Bella “Everyone forgets the strength a Vampire has.” I hear Linc muse. “If you get it just right, you can make all the organs fail at once. Right now, you can hear me, but not for much longer. You can’t see me as your brain is slowly starving of oxygen. Soon you will be nothing more than a forgotten part of life.” ‘BELLA SHIFT!’ Aiden roars again. How could I shift when I was practically dead? I couldn’t move, I couldn’t see. I couldn’t breathe. I had been close to death before, but never anything like this. Even the sounds of fighting start to become weak.. “Bella, it’s not your time!” My eyes open and I’m standing in front of Selene. Everything around me is white. I could still hear fighting, but there was no one around us. We were alone and yet, somehow, we were right in the middle of the fight. “Bella, look at me!” “Where am I?” “This is where I greet dead Wolves and Lycans on their journeys.” “I can still hear them.” “Yes, you will hear them until you cross over. You’re
Aiden“Give her time, Aiden.” My mum whispers to me as she rests her hand on my shoulder.“What’s wrong with her? She should be happy. She should be celebrating. Linc is dead.”My mother looked sad, I know she had loved Linc like he was a brother. But he had destroyed our family.“You said he marked her. Aiden, whether you want to hear it or not, she lost her mate. She may have hated him, but the bond will force her to grieve.”“They never confirmed the bond!”“It doesn’t matter. She was still connected to him.”“We should move her.” Leighton suggests. “There is no point staying here.” He helps Katie to her feet.Lifting Bella into my arms, mum adjusts the shirt that's draped over Bella’s naked frame. I should be used to Bella’s silences but this silence came with a feeling of emptiness.Mum asks Leighton to carry Amelia as she is still out of it. She was almost identical to Bella. Though her hair was short, her bones jutted out more and there wasn’t an ounce of fat on her. I’m surpr
Aiden“You asked him? Seriously? Why the fuck would you do that?” I seethe. I was so angry but as she opens her mouth, I tell her that I don't want to hear it. Whatever fucked up reason she had for asking him. It didn’t matter, he was dead.“Aiden…” She tries. I shake my head at her and walk out of the office“I take it that not everything went well?” Eli asks. He was sitting in one of the chairs to the side of the office door.“He’s dead.” I mutter.“Good. And Bella?”“She’s resting.”He screws his face up, “I thought I saw her with Leighton.”“That would be Amelia.”“Miles’s daughter? So she is alive?” His mouth curves up into a massive grin.“Barely, but yes. Aslow is looking after her."He laughs. “So his daughter is finally free and he is locked up in your dungeons. Karma really is a bitch.”“Eli, stay away from her. She has been a hostage for a long time.”His smile fades a little.“Whatever you were planning, forget it. It’s not me you will have to worry about. It will be Bella
Bella“Is this some kind of fucking joke?!” I shout up at the sky. “Pleading with me not to die, and then you send me back to feel like this?”I knew there were guards all around me. Probably not knowing whether to approach me or assume that I have lost the plot. I didn’t care. I could have died and not had to deal with any of this shit. I could have gone where all the dead go, instead of feeling like my body was being ripped apart by my emotions. Emotions that I shouldn't even have to feel.Emotions, they make you weak.“And now I’m supposed to act like everything is normal?” I keep ranting at the Moon Goddess, hoping that she is listening to me. “With a fucking twin. Is that what you meant when you said I had left a piece of me behind?”I kick a rock into a tree and scream. "FUCKING ANSWER ME!"“Bella?” I turn to see Eli staring at me. An eyebrow cocked in curiosity. “Who are you shouting at?”“Just go away.”“Something tells me that it wouldn’t be a good idea.”“This has nothing t
AidenHow was this even possible? I could smell her, her scent is just as fruity as Bella’s. When I scented it earlier, I thought Bella had returned home, but this was why. Amy had been paired to me. I was mated to another. Bella’s twin….. It wasn’t going to happen.Bella is growling, her Wolf crouches a little, preparing herself to launch at someone, most likely me. I can imagine that right now, she wants to kill me.“Bella, I need to speak to you, alone.” I see how Amy looks sad when I say ‘alone.’. Rejected for another woman. And that is how it will always be. She will never be anything more than Bella’s twin.‘So you can tell me that you will share me?’ Bella snarls in my head. ’That I’m expected to put up with it!’I glance at Amy, if Bella wanted to do this here. Then we will do it here.‘Is that how little you think of me?’ I link her, ‘I cannot stand the idea of you with others. If I don’t like that, it’s hardly fair for me to do the same to you or expect you to just accept it
Bella“I can assure you, Alpha. The Queen is most definitely pregnant.” Aslow is grinning from ear to ear. It would be the first pup of Aiden's. The first to be born in this newly formed pack.“How?” Aiden asks in shock“Really? Do you want me to draw you a picture?” I ask with annoyance.“That’s not what I meant. I am more than happy. But you shouldn’t have been able to shift.” He smiles, “At least now it explains why you have been so tired and......” He trails off, moving around the bed and kissing my cheek, “Congratulations.”I return the smile, but deep down, I wasn’t sure what I felt.“Just the one?” Aiden asks Aslow.“Just the one.” He confirms, giving me a tissue to wipe the gel from my stomach.“At least Connor will have someone to play with now.” Aiden is still beaming as he curls his fingers around mine. His happiness is infectious and I find my confusing thoughts fading away.Aslow gives us some time alone. Aiden plies me with kisses. His smile does not falter for one momen
Bella“Before you do, we need to talk.” I mutter, once again closing the laptop, I was starting to wonder if I was going to get any peace, ever.He pushes the door open further and strides in, “Please don’t tell me you have had a change of heart? I thought this was what we both wanted.”“I do… I mean I can’t wait for her to be a thousand miles away. I wish I had never met her.” I puff out my cheeks and tell him what Lilah had said. I see a flicker of anger.“I don't mean disrespect, but why did my mother come to you?”“I’m guessing because she knows I understand. I would never want to go back to my father’s old lands. Memories don’t just fade, Aiden. They hide in the back of your mind, popping up at the most inconvenient time. Plaguing your sleep, tormenting you from the inside." I let out a sigh, "And apart from your eyes, you are almost identical looking to your father. It's hard for her.”“Well I guess I can’t force her to stay.” He glances off, mulling over my words.“She likes Am
AidenGargled sounds come out of her neck, little air bubbles creeping through the blood as it oozes out of her. I purposely hadn’t sunk my teeth deep enough. Just deep enough so that she couldn’t heal quick enough. I wanted her death to be slow and painful. And if we were true mates, I would have felt it, instead, I feel nothing.As I spit her flesh from my mouth, Amelia’s hands flap. Her eyes grew wide with fear as she scrambles at her missing throat. Her eyes flicker to Bella, looking for help. Bella doesn’t move from her seat. Her face was still, her rampant heart slows. Her eyes focus on no one but Amelia.No one moves as Amelia’s body slumps back in the chair. The light dims in her eyes as her brain starves of oxygen. Even I knew it was a cruel way to go, but protecting Bella is my number one priority and will be for the rest of my life. No one is getting in between us again.“Get rid of the body!” I order Leighton as Amelia’s heart stops. “I don’t want to look at her for anothe