SILAS (H) / WRATH POV
WRATH / SILAS (H) POVI am woken up by Scarlett's sudden movement; I run my hand gently up and down her back to her shoulder and I gently pull so she lays back down and cuddles into my side. I kiss the top of her head and do what I used to do; I ask."My princess, are you okay? What did you see?"For the first time in ages, her defences are down, and she actually talks to me,"Ryker found Isabella, but he can't protect her. The Alphas are coming and they will find both of whom they seek. These Alphas are bad news. They force their females to have many babies that they sell to whoever is willing to pay.""Scarlett, who are they after?""Isabella and me!""How do we stop them?""You can't, only Ryker can and he must give something or someone up to save us both!""Are you sure? How long we got until they find you?"
SILAS / WRATH POVMarcus had been in my room for a long time and every now and then, I would hear Scarlett scream. I didn't want to share her with him, but I couldn't deny him, either. I owe him my life from when he found me weak, injured and left for dead after having another run-in with the Vampire King. I don't know what he saw in me that day as he could have just killed me but instead; he took me back to his pack house and allowed his Queen to care for me.Again, I don't know why, but once I was at full strength, he trained me more and did it himself. Over that time, I guess we became as much of friends that a rogue werewolf could be with a vampire. I sit in the sitting room going over that time as I sip on a glass of blood when I hear him finally come out of the room; he enters the sitting room and goes over to one of the cabinets, pulling out a bottle of whiskey. He pours a bit into a glass and then faces me,"That is one fine female you have
RYKER / CHRISTOPHER POVI pull Isabella into my lap and I kiss her, as I believe she will fight me if I don't distract her first. I am having trouble controlling Christopher. He wants control; he wants to mark his mate. I pull back from the kiss as she tenses and starts to struggle. I whisper,"Shh... Shh... Calm down Isabella, I will not hurt you and I will not go any further than you are willing to let me.."She stops struggling and curls into my chest, taking deep breaths and finally relaxing a little. I listen as she hesitantly asks,"W..wh..who a..ar..are y..yo..you?"It is like she isn't or is scared to talk, but I smile at her sweet voice and look down at her as I introduce myself"My name is Ryker!"I slowly get to my feet, still holding Isabella close to my chest. I make my way out of the house and meet back up with Nathaniel out the front. I don't miss the fact that Isabella tenses again in my arms as she sees Nathanie
ISABELLA POV"May I come and sit with you?"I can't believe he's an Alpha, and he asked for my permission to do something. I nod my head slowly; I am still not really sure what he wants from me. I can smell the pine-bark, pine-needles and spice, but I still haven't heard from Zoey. It must be a side effect of the cord that Silas wrapped around my wrists and ankles. "Can I ask? When I entered the house, you were undoing what looked like a cord from your wrists. Why didn't the Alpha's see you if you were tied?" "Are you sure you want to know? You might think I am tainted." "I could never think that..." "I am part witch!"I wait for it. The disgusted look, Alpha Giovanni and all the other males used to give me, but he surprises me with a look of fascination instead. He goes to say something but is interrupted by a knock on the door. As he gets to
ALPHA GIOVANNII turn back to her quickly and slap her hard across the face, knocking her to the floor. I move up to her and give her a quick hard kick in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her so she again can't say any spells. I reach down and pull the string from my pants. Just as she is starting to move again rolling onto her hands and knees and trying to crawl to the other end of the caravan away from me as I was still in front of the door.I move and grab her ankle, pulling her back towards me. I move to my knees and straddle her lower back; I lean forward with the string in both hands and wrap it around her throat, pulling tightly. Just before she passes out, I release the string enough for her to take a breath. I then wrap the string a couple more times around her neck, making sure she can breathe but can't speak. I grab her hands and tie her wrists, using the same string that is around h
ISABELLA POVHe then makes me look back at him as he picks me up and sits me on a nearby log. He then steps up between my legs and says,"Talk to me, Isabella!"I take a deep breath and tell him why I don't use my magick, "I was, Eleven..."* Flashback *Once Alpha Giovanni found out that my magick had surfaced just after I turned ten, he would watch me closely. With his added interest, I then knew I was different. I just didn't know why. I lost all my friends, and they started to pick on me, calling me a freak and a mistake. I was hurt, but I learnt to live with it. A few times I would walk around the pack doing my errands and play absentmindedly with my magick in my hands.All the females in the pack were bought up knowing when a male speaks you listen and do what he says or be punished, it took me a little while to learn and abide by that rule but after one bad beating from o
