Anthony parked in the hospital lot. Taking his blazer from the car coat rack, he shut the car door and donned the blazer over the white turtleneck sweater he wore before he walked into the hospital. He was at Asrijet conference when Spencer gave him an urgent call, requesting he drove down to the office quickly. Seven days had passed without seeing Kayla, and it had been like hell. He lived with the suffering, as the break was a source of her happiness. He had to endure the loneliness, even if it was his week of death. Anthony had no idea why Spencer requested he came that urgently, but he hoped Kayla was alright. He was heading to Spencer's office when a chubby, dark-skinned female nurse he knew came approaching with a smile slapped on her face. She was one of Spencer's hard-working nurses that worked both in NHO and the main hospital. “Dr. Spencer asked me to scoop you to NHO conference room. Man, a lot is going on down there as always.”“Is this about Kayla?” Anthony's fear led hi
It all started with Anthony showing symptoms of a life-threatening illness that brought turmoil to Kayla's world, to knowing he was truly sick and on the verge of death, and to finding a cure for his illness. And today, she was following the stretcher moving him into the OR to cure him. There was gladness in her heart, but it felt like glimmers that often came and went away as her heart struggled between fear and hope. Her hand fisted tightly with his. She wished to stay by his side throughout the operation.“You’ll be fine, okay?” Anthony nodded weakly. Medications and sedatives were spreading through him. “I love you.” She leaned down and planted a kiss on his lips.Anthony was emboldened by the kiss from his mate. He was grateful and glad he could see her and get a kiss from her. Because this might be their last kiss.Kayla followed the nurses and stretcher until they got into the OR entrance, and the door got shut after they rode him in. Tears slipped down her face as she stood st
Random chatters, chuckles, laughs, clinking of bottles and more sounds consumed the music blaring on the yacht at night. A few friends and families gathered on the yacht to celebrate Anthony's survival. They were more of KR members than humans, but June couldn't miss out on the celebration, not even on the discussion she was having with her old friend, Alicia. Perky as Kayla was as she just finished a conversation with Irene and two ladies, she went to the long array of food buffets to get herself something delicious.“Hey, you.” Jenifer and Amy were fixing themselves something at the buffet when Kayla came.“Hey,” Jenifer greeted back, smiling.“You look wonderful, Kayla,” Amy commended.“So do you.”“I'm deeply sorry I wasn't around throughout your hard times. Forgive me.” Guilt played on Amy's face. Kayla gave her an assuring smile. “Where is Anthony? I'm curious to see this whole new him. Let me be honest with you, I'd never thought that Anthony could make it. It's all thanks to y
There were signs of impending war in the air. Everyone could smell it. Everyone was getting prepared to fight rather than to run. Several operation plans had taken place in Krypton Pack since Marcus’ unending attack began. The leaders and strategists of the KR Pack military gathered at a large, round table in the war room for yet another operation plan. Silence reigned in the war room. Only the voice of the strategist explaining the map of V Empire territory on the projector was heard.“Breaking through the Fort Knox of V Empire doesn't guarantee our success. Our convention had been all about winning the battle, but not one of us had spoken a word about how to kill Marcus. Nothing kills that old vampire, and he's gotten even stronger as time passed,” the major said.A sudden, disoriented silence followed.“As insatiable as Marcus can be, he still needs Kayla's blood to make himself and V Empire more powerful. He even desires to awaken his grandfather, Artemis, using the blood of many
June had come along with a vision spell her mother insisted she used to find her siblings. June claimed she'd long preserved it because Kayla wouldn't have believed her if she said the truth. Kayla diffused the sparkle-like spell in her bedroom at night. She believed in the vision the spell gave in her sleep. It showed her where her siblings were. Glad as she was to see her siblings for the first time, Kayla and Anthony flew to Australia, where one of her siblings was.One of Kayla's siblings was a waitress in a diner. She hadn't any attribute Kayla expected —quite hostile even to her appearance. Kayla clarified her thoughts about her hostility when she approached her, only to have someone break off her words and order her to sit at a place in the diner. The first approach was discouraging. Nevertheless, the part where the aloof recognized her as one of her siblings was interesting.“I’m not sorry for keeping you and your boyfriend waiting,” she said plainly after taking a sit in the
