DacreThe assassin had disappeared to Goddess knew where. I only scratched my head in confusion. Why would someone attack me, then warn me, then fight and run away?Was he even fighting or simply pretending to fight? And hadn’t he been too lean for an assassin?He could have just slinked through the bushes and run away or like a smartass hid behind a boulder or a shrub and observed me even now.I didn’t know. I could comb through the area but it was not worth the time or effort.Thus, I turned around and walked towards my car. It was stuck in the bushes so with some effort I pulled it back to the road.Thankfully, there was no human around or I would have had to do the act of calling a towing service guy and wasting my time when I could move the vehicle myself.I surveyed the damage and saw that apart from the dent on the side where the attacker had rammed in and a few more dents on the roof when the branches had fallen down, the car was relatively okay.I simply sat back in my seat a
DacreI received a call on my phone and I was surprised to see a name I thought I would not see soon.Lucas Klout.I looked at the screen for a moment before picking it up.“Hello?” I said uncertainly as I heard the council head’s voice.“Don't take that mission for now”He said curtly.I immediately shot up from my seat as I asked, “Why? Is there a problem?”I asked and he replied, “We might have had an attack on someone from the council. For a few days, it will be wise to lay low.”His voice sounded tense and I tried to ask again,“Who was attacked? Please tell me.”Lucas Klout took so long to respond, I thought he might never answer me.Then in a barely audible whisper, he answered, “Mrs. Bryant was in an…accident. She is at the city hospital in Jundra.”“What? Is she okay? And who attacked her?”I recalled the kind hearted woman who was nice to me and my heart gave a pang. I did not want her to be badly injured.“For now she is okay and we are tracing the attackers. Best lay low f
DacreThe door to the room closed, leaving us three standing awkwardly outside it. “Just what did she say?”Silas pulled me a bit farther away as Cynthia noticed it and glared at him. She then strode further away, not wanting to associate with us.That was better for us either way.“I asked her and all she said was shallow”Silas raised an eyebrow, “You mean the shadow assassins?”I hit my forehead for not realizing the obvious. “Yeah, you should hit yourself more. You are growing an idiot day by day”I rolled my eyes and saw that Cynthia was pretending to not listen to us, but her ears were straining to eavesdrop on us.“So, they are just attacking council members and killing demon worshippers too. But why?”“That is what we have to find,” I said as I clenched my fist.Let’s leave. We have to go somewhere.I said as I dragged him away from the hospital room. I made a mental note to meet Mrs. Bryant and check on her health again.She was a kind soul and I did not want her ill or dead
ClarissaDacre said the line but I felt as if the ground was slipping below my feet. My hold on his hand tightened automatically. I did not want him to leave.I could not let him leave.Not after I had just begun to know him.The way his hand squeezed mine told me that he did not want to leave me yet too. For a while, I just held his hand, letting my body do the talking as I looked into his blue eyes.“Dad said that he was going to invite everybody to our birthday party.”I said in a small voice.“Yeah someone from my pack will be around to mark our attendance.”He said and I felt that his voice faltered. Or maybe I imagined it.“I want you”I said and I bit my lip.“I mean…I want you to be at the party.”He turned to look at me and placed his hand on my cheek, “My little girl is soon going to be a grown up girl. She is going to awaken her wolf and with all the males in attendance, I know you would soon find your mate too.”I shook my head.“I don’t want to find my mate. I want you to
DacreI had cut off my relationship or whatever it was with Clarissa in the worst way possible. I knew the first time I had kissed her in the pub that she was a mistake.And the second time when I kissed her in the forest while groping her small breasts that she was a drug.I could not get enough of her no matter how much I told myself that she was just another girl, an inexperienced virgin who wanted to be taught.A part of me had known that giving in to the craving would only make her more irresistible to me. But, I had thought that I would just take a taste of her and then leave her. That I would prove it to myself that I was not affected by those dove like eyes and that innocent looking face.A more evil idea had been to make her want me in such a way that she would never again crave someone else.But only now did I realize that I had not been the master planner. The brown haired girl with her gray eyes and petite figure had done that to me.She had made me want her like nothing e
ClarissaI sat back in the car as I kept forcing tears to not spill out. Why did it hurt so much?I and Dacre had not been in love, we were not dating and we were certainly not mates.Yet, I felt as if I would never want anyone else. Maybe, I needed some medication. Talia kept quiet for the entire ride, giving me some time to collect my thoughts.I tried to console myself by saying that what happened had happened for the best. I was going to go back to my home and my people so Dacre would soon become a memory of the past.The car came to a halt and I was snapped out of my thoughts.“Now come on, we have to start packing for home too.”She said with a small smile and I got out of the car after adjusting my hair and taking a few deep breaths to steady my nerves.We went in and I saw that mom had already packed most of the stuff.She looked at us and smiled, “time to go home for your birthday celebration, exciting isn’t it?”I gave her a half smile as Talia decided to cover up for me.“
