-Angeline/Violet-It was my first time to be in the frontlines but I was not afraid. Even though all I did was swing my spear that was made of wood which was created by one of Ethan’s warriors. At first, I wasn’t really keen on the idea of me riding Ethan’s back but after finding out how important my role would be, I just can’t say no. How can I say no when the Alpha’s safety solely relies on my ability to keep those monsters off his back? ‘Are you alright?’ Ethan asks as he pulls apart another vampire. Seeing what he does even though I have already seen it several times, still makes my stomach churn wanting me to throw up everything in my stomach. ‘I am fine,’ I said, which was a half lie and half-truth. ‘You don’t need to lie to me,’ he replied as he ran towards one of his warriors who was having difficulty with the vampire he was fighting with.‘I am not lying,’ I retorted, ‘And why are you always in my head?’ I asked irritably. ‘Because you allow me to,’ his reply was plain a
I have never attended any meeting in my life other than the meeting that I had with Ethan while I was with Stefan before. It was the first that Stefan allowed me to attend only because he wanted to show me off. But even then, I was just seated on the sides never considered to be part of his group unless he asked me to be. Ethan is different. Instead of sitting behind him, I was seated beside him on one side Fiona was seated on the other side while Lucas was standing at the back. People look at us and for the first time, I was afraid that they might recognize who I really am.I felt strong hands squeezing mine and found Ethan’s big hands wrapping my super clammy and sweaty hands. ‘Calm down,’ Ethan whispered calmly, ‘No one will recognize you.’ I looked at him but he was looking elsewhere. I released my breath I didn’t know I was holding and looked ahead, only to be surprised to see that Stefan was looking directly at me. ‘I think Stefan knows,’ I said as I looked away. I can’t
-Angeline/Violet-“That was my son,” I said as I sat on my couch in the home I have in Ethan’s pack. “That’s my son and I didn’t even get the chance to hold him.” Fiona sat beside me and rubbed my back.“He was this close,” I said, showing how small the distance between my son and me with my index finger and thumb. “He was so close and yet I wasn’t able to hug him.“You know why you can’t, Vi,” Fiona’s voice was soft and sad like she was feeling what I was feeling. “I know,” my voice breaks as tears start to fall. Ethan and the rest of the guys never said a word. They silently stayed in the room as they let me pour all my pain. I felt my whole tremble as my sobs became louder and louder. And yet no one dared stop me from crying. No one complained or said anything, they just gave me the silence I needed as I let myself fall apart. Hours passed, and I didn’t even notice that the sun had already set. But what surprised me the most was the fact that dinner was already set on my dini
-Angelica-It’s been over two years since the last time I saw my son. Ever since that moment I never stopped training. I learned all the combat skills that I could learn, starting from Merrik to Ethan. I learned the art of seduction from Fiona and learned to wear something even though it looked like I was not wearing anything.I also requested Ethan to teach me how to cook, and I was glad that I was able to convince him despite his already full schedule. “No, you don’t do that!” Ethan shouted when he saw how I placed all the vegetables at the same time. “You didn’t tell me that they aren’t supposed to be dropped one at a time,” I said frowning. I know I said I was thankful that Ethan took the time off so that he could teach me how to cook but I never said I was happy with it.Ethan closed his eyes and breathed in before opening them again and said in the kindest tone he could master.“Vegetables aren’t all the same, some of them are so soft that they only require just a few minutes.
