I hadn’t meant to say that. Not then. It was as if I continually created the most embarrassing moments for myself over and over again. One wouldn’t think that it was possible and yet someone I managed to do it.
I closed my eyes and wished for a giant hole to swallow me up.
“Rachel,” the humor in Alden’s voice wasn’t helping things.
“Don’t look at me!”
Someone laughed, in hindsight, it was probably Abel.
“It’s kind of impossible not to look at you, Rachel. You’re naked, tied to my bed.”
Yeah, that was Adrian.
I popped an eye open and saw the three of them peering down at me with varying levels of concern and amusement, but there was another thing in their eyes that managed to make my other eye open.
It was love.
“I didn’t mean to make things weird,” I said defensively.
“We love yo
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CHAPTER 48 – RachelI tripped along a dark corridor with the Triple A’s following closely on my heels. We were back in the warehouse where I had watched Susan Browning and Sven Draven be shot and killed by my mother. And yet I could hear Susan’s voice clearly barking out commands.I didn’t stop to think about why we were there or how they had managed to kidnap up again. It seemed that my normal fears and limitations were muted, and I was going on gut instinct. I knew that I needed to see what was happening in the meeting.A door opened, and Susan’s voice became louder than before. That was the room they were in. The person who had exited didn’t seem to see us at all and walked straight towards me until they walked right through my body.A jolt of awareness rushed through me that something was off and everything started to fade.“No!” Alden grabbed my hand and pulled me back from wherever I was slipp
CHAPTER 49 – Anna“What aren’t you telling me?”I rounded on Luke and Roman the minute we were back to our room. It was another quick pack and we were headed back to England. But I could tell that they were weirded out about the dream walking.Luke looked up at me with wide eyes, “What?”It was a good thing that I loved him.“You suck at acting.”Roman’s bit his lower lip, his eyes were clearly showing his amusement.“Just tell me,” I insisted.Roman took me by the hand and pulled me into his lap. I wasn’t one of those girls that needed a guy to feel secure. But there was something about being next to my guys that centered me. Even when they were lying douchebags like Luke was presently trying to be.“What Luke is not telling you is that witches and Lycans do not mix. Witches are thought to be evil, deriving their powers from the devil or som
CHAPTER 50 – Rachel“Are you with the bad people?”The Triple A’s and I had been exploring again in the dream world. Only this time the occupants of the room could both see and hear us. I jumped back, startled and nearly plowed over Aiden.The voice sounded young and as my eyes adjusted to the dark room, I saw the shapes of two small figures huddled into the crawl space.“We are not. We are here to stop them.”Alden made a little hmphed noise, clearly indicating that he was there under duress. It was endearing and had the effect of calming me a little.“My name is Rachel,” I crouched down so I was closer to their level. “Who are you?”The other one shook her head, “No, don’t tell her. People always pretend to be nice when they want something.”I could now see that they were two little girls maybe six or seven years old. One had dark hair like me and
CHAPTER 51 – Anna“Run it again.”Roman’s friend in the lab looked up incredulously. “Your Majesty with all due respect, I have run her bloodwork three times. The results are the same every time. Evangelina does not share your DNA nor does she share that of Angelica or Rachel. Her closest match is Cian Constantin. I am more than willing to bet she is his daughter.”“It doesn’t make any sense,” I shook my head trying to make the pieces fall into place. But no matter how many times I did, they still refused to cooperate.“But the next closest relative is Margaret Dumitru.”The man looked almost apologetic. Roman, on the other hand, was completely poleaxed. His face had lost all of its color and I worried that he might pass out. I knew better than to reach out to him in front of someone else. Roman was very proud and didn’t like feeling weak. But my instincts were screamin
CHAPTER 52 - Amy“Amy! Shit! You killed them?”I rolled my eyes at Helvetica, Veti for short, and wondered for the hundredth time why I let her constantly criticize me. She could be such an old hag. Okay, she’s not that old, maybe three or four hundred years. But to my nineteen years on the planet that could have been several lifetimes, and if we were human, it would have been.“I staked them,” I protested, motioning to the bloody stakes in my hand. “It was painless.”One of the girls that had popped into our home coughed. “I wouldn’t say that.”“And then you brought them back to life!” She threw her hands in the air in disgust.“Um, so are we like zombies now?” the other girl asked.I looked over at my prisoners. Two girls about my age were standing in the entryway to our home looking shell shocked.I smirked. “You aren’t a zombie
