That night, around a couple minutes past 1am, William tossed and turned in his bed. His mind was still stuck on Anna, and his encounter with his mother earlier that evening.Finally he gave up on the prospects of sleep and grunted.“Fuck,” he whispered into the air, staring up at the ceiling, his back pressed against the soft Egyptian cotton sheets.As though it was a sigh, his phone began to vibrate and William reached for it on his bedside table without looking.The lack of a caller ID made his brows furrow; who could it be that was calling him at this time of the night?“Yes?” He answered the call expectantly.“Is this Alpha William?” A strange male voice was in the other end, a mix of British and French accent which made William more alert. Who was this person.“Who’s asking?” He replied with shortly.“This is Victor Erikson,” came next, and hearing that damned last name of a prominent Hunter family made him sit up at last, growling into the receiver.“What the hell do you want?”
There was a knowing look in her eyes as she leaned back into the chair and began to tap her long fingernails on the linoleum covered table.“I have heard a little from my contacts in the city about the woman you wish to help,” she openly said, referring to Anna more clearly. “Though, I’m afraid that despite your desires to have her be back to normal again, there is no cure. All she can do is learn to control it, just like Damon, and just like me. It’s not a disease,” she explained. “It changes everything in us, down to the smallest genome. She can’t ever be a normal human again. I’m sure she must already know that, or she wouldn’t have agreed to stay with my cousin. She must have thought there was no other choice she had.”Those words spurred anger within William, and a deep sense of regret and frustration.“Then,” his voice was rough as he made to stand up from the chair. “We’re done here. If you can’t give me what I want, Aléa Erikson, what’s the fucking point?”“You can choose to l
“Why did you agree to the destruction of Virax?” Victor finally asked, sitting on the chair where William had occupied previously. Aléa gazed at him, her eyes piercing his as he clasped his hands atop the table. “You know what it took for it to be created.”“Decades of work,” she answered with a nod. “Many lives of our Hunters were sacrificed in the process of testing it. I know that very well, Victor. But I don’t think Virax had ever been a good idea to begin with. It took me until I was 16 to agree to take it for a good reason.”“Why?” He asked. “And do you think the Elders and the rest of the organization will agree to such a thing.”“They will have to. It serves us no purpose to be stubborn about this. It has no use in over 98% of our men, either way. It’s practically useless to us. And there is the side effect I didn’t inform Alpha William about,” she gave him a pointed look and he let out a sigh and looked away.He couldn’t argue with her reasoning.“I imagine if you told him th
As Alpha Drake thought those words, the doors suddenly opened and Alpha William stepped through. Shock briefly filled the Alpha of the Eclipse pack as everyone turned to look at the younger Alpha’s charismatic entrance. And to top it all off, he noticed how William’s demeanor was a stark contrast from how he was the previous day. He looked more confident and full of energy, and Alpha Drake wondered what could have caused this transformation.Well, that didn’t mean anything, he thought.Alpha William wouldn’t get away with his actions this time, and he, Drake Finnegan, would succeed in undermining William’s authority as the most influential Alpha of his generation.“Greetings everyone,” Alpha William began. “First I must apologize for my absence in the previous meeting.““Apologies are nothing but excuses after the fact, Alpha William,” Alpha Drake cut in and caused everyone to begin murmuring under their breath. Some seemed to agree with him which spurred him on. “How about an explana
Ethan could tell it would cost him a lot more than it was worth if he tried to argue the finer points of William’s statements. Therefore he sighed with resignation, raking his hand through his hair.“Very well. What do you want me to do?”Within two hours, Ethan was out of the mansion and at the garage. The sun had fully set and it was time for the nocturnal party animals of the city to start their jaunts to the hundreds of clubs around. Mounting his motorcycle, Ethan took pleasure in revving up the engine that purred delightfully.William watched his brother with a tinge of amusement and said, “You will have someone following you to ensure your safety. So don’t worry about anything and focus on the plan, do you understand?”Ethan growled at the prospects of having a watcher.“Whatever you say, brother,” he responded. “As long as they can keep up.”…Aléa got off the phone with Alpha William and turned to Victor who was waiting on standby.“The bait is set. You have to hurry in order
Anna was incredibly thankful of the the fact that she had Virax now running through her system that she could overhear what the person on the other end was saying. Unfortunately, she was hardly able to control those abilities, so as she listened into the conversation, her ears wavered in and out of focus. She puked up some words, like ‘news’ and ‘attack’ and ‘club’ and she was slowly trying to connect the dots.Damon suddenly stood up and said something in another language, ending the call abruptly. Anna watched him grab his coat and put it on and she stood up.“What happened?” She asked, causing him to stop and glare at her.“Here’s a tip, Anna. When something has nothing to do with you, you should do very well to stay out of it,” he spoke with warning in his tone.Anna however wasn’t planning on backing down.“You wanted me to act like a Hunter, right? You said you would train me. So when is that going to happen? Don’t I need to know what’s going on?” She insisted.Without warning,
Lily had been waiting by William’s bedroom door, and knocked a couple of times. She didn’t expect that he would be in the children’s bedroom of all places. It was enough reason to raise brows at his behavior.“What are you doing here, Lily?” The Alpha asked her without even so much as a friendly greeting or show of affection. A far cry from the first times they met and there was, if not love, at least a kind of desire between them. Now all William seemed to her was indifferent. And it irked her a lot. No man had ever done that to her before.“Were you with the children? You seem to care a lot about them,” she remarked, looking a little bit peeves and suspicion coloring her voice.“Does that matter?” He asked daringly, challenging her to say whatever it was in her mind.Lily wasn’t so stupid as to start a fight she would lose.“Not at all. Just seems a little curious, that’s all,” she easily replied. “And as to what I’m doing here… Have you forgotten we are engaged to be married? Or di
Anna bit her bottom lip insistently, her nervous tic displaying how she felt even as she tried to appear calm and collected. She wondered why Damon still wasn’t home after some time waiting after returning back from the company. Where had he run off to? And why did she have a bad feeling about it ont he first place?The redhead was glad but also kind of nervous due to how he had acted at work. She was pacing up and down in the bedroom (the only safe zone she felt she had in this penthouse), when there were sudden sounds of two short raps on the door.“Come in,” she called out through anstrained voice, and the door opened, to reveal the butler, Bertram.He held a phone to his ear as he entered and pressed his finger to his lips.What? What was going on, she wondered.Then, he held out the phone to her earnestly.“Someone needs to speak to you,” he said in a low voice and she took the phone confusedly. Someone wanted to speak to her? Who could it be?As soon as she placed her ear to the