I wrapped my hair in a towel as soon as I stepped out of the shower.I had had a long relaxing bath and I even washed my hair which felt amazing.The bathroom was incredible.White shiny tiled walls, a solid white large marble bathtub, a huge shower with frosted glass sliding doors. The bathroom was spacious and elegant.I had used this place for the first time yesterday after Damon, openly, told me to go and bath.Maybe it was his subtle or nice way of saying I stink?Pfft, nice. Yeah right.Anyway, after he went upstairs I got chatting with Latifah and I found out that Anastasia is actually Damon's cousin. His mom's sister died while giving birth to her. The nanny that had been hired to help Anastasia's pregnant mother offered to takecare of her till her family came for her.She stayed there in England till she was two years old and then Latifah went to bring her home. The nanny had grown very fond of her so she did go to visit her often. She just came back from a three month holida
I was standing in a huge, like a really huge hall that at first glance seemed perfectly vacant.It is when you decide to actually take a breather and look further around that you notice a long table with about twenty men sitting around it at the far end of the hall.All now conveniently staring at me.Of course, who wouldn't stare at the girl who probably just barged into a meeting room trying to hide so that no one would catch her but ended being seen by everyone and making a fool out of herself.I could see Marcus among the men sitting there.And at the head of the table was Damon, obviously, who was sitting there watching me with slightly wide and shocked eyes. I was now begining to understand the pull that led me here. Damon was here.This is your fault, you did this.We did this honey, we. You want him too you know.I literally couldn't move, I wanted to flee the scene but I couldn't move. In that moment I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me.But I had no such luck.So we
I was currently sitting on the sofa in Mavis' room.Mavis had offered for me to sit on her bed but I really didn't want to, considering what I witnessed two days ago on that same bed.There was nothing really wrong with it, but at the moment it just felt weird sitting on the bed with that image still fresh in my mind.But I haven't told her that I saw anything, now that would just make things even more awkward.Yes, it had been two days since that incident, two days since I last left the house and oddly enough, two days since I last saw Damon.Today I decided to come see Mavis again and hoped that she would be less 'busy'.Luckily, when I knocked and entered this time, she was lying on her bed watching Tv.She said James left last night to attend to some issues.So here we were.In her, I mean their, room. Its a pretty cool room actually, and its quite large.I'm guessing it's due to the fact thatJames is third in command, that is the Gamma. But I'm sure they'll eventually move out a
What?Heat?Do males go through that?I had heard things about heat but I wasn't exactly sure what it does.But is it supposed to be painful?"Heat? Lunar Rapen? Wh-what, how- uh why is it-how do we-" My ramble was cut off by another heart wrenching scream.What the hell?Is he being tortured? He sounds like he's being tortured.My heart actually ached at the sound."What does it do to him? How can we stop it?" I was getting anxious now.Latifah shook her head silently."There's nothing we can do but wait."That was all she told me but from the way she pressed her lips together I could see she was holding something back.I was about to ask her what it was but another shout distracted me.Latifah shut her eyes at the sound and shook her head slowly in sadness."Please we have to do something, how long is this going to last?" I asked Latifah trying to walk towards the stairs. But she stretched her hand out in front of me, stopping me."About three days.""What? Three days? We're just go
It's actually really sad when you think you're about to die and you realize that there's no one in the world that would actually miss you.I mean, Mavis would cry a bit, but she'll get over it and so would Rose.But then what?Hate to admit it but my life's actually sad.My real parents are supposedly dead, my other parents whom I have known all my life kicked me out, I do not have any other known family member. I am literally alone.Oh and I have a mate who wants to kill me.You know what, I think I should welcome death.Maybe it would be a relief from all this hassle.I had nothing to loose. Absolutely nothing.I think I would have been ready for death if he did in fact come here to kill me.What I was not ready for, and I don't think I would have ever been at that moment was what he did instead.At inhuman speed, which was literally so fast that my eyes couldn't catch it until it had already happened, he was in front of me.He grabbed the back of my head and then he leaned in.It w
"You really shouldn't have done that." James said from the door, his eyes wide and worried.He and Marcus had rushed in here and shot Damon with a pistol that was currently in Marcus' hand.Marcus just shrugged and lowered the gun."He'll thank me for it tomorrow." Then they both turned to me.I was still looking at Damon whom I rolled off of me after they shot him.Wait, they shot him?They shot him!Damon looked like he was asleep buthe wasn't moving.And in the dim light it was hard to see if he was breathing or not.'Relax, he's not dead, we're not stupid." Marcus said as he approached Damon from the other side of the bed.James approached the bed too, but more in my direction.When he got to me he curtly handed me my shirt, making me for the first time realize my state of undress.I took it quickly from him and muttered a quiet 'thank you' then I put it on.It didn't really cover everything since Damon basically ripped it apart.After I put it on I pulled the bed sheet up a bit t