ALPHA GIOVANNI POVI woke up laying next to the witch my wolf and I had fun with last night and as I turn over and look at her; I was right after his fun last night. My wolf killed her. I will have to set it up for this caravan to catch alight so that I can get rid of the body. Luckily, my wolf knows how to kill without it being able to be tracked back to us, otherwise the King would have had my head years ago.I get up, get dressed and then make it look like the built-in stove got a gas leak. I set a time-delay fuse and then leave the caravan. It was still early, so there was no one around. I head to the hotel we are booked in. As soon as I enter the room, I go into the bathroom and wash the scent of that witch off of me.Once done, I meet up with Santiago and we make our rounds of the town, until we end up back at the small house we followed Isabella's scent to yesterday. Her scent is still strong, so she must have still been here when we were here. The little
RYKER POVI take Isabella into the town to find a witch that would be willing to help her unlock her magick, we are everyone but everyone was getting ready to move on until we got to the last stall where a nice young female witch said she would love to help us. Over the next two weeks I watch as Isabella works with the young witch Imogen but she only seems to be making small progress and whenever she seems to make a bigger step, Imogen gives her a potion and she goes back to what she was. Isabella is slowly letting me get closer to her but again we take a step closer to completing the mating and she then has the potion from Imogen and I have to do all the work again to get close. I stand on the porch watching Isabella sitting on the ground with Imogen working on just some meditation. Christopher is hounding me in my head, itching to have a run, so I take this time to have a internal meeting with him and Jack. I move off of the
SCARLETT POVOnce we got back to the castle, we did a lot of research using old magick books and talking to other witches and warlocks but it wasn't until we spoke to a high elder that we found out what we needed to do to remove the bracelet from around my ankle. With the combined power of Isabella's natural born magick, and Griffin's mystery power, he never would tell me what he was, the vial of Silas's royal blood mixed with Ryker's, Nathaniel's and my powerful royal blood they are able to remove the enchanted silver bracelet without losing Ruth or Cara or making a sacrifice of themselves, as they know I wouldn't have let them proceed with it if that is what had to happen. I sit on the hill above the training ground, watching as Phoenix goes through his sparring routine. I have always loved watching him move, always so graceful. I place my hand on my swollen belly and smile, remembering the miracle and surprise of them. After Phoenix saved me from Giovanni, we have been slowly repai
ISABELLA POVI wake to Santiago, kissing me. I have never woken up to him in my bed before, and this scares me. I try to move my hands and find that he has them pinned to the bed above me; I struggle against him, not wanting him to be touching me. He continues what he started last night. He may be being gentle, but he is still just taking. He gets that far-off look, telling me he is talking to someone. He then rolls off of me, gets out of bed and gets dressed, he then turns to me saying, "Go shower while I find the really nice dress that should be in that pile.." I get up and a shiver goes through me as he growls low. I move to the bathroom, wondering if I covered myself again like yesterday. Would he punish me? I have a shower washing as much of him off of me as I can. I wash my hair and then get out, drying myself before heading back into the bedroom.Santiago points to th
RYKER /CHRISTOPHERPOVAfter Carter had told me that he had seen Isabella and that she was alright, it didn't really matter what this Alpha did to me. He continued to hit me again and again and again. After his last hard hit, he moves up close and whispers next to my ear "You will be my bargaining chip to get that mate of yours to become my Luna and give me a pup..." Christopher takes part control at Santiago's claim of making our Isabella his Luna. I growl and try to move; I pull on the chains wanting to attack him but they are too tight and I barely get an inch off of the wall as the silver starts to take effect, weakening my connection, forcing me to take a step back, giving Ryker back full control.Santiago just laughs and hits me again and again until he knocks me out. I wake up to a slap in the face and laughter. I look up as much
