Sacrifice
Fusilis
Samson
I hear Kendrick gasp next to me. Phoenix is finally fully awake and locked eyes on his mate chained up. The lights flicker on, and I see blood dripping down the front of Andricia’s beautiful face. Her back is to Duron and Cyrus, but horror fills their faces and it makes me want to know what they can see. My attention is pulled from Andricia when I hear the door to the lockup slam shut and in walks the bastard that no doubt has Andricia on display like this. Her eyes flutter but don’t open. I can tell she’s fighting for consciousness but can’t break free from the darkness. How hard did he hit her?
The bastard is shirtless, and he is covered in strange tattoos that seem to be engraved into his skin. Duron’s face fills with shock, so that tells me that he knows exactly who this bastard is. He walks around the back of her checking her out, then comes t
At what cost? Fusilis Samson I see Kendrick and Duron running toward the tree line with Cyrus in their arms. I immediately ran to them to assist in any way possible. By now, every hellhound is out of bed and outside watching the scenes play out. When I make it to them, Andricia is by my side, still aflame. They set him down when they see her, and she walks up to him kneeling. Her fire dissipates completely, revealing her still torn-up back. Her hand lands on his cheek and his eyes flutter but don’t open. “What happened?” Her voice cracks. “It’s the silver, it’s poisoning him,” Kendrick says quietly. “He won’t make it back to the territory like this,” Duron says knowing the outcome of this. Andricia I still can’t hear my beast but know what she w
When in a fire cell Golden Summit Cyrus I woke up a week ago in my territory. The doctor says it’s a miracle I’m alive and that my mate is one hell of a woman, no pun intended. My brothers filled me in on what happened after I passed out. Sam broke out of the cell and helped free Andricia the rest of the way. She banished Fenrir into a fire cell where he would stay until she pulled him back out as she was the only one who had access to it. Duron found that out after reading into it further. She pulled the silver dagger out of my shoulder and ran me back to my territory for the doctor. My brothers said I got here in under five minutes and are still unsure as to how they were even able to move that fast. She carried me to the infirmary and left me with the doctor. She did all of that while fighting the obsidian that was threatening to enter her heart. All of that while her back was
Fumbling through darkness Golden Summit Samson She cuts me off panicked, her hands clutching me. I hear Kira and Lorissa gasp and Duron is immediately to his feet, approaching us. Kendrick and Cyrus remain on the other side of the bed, but Kendrick’s face is pale and Cyrus has gone rigid. Duron pulls her to him, looking into her eyes, and now from the side, I see the foggy whiteness over her pupils. Kira comes around and throws a shirt on Andricia as she flinches away from her. “It’s alright Alpha, I’m just covering you up.” Andricia's hand lands on Kira's sharp jaw. “K-Kira?” She stutters. Andricia When Cerberus gave me back control after healing me, I saw a bright light. I realized it must be daytime, and the curtains were open, so I blinked a couple of times. Only it didn’t fade. When I was pulled to
Seeing in the dark Golden Summit Andricia He doesn’t respond or even move, but I feel him relax into my touch. I pull my hand away and lift my shirt over my head. I lay back to his bare chest, my breasts pressing against him and sparks trickling all over me. “Please,” I say in the steadiest voice I have in me. He takes a deep breath and his hand lands on my shoulder. I feel his fingertips stop and tap a couple of times in one spot, indicating it starts there. He slowly traces down across my back, getting wider in the center. He goes all the way down to my hip then goes back up, widening in the opposite side until he reaches my shoulder once more. A quiet sob escapes my lips as I feel tears run off my face onto his chest. The bed dips around us and I feel three sets of wet, soft lips land on the area that Cyrus just traced. My body shudders an
Tension Golden summit Andricia “Zek take me back now,” I say trying not to sound too firm, but desperation is evident in my words. He sighs and immediately turns around, running back quickly he sets me down softly. I hear rustling and hard landing on someone as if being hit. I immediately run, I can hear exactly where they are at. The closer I get I sense Samson is breathing heavily and growling. I immediately step in front of him. He swings, and I hear it whooshing through the air it will make contact with me before the poor warrior I forced to train with me. But it stops, I hear it makes contact with someone’s hand that caught it. I turn to my left and smell Zek he must’ve stopped it. I hear Zek throw a punch, which makes contact with Samson’s jaw. Samson takes a step back, and I hear him drop the warrior. I immediately drop to one knee and feel Cerberus give me
The New Luna Kendrick The dining room is set up with several tables, and the Alpha table is at the head of the dining room. I would love to have something like what Andricia has for her pack, but unfortunately, that doesn’t work out too well here. It rains too often whereas I don’t think it rains where she lives. Which in itself is a phenomenon. We all take our seats and we have Andricia seated in between all four of us. I am on her left and Samson goes to sit on her right with Cyrus on the other side of him. “That seat is for someone else today,” I say to him, gaining his attention. He huffs and looks at Andricia his eyes are full of longing, but that’s something that she won’t be able to notice anymore. I see Zek enter the dining hall, being escorted by my father's Beta. He comes up to our table and then stops wearily, looking at all of us but avoidi
