~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
~Godrey’s Point of View~My sweet Sunny came to me, she wanted to talk to me. My dead heart couldn’t take it. Hearing her voice, that’s not really her voice, just kills me. But I was desperate and grateful to have her willing, trying to even look at me. I’d never felt more pathetic.But I had to put that aside, she was trying. If I could at least get her to not fear me, that would be a positive thing. I had to try, but I was terrified I’d push her too far.I assured her that I would never hurt her, and the woman in my office was my sister. She didn’t believe me since by human standards Diana looks half my age and nothing like me, but I couldn’t very well let her think I had a female caller in there.These weeks without my Sunny, without loving her were torture. A few nights ago I had a moment of weakness and almost thought about walking into the sun and ending it all. I can’t live without her, knowing she’s right there and I can’t have her. Knowing that we had only two short years of b
~Tyson’s Point Of View~Susie and I were in the woods, meeting up with our Shadow contact for an update but they were well over half an hour late and we weren’t sure how much longer we could wait.“We need to just go back, they’ll only buy that we took a run for so long,” she said.Just then, a woman appeared and walked toward us. I instantly recognized her as the Greek witch Katrina, and cocked my head to the side. She wasn’t a Shadow, why was she here?“What are you doing here,” I asked.“Godfrey has declared war on Sage Coven and on Fiona, my family is helping as are dozens of vampires. We need you to get me close to the witches here. I’m going to try and spell them so they can’t leave unless we want them to. As soon as Fiona thinks she’s being threatened or needs help, she’ll recall all of her minions. This is just going to buy them time to make a plan. I’m going to block my scent and my mind waves, and cloak myself in an invisible spell. I need you to show me who they are though,
~Godfrey’s Point of View~ “I went to the wolf pack to spy on two witches and instead found seven total, where are the demon’s drawings,” Katrina demanded. She was angry, it radiated from her. Mateo ran forward with some crumpled papers and spread them on a table in my office. “These three, they were there,” Katrina said, matter of fact. “Fiona is trying to get several together in one spot, why? Just so she knows where they are,” I questioned. “Possibly. Dad go fetch the Russian witches,” Katrina commanded Ben, flicking her head toward the door. He glared at her, as if she should be making demands of him but she met his face with a smirk and he turned to leave, giving her a look of approval. These Greeks were all too weird. Diana stared at Ben’s every movement and I was ready to slap her into the wall just to get the look off her face. Like she doesn't get enough sex, it's disgusting! “This is Sofia and Natalya,” Ben said, a moment later after returning with the witches. I eyed