ALPHA SANTIAGO POVFor the first time of many to come I wake with Isabella in my arms and smile after the wonderful night I had with her, she struggled but with her hands pinned above her head, she couldn't burn me so even though I normally like it when she adds pain to our fun, last night I didn't want that, I wanted something close to love. I wanted to show her that I can be gentle and that if she agrees to be my Luna, then I will give her a little bit more freedom than she has now. Unfortunately, I know that she is going to need more than just one night of gentle love to agree to be mine, so I contact my Beta "String up the prisoner in the pack centre!""Yes Alpha! May I ask why?""I have chosen your Luna, but she needs a little convincing...""Okay Alpha, it will be done." I smile to myself. She
ISABELLA POVTalking to Scarlett was as good. She didn't know this Carter, but her faith in King Noah was enough for me to send Ariel to her through him; I didn't want to say goodbye to my little girl, but if he really is a friend of Ryker's, then there is no way I can keep her here without putting everyone at risk. I get to my feet and pass Carter his phone and move over to the window. I see a male standing on the other side. I can feel the power come off of him and bow my head slightly and whisper, "King Noah?" He nods "Please look after her and take her to Scarlett, I don't really care what happens to me but Santiago must not get his hands on her..." "You have my word that she will be protected..." I give Ariel a kiss and then do the hardest thing I could ever think of doing. I pass my precious daughter to a male I don't know, trusting that he is a male of his word. I can't st
CARTER POVI nod as he then leaves, locking the door behind him. I wait and listen; I look at Isabella and she seems to be doing the same. Once Santiago is out of hearing range, she seems to collapse on a sigh. I move quickly and catch her before she hits the floor. I sit her on the floor carefully. However, once she realises that I have my hands on her, she starts to struggle. I smile but let her go and move away from her, saying, "I won't hurt you Isabella and I don't plan on touching you either... At least not until I have to!" She looks at me confused and says softly, "Who are you? How did you convince him to allow you in here with me?" "My name is Carter and I am a friend of Ryker's..."It is then that I hear a small whimpered cry, and it comes from the corner, not in front of me, so I know it isn't from Isabella. I walk o
RYKER POVDuring my meeting with Noah, we think we have come up with a way for me to get into Santiago's territory without him knowing so that I can search for any signs of Isabella. Only Carter, Noah and I knew the plan, as with most infiltrations. The more that know the plan, the more that can go wrong and the more likely that Santiago will find out about it. I make my way out of the pack house and into the woods nearby. I shift and run, making my way out of the border of BlackWater, heading for Blue Water Lake territory. Because Noah is doing his rounds of the packs, he has been given the patrol schedules of every pack in the kingdom for the next few months, as it is always hard to know how long the inspections will last; he needs to spend more time in some packs than others. I crouch low and wait for the patrol to pass and then make my way into the territory; I know they will come across my scent the next time they pass here, but that is also par
ISABELLA POVMy training with my magick fire wolf is progressing but progressing slowly, my pregnancy however is progressing normally as far as I can tell. I have managed to keep it hidden from Alpha Santiago; it is still the same routine; he comes into the cabin and forces himself on me, which is hurting more and more as the pregnancy advances, he then gets me to make him a meal, and then he leaves.Zoey keeps refusing to tell me if it is a son or daughter but says we will have the pup soon, so I have slowly been making a small crib kind of thing which I hide in the corner of the cabin with my concealment spell which is now working without me even having to say anything.I have also been working on making it soundproof and smell proof so that Alpha Santiago won't be able to smell him or her whenever he turns up for his daily fun because I know as soon as my pup comes Alpha Santiago will try to take it away from me. I have also been using
RYKER POVI wake up to my phone ringing... I answer it "Ryker, are you awake and sitting down?" "I am now, Father. What is it? Has something happened?" I don't miss the happiness in his voice as he says, "Yes, we did it! We found your mother!" I quickly sit up. "Is she okay? Did they hurt her?" "She is okay, cuts, bruises and maybe a broken rib, but she is fine. She is asking for you." "Okay, we will set out at first light and head to you and father. We may have a lead on, Isabella, but I may need the King's and your help to get her back.""Of course son, as soon as you get here and have spent a little time with your mother, we will organise a way to find and rescue Isabella." "See you in about two to two and a half days." "See you then!"