Anthony eased Kayla onto a single sofa, just after he walked into the dim living room carrying her. He knelt on one knee before her and took off her stilettos. Kayla had talked about her feet hurting, so he couldn't let her walk on her own. What was he there for, if he couldn't offer her help with everything she needed, including the desires she ached to satisfy? His Jebbie had a way of getting him to do things— he knew her feet weren't hurting. She only wanted him to feel her. Taking her leg, he gently took off her black lacy hose and placed a kiss on her shin before holding her gaze, watching the desire blazing in her eyes. Anthony knew his eyes gave off his extreme hunger for her, but he'd empty the tank to keep his hunger at bay. This part of him gave a disturbing feeling he'd hurt her if he ever succumbed to the hunger beating at him right that moment. He barely told the cause of the feeling, yet he knew he'd hurt her for sure. That fear and insecurity wouldn't leave him yet. A
Kayla arched her head back with her eyes shut, drawing a sharp intake of breath as the pleasure cruised through her, consuming the whole of her. Anthony took the hint and drove his tongue through the column of her neck to her chin, and then to her lips before ravaging her mouth with one hell of a demanding kiss.He dug into her at a slow, steady, relenting pace. His hand collared around her neck as he kissed her, extending his kisses along the delicate skin of her neck. He was kissing her neck when he stopped at the feeling that hit him, though he didn't stop the flow of his thrust. Something wasn't feeling right. He still was in the thralls of that fear. It was a foreboding feeling—one he didn't mean to feel —one he couldn't explain. What the heck was it?Pulling out of her, he immediately grabbed her hips and flipped her over so she was on all fours, her ass to him as he knelt behind her. He palmed her ass cheeks firmly and parted them for his easy access. He thrust his hips forward
Anthony arched backward and groaned as the consuming flame of his pinnacle burning through him declined with so much intensity. He panted like he ran a thousand miles without a pause. Puffing out a sigh as he relaxed from his release and the chaotic compulsion from his beast, he opened his eyes. His eyes momentarily glowed vermilion and returned to normal in the next second. Did his vision just turn red?Taking his eyes down, a strong realization struck him alongside a deep feeling of guilt and a sharp, piercing pain in his heart. Kayla was on the bed, covering… wait. “Shit.” Anthony leaned down and took off the hand she used to cover her neck. Seeing the mark imprinted on her neck, he shut his eyes and pushed his head aside as anger and remorse rippled through him. God dammit, he lost his mind to the beast. Fuck his beast. Why would it react this way? He claimed her when he hadn't planned to do it any moment. How sure was he that she was prepared for it?“I’m sorry. I didn't mean for
Three years later.A prolonged silence reigned in a bedroom. The silence had nearly grown beyond silence, but the sound of vacuum cleaners broke through the door as muffled sounds. Anthony lay shirtless in the bed. His eyes were closed as though he were asleep, his hand laying over Kayla's back. Kayla lay with her head and half of her torso on him. Her eyes were wide open. Unlike a shirtless Anthony, she had a gray nightshirt on.Kayla's mind couldn't go through so many thoughts and imaginations without her remembering the hot sex they had last night. It was hot—so hot and rough that she gulped down two bottles of chilled water and energy drinks after. Thank goodness their neighbors lived many blocks away, and their house was soundproofed. Their bedroom including. She and Anthony were glad the kids didn't interrupt, Eaven especially.It was seven in the morning, yet she and Anthony were stuck in the bed like heaven would fall if one of them had left the bedroom. “I went to the hospita
Already, everyone had risen to their feet. A wolf leaped at Marcus. Marcus flew up to the height of the wolf, and drilled his hands and claws into the wolf's torso, splitting the wolf into two. All wolves enraged, Wolan zoomed closer to make a swipe. Marcus leaned backward, his feet scraping the floor as he glided beneath Wolan. He grabbed Wolan’s leg from below, and twisted, wrenching a pained growl off him. Twisting one more time, he flung him to the wall harder, and Wolan broke the unbreakable wall. Dominic rolled over the floor, yelling in pain, holding his leg. Another wolf came at him. Marcus allowed the wolf to descend. Immediately the wolf descended, he took his hand up and penetrated the wolf's chest wall, pulling the wolf's heart out of him. The wolf whimpered and dropped dead, shifting back to a dead human form. Bo zoomed towards him. Marcus caught him in the air by the neck and snapped his neck, throwing him aside.Camlin stood up and tossed the spring-chained axe at him.
