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Chapter 28 - Corinda
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2022-02-23 09:29:56
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Trinity of Power Chapter 29 - Casen
We drive through the night to the safehouse. I end up driving the whole way, feeling more agitated than tired. I still want to talk to Sev about what I heard him and Brandon talking about. I’m also worried about how he’s taking everything. He was so cold when we were talking to Corinda earlier and he barely said a word when we got back into the truck after talking with Brandon. He’s even closed down the link, putting up a mental barrier that stays in place even when he’s asleep. He’s starting to shut himself off from me the same way that Corinda has and I’m floundering. I feel so lost without him. I didn’t realize how much I’d come to depend on his comforting touch, physically and in my mind. I love him so much and I can’t stand the thought of him becoming this cold, unfeeling person. The only one that he seems to want to interact with is Brandon. I’m extremely jealous, but I can’t say that I don’t understand it. Brandon has only tried to help him the entire time that he
Huling Na-update : 2022-02-23Trinity of Power Chapter 30 - Devin
Jacob has a fretful night; almost as if he knows that Arya and I are on edge about meeting with CCS and Brandon tomorrow. “Shhh, Jakey. I know. I know. Ma and Pop are worried and you are, too. It’s ok, buddy.” I’m rocking him in the chair by the window. It typically works, but tonight seems to be the exception. We agonized over what we would have Jacob call us for the entire week before we went to visit Xander the first time. We knew that we would see Lacey and Isaac then and we were afraid of their reaction if we took to calling ourselves Jacob’s Mom and Dad. But they had thought of a solution when we came to see them. Jake would call Arya “Ma,” which is the Afrikaans word for “Mom.” I would be “Pop,” the name that both Isaac and I had called one of each of our grandfather’s. And when we spoke of Lacey and Isaac, they would be Mommy and Daddy. “What do you think is going on with him?” Arya asks, pitching her voice over Jacob’s thin whine. “I don’t know, Angel. I think
Huling Na-update : 2022-02-25Trinity of Power Chapter 31 - Brandon
I slept like the fucking dead and am full of energy when Sev wakes me up at 6 the next morning. When I come out of the living room, I find Corinda putting the food away in the cupboards while Case packs a bag of extra clothes for everyone. That worries me. Does he think that they’re going to have to shift quickly? Why would they have to do that when this is supposed to be a friendly meeting? But at the same time, I know that I’m not going to be going home today, so this isn’t going to go as well as they had planned. We leave within half an hour, stopping to get food on the road a little later. Again, I’m blindfolded, which in all honestly, is starting to get really fucking old. I know that I slept most of the day yesterday but I’m all caught up on sleep now and ready to do something. It would be nice if I could at least look at the people I’m talking to. Corinda is a bit more friendly today and Sev and Case are definitely feeling a lot better. I wonder if they were able to t
Huling Na-update : 2022-02-25Trinity of Power Chapter 32 - Arya
“They’re being attacked!” Zak cries. “By what?” I ask, already feeling battle plans formulate in my head. “Witches. Three of them.” Charlie’s voice is strangled with the worry that I can feel rolling off of her. Dev hurries to the cockpit. I overhear him telling the pilot to find someplace to land now. We don’t want the witches to have access to our only escape route. We’ll land here and then shift and run to the fight. “Buckle up, everyone,” the pilot says over the intercom. “We’re going to land now.” We all sit, buckling our seatbelts. I look at the other pregnant she-wolves with us. When it was just meeting with Corinda, Casen, and Severn, I was all for them coming. Now? Not so much. “Ladies - “ I start, feeling my stomach do flipflops as the plane begins descending quickly. “Don’t even think about it Arya,” Kare says, her voice flinty and her eyes like steel. “We just went through this with our mates.” “Yeah, but that was when we knew exactly where the
Huling Na-update : 2022-02-28Trinity of Power Chapter 33 - The Fight
