AURORA
It’s been a day since the car incident but it’s felt like much longer after the silent drama I unlocked when we returned… and the scary discoveries I made of myself. As soon as we were back, Adrian wanted me to see a doctor but I didn’t let that happen. A doctor would complicate things. I repeatedly told him I was fine but he wasn’t buying it. I think I also angered him when I said I didn’t want to see anybody or talk to anybody for the rest of the next day. He didn’t take it easy on me, or anyone else for that matter.Maids could come in and bring my food and the first person on my list of those I didn’t want to see anywhere around my room was… him. Of course, he refused and ignored everything else I said after. He still wanted to force me to see a doctor—he also said he’d never take his eyes off me again—but I threatened him. I didn’t want to but it was all I could think of.I was so tired that I don’t even remember what I threatened him with butKATRINAThough it’s been two days since Carissa and Kendra had settled in the packhouse, it still felt like the first announcement anytime I came across them in the halls or during breakfast or dinner, because it had been so long since I last saw the two rockstars.Carissa and I hadn’t spoken since her father died. It took some years but Mr. Watson was able to set up a company of his own and once his company was ready to step into the business industry, he left the Turner Industries.It was at that time that our best friend connection started breaking. We talked less, and we saw each other less, because we were so busy with our lives. Carissa was trying to settle in the human world and I was trying to build my life here, in Moonstone… being Luna has never been easy.The last time I saw her was when she introduced me to her fiancé—you should’ve seen the surprise, and anger, on my face when I realized that I missed their dating stage—Timothy. It had taken Carissa a long time to get over
AURORA“That’s terrible advice, Lizra. I need to talk to my parents.”She frowned at me, huffing. “So your parents are better counselors than me?”I appreciated how Lizra didn’t make the pregnancy look like it was a big deal, even though it was. It wasn’t my fault that I expected her to jump in excitement and start blabbing about the good news. Good news? How could this be good news?My relationship with Adrian is hanging on a thread and bringing a pup into the situation would only make things worse. What if he hates me because of the pup? What if, because he wasn’t expecting it, he asks me to abort it? I swear to the goddess if he forces me to do that, I’m leaving him.If my mom aborted us when she was pregnant with triplets, we wouldn’t even be here. Why would I steal the chance of life from an innocent baby? I didn’t even stop to think for once that he never used a condom on me and I never even took pills to prevent this from happening in the first place. Stupid, Arie.I was terri
KATRINA I don’t know how long it’s been. I’ve lost all sense of time and for all I cared it could’ve been a day, it could’ve been three days… it could’ve been a week… it could’ve been a freaking month… but all I knew and cared about is what I saw. It’s made me lose my sleep, my appetite, and my fucking mind!Sometimes, I just had to break into maniacal laughter to confirm my insanity and unfortunately, I wasn’t the only one who thought I was crazy. I leaned on the frame of the open door, hugging my pillow so hard like I was wishing it would turn to Lilith so I could strangle the bitch to death. My children were all I could think about and I was not okay.Carissa and Kendra were out there, doing all they could to find them despite the fact it was just early morning—they’ve been doing this ever since she was gone and I feel guilty about it—but I couldn’t thank them more because I’d rather have them helping than trying to comfort my miser
AURORA‘How do you think it feels like… to hold your baby for the first time.’ Evolet sighed, thinning her lips. ‘How do you think mom felt when she took us in her arms for the first time.’‘This has been going on for two days, Arie. Why don’t you just close your eyes and…’‘It’s crazy you know…’ She curled her tail when I cut her in. ‘…how I never even met it, recently just realized that I was pregnant, and immediately fell in love. It was probably three weeks old, no more than a ball and yet it took a big chunk of me away. Isn’t that just amazing?’I couldn’t help my thoughts. It was probably the only thing holding me together and stopping me from entering a series of fits. Perhaps he did me a favor by getting rid of the baby. Maybe he knew all along and it was all a grand scheme to make sure I lost it.The scents lingering outside barely left and I had gotten used to them so much for the past two days, that it would take some
ADRIANI shouldn’t have left her there. I kept telling myself that from the moment I turned my back on her. But she was mad and only I understood the gravity of what I had done. She needed more time—I needed more time—and I’ll give her all the time I can take from staying away from her—before I needed her back by my side—but even that wasn’t a lot. I’ve never regretted something as much as I did now and I couldn’t believe what I did. I traumatized myself and made my nightmare cry by taking the one thing that really connected us, before I knew it even existed, and crushed it. How could I live with myself knowing I was the one who pushed her, that… I killed our pup.I’d always wondered how soon our risky sex would backfire but this was a rebound I'd been waiting for because I thought having one would… do something to help our… It was a stupid idea and the horrible result of it confirms that. I didn’t know how I’d get Aurora to look at me
