~ Eros ~
Wanting to end the chain of explosions, I morphed into my lycan form, positioned on all fours on the highest part of the bell tower roof, and released the loudest bark I could produce. Its echoic quality turned to solid waves. It rode with the wind, covered the entire city and ignited a single, massive blast that shook the city’s foundation and brought it to momentary dust-filled darkness.
When the smoke and dirt settled, I was pleased to see the city still in its complete form—not as complete as I wanted it to be, but enough to build a better, larger version.
Most of my men were spared too. From the roads, they stood. Some were injured because of the caustic air. Some were in a better shape. They looked up at me and cheered as loudly as they could.
~ Axel ~For the past ten hours or so, I paced and paced along the wide space of my office in New York City. I felt uncomfortable. Uneasy. Fucking too worried for Rayna and her safety. Wherever she was right now, I was certain she was unprotected.Worse even, already suffering.As her mate, losing her made me incomplete. Broken. It gutted my insides. It sliced my organs. It tore every fiber and every nerve of my body. I attacked my subconscious. I admonished my dragon side for being too complacent. For not protecting her enough.I fucking messed up in the most grand of ways. I let my enemies kidnap her and by their alpha king, no less.That man was notorious for his cruelty. He had killed so many of my kind in the past. There was no telling what he would do to Rayna once he finds out she’s mated to a dragon. There was no telling what he’d do to her as a woman.Fuck.I stopped my pacing and cl
~ Axel ~Full of anger and disappointment, I flew further to the sky where the last layer of the Earth and space meet. In here, I released my cloaking spell and summoned a portal to my New York office.An energy ball appeared in front of me. It pulsated with the colors of the rainbow, accompanied by charges of electricity. With a deep huff, I flew through it, never looking back down to the tiny area of Hextrion. It was no point spending my time there when Rayna and my shipments were gone.Two hours after I returned to my office, my secretary received a call from General Foch. I was perusing Rayna’s information again when this happened. She connected our lines in haste since the general directly asked for me.“General, good to hear from you.” I placed his phone in loud speaker.“Mr. Windstorm! Thank the heavens! I am relieved to hear that you are alive. Really, I am!” he stated with his vo
~ Axel ~’They call themselves Silviera Bratva now, Su-Anateph,’ Dimitri explained further. ‘I was confident with this information. My source was a reliable one who happens to sell drugs for them. I hoped to find their base using this, but it brought me to a dead-end.’‘A mafia?’ My brows furrowed. ’Couldn’t they get any more creative than that? First, they operate as assassins. Now, they are gangsters?'‘They are both now, Su-Anateph,’ he corrected. ‘Money and power are easy when you have these kinds of businesses.’I scoffed, taking this information as nonsense.‘They can become whatever they want to be, but they could never rival us in wealth and power.’'You rule the light while they rule the darkness, Su-Anateph. I say both of our races are equal.’I cocked a brow. Dimitri was a serious man, choosing to stay si
~ Axel ~I pressed her clit once more and this time she released a louder moan. That would have been music to my ears if it was Rayna, but no. It was this woman who disgusted me.But since I planned to give her a lesson, I continued with my task.“Have you purposely used a thong for a rare possibility that I’d finger-fuck you, Heidi?” I whispered in her ear as she continued to huff in front of me.With my thumb, I hooked the thin line of cloth, stretched it down to its limit and released it. It hit her pussy with a quick slapping sound.“Ahh!” she shouted in a half-pained, half-aroused voice, and jerked backward away from me.Her brows twisted briefly with this sudden roughness of my actions, but then her face morphed with pleasure again.“Yes, oh, yes, Axel! I always desired you to finger-fuck me like this!”She rushed to kiss me, but I simply moved my head away,
~ Rayna ~Dealing with wounded people was nothing new to me. In the military, all soldiers were trained first-aid skills for obvious reasons. I wasn’t like Lady Tara, who healed in record-breaking time and with holy hands, but I could hold my own in these times of emergencies. Still, though, I envied her. What would it actually be like to heal someone without needing medicine or any medical intervention? What would it be like to touch someone and heal their illnesses without needing words? If I have that kind of ability, I would have already opened a free hospital.Fifteen minutes after Lady Tara invited me to help, we were joined by new healers—about four of them—and one of which looked exactly like her. A twin—that was what registered in my head that instant, and this twin was as graceful and kind-looking as the one who healed me.Burned wounds were the main injuries that most people in the bunker complain
~ Rayna ~Inside the tent, I saw an operating room-like setup. A hospital bed stood at the center, comfortable-looking and with thicker foam and sheets than the beds outside. Around it was medical equipment intended for varying purposes. Lady Tara’s twin already stood at the left corner of the room with a mayo table next to her filled with materials needed for the blood extraction.She gestured for Mr. Dangers to lie on the bed, which he did so without releasing my hand.“I’ll just sit here. I won’t escape so you can let me go,” I told him while throwing a frown.I claimed a stool near the bedside table and pulled my hand back, but he was adamant on holding it tighter. In the end, I resigned and remained silent as the twin healer started the procedure.She opened sterile packs first of what I deemed as the blood set and the disinfection set. The empty blood bag was placed inside a flat-su
~ Rayna ~Lady Tara and Lady Sierra concentrated on healing their boss. Their faces remained serious: eyes closed, mouth in the neutral and their brows furrowed. Their hands glowed in a combination of white and yellow colors. It pulsated slowly, creating a brightness that covered most of the tent space.It was surreal to watch them like this. In a matter of twenty-four hours, my belief in science got challenged. I never expected such healing magic like this existed. It mesmerized me truly. It made me realize there’s so much more in the world for me to discover.Werewolves and lycans exist. Magic exist. What’s next? Ghosts and zombies? Or maybe the Lochness monster? I had never been more excited and more cautious in my life.I continued to hold Mr. Dangers’ hand, sandwiching it with my own as if I was his lifeline. He looked so weak, so vulnerable in the bed that my memory of him as a strict, arrogant mafia
~ Eros ~Rayna was right. There was nothing wrong with being honest with myself. She already saw through my facade, found out about my fear of needles, so all I needed was to admit it. Honestly, I didn’t want her to know, but I knew it was inevitable when I refused to let her hand go.I always feared this tiny but sharp object since I was a kid. Hated it. Cried a lot because of it. It brought unsavory memories to the present I didn’t want to remember; memories of my blasted unfortunate childhood and how my father maltreated me. These memories always returned in full force whenever I face this little foe. It never failed to make my mood thorny.The healers had stuck needles inside me on so many occasions over the course of time. I always expected I’d be immune to it, but surprise, surprise, I fucking didn’t.Again, Rayna urged me to be honest with myself, but as the alpha king, I had to maintain