SARCANALeo helped me drag the unconscious Mia inside Bastien’s house while Bastien and Ivan remained outside for a while. Knowing Bastien, I had a pretty good idea what it was that he was planning to tell Ivan.“Help me lay her on the couch there,” I said to Leo as we got into the living room.“What about Javier? We need to save him as soon as possible too,” Leo responded.“Damn it, Leo. I have not forgotten about Javier, just help me get Mia to the damn couch,” I snapped.He grumbled something and reluctantly helped me take Mia to the couch.Earlier, I had told them that Mia collapsed back into a coma because she had used too much of her power to get us out of the reinforced cell in the dungeon and this was true but not the whole truth. I could sense a whole lot of Rylee’s magic hovering around my child.It was this magic that kept her weak and made it so that she kept slipping back into a trance at any minor exhaustion. It was a miracle that Mia woke up when she did and helped us.

RYLEEThe attack was insane, I went after the vampire king, Philip, it was his betrayal that I felt the most and I thought needed to be punished first.The vampire king went after the rogue king, probably for the same reason I was going after him and the rogue king came after me.Every one of us had a different target that we wanted to maim or kill.In my case, the rogue king was trying to maim me and not kill me because, despite his rage, he was smart enough to know that they still needed me to perform the ritual when the blood moon emerged later today.The same thing applied to the rogue king. Philip knew that killing him now would be a mistake because Mia was still in his possession and protected by his people. If anything happened to their leader, the pack would cut their losses and just kill Mia making sure none of us got a chance to steal or claim her power.The only person who was truly expendable at that moment was the vampire king, he was the one who could be killed without t

MIAThe whole situation still felt like a dream or a nightmare, I was sure that I would wake up from it in no time, any moment from now, I kept telling myself, I would wake up in the strong arms of Javier and he would still be sleeping obliviously on the bed with Ivan and I.Yes, any moment from now I thought but the longer we stood there gazing into the night after Javier, the longer nothing of the sort happened and I realized with growing terror and fear that what happened was not a dream or a nightmare, it was reality. Javier must have snapped or something must have happened to him to make him do something like this. No way this was normal, someone must have done this to him."What now?"I asked absent-mindedly.Bastien was already reacting. That was the thing about him, no matter the situation we were in, I could always count on him to keep a level head and take action swiftly.He hurried over to my mom carried her off the floor and onto a sofa and laid her down carefully.Leo

JAVIERIt was a shock to me that I was standing right there, so close to her. I wanted to reach out and rip out her throat but my body would not let me do that.I cussed inwardly, this was bad, by the looks of things she was the one responsible for what was happening to me, if I could just take her out, the spell or whatever the hell this was would be broken.She was still smiling and had not yet answered the question I asked her earlier, I repeated it with much difficulty, the dark liquid that I was drowning in made talking very difficult.“What the fuck do you want from me?” I said baring my teeth.“There is no point in a puppet asking its master what the goals of the master are. Its job is just to obey wordlessly and move as the master pulls its string.” She said and laughed hoarsely.I took another step forward, “I am not your damn puppet you sick witch, tell me how to break this spell.”She stopped smiling and locked eyes with me, “Why the hell would I do something like that? I c

IVANMy heart felt bad for Mia, having to swap her out in the middle of a serious fight like this but I was totally on board with my dad's reasoning.We could all think better and work better without Mia here, if she was not around for us to worry about, we could focus on the task of getting my brother back."Where did you send her?" I asked her mom."I..." Bastien cut her off."Don't tell him," he commanded."What? What the hell is that supposed to mean?" I said, anger rising in my chest."It's not what you think son, better if only she knew exactly where Mia is, for security reasons.""You think that I would rat out my mate's location if I get tortured or something like that?""You might not have a choice, Rylee is a powerful psychic. The only one among us here that can counter her mental prowess is Sarcana. So it is best if only she knew where Mia was and besides," he looked at Leo, "You might not rat her out but someone else here might.""Great, keep treating me like a criminal wh