"No, no, no! This wasn't for you. Why didn't you kick me away? Why didn't you hit me or even claw me, Rose?"Sarah's sobbing was the first thing Nebra and the others heard as they rushed into the living room.Rose stood in front of Sarah with her dagger dipped into her chest."Don't pull it out!" Nebra reached out to stop a panicking Hunter."She's bleeding. Why isn't she healing? She's a fucking werewolf!" Hunter sputtered, grabbing fistfuls of his hair in confusion."Lance told me of a werewolf that'd probably be protecting his sister. So, I laced my silver dagger with Lycanthroxin… just so it'd kill even if he's just scratched by me." Sarah sniffled, soiling her hands with the blood on the dagger."I didn't want any of this to happen."The whole time, she refused to look into Rose's eyes for fear it'd cause her to die faster.Rose slowly felt Sarah's face and smiled weakly. "I hate it when I see you cry. It takes away your beauty.""Well, I can't exactly help it right now." Sarah g
"Kill her? Why do you want to kill her when you're supposed to be looking after her? And what happened to your head?" Landon was the first to speak as he glanced between the two siblings."Hezell is—" Hazel tried to say but was cut short by Hezell."Don't believe a word she says. The only explanations she has ever sputtered are lies," he glared hard at her."If you know what she's about to say is a lie, then why do you bother? You look like you're scared we'd believe her."Sarah had never been a fan of Hezell's. So she immediately grew suspicious, seeing he was finding it difficult to keep still.Hezell paused briefly before shifting his darkened eyes towards her direction."Because I've had enough of her and her lies. I don't want any of you to be victims of it just like I was. So just let me kill her now. I'm sure Cleopatra wouldn't mind."Naturally, everyone else believed Hezell without a doubt. The woman in question was his sister after all and someone who had killed thousands of w
Landon's head snapped towards Hezell. "What is that supposed to mean?" Hezell calmly massaged the space between his brow. "I've told you not to believe a word she says, but it seems that's the only thing you're listening to." "Defend yourself then because that sounds like a solid allegation against you," Sarah said, looking straight at him. "Defend myself? Why should I when everything she said is a lie?" Hezell raised a brow. "We don't know that; that's why you'll be defending yourself. Give us reasons why we shouldn't believe her. But if you continue keeping quiet, we'll have no choice than to believe every word she said," Neon chimed in, raising her guard. Hezell stared at the suspicious looks on their faces for a moment before his lips stretched into a tight smile. "I’m afraid there's no need for me to do so again since it seems like you all believe her." "If you really have something to do with what happened, I'll never forgive you!" Nebra stepped forward and uttered coldly.
"They aren't here. Let's head to the next street."Neon sighed and released the raised window blind before walking back to the people in the living room."They are still looking for us.""Why do we have to hide here when we can just head to the Council and tell Cleopatra everything?" Sarah asked loudly.Neon and the others had given up trying to reason with her, fearing it would only agitate her more. In the end, they understood she had every right to be angry since her mate had just died."Because the moment we leave, Hezell will be able to track us," Knight responded."We may be short of Rose, but I'm pretty sure we can take him if he attacks us," Kourtney said, uttering her first words in two days."Most importantly, why do we have to live in such a nightmare when we can just hand over the person he's after to him? We're the kidnapped ones, after all," Hunter frowned, glancing at Hazel, who sat quietly at the other end of the room."From what we all saw, Hezell has gone erratic. He
"I went through your laboratory and your reports at the hospital. You are dying, and if care isn't taken, you can drop dead any day," Hezell revealed as he stared into Jerome's face."How you snuck into maximum level protected places without being caught doesn't surprise me, given you just got into a house I just fortified. Tell me what you want, and if it's fine by me, I can think about letting you in on my business," Jerome retorted, sitting on his swivel chair."The countless human research you're doing won't save you. The next two generations to come after the Nichols still won't find that cure because nature doesn't give the same thing twice in different ways," Hezell leaned his back on the wall.It took a few seconds for Jerome to grasp the meaning behind those words, and his body trembled in excitement. “There's a cure for my illness already in existence?”Hezell nodded. “The bite of a werewolf.”The smile on Jerome's face immediately faded. “Bites, scratches, I've tried them be
"Hezell now has an agreement with Jerome Nichols, which gives him access to most of the places in the human city," Hazel informed as they stepped foot into the woods at the other end of the city.Sarah bent beside Neon, who placed a hand on the ground with her eyes closed. "You hear that? If this woods isn't it, we're as good as dead because a certain witch will find and unalive us.""Maybe if you don't whisper that into my ears every three minutes, I'd be more focused," Neon opened her eyes and glared at Sarah."I'm distracting you? What the hell are you saying? As a rogue beta, I thought this is what you do all the time. After all, you're always on the run from your enemies," Sarah tsked, folding her hands underneath her bosom.Neon ignored her and straightened up."This is it. Whoever this person is, he is skilled in covering his tracks. But from what I just uncovered, there are hundreds of werewolves following him in this woods. We have to be careful not to be ambushed by them.""
Knight was the first to open his eyes. The room was pitch dark, and the only reason he believed he wasn't alone was the beating hearts he was hearing.He strained his eyes for a little while before switching over to that of his wolf's.Thanks to it, he noticed the people with him.He groaned when a familiar pain shot straight to his heart and hurriedly looked down at the smell of wolfsbane.His wrists were bound together in chains, chains soaked in wolfsbane.He felt the back of his neck sizzle with the same kind of pain and quickly looked up to see an overturned barrel filled with wolfsbane. It was dripping one at a time, but its hinges looked like it'd fall on him anytime soon."Guys, wake up!" He growled, and the eyes of everyone shot open in alert."Mmm!" Sarah was the first to grimace as she promptly sat up. "What the hell?! We were captured?""Most importantly, these chains are killing me!" Neon clenched her teeth tightly. No sooner had she said so that she felt something hot and
Two months ago,Two minutes after Sarah and Freya walked deeper into the woods to gather firewood, Mendoza got up and walked towards Ryan."I'm having a strange feeling," she said, stopping in front of him.Ryan took down the book he held up and smiled. "Come, there's something I need to show you."He got up and walked to the back of the tents, towards a big, shaded tree.Mendoza hesitated for a moment before following him. He first climbed the tree and lent a hand to her. She held onto it and climbed up.From the tree, they could see literally everything happening on the ground."It's a nice view," she admitted once she was beside him."Indeed. Now look closer. What do you see?" Ryan probed, and she narrowed her eyes at the moving bushes on the ground.It only took her five seconds to notice there were people moving on the ground."One, two, three…eight people. Did the Council send people after us?" she asked in confusion, glancing at him briefly."Not at all. The people on the groun