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Oakenden, Ten Years BeforeElizabeth Day was walking five meters in front of him, and yet Logan couldn’t bring himself to lengthen his stride in order to catch up, his nerves causing him to dawdle along behind in a way that he hoped wasn’t creepy. They walked the same route every school day, but he’d only really noticed that, and her, the year before when Jack Wilson started paying her attention. The guy was a dick, but because Jack’s family was rich and he was good at football, he thought that he was top shit. Yet people didn’t seem to see that Jack Wilson really wasn’t everything that he claimed to be.Elizabeth had been fooled by Jack’s self-proclaimed perfection and they’d started dating.Logan knew that he would be the better boyfriend for Elizabeth. Jack Wilson didn’t deserve to have someone as nice and as pretty as her. However, Logan could count the times he had spoken to Elizabeth on one hand, and most of those times had been just been stupid polite stuff like hi, and thanks
Oakenden, Ten Years BeforeThe pain was persistent. The sort of pain that Logan knew that was only a hair from agony. He knew that he was in hospital and drugged to take the edge off of his suffering as he had fleeting, foggy memories of whirling lights in an ambulance, and people talking to him, reassuring him that he was being looked after, the off-white halls and flash of neon lights as he was wheeled through the hospital, people staring at him in horror, and moments of waking surrounded by blue curtains as nurses checked in on him their voices blurring and the meaning lost.He had run from the monster, from the scene of gore and horror in the kitchen, fleeing down towards Gillian’s room in the hope that she would be home, seeking help whilst knowing there was nothing that she could do against the monster. In the bedroom, the monster hand brought him down and pinned him facedown on the ground.He’d felt the warm stickiness of blood running down his cheek, into his eye and mouth as
Montlimer, Ten Years BeforeThe Abraham Boarding School was a two hour drive away from Oakenden, out in the country. They passed through a tiny town without even seeing a single person or another car on the road, before heading out into fields. The school was impossible to miss as it was the only thing in the fields for miles around.“Wow,” Logan was taken aback by the size and grandeur of the building.“Yes, it is impressive isn’t it,” Father Isaiah was amused. “This property was established two centuries ago when this country was colonized, and owned by a very, very wealthy family who came to the New World seeking to spread the old religion to new followers. The natives were resistant and hostile, as you know, and there was much conflict in the region. The house served during the times of unrest as a hospital for wounded soldiers and then as an orphanage, due to the charity of the establishing family. Now, it is a boarding school for young people who need a place to recover and grow
Montlimer, Ten Years BeforeLogan spent his time moving between the common room and the junior library, trying to escape his grief in books and TV shows. He gradually got to know the other students by name and face as they made their appearances in the common room. They were curious about him, but there was an unspoken rule that he quickly worked out – they didn’t ask about his past, and he wasn’t to ask about theirs. And that was fine with him – he couldn’t talk about what had happened to him and could understand why they didn’t want to share what they had been through.Conversation mainly revolved around the school, teams that he should join, the teachers that were more or less fun to study with, and which students were hooking up with each other after lights out.Logan’s roommate Wade was seeing Katrina from across the hall, and they alternated nights in each other’s room, requiring Logan to either spend an uncomfortable night listening to the opposite bunk bed creak, or to take hi
Ertonport, One Year BeforeMeguitte had always loved the ocean. Standing on the balcony of her beachside apartment home overlooking the water as the sun set on the horizon, listening to the hush of the waves as they lapped at the sand always soothed her spirit, ever since those days on the water with Thaelen, Sigrid, Isolte and Caerin, so very, very long before.It had been the first time since the death of her mother that anyone had treated her, had touched her, with care and respect, and she had thought that if she had to die, and despite the humiliating method of her death, there would be some dignity to it because she would die as clean as she could be, with her hair brushed and braided, warm, rocked by the ocean, and with someone holding her hand who would mourn her passing.She had not died, however, but had been offered a new way of life, and she was still grateful for it, although she knew that amongst vampires, she was considered to be as frail, fragile and disadvantaged as a
Ertonport, One Year BeforeShe should never have brought him home, Meguitte thought as she opened a bottle of wine in her kitchen and filled two wine glasses. It was a mistake to bring a stranger to where she lived. She could not recall ever having done so before. The only person who ever came into one of her homes was Thaelen.Logan leaned against the handrail of her balcony looking out over the ocean. “Amazing view,” he commented as she brought the wine glasses out to join him.“I like the ocean,” she said. “I was… hurt once,” she paused, surprised to find herself talking about it. “And saved by someone. My father, in a way, but more of a friend or brother. He took me on a ship to a safe place with a beautiful bay and I lived there, happily, for many years…” She had said too much, betrayed too much, and took a mouthful of the wine to silence her betraying tongue.“You are a vampire,” he filled the silence, stating it as calmly as if he were naming her star sign, rather than a supern