CHAPTER 53 - Amy“No, I am not leaving here. I don’t care what you say!”I plugged my ears like a four-year-old and started humming—loudly. Anna and Rachel had just spent the last twenty minutes telling me how wrong I was to hide away.“Amy,” Rachel’s tone was placating, and loud. I suppose that I could hear it over my humming. “You can’t live the rest of your life in a cave. There is an entire world out there to explore.”I unplugged my ears for the briefest of moments. “There is an entire world to explore in these caves. Did you know there is an entire jungle down here? And that it has its own river system? I could explore for eons and never get bored.”Anna’s eyes narrowed. “What about people?”“People are bad,” I parroted what I had always been taught. “We kill first, ask questions later, right Veti?”Helvetica actua
CHAPTER 54 - AmyI let Anna and Rachel stumble about, trying to remember the spell that they had used to end up in the cave. Was that a little mean? Of course it was, but I didn’t care. They were making me leave and that was more than a little mean.Veti, however, wasn’t amused.“Amy, stop being a bitch and do the damn spell.”Anna and Rachel turned to me wide-eyed.“You have had the ability to leave all this time?” Rachel’s tone was incredulous.I shrugged. “Relocation spells aren’t difficult.”It would seem that I had stunned them yet again.“Did you think I was a prisoner here?” It dawned on me that it might look that way.“Why else would you stay?” Anna’s lips were tight. “This doesn’t make any sense. Don’t you want to find out who you are and where your real family is?”“Veti is m
CHAPTER 55 - BradDon’t look at her tits and just respond to the summons. I could do this. The moment that I got word from Amy that she needed me. I wanted to come crashing in like a knight in shining armor. I was one once, a long time ago, so I know how a bloody hero is supposed to act.But these days, I am not sure if I am the hero or the bad guy. My brother, Henry and I, were palace guards for the Vasile family. We were present during the massacre and were only able to save one child—a twin.I enlisted my older sister, Helvetica, to help protect the baby, and I swore her to secrecy. Not only would she have to give up everything and go into hiding, but I didn’t even want the child to know of our connection. The less the girl knew the better.Helvetica reported to me that the child cried nonstop for days for her sister. The girls were toddlers and old enough to know that something was dreadfully wrong. I cursed and promised V
Chapter 6Lola“I hate to break up this special version of Sixteen Candles, but you two are going to need to get to dressed. The alarm went off in the garage.”I gaped at Ike was who standing in the moonlight in nothing by his boxer briefs and a healthy bulge that was saluting somebody.“Fuck,” Jake mumbled as we jumped out of bed and threw on our shoes. I couldn’t look at him or his friend. Had Ike heard us talking? Embarrassment washed over me, but I didn’t have time to think about it. The sounds of broken glass had me wincing. Did they destroy Ike’s car?Guilt flooded me as we crept along the back hallway. Ike had pulled on some clothes and boots, and pulled a key from his pocket motioning us to follow.“We need a diversion,” Ike whispered to Jake. “Time for that bibbity bobbity bullshit you’re so good at.”Jake scowled at his friend, but still managed to mutter a spell. We came to a door and Ike opened it and motioned for us to go through. Once we were inside a saw a long stairway
Chapter 5 LolaDo you ever lie awake at night and wonder what it is about that particular moment that causes you to be awake? I tried to tell myself that it had to be the rain tap-dancing on the old metal roof that kept me from resting.After all, it couldn’t have been the fact that I had over six feet of raw masculinity lying next to me. Or the fact that I could literally smell the essence of his blood, and it drew me in faster than anything I’d ever faced before. I wanted to lick him from head to two. My incisors had long since descended, and I was fairly certain that Jake did not know that I was seconds away from ravishing him.Do people even say ravish anymore? That’s what this has unraveled to… delirium.The only thing that had stopped me from sinking my fangs into his neck was that he was my best friend—my only friend.Did I want to jump his bones? Hell yes, make no mistake about that. I’d have him over me, under me, inside of me. Shit, anyway, he would take him. But what happe
Chapter 4JakeI knew someplace we could crash for the night.Surprisingly enough, getting Lola out of the compound had been uneventful. Was it too uneventful? How the fuck was I to know? All I knew was the unease creeping up my spine had me wide awake, while Lola slept on the tattered couch in Ike’s shop.The Alliance seemed to always be two steps ahead. They had a way of convincing you that black was white, and pink was yellow. The note that had been left in her room had been the final straw.Lola mumbled something in her sleep, causing me to glance over at her sleeping form.“She’s fucking beautiful,” Ike commented from where he laid underneath his bike.I tried not to bristle at the comment because Ike was only stating the truth. I didn’t have friends, that wasn’t a legacy given to a magical foster kid turned Alliance captive. However, in one of the trashy homes I’d been kicked out of, Ike had also been a resident. Sadly, the piece of shit foster dad shared Ike’s DNA. On a cold ni
