Cameron's P.O.V "Both Alex and Mirage?" Alpha Charles, my father, clenched his jaw. "And we're finding out about this only now? What on earth had the guards been doing at night?" "Lucas and Dylan at the front gate said that they were at a daze," Sarah reasoned with my father and I was glad that she was still here because she was the one of the people he still listened to. "Around three at night…it got really foggy and they went out to check. After that, they don't remember much of what happened. It was all foggy and unclear. The next time they returned, over an hour of time had passed and they couldn't remember anything." "Definitely magic, but I'm finding it hard to understand how a witch can cause time lapses or make people lose sense of time," Freya shook her head, rubbing her hands up and down her arm. "The time when my coven came to take me away, they had used fog as well, mixed with a sleeping spell. But thi
Freya's P.O.V Everyone from Alpha Charles's office made their way to Julian's room immediately. All except for Daisy, who went straight to her lab to grab the vial containing the cure and bring it to Julian's room. Cameron held onto my hand tightly, in case I fell over again, but I wasn't going to. I was a lot more stable now and I had to see if the cure really worked. God, I hoped it did. Julian hadn't been conscious for the last four days and with each day that passed, I could see him slowly fade away. I was trying my best to stay strong; for him, for Cameron…but I couldn't do it for much longer. He was the only one I had left…my only family. If something happened to Julian…no! I couldn't even think about it! He was only ten! He hadn't even lived his life yet! How could someone be so heartless as to do this to a child? Mirage was right! Alistair was a sick, twisted bastard who just wanted to get what he wanted and he didn't care how he got it. He didn't
Mirage's P.O.V "Alex!" I went to reach out for him, but Alistair caught me from behind with his hands around my waist and hauled me back to his chest. "Now, now…" his menacing voice reached my ears from behind, making a chill run down my spine. "Don't rush yet. You don't want Akiko's hands to slip and behead your little boy-toy, now do you?" "Don't you dare! Don't you fucking dare!" I was past getting scared of him. This wasn't about me anymore. This was about my mate…and from the looks of it, he already had tortured Alex while I had been out. But as Alistair's nails dug into my waist, I knew I had enough. Jabbing my elbow into his side, I twisted out of his grip as soon as I heard him groan out a curse and then I twisted around and held out my hand in front of his face, palms out…and released a ball of light. A high pitched scream tore through Alistair's mouth, the sound like nails on a chalkboard. But b
Mirage's P.O.V "Mirage!" Alex reached for me with his hands, as far as he could go, but the shackles restrained him. I was frozen in place, both in pain and fear as Alistair drank from me. A vampire could make its bite both painful or use a sedative kind of substance from its tongue to numb the area before a bite to make it painless…For me, Alistair had always made it painful. Even now, my entire body felt numb from the pain as he drew out my life's blood. I could feel myself getting weaker and weaker as my hands hung numbly by my side, while I felt Alistair's grip on me getting stronger. My legs could barely support me anymore by the time he was almost done feeding from me, so when he removed his fangs and let me go, I dropped onto the floor like a stack of potatoes, almost lifeless…unable to move. I felt drops of blood rolling down the side of my neck, from the open wounds that he had left behind…but there wasn't much blood left in me anyways…
Mirage's P.O.V My eyes fluttered open to the familiar ceiling of my room back at the packhouse of the Ocean Runners pack. However, it took me a second to realize that it wasn't the ceiling to the room that I shared with Alex…but the room that I had been staying at before…when I had first arrived at the pack. But before the sinking feeling could settle in my stomach, a face appeared in my vision that had my eyes widening with shock as my memories of recent times returned with a vengeance. "Maze!" "Finally, sissy!" She gave me a big smile. "I was getting tired of waiting for you to wake up!" And with that, she literally pounced on top of me, engulfing me in her arms and swamp me in the familiar scent of her body. I wrapped my arms around her just as tightly; holding on to her just like she was holding on to me. At Alistair's place, there had been hardly any time for us to actually interact with each other, but now, w
Mirage's P.O.V Alex watched Maze bounce out of the room with a smile on his face. "I've never had siblings, but now I miss not having one." He gave me a sheepish smile. "Maybe we should make sure that our kids don't feel alone, so we should have many." My heart literally threatened to burst out of my chest. "You're not mad?" "Mad?" Alex's smile instantly turned into a glare. "I'm ready to throw you into the dungeons and throw away the keys so you don't ever think about doing stupid things ever again." He closed and locked the door before he came to sit at the foot of the bed, keeping a safe distance from me. I missed his touch…I missed not having him near me; especially when he was purposely shutting off the mating bond from his side. I wasn't even aware he could do that. "I…guess we have a lot to talk ab-" "Let's start with the fact that you actually tried to 'drug' me with a few
Mirage's P.O.V The man that stepped out of the van in front of the packhouse…didn't look like my father anymore. I remembered a man with light brown hair, fair skin and sparkling amethyst eyes and lips that were always smiling. He used to glow with a certain light, as if he truly was some kind of a fairy…a fairy of joy and happiness and love. But this man…he had dark, matted hair that was cut short plastered to his skull. His eyes were sunken in and his lips were pressed together into a thin line. His skin was ashy and the glow I once knew was all but gone. Moreover, he was now bent at the waist and almost less than half his weight. It was as if those monsters had sucked him dry over and over, making him survive on the bare minimum just so he could once again produce more blood for them. The names of those who had our father hadn't been disclosed by the Queen, but Maze's mate feared that whoever it was that had him, was very close to the Queen, if not someone fr
Mirage's P.O.V "Now that everything important has been done and dealt with…are we going to talk about how you deserted us all and went your merry way or are we just going to pretend that you didn't just act like a major bitch?" Sarah almost spat out her morning coffee while Darcia, Cameron and Alex jumped up from the table and disappeared out the door like little traitors, leaving me to deal with Freya's wrath all alone. It was a week after my dad had gone away to the Autumn Court with my grandmother and a day since my sister left with her mate for Alaska, with a promise to visit as often as she could. But now that everything was done and dusted…it came time to face the hardest part. Freya and Sarah. The two women who had come to mean more than family to me. And the two women who I abandoned and hid information from as I went with Alistair, with the thought that I might never see them again. For Freya…the betrayal was even deeper, especiall