“I miss him,” I complained. Hannah shook her head and continued to check the stock. We were in the back of her store where they kept all the goodies that couldn’t go in the front.“I would be surprised if you didn’t. Don’t worry, he said he’d call as soon as he’d land and then every two hours. In the meantime, relax.” She comforted me as she checked something on the clipboard and moved to the next box.“I know, I know, but that doesn’t seem to matter at my wolf. She’s just adding on by painting pictures in my head. What if there’s a storm and their plane crashes? I don’t even know if he can swim! Oh my god, I’m horrible. I didn’t even check his suitcase. What if he runs out of something? He can’t go nude. . . I’d kill him,” I mumbled that last part to myself.I’d never been worried about someone traveling far away from me. As soon as I had seen him disappear into the plane, I felt a sense of panic and despair to have him back. I knew it was ridiculous and that the man could take care
I watched from the couch as Zaliver went back and forth from the closet to the black suit case in the bed and sighed.“I can smell and sense your displeasure.” I didn’t say anything as I was not sure what to answer to that. I was bothered by a few things though. He put down whatever he was holding and turned to look at me with his brows pulled down.“You’re . . . upset on me leaving.” His voice was uncertain, and I couldn’t put my finger on.“I’ve never actually considered this.” I cocked my head, wanting to hear more.He lifted a hand and held his chin; a sign that he was pondering over something and let out a sudden chuckle.“You know, I’ve never really had to explain myself to anyone in the last three hundred years. I think I owe you an apology for not being considerate of your thoughts regarding my trip. I cannot cancel this one, but in the future, I promise to inform you of anything.” I looked at him, duped. Talk about hitting the nail on the head.“Apology accepted,” I said quic
Luke was talking to Courtney when his eyes suddenly flashed silver and then stayed that way completely. He growled out loudly catching everyone’s attention. I noted a little shift in Mark’s body. He moved closer to Hannah just in case, but when he saw Luke’s silver eyes, his head bowed down, and everyone else followed.“Having a nice lunch, Vivian?” Zaliver asked using Luke’s body.I looked into his eyes and felt the connection, but it wasn’t the same as having him around and looking into his blue eyes. I looked around everyone who were quiet and in a submissive position.“Umm, Yeah. So . . . What’s. . . ?” I trailed off not really knowing what to ask. Here I was missing him all day and when I finally get the chance to talk to him, I’ve got nothing to say.“Just wanted to tell you that I’ve landed and wanted to know what you were up to,” he said, looking around the table and at everyone.“And you couldn’t call?” I asked, lifting a brow in amusement. I was bit worried Luke would get ma
Darkness.A constant beeping sound could be heard in the room, and I was pretty sure there was something in my arm.My body felt light and my head was a bit fuzzy, but the only thing that hurt the most was my upper stomach; a softer one though. You know that feeling when someone socked you and even after the hit, the pain would still sting and throb—yup, that’s what it felt like.I took in a deep breath through my nose, inhaling something that smelled like chemicals all over the place, including Zaliver’s scent. I felt fine wherever I was, knowing his presence would make me feel secured. The room was cold and I felt like I was on a small bed, but not the bed Zaliver or I slept in. Thinking of him made me recall something, but just as fast as it came, my thoughts were gone . . . Now, what was it?I tried to remember the last time I saw him, but all I could remember was hearing his voice. What was he saying? Something about . . . a gift? Why would he buy me a gift when it wasn’t my birt
Zaliver’s eyes met mine as he talked to the doctor; his face was serious and determined. I looked back at him, hoping my expression would tell him that I wanted to know what was going on, but he looked away. I sighed and kicked my feet. Why wouldn’t they tell me what was wrong? I’d been fine in the morning when he was here and as soon as he left I just . . . Fell into a funk, but I was fine.Hearing his voice had made me extremely happy and then all of a sudden, it felt like I was getting torn apart from the inside. Maybe he was right—I needed to shift more, but I’ve never heard of anything like this. I needed to talk to my wolf, but for that to happen, the drugs had to be out my system first. I didn’t realize Zaliver was in front of me until I looked up, too distracted because of my thoughts.I stared up into his secretive blue eyes, and he looked back at me as well. I noticed that the doctor and the nurse were trying to leave so I hopped off the bed and attempted to stop them, but m
I was running.I was running for my life.I was running for my freedom.I was running for my very own nature.I was running from the last person I’d thought I’d run from in my life.I was running from my mate.I was running from Zaliver.I couldn’t hear him because of the pounding in my ears. The sound of my heart was like a hummingbird’s wings. The twigs and dead leaves echoed in the silent forest.But I knew. I knew he was close by, and that made me push myself harder, my hair whipped around my face as I looked around for anything to gain leverage. I couldn’t run forever, and my body couldn’t handle it. But he could.Because he wasn’t like me. He wasn’t like any of us. I felt tears of fear and panic stream down my face, and my muscles ached for a break, but I couldn’t. I wouldn’t. My vision blurred because of the tears making it hard to see my direction. My emotions were all over the place with confusion, disbelief, fear, betrayal, anger, and hatred. Yes, hatred for my own mate. He