AURORAI returned my stupid feet to the balcony, realizing that all I needed to stop myself wasn’t even my father’s words or his presence but just memories of him. My heart had already decided that I wasn’t going to do this and when he spoke—right from the first word—my body followed suit but my brain was the only thing that kept fighting.Whoever brought up the quote ‘your greatest enemy is yourself’ knew damn well what he was saying..It’s not every day your dead father shows up so yeah, I’m still in shock at how he suddenly appeared but… he came for me. He came for me when I needed him and that’s the most amazing thing that’s happened to me in a while now—apart from Adrian.I would gladly jump out of a plane or swim towards a sea storm if it meant I’ll see him again.My feet had barely touched the ground when I heard a yell behind me as powerful arms encased my waist and dragged me back. My heart raced when I felt how fast his heart was beating and how terribly his hands were shaki
AURORADylan rushed us to the top floor and with every second that passed, the chaos grew. I'd never seen so much chaos in a place at a time and it was clear that ‘she’ or whatever the fuck she was, was getting closer.It didn’t take us long to reach our destination and as soon as we arrived, we burst into Adrian’s office. I hadn't even caught my breath when Adrian grabbed me and pulled me into his arms, taking a heavy sigh of relief.‘Sheesh, he’s like an overprotective mother hen. Can’t stay away from you for a minute.’I knew that as much. ‘No... he’s worse.’“What’s happening?” I demanded, pulling away from him and scanning all the worried faces in the office—I didn't like what I saw. “Why is there a fire coming our way? The whole packhouse is in chaos, can’t we contain it or do something? You must have some emergency plan.”The office had been turned upside down and it felt smaller, and more suffocated... my poor heart was suffering for it. The power of the packhouse was cut on
KATRINA“Ice cream, calm down, you’re not making any sense.”'I can't say I don't agree.''Shut up, Mel.'I had called an impromptu meeting and gathered everyone that mattered here because it turns out that Hilda must have gotten her genius genes from me since I was able to unlock a discovery of my own.I’d spent nights trying to solve it, hoping to find the missing link—that Edward Ryerson couldn’t before he died—in his book, and if the man were alive now, I’d give him a gold medal because he’s given me the solution to everything and as much as it was holding me together, it was also tearing me apart.Everyone here was expecting me to start with the reveal of the blank page of the Book of the Undead—which was extraordinarily useful—but I had to chip this in first... and though I didn’t believe I was saying half of the things I was now, if it was going to help me find my kids, then fuck beliefs and fuck sanity.I growled at Kane and he raised a cautious brow. “Tell me to calm down agai
KATRINAI leaned on the door, checking my surroundings for anyone around because a Luna eavesdropping on her own Alpha was not the kind of news I wanted to be spreading in the packhouse for the jobless busybodies to be gossiping about.Checking to see if his door was unlocked, I opened it by a soundless crack and set my eyes on him, the most handsome man I’ve ever met, sitting with his back faced to me on a chair similar to one from his office, and a table laid in front of him like a gift from the gods. The reading room was not very different from his office, he didn’t have a lot of style—I could confirm that—but there were custom-made shelves of books stacked over each other in this god of a room. The Alpha uses every free time he gets to read, and the only thing that’s hotter than watching Kane reading was staring at him lovingly, when he was over me, with that dark, insane, animalistic look in his eyes as he was about to… When was the last time we even made love? The heartache of
AURORA“Mom went too hard on the code. She was meant to make it impossible for everyone but me! Dang it!”I admired the space we all dropped in when we first came down and thought it had to be the best part of the mansion because it looked like somewhere you would travel to in a good dream. It was a large roomy area that looked like an apartment, the lights were so bright that you would’ve had a problem differentiating day from night, and in this case, it was already pitch dark outside. The cream-tiled floor caught my eye first with interesting and innovative designs that made me think of walking on the ground and the large equally tiled walls of matching grace drive you to reminisce of the sun. If it was a bit cooler in here, I would rethink returning to the surface—it’s not like anything better is happening up there—but I still didn’t understand how this was a mansion. It’s just a… looks like I was wrong because the best and better parts were yet to come.There were MORE floors and
AURORAAdrian wouldn’t stop reading the letter. He’s been devouring it. I needed to know what was in it. I had to because, without me, we may have never even found the golden statue. We didn’t know where we would end up so letters were secured in the mouths of all the Silverclaw emergency mailboxes. They have that on every mountain both in and out of their territory, they are protected under The Dark Alpha's law. I thought it was a smart move, for unfortunate emergencies like this. I wished we were able to leave messages for them too, tell them we were safe but I think the empty mail post is enough proof of that. But making the eagle statues gold wasn't the smartest choice since it attracted the kind of people that they didn't want near it. Is he trying to show off?Adrian loses points for that. If it wasn't him who designed it then, I was sure it would be Dylan. That crook. Gosh, I can't believe I miss him. I missed all of them. I missed the packhouse too and I missed my motherly
