They couldn’t believe it.She was laughing so hard that tears were rolling down her face. Samantha was just as tickled, and the three of them wondered what the two were laughing about. Hale couldn’t remember the last time he’d seen his mother laugh like that, if ever.“So, this is where you’ve been,” Calypso was the first to speak, bringing the two’s attention to them.“I was somewhere else, and this is where I ended up,” Samantha corrected.Hale eyed them suspiciously. “And what are the two of you up to?”“Samantha was just sharing something with me. Nothing for you to worry about,” Queen Hyacinth responded.The other three were suspicious, especially when Samantha and Queen Hyacinth continued giggling. Hale wondered if his mother had done something to his mate. While he didn’t think her to be that evil, he didn’t know how she was really feeling about Samantha, and that’s what had him worried.They’d been called for dinner, and it went with Queen Hyacinth wanting to know more about C
Vera was in one of the rooms, reading. Antoinette was still recuperating, and she didn’t want to leave just yet. She needed to make sure that Antoinette was safe first, especially since her mate wasn’t around.She decided to check in with him. “Love.”“Yes, my love?” he replied almost instantly.“Are you ok? Is everything ok there?” she asked.“It’s as ok as can be. I’m having breakfast with the newly mated lovebirds. We haven’t seen Spunky or the Queen this morning,” he informed.“Isn’t that suspicious?” she followed up.“There’s a lot that’s happening that’s suspicious here, but I’m not questioning anything just yet. For now, I’m simply observing,” he replied.She understood what he was getting at. “Any new developments with Cally?”“We’re going to the library later, so we’ll see if anything changes. You know her emotions are supercharged in situations like that,” he pointed out.She sighed at that. “I know, which is why I’m worried. Just keep your eye on her please.”“You know I wi
With everything that they’d been told, Killian and Calypso were ready to learn the truth. While Calypso feared what it could potentially mean for her, she knew that she still needed to face the truth to better understand how to move forward.Queen Hyacinth led them to the dark room she’d preciously been in with Samantha, and when they walked in, she witnessed something she hadn’t before. The symbols on the floor glowed brighter than they ever had.“Incredible,” she whispered.The Lycan couple had heard her. “What is?”“These symbols have never glowed this brightly before, and now I wonder who of you is making them glow like this,” she commented.“We can find out,” Calypso said as she turned to leave the room.Killian followed after her, before letting her enter alone. The symbols glowed brightly, and she walked out. Killian walked in and they did the same thing, before he too walked out. When they walked back in together, the symbols shone brighter than before.“Absolutely incredible,
Frazier wasn’t entirely on board with Antoinette’s plan, but he knew that he wouldn’t be able to stop her. They snuck out while no one was noticing them, and with her having regained most of her strength, she was strong enough to teleport them to their destination.She was also able to hide her own scent. While he could be around the castle, she knew that her presence couldn’t be known just as yet. They managed to sneak to the secret room she’d shown him all those years ago.“So, what exactly is the plan here Nette?” he linked her to keep from being heard.She blushed a little at the nickname. “I have no idea but we can’t go to him without finding out what Odus is up to.”“He will kill you on sight, you know that much, right?” he asked her.“He won’t even believe that I’m here in the first place. He probably thinks I’m dead,” she argued.“You seem to forget that my brother can hold grudges forever,” he reminded.“I know that, but if he truly wanted to hurt me, he would’ve used Zen. He
Jeremiah walked down the hallways of the massive pack house they were in. He still had no idea who was really running the show, and why they trusted Tyson to be Alpha over him, but he knew to be patient with his questions.Things had been going fairly well with their operations, except he hadn’t seen Tyson in days. Jordan had also disappeared for a while, doing his own thing. Ever since his powers had been taken from him, he’d been wallowing in his sadness.While Jeremiah was practically on top of the world.While he didn’t have much of a say on what they were doing, he knew that he was doing his part really well. He could see the results in place, and he wondered if it was enough to get him an in with the true leader of what was going on.He needed to move up the ranks.Keely was keeping herself busy with being Beta female, though their bond had weakened since Calypso took Xavier. He knew that it wasn’t his mate’s fault, but things between them just hadn’t been the same since.She’d
His mother was taking longer than normal to wake up, which had him worried. He’d done everything he usually does to get her to wake up, but nothing was working. He was growing impatient, especially with his mate away from him.And when he felt a surge of panic go through him, he knew it wasn’t his.His mate was potentially in danger.The door to his mother’s room opened and his eyes widened at the woman who walked in. She was a carbon copy of his mother, rushing over to Queen Hyacinth. She picked the woman’s head up, cradling it.“Come on Yara, you can’t do this to me,” she pleaded.Hale stood, frozen at what was happening before him. His mate’s fear was temporarily forgotten as he took in the woman before him. He never knew that his mother was a twin, and he didn’t know how to process what was going on before him.“Haleth,” the woman spoke softly.That got him out of his stupor. “Who are you?”“How long has she been like this?” the woman asked him.“Who are you?” he instead repeated.
The woman had just dropped a bomb none of them expected. Both Hale and Zen knew about Amaya’s plight where her family is concerned, so they knew that hearing what she’d just been told would be triggering for her.“My family?” Amaya barely whispered.The woman nodded. “Your family is alive, and you will need them now more than ever to help save your children. Follow me.”They had no choice but to follow the woman. While she was confusing them, none of them got any bad vibes from her, so they were choosing to trust that she wasn’t leading them away to anything bad.Hale watched on in awe as she opened up a portal. “We’re leaving Ameran, but I assure you that we’ll return. Are you all on board with that?”“We’re just leaving them behind? What about Queen Hyacinth?” Zen asked.“They will make it out of the memory just fine. Samira is strong, and faced with danger, she’ll find that strength again. There’s nothing we can do for Yara right now except leave and get her the help she needs. Rig
“I don’t have any reason to beat about the bush,” Amaya admitted.Willa nodded. “You have every right to feel that way. It’s something I’ve grappled with for years.”“Perhaps we should start at the beginning and explain what was happening around the time you were left in that realm,” Yael suggested.“In that realm?” Zen was the one to ask.Yael nodded. “Where we are isn’t a part of your realm.”“Other realms exist?” he questioned.“In a world where all of us exist, is it really that hard to believe that other realms may exist?” Willa taunted.Zen thought about it. “I guess this is how humans feel finding out that we exist.”“It’s exactly that. As I was saying, in that realm, around the time Amaya was born, a war had broken out amongst the witches,” Yael started off.“The Great Witch War,” Hale commented.Yael smiled a little, nodding. “The Great Witch War was started between two covens, but it didn’t take long before the other covens found themselves having taken sides. The war starte