me to the ground and I curled into m
I yawned and sat up, running my fingers through my hair. I sighed and sat there for a few moments before getting out of bed. I got dressed and used the bathroom before going downstairs.I had woke up a bit late so everyone was already eating. I walked into the dining room, ignoring everyones stares. I sat down and ate quietly while my grandma's quietly chatted nonstop. Everyone was silent, and I knew most of them had heard Caden and I.Caden kept his eyes forward as he ate, keeping his gaze away from me. I kept my eyes down as I ate, in the uncomfortable silence. Once breakfast had finished my dad brought my mom, Mason and I into his office."We need to talk about your past with Abram, Adlin."My dad announced and I looked down at my hands."Caden told you didn't he?"I asked and my dad nodded."Abram and I dated for a month when I was sixteen. At first it was ok but then he started trying to fuck me and when I denied him he would call me names and other bad things.Once I ended it he starte
I opened the door and looked into the room. He sat on the couch, his head in his hands."Caden?"I asked softly and his head snapped up so fast I'm surprised he didn't get whiplashed."Are you alright?"I asked and he nodded, standing up. He walked over to me and I looked up at him."Are you sure? You look troubled."I asked again and he gave me an annoyed look."The men are treating me like a fragile doll."He muttered and I sighed."Because you're hurt, once you heal they'll act normal again. We're a family here Caden, everyone cares about each other."I replied and he slightly nodded, not looking at me.It was as if he wasn't even listening to me."I don't need a break."He repeated sternly and I sighed."Caden, you fell over today because you tried leaning on your bad leg. Let me take care of you for awhile."I begged and his face hardened, his eyes snapping down to me in a glare."I don't need a break and I don't need you treating me like a fucking child. I can care for myself, I'm fine."He hiss
"Talking to yourself?"He asked smirking and I glared at him. They took me the other night, instead of killing me and going after Mason and the girls because they decided I was useful.They saw how Adlin had shouted for me, and knew I was important, to her. So that meant I was trusted.The Swedish wanted me to sneak them into the Russian estate so they could take my Adlin. Weaken the Russians.But I wouldn't speak, nor agree to help them so they beat me, tried to drown me, but I still wouldn't reveal anything or help them.He opened the cell and stalked towards me. He crouched down in front of me and shoved my head into the wall.I clenched my jaw and fists. I could hear a ringing noise and he punched my stomach. A gush of air left me and I wheezed. The man smirked and stepped on my ankle. I gritted my teeth and he pulled out his knife.He jabbed it into the bullet wound on my leg and I hissed, glaring at him fiercly. He smirked again then stood and turned his back to me, first mistake. I ki
A group of men walked in and Caden watched them, along with Mason. They spoke Russian to each other, watching the men sucpicously.I didn't know much Russian, but Mason did because of my dad and grandpa. I mean, my dad would teach me if I wanted, but I didn't really want to know.I think it'd be cool for my kids to speak Russian. The group of men sat away from us and the boys looked away.Ellie shot Mason a look and he cleared his throat and began to talk about the restaurant in English. I was full, like really full. We payed the bill and left the restaurant. As we walked out the group of men from earlier, followed us out.Mason whispered something to Caden in Russian and he nodded. We were guided into some random building and Caden kissed me suddenly."Hide with Ellie. We'll be back."He whispered and I opened my mouth to ask a question but Ellie's hand wrapped around my wrist and began to drag me to the back of the store."We need somewhere to hide."She whispered looking around."Why?"I re
"Sorry about earlier."We apologized at the same time. We looked at each other and he smirked."You're sorry?"He asked."Are you?"I replied and he nodded so I did. He sighed then pecked my lips."Let's stop this silent treatment shit please."He muttered and I whispered an ok.He hovered over me and pressed our lips together. He trailed down to my shoulder and I tangled my fingers in his hair."You're parents are gone out again."He muttered and I stopped."So?"I asked and he smirked. What was he getting at?He must have saw my confused look because he sighed."Sex Adlin, I mean sex."He replied and my eyes widened."You're rushing things Caden."I replied and he nodded."Sorry."He muttered then pecked my jaw."At least let me sleep with you again tonight."He replied and I sighed then nodded. "Adlin?"My dad asked from behind the door. Caden fell off my bed and I shoved him into my closet."Yeah dad?"I called and he walked in along with Colton, Arthur and Ivan. They all sat at the foot of my bed."Adlin
I changed into ny running shorts and sports bra. I grabbed my sneakers then went outside of the estate.I pulled my hair up into a ponytail then sprinted down the road. I was breathing kinda heavy halfway, but I kept going.After awhile my phone beeped notifying me that I had sprinted for eight minutes.I turned around and ran back to the house, in total I took sixteen to twenty minute runs each day, depending on how I was feeling. I jogged inside and up to my room. I showered before throwing on some sweat pants and a tanktop.I went downstairs and grabbed a chocolate bar. I never gained weight really, it was because of my fast metabolism.Caden was in the kitchen talking to another man while I ate my chocolate bar, sitting on the counter.Once the man had left Caden looked at me, and I pretended not to see him."Adlin,"He said with his wonderful accent.Mason and I didn't really have accents, due to the fact our parents having different accents. Sometimes I spoke like an Italian, other times