ETHAN POVBeing so close to Seraphina, Patrick and I always know what is going and with being her personal guards, we were made to swear loyalty to only her, but over the years, it has become more. We have become friends. So the loyalty bond we started with between us has now evolved into a friendship bond that is much stronger, the only downside is that the connection that use to only go one way now goes both, so now she feels when we are in trouble as well.After Soren's loss of control, once he found Scarlett missing again, Seraphina hasn't allowed him to leave her side unless it has to do with the twins, and even then, most of the time, she has been with him. Alpha Stefan has been a little better with his control, but not having Charlotte close is starting to take its toll, as he is starting to lose his temper more and more. They have now been missing for about two weeks and for both their sakes; we need to find their mates soon.Along with Theodore and Patrick, I have been keepin

H POVAfter resting, I head to the town so I am seen doing my normal things on my day off. I pick up the water and the extra blood bags; I see Maverick walking around the town, too, but other than a quick hello in passing, we do not interact much more. We are not normally together unless we have patrol, so we need to stay with that. I am, however, getting a little worried that Theodore, Patrick, and Ethan are getting a little too close for comfort.I have noticed that Ethan has taken an interest in Maverick and me, but also Benjamin and Duke, now those two are not too bad of a fallback to blame. They are never on time for patrol; they go off route whenever they feel like it and they always seem to be burning and ordering new uniforms.Heading back to the barracks for my scheduled off-day nap, I see Ethan following Benjamin and Duke out to their patrol. It doesn't take them long to wander off of route and head to the territory's border. I only follow for a little while as I already kno

PHOENIX/SOREN POVI head out of the office, go past the barracks and grab the first few guards that are ready and head straight to where the explosion went off. I set us at a fast pace and we make it there before anyone else. There isn't much of a fire. It is like it was made as a flash fire, just enough fire and heat to destroy any evidence that they had left behind.As I wrap my hands in fireproof cloth, I get the guards that came with me to do a perimeter check and to stand guard while I make my way into the bunker, there isn't much left though but I do however find the remains of Ethan in the first cell. I open my link with my Queen,"I am sorry, my Queen... I found Ethan. I will have him moved to the castle morgue and we will hold an honourable funeral for him..""Thank you, Nix!" I don't miss the sob she tried to cover.I then make my way around the cells. Scarlett never told me which one, but she did tell me that she would occasionally hide in one of these prison bunker cells w

SCARLETT POV"Yuck!!""What?""There is off milk and other stuff in here, but there are fresh blood bags."She pulls a blood bag out, takes a good look at it and then finds two glasses. After giving the blood bag a short mix, she fills both glasses up and passes me one and drinks the other herself."That is better. We both haven't had a good amount of blood since they have had us!""Yeah, unless it was from when they made us drink from them... Did you notice that they liked it even more if we made it hurt?""Yeah and you liked making it hurt as often as you could..." we both laugh"Well, I had to give them some sort of pain. I wasn't doing much whenever I fought them...""But then they kept us weak so that we couldn't do much to them. They just wanted a quick workout to get their blood pumping before they then took their pleasure."Once we had finished the glasses of blood, Charlotte washed them up and she helped me to my feet again and we went into the sitting room. Charlotte helped

SCARLETT POVAfter I woke up from falling asleep through the movie, I left Charlotte on the sofa and did a little more snooping around. I searched the kitchen and then move to the bedroom. There wasn't really much in there. I really feel sorry for my mother having to spend so much time in this place. I then search the closet, it is full of the same shirts and shorts. They all smell like my mother but seem to have two underlying unknown scents to them. I would probably say that those scents are from Angus and Leo.I move all the way into the back and find a loose panel in the wall; I open it and pull out a bag; I look inside and see that it has all the things needed to look after someone who is pregnant, including a small ultrasound machine. I smile to myself, as this means I can keep an eye on Charlotte's twins.It takes a couple of days or so; it is hard to tell when one day ends and the night begins down here. Another thing I don't know is how Mother could stand it, but then she was