Ertonport, One Year BeforeLogan’s lips brushed her cheek. “Get the corset off, Meg,” he said against her skin. “And show me where the bedroom is.”She released the closures at the front as she crossed to the bedroom. She did not turn on the lights as she crossed to stand before the bed, feeling vulnerable, uncertain, and shy. She knew that he stood behind him as she could sense him against her back, even before his hand cupped her shoulder, stroking down her arm before reaching around and unbuttoning her shirt, easing it away from her skin.She crossed her arms over her breasts instinctually, but he swept her hair over her shoulder and traced his fingers over her back.“You have scars,” he was surprised. “Vampires don’t have scars. You must have been human.”“I wasn’t human,” her voice was hoarse. “I was a witch born to a witch, of a long line of witches. I suppose some people consider witches human, but others do not. But, no, I wasn’t born vampire. I was made.”She didn’t correct h
Ertonport, One Year BeforeThey made love throughout the rest of the night into the morning and slept with their limbs entangled. Meguitte woke early afternoon at the slightest stirring from him, her instincts triggered by the presence of a man, and a mostly human man at that, in her bed, and she lay in the glaring bright of the day and watched him sleep.She wasn’t sure what to do with her unexpected and complicated mate. His Lycanism was a hurdle she did not know how they would overcome. Could she even turn him vampire? And she knew so little about him, his likes, his dislikes, how he spent his time when he was not searching for a cure for his condition… But now that she’d had him in her body, in her bed, she wasn’t prepared to let him go. He was hers. He was her mate.She would walk through fire for him. She would bleed for him. She would suffer for him.She leaned her face into his hair and breathed in his scent, the layers of man, and something more earthy, more primal – the wolf
Havermouth, Present Time Heath woke into darkness. His werewolf sight could not even determine a pinprick of light. The darkness was heavy, smothering. “Talen?” He asked. His voice sounded muted, as if he were in a closed, tight space. He reached out and felt nothing however… And that was terrifying. There was no floor, no walls. He did not understand how it was that he was not falling… or perhaps he was. His breathing was rasped through lungs constricted by panic. “Shh,” a woman murmured. “Hush now, do not fear. Nothing will harm you here. Indeed,” there was amusement to her voice. “There is nothing here to harm you.” “Who are you?” He demanded, fear turning into anger. “Some Van Helsing trick?” “Hmhmhm,” she chuckled softly. “No, white wolf.” “Where is Talen?” He sat up slowly, relying on his stomach muscles as there wasn’t a floor to brace his hands against. “Where are we? Why… isn’t there a floor?” “So many questions. We are in the beginning, the aether, the place where we
Havermouth, Present TimeCameron and Rhett stood by the front window of Mr Claymont’s house with the lace curtains pushed back, looking out at the street as the crowd began to clear. A riot had broken out in response to the explosion of the school and had blocked the Van Helsings’ efforts to reach their destroyed base. The Havermouth rioters had destroyed several of the Van Helsings’ vehicles until guns had been drawn and bullets had been fired.Just as things had been on the verge of turning into a massacre, the fire had begun to spread out from the school, and Havermouth’s residents had rushed to help the homeowners save their property whilst others had dragged those injured by the Van Helsings retaliation into nearby houses.Into the chaos and mania of it all, the fleeing werewolves had just been another strangeness of the day, with people shrieking and screaming as their fur brushed against them, but otherwise taking no action against them, too occupied with the fire and gunmen, a
Havermouth, Present TimeThe f-ker!Aislen woke angry and sore. Her whole body ached, but her head and throat most of all. She was f-king going to kill that arsehole of a torturer, she thought.She was lying on her back on a bed, but not somewhere private. Around her she could hear the murmur of voices, groans and moans, the rattle of metal against metal, and crying. It stank. Layers of sweat, urine, faeces and… rotten meat.She opened her eyes and looked through a mesh of metal bars at the pressed tin tile design within the coffered ceiling high above her and the elaborate chandelier that dangled from it. Not what she’d expected having smelled the room, she thought, sitting up.It was a large long room, with a heavy velvet curtained stage set on one end and a wall of double doors at the other. In between the two ends, rows of cages had been set, each one only long enough to fit a trundle bed and twice as wide. Many of the cages were empty, like the one directly next to Aislen’s bed,
