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A moonlit ritual
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KhaluchiWell, let's see how Cinnia receives Denzel when she's not in a condition. The next chapter is a mixture of both Denzel's and Maverick's povs
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The next day, Cinnia was gone before the crack of dawn using her cloaking spell to leave unnoticed. She had almost considered changing her mind when she saw Denzel sleeping on the floor outside her room but her goal ate at her. Cinnia couldn't risk him waking up before she could even escape so she cast a silencing charm to make him deaf to any sounds she might make at least till she left. "I'm sorry but I have to do this for me and them. If I could change fate, I would," She had said to his sleeping form before slipping into the cool darkness of the early morning. At the airport, her gaze ran across the many seats in the departure hall till it landed on a certain blonde. "What took you so long? You were thinking of backing out?" Sophie asked with a straight face when Cinnia sat beside her on the cold, hard airport seat. "No... I was a bit distracted by—" Cinnia started to clarify. "If you're going to mention any of them, please just don't. Unless you want to find another
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Cinnia narrowed her eyes when she noticed him taking surreptitious steps back and inching toward something in the shadows. She stretched out her hand and concentrated on lifting him off the floor with her mind just as she had been practicing. A smirk graced her lips at the panic in Jerome's eyes when he found himself floating against his will. "Surprise, father-in-law," She said, sarcasm dripping from her words. "What madness is this? Let me down this instant and speak to me like a mature adult!" Cinnia scoffed. "Like father like son." She shifted her hand to the side and threw him on his couch. He landed with a grunt but fluidly rose to his feet anyway. She had to give it to him, the man was still agile. "To answer your question, I'm here for your life." Cinnia gave a hand signal to Sophie to go out and put up a barrier around the apartment so that no one could get in or out. When Jerome raised both eyebrows and folded his arms across his chest, Cinnia could have sworn t
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Maverick contemplated the offer. She was a witch and he was a werewolf. They shouldn't even be talking pleasantly right then but there they were. A bottle of red wouldn't hurt, right? There was no reason they couldn't be civil despite the tension. It wasn't as if he was going to marry her. Hell, he didn't have a mate and he was convinced she wasn't his. Sophie witnessed the doubt flickering in his eyes and her cheeks flushed from embarrassment. To save herself from the humiliation of rejection, she cleared her throat. "It's totally fine if you don't want to. I understand. It doesn't really—" "A bottle of red sounds wonderful right now. I feel like my blood has turned to whiskey so it'll be nice to mix it up a bit," Maverick joked, finally snapping out of his many thoughts. "Oh. You're sure?" Sophie bit back a smile and looked down at her feet. 'Why am I shy? What's going on with me?' "Of course. Come on, just give me the directions to your hotel," Maverick said with a small
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"I feel I should be surprised but weirdly, I'm not," Cinnia whispered to Maverick whilst keeping her eyes on Denzel who stood ramrod straight as he stared down at the bloody heart in his palm. "Me neither," Maverick replied with the corners of his lips raised in satisfaction. His brother always had a way of showing up at the right moment. "Can you please find me some water around here? My throat is dying," Cinnia requested to Maverick. "Sure." The moment he left, Cinnia took slow steps to Denzel. The clangs of weapons, grunts and growls of the supernaturals, and the whimpers of the wounded echoed through her ears which created a nagging feeling in her chest. Something was wrong. Sebastian was dead, wasn't he? Then why was the battle still ongoing? His creatures should have dropped dead...even the one she had granted the illusion of choice. Yet, when Denzel's eyes met hers finally, all previous thoughts melted away and she picked up the pace and ran to him. A huge smile lit up Den
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Cinnia watched from her window as Denzel drove off with Maverick, Mya, Kai, and five of his best gammas. As Luna, without even being told, everyone was looking up to her to run things in the absence of their Alpha and Beta. However, she didn't feel like doing anything pack-related. Earlier that morning, she practiced various spells from a grimoire she had taken from her mother's house before the Darah Haven witches decided to try and drain her of her magic. Yet, she still experienced some difficulty in performing some of the more complicated magical spells and it made her throw the entire book aside from frustration. Cinnia leaned her head against the window frame and heaved out a melancholic sigh. Just as she was about to lock her door and try the spells again, someone knocked on her door. Her shoulders dropped as she bowed her head and let out another sigh. "Come in," She called out after a beat. Conall stepped in and shut the door behind him. "Do you people not have off
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"Fuck the drive. What is it?" Denzel whirled around to face Maverick, his eyes alight and expectant. "It's not good, brother." Maverick shook his head solemnly. Mya scoffed and folded her arms across her chest. "When last has anything been good around here?" Denzel shot her a look that made her zip up her mouth. "Well? Speak up, brother," Denzel pressed as his index finger drummed an anxious beat on his thigh. "Sebastian has made more vampires out of innocent humans. The council just sent a memo about a meeting tomorrow because of all the disappearances the human faction have had to cover up as freak accidents or kidnaps," Maverick informed. Denzel raised an eyebrow at him. "You aren't telling me everything." "Can this get any worse?" Mya mumbled while tracing a pattern on the ground with her foot. "It can. It has," Maverick answered her. "I don't understand how Sebastian has done it but the smaller packs have been recruited into working for him. He's making an army of vamp
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Cinnia wordlessly threw dirt onto the little coffin in the freshly dug hole in the ground. Three days had passed since Sebastian's victory and barely a word had left her mouth. To someone who wasn't privy to her situation, they would think she went about her days like a normal person but those who knew her intimately—especially Denzel—were aware that she wasn't the same. The Cinnia he had met that starry night in Bromsken was gone and replaced by a hollow shell of the woman she used to be. Maverick was like Cinnia. The only difference was that he buried himself in business, pack duties, and hunting for Sebastian. Sophie's death had changed something inside of him. Though he never properly acknowledged the relationship they had, it didn't make him feel any better. In those three days, he was filled with unwavering regret that he couldn't have been with her the way he wanted. He finally understood just how Denzel felt about Cinnia even though she was part witch. Worst of all, he cou
