MIAWhy did it have to be a dead end of all possible places I had to run into? This was no doubt done by Rylee since as she had proudly boasted she was in complete control here.I had no other choice now, I had to fight. How exactly? I had no idea but I was not just going to stay there and allow myself to be mauled to death by this monster that was coming towards me with killer intent.Suddenly, the door directly opposite to the one I had entered was covered in a bright light and a woman stepped out of it moving faster than a speeding bullet, she got to the wolf just before it could use its claws on me, laid one hand on its back and it shattered into a million specks.Just like that, the big menacing monster was reduced to nothing in mere seconds. I had to blink to avoid getting eye damage from the brightness of the light that had just come out of nowhere, it was still shining and had only just begun to dim.I squinted and brought down my right hand that was guarding my face and took
IVANI cradled Mia in my hands, my heart racing as I thought of losing her. Please, moon goddess, not again. My heart can't take any more loss, I prayed inwardly. “We need a plan,” Leo said. I shook my head, “Enough with the plans. I can't stand her and listen to Mia’s screams not knowing what's going on with her inside Rylee’s mind.”Bastien let out a shriek when I attempted to pull Mia from the circle. “No, son, doing that will harm her!” he exclaimed. I frowned, “Isn't that supposed to make the spell destroy and bring Mia out of Rylee’s mind?”Leo shook his head, “Mind spells don't work like that. Taking her out of that circle could spell certain doom for her.”“Alright, what's gonna happen?” I asked.Mia screamed again and writhed in my arms and I held her closely. “What's happening to her?” Javier asked. “Rylee may be tormenting Mia in her mind,” Bastien answered. “How do we get Rylee to sleep so she can let her guard down?” I asked, stressed. I massaged my temples as I s
LEOWe had just put Ivan and Javier to sleep in Mia’s mind and it was just Bastien and I left behind. I shot him a look and his worried gaze was fixed on Javier and Ivan as they lay helplessly in the circle. I looked at Javier too. I didn't like the fact that he was in a situation like this but it was what it was, nothing we could do about it but move forward.“Any ideas yet on how to put Rylee to sleep?” I asked Bastien.“If we could get our hands on a tranquilizer gun, and load it with wolfsbane, we would be able to take a shot at Rylee from a distance, I bet she won’t see that one coming.”“Okay, Bastien, tell me, where do we get a tranquilizer gun? Where do we get Wolfsbane? Your plan might sound like a good idea but it relies on us getting things that are not readily available and while we go searching for these things, Javier remains in danger.” Bastien shot me a look, “Don’t pretend that you care about Javier and also, I don’t see you coming up with any solid ideas of your ow
LEO“Do you know where Sarcana is?” I asked, still trying to hide my surprise and the fact that the mesmerizing plan failed badly.“Yes, and as soon as you lock up this sad sack of a man, we will mobilize and go after her,” Rylee said.“Been a long time coming, glad we will finally be able to finish her off,” I said trying to sound like I was happy about the plan.“Take him to the dungeons and lock him up, we will deal with him when we return,” she said and stood off.I grabbed Bastien by the scruff of his neck and raised him upright.“Move!” I shouted, shoving him for appearance's sake.“So much for a foolproof plan,” Bastien muttered to me as I led him down the stone corridor to the dungeon.“It was, we just weren’t expecting Rylee to be immune to your mesmerizing powers, are you sure you used it correctly?” I asked.Bastien shot me a look, “Do you want me to test that theory out on you?”“No thanks, what’s our next plan going to be? We have to come up with one quickly if we want to
MIAI was so exhausted from all that had happened when the car pulled into the garage and Bastien killed the engine.We all alighted and headed back into the penthouse. In the living room, I flopped down on a sofa, breathing heavily."You okay, Mia?" Ivan asked, a worried look on his face.I smiled weakly, "I'm good, Ivan. Just need to catch my breath for a minute."He nodded, seemingly satisfied by my answer, he went to the mini bar and poured himself a drink and every one of us sat down, the atmosphere in the room was grim.I took a deep breath, "We should start making preparations to go to the Elder forest," I said.I felt like I had rested enough, at least for now. There was no time to waste sitting around, my mom needed saving.Everyone else kept mute, did they not just hear what I said, "Guys... What's the problem, we should start getting ready to storm the elder's forest and free my mom.""Mia..." Ivan called me then shook his head sideways, "It's not as easy as that.""What do
JAVIERIt was always the same pattern, exactly what Ivan had pointed out, we rescue Mia from some mishap risking life and limb and she jumps straight into another one. I loved her to death but she was so annoying and childish.I turned around in time to see her stagger and plunge forward but I was not able to catch her before she fell face down, her body hitting the tiled floor with a dull thud.I was by her side first, "Mia?" I called out, no response.Ivan and Bastien were there next, "what the hell just happened?" Ivan asked no one in particular, the irritated look on his face had vanished and it was replaced with worry and borderline panic."Did she fall into another of her dreams or visions?" I asked Bastien.Before he could answer, I moved to lift her and turn her over when my hand touched something wet, I gasped as I flipped her over.Ivan gasped too and Bastien's eyebrow shot upwards in surprise, Mia's face was a mess, blood was streaming down her nose, out her ears, and out h
MIAI was back to the dream world, I could tell by now, that the mist in the air and the eerie feeling I got were dead giveaways.‘What is it this time around, Lynn?’ I asked.‘You are going to reach out to me and pretend like everything between us is okay? That’s how you want to play this?’ Lynn questioned me.‘What do you mean? Is this about what happened earlier?’‘Of course, it is about what happened earlier. How long are you going to keep ignoring the sound advice of me and your mates and keep making foolish decisions?’Lynn fired back at me.‘Whoa, calm down, Lynn, I won’t go as far as saying it was a foolish decision… more like a spur-of-the-moment decision and I already apologized to Javier and Ivan, it won’t happen again.’‘First of all, it was a foolish decision. Don’t decorate it with any fancy words and secondly, you didn’t apologize to your mates, just as you haven’t apologized to me. You just muttered some weak excuse and broke down crying and then had them apologize to y
JAVIER“There she goes again,” Ivan said.“She looks so peaceful with her eyes closed,” I replied.“Until she wakes up screaming and the whole cycle of what just played out today repeats itself,” Ivan added.I sighed, he wasn’t wrong, it was clockwork at this point.I took her out of the tub, dried her off, and then wrapped her in a pink robe and carried her downstairs.“Why not go to her room?” Ivan asked.“I want us to be the first thing she sees when she wakes up so she won’t have to be scared all alone,” I replied.“Hmmm,” he nodded and followed me down, “what’s the plan?”I placed her gingerly on the sofa then joined him at the min-bar, “I know Bastien is cooking up something on his end but we also have to think of a plan ourselves, we can’t leave everything up to him.”“When will you start calling him dad again? We have established at this point that our anger towards him was misplaced and it was Harold’s fault,” Ivan questioned.I looked at him, “Honestly Ivan, I don’t know, ev