ClarissaAs we all sat back in the car, I could not shake the thought of those eyes watching me. I racked my brain to recall when was the last time I had seen them.If my memory was not failing me, it had been back at home, when we were in the study and mom had made us draw runes.Then again, I saw those eyes from the window of my room. All these days everything had been silent.With a jolt, I realized that I had also not dreamt of the handsome man burning up in flames ever since I had left home.Instead, another sinful young man had taken his place. But I quashed the thought of Dacre faster than it could take up space in my head again.I viciously buried it and began to think about the events and how they had unfolded over the past few weeks.The eyes that had been tailing me, the dreams about the young man, then meeting Dacre, Miranda being chased by a demon, her pointing her finger at me before her death, then the visions that I saw.Was it really my mind that had been hallucinatin
Clarissa“What do you want?”I asked him the question I always asked him.And as usual, he did not tense or show any indication of me being around or him listening to me.However, this time he took a long time to reply.I knew trying to find out a way from the fire maze was pointless so I just waited for him to speak. The runes that were being etched on his back were finally completed and he spoke.“Your drawing skills are horrific”I was taken aback by his comment. After the fire etching on his skin died down, it left behind a glowing set of sloppily drawn runes on his back.“Different from your mother’s or your sister’s. You are weak”He said and I felt rage boiling within me. “You show up uninvited in my dreams every single night and you have the audacity to call me weak?”I said in a seething voice.He turned his head from left to right and loosened his back muscles before answering.“I thought you didn’t miss me when you were ogling boys and letting him ravish you the way he wan
I spoke and Venzara stopped making Mary slap herself. “Fine. well, they were a notorious specimen to instigate and their leader was particularly hard to coax but I managed to throw the blame on them by filling their heads with awful things about those in power. I wanted Klout and the other four guardians out of power so that I could reign single handedly.” Klout yelled loudly, “Just take her away from my eyes or I will kill her right here and right now.” He was teeming with anger. All of us had been fooled by a single woman- a power hungry, ruthless woman. Not demons not witches but one of us. Then Mary again shuddered and I felt the silky dress of Venzara brush against me as MAry howled, “What? What is happening? Why am I being held by the guards? Sir, the boys are at fault?” Mary cried as Venzara chuckled beside me. Klout slapped Mary hard and spoke, “You are going to be executed for your crimes. Take her away from my sight.” He barked and then also instructed the guards t
DacreHer earlier pitiful voice was replaced by her usual smug and arrogant expression for a while.“That was for what you did to my sister. Yes, my sister was one of the women you murdered and I have been keeping an eye on you ever since then.”Mary raised her hand to slap Mrs. Bryant as we all simply stared at the revelation, too confused to understand what was going on.A familiar voice spoke in my head, “Sorry, but this woman just drove me out of this hag’s body by startling me.”I scoffed.So, even the demoness could be startled.That was why Mary’s expression had suddenly changed.But then it went back to being all sorry and pitiful yet again as Mary continued, “Yes, I deserve all the hate. I have done awful things to get into power. At first, I wanted to be luna but Thaddeus was too dumb to take notice of me. He was busy fucking around women so that played in my favor. But then I realized he was not respected much so when one of the other elders of the pack got suspicious of me
DacreShe then turned to us, “what matters is what punishment you would give to these boys for violating dozens of our laws and putting the lives of every werewolf in jeopardy.”Mary droned on and on while I tried hard to maintain a stoic expression.My eyes flicked to Silas who was staring at her with a murderous expression.He mind linked to me, “how long are we going to sit quietly and let her sing hymns of our glorious betrayal to the werewolf kind?”I let out a sigh, “I want to find out if the council head is in this too.”“I mean yeah he is a shithead but would he really be involved in it?”Silas asked and I shrugged, “you never know”We fell silent as Mary presented her case in front of Klout who looked down at us with distaste.“Do you have anything to plead guilty to? I will not be impartial to you. It is against the council’s belief in fair justice.”I got up from the ground and looked him straight in the eye.“I and Silas were chosen for this mission from the get go and so
