~Godfrey’s Point of View~I was just informed by Sunny’s security detail about a witch tailing her. What the devil? I doubled her security, adding in a witch. Sunny sketched a picture of the woman and we began circulating it. I was still in South America and needed to finish my work so I demanded she be confined to the grounds.I also went ahead and commissioned a witch to check in on Fiona, just to make sure that stupid hag wasn’t up to something. She was just a human now but you could never trust a witch, especially one with a grudge.If there was even the remote chance Fiona was up to something, I’d send Dina personally to squash her and anyone helping her.“How close are you to wrapping things up River, I want to head back tonight,” I said, popping my head into the sitting room he’d commandeered. “I’ve been struggling to find the girl’s mother, she is the last one to interview other than Vincent,” he said, moving around some papers.“Hmm, so if we forgo her for now and let the Que
~Sunny’s Point of View~I was in a deep sleep but I knew I was tossing and turning. Stuck seeing that damn witch’s face. Did she do something to me? What did she want?I could have sworn I felt a presence behind me. But I couldn’t wake up. Get away, get away! Run, damn it run! But I couldn't, something was holding me.“Shhh, shhh sweet girl it’s me, you’re safe,” I heard, just as my eyes flashed open.I blew out a huge gulp of air and nearly choked. My heart was racing, I was sweating. I turned into Godfrey and relaxed right away. He stroked my hair and held me tight until my heartbeat leveled. “There there, what was all that,” he finally said.I pulled back to meet his eyes, they looked full of concern. I felt so exposed, I truly lived such a sheltered and carefree life. Was that all catching up with me?“That witch … I am seeing her in my dreams, do you think Angel could like give me a witch physical, see if she did something to me, to my mind,” I said, wondering if that was a thing
~Godfrey’s Point of View~“It’s a watching spell. Whoever cast it is watching her emotions, her feelings. My uncle Ben would have to break it, I hate to say it is beyond my capabilities,” Angel said, frowning.All witches had different abilities, and Angel’s was more of the earth and the elements. I tapped my finger over my lips. Sunny was in the next room, not privy to our conversation.“They are infiltrating her dreams,” I whispered, angry.“Yes, they let her know they are watching, haunting her. This is a very powerful witch, or … several maybe. We’ll send a witch investigator out to poke around the local covens,” Angel said.“That will draw attention,” I quickly replied, shaking my head.“Maybe. There have been a few disappearances over the last couple years, we have suspected that some are forming a new coven, off the grid but I haven’t had enough to bring to the council for a proper investigation. Enough to prove the missing ones didn’t just run off or get caught by some animal.
~Godfrey’s Point of View~ “Sunny, darling, can you hear me,” I said, close to shaking. I stroked her beautiful face, I held her tenderly. I had ten pairs of eyes staring at me, seeing me at my absolutely worst. I didn’t give a damn if I was showing weakness. I felt … broken. Lost. There was no way in hell I could lose my sunshine. I had the best witches and warlocks from every realm trying to break Sunny’s spell for the past week, to no avail. She wouldn’t wake up, yet her heart remained steady. I tried to give her a bit of my blood but she convulsed, foaming at the mouth and looking like she was possessed. It was hours before she fully calmed down. Doing that again is simply not an option no matter how much my mind tries to tell me to do it. I had a moment of desperation and thought about trying to turn her but of course that was out of the question. I knew in my bones Sunny didn’t want to be a vampire and I would never be selfish in that way. Plus I'd have to deal with the wrath
~Sunny’s Point of View~Darkness, warmth. Voices, so many smells. I wanted to see, but I couldn’t. Why couldn’t I see? I focused on it, with all I had. I didn’t like the darkness, especially when I knew there was something … beyond it. I knew there had to be.Light! Finally! I cautiously lifted my eyes open a bit further until I could see! What did I see? There was a woman sleeping in a chair, a man sleeping in another chair. There was a flash and in the time it took me to blink there was another man in front of me. No! He was something scary, he would hurt me!“Nooooo GET AWAY FROM ME!” I tried to move away from him and I rolled right off the bed, but I didn’t hit the floor. I looked up to see the terrifying man holding me.“NOOO! NO LET ME GO NOOOO!”I had to get away from him, he would hurt me! I kicked at him with all I had but it was pointless.“Shhh, shh my sweet girl I would never hurt you,” he said, trying to lean toward me.“NO NO NO!”I thrashed myself at him, trying to scra
~Tyson’s Point of View~ I couldn’t fuck this up. Godfrey was depending on me, the Blacks were depending on me. My whole life over these last two years had been about trying to right my wrongs. Yeah I felt like I still had to right some of my dad’s wrongs too but I knew I would never come close to that. Susie was to be my pretend mate, so we practiced a bit, trying to look like we were in love. We tried to act comfortable around each other, the way two people would if they’d been intimate. She actually offered to sleep with me, not in a weird way just matter of fact. I couldn’t do that though. We did kiss however and it was pretty wild, so the sex would likely be insane. I had been saving myself for Lilly all those years, which no one knew. I mean yeah I’d have she-wolves throwing themselves at me all the time just because I was the Alpha’s son, but they didn’t mean anything to me. I wanted my first time to be for my mate and that meant something to me. Now that I had waited this lo
~Godfrey’s Point of View~One of the little demon Shadows made contact with Susie last night, she confirmed the pack witch was one that had been in my quarters when Sunny was attacked. But, she confirmed that she had absolutely no memory of it. That seemed to be a wasted effort, except that she provided some drawings of witches that were embedded in her memory, which may be useful. If we could even find them.Every day I had to watch my Sunny be … anything but herself was just killing me. The real Sunny would absolutely die if she could see herself like this. She was currently outside running through a sprinkler with her nieces and nephews, just child-like, without a care in the world. Hearing her laughter relaxed me but it infuriated me at the same time. We should be somewhere exotic, chasing animals together. But instead she has been reduced to the mentality of a five year old and half the time she refuses to get dressed. But of course the worst part was that I couldn’t hold her, c
~Tyson’s Point of View~Susie and I had been at the pack now for a little over a week and everyone had warmed up to us rather nicely. I was actually beginning to wonder what our exit plan would be, surely if we just disappeared they would look for us. The longer we stayed, the more friends we’d make and the more people would get attached to us.We weren’t getting a whole lot of useful information, but I understood that Godfrey needed to be trying literally anything and everything.I was out on patrol with another guard, since I wasn’t being left on my own yet. It was about 2am and it was dead quiet. “So what do you make of living with all these other creatures,” I asked the guard.“Oh the elders didn’t like it when they first did it, that’s for sure. But it’s been about a decade now and it’s what I grew up with so I’m used to it. Your mate is unique but normal like, what even makes her that different,” Derek asked.I laughed, not even remotely wanting to answer that question. I’d seen