Severn Brandon’s friend, Devin, uses his gift to heal the abrasions, cuts, and bruises I got from fighting the witches, but also replenishes my strength. “Stick with the witch on the left!” he yells to me, Casen, and Brandon. “We’re all going to team up and split ourselves between the witches.” “Got it!” Casen yells back and the three of us take off toward our designated witch. The two guys that had been fighting her take off and join other groups. She seems surprised that we are back and able to fight. That makes two of us. “Make a circle!” Brandon calls. We surround her and Case hits her with a blast of frigid wind so strong that it knocks her back and flecks of ice start to form in the air, pelting the witch with large frost covered shards. Cuts appear on her exposed skin and in her clothing. “Blasted cur!” she screams and throws up a wall of magic, blocking the wind. I cause the earth to roll beneath her, knocking her off balance and casuing her fall to the gro
Huling Na-update : 2022-02-28Trinity of Power Chapter 34 - Corinda
Brandon moans in the backseat as we jolt over tree roots and take hard curves around trees. Each time, Case apologizes, but there isn’t really much that he can do. We had to get the fuck out of there. Those witches showed up out of nowhere and the one sacrificing herself to call the others…there was no way to know when they would show up and when a freaking oracle tells you to get the fuck out, you make tracks as fast as you fucking can. Casen rolls the windows down. He puts his hand out the window, opening it and curling his fingers in towards the himself. The cab of the truck fills with scents from throughout the forest: elm, squirrel, oak, blood, and incense. “They’re about five miles away, but they’re gaining fast,” Casen says. “The plane’s in that clearing right there,” the oracle says, pointing to a stand of trees about a half a mile off. The closer we get, the easier it is to see that there is a clearing and a plane at one end of it. Unfortunately, the trees are
Huling Na-update : 2022-03-02Trinity of Power Chapter 35 - Meredith
I had never been partially taken over by Selene. It was weird to feel her power, have her knowledge, but still be able to have my own thoughts and react as I normally would. She’s the one that drove the truck and told Corinda what to do to help Brandon. And, apparently, our Holy Mother also knows how to hotwire a car. We park in a busy WalMart parking lot. We were looking for a car that was less than 10 years old, unnoticeable, and spacious enough for all five of us to fit in. That last part was a bigger problem, since we needed a backseat for Brandon to lay on. Finally, we find a black Chevy Tahoe. It has three seats, so we can lay Brandon in the backseat. I thank the Goddess that there aren’t any carseats in the Tahoe. I would have felt awful stealing a car from a family with small pups. That would have added way too much stress. As it is, there is all kinds of debris from family life in there, from sports bags filled with football equipment to backpacks to a forgotte
Huling Na-update : 2022-03-02Trinity of Power Chapter 36 - Hakeem
I don’t even notice that we’re flying. The fear that I had while on the way is gone as I watch my mate careen through the forest in that fucking truck from one of the windows. Soon, we’re too high in the air for the witches to follow. They seem to have a level of how high they can fly, being about level with the treetops. Casen gives us a boost and we are at flying altitude quickly. He somehow pushes us off and there is only a slight dip as we get up to speed. Gael and I stare at the window, watching our mate in peril and unable to do anything. “FUCK!” I scream, going to punch the window only to have my hand caught by Liam. I give him a murderous glare. But he only looks at me. “I get that you’re feeling a bit helpless here, Hakeem, but punching a hole in a plane in mid-flight isn’t exactly the best idea.” I pull my fist out of his hand, growling, but I know that he’s right. I look over to see Gael still staring out the window, even though he can’t see anything. He
Huling Na-update : 2022-03-04
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Trinity of Power Epilogue - The Red One