I don't know how but I managed to fall asleep last night.And let me just tell you it wasn't a peaceful sleep.Far from it.I could see that the sun was already high up in the sky because of the light that shone through the thick blue curtains. I was in Damon's room.I think I woke up like two hours ago but I wasstilllying in bed.Icouldn't find it in me to get up.Utterly confused is not even close to how I feel right now.Ijust couldn't make sense of anything.Everything that happened last night and the past month feel like a blur.What on earth is happening to me?Scenes from last nightkeep flashinginmy head.Why was he chained?Why did he come here? Why did he kiss me?But more importantly why did I kiss back?Oh you know why you kissed back.Shut up!It felt like a dream at this point.If it hadn't been for Marcus last night, Damon would have marked me.Actually marked me.He probably would have come to his senses this morning though and killed me.So ... maybe its a good thing i
So we basically spent the day baking brownies and cookies under strict directions from Baking chef Anastasia.That's what she calls herself now.Out of seven trays that we baked only three turned out to be good.Don't ask me how, Anastasia just tasted the first one of each tray and if the sugar level was not to her satisfaction, she condemned it by making a cute scowling face and sticking her tongue out.Which was weird since they were all baked from the same barter.She had finished the first tray and had moved on to the second one when she stopped mid brownie."Where's Damon, he has to try these." she said looking around frantically.Baking the brownies had taken my mind off of him.Come to think of it, where is he?I haven't seen him since last night.Marcus and James must have dragged him off somewhere.Is he back in the basement?Or out somewhere in the fields? Or in the hospital?Or, or .....'Damon!" My thoughts were cut off by an ear piercing scream.And just like that, Anasta
And just as I felt the pull increase, it stopped suddenly. Slowly I looked up to see wide blue eyes staring at me in shock. As quickly as it happened he pulled his hand out, thankfully spine-free. This however still led me to collapse on the ground. I was going to heal, yes, that is, if they gave me time to, but for now, I still couldn't feel my limbs properly. I felt a crack that made my body snap, my spine was realigning itself but it was excruciatingly painful and slow. All I could do was lie and watch Damon. Damon who for some reason was still just standing and staring at me. Sarah though, had apparently had enough. "I said for you to take her spine out!" I could see the blackness in his eyes trying to to return, and with all he had he fought against it. So much so that when his eyes started changing colour again I had a sickening feeling it was blood. And I was right.With a grunt he fell back to the ground, blood oozing out of his ears, eyes and mouth. He was spasming on
I had heard the words.Loud and clear.Yet they rang in my mind like I had imagined them.'Take her spine out.'A very dangerous command uttered against me. And yet I still couldn't move.I had heard those words and I was still frozen in shock.Unfortunately, Damon had also heard them, and was ever willing to oblige.I could feel his fingers and claws pushing past my flesh, tearing muscle and sinew along the way as he continued to inch closer and closer to my spine. The pain was searing and numbing at the same time.I gasped and could only let out silent screams and breathless grunts. My body was still not functioning the way it was supposed to. My motor nerves were defunct but my sensory nerves were working overtime. I could feel every ounce of pain and then some.So when he finally made contact with my spine I felt chills all over my body. From my scalp straight to my toe tips. His hand slowly wrapped itself around the girth of my spinal column, the gaping hole in my back causing
No."Attack her."I didn't even have time to register what she said because I was focusing on what was happening to Damon. In an instant, he had pounced on me while the other minions started to become visible around Sarah again.I've fought with Damon before, but we were training, and he was still him, and he didn't want to kill me.This time was totally different. I wasn't even fighting with Damon, I was fighting Sarah. I saw this because her eyes had turned as black as his, and she was focusing all her energy on me. She's entranced him.She's fighting me through him.Damon lunged at me, and I ducked and kicked him backwards. I tried to think hurriedly between rushed breaths and movements. How do I fight him? I can't hurt him. Will I hurt him if I fight him? Will it hurt her? He came for me again and bit into my shoulder, I reached my arms back, grabbed unto his shoulders, and yanked him off me, slamming him hard unto the ground. He grabbed my ankle and pulled me down to the