ADRIANThose words echoed twice in my head before I mustered the strength needed to pull myself away from the enchantment Aurora’s lips had me in, a trap that I’d happily stepped into and didn’t regret because it had been so long since I had a taste of my mate’s addicting lips. She backed away from me as soon as I let her go, glaring like she’d kill me, before walking out of my sight and heading to whatever thing she’d seen that made her declare we weren’t alone.Those were dangerous words to say on this mountain and whatever she’d seen could not be good.‘She’s going too far away, boss.’Fucking Fox, at least he was saying something meaningful for once. “Aurora,” I warned, turning around to grab her by hand, glad that she had not gone too far away because I wanted her glued to me every second of the day, and held her still…. I couldn’t lose her again. I’ve already taken too many chances.“Let me go, Adrian.”This beautiful, sexy nightmare would be the end of me. “Don’t expect to sur
AURORASnow, snow, snow… in every freaking place. I was sick of it. Why couldn’t we have landed on the better side of the mountain? ‘And what makes you think this isn’t the better mountain?’ Goddess, not Evolet drilling me with questions now.‘Have you seen our luck, Ev? Have you seen how bad things are? I’m a hundred percent sure we’re in the worst place possible on this unbearable hump of snow.’We packed the tent as soon as the night died out and set off for the letter we were meant to find. I had wanted us to go as soon as he brought it up but he said I was tired and needed rest. Like he knew what I wanted! How many times do I have to remind him that he doesn’t own my body and can’t tell me what to do?‘Forever, because it doesn’t look like he’ll ever listen.’I hissed, clutching my frozen fingers. ‘Not another word from you, Ev.’ I couldn’t sound any angrier than that.He made sure I ate but didn’t bother eating himself—what a hypocrite—and when I told him to at least grab one o
So sorry guys for bailing on you. Delaying this for so long was NOT part of the plan and I really missed my way. ಥ_ಥ It will be unfair to keep you amazing people waiting another month so I can gladly say that the break is officially OVER and I'll start publishing chapters as soon as they are done, so be expecting them. We can finally continue Aurora and Adrian's story!Thank you to everyone who hasn't lost hope and is still with us on this journey. I've forgotten how much I've missed writing this book but I'm back ᕦ(ಠ_ಠ)ᕤ Hope we can get back on track! And I saw each of your comments, you guys have every right to be mad at me ⊙﹏⊙ I don't abandon books (that's not in my code) so let's finish what we started...
AURORAMy body and senses shut down as we prepared ourselves for what would be a devastating car crash. I promised myself that if I survived this, I was never entering a car again. The first time I was in one, we almost exploded along with it—you know how the story goes after—and the second time, well… we’re about to fucking crash!I covered my head with my arms and awaited the impact, a scream ready to be torn out of my throat, bones prepared to break, heads set to crack, metal waiting to dismantle, fire about to lit up…Just waiting for all that havoc to wreak on us but… the collision never came. My body jerked out of my nightmare as my eyes popped open, and my breathing escalated when I tried to look around me. There wasn’t much I could see except for the blinding blue sky so I tried to turn my neck but the pain made me feel like the nightmare wasn’t so bad after all.With difficulty, I pulled my heavy right hand up and trie
AURORAAdrian didn’t give two shits about the creature in front of us that was emitting nightmarish screeches because he only made the car move faster and drove us right into it. I screamed when it sent the thing over the car, its screech still scarily audible even with how swiftly we were moving.My body jerked back when Adrian pressed down the accelerator like our lives depended on it—our lives actually depend on it—sending us faster than we were anything should ever be able to move. It felt like my face was going to peel off and I was going to fly out but the seatbelt kept me in check, and Adrian continued rushing us down the dirt path with those... things... behind us.'Since there is a lot of fucking things I don't know, can you please start with... WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!'Seven more of those things were chasing us… and gaining speed. And I wasn't sure if I was hallucinating, but those things appeared organized... like they were p
KATRINA“Ice cream, calm down, you’re not making any sense.”'I can't say I don't agree.''Shut up, Mel.'I had called an impromptu meeting and gathered everyone that mattered here because it turns out that Hilda must have gotten her genius genes from me since I was able to unlock a discovery of my own.I’d spent nights trying to solve it, hoping to find the missing link—that Edward Ryerson couldn’t before he died—in his book, and if the man were alive now, I’d give him a gold medal because he’s given me the solution to everything and as much as it was holding me together, it was also tearing me apart.Everyone here was expecting me to start with the reveal of the blank page of the Book of the Undead—which was extraordinarily useful—but I had to chip this in first... and though I didn’t believe I was saying half of the things I was now, if it was going to help me find my kids, then fuck beliefs and fuck sanity.I growled at Kane and he raised a cautious brow. “Tell me to calm down agai