A killing machine? Zaliver . . . My mind went blank.“I have all this power and control, but for what?” He suddenly gave a humorless laugh and backed away from me, shaking his head side to side. I watched him carefully as he gave off an odd vibe.“We were all humans chosen and trained for them, but I didn’t know what we were trained for. They had such tremendous mind control back then. We were all like family with the soldiers, but we rarely saw the all mighty gods. We weren’t allowed to interfere with them unless called upon. We used to worship them. I did worship them. I don’t remember much of my past life, but I do remember one person—my brother.” My head snapped back in surprise.“Brother?” I asked. He nodded.“Yeah, I had a brother and they slaughtered him.” My eyes widened in disbelief. It was horrible and I had a feeling it wasn’t even the worse.“Okay, technically , I slaughtered him.” I thought my heart had stopped for a moment.“They demanded for the loyalty that we had as b
He looked down at me with a sad look on his face, but I ignored the pull that wanted me to hug him, comfort him.“While we aren’t the only couple of mates who haven’t marked each other, we are the only ones with special conditions.”“What do you mean?” What conditions? A crazy mate and a kidnapee?“All in do time Vivian,” he said. “Because of that we didn’t feel what was happening,we were spending almost all day and all night together so the bond was fine. But when I left to go on my trip, the growing distance made the bond strain and with no mark it had consequences. I apologize for that, I should have seen this. Since my body is different from yours, only you felt the pain. I went through a different reaction.”I listened carefully to his explanation, but the more he spoke the less sense isn’t made to me. Sure mates weren’t meant to be apart for long, but they could still be apart without pain. Zaliver hadn’t even been gone for a full day and I almost died because we had been apart.
Whistling, I walked around him and whipped my fingers on my shirt.I wrapped my hand around his neck and lifted him out of the chair, making him thrash once more.“Ready to talk? No? Okay. This ought to change your mind,” I said after he spat on the ground as an answer.With one hand around his neck, I thrust my other hand into his lower mid back, going through the skin and pushing my hand into his flesh. I wrapped my hand around his spinal cord and pulled.Snap!His lower half slumped. I pulled my hand out and left half of his spine hanging out of his back. Walking to the front again, I whipped my bloodied hand on his face and smiled as he gave little twitches. His eyes were wide with horror and pain. He seemed to be frozen in shock.“Y-you’re a monster. You’ll go to h-hell,” he managed to say.“Of course I will. Someone needs to take the throne.”I laughed and walked back around him.~•~I clasped the back of Jack’s shoulder and shook him roughly, leaning forward in a serious and sl
I swiped my hand across his chest, leaving four deep claw marks over his chest to which he immediately let out a cry. His wounds began to bleed out and then slowly, so slowly, it began to heal.I made eye contact with him. Pale and sweaty, he glared at me with as much hatred as he could. We hadn’t even begun but he was already throwing glares at me.Swiping at the remaining part of his shirt, I tore it away from his top body, not wanting anything to stand in the way of the next process. He’d be lucky if I didn’t get to his back; that is if he died in this process, of course.“You can’t heal flesh if you don’t have any,” I said darkly, humor thick in my wild-like voice.The beast enjoyed it.He reached out and dug his claws in the top part of Jack’s left shoulder, ignoring the boy’s cry and cutting out the shape of a square on both of his sides. Looking at Jack deeply in the eyes, the beast put his claws under Jack’s skin before it could begin to heal, and pulled downward, yanking the
Zaliver AzralaI stood in front of the metal bolted black door, hearing Jack Ruston struggle against the chains that held him to his chair. If I focused enough, I would see his immense body heat moving through the door, but I didn’t.I heard footsteps approaching me from my right.“Is this what I asked for you to set?” I asked without turning to look at Albericus who grunted out a yes. I nodded at him, making him walk away.My beast grew more and more excited at the prospect of having fun now, finally having someone he was going to sink his claws into for this whole mess. I couldn’t agree more. He paced back and forth within me, lifting its head up and then looking at the black door in front of me. He lunged at it as if he was really doing it. He tried to force me to do so, but I held him back.“Patience . . . You will get your turn,” I murmured to him.When Albericus informed me of the quick and efficient capture and imprisonment of Jack, I was glad. The little rat sat with panic and
