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Lost Queen 20: Anxiety
ADRIANAKian’s footsteps announce his presence even before he gets to where I am.I don’t turn when he sits beside me on the back porch steps. He doesn’t say anything either for a few minutes. Letting us bask in the calmness of the silence.I’d left the meeting mum was having about security and how we should tighten ours. Now that she is Xander’s will be actively searching for us. Well, me.In his usual style, he would see them and pick a fight.Sitting through all that. Having to hear about him in the place I considered my safe haven. I left so I wouldn’t snap.Not that sitting out here has helped me feel any better.I’m just glad I didn’t have to hear his name again. Or anything that has to do with him.I’m reminded of Kian’s presence when he drags a wicker chair from God knows where, and sets it right beside me.“This is better.” He motions to the chair. “More comfortable.”I sigh, offering him a tight lipped smile. I get off the hard steps and get on the chair.He doesn’t say anyt
Lost Queen 21: Bad Dreams
ADRIANAMy heart stops, along with everything in me.Wait, one thing keeps running. My thoughts. It is all over the place. Even as my heart is still.No, it can’t be! I scream in my head.But nothing makes the voice I hear in my head go away. Nor the feel of the heat of his body. I can feel it as clearly as I am aware of the fact that I’m alive and breathing.How the hell is he here?!He has some guts to show up here and be in my room no less.Wait, he couldn’t have gotten past everyone in the border and my mother.My mother!In panic, I sprint toward the door. Attempt to.I don’t make it to two steps before an arm wraps around any waist. Next, my back hits a hard warm body.Current rolls through my entire body everywhere we touch. I close my eyes, willing my body to fight whatever it is that is making me feel that way.“You’re not getting away from me ever again.”Xander’s voice is a harsh whisper, accentuated by a possessive tug of my body to his.My hands balled into fists. Some of
Lost Queen 22: Wood Race
ADRIANAMum has been keeping a close eye on me. She tried not to make it obvious, but I still noticed. The training she had me go through made sure I was always on my guard.It has been three days since the weird dream about Xander. And I find myself reliving one part of it every time.His promise.I tried, oh, I tried so much to tell myself it was just a dream. My subconscious made it up because I was too worried about him and always thinking of him.Logic said, I should do nothing and I should stop giving it the time of day. But a more realistic part of me, the one in touch with emotions said there was more to it than that. And that the logical side of me was wrong.So, not only was I fighting all my other battles. I had to deal with a war within myself in the mix.It has been a busy week. Heck, a busy month.Just three weeks with Xander back in my life and it was already blowing up. If I didn’t know how big of a bad news he was before. I do now.Today, I decided to call Kian and go
Lost Queen 23: Magical Mirror
XANDERMy jaws clench, my hands balling into tight fists. My body shakes with the effort it was taking me to hold back and not throw my shaking fists.I didn’t realize I’d cut into my palms, causing blood to drip from the gash until Daciana spoke.“Stop hurting yourself. It isn’t going to help.”She mutters, moving so she was putting at least a few steps between us. The blood must have touched her.She had been standing close to me.“Nah, I’m actually loving this.” Donovan snorts, swirling the bourbon in his glass. “What are they doing now? Fucking in the middle of the woods?”A menacing grow ripples from my chest, causing him to raise both his hands up in surrender.“Damn. I was just kidding.”I shoot Daciana a look and she sighs before moving to where Donovan is reclined on a chair. His feet propped on the table in front of him.“If you’re not going to help, then shut the fuck up.” She growls, slapping the side of his leg.Donovan grumbles and puts his feet down. He sits up, keeping
Lost Queen 24: Let's Skinny Dip
ADRIANAWe stayed outside for a long time.I’d beaten Kian to the lake as expected. And he sulked for a while because of that. I celebrated my victory on the other hand, telling him I’ll collect my debt when I felt the time was right.I got a groan as a response.He suggested we swim. And while I normally would say no, I was running from the high of shifting after so long. My wolf was on board.‘Wait, we left all our clothes back there.’I mind linked him, just when he turned to walk behind a tree and shift.‘Shit. I totally forgot about that.’I groaned. A grunt-like sound leaving my wolf’s mouth.I’d actually wanted to go swimming. I was against it at first but after exerting my body the way I did. It would be nice to get into the cold water.‘It wouldn’t be so bad, would it?’I turned to Kian’s large brown wolf. Picturing the way I would be watching him with wide eyes if I were in human form.I could have sworn he rolled his eyes at me when he saw that.‘What? Nothing wrong with a
Lost Queen 25: A Lycan's Promise
XANDERI knew what I was doing was dangerous, but did it make me stop? No.I kept going because I have lost my fucking mind.I silenced Daciana who was standing beside me. She is trying her best to urge me to snap out of whatever haze I’m in and release Adriana’s wolf.What she doesn’t know is, I’m in my right senses.Maybe not quite in my right senes but I know what the fuck I’m doing.I’m not about to let her go into that lake naked with some boy. The result of that will be very bloody. I have a feeling my little wolf wouldn’t appreciate me tearing her little boyfriend apart, limb from limb.“Stop that, Xander. This is so fucking stupid.” Daciana growls, the frustration evident in her tone.I silence her mentally, cutting her voice off from my mind.I used the magic her friend explained. Power of will. You would never guess how strong and innovative an angry mind is.I could feel Adriana’s thoughts. Every one of them. It was harder to understand but I could hear them. That in itself
Lost Queen 26: Great Friends
ADRIANAHappy chatter and laughter fills the place. There were smiling faces wherever I turned, which left me feeling like the odd one out.The week of the full moon is usually a happy one for everybody. They got to sit back and relax, letting the moon run its course. They let their wolves run wild and free. Then comes the full moon run.I was dreading it for some reason.I couldn’t bring myself to laugh or smile or enjoy the festivities like everyone else was. If you asked, I couldn’t tell you the reason for my bad mood. I just wasn’t feeling particularly happy or even eager to be alive.I have been feeling like this for a few days. Mum has done everything she could to help. But nothing she did felt right.So had Kian. The last time he came to me with books, I told him I needed a few days to be alone.This might be because of the incident near the lake. Even though I told myself it was not that. So many times. I almost started to believe the lie myself.I asked myself if telling mum
Lost Queen 27: Morning Fire
ADRIANASounds of screaming and shouting woke me up the next morning.I sit up from my bed groggily, rubbing my tired eyes.A loud crashing sound makes me wince and I curse, trying to force the thud in my head away.What the hell is going on?I ask no one in particular. There isn’t anyone to reply to me, seeing as I’m alone in my room. I pushed off the bed and ran out of the room when the smell of smoke tickled my nostrils.What the hell?!Now that I’m more aware and on my feet, I hear some of what was being said.Fire. There is a fire.I pull the sweatpants lying on the floor in my room, almost tripping as I start running down the stairs. The smell of smoke was pungent as I got to the living room.There isn’t anyone there but the door is wide open and I’m able to see people rushing outside.“What’s going on?”I drag the hand of one of the kids. A girl who couldn’t be older than five years old. She has black streaked on her cheek and tears streaming down her face. The sight breaks my
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