England? England. You've got to be kidding me.I'm in England? I immediately tried to sit up straighter in bed. I had to ignore the burning stinging sensations in my body as I propped myself up against the headboard. "Please tell me you're joking." I stared wide eyed at him. The one time in my life I actually take a trip out of the country, it's against my will and I was unconscious for most of it. He furrowed his brows a bit and shook his head slightly. "Why would I be joking. You're finally home princess." He smiled at me and tried to reach out for my hands. I jerked back slightly. His eyes darkened again. Knowing that I was in a foreign country just made me feel vulnerable all of a sudden. I didn't like it. I didn't like the unfamiliarity of it. I didn't like that everyone I've ever known is on a different continent, thousands and thousands of miles away from me. I took a deep breath and shut my eyes briefly. "Please, you have to take me back I can't be here. You hav
I tried to make my way out of that room as quickly and delicately as possible.I had almost completely healed but I was still slightly sore. So I had to make sure I took my time walking so as not to injure myself further. But also not get caught. And I made sure that I packed a few pillows under the duvet to buy me extra time. Real smart. My wolf had finally woken up. Thank you. And just like that, I was out of the room, but not without taking a mouthful of the food that was brought. I slipped into what I believed was a hallway. But it had an eerie feel to it. There were weird ornaments hanging from the ceiling, old vases decorating the blue lit hallway. And what creeped me out the most was the ancient oil paintings of people that hung on the walls, whose eyes seemed to watch my every move. I snuck down the hallway towards a frosted glass door. I could make a blurry image of a room further ahead filled with sunlight. I opened the door and true, my face was instantly bombard
He had already swiftly shifted back into his human form.+Broad muscled flesh pushing me further into the damp earth with his weight.His hands continued ravishing my exposed body, his teeth gently grazing my skin as he planted kisses all over my sensitive skin. Each kiss he gave me stung a little. Literally stung.And the best part.He was stark naked.And very excited.His hand secretely slipped into my shorts and I tried to squeeze my legs together to deny him access.But he just laughed."Your body betrays you princess." He whispered in my ear.I wondered if for a moment I had unconsciously kissed him back, but I had not.I realised from the way he kissed me, held me all over and didn't just force himself on me at once.He was trying to get me to think that I was enjoying this, trying to make me think I want him. Want this.My body may be doing a whole lot of things right now, right from mild shivering to the rapid thumping of my heart, but aroused I was not.I couldn't let him ge
He was here.In the flesh.For me.+Standing about ten metres away from us in a navy blue shirt and grey jeans.His posture was rigid."Knight. To what do I owe this very pleasant surprise?"Alpha Jace said, sarcasm lacing his every word.Night? It was darker out now yes, but why did he feel the need to tell us that it's night? Or is it code word for something?His voice seemed relaxed but his stance showed that he was just about as ready to pounce as Damon was.Tension between two Alpha males is always a bit disturbing."Shut up Walker, you know why I'm here." Damon said.His voice calm, but eyes burning with rage.+Oh I had missed his voice.No matter how cold.Wait, he'd addressed him as Walker? Maybe that was his other name or a surname perhaps.Wait, 'night'?I just realised that he had meant 'Knight'.They were addressing each other by their last names."Actually I don't. Care to enlighten me?" Alpha Jax said.Damon growled and stepped forward. His men behind him following suit
I stood up before I could register that I had even done it.I couldn't control myself.+I held unto the wall for support until I could stand on my own.My legs felt heavy, very heavy, like I was suddenly in a dream.I shakily walked up to him and I stopped two feet away from him and just stared. Stared at him.He's here?It's really him?I thought... I thought...Am I dreaming? Is he even real? Or am I hallucinating?I had to make sure he was real.I reached out a slightly hesitant hand and touched his chest (in a purely innocent way!) and breathed a sigh of relief when my hand didn't go through him.A tear slid down my cheek. And I kept thinking, 'He's not dead. He's alive. Here, with me'.He fought for me.I noticed the bruises all over his body and the deep gash on his abdomen which was healing but still very bloody.His eyes were still glowing but he looked tired.Tired and worn out.But he was still here.He fought. For me.With gentleness I wouldn't have thought him capable of,
The car ride from the airport to the pack lands was long and silent.Damon sat silently staring out the window.I sat silently, staring at my fingers and occasionally, him.I really didn't have much to say.I still felt... ashamed, embarrassed.I risked everything for... nothing.I could have died.But they didn't care.They still probably don't.And they never will. Not anymore.My own family. They turned their backs on me.Without an ounce of guilt.I tried to blink back the tears that were beginning to form in my eyes.I couldn't let them fall, otherwise they wouldn't stop.Looking back at it, it was a stupid move.I did it out of impulse.I wasn't even thinking straight.Obviously.I just thought that, maybe they called me because they needed me, wanted me back.But they just wanted to save their own asses.They called me to save them but who was supposed to save me?Damon.And he did.He actually flew out of the country to find me.He cared enough to fight for me.I turned to tak
There are a lot of emotions that a person should feel when they finally see their long lost family.I mean after about two years of not seeing my family I'm supposed to be ecstatic right?Overcome with a joyous feeling that surpasses all human understanding but that is directly connected to the mere bond that exists between family?+Wrong.I stood there shell shocked staring at them.For a moment I forgot myself and almost smiled at the sight of them.Almost.Hurt, rejection and disappointment flooded in all at once.I had to stop myself from having various flashbacks.Because they would only cause me to hurt more.But I decided to mask all these feelings with a cold glare.I couldn't let them get to me.I wouldn't.They looked far better than the last time I'd seen them.Well groomed and fed not a single solitary scratch on their faces.Impeccable, perfect little family.While I had to nurse both my external and internal wounds.That I acquired in pursuit of their freedom.What were
Three days.It's been three days of just sitting in this room doing nothing.Three days of feeling empty, lost and blank. I wasn't even sad or angry, I just seemed to feel void of all emotion.+Damon had carried me up here after my little family reunion.I've refused to see anyone since.Mavis came along with Rose and Daryl.I refused to see them too.I didn't want anyone seeing me like this now.I knew if I see them I'd have to fake a smile to reassure them, and right now, I didn't have it in me to do that.I also refused to eat or drink anything. I simply wasn't hungry.I had a bottle of water here that was just fine for me.I'd been asked countless times if I was alright.By Latifah, James, Mavis even Damon.Especially Damon.But I gave no response.Not necessarily because I didn't want to.But because I didn't know the answer to that.Was I alright?I had no idea.I was just... there.As usual, Damon entered my room again (without knocking) to as me how I was. He'd been extra caut
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