“You think they might have done something like this to her? Impregnated her?” Claire asked incredulously. She was clearly shocked. “She’s fourteen.”“Age wouldn’t matter to a beast like Darkness,” Gary said. “They are incapable of feeling emotion. More than likely, she was terrified. Her terror would have given them the rush they needed. They feed on the fears of others. That’s why they torture before they kill. If she was very, very scared, they would have tried just to increase her fear.”Claire looked at her lifemate. He touched her cheek gently. “Go, find her,see to her. The moment the others come, I will aid you.”Claire nodded once, leaned down to brush the top of Elina’s head with a kiss and hurried out. Tensel looked after her and then sighed. You realize, Damonq, that many of the ancient supernatural may reject the idea of a child with any DNA from Darkness.I am very aware. Damonq knew he sounded grim. He felt grim. He was preparing to go to war with his kind, should they tr

“You were gone so long. I was worried about you.” Elina muttered wearily. Damonq noted that she didn’t ask if they had been successful, only said that she was worried for him. He couldn’t remember a time someone had worried for him. He tucked her hand over his heart and took the wrist Ferro practically forced against his lips.It was difficult not to gulp the ancient blood. The moment he took it in, it began to work its magic, spreading through him quickly, infusing his cells and organs with rich, life-giving energy. He felt power rushing through him, filling him again when he’d been so spent.The moment Gary had taken his fill from Sandu, he rose. “I will return at sunset. We should be ready for a fight, Damonq.”“A fight?” Elina echoed. “What does that mean?”Damonq didn’t like that she sounded frightened. He closed the laceration on Ferro’s wrist and put his arm around Elina. “Thank you, healer. We will be ready.”Gary gave an old-world, slight bow and was gone, shimmering one mome

STORMThe air was gentle and cool outside, good for sunbathing. I stretched my legs out, and twinkled my toes, finding it funny that I was out here at Justin’s swimming pool, having the time of my life whilst there at the outside world-for this is what it seems like, like I was just in another world here-people were looking for me, hoping to get some bounty for capturing me. Yikes! What was taking my friends so long though? Did Kaden refuse to see them? Had he believed the reports about me? Well, I don’t think so. Yes. Even though I had just known Kaden in the space of a week or so, I could tell that he wasn’t fickle and easily bought over by some rumors. He just seems like the kind of person that would trust a little bit of more investigation into the fact. Or was that all in my imagination? For my sake, I hope it is not true. I hope that Kaden had taken Justin and Lucy in, and that the reason why they aren’t here yet was because there was a hitch in movement, or that things were ge

KADENShe was speechless after my question about the whereabouts of her room. I knew where her mind had ran off too, and I liked it. I liked seeing her reactions to me. I shifted closer to her on the sofa, invading her space, needing to have a taste of her plump pink lips that have been beckoning on my attention since I had seen them at the pool area. That had been the moment when the flames had begun dancing, or had it been around all this while, subduded in the background since our hot make out section in the bathroom at her father’s burial service? But seeing her clad only in a bikini had resurrected those flames which were threatening to burn me up if I don’t have a taste of her now. She leaned back on the couch, her breath catching as she stared at my lips too. She wanted this. I can see it in her eyes. Quickly, not wasting any more time, I made my decision, not minding that someone could walk in on us right at the moment. I don’t think she cared too, or rather she didn’t rem

STORM“How…what..uhmm..” I was sputtering now like a fool, not believing my eyes at who I was seeing here now. How had she gotten in? “You seem startled and speechless. My surprise visit must be too much a shock then. I had actually thought you would faint from fright on seeing me or that you wouldn’t be able to remember me, since it was only once that you had seen me, in your dream.” The woman, or rather the angel that I had seen in my dream some days ago, said. Now, she was without wings and was donned in a simple long sleeved blue gown that stopped at her heels. She was wearing blue ballerina shoes. How had she gotten here though? Did she just appear? Was she the force that had dropped the book on my bed or left the messages? “I had thought to come and go like the energy before, but I just thought it better that you see me physically. I am the force that kept the book on your bed.” She continued, and I nodded my head as if in a trance, subtly cleaning my eyes with my hands. To b