Oliver was staring with a concentrated expression fixed on his face, at the shimmering wall before him; more like glaring actually. His eyes could not comprehend what exactly it was that was covering the cave, but he suspected it to be some sort of barrier. A barrier to what he did not know, he had not exactly encountered things like this before in his life. aHis parents - mother especially, as overprotective as she was - had staunchly kept him and Scarlett away from anything that could paint them as abnormal, for their safety. However, that did not mean that Oliver was unfamiliar with the idea of magical places such as this one.As the sun, rising high in the sky, shining its rays down on his head, he wondered, why was he even here. But the answer came swiftly - he was here because of his vision. This girl - she had to be a witch, because of her magic - had been the trigger for one of his visions. Thus, she was the only connection to his father and his twin sister, Scarlett, that
Ian entered the kitchen and switched on the overhead lights, moving to get a glass cup so that he could drink some water. He took the first glass in large gulps, and then the second. Then he finally filled the third glass of water, and as his thirst was parched, he sipped the water leisurely.Taking a seat at the dining table, the wolf was deep in thought. His injured arm still itched, and though it had almost fully healed by now, it was still bandaged as he had just injured it. He had Scarlett to thank for that.She had insisted on taking care of him every step of the way, as a thank you for keeping me safe and playing a good host’ as she had said. However, to Ian, who very well knew how to read between the lines, it was definitely not the only reason. Her eyes had said it all that night that she insisted on patching him up when she saw the extent of his injuries.Ian was no stranger to romance, even though these days, he was considered an invisible outcast of the pack, which meant
Immediately Scarlett felt the mate bond burn through her, she began to feel scared. She had definitely not meant for this to happen!Without any thought, she pushed Ian away and hurriedly stood up, running right back to the house. The 18-year-old felt the gaze of Ian boring into her back as she ran back to the house, right back up the stairs and to her room. She locked the door firmly, before turning around to lean her back on it, panting like someone who had just run a marathon.Her mind was whirling, and her heart was in shattered pieces.She had not meant for this to happen, she thought desperately, trying to cling to the image of the smile she last saw on Ian’s face before they felt the mate bond. She did not want to think about how his eyes had looked at her, unreadable. She did not want to think about anything. Or else, she would lose it.Strangely, a voice popped up in her head, calm, cool, and collected. Elder Quinn’s voice, which was a memory of him instructing her on how to
Ian opened his eyes just as the sun was rising. The feeling of bliss still had not left him, and his body buzzed with a new energy - the mate bond with Scarlett had been completed.He looked to his left, where the sleeping girl still lay. She looked peaceful, and his arm that was curled around her waist tightened. He did not ever wish to let go of her. He had been conflicted before on whether he wanted to pull her into his mess of a life, but now, he felt nothing but peace, and he was complete. Ian had never felt this way before, and taking the risk was worth it in the end.He watched as she began to murmur in her sleep. Scarlett seemed to be coming away slowly. His eyes roved up and down her body, at the marks that he had made on her. Then he narrowed in on her neck, where he had bitten her, as a sign of their mate bond. The mark was still red but was healing up nicely and quickly. As he looked at it, he felt the tingling on his neck, where Scarlett had also bitten him. Their couplin
This was not good, Eleanor thought to herself. Not good at all.She knew, as she pressed send on yet another anonymous post on the school’s social media, that what she was doing was wrong. Yet, she could not bring herself to care about it.Her hand moved to scratch at her arm as the computer in the school’s ICT center booted off. As the screen went black, she was taken aback by the smile on her face.The school was in an uproar right now, and it was all because of her. Many people, students, and even the staff, were searching not only for the person that she had posted about but also for the mysterious sender of the posts. It was no use though, as it was all anonymous. And Eleanor knew how to cover up her tracks.Leaving the ICT center, she walked down the hallway of the school and was immediately stunned when a hand wrapped around her arm and pulled her into the nearby closet.Eleanor heard the door of the closet shut immediately, and she found herself looking into Taylor’s eyes. She
Meera walked slowly and quietly, slowly approaching the cave once more. She had definitely heard a sound before. What had made it? And was someone spying on her? If someone was spying on her in the first place, why? She crept up closer and closer to the spot where she was very sure that she had heard it, keeping herself alert and ready to pounce. Her magic swirled around her, making her eyes glow even brighter, and look a lot wilder than it was before. Her hair was waving about as if there was a breeze in the air, but it was only her magic making it move around, by her mere unconscious thought.The witch crept closer and closer, unaware that an 18-year old teenager was hiding in the bushes just near where she was heading. Unfortunately for Meera, she also could not find the head nor hide of whatever might have made the sound from earlier. It was as if the person had just disappeared into thin air.But in the air was something else, actually. And she raised her nose to sniff. Her eyes
Scarlett did not know what to say. Her eyes were trained on the document, and her expression was unreadable. Deep inside she felt nothing but dread and unease throughout her body.She was aware of Ian’s look at her as if she was acting strangely.“Is everything okay, love?” Ian finally asked, wondering what had triggered her to act this weirdly. Was she alright?Had she seen something that he had not?Not for the first time, he felt his wolf rear itself inside of him, wanting to protect his mate. He didn’t know what was bothering her, but her sudden behavior change was alarming, to say the least.He moved closer to her, touching her arm lightly. She gasped, whipping her head up from the file he had given her, and then turning to him abruptly.“What?” She breathed out, sounding like she had just run a few hundred miles. “What is it, Ian?”His brows furrowed in confusion at her behavior that was out of the ordinary for her. He had not expected her to have that reaction. What was going o
Plop! Plop!!!The first thing that Oliver noticed before he even opened his eyes, was the sound of water dripping from somewhere around his vicinity.He grumbled, feeling disturbed.“Mom, please stop that,” he muttered under his breath, hoping the dripping of water would stop disrupting his sleep flow.But all he heard was a whisper in his ear, “I am not your mother.”His brows furrowed and his face scrunched up as his brain slowly processed what he had heard.Not his mother..?All at once, his eyes flew open in alarm and he glanced up in front of him.It was then that he realized that he was on his back, and as his vision focused on the ceiling, he also had the stark realisation that he was not at home, or in his bedroom.He was not even anywhere familiar, like his girlfriend’s room (or was it ex, now that he knew she was cheating on him with Taylor), or any of the places he had been to before in his life.No, he was in a cave.Or at least, it looked a lot like a cave from what he co