MIA“It’s no use,” Leo said, “We are surrounded!”As I heard that I felt a bit of relief flood through me, I was going to fight after all, I was going to get my wish of staying with my mom."There is no escaping this now, we have to all fight," Leo said and looked at me with anger in his eyes. "All this could have been avoided if you and your mom had just been reasonable from the start. Can't believe that bull-headedness and a childish tantrum is why we are in this situation right now.""Don't matter how we got here, what matters is that we get out of it," Ivan said."How many attackers?" Javier asked."I could see about fifteen out back, who knows the number up front.""Shit, this is going to be tough," Javier admitted.A loud bang sounded on the back door and then came again more forcefully."They are trying to get in," Olivia said and went behind Leo."Do not count on me or any of the men to save you. You are going to have to fight for yourself. Everybody's attention is on saving M
JAVIERThere was no reprieve from the attacks, we bolted the doors and ran back to the living room and the whole place was a war zone.It was unbelievable that just moments ago, this place was a well-furnished living room, right now it looked the exact opposite.My eyes scanned the battlefield and we were not winning at all, Bastien and Sarcana had been pushed back and were still being heavily pressed by about eight attackers. there was still an army behind that hadn't moved an inch.They just stood there watching them struggle, trying to wear them out. When they spotted us, a tall huge man at the back ordered them to attack.I saw Mia's attacker, the man had a small rugged blade with him, and it wasn't coated with silver, I determined that Mia could easily handle him. I wasn't so lucky.The man who came after me was huge and he had a cutlass, the edges were all coated with silver and he looked at me like we had some serious beef from before when I had no idea who the guy was.I didn'
SARCANAI was starting to wonder if all this was my fault, why did I insist on staying behind when they tried to convince me to go? I was so blinded by my desire to avenge the death of my husband that I didn’t consider the fact that the wolf's attack would be this coordinated.Bastien and I had our hands full, there were eight attackers surrounding us and no way to flee. Not that I was planning on fleeing at that moment, I could only see revenge.Mia, her mates, Leo and Olivia came back to the sitting room, I assumed it was all because somehow the back way was blocked or not accessible.I still was not worried, Mia was strong enough to handle all the small fries, they did not seem like they seriously wanted to harm her, we still had the chance to win this fight, we just had to fight our way through this and we were home free.One of the eight attackers came at me and I slashed his throat with my claws before he could even carry out his attack. It had been a long time since I had fough
IVANThis was just like last time, like three years ago when I had watched my mate, Ella get killed in front of me.They said if we didn’t learn from history, we were doomed to repeat it, guess we didn’t learn from our mistakes because something similar was playing out in front of my eyes again.Last time, I lost my mate and my mom and in more ways than one, my dad too. This time, I was about to lose my brother. I could not let that happen.I got back up to my feet but the vampire king just kicked me down again. He grabbed me by the neck and lifted me in the air.I tried to claw at his face but he just flung me aside like I was garbage.I fell and rolled regained my balance and got to my feet.Everything was in an uproar; the fighting seemed to still be going on.Bastien was trying to fend off the rogue king but it was clear to see that his attention was not there in the battle, he kept casting sideways glances at Javier who lay face down on the floor, bleeding while Leo struggled to
SARCANAI watched Rylee retreat and then disappear into the night with Philip then Bastien called my attention to Javier, I wanted to go after them, go after the rogue king and get my daughter back but I knew that he was long gone, right now, what I could do was help Javier.I ran over, “move aside,” I said.They obeyed and gave me the space I needed to work.“Can you heal him?” Leo asked anxiously.“I’ll do my best,” I replied.“What does that mean? Is it a yes or a no?” he barked.Bastien placed a hand on his shoulder, “let her do her thing, Leo.”I ignored him, the cut was deep, and I was wondering what approach I could take to help Javier.I spread out her hands over the wound and began chanting words in a low tone. It had been a while since I had performed a healing spell, I wasn’t sure it was going to work but it was worth a try.It was an ancient healing spell I learned a long time ago, I started muttering the Latin words over and over again, “Aufer iniuriam, repone vitam et vi
RYLEEI saw Javier get struck down by the rogue king and I smiled, good riddance to another troublesome mutt.Suddenly, Leo yelled and ran towards him while Bastien proceeded to fend off the rogue king.I smiled again as I looked at Sarcana and saw the look of terror on her face, finally, we were back to facing each other one on one again.Now that Leo had left, I could go back to teaching her a lesson that she would not forget. It was our good fortunes that the rogue king came when he did.Philip and I were marching over to the penthouse to go retrieve Mia ourselves and punish that backstabbing good-for-nothing child, Olivia when he brought Mia to us.Had it not been for Javier and Sarcana showing up, we would have acquired Mia by now but not to worry, after we were done getting rid of them all, we would take Mia. I was going to kill everybody present – Javier, Ivan, Leo (Another backstabbing piece of shit), and lastly Bastien, that annoyingly clever wolf.Everyone but Sarcana was go
RYLEEThe atmosphere was tense in the warehouse in the lower district where we were surrounded by an army of wolves that seemed keen to take our head off.Philip called it a necessary precaution, I thought it was an ambush but it looked like I was wrong and he was right. The rogue king seemed to have indeed agreed to meet up in good faith and he was holding Mia somewhere we did not know about.There was the option of trying to get into his mind and find out where Mia was but I knew that it would not be easy to do that and he would probably notice the moment I tried and that could blow our chance. Now we had one task before us… find a way to convince him that it would be in his best interest to work together with us.“Maybe you did not hear me the first time, give me one good reason why I should work with the likes of you?” he repeated his question.Philip answered, “We go way back, Damien… you know I am good for my word. I promised you that I would take no action against you until I h
MIAI could tell I was not awake, at this point I had grown up to the level where I could tell if I was in a vision or not. This time, I was definitely in some sort of a vision.It was not like the normal vision that I was used to having, this one felt a bit different, it was almost like the type I got when I got stuck in the elder forest.For a moment, I thought that I was back there, that everything that had happened since was all an illusion generated by that heartless mist to torture me.Me escaping it, meeting my mother, escaping the elder forest, and finally freeing Ivan from his mind, the good times that came after that, and then finally, the attack on the penthouse, I had to question all of it, did that all happen or was it just a warped version of the future shown to me by the mist?I decided that it all did happen and indeed, I escaped the elder forest. If then, why did I have a similar type of vision?I saw a flash of my childhood when I was just an ordinary little girl wit