The Whole Damn Flame Andricia The curtains are pulled open and I grumble hiding under the comforter. Sleep seldom comes now but when it does I pray to the goddess to wake me. I drown in nightmares the same one replays even when I close my eyes to blink. Cerberus is missing I’m not sure what happened to her but I wish I had her to interrupt my thoughts and nightmares. I don’t even know the people in my dream. I don’t know the people I’m surrounded by daily. I’ve noticed are only women who are all vampire hybrids with the same bite on the wrist. I asked who their leader was and to speak to them but I barely got an answer. The only one that talks to me is Sienna. She is super nice. Not really she is kind of an ass but I like it. She is the only one that doesn’t tiptoe around me. She is honest and always puts me in my place. I still know nothing about her and every time I ask she leaves or changes the subject ignoring me. “Miss it is time for breakfast.” A soft nervous voice pulls me
Ruby-Red Andricia Two ruby-red eyes stare down at me. His face is porcelain white and chiseled to perfection. His black hair was a big contrast styled neatly with a perfect shine. A fancy deep violet shirt with intricate silver embroidery adorning it lays clad on his body with the top couple of buttons undone. A silver pendant hangs from his neck with red liquid inside. A loud demanding hum fills the room causing the air to almost vibrate coming from him as he continues petting my head to soothe me. My mouth is dry and tears have stopped falling. I try to scoot away quickly but he grips my bicep tightly. Pulling me to him effortlessly and swiping my hair to the side looking at my neck. What’s wrong with my neck? “Soon Little Flame.” All at once he releases me and leaves the room without me even getting a glimpse of him. His speed is uncanny and it’s almost as if he knew I was gonna try to run before I did. Who is he and where am I? I’m even more confused and have no sense of who I
Andricia “Little bird.” The sweet voice echoes through the woods from my attacker. I hit my head pretty hard and he kicked my ribs in pretty good. I’m not going down without a fight though. So I fled but his voice carried and goosebumps ran up my spine from the sound of his voice. “Run little bird.” I can hear my heartbeat in my ears and see a road as I approach. I cross it quickly and continue to run. My feet bleed from the sharp sticks and rocks on the forest floor. I don’t stop though until I see a building. I run for it and close the door falling down a flight of stairs in the darkness. My head smacks concrete hard at the bottom and my vision blurs not that I can see much anyway. Nails drag across my scalp as burning pain erupts where someone grabs a large handful of my hair and begins dragging me across the floor. I squirm feeling my hair tear from my scalp. I am thrown over their shoulder as I dangle fighting to stay conscious. My back slams into something hard and cold and I
SilasI have spent the last week searching for Kain. He is nearly impossible to be found even if he wants to be let alone if he doesn’t. All I can do is hope he isn’t hiding. I didn’t see much of what transpired between Justin and Kain because he cut me off early so I’m unsure of Kain’s intentions with my blood mate. We are gathered in the office but I sit drowning out their talk about war that is falling upon us from our actions. Instead, I focus on Kain his looks his scent everything about him. I search the world but my mind grows fuzzy momentarily and an ache forms in my chest. I try to ignore it and continue searching but a nagging continues to bug me. An inhuman hiss of frustration spews from me just as I am pulled into a dark void. Panic fills me and I feel my body react to it but can't taste its tang in my mouth and know it's not my own.‘What has happened to this poor girl?’ Thoughts fly past me not of my own.
AndriciaI sit in the garden looking up at the full moon. The image of those blue eyes between my legs has been haunting my every thought and dream but I saw them. The beautiful stranger isn’t Kain and I had stopped him that day. For whatever reason this beautiful stranger has taken over my mind and is consuming me. I sigh and run my clammy hands down my blush dress that is nearly just as revealing as the white one from before. Kain had a guest and excused himself but I told him I would wait for him right here. I hear his footsteps along with another’s but I don’t tear my eyes from the moon. Its glow is encasing me and awakening something deep inside of me that I’m not sure I knew was there but it feels so familiar.“Little flame meet my friend Justin.” Kain's formal voice lands on my ears something I don’t hear when it is just us around. I turn standing up and see a man with Kain who is about the same size. He is built more bu
SamsonI feel something burning my hand and open it to see a strange pendent with a broken chain. Silas takes it from my hand and I hunch over in pain.“We have to get back now!” The pain of losing my mate wasn’t as bad as I thought and I never felt our tether snap. The shimmer fades around me and I hear wolves colliding. I look around and see most of the fallen wolves are the rogues not many of Justin’s pack are still here and the rest run off out of our territory. I see Kendrick and Duron running toward Cyrus who is lying on the ground. I want to go to him but my feet won’t move they are planted. The image of his canines breaking her soft skin makes my stomach churn. I fall to my knees and look to my hand I had her in my hand. Someone shakes my shoulders and I look into Silas’ icy blue eyes. They are full of concern and anger.“Did you feel the tether snap?” He shouts over the Chaos around us. I shake my
Silas We sit in the office talking strategy before we leave. All of the warriors are outside awaiting orders. Kira, Jax, and Zek are all in the office with us. Lorissa is preparing Fusilis making them spar to get the fire in them moving. Augustus is hanging back to ensure the pack lands are secure while we are gone. Duron has mapped out our route to take because my shimmering two full packs will completely drain me. I feel sick and a burning in my shoulder. They are torturing my little bird and it’s killing me inside. I feel her whimpers they make goosebumps form over my skin. Shaking me to my very core. She is begging me to take her pain away. The thought of her will to live leaving her has me antsy and ready to strike. I feel a disturbance in the veil around us and my fangs seem to elongate my eyes shifting to the glowing blood red. A deep purple glittering shimmer fills the office and power pours into the small room. Kain appears out of thin air and the A
AndriciaThe cold seeps into me from the stone floor I lay flat on. Staring at the moon through the bars of the open window. Blood slowly seeps out from my shoulder. When sleep had finally found me I was awoken by two wolves kicking my already battered body to a bloody pulp. My blood is simmering due to the rage building deep within me but still I lay staring at the moon not acting on it. I’m not sure how long I’ve laid here but a lot of the blood on and surrounding my body has dried. My shoulder continues to bleed where Justin's canines ripped into my skin. Nausea grows within me at the image of it playing over and over in my head. Begging has done nothing for me as Death hasn’t claimed me as its prize yet. I thought I would feel her cold grip on me but every time I feel it creep in icy blue eyes flood my mind and I feel her let me go. It is agonizing and I can’t take the teasing much longer. Soon it won’t be my choice if I stay or go.