The tunnels twisted and turned in an endless labyrinth beneath the Hoia Baciu Forest. The scent of damp earth mixed with the faint metallic tang of blood and decay. The flickering torchlight cast eerie shadows along the stone walls as I strode through the corridor, my Thane, Sybil, walking briskly beside me.“How is she doing?” I asked without breaking my stride.“She is much more stubborn, much more resilient than we anticipated,” Sybil admitted. “But we believe we may have turned the corner, High Priestess.”“Oh?” I arched a brow, intrigued. Morgana’s torture had been… sluggish. Less satisfying than I had hoped.Torture, after all, is not simply about the body—it is about breaking the mind. True suffering comes when a victim loses their very sense of self, when they beg for death, only to have it denied over and over. And yet, Morgana had proven difficult to crack.Nine months. Nine months of relentless torment. We had shattered her bones and healed them daily, forced her to endure t
Trinity of Power Chapter 219 - Zak
The ride from Texas to our packhouse should normally take 21 hours, but we’ve made it a one-week trip, sending our beta, Landry, ahead of us in our plane. He will help our people move in and settle while Brandon, our parents, and all of our pups take a little side trip for some downtime.Carl, Richard, and Lauren elected to move back to Artemis lands with us. It’s where they lived, where Carl and Richard grew up, and where they raised their older children. Now that they had a new set of pups, they wanted to come back. My mom and Charlie’s parents were also moving back with us. It was their way to see their grandpups grow but also to honor the lives of my father and Charlie.Carl, Richard, and Lauren were a little upset that Dev, Arya, Jakey, and the twins were remaining in Texas and that they wouldn’t be able to see them as much, but we’ve already got a couple of trips scheduled back and forth so that all the cousins could get together and we could see our best friends.Our side trip t
Trinity of Power Chapter 218 - Naomi
The past few months have been some of the most emotionally difficult of my life. Not only am I nearing the end of my pregnancy with our little boy, but we are also leaving Texas— all of us. Except for the old Diana pack and Arya and Dev’s pack, the rest of us will be gone by tomorrow.The last three months have been consumed with finalizing pack laws, succession rules, and building the new packhouses for each territory. We've been moving everything from our old homes, figuring out pack logistics, and ensuring every wolf is accounted for. It’s been exhausting, but necessary.We also had to choose our new betas, gammas, and deltas. In a twist of fate, Donavon asked to be our beta so that Kesha could stay close to Slade and Chloe. Rin made the same request to serve under Case, Chloe, and Sev, so their families could stay together. That means Mike and Seth will also be moving up north. But the tech squad doesn’t need to be in the same room to work together, so at least that transition will
Trinity of Power Chapter 217 - Severn
"Reports have been consistent from all of our sources. Other than one of the fae discovering what was left of Locasta’s body in the bayou, there hasn’t been a single sighting of any Riding Hoods on American soil,” Hawk says.We’re in one of our combined council meetings, with all the alphas from every pack in the U.S., as well as the heads and representatives of the Maiden, Mother, and Crone covens for Hecate. There’s also a representative from the Seelie Fairy Court and an ambassador from the Unseelie Fairy Court. The sooner we can get all of us on the same side, the better we’ll be protected from groups like the Riding Hoods. We’re hoping to expand this into a global alliance—a kind of supernatural U.N.For now, the fae are willing to let the U.S. be the test subject. Convincing the other shifter groups, however, has been difficult. Many remain elusive or outright resistant to the idea. Zak’s presence would have helped—his Goddess gifts have a way of swaying even the most stubborn mi
Trinity of Power Chapter 216 - Bella
After the ceremony, Gregory and I help Jamal back to our cabin. Every time I see him in that damn wheelchair, I get livid all over again. Those witches. I can’t believe Locasta and Morgana got the drop on him.He freely admits he was distracted—he had taken a call from Seth and Mike about incoming witches. It turned out to be nothing, just the Crone coven sweeping through like they promised. Apparently, no one had thought to inform our tech team of that part of the plan. And no one but Jamal had their phone turned on.Morgana had woken up just before the call. While Jamal was preoccupied, she directed Locasta to retrieve a knife from her boot—silver and coated in wolfsbane. They cut themselves free, then stabbed Jamal in the back of the neck, severing part of his spinal cord. He collapsed immediately. The wolfsbane knocked him out, and the silver cauterized the damage. For a time, he couldn’t see, couldn’t hear, couldn’t even breathe on his own.Arya and Dev managed to purge the wolfsb