Making my way back to the park, I made my way quickly and made sure I looked like I was in a hurry, keeping my head down to avoid having the blood on my face seen by others and get stopped before I’d even make it. The sun was low in the sky, giving off a dramatic and beautiful flare of different shades in the sky. It was perfect.Once I made it a few steps, I began probably one of the best performances in my life.I began pacing back and forth, looking down and shaking my head. I stopped and sat down, bringing my knees to my chest and rocking back and forth very quickly. I then let out sounds of distress. My ears caught the sound of mumbles and slow approaching steps of four hearts. Without having to smell the air, I knew it would be them.They weren’t nearing me fast enough as if not sure what was going on.“Ohhh! I’m so confused! So lonely!” I cried out pathetically. I was feeling so emotionally cold that I was finding it hard not to snort at how flat it sounded.The moment I stood
“But I really should return this; could be important.” I smiled at their surprise and horrified expressions.My sensitive ears picked up a sound—the vibration of a phone. My eyes scanned them, realizing it was coming from the red headed guy.I lifted a brow at him.“Aren’t you going to get that? Might be important .”Shaking his head, he reached into his pocket and took the phone out with a grimace. Pressing the answer button , he brought the phone up to his pale face, which just seemed to lose more and more color over time.The other line answered.“Hello?” he mumbled, looking straight at me.The line on the other side followed his exact same words.“ Mmhh ,” I mumbled, ending the call and pocketing my phone.“Okay, spill. Who are you and why do you have my number, which then leads me to asking why are you following me?” I ask them seriously. I wanted to know what these familiar people were up to and where we met, not to mention why they appeared to be following me.“Look,” the tall
The four strangers didn’t turn to face me; they just stood still. My phone stopped ringing.“Maybe if we don’t move,” the tall blond man began to whisper.“Shut up!” the short red-haired guy whisper-shouted, interrupting the other.“I can’t believe this,“ a tall woman with her dark hair pulled back muttered. Her pony tail moved side to side as she shook her head.“We are so dead,” another with a similar hairdo said.I wasn’t sure what to do. They were all muttering stuff under their breath and not turning around to face me, but that thing with the phone was weird. They couldn’t have called me, right? That would mean that they had been talking about me the whole time. I shook my head mentally. There was no way they were here for me; it must have just been some crazy coincidence.I knew that any other person would have stayed away from them, but something told me they weren’t dangerous. Well I mean, they looked like they were ready for action, but personally, I felt like they wouldn’t h
“Hey, Dad . . .” I began. I guess my tone caught his attention because he frowned.“What’s up?” he said, leaning onto the desk and turning his body to face in my direction with concerned eyes. I groaned and threw my head back, taking a deep breath. I thought for a second before speaking to him.“Do you—I don’t know—ever get the feeling like you’ve forgotten something really important?” I asked. He nodded at me, clasping his hands in front of him.“Plenty of times. Just the other day, I forgot to tell your mother I—” I shook my head at him.“No, like you shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing even though it makes perfect sense as if you’re supposed to be somewhere else doing something else?” I swung my legs over and sat up, placing a hand on both knees. Dad looked at me for a moment before an understanding look crossed his face. For a moment, I thought he understood me.“Is this about you not being in college yet? Because it’s okay to take a year off—” I stood and threw my hands up in fr
I stopped clicking and let the Vampire Diaries play. As soon as Damon came on, my breath hitched. It wasn’t because of his hotness. Looking at him made me go blank. I blinked multiple times and made a face. I squinted at the screen when a sense of déjà vu hit me. Black and blue. I shrugged and kept flickering through the TV.“Somebody saaave meee!—”“I got in one lil fight, and my mom got scared—”“Next up, Hannah Mon—”“I’m not your dad—” I went back.“ . . . tana. ” My brows furrowed in confusion.Staring at the screen, I frowned.“Hannah. Hannah. Hannah?” The name rolled off my tongue without thought. Something about that name. Eh, I was too old to watch this.Slap “Whore! ”“Oookay,” I mumbled to myself, quickly changing the channel.“What are you wearing Jake from State Farm?” My head tilted to the side.“Uhh . . . khakis.”“She sounds hideous.”I turned the TV off. Why did I get the feeling like I had compared someone to Jake from State Farm before? Man, it had been a weird coup
Going back into my own mind and body, I grinned at the boys, not caring how they both tensed and the worry and fright that wafted off of them. I nodded at Albericus. He quickly focused on me, understanding that the next few hours were about to get a whole lot more productive.Any tiredness in my body vanished. My body straightened up and my shoulders rolled back. I tilted my head side to side, cracking the joints. I didn’t even care that my hair was hanging over my eyes anymore. If anything, I knew it made the look on my face a whole lot more chilling. I pointed a finger at my beta and good friend.“Put Jack Ruston into a room under the cells. You’ll find him hiding four blocks away from where his mate lived. It is a rundown hotel that goes by the name Legrove at room 42. If he hears you, he’ll hide out on the roof. Bring him to me. Now go.” Without another word, Albericus shouted in the room, yelling orders into his phone to assemble a team with fierce green eyes and go back to their