DacreSilas gave me an understanding look,“I think she mixed something in my food from time to time to make me sleep and then she would tell father of what a lazy son he had. He obviously believed her and I was caned and whipped on occasion.She told him that this was necessary for the future alpha to be strong and dominating.”“What?”This time it was Venzara who shrieked and I gave a humorless chuckle.“Yeah, I only remember bits and pieces of it. Thankfully, one elder saw her mixing something in my food and discovered it to be sleeping pills. Mary was thrown out and I never saw her again. I was too young to voice out my worries as everybody was extremely afraid of dad and his anger. Even the elders had to face his ire for whisking away Mary but somehow they got rid of her and dad just went to another woman I guess.”I completed and Silas patted my shoulder, “I…I never knew”That was all he could offer and I heard his voice crack.“I had pushed the memories of my childhood deep int
Dacre“Well, I have figured out a lot of things. Of how, you nearly killed all of the children my father had ever had, of how you poisoned those around my mother and made them abandon her, and of how you tried to take the position of luna in our pack as well.”If she was stunned by my revelation, she did not answer directly.“What rubbish? Your father asked me to be his luna, in fact, he was after me for years, begging me to take up the throne. I hear that he has still not gotten over me and goes from one brothel to another, looking for a woman to fuck or two.”She wheezed and I had a mad urge to smack her right in the face.Ignoring her accusations, I asked, “What do you know of the demon summonings? How are you involved in all of this?She drummed her fingers on a nearby tree trunk and replied, “I am an Inquisitor appointed by the Council head himself. I am here to investigate matters.”Before I could answer, Silas suddenly pointed at her and spoke, “I saw her face…in that file”Her
DacreI felt glad that I did not have to worry about Silas as Venzara and Yesmir would look after him.I increased my speed and tore through the bushes and wild patches of grass, thick shrubs, and thorny trees as the surrounding around me turned into a blur.Soon, the forest began to thin and I saw the first hint of yellow and dried grass that reached my ears.I immediately climbed a small hill to see where exactly we were. The windmill stood like a lone wolf in the distance and I let out a relieved sigh.I had been right about the direction though I had traveled there just once and that too through the road.Silas seemed to be floating in the air with a grumpy look as I feared Venzara was languidly roaming her fingers on him.I could only mind link to him and say, “Patience. We will be there in another twenty minutes or so”He only grunted in response and I stifled a chuckle as I tore through the long yellow grass.We were running through the open with no tall trees to camouflage us
DacreThe eyes looked hurt and I began walking towards a clearing a bit farther away from Silas.“Are you hungry?” I asked and she sniffed.“I don't know what to make of that reply” I answered honestly and I felt her eyes water.Damn, I had never imagined a demoness to throw a tantrum like a silly human teenage girl. But then women were a complicated species, one I had not even begun to comprehend.“Do you recall the last time I was fed?”I gave her an incredulous look. “You fucked Jake senseless. I thought that should keep you full for days”If I had meant to appease her, I managed to do the opposite.“I am not bound to Jake, I am bound to you…and Clarissa by definition.”I recalled the way Clarissa had offered her blood to Venzara who had sipped on her veins as if it was some exotic drink.“So?”“So, you both need to feed me from time to time or I have to look for nourishment elsewhere.”My eyes went wide at the thought of her and Clarissa making out.“You mean…you would…well, never
DacreThe girls left with Jake while I heard Venzara’s sigh as she neared us, both her and Yesmir were invisible but I knew she was around us.The way towards the mill was going to be a long one but we decided to simply turn into our werewolf selves and run towards the destination.I had never gone on a mission without Silas and running with him would make me feel better.Maybe his keen eyes would find out something I might have overlooked as a potential clue to the whereabouts of Mark and the other two men or maybe more occultists….and someone I wasn’t sure I wanted to meet again.I had a bag with my clothes stashed in it inside my car so I could always change into them when I reached it.With that thought, we both began walking toward the outskirts of the city so that we might change into our wolf forms and start running in our wolf forms.As we walked towards the outskirts, my phone beeped and I pulled it out of my pocket.I had received a text from Clarissa.We reached our tempora
DacreWas I a real pervert or was the demoness’ magic making me horny?No matter what was going on between the two of us, the fact remained that she was the daughter of a man who had threatened to rip me off of my title, my rights, my dream, and my pack… everything that mattered to me if I did not do as he asked.When I recalled the past, my fists clenched and I felt anger surge through me.But I threw one look at her and saw the look on her face. She seemed to be sad and lost in thought.I tried to lighten the mood as Shadow whispered of how much of a close friend she considered me to reveal her jealousy.My heart swelled with pride and something else twitched in my pants too but now was not the time to do anything.I was going to give her the sweetest experience and make her know that she was a Queen who could make any man swoon for her.And, then I thought of a wicked idea that made me rub my hands together in delight.“Is that why you were worrying about me sacrificing virgins? Ba