Chapter 83 - LolaLolaThe handwriting wasn’t familiar. That was the first thing I noticed about the note that Jake had found beneath my pillow. The second was that a certain scent clung to the paper. At once it seemed familiar and yet foreign.“I don’t like this,” Jake said as I took the note from his hand.I was glad he was with me. As much as I was used to some crazy ass things happening around me. This had shaken me to know that someone had been in my room while I was sleeping. I was a Lycan for hell’s sake.“You’re shaking,” Jake said coming to stand behind me and wrapping his hands around my waist.I sank back into his embrace as he rested his head on top of mine. Jake was so much bigger than I was. As much as I was attracted to him, and let’s not underestimate how much I wanted the boy. But despite all of that, I felt comfortable around him. I wasn’t ever w
Chapter 82 - JakeJakeI watched as those two dick heads left her room and fought the seething urge to rip their heads off. Malcolm and Sven Draven were two of the biggest pricks I had ever met, and growing up in the foster care system, I’d met my fair share of pricks.The Alliance had found me there when I was ten. Apparently, turning your shitty foster dad into a rat was frowned upon. Instead of switching foster homes and covering everything up, which had been the norm for me, I was taken by a woman and told that I was being ‘adopted’.The legality of it all was sadly lacking, but to a ten-year-old, anything the system told you to do, you did. From there I was sent to therapy. But unlike any of the other court ordered therapy that I had attended before. This therapist wanted to know more about what had happened when I had used my magic.I wasn’t stupid. I knew that others didn’t possess the gifts t
Chapter 81 - LolaLolaThey say I am evil.They say I am a monster.They say that in order to restore our people, I must kill my sisters. The same sisters that I have no memory of, I am to slaughter them as they have slaughtered our people.They say I am powerful, but the truth is that I am a pawn, in a world of knights all fawning to a false queen.I have stayed silent while they have plotted and planned around me. I have allowed the rebels a chance to show their true colors. I have tolerated the foolish notions that I will do what I am told.But I am of the royal bloodline. I will do as I see fit and to hell with what they say.I am Lola.The only thing I am guilty of is harboring inappropriate thoughts about my best friend. And they are wholly inappropriate. Disgustingly, sensual thoughts that cause my stomach to flip and my
CHAPTER 80 – AmyHenry moved to untie my hands and I slumped into the soft bed covers. I felt like liquid, my limbs not at all behaving as I wanted them to. I was malleable, willing to be whatever they wished me to be.“I need you to feed on me, Amy,” Henry said tenderly as he pulled me into his chest. “You will need your strength to finish this.”Brad moved behind me and spread my cheeks.“I am going to put this lubricant on and begin to stretch you. But Amy, you need to do as Henry says. The pleasure from your orgasm will help to mask any pain from taking us both the first time.”I nodded and turned my face into Henry’s neck. He smelled of soap and sweat, he smelled of man and sex, and he smelled like my sweet Henry. My incisors come down and I sank my teeth into him. The rush of exhilaration washing over me had my eyes rolling back into my head.“Fuck, she is tight,&rdq
CHAPTER 79 - AmyBrad licked and sucked at my juices, ravenous in the way that he took me. This was finally my moment, the time when I would submit everything to my lovers, and we would become one. I could hardly stand the anticipation of it.My hips wanted to move, but Brad kept a firm grasp on them. Henry continued to kiss me while his hands snaked out and captured mine. I felt them lifting and then being fastened to the headboard. At the same moment, Brad’ mouth left my pussy and I cried out into Henry’s kiss.But he wasn’t leaving, Brad was taking each of my feet and fastening the cuffs that would leave me spread before them like a feast. I felt the air on my tender folds and relished the feeling of erotic decadence. I imagined a room full of faceless men that all wanted me, were dying for just a glimpse of my naked flesh. It was nothing that I would want to have in real life, but as far as fantasies go, it caused my juices to flow even m
CHAPTER 78 - Amy“Necromancy is a certain type of magic involving communication with the deceased—either by summoning their spirit or raising them bodily. It is often considered sorcery or black magic as it goes against the natural order of things.”I rubbed my hands as I listened to Veti repeat what we had read about necromancy. It wasn’t anything that I hadn’t discussed with her a million times. But it felt different knowing that there is someone else out there with the same gifts, but she uses them for evil.I had a sneaking suspicion that Jenny Sparks was behind all of this. She was the one who caused trouble in the first place for Anna. It only made sense. Now the trouble was to convince the others. It was one thing to hear about Roman being forced to take out his mother.I had a much greater empathy for Anna’s mate. I can’t imagine going through that once, only to hear that you needed to do it all ag