What?I thought I hadn't heard him properly.I have been known to have selective hearing once a while but this, this wasn't selective hearing.He said it.And he even repeated it."I told her before we left the pack house that she can stay, there." I pulled back to look at him.Was he being serious? He spoke to her? He told her she can stay? Just within the three seconds I took the lead to the patio?It doesn't really take an hour to say, 'You can stay' you know.Shut up."For-, for how long?" My voice was quiet."For as long as you want her to."It was dark out now and even though we were close to the house, it was still dark around us since all the lights in the house were still off.The moon had come out already and was giving off a little light, but that light was blocked out by the roof of the trees on top of us.So where we stood was pretty dark.But he still kept his eyes directly on mine."Really?" For as long as I want?He was giving me that choice?He stood there in silence
I smiled as I looked at the kids having fun, but when I turned to Sarah, all I saw was bitterness. For a moment I almost didn't recognize her. It quickly cleared up though and I saw that she was indeed bitter, bitter with pain.She misses her son. Matt.After a while of silence as she watched the children she spoke up."The night of the attack," she started and immediately my heart sunk. I knew whatever was coming wasn't going to be pleasant."I didn't escape alone. My mate wasn't at home with me, but my son was. So I run and escaped with my little boy, Matt." His name brought a small sad smile to her face.They escaped together?"Those of us that could get to the opneing on time used the tunnels to get out of the pack unseen. But d o much was going on that night, everyone was frantic and panicking. And in the midst of all that chaos, Matt got injured." She paused and looked down."It was my fault, I should have never let go of his hand. But he was so small, his hand just slipped out
I shut the front door and leaned against it.+After spending a good three or so hours in the backyard trying to clear my unclearable mind, I decided to get in.Also because the weather was beginning to get chilly. I was suddenly extra cold.I had a lot to think about. About Sarah's feelings and her point of view. And then I tried to see it from as many people's point of view as I could.I tried to think about how people who aren't in love with Damon felt about all he did and all its caused.I've been directly affected, yes. But I've learned to let it go. But there are people who haven't. People who've lost so much and haven't been able to start healing.I sighed. Something needs to be done.1Damon was sitting on one of the couches in the living room working on his laptop but the look in his eyes seemed distant. He wasn't actually doing anything, he just sat there with the laptop. Doing nothing really.He turned to look at me.He studied me for a moment before he shut his laptop and si
I woke up in the middle of the night unable to fall asleep again.Great.+I was just thinking as usual.I couldn't help but feel that Sarah was a bit mad at me, mad at me for letting go. All this time with her and I never realised what a grudge she still held against Damon.I must be very unobservant.Hm.But then again, maybe our emotions were just all over the place yesterday.And the fact that she's literally still mourning her son. I had to try and understand where she was coming from. And I hoped she would try and see things from my point of view as well. I wasn't just gonna up and leave.I-, we, were going to try and make things right. As much as we can.By this time, my train of thought had already led me to the kitchen looking for something to eat.Well I can't sleep, might as well make myself busy.I took pretzel from the fridge and warmed it up shortly in the microwave while I considered either drinking tea or coffee. I wanted hot chocolate but we were out... since I drank i
"What?" I asked simply because it felt like the command came out of nowhere.I shift often now, on my own, so the actual shifting isn't a problem anymore unlike before. It just caught me by surprise.+"I said shift." He repeated looking me straight in the eye. He'd seen my wolf form many times before, but he said he couldn't get enough looks at her. She was so 'absolutely stunning', in his words.As if that didn't inflate her already large head, he just couldn't keep his eyes off her,well, us, and his wolf was another matter all together.I could almost feel his excitement from within Damon. Actually, it was my own wolf that I couldn't really feel today, and she was being quite silent.Hm, who knew that one day she'd actually listen to me and shut up?He stood up from where we had been sitting and was already removing his shirt and stepping out of his pants.I turned away just in time before he removed his boxers. Yes I'd seen him naked before but that didn't stop me from getting flus
As soon as we got home Damon left again almost immediately.He left without saying a word, he just escorted me back and took his keys and left.I assumed he was going on a run again because he didn't even bother to change his shorts, but then again, he did go with his car...+Maybe he's going far?I sat at the kitchen counter, eating virtually all the fruits I could find. At the back of my mind I had decided that I should start eating healthy for some reason.Call me paranoid but I didn't feel like taking my chances this time.I wanted to make better choices.So I was in the middle of my second pack of chocolate covered strawberries when the door opened.-Me saying I want to make better choices, doesn't mean that I'm actually good at making them-Mavis walked in with Sarah closely behind her and they had their hands full with shopping bags that were crying to be recycled.No, honestly, the bags literally had 'Recycle me' written on them in green.They had obviously gone grocery shoppi
The sun was literally at its peak in the sky, tormenting us with it's harsh rays.+ Damon decided to drive us instead of walking to the pack house. The car he brought I had not seen before, he just pulled up out of nowhere. I remember going into the garage one day with him to see his small collection of cars. I'd seen them all, and this one wasn't part. It was an underground garage with an opening for the cars at the back of the house near the garden shed. We entered through the far end of the foyer, a door that had a couple of steps leading downstairs, but not as far down as where the underground cells are located. I guess that's what contributed to the lack of stuffy dungeon air in this place. That and the fact that this place was actually nice and almost cosy looking. These stairs even had a rail guiding them down. He flicked a light on at the end of the staircase and I watched as small blue and white balls of light lit up one by one along the edges of the room. As they came o
And more often than not, she makes sure that the pack knows that the kind gestures are all backed by the Alpha. Maybe she's the reason why they never turned against him. All they think is that he's not really a social person but a good man at heart. Which in the end may very well be true, and if given the chance, can be more social than we thought."He apologised to me, for what I'm not entirely sure but he said he was sorry, and that he needed to make things right. Starting with me." I smiled. Even though I had told him that Sarah would be the best start, he probably thought about it and realised Latifah was.His mother. And he was right. She did deserve it. And the smile on her face right now is so worth it.+I could literally see all her love for him in her eyes, she was tearing up with a smile on her lips, happy that her son came back to her.From the corner of my eye I saw Sarah approaching the house with another elderly lady laughing and shaking her head. They hadn't seen us."I
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