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
MIAI looked into this strange man's eyes and it felt like there was nothing there. They usually said that the eyes were the window to the soul, well, if that's the case, whoever this was, he was soulless. I backed away from him and scurried off the sofa, my hands were up in a defensive position and my heart was beating heavily."Who are you and what have you done to Javier and Ivan?" I asked him, my eyes darting from his face to the unconscious bodies of my mates. How did this guy get in here and manage to overpower both Javier and Ivan, that was just not possible, was it?He slid back the hood of his cloak in a dramatic fashion to reveal his face fully, "Hello, Mia, nice to meet you again, I'm Killian."Killian? He said that like it was supposed to mean something to me."I don't know who the hell you are. What are you doing here and what did you do to Javier and Ivan?"He looked at Javier and Ivan who were sprawled on the ground, out cold. He seemed to be admiring his handiwork, t
MIA“Javier!” I yelled at the top of my voice as he and the mysterious Killian fellow seemed to vanish into thin air.“No, no, this cannot be happening,” I muttered to myself as my panic reached new heights.I got off the sofa and ran to Ivan and rocked him viciously, “Ivan, get up, get the hell up, right now!”I pleaded and shouted but he remained unresponsive, he just lay there, like a log of wood.I ran upstairs to my room, took my phone and dialed Bastien’s number, he answered on the first ring.“Mia?”“Come over right now!” I screamed into the receiver and hung up.My heart was going crazy in my chest and my head was spinning. I couldn’t think straight, who was that guy and what had he done to Ivan. Where had he taken Javier? Was I truly never going to see Javier ever again?‘Calm down, Mia, you are spiraling out of control, try to get a grip on your emotions,’ Lynn tried to advise.‘How, get a grip how? My mates are dead because of me,’ I said sobbing.‘Your mates are not dead y
MIA“What?” I muttered, my jaw dropping in shock. What the hell was Leo saying now? This made no sense.“What? That’s not possible, how is that possible?”“I have no idea,” Leo replied, still breathing hard, “All I know is that, when we got there, she wasn’t there.”“Could it be that you guys just went to the wrong location?” I asked.“Was it not the same location that both you and Rylee saw in her mind?” Leo asked back.“Yes, it was,” I replied,“Then, there goes your answer. There was no one there.”What Leo was saying did not make any sense to me, there was no way that he, Olivia, and Rylee went to the location I saw in Rylee’s mind and were unable to find my mom. Something was amiss; I just could not accept this, given the fact that I had seen that same location when I just had my vision. In my vision, my mother reached out to me and asked me for help in rescuing her. There was no doubt in my mind that she was still stuck there in the Elder forest. As to why Leo and his group cou
MIA“What in the hell are you saying, Leo?” Bastien exploded. “Are you out of your mind? Ask Rylee for help. What a joke.”“Hear me out,” Leo protested.“Rylee just tried to kill me and my mates by trapping me in her mind and immediately after that, she went on a vindictive mission to kill my mother, that’s the Rylee you want me to ask for help?” I exploded too.How unbelievably bold of Leo to come into my house and suggest that I go crawling to Rylee of all people for help, was he insane?“I know but…” I cut Leo off.“Do you, Leo? Are you sure you do?”“My son’s life is at stake damn it, I don’t make this suggestion lightly,” Leo shot back. “I am very confident that Rylee will help us.”“Yeah? And what makes you so sure of that?” I questioned.“Power… Rylee is obsessed with it, if there is someone else out there who is more powerful than she is, trust me, she would want to know. From what you have told me about this strange man, he just might be.”“What makes you think we want her he
MIAWhat the hell had just happened? One minute we were walking into the Elder forest together, and Leo was telling me that no matter what, we should not get separated, and now, I was standing all by myself. How the hell did that happen?Where were Bastien and Leo? “Bastien! Leo!” I called out but all I got back was the echo of my voice, nothing more.This was beginning to become scary, the whole idea was to go with Leo who knew his way around the forest, he was able to go in with Rylee and Olivia and even after getting separated from them, he was able to escape unscathed.I, on the other hand, knew nothing about this place, how I was supposed to find my way, and talked less about finding Rylee. This was bad, this was a terrible situation.How was I going to see myself out of this one? I needed to think, Lynn always told me that I was too impulsive and that was why I always got myself into trouble and made the wrong decisions.I won’t do that this time around. I would calm down and co
MIAAt the cry for help, I felt a buzzing inside my chest, it felt like something that had been bound was getting set free. Like some unseen door had just opened and something inexplicable was about to come out of the doorI could feel it all over my body, my skin was tingling, my veins were pulsating and my eyes were ablaze like a fiery pit as a boatload of power surged through me.It was like I was getting overloaded with more power than I could handle as the energy in me continued to build up and build up until I could not contain it within myself any longer and I let out a scream.My voice tore through the forest with a force that shook the place and it echoed across every corner of the ancient forest causing leaves to fly about and birds to flee from their nests.As I screamed, I released the power that had built up within me, it felt hot, like a flame that needed to be set free and I just set it free.At first, nothing happened after I screamed and then, steam began to rise from
JAVIERI woke up with a splitting headache that made my head feel as if it was going to explode. I was not used to this, we wolves healed very quickly from all physical ailments.The fact that I had such a serious migraine was proof that whatever it was that was done to me was very serious.My eyes blinked open and I took in my environment, I was in a very different place from where I was last.The last thing I remembered was being at home with Ivan, waiting for Mia to wake when a strange man came to the door and told us he was a friend of Sarcana – Mia’s mother.I sighed in regret, why did we fall for his cheap trick and open the door for him, letting him in was our biggest mistake because he sprayed something in the air and the last thing I remembered was trying to attack him before passing out.I had no idea how much time had passed if it was even still the same day. What about Ivan and Mia, where were they? Where was I?I sat up without making a noise and adjusted my sight to see