Vacationing in the heavensGolden SummitAndriciaOnce in the room, he has me sit on the exam table and tells me to lay back and relax. Zek ensures my head lands on the pillow, and suddenly, my nerves spike. I hear the doctor roll up a cart with several tools rattling on it. My hand darts out and catches Zek’s arm as he turns to leave. I hold tight, not allowing him to go, and he turns and sits in the chair beside the exam table, placing his hand on mine and giving it a gentle squeeze.I feel the doctor open my eyes wider and brightness flashes in front of each eye. No doubt he is checking my pupil dilation. I hear him place that back and he clears his throat.“Luna, I am going to give you a steroid and see if it affects anything. I will need you to roll onto your side as the shot will be administered on your back.”I slowly roll to the side so that I am facing Zek. The doctor lowers the t
Witches get StitchesGolden SummitSamson"Alpha, we have a problem!" Kira shouts, firmly stopping me in my place. Before I can even react, Andricia is out of my grasp and almost in Kira's. She walks as if she can see perfectly, which is surprising."They have returned and are trying to cross the flame," Kira states quickly as she turns, walking with Andricia toward the woods.We all follow, but at a safe distance, it is her pack land, and we don’t want her to feel as if we are trying to rule over it instead of her. I watch Kira lean in close to her to whisper something, but I can’t make out what she says. She immediately stops, and Kira takes a step back, facing Andricia. A loud growl rips through the air, forcing Kira into submission. She kneels, baring her neck to Andricia with her head hanging low. I see Zek also in submission. I turn and see the entire training field in submission, every warrior we have.I turn back to Andricia, and she takes off sprinting straight toward Cullode
Andricia"I think you are exactly as you are meant to be, and just what this pack needs." Footsteps sound in the distance and a hush falls over the meadow as they slowly make their way toward us. I rise to my feet before giving a hand to Reagan and helping her up. She takes one last look at the wildflowers before disappearing toward the treeline and into it. Samson's arms wrap around me from behind and I lean into his touch. Soaking up the warmth radiating from him as the smell of fresh rainfall washes over me. Hot lips connect with the mark on my neck awakening the fire within me. I turn in his arms running my hand through his hair drowning in his green eyes. Our lips crash together in a bruising kiss and I grab hold of that ancient power living within me and we disappear into glittering light.Resurfacing in our room my back slams into the wall and we don't break the kiss once. Feeling the need to touch his skin take over I burn away my clothes and his own as they fall to ash at our
AndriciaMy heartbeat throbs in my ears at the revelation. Drowning out the discussion being had and plans that could protect the packs. An army of witches and wolves is fine but a beast that has been extinct for a century... Where have they been all these years? Why team up with the witch in the first place? The outcome of an army of lycans would be catastrophic for us. There will be no victory unless I can unleash my flame on the Lycans and Tarot."I thought they were extinct." I finally chime in halting all conversation and planning. Realizing Cyrus had been caressing my side this entire time as a means of comfort. I suppose creating allies and planning for war is all new for me. My mates have endured battle forged alliances and gotten their hands dirty when needed all for the sake of their pack. All I've ever done is protect my lands from witches and keep us alive. They are the embodiment of hope and I'm where it dies. There was never any hope in my land after the males died off.
AndriciaWhite powdery snow puffs into the air as Kain slides through it. The force that was behind Gwen's magic had me clutching my chest. I snap my focus back to Silas playing a game of dodging the spells with shimmering. Kain is already on his feet shimmering through this world with impeccable speed. Jackson meanders his way over taking up space beside me now. He had been practicing shimmering short distances. He is at a disadvantage and out of practice due to being frozen."What's the point in all of this? You don't even know what you're up against." I don't bother peeling my focus from Silas but cringe as he takes a blow. The feeling is strange, not pain but I can feel a dull ache where he feels the pain. Could he feel anytime I was in pain? If so how did he endure the pain inflicted by Justin?"There will be witches, I've encountered my fair share to know that the number of witches practicing dark magic is rising. I couldn't bear living with myself if I sent anyone into this war
Andricia “You fear that I will soak this world in blood yet you offer yours to me first.” His voice is ancient an accent I'm unfamiliar with yet understand perfectly. Silas is similar yet so different as it has aged just as he has. Jackson is still a newborn unfamiliar with the world he now lives in. Believing he is the biggest threat to walk this earth—a threat yes but not the largest one we've encountered. “You would be smart to hold your tongue. A legend you may have become but don't be a fool. This world will chew you up until you are nothing but bones and when it does I will be there to burn whatever is left of you to ash that will be carried away on a breeze and forgotten forever. Unless you join me. We can teach you how to survive and prepare you for what awaits.” He remains silent just as Silas and Kain await whatever comes from Jackson's mouth next. After a good while, I begin to grow impatient the flame thrumming within me, flowing through my veins begging to be released.