Havermouth, One Week BeforeTony had the police officer tied by his wrists and dangling over an open oubliette in the barn when Talen arrived, and looked up from a toolbox which was set on the pushed back stone lid. “Alex, this is Talen. Talen, meet Alexander Grennith.”“F-k you,” the werewolf was in the policeman’s eyes, but with his weight on his shoulders, and his wrists tied, he could not shift without risking tearing his arms from the joint, an injury that would be both intensely painful and potentially life-alteringly disabling.“No thank you,” Talen replied as he rolled up his sleeves. “Did you have any trouble?” He asked Tony.“No,” Tony was amused. “I took Sigrid with me, and she distracted him at the front door whilst I took him from behind. He did not know what happened. We bundled him into his own car, and I wore his jacket and hat. Anyone who saw me would have thought he was going on a date. I dropped Sigrid at the Ute and she drove it home for me.”“I didn’t know that Si
Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeCameron creeping out of the bed and around the room getting dressed woke Heath. He was pressed tightly to Talen’s back, half drowning in the vampire’s blonde hair, with his arm over Talen’s waist and he was disinclined to move from the position. Used to Cameron’s early mornings, once he’d registered what the movement was about, he closed his eyes and tried to go back to sleep only for Aislen to mutter a complaint as Rhett wriggled out from under her.“I have a client coming at nine,” Rhett explained his movement. “I have to go set up.”“Too early,” Aislen grumbled.“I know, but they work afternoons, and it will take a good three hours,” Rhett yawned widely as he slid out of the bed.Talen shifted in order to pull Aislen back against him, snuggling her into the spoon of his body. “Sleep some more, Morgana,” he murmured. “You need to rest in order to heal.”Rhett cursed as he stumbled and Cameron smothered his laughter. “Careful. F-k man, you’re not a good m
Havermouth, Two Weeks Before“I could do with a cigarette too,” Aislen announced. “And a glass of wine.”“It’s not even midday,” Heath protested immediately.Aislen’s eyeroll said it all. “I wasn’t asking for permission. I’ve had a pretty shitty couple of days, and I want to f-king have a cigarette and a glass of wine on the porch of my house and so that’s precisely what I am going to do,” she began to get dressed. “If you’re all going to be bitches you can leave.”Heath spotted her underwear tangled at the foot of the bed and retrieved them, untangling them as he handed them to her. “I’ll go open a bottle.” He stepped out into the hallway and closed the door before leaning against the wall and heaving out a sigh.Rhett and Cameron now knew about the miscarriage, but he felt as if the Triquetra had narrowly avoided disaster with the discussion that had followed, and the adrenaline spike had left him shaky with his heart racing against his ribs. The conversation had also shaken free a
Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeRhett laughed. F-k this was going to be fun, he thought lifting up onto his elbows in order to improve his view.“Oh.” Aislen had realized that the double-sided dildo was for her.Talen’s shoulder shook with his silent laughter as he helped her into the harness and eased her end of the dildo into her.“F-k that’s hot,” Rhett groaned as Talen tightened the harness around her waist. There was something so naughty about Aislen with a c-k, and the leather straps compressing her soft skin, the contrast of white to black and soft to hard… “F-k,” he groaned, and Heath compliantly gripped his c-ck, stroking from base to tip so that he sighed out his pleasure.“Very nice,” Talen approved leaning back to inspect his workmanship. “Who would you like to f-k, little demon?”“Choices, choices,” Aislen’s response was pure devilry.“Me,” Rhett gasped out rolling up to sitting. “I want to try that.”“Why not?” Aislen was amused by his eagerness and by her new accessory, re
Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeRhett used the trolley to herd Tabitha and her cameraman away from Cameron and Aislen so that they could make their escape, his vindicative ramming of the reporter’s heels fuelled by the nasty volley of questions she had just thrown at Aislen.“This is assault, Rhett Salem!” Tabitha snarled at him.“Oh, f-k off Tabitha,” he replied. “For a f-king desperate ambulance chasing vulture you are pretty righteous. F-king chasing down a woman who was just shot, and shouting out her personal business… You are slime. The worst type of slime. Just own it and shut the f-k up.”He abandoned the trolley inside the doors of the hospital and trotted across the carpark to where Heath was picking up shards of broken vase and ignoring Tabitha’s attempts to engage him into an interview. Heath surprised Tabitha by passing her the broken pieces. “Throw these away for me, please, like a good girl,” he told her.“Ah, shit, Heath, don’t call her a good girl,” Rhett laughed as he h
Havermouth, Two Weeks BeforeCameron almost stopped dead. From the corner of his eye, he saw Rhett fumble a vase of flowers that he was loading into his car, the vase shattering with a loud crash as it hit the ground and distracting the reporter and her cameraman.Miscarriage? What miscarriage? And… if Aislen couldn’t have a child… what did that mean for their Triquetra?“I don’t hit women,” Heath growled down at Tabitha. “But you are testing my resolve. Get the f-k away from us, and stay away.”Cameron pulled himself together and crossed the last distance to the Ute, easing Aislen into the passenger seat, and closing the door before turning back to help his Triquetra drive off the reporter and her cameraman. Rhett drove the now empty trolley directly at Tabitha and the cameraman, forcing them backwards, and used it to herd them towards the hospital and away from the Ute.“What the f-k?” Cameron asked Heath in shock. “What the f-k was that?”“Take her to her house, Cam, I’ll meet you