I distractedly watched on as the burning embers danced around in the fire place, having their own little party.The wind was blowing harshly through the windows, singing it's own sad song and rustling the curtains.People were crying.Memories were flashing.A cold shiver went up my spine. But it had nothing to do with the temperature of the room.I shuddered."Are you cold? Do you want me to shut the windows?" Mavis, who had already gotten up to close the windows, asked me with concern etched across her features.I didn't respond.But she shut it anyway.It felt like my life had had no meaning ever since the day I was born.I was doomed right from the start.Latifah wasn't dead but was badly injured from the attack.Anastasia was not dead either but in critical condition.And Damon ...Damon was unconscious.He has been for the past one week.Doctors said he was injected with far too much wolfsbane.Any normal wolf should have died but he hasn't.But he isn't safe yet either.The wol
I didn't say anything.I had run out of words to say.For about a minute.'Fine." I looked him dead in the eye as I said that one word.I was sick of all of this nonsense.I had no plan, but all I knew in that moment was that I was going to leave at once."You have absolutely no right to talk to her like that." A familiar voice scolded.We both turned around to see Latifah sitting in a wheelchair at the door frame.Damon's features immediately softened.He quickly walked over to her and started examining her face."You shouldn't be out of bed now, you know this, why are you here?""It gets very boring when you're couped up in your room all alone." She said seeming annoyed."Wait don't try and change the topicDamon, why were you speaking like that to her?"Damon's features immediately hardened again."That's none of your business.""Look Damon I get you are angry but there is no need to take it out on her. We all suffered this attack together."Damon didn't say a word, he just clenche
"He was the only child of his parents. His mother, having had complications, nearly died while giving birth to him. His father, not willing to risk loosing his mate, did not allow her to have any more children after that. Luckily for the couple their child was a boy. A perfect future Alpha.Roderick and Natalie loved their son to pieces. And they took every second of the day to show him that. They were such a perfect little family.But Damon was even more attached to his father which is why that day, his dad went out hunting with some of his colleagues, he didn't want to let him go.Call me crazy but I think the boy felt it. He knew he would never get to see his dad again. The poor thing cried the whole night. His father's Beta came the following morning, dirty and bloody, with the terrible news that the Alpha had been killed. Damon took the news hard, though young, he understood very well what death meant. But the person who suffered the worst blow was his mom. She lost it, literally
I turned to look at him with a probably stupid expression on my face.What does he mean by that?"Huh?"He rolled his eyes and sighed.He has nice eyes ...Shut up."My mother obviously thinks I'm being unreasonable, so I'll try and be reasonable. Maybe you have some hidden skill or talent, sincerely, I highly doubt that. But I'll give you a chance, prove me wrong. Feel free to show me all you got. We're out in an open field ... " He gestured towards the wide plain of field.Oh no.This was worse than dying. He wants to ...Train.You lazy idiot.Hey!I didn't really know how to respond to his statement so I went with the most ladylike and appropriate response I could muster."Huh?" I was still trying to take everything in. How'd he go from kicking me out to this?He narrowed his eyes at me and shook his head.He looked up to the sky for a minute before turning back to look at me."How many miles can you do?""Miles?""Yes, how many can you run? Top speed, no break?"He said it like h
My eyes. They were glowing. And they were gold. I mean, in the reflection in the water they seemed to gleam yellow like the sun, but I'd like to believe it was golden. I blinked once. I blinked twice. Nope, still there. My wolf. She actually came out. *** I successfully got back like two hours later since I didn't really know where I was Okay, two hours may be an exaggeration but I was suddenly so tired it felt like forever. Iliterally felt drained. I even tripped and fell and no doubt opened up the cut on my forehead again. One minute I'm so coordinated and the next I'm just a tripping mess. Guess it's just me again. When I entered the house I heard arguing voices coming from Latifah's room. Which was probably my fault. I should have just done the wise thing and gone to my room. But of course I didn't. I never do. At this point, I don't even think that you're capable. I held the door knob and entered Latifah's room. "Damon listen to me wh-" The voices stopped and the
I came up out of the water feeling refreshed. The cool water soothing my heated skin.I wiped my face with my hand and then opened my eyes. Wait.I wiped my face?With my hands?I have hands again!I looked down. Which didn't really do much since ninety percent of my body was underwater, but I could still make out my swimming naked figure under the water. Shit.I had already shifted back.Really?Now?????You choose now to leave????I don't see any better time.I'm naked for Pete's sake!Your problem not mine.Our problem.Our friggin problem!could practically hear her laughing in my head. What was this, some sort of practical joke or something?You need to start getting comfortable in your own skin, you're a werewolf, occasions will rise.Definitely not like this!I looked around desperately looking for an answer.My clothes.Which are ripped and shredded to pieces a few kilometers from this place.There is no way I can run back naked. There is no way I'm doing that.I'll be in a me
My eyes were closed but I could feel the light shining on my face.I was feeling hot yet I could feel a very cool breeze blowing at me as well.There was something warm clasped around my hand.stirred a bit and the warm feeling left my hand.I knew I had been sleeping for a while now but I couldn't help but still feel so super sleepy even though I was tired of sleeping, if that made any sense.With much effort I peeled my eyes open.The light that attacked my sight gave me an instant headache.I shut my eyes again and pressed my fingers to my temples hard in order to suppress the ache. It didn't really do much."You deserve that."I paused.I opened my eyes again just a fraction and looked around.I was in my room.Buried under a heap of blankets.No wonder I was feeling hot.When did I get here?My eyes landed on Damon who was standing by my door with his arms crossed over his chest.I opened my eyes and looked fully at him now."Huh?""Dont you 'huh' me. What the hell were you doing
If I thought the house was lonely and sad before, it was nothing compared to this.Words simply cannot describe the feeling.Pain is actually hanging in the air.And no one knows about it.Only the five of us.Damon, Latifah, Marcus, Mildred the nurse who was hired to take care of Anastasia and I.Damon refused to declare her dead, but she was.Gone.Latifah refused to eat.Damon shut everyone out even more than before.He wouldn't even come out of his room.He hasn't for the past eight days.As for me, I guess I was just stuck in Zombie mode after I was all cried out. It was all just too much to actually handle."Adriane.""Yeah?" I had just walked into Latifah's room where she lay on her bed.She had a small smile on her face but it was very clear that she was forcing it.Isn't it strange how a person can age twenty years in just two weeks?She had grown so lean since, she could hardly eat anything.She had lost so much, and now Anastasia was gone too.Poor girl.She couldn't surviv
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