StefanIt became clear to me that the Northern Pack was not going to respond as quickly as I thought, but I calmed down enough to be patient. Then Dalia smiled and approached me happily.“I've found another way to get the spells we need,” she said with a very happy smile and Ariel shook her head, as if she knew what she was talking about. “I saved the blood of the slave girls we discarded and it happens to feed something on the other side of the energy veil.”I frowned.“What about all the ingredients and astronomical events needed to achieve spell stability?” I asked and she smiled.“That's a thing of the past, now I have direct communication with the other side of the magical veil and I can do a direct energy exchange without us having to sacrifice ours,” she said and that left me with my mouth hanging open. “But it comes at a price.”“Sacrificing Omegas and I'm against that. They are part of our chain of power and hierarchy, they do the necessary jobs for the whole pack,” Ariel sai
Jackson“It can't be,” said the wizards who were present.Both the matriarch and the rest of the wizards looked completely horrified. Something in their faces was completely unhinged, as if they understood the dimension of what was happening. Only their leader, Jacob, was in control.Without hesitation, I asked them, “Do you know what this is about?” “Forbidden.”Was the word used by the matriarch and leader, Jacob.Marcel watched them with some pity, but he was the one who decided to answer the question properly.“It's called Onyx magic,” Marcel said and we all turned our attention to him. “It is a magic that is practiced in places where the veil of energy is broken and transports to dimensions where there are completely dangerous creatures. Creatures we don't know about because the gods vetoed from our land because they were a completely unhealthy plague.”The matriarch nodded and the sorcerer watched in disbelief.“How do you know so much about this?” asked Jacob in dismay. “We ar
AliceThe matriarch was in a bad way.Not only did she feel guilty, but she felt responsible and that made her try much harder than usual to the point of energy exhaustion. I had to send her to sleep after she joined the groups to make as many Onyx stone charms as possible.As the days passed, the tension was great, and the hermeticism continued in the Southern Pack. The information from the wizards, the vampires, and our own intelligence team was varied; however, they only agreed on a couple of things, and that was that Stefan was controlling the wolves with magic.The reactions to the fact that he himself was a conduit of magic were bad.For the first time, I managed to see some fear on the faces of the Cuburua sorceresses, which was not a normal thing. I knew they were brave, organized women who feared nothing, but if they were afraid of that, it didn't bode well.“Are you okay?” asked Jackson as we lay down on the bed. “How's your back pain still?”"The pain is the same, but I fee
AliceAfter Marcel's recommendation, Jackson wanted to put me in a glass box.His concern was wonderful, but the extreme care made me want to pull my hair out immediately and I was tired of it. His overprotectiveness was adorable, but there were no limits.“Go help with the loads,” I said, annoyed. “I'll be fine with the matriarch here by my side.”“But right now you're going to get up to—”“Go,” I said in a much harsher tone of voice.Jackson sighed, but helped load the boxes and line them up so that finally both myself and the matriarch, with the help of the sorceresses, did the protection spell. When everything was ready, we all stood barefoot and exchanged the energy of the earth."Hail, os rogier!”We repeated the request for protection until the light of magic bathed each and every onyx stone. It was a beautiful thing to see, but at the same time it was something that made me a little weak, so Jackson didn't hesitate to take me in his arms when we were done and carry me off to s
JacksonHearing what Stefan could do made me boil with fury.I felt like my blood was hot lava recirculating throughout my body. There was no more logical comparison than that, so I had to take a deep breath to keep from exploding like I wanted to.The wretch wasn't playing fair, so I couldn't help but take this much more personally than it already was. One of my greatest pleasures would be to kill the bastard with my bare hands.“You guys, okay?” I asked the Alpha of the Central Pack. “Do you need more support or anything?”“No, we withstood the attack very well, so well that he is surely going to rethink his next moves; now he knows we have knowledge of how to counterattack their magic, so they will be more cautious about attacking us; however, I would not let my guard down because he is able to feel out if it is a matter of one pack or all of them. As long as we don't know how informed he is of our pact, we can only assume what he would want to do.”“It's not going to take him long
StefanPower was pleasurable.There was nothing better than feeling power and watching the wolves follow my orders without complaint was a complete adventure. I was so determined to test my plans; I created a plan to see if the Central Pack would cave in.“Are you sure you want to do that?” asked Ariel. “Still no change in weapons; maybe if we wait a little longer, we can subdue them completely.”“Coercion is all I need to accomplish what I want, so send one of the best groups to lead the attack and kidnap their family,” I said, amused. “I want to see how long that arrogant Alpha is able to take to come begging for mercy. So, I'll use that wild card so I can manipulate him and you finally use his troops. Like it or not, he has the might to compete with the Northern Pack, and I know that, if I add more wolves to my ranks, I'm assured of a win.”“I still doubt the plan,” Ariel said and I looked at him wearily. “It is very good and well-armed, but we do not fully know their defenses. The
AliceSomething was wrong.I didn't know exactly what, but I couldn't feel it in my veins or in the way my family was carefully acting through me. It felt like we were back to the time when I was completely unaware of what was going on and everyone was trying to take care of the information bomb falling on me.Do you think something is going on?I think there's too much going on, Selene said cryptically.I'm not for the nonsense of omission; I just want to know what's going on with everyone. It's like they have some kind of veil now when it comes to telling me things. I didn't notice it before, but now I do.It's good to see that you can see it, but the reality is that I'm the same as you. I'm puzzled about what's going on beyond understanding that too many things are going on at the same time, Selene said carefully.You don't think I'm the one overreacting?I don't know. I see that there is a lot of tension and maybe there is care for you because you are pregnant, which is the realit
Alice“The potion is ready,” Glenda said as we were eating lunch and I nodded.I set my plate aside and both Jackson and Angel got up at the same time I did. They both looked completely serious, so I saw Glenda look a little self-conscious.“I already explained how it works, so you're going to be with me for the interrogation,” I said and she nodded. “It won't be a pretty sight to see and even though I know you're one of Cuburua's best warriors, maybe what you hear or see will be completely out of the mold.”“Don't worry, I understand what's going on,” Glenda said.We went to the cells and I noticed that the prisoner hadn't slept because of the dark circles under his eyes. The aconite nullified his wolf powers, so his human characteristics were all he had left and it was clear he wasn't having a good time.Angel reached for something and then shot some kind of dart at him that made the prisoner curse; that's how guards came in and chained him from the ceiling, then grabbed him and ope