Carter stood there looking dumbfounded for a moment. I didn't want to give away what we were doing. I wanted it to be a surprise, but I also wanted to throw him off his game. And that's all I could think of at the moment. He said that he was going to kidnap Taylor before the transformation was complete. I had to make sure that he had other things to deal with. And if that meant dealing with me, I was fully prepared to take that on. "There is no cure for vampires." Carter finally said. "Are you sure? Have you ever tried? Have you ever looked into it?" I asked. "I know you. You're not smart enough to even think of something so stupid." Carter says. "Well, it's a good thing that Taylor was the one that thought of it. And thanks to you biting members of my pack, they are very willing to give up blood samples every day for the doctors to examine and analyze. Because it's not just the serum that they have now. There's also vampire saliva that we collected from their bite wounds, just
By the time the sun was setting I was still sitting on the bed next to holding her hand when she suddenly pulled her hand away and she started feeling her gums. I could feel her pain, but it wasn't the canines that she could feel. They were fangs. She was whimpering while running her fingers over her gums. I could see the sharp fangs starting to protrude and then going back in. I was trying to help her through it and keep her calm. She wasn't getting vicious or anything at me yet, so as long as she was herself then I was going to stay there with her. Her teeth were starting to go in and out until they came out completely and stayed out. And then I saw these veins start to appear from her cheeks leading up to her eyes. "Jackson. You need to get out. Now." She tells me. "Not yet. You're not going to hurt me yet. I know that you won't." I say. "You don't know that." She says. And I could hear her labored breathing. It was getting harder for her to breathe and her heart rate was s
TAYLOR POV I understood where Jackson was coming from. He didn't want me to sacrifice myself to protect innocent people. And I know that I've done a lot of dumb shit in the past. But if Carter is planning on using me for evil, then there's no way I am going anywhere near him. I would have stayed away from that scene last night. He should have explained everything to me. He should have told me about Carter and what he wanted with me. It made it pretty clear that I was the intended target of that vampire bite. So I decided to go to the hospital. I knew that it wasn't a very good outing for the children, but I was only going to be there for a minute. When we got there I talked to Jade and we went to the lab and she showed me all of the test results. Even from the warriors that were in the shelter at the moment so protect them from me. And I was looking over everything and getting Jade to explain it all to me. They have figured out all the components of the serum, which was great. N
Jackson stayed in the cell with me the whole night again. He held me close on the bed and he was determined that I wasn't going to hurt him. I guess he had more faith in me then what I had. Because I wasn't too sure of it. It must have been playing on my mind the whole night because I kept waking up to make sure that everything was alright and Jackson was lightly snoring beside me every time. So I knew that everything was alright and he was fine. The following morning when he let us out of the cell he was determined that we weren't sleeping down there again. Not only was the bed a little smaller than we're used to, but he hated sleeping in that dungeon. It smelt of mold and mud and he didn't think I deserved to be locked away in there. But he assured me that if anything did happen he would lower the shutters on our bedroom, like he does every time that I go into heat. "Jackson. When was the last time I went into heat." I mentioned to him as we were getting cleaned up that morning
I took the note downstairs and Jackson was still in the office going through all the paperwork and working on the computer. He looked really busy and I didn't want to bother him, but I knew that he needed to know about this. He must have sensed me there, and sensed my anxiety because he jumped up from his seat immediately and rushed over. "What's wrong?" He asked. So I handed him the note. "I just found it on our windowsill. He was on pack territory." I say. And I saw Jackson's eyes change color. They went a deep black which meant that his wolf was dangerously close to the edge. He ordered all off duty warriors to meet him out the front of the packhouse immediately. And he walked out the front and waited for them. Claire and the kids were out there and that freaked me out. My children were outside playing while Carter was on pack territory. He could have taken them. So I tell Claire to take them inside and don't come out again. Find some fun activities for them to do inside. An
When I got off the phone with the President I was getting a coffee in the kitchen when Jackson walked in and leaned against the bench next to me. "How bad is it?" Jackson asked. "The President is pissed. He's pissed at us because we haven't done anything. He's the one that bombed the damn town and we're the ones to blame for it." I yell. "Taylor. It's not your fault. We know that it's not your fault. There's not much we can do until we find where the bastard is hiding." Jackson says. "And we don't know where that is. We don't know that he's in Richmond's pack. We don't know much more than them. They've got the equipment to find out where Carter is. We don't. We have to travel by foot as wolves to scent him out and that's not even a guarantee if he's nowhere around here." I say. And Jackson stopped me from what I'm doing and he hugged me. "It's alright. I know how frustrating this is. And that bastard had no right to call you and yell at you for it. He could have told us about
I sat there staring at the note from Carter and I did first think of throwing it away. But I decided to put it in the cupboard drawer. I was trying to figure out when he was able to sneak in and put that note on the computer. But I figured that it had to be the night before. He was still finding his way in whenever the hell he wanted to. And that was getting me a little worried with my kids being in the house. He could do whatever he wanted because we obviously didn't hear him coming in. I ordered an increased patrol presence around the packhouse. Meaning, there were men to be standing guard outside the packhouse at all times. I wasn't going to allow him to get in again. Not with my babies in the house. And then there was Aria and Edward. And she was about to have her little one. They were living with us again, on the first floor. Which means they were very close to this guy last night and they still didn't hear anything. It was pretty scary that werewolves weren't woken to an intru
JACKSON POV As soon as I got the word that our pack had been attacked, I aborted the mission and we ran straight back. We didn't stop for anything. Our wolves pounding paws running along the forest could have been heard for miles. We made it back in record time because I knew that this whole thing had been a trap. It was an ambush and they were seriously outnumbered. But when I arrived back, I wasn't prepared for what I saw. It was a slaughter. The forest near the border wasn't anything I had ever seen before. There were dead vampires everywhere, along with wolves. They got the better of us, just like we got the better of them. There were definitely no winners in this scenario. I shifted back and opened my bag and put on a pair of shorts and I saw Ethan standing by the pile of dead vampires. And just behind us, were the dead werewolves. They would be given an honorable funeral. The vampires were going to be burnt in the nearest clearing. "They came out of nowhere. We weren't ex