All of a sudden, I was left alone. They'd stopped attacking me.They're trying to leave.I was scared that they'd do that.If they escape today, we might never get them together again to end this.I really hope Damon and Evelyn were able to pull through.Just then, from around and above me, I felt surges in the atmosphere.Simultaneously walking in, there was Evelyn with Damon and Marcus right behind her. I heard them before I actually saw them.Evelyn's hair was all loose, actually levitating around her as she muttered some words and kept her hands up in the air. In twos and threes, people all started filing in from the hedge entrance at the far end of the clearing. This was way more than we agreed upon. In a short amount of time, there were almost sixty to seventy people here, all looking ready to fight. I even saw Mavis and James line up behind Damon and Marcus.Evelyn's voice got progressively louder as I caught my breath, looking all around and feeling all my wounds close up
I was in shock.When she was done doing whatever she was doing to the bubble she smiled. Because she knew what she was doing. She was distracting me. But I didn't even care about her anymore.I was frozen, staring at the woman. The woman who was still seemingly unconscious, fading fast and almost lifeless.The woman I would be replacing.The woman who sent me back when I almost died. The woman whose picture lies in my drawer with her brown long wavy hair, her hair that was not white because of age or even for the fact that she'd been overused or drained. Her white hair that was so in her wolf state. In her white wolf state. I'd stared at this face a million times in my worn out picture. I'd stared at this face even in the mirror. I knew her. I know her.It's her. It's really her."Only fitting that you've come to replace your mother isn't it. Generational blood is always the strongest." Sarah cackled.She was distracting me. Trying to throw me off. "One wolf supplying an entire t
There was no one here.Nothing here. And there was certainly no matter right in the air where my fist just was.I stretched my hand forward but there was nothing there. Like I'd just imagined it. But I've been through too much to just overlook things.I closed my eyes and punched the air around that spot again, but nothing.Stop. Breathe and feel the surge.I directed my rage and energy again and let it out in another punch. My hand bounced back again. It felt like I had hit some sort of jelly. Some thick invisible sturdy jelly.What is this?This time, keeping my focus I placed both hands on where I thought this jelly was, and I held it. I could feel it. And it wasn't just a little blob. It was huge, like a whole wall of the stuff. What is this? Are they in here? Keeping up with it, I tried to focus more of my energy on it to try and get through the barrier but I couldn't break it. It was literally exerting the same amount of force pushing me away as I was putting on it. "Ahh!
I'd committed the place to memory. I knew exactly where they were. And even if I didn't, they'd find me. They were expecting me. But they certainly weren't expecting me in the capacity in which I was going. And even if they were, they were in for a ride regardless. This ends today. It ends now. Walking further I started to notice the trees with the strange markings again. This was it, I was approaching dark woods territory. The etchings were barely visible, probably wearing away over the years or in their case probably decades, the bark protesting against this violation to its skin. I've known for a long time how I act under pressure, and I've known for a shorter while how my wolf acts under pressure. Right now I wasn't acting like anyway I've acted before. I wasn't shaking with apprehension or nerves, and I didn't have a rapid heartbeat filled with determination or wild aggression. I was just calm. Still. But I was blazing with fury.I could feel the ice cold flames wrap themse
Fight day.It was today.A week later has felt like a year.But it's finally here. I lay awake in bed staring at the ceiling.I didn't want to sleep, but Damon insisted, he said I need rest to be at my best today.So I'm here at 2am trying to rest since sleep has inadvertently evaded me, while Damon paces all over the house, doing goodness knows what.He's restless, I know.We all are. Even though we don't actually leave until 4pm, it's been impossible to relax. I haven't slept for almost two days now, but sleep was so far from me.I was going to take the lead. Locate the 'sanctuary' as they call it, by myself, and then have Damon and the rest follow my trail a little while later. How was I feeling right now? Scared?No.Anxious? Yes. I want to get it over with.Angry? Well, let's just say that whatever we have planned for them, they've got it coming.I spoke to Sorayah on the phone yesterday, she's already trying to make it back but I'm not sure what time she'll get here.It's
***A few minutes had gone by and we were still deep in conversation, regarding the sisters, what was happening, well the main gist of it and how we had to move forward.Even though I completely engrossed in the conversation I caught his footsteps before he even stepped on the lawn.I glanced over at Aliyah who had her eyes trained on Evelyn as she spoke of healer capabilities when they are in full bloom.I could sense him approaching. He was now outside the door. And by the way he lingered there for a whole five minutes I'm sure he knew who was in here. He was here to go over some things with Damon, something I would have to sit in on as well at some point.When I had planned this earlier I didn't think that it would take so long. I didn't even consider them running into each other. Is it going to be awkward or is it actually a good thing? To clear the air maybe?He finally stepped in, Sam, the head guard, in tow. They walked up to us and then greeted me."Alpha." They both said a