“Why is she here?” Ezra demanded, his face was pale as he watched Maggie stumble upon them.Maggie watched that naïve version of herself come to the realization that it had been a trick. She watched as her trusting eyes clouded with regret and the bitter tears of betrayal a moment before Reggie grabbed her from behind and pulled her hands behind her.At first, she couldn’t even react to the pain, the only thing she could say was, “Why?”Her innocent brown eyes searched for Lance and she couldn’t hold her tears at the stony look on his face.“Lance,” she wailed.“Kill them,” came Ezekiel’s cold command.Maggie watched the scene and for the first time, she saw it unfold differently. In her memories, Lance had been so cold that he rushed at her and tore her heart out of her chest with no regrets or heed for her tears at all. But now that she watched it as an outsider, she saw how his hand shook. The ancient dagger he held in his hand wobbled as fear overcame him.“I – I – I can’t do it,”
Maggie’s back hit the tree. Her breath escaped her lungs, emptying them. She barely had time to refill her lungs with air when Phoenix came to stand in front of her.Evgan and Percy had recovered their breath and rose to their feet, they started to transform to attack the goddess. She turned to them with a look of pure disdain.“Have you learned nothing at all from the memories of your ancestors?” she asked them and with a flick of her finger sent them flying against another tree. This time she did not just stop there, she pinned them to the trees and took their voices, that way they could not cry out. Olivia and Jackson who remained on the floor were pinned there.Maggie opened her eyes. She was panting heavily. The pain in her chest, a result of her sudden contact with the tree, spread throughout the rest of her body.“You – you knew I was here?” Maggie whispered through the pain in her chest.“Nothing happens without my knowledge, mortal. You think I haven’t sensed you watching me
Noah rolled away just in time as an enemy wolf leaped from the tree with protracted claws aiming for his throat. If he hadn’t defended himself fast enough he would have been a dead man with a ripped throat on the forest floor. His senses were on high alert but he could only sense one familiar wolf among the enemies and that was the one fighting him.Asher, Lance, and Jayden on the other hand were struggling with their opponents. Lance was struggling with two wolves and he was pinned between the both of them.Noah turned his attention to the wolf rebounding to attack him, he reverted back into human form as he raised his hands in an X shape and parted his legs so that he was standing firm on the ground and as soon as the wolf attacked him again he gripped its neck and hefted it over his shoulder and brought it to the ground with all his strength.The wolf, now sweaty struggled against Noah’s hold on it and a laugh escaped him.“You haven’t lost your edge, Noah.”Noah recognized that vo
As soon as the goddess left, the weight of her powers disappeared and Percy and the others dropped with a heavy thud on the forest ground. They immediately ran to her to make sure she was okay but none of them could touch her. Maggie opened her eyes and realized there was awe in their gazes.She groaned and raised her hand to her head where the goddess had kicked her. Even though she was mad at herself for being weak and at the goddess for being so merciless, she was in awe of the woman whose combat skills were nothing like she had ever seen. The goddess was more than that, she was a woman with experience in battle and Maggie could tell because of her quick strategy while they fought and the weight of her leg when it made an impact on her head.“What was that you just did?” Eldan asked in awe.“I got my ass handed to me on a platter of mud,” she bit out angrily. Her head had stopped bleeding as soon as she reverted to her human form and when she looked around she discovered the forest
Maggie shook off the vertigo of teletransportation and her eyes immediately widened. She was back in the mansion but the sight before her eyes was definitely not what she had been expecting. Ezekiel was not just gathering an army to attack her, he had sent some of them to destroy the mansion and everyone in it. The men in black had forced their way through the gate and were just getting out of the cars with guns cocked and ready to go by their sides.Maggie stood motionless at the center watching them. They hadn’t noticed her yet.A window opened upstairs and Cathy looked down and immediately saw her. She looked terrified.“Maggie, they are here for you. Run!”But the men weren’t there for only her, they were there for all of them. There were 6 of them in all. Ezekiel wasn’t waiting anymore to claim what was hers. And he was smart about it too. The sun was just cracking through the clouds and as soon as the day was clear humans would come out which meant they couldn’t fight in wolf fo
Both men were whispering her name over and over like a prayer, trying to convince themselves that she was really there as they hugged her so close that she couldn’t take a breath. But she was happy to see them. Even after the reservations she had against Lance while going back in history, she was glad to see that he was alive but both men were injured even though most of their injuries were healed. She could tell by the heavy smell of blood and her sensitive ears picked out the meshing of tissues and flesh as they healed.“Where have you boys been?” She asked, still crushed between their powerful arms.“We were just about to break the walls of Ezekiel’s hideout and fight for you.”They didn’t want to let her go and Maggie was beginning to feel self-conscious because Chase and shifted back to human form and was laughing at them, Noah and Jayden were staring with hidden smiles and Cathy wore a huge frown.Noah shifted from one foot to another still barely holding his laughter in. “I thi
It was almost night when Maggie finally made her way to the study. Everyone was waiting there; Asher, Lance, Jayden, Mason, Steph, Edna, Leo, Carl and Caleb, Chase, and Cathy and Ginny.Her new dysfunctional family.She closed the door and made her way to the desk noting the way they all watched her, looking up to her as their new leader. It was a heavy weight to carry and she wondered how her father had led over a hundred men, even later dying for them even though in the end they sought to destroy all he worked for.“I’m sorry for keeping you guys waiting.”“You needed to rest,” Lance said softly.Maggie offered him a small smile which immediately made Asher jealous. He didn’t want to be that guy but even though Maggie needed Lance’s power merged with hers to help her gain control of her powers, he couldn’t help but gloat knowing that Maggie still had distrust for him. Yet, every time she looked at him there was that look shared between them, the look of old lovers.“Did you call the
“Well did they bite?”Ezekiel turned round to look at Vivian as she walked up the stairs. The morning light streaming in through the window of her apartment made her look angelic and she was anything but that. She had invited him over the previous night after he sent his men to intercept Lawrence who had gone to report the mission to attack the mansion to Noah. He should have known that Noah would be a thorn in the flesh and killing him was proving to be a little too difficult now.“Why did you invite me here? I am a busy man, Vivian, you could have easily come to the hideout.”“I am not your little dog, Ezekiel, and you seem to be forgetting that. I helped you get your new pack, you know?”He snorted. “A dysfunctional group of men who have never been on a battlefield! They are incompetent. Noah killed them easily and the others are dead too.”“Hmm, that’s too bad, after all the trouble I went through dining with the enemy just to get them. Alpha Brandon is an enemy of the Dark Storm