Marcus switched to his vampire form—a pale ash skin, visible veins poking out on the layer of his body, long fangs, pointy ears, dark eyes like midnight, a face like an animal, and longer claws. Kicking Anthony in the torso, he slashed the claws of his hands at him, slicing his throat and face, blood surging out of Anthony's wounds with pressure. Anthony bounced back and healed.Making another slash with the claws of his left hand, Anthony bent backward and let his hand swing past his face, then he sprang up to claw back at him but he leaned backward. Marcus stood upright and stabbed his claws into Anthony's stomach, pulled him closer with his claws in his stomach, and buried his fangs into his neck. Anthony growled in pain. Retracting his fangs and claws, he shoved Anthony aside by his neck.Anthony fell and changed back to his human form, convulsing, grunting, and groaning. Kayla heaved herself from the floor and ran up to him, holding him closer in her arms, while he struggled to h
The room quietened. The vampires dropped, yet everyone still squared up vigilantly, prepared for even the most sudden attack. Before their eyes, the throne chair turned its back to them and slowly turned again. Marcus appeared sitting on it with his hands on the armrest. His puckered brow emanated pure rage and vengeance. The sight of him only had everyone getting even more prepared. Marcus worked his eyes around for a while.“My empire. My soldiers. Everything that I spent every century of my life building, has crumbled before my eyes,” Marcus said. His tone was placid but pressured by existing rage. “Words can never express how angry I have become. But actions can.”The moment his chair turned, deep growls apart from the wolves’ resonated in the room. Not aware of where it came from, they looked around. Screeching, hisses, growls, and snarls clouded the atmosphere. It took a while before they grabbed the situation. The dead vampires were awakening again. The ones without complete bo
One of the elders lifted Catelyn from the floor and slammed her against the wall on the platform. The elder with fire radiating from his hands zoomed to the platform and unleashed the fire on her. Catelyn still on the floor, quickly put out her hand and blocked his fire. A hand wasn't enough, as his fire conquered hers, she added another hand.Fierce rumbles erupted from Jacob as he took a defense stance in his hybrid form, ready to take on an ascendant that was baring his fangs in front of him. The ascendant zoomed forward. Jacob met him midway and pulled his head off his body. An elder came behind Jacob's back and lifted him from the floor, trying to dismember him with telekinesis. Jacob growled in pain as the elder spread his limbs apart, pulling them from his torso. Unable to endure the energy and pain, he shifted back to his human form the second his hand fell off his body.Tally spotted Jacob. He growled with rage and zoomed toward the elder that was dismembering Jacob. Another
They looked up and saw Anthony passing the wall Marcus had passed through.Anthony appeared straight right in Marcus's main chamber through the wall. He wasn't sure he had seen anything so demonic as Marcus's throne. One could swoon at the sight of the red-eyed and fanged sculpted cobras serving as the armrests of the throne chair. Sadly, he wasn't intimidated by the creepy things in the room, not even by the people in the room.Approximately ten vampires in black hooded cloaks stood on the left, and twenty in scarlet hooded cloaks on the right. Anthony was certain of one thing… the black cloaks were elder vampires with powers, and the scarlet cloaks were ascendant vampires with powers that were unlike the ones he fought back there.He was here to send this ancient bozo with faded green eyes to where he belonged. The grave. With rage, vengeance, bravery, and readiness trapped in him, he stepped closer and stood a bit close to the middle of the vampires. “I knew you'll come.” Anthony
Anthony and Amber made it back into the building after fighting their way through. They were met with unusual changes when they stepped into the lobby. The whole place now seemed digitalized and modern, rather than an ordinary palace lobby.“Where are we?” Amber asked.Anthony continued strides and Amber followed. “This building is technical. A complicated great work of science. It changes form.”“So, you know where we're going? How do we know where Marcus is?” “Follow me.”Amber retrieved a pistol from his pocket and shot a newborn alighting from the stairs above ground and the newborn burst. Her light brown eyes bore into Anthony's. “Get your head in the game.” She was giving the pistol back when another vampire that had killed his opponent came at them. She spun around and shot the vampire. “I’ll keep this.”They continued further to the rolling staircase.Anthony and Amber stood before a wall that was sliding open. Both froze at the situation on sight. The place was large like a
Anthony continued further, lurching as he walked. He was hopeless, pained, and afraid, his eyes red with tears as he breathed shakily. His beast wouldn't stop growling in his head, clawing at him, so restless—the beast was enraged and pained as him.Marcus's scent was always there. He might go the wrong way if he followed it. But there were other scents on the path he walked. The scents he'd smelled in the chamber, along with Marcus's. A realization waltzed in, shooting him into motions. He could follow those scents to wherever they took his mate to.With haste and fury, Anthony walked from one hallway to another and entered four different elevators that lead to different floors, paving his way with the solar lamp and pistols he used to knock down the vampires that crossed his path.Anthony was met with ten soldiers in gas masks right in the passage where the scents took him. He stood many feet from the vampires, staring at them, getting himself prepared. He was confident that Kayla w
Anthony remained in a stance, a foot, a knee, and palms on the earth, his glowing eyes surveying his surrounding. Newborn vampires. Fledglings. They were everywhere around. They were aiming his way. He could smell them, their courage, confidence, and their readiness. He even smelled their deaths. Both far and near, he heard every single sound they made. His right ear twitched. There were two vampires on different trees in his vicinity, fifteen coming at him. They were two hundred in the forest right then, but only a few were after him.The newborn on the tree descended, one coming from his front and three from his left. Anthony yanked his machine gun off his shoulder, sprang up from the ground, and shot the newborn descending from the tree. He threw the machine gun up in the air, sliced the neck of one of the vampires with his poisonous claws, snapped and pulled the other's head. Then he caught the machine gun once it came down, and shot the five coming at him. Their screams, hisses,