-Angelica-I look around the house that became my home for the last five years. My letters have also been prepared before I set towards the pack house to meet with Ethan and the rest of the team who’s headed to assist the Wave Water Pack. “All set?” Ethan asked as I walked into his office and nodded. “You know that you don’t need to join these brutes, right?” Fiona asked pointing at her brother and his friends. “We are not brutes,” Merrik complained.“Yes you are,” Fiona said sticking her tongue out to him. Watching them bicker is one of the highlights of my day. I can’t help but smile when I see them the way they are. How it feels to be young and without any pressure of adulthood.“Okay if all of you are ready, then it’s time to go,” Ethan said, looking at me. “Can’t I make you change your mind?” Fiona asked once again.“I will be fine,” I said as I held onto her shoulder, but then decided to pull her close to me because I knew that she would be one of those that I would miss abo
-Angelica-I wasn’t expecting a lot of newborns to attack us. But what surprised me most was the fact that Vampires are there to fight with us, just like what Ethan had said.At first, awkwardness can be felt between the wolves and the vampires since what we are fighting against are also vampires. “Ethan,” the biggest and most handsome guy shouted. “We need to make sure that all the women and the children are in a safe place.” Ethan nodded but it was the pack leader who responded, “We are starting to move them,” he said as he split a newborn vampire in half. “I have a feeling that this is just the beginning,” the leader of the vampires said. “And just like what I had said, these newborns are not created by any of us. I mean they are not bitten. I don’t know how exactly they were created but I have a hunch.” “Please tell,” the leader of the pack said.“Vampire blood was still used obviously but, it’s either they were injected with it or it was drunk,” the leader of the vampires, Kr
-Angelica-“What were you thinking?” Ethan shouted, waking my senses. “You were almost mauled over by those newborns!” Of all the times I had been in his pack, this was the first time that I heard him shout at me. In the five years that I have stayed with him, this was the first time he had lost control of his temper. Despite all the teasing and bickering that we had, he never shouted at me the way he was shouting at me now. “I’m sorry,” I said trembling, not because I was scared of him but because I knew how close I was to dying.“Hey, man,” the guy who saved me said as he placed a hand on Ethan’s shoulder. “You gotta chill. Can’t you see she’s trembling with fear?”Ethan turned to face him, the anger on his face was something I had never seen before. “Sebastian!” Kristoff shouted, his voice booming and echoing inside the room. “Don’t interfere with something that isn’t in your jurisdiction.”But instead of following Kristoff, Sebastian moves in front of me hiding me from Ethan.“S
-Angelica-My head hurt so bad that it took me a hard time opening my eyes. “Don’t move too much,” Raja ordered. “Or else you’ll break a lot more bones than you already did.” I stopped moving but opened my eyes. I let my eyes roam around but since I can’t move I can only see the ceiling.“Where am I?” I asked. “In a place you don’t need to know,” Raja replied before touching my leg, twisting it in a way that I ended up screaming. “What the hell, Raja?” I asked angrily as the pain lingered on my leg.“Oh, I’m sorry,” she replied. “Does it hurt?”I bit my lip to avoid talking back at her for fear that she would just hurt me more. “What’s wrong with you?” I asked, “Are you mad at me?” I waited for Raja to answer but instead of answering me, she took a very deep breath. “So, are you just going to pretend I don’t exist?” I asked trying to prompt her to answer me.“You, Violet, no longer exist,” her reply was soft and sad but even so, this time I remained quiet. Once again Raja rele
-Stefan-As the war erupted, I made sure I didn’t lose sight of Angeline. I watched how she fought on her own, without using our son’s power.The first wave of newborns came and as much as it pains me to see all the lives that had been lost, I know for a fact that killing them would give them the peace that they long for. Angeline continued her trek toward the source of all this bloodshed and none of the newborns dared touch her. It was as if she was wearing an invisible shield all around her. Unfortunately for the newborns, such a shield does not save them from her. She continued to slice everyone who comes to her even those who don’t directly do. She cut the heads of those trying to kill our people and kept as many of them as safe as she could. She was ruthless as she was passionate and I know that when the clock struck 12, I would lose the most important person in my life. ‘Don’t do this,’ once again I begged the love of my life to reconsider the decision she made. Her eyes went
-Angeline-I don’t know what happened or when it started. Or when Elias slipped out of the room as Stefan and I started to bicker about something I felt was already decided.After what seemed to be an hour of non-stop shouting because we thought it would make a difference or that what we were saying could be heard, we both looked at each other as we both slumped on the floor. “I can’t Angeline,” he said as his voice cracked and pain was painted on his face. “I just can’t lose you again.”“You won’t,” I replied but didn’t promise as I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to fulfill it. “You won’t know the outcome,” Stefan cried as he leaned his head back against the wall. “Baby we can’t just let them die,” I pointed out. “As leaders of this pack, we need to make sacrifices to make people safe.” Even if those sacrifices meant that we were destined to be together. “Haven’t we sacrificed enough?” Stefan asked. “This is too much.”“Stefan, this is our only hope, and I am not just doing this f
