“I think he is here.”  Viktor stands up and seems to sense something odd before going to the door and opening it. He walks back in with a man who is wearing a hooded cape or something like it.  The man walks with a staggered limp and has his head lowered so I cannot see him easily.  From what I can see, it makes a shiver run down my spine and causes me to feel like I want to run very far away.  I could swear that I saw a worm crawling through one of his eye sockets before he turned his head from my sight. Sitting down, I wait for whatever is going to happen.  Watching him cautiously, I listen to the doctor’s conversation with him.  “Oleckneth, you have to be kidding me.  There is no way she is going to agree to that.” Viktor turns to me and says, “He requests your first-born pup, but also something else.” He hesitates before continuing.  Saying quieter this time with a frown on his face, “Upon your death, he takes posse

“Ana, can you come here for a minute?”  I hear Dominic’s deep voice say before I see him round the corner to the living room with a big smile on his face. When I see something in his hand, I get excited before standing up and walking over to him.  In his closed fist lies a small pastel blue box.  From what I see of it, the box has a white silk ribbon wrapped around it expertly.  As I meet him in the middle of the room, I notice two things.  The first, that he seems very cheerful today, not usual at all for him.  The second, there is a spark in his eyes that has never been there before.  Today, is the Full Moon Event of the Spring.  Many of our kind come from all around to party till the moon rises and then they take to the night as they mate all night long.  Last time I heard it, I was in the middle of the woods, but I still heard it from miles away.  Perhaps some of them got closer than my parents would have preferre

“Boom” Hearing a loud explosion outside, Dominic immediately pushes me away and runs out the door without saying a word before he leaves.  I on the other hand, stand there stunned for a moment before I can snap out of it and realize that he has gone out the door.  After the magic wears off, I rush to the window and watch as the events unfold before me.  Dominic launches himself headfirst into the fight before he ever sees the two rogues hiding in the bushes around the side of the castle.  Just as he turns the corner, they attack, and ram him in his side forcefully.  The impact slams him onto the ground and I stand there helplessly watching as he gets pummeled before the security team ever arrives on the scene.  When they do, they rush over to him, and I watch the two rogues run off to the woods beyond the luscious rose gardens.  Too horrified to move at first, I stare out the window at the billowing smoke and the destruction

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

“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