Trinity of Power Chapter 215 - Brandon
Zak and I have been in a fog since Charlie’s death yesterday. The one and only thing that has brought us any solace is our pups. It seems like, overnight, they began looking more and more like their mother. Though both of them have always had Charlie’s gray, raincloud eyes, their faces and bodies seem to have gotten leaner, their chins more pointed, their cheeks hollowing slightly to reveal high, sculpted cheekbones. Maybe it’s just wishful thinking, but others in the pack have noticed it, too.Our families are around us. Friends come in and out of our cabin. All of our mothers—Lauren, Danielle, and Clara—busy themselves with the pups, cooking, keeping things moving as if that will help. The house bustles with people, but I barely register them.The only things that ground me are Zak’s hand in mine, the weight of Christy’s sloppy kisses on my cheek, the warmth of Jerry’s small body as he curls into my chest.I know I eat. I shower. I dress. I might even respond to people. But it’s all
Trinity of Power Chapter 214 - Gael
So many emotions. Thank the Goddess on High that I’ve been training on how to empty myself of other people’s feelings. If not, I’d be drowning in them, rocking in a corner with my thumb in my mouth. Despair. Pain. Rage. Dread. Determination. They flood over me like a tidal wave, crashing against my mental defenses. But using the techniques Meredith taught me, I let them wash over me and drain away, like waves receding from the shore.I have to keep my head on straight. My job is twofold. First, I need to help my friends process their grief without letting it consume them. Zak and Brandon’s pain is like a living thing, a force that threatens to unravel everything if I don’t keep it contained. I push their suffering to the back of their minds, tempering their anger to something useful. They don’t want this—but they need it.Then there’s Dev. His grief is just as raw, just as deep, but there’s a difference. Beneath his devastation, there’s acceptance. A flicker of hope. He knows that he’l
Trinity of Power Chapter 213 - Devin
Zak and Brandon push through the door, Brandon almost immediately shoving Zak to the floor as a ball of lightning rushes through the air toward them. It slams into the door just above their heads before Gregory vaults over them, a shield of the same crackling energy covering us as we begin to move through the doorway.Gregory’s ability to mimic Morgana’s powers surprises her, giving Jamal the time to step into the room after his mate. His power fills the space, nullifying all the goddess gifts of those within a 100-foot radius (we checked). That includes all the witches’ powers. The only ones that won’t be affected by Jamal’s power are Arya and me. Our gifts aren’t Goddess-given but Goddess-like. He can’t take away what is part of the Goddess.The look on Morgana’s face as she drops like a fucking stone is almost enough to make me smile. Her scream echoes through the stairwell, the resounding thud as she lands and the breath whooshes out of her is immensely satisfying. Unfortunately, o
Trinity of Power Chapter 212 - Iris
I don’t know what gave me the idea of the salt trail. Honestly, I haven’t been able to think of much since I’ve been here. The thought of us being so close to freedom seems unreal. I never thought that I would escape the Riding Hoods alive. It makes the frustration that Charlie is feeling about us going around in circles barely register to me. I’m still finding it hard to believe that we’re going to get out of here.But the salt sparks a memory of my favorite childhood fairytale. My mother hated it, the way that the witch was portrayed, but I loved the thought of children being able to outsmart an adult like that. I read every version I could find and acted it out with my toys all the time. I even made Mom, Dad, and Bella call me Gretel for about a year.So, I really shouldn’t be surprised that my old favorite story came to me in a time of need. The whole scenario was made better by the fact that Charlie called me Gretel. I feel like I’m getting some of me back. Like I’m starting to wa