-Stefan-There was a way out of this mess and yet I don’t want it. Angeline, my son, and I already spoke over the phone regarding it but I couldn’t for the life of me agree with the plan. But what I hated more than the plan was being stuck in this cottage feeling powerless. I hated the fact that I was once again leaving my wife, my Luna, and my Mate in danger. I am the Alpha of this pack and yet I haven’t done anything good to her. The only time that I saved her, or I think I did was also the time that I brought her to face so many hardships and pain alone. Isn’t there a way that I would be the sacrifice instead of her?Goddess, why can’t it be me?A commotion outside of the room pulled me out of my negativity as I stood and opened the door to check on it. “What the hell is—,” I wasn’t able to finish my sentence as I saw the reason for the commotion standing in front of me. “Angeline,” I breathed, as I was taken aback by her beauty. It’s been a while since I saw her face, her or
-Angeline-As my son and I were trying to figure out what had happened, a person appeared before us, and it was the last person I expected to see. “Hello child,” she said in a voice so melodic, that it made me want to fall asleep. “Grandma?” My son asks, taking me by surprise once again. “You know her?” I asked, even though it was pretty obvious. But still, he replied to answer me. “Yeah,” he said, scratching the back of his neck, “She showed up the moment I found out that I was different.” “Does your father know?” I asked, not sure if I could handle another betrayal. But he shook his head no and I found some comfort in the fact that there are things that my son and I only share.“I know you have so many questions but we don’t have enough time,” she said in a hurry. “There is a chance for you to win this war with fewer casualties but there is a sacrifice needed to be made,” she said. “What sacrifice?” I asked and immediately added, “And don’t tell me that I would need to sacrifi
-Ethan-As I reach the border where Sebastian and his surviving people where I can’t help but be afraid. Stefan had warned me about what had happened to Claire and the reason why he was quarantined. “Ethan,” Sebastian said as he looked at me with tired eyes. “Apologies for the precaution that I’m taking,” I replied as we kept the gates closed.“I understand,” Sebastian replied. “What do I need to do to prove my loyalty to you?” He asked. “Tell me what happened,” I asked. “Honestly, I don’t know,” He replied running a hand through his messed-up hair. “We were all minding our business. I was at the back of the clan checking on our people who chose to live alone or far from the city when one of our guards called me about the attack and told me not to go to the city and save as many people as I could.” I nodded. “We didn’t stop running since then,” Sebastian said as he gestured to the people behind him. Ethan looked at Sebastian and he knew that the kid wouldn’t lie to him. He als
-Angeline-I gathered the black warriors, and as usual, we made sure we had warriors that would assist people in the safe place. We decided that Martha, Lina, and I would remain outside, while the rest would manage the people inside the safe place. I look at my son worriedly because as a mother I wanted him to be safe. But instead of doing that, he wanted to stay by my side. ‘Stop worrying, Mom,’ he said through a mind link. ‘Worse case scenario I will be protecting you.’It’s hard to shrug my worries away, but just as what my son and Stefan asked of me, I need to trust them both that we would be okay. With just the two of us, my son turned to face me as he asked, “Does my Aunt have any powers?”“Not that I remember,” I replied. “As far as I remember none of her children also have any powers. How did you know you have powers?”“Dad,” he replied. “He sensed and saw it. And when he realized that I could understand him already, he started making me play with Uncle Elias to learn some
-Angeline-I am nursing a very painful headache as I watch my son act like his age.After hearing his explanation, a part of me still can’t believe that it was true. He had been very patient with me as he watched his own mother get more and more confused about everything that he was trying to explain. “Ethan is here,” Mrs. Smith announced as she entered the room. “I will meet him at Stefan’s office,” I replied. My son turned and looked at me, reminding me of the plan that he and his father had come up with. “You want to come along with me?” I asked almost forgetting that I was supposed to talk to him like he was a child. “I don’t think that he should go,” Mrs. Smith said disapprovingly.I turned to her and said, “I don’t want him far away from me. And if god forbid something happens to Stefan we both know that he would be taking that place. As much as I want to protect him, war is coming and it is best that he learns a thing or two about it, even though all I wanted is for him to
-Angeline-I don’t know what surprised me more. The fact that Stefan was now quarantined because of the possibility that he might become a newborn, or the fact that my son was someone I never knew he was.“Talk,” I said to Stefan, unable to confirm what I felt towards him. I was mixed with anger, confusion, fear, betrayal, and on top of all of those things, I had so many questions. “Before you get angry, Angel please hear me out,” Stefan pleaded and by the sound of his voice I can guess that he was now walking back and forth from where he was. “You have one minute before I decide not to talk to you ever again,” I threatened. “Angel,” he said almost crying out. “50 seconds,” I replied. “I didn’t know that his mind grew faster than his body until he was three years old, which is why I was so overprotective of him. I always knew that our son was special, but I didn’t know that he was more than the word,” Stefan started to explain. “He aside from his matured mind, our son has the ab
-Angeline- “I’m afraid, that there’s a possibility that our time will once again be cut short,” Stefan started to say, “We are being quarantined because there might be a possibility, just a small one, that I might become a newborn.”My body shook as I heard what he just said. “Angel?” I heard Stefan’s panicked voice but I was lost for words. “Baby, breathe,” he said soothingly. “I can’t run to you right now and that frustrates me so much. Please, talk to me.” I could hear him begging but it felt like I was in limbo frozen from where I stood.“Momma?” The voice I loved so much called. “Why are you crying?” He asked. He was getting better with his words. And just like that my head turned and I saw the reason why I was still alive. The reason why I fought so hard. I kneeled in front of him and pulled him to me. How do I tell my son about his father? How do I say to him that once again his family might fall apart?“There you are—,” Mrs. Smith said finding my son but stopped the momen