Luna Renee’s POVI awoke the next morning in pure bliss, I sat up in the bed, Ethan was still sleeping soundly next to me. I glanced around the nearly destroyed room. I don’t think there was a single surface we didn’t utilize in last night's festivities. My body felt both sore and delicious. I decided to go make us some breakfast, I wrapped the sheet around me and headed down to the quaint kitchen. The refrigerator was fully stocked in preparation. I grabbed a can of biscuits and preheated the oven; in the meantime, I pulled out some bacon and started frying it in a pan. A few minutes later the oven dinged and a slid the biscuit inside to bake. I finished up the bacon and started cooking the eggs in the same pan. They were just about done, when I felt Ethan’s arms slide around my body. “Good morning, beautiful” his voice still sounded husky from waking up and it made my knees feel weak. “Aww I was going to bring you breakfast in bed.”“If I see you anywhere near that bed, the last
Esther’s POVIt has been a couple weeks since the events at Hawthorn Point, Elizabeth’s body is on ice until I can gather as much evidence as I can as quickly as I can, the Elder Council has been helping, but I know time is of the essence, and I fear I am just about out. Dimitri the head of the Vampire High Council and Elizabeth’s father was undoubtably already investigating the death of his daughter, since when she died, so did countless other vampires she had sired, and it was only a matter of time before that investigation led them to the New Lunar Pack and to Renee, who I was becoming quite fond of. I had been at the Elder Council for several days now, held up in the library with Elder Chase compiling all of the evidence, we could find of Elizabeth’s crimes against werewolves.I will say the library here was quite beautiful, dark oak bookshelves lined the walls in the common area. The common area had several tables that matched the bookshelves that also featured computers to make
Esther’s POVThe drive to the New Lunar Pack was a pleasant one, it started with land so flat you could see for miles in every direction, then it turned into rolling hills covered in forest vegetation. When I reached the pack territory, I drove up to the gate rolled down my window and they recognized me right away, opening the gate without me even having to say a single word. When I got to the pack house Renee and Ethan were both waiting at the door to greet me. I hopped out of the car to greet them as well. “It’s so good to see you!” Renee said excited as she came down the steps to give me a hug. I wasn’t usually the hugging type, but with Renee there really wasn’t any use arguing about it, some people are beautiful lights in the darkness of this world and Renee was one of those people. “You too” I answered hugging her back.“Hello, Esther” Ethan greeted, he was still a little mad at me, for my vague phone call and ‘putting him through hell’ according to him. I didn’t let it bother
Esther’s POVMy flight was fifteen hours long with one stop on the way, I don’t sleep very often but I was ready to crash after this day. I wasn’t able to sleep on the plane, but I was really looking forward to my hotel bed. I arranged for an Uber to bring me to my hotel and a service to bring Elizabeth’s remains to a storage facility until I was ready to deliver them to her father. Rome held many memories for me, several of them were happy but in contrast some of my darkest memories stemmed from this city as well.In my younger years I played with some dark magic here, the kind of magic that threatened to claim my very soul, it was without a doubt the lowest point in all my existence. I am sad to say I fell into it as a rebound or distraction from my heart breaking, because of the very man I was going to see. When I first met Dimitri, I fell head over heels for him and I thought he felt the same, over time I realized I would never hold his heart the same way that he held mine. Now lo
Esther’s POV“It’s been a long time since I seen you last.” Silas said looking me over.“Yes, it has been a while, and might I say you look like you are starting to get some wrinkles.” I winked and giggled a bit.“Oh Really? well we can’t all be immortal, why exactly are you immortal anyways, you still haven’t told me, I don’t know why you won’t tell me, if you did, I could be immoral too.” “Silas, I like you too much to wish immortality on you.” There was only one person I had ever told that story to and I didn’t plan to ever repeat it to another soul. “Believe me the average four-hundred-year lifespan of a witch or warlock is more than enough.”“Yes, but I will have you know, I just turned one hundred and ninety-one, so I only have approximately two hundred years left, and I don’t think that is quite enough.” He stopped talking for just a second before following up with “No, no two hundred years isn’t enough, you will have to tell me your secret, it isn’t fair you know?” he was no s
Esther’s POVI awoke the next morning to the sound of the door closing as Silas returned to the hotel room with some coffees, biscuits, and pastries. “I do believe, I love you, Silas” I said in a joking tone.“Well, I am pretty irresistible.” He joked back“Especially when you are carrying food and coffee.” I smiled at him and sipped on the coffee “So what did you hear this morning?” “You are not going to like it, but apparently Dimitri has already learned you are back in town.”“What how?”“Apparently, he has someone check every flight for you and your known aliases. What exactly happened between you two that he would do something like that?” Silas’s eyes were practically glowing with joy at his newfound information. “Damn it, I knew I should have got new papers” I huffed, I really didn’t think Dimitri would have anyone checking on me after all these years, but I guess I was wrong. I could feel a tiny sliver of my heart warm at the thought that he was still thinking about me. I sho
Esther’s POVOne of the guards disappeared from sight for a moment down the long corridor in front of me, He came back walking quickly. “Right, this was Ms. Esther.” He turned walking ahead of me while the other guard stayed behind. The catacombs were a maze, but I knew them well, they were basically set up as a large underground circle with different sections that led to the center. To begin with we would pass the quarters off all the vampires that are considered soldiers, they have been turned from human and have unpure blood. Since there is a lot of them, they are housed in the outer band of the circle that had the most space. Their quarters were basically that of a bad dorm room. Unlike pureblood vampires, soldiers do not have the ability to reproduce, but that doesn’t keep them from trying. The soldiers’ quarters was the last stop for the fangers before they were discarded back into the world. The metallic scent of blood was so thick in the air you could practically taste it. It
Esther’s POV The great hall is where you were really reminded that you were in fact in catacombs. The pillars that ran up the sides of the hall were encrusted with human bones, the two large chandeliers that hung from the ceiling were made up of bones as was the railing for the balcony. A rich red carpet with gold edges led the way from the doors to the very front on the hall where Dimitri was seated on for lack of a better word a throne. On the stone walls were various paintings portraying historical moments of importance to the Vampires. Between the paintings hung large deep red velvet curtains. The rows of blood red chairs all faced the stage. As soon I stepped inside my breath caught in my throat there he was, Dimitri. Dimitri was a tall man, his muscles were all defined but not too much there was still a softness about him, his skin was a warm pale not quite tan, but close, his facial features strong and beautiful. He was the perfect mix of pretty boy and rugged man all wrappe