SilasIce fills my veins at the sound of his name off my bond's lips. I growl her burning eyes locked on my icy ones. I can't bother to mind the confusion from the Alphas and yank on the glimmering bond between us hissing down at her.'You must be joking.' I hiss in warning but she doesn't yield an inch. I can see her plans unfolding in my mind as if they were my own. I can't lie they are good but dangerous. Unleashing him on the world again could be catastrophic. How did she keep this plan from me? Like she blocked me from her mind. I may have been busy with Kain and Gwen but I still had her in my mind. She is always consuming my mind I'm not sure why it would change now. Had I truly been that distracted? A gentle caress down the bond shuts down my thoughts and her burning flame creates a glorious barrier keeping me from her mind. I reach a phantom hand out to it but it doesn't burn me. Instead, it opens and I once again hear and feel everything from her."You mean like the bedtime s
AndriciaThe cover of the treeline surrounds me. I stand helpless looking at the event playing before me. Reagan crumbles to the ground, and the sob filling the air cracks my heart. I sway on my feet momentarily before two hands land on my hips keeping me on my feet. Silas presses closer to me where my wings would have been he fills. My mates swoop in holding Reagan and Augustus as they mourn the loss of the woman whose name I still hadn't learned. Taking notice of the pack that was outside training now kneeling with their heads hung. A devastating loss for this pack. A calculated attack that would leave the leading members wounded and disoriented for a while. However as this packs Luna I will not allow any harm to come to anyone as they grieve this loss. The loss falls entirely on my shoulders as if it were my hand that ripped her throat out.The moon is almost to the peak of the sky directly above us. Crisp air nips at my exposed back in the midnight blue material that hangs from my
AndriciaSo beautiful. The thought zips down the bond and I flush from head to toe in the pale blush floor-length dress Silas gave me. The gauzy material whispers against the floor and the sheer sleeves show off my tanned skin below. The back is open on the shoulders where my wings are free to be if I wish. Our short time away had been so enlightening and helped me gain access to the power locked within me. Our bond is stronger and so beautiful it sparkles within me. I close the distance between Silas and me the fire dissipating from the hearth as it makes its way back within me. He brushes my loose hair behind my ear before his lips softly caress my own and the world around us fades to nothing. We linger a little longer on the other side drinking in each other before resurfacing in Golden Summit. My wings gleam in the sunlight and the grounds quiet as the pack notices us."How'd you do it?" Gwen's voice pulls my attention from Silas. She stands with Kain at the bottom of the pack hou
AndriciaThe ice fringes the edge of my vision before I am plunged down into the frozen water nothing but darkness surrounding me. Down, down, into the frozen depths of darkness until suddenly I'm yanked above the surface gasping for air. The snow is blinding in the frozen peaks that surround me. Silas' bare chest is against my now bareback. I'm soaked in water my skin shining under the rising sun. My neck tingles instead of the searing pain I felt in my nightmare. When my fingers connect with it I feel Cyrus caress the bond between us. He is there and understands what I just experienced even if he isn't here with me now. Silas, he would've seen it all and felt exactly what I felt and seen exactly what it was that haunts me. His hold on me is gently and reassuring the ice he used to pull me from my nightmare resting just below his skin. The same way the fire within me does. The dream is an omen. It will only get worse before it gets better.I need to be ready for it. If I'm not strong
Andricia“You were dying.” The raw emotion in his voice was enough to push all other worries out of my mind and focus entirely on him. Silas continues running smooth circles on my skin. His face is grave and I can see the tension in his jaws. A distant look in his eyes as he no doubt recounts it all.“I could feel your soul tearing itself from you. The bond poisons you if not fed from.” I chew my bottom lip mulling over his words. If he saw me why didn't he come for me sooner? How exactly did he even see me? I never saw him except for when Kain fed from me and in my nightmares."But if you made him feed from me..." The sick feeling of sand running along my insides and my stomach clenching. I spewed in the toilet unable to stomach the feeling. It had felt like a relief initially but then my body must've realized it wasn't Silas who was feeding from us. I wonder did he feel the discomfort I felt? I felt The stomach-wrenching betrayal smothered by the all-consuming confusion because I ha