She was still staring him down, in a public show of disrespect and he wasn't having any it.He let out a low but very powerful growl that I almost felt in my bones. He hadn't even opened his mouth to let the growl out, it just came from within him, but it was felt loud and clear.I guess I wasn't the only one, as I saw everyone at the table bow their heads down.Everyone was in submission.Except the person it was originally intended for.Sarah.Headstrong as she was, she managed to keep eye contact, stand her ground and continue her glaring.Sss...In that moment, I saw Damon's features change immediately. His face fell slack and he looked stunned for a moment.Sarah on the other hand wasn't done yet."She is an Alpha and she deserves that respect to be titled an Alpha Female." She spat at him.What? Why was this such a big deal for her? She was venting out her anger on the wrong issues.This seemed to snap Damon out of his momentary shock and he growled at her again, this time with
I contemplated going back in to yell them that I was going for a run but then I decided against it. It would only just defeat the purpose of me not wanting to back in there right now. Besides, should I step in there right now, I don't think they'd let me leave at once without pelting me with questions first. I decided to just mind link Damon, in case he'd get worried. Now I'd mind linked a number of times, but usually when the person was standing right beside me. Or I could at least see the person. But now he was in a building with loads of people several meters away from me. Eh. I'll give it a shot. I tried to focus on him. Going for a run. Don't wait up. I waited a couple seconds. I didn't get a response. Hmm, maybe he's too far? Or maybe it'll take a while for the message to reach him? Or what if my message is still in my head, do I have to press send or something? What? There's no send in my head. But I'll do it anyway. Send. As if that actually makes sense. I rolled
I stopped walking. He'd let go of my hand and stood slightly to the side so as not to block my view. As if he even could. I'd been to this backyard a number of times, and in my opinion, the term 'backyard' didn't give this place justice. It was really large for one and wasn't fenced, so it looked like it had enough space to build another mansion. The grass was low cut here, almost always, there was a wooden and glass shed at the far end and a giant pool right in the centre. With a cute little summer hut a little behind the pool. The pool was always covered, therefore never actually used, so anytime I was out here, I'd sit on the lounging chairs and relax. But today, it was uncovered. And practically glowing. The first thing that caught my eyes, as usual, were the lights. Blue and green, coming from inside the pool, making it appear like some glowing elixir, ready to grant me three wishes. Next were the yellow and white floor lights that lined the edges of the pool, all around
He seemed to think about it for a while, "After you were on your fourth tree I think."I almost nodded and then had a second thought. "Fourth tree? If that was the moment you arrived, how would you know that that was my fourth tree?" I narrowed my eyes at him.He was turning into my own personalised stalker."You asked me at what point I started hiding from you. When I arrived initially I was standing out in the open, but you were too busy running that you didn't see me, or sense me." He paused, like he found that weird. And then he continued. "I only took cover once you started attacking the trees."Huh?"What? Attacking?" Oh.I fake gasped when I realised he was making fun of my tree climbing skills."I was climbing." I protested and couldn't help my laugh."Oh. You were climbing?" He said acting like he was genuinely surprised.I punched his arm, he only laughed it off.Or maybe I should just shove him into the pool?"So I'm assuming you got my mind link then?""'I'm going for a ru
My ears hadn't been as sharp lately. But I know what I heard. I heard it loud and clear. And at that moment I knew I would remember it forever. I loved him. I knew I did. And I knew he had feelings for me too. But actually hearing him say it? That struck different. It was almost like a dream. A dream I had had so many times and now was finally coming true. At night his eyes seemed three shades darker, deep blue hues staring right into me. So light, so different from the first time we met. We've come quite a far way from our first encounter. He's definitely not the same as he was back then. I almost laughed at the thought. I looked down at our hands. His still securely holding mine. Before, he'd even refused to get close to me, or make eye contact. And just look at us now. He loves me. And he'd confessed it as well. I slowly pulled my hands out of his. I looked up and smiled at his confused expression. Reaching out, I cupped both sides of his face with my hands and pull
I stopped chewing.Damon stopped chewing.Latifah gently set her cup down.We all stared at James, waiting for him to go on.We'd known that Evelyn had gone MIA for a while. At first it seemed like a cause for alarm, but we'd been informed that Evelyn sometimes went on nature retreats. Sometimes she'd disappear for months on end.And since there was no evidence of a break in at her place, no signs of struggles or intruders around our lands, we were inclined to believe it.Even at that, being so cool about her sudden disappearance didn't feel right. But I couldn't help it, nothing nagged at my mind, or anyone else's for that matter, that she was in danger.And James' next words confirmed it."She returned last night." He continued. "The scouts saw her return to her cottage. She seemed unharmed."I was relieved.Evelyn was okay, she really did just leave on a retreat.Maybe next time she should give us a warning though. She's been gone for quite a while, if it hadn't been for Rose, afte
Damon and James were both expressionless though. I couldn't also feel any emotions coming off of Damon.But as he neared me, I could see the wheels turning in his head.He placed a gentle hand on my cheek before I could even open my mouth to ask him what's wrong and asked me if I was okay."Me? I'm fine. Why?"He gave me a once over, like he wanted to confirm my statement for himself before he shook his head slightly, "No, it's nothing. I just thought you'd left."I frowned slightly, "Left? To where?"He shrugged. "I don't know, I just couldn't feel you for a moment, I couldn't mind link you either." His brows furrowed, his eyes still searching mine.I smiled. "Now look at who's having problems with mind linking." I teased. He just rolled his eyes and took a little step back.The Doctor, whose name I could not pronounce, so let's just call him Doctor V, cleared his throat."I shall be back in two days to have a look at her again to see if anything has changed. In the meantime though,
So, contrary to what I believed, we did not in fact have a team of super deep clean staff on hand.The main entrance to the building known as the Great Hall, which is all it was, a really really big hall, was securely chained and padlocked. Rust was even appearing at the edges of the padlock and I assumed that the inside of the padlock must be completely rusted since after a minute of trying to open the lock with its key, Damon just broke the padlock off with his hand."Why even keep a padlock on then?" I raised a brow at him.A 'Keep out, Alpha's watching' sign would be more effective in keeping people out. If they really wanted to enter this place, I really doubt that this flimsy padlock that snaps like a twig would keep anyone out.He just shrugged, pulling the iron bars apart, revealing a heavy set of doors with yet another flimsy padlock. "Formalities.""Ah, it makes so much sense." I said reaching forward to snap this padlock open as well. I'm not ready to wait longer for him to
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