It has been 10 hours since the fighting has stopped, and Alpha Erickson is still sitting there with his head in his hands and murmuring softly to himself things I can’t hear because he is saying them too low to be audible. Sitting next to Dominic, I rest my hand on his chest so that I can be alerted the minute his breathing stops. It had become labored again about an hour ago and then for a split second it stopped and started again.
When it did, my heart almost gave out. Matter of fact, in some weird way, I feel like we are connected by more than what I had originally thought. With every beat of his heart, my love deepens for him, and I just wish that there was someway of bringing him out of this unscathed. I can’t help but to wonder, if I have already sold my soul and my first child, what else do I have to give?
As I lay my head gently onto his chest and close my eyes, I feel a slight movement. At first, I think it is just h
After watching the screens for what seems like hours with my eyes glued to them, I sit back relaxing and close them for a few minutes. Feeling like this day can’t possibly get any worse, I reopen my eyes to see that Dominic still is nowhere to be found on any of the screens. It’s just amazing that this has all happened. I just don’t understand why this whole thing happened in the first place. We have been at peace for quite some time before this and now a witch or something else is in our mists. Shaking my head, I begin to stare at the screens again in hopes of seeing a glimpse of Dominic. “Are you alright?” Omega Ned stares at me before asking with concern in his voice. Standing up, he walks over to me and then when he gazes down, he says, “Go take a nap. I have this. This is really a one-man job. Don’t worry, if anything shows up, the alarms will sound. I set them up for that.” He smiles at me as h
“Smash” “Bang” I wake up to hear loud noises all around me. Something crashes just within a few inches of my head before I can open my eyes. When I manage to slowly open them, I can barely see anything, and I feel so weak that I can barely lift my arms. Pushing myself up to a sitting position, I do my best to scan the room, but it is so dark that everything just looks like a shadow. With it being so dark, no wonder why I feel like I am in a dream. What had happened to me before I passed out? I no longer can remember, and I guess it is just as well. Hearing Dominic’s voice strained and demanding somewhere in the darkness, I turn my attention to something sitting next to me on the floor. In a heartbeat I realize what it is and for some reason the vampire is staring at me with his lifeless red eyes. He opens his mouth and then lets out a screech that puts me on edge before saying in a slithering voice, “You
“Crunch” Hearing a noise, I hesitate to open my eyes for fear of what I might find right in front of my face. “Crunch” I hear it again and then force myself to deal with the situation by slowly opening my eyes and confronting them. By now the light has all died out from the candles and lanterns, but there is finally moonlight that is cascading in through the window and I watch as the light dances off the ceiling. As my eyes travel down the wall, they focus on something really small scurrying along the floorboards and then I realize that it is just a tiny mouse with a piece of bread in its mouth, hurrying off to its home in the wall. Squinting, I see his little beady black eyes as he chitters at me with excitement before disappearing into the tiny hole by my bed. “Hm. That’s what I heard?” I murmur under my breath as a chill runs down my spine because it is a little cool for a summer night. After he disappears, I g
Returning home, I start to see the morning sunlight peak over the tree line, as I glance over at Dominic who hasn’t said a word to me since the minute we left. Matter of fact, it was so quiet that I could hear myself think clearly for once and that doesn’t usually ever happen. The only thing that was louder was the constant glares and stares from him when I would slow down, and he wanted to run.I can’t believe that he was just about to take me just a few hours earlier, but then the reality of the situation came crashing down and interrupted it all. Not wanting to anger him worse than he already is, I choose to stay silent until we get back. The minute we step in the door however, I feel relieved and let out a loud sigh before he glances over at me and realizes just how much this has taken out of me.Frowning he states, “If you were so tired and couldn’t keep up, why didn’t you just say so? I would
Hearing a loud conversation in the next room, I leave the comfort of the kitchen after grabbing a snack from the fridge, and stroll into where Dominic and another much older Alpha whom I forgot his name is sitting. Remembering that I met him the second day I was here, doesn’t help to say the least because there were too many Alphas that I met that day and the next. However, the minute I step in the room, they both glare at me and then Dominic speaks up and says, “Ah, Ana my dear. We were just talking about you.” Concerned immediately by this, I step back and start to leave before I hear something I shouldn’t have. But then Dominic bolts up out of his seat and grabs my forearm before leading me to a seat and stating, “I had been wondering when you would get up. It is past 1 in the afternoon.” His eyes full of challenge today, stare me down before I dare speak. Knowing that means for me to be careful of what I say to the Alpha
“Ana.” I hear my name called out into the darkness like a whisper but a little louder. As I stare around the room, I look in the corner where my rocking chair is and see Dominic staring at me with half open lids. He looks tired, and I only wish that he would just come to bed so he would sleep for once in many weeks. Noting that he doesn’t move, I sit up and gaze at him from where I sit. With a half-smile, half-smirk he stares deep into my eyes before he glances down to my chest. Then only then does he get out of the chair and stroll slowly over to the bed. Almost is if he is still trying to make up his mind if he is going to do this. Waiting for him to make the first move, I sit up even taller and watch as he gets closer and closer with his eyes trained on my breasts. When he stumbles and almost falls, I realize that he is drunk and then ask him, “Dominic, have you been drinking?” Stumbling once more and nearl
Realizing too late, that I am under its spell, I stand there frozen waiting for something bad to happen. The thing that I had originally thought was a wolf, is now in the shape of a man again and he looks just like Alpha Tomas. He is staring down at me with the most ill intent of anyone I have ever known but does nothing except for stare at me as if he owns my soul. I hear a sound off in the distance and then I watch silently as Alpha Tomas or whatever it is that has taken his shape, turns around and stares off to where the sound came from. At that moment, he must lose control of me because suddenly I feel like I can move. Before he turns back around, I launch myself in the direction of the front door. Unfortunately, I don’t make it in time, and I know it when I feel his fingers around my neck as they tighten, making me black out. When I come to, I realize that I must have been out only for a second, because when I raise my head, I
The minute, he lifts me up into his arms and carries me in the door, I know that things will be so much better. The look in his eyes tells me that he really was scared to lose me this time. Perhaps he has had a change of heart.As I still stare into his eyes, I wonder something. Does this mean he will finally mate with me? Or will we continue the original dance? I don’t know if I can take much more of this.While he carries me up the stares to my bedroom, I hope that soon it will become ours again and that this will be all over and done with. But the moment, he opens the door to the bedroom, I sense a change in him, and his eyes grow cold when he looks away and begins to stare at the bed. His smile turns to a frown and his demeanor changes from one of a man so glad to see me to someone who could care less.I close my eyes when he places me down on the edge of the bed and then he starts to turn around before I