DacreThe assassin had disappeared to Goddess knew where. I only scratched my head in confusion. Why would someone attack me, then warn me, then fight and run away?Was he even fighting or simply pretending to fight? And hadn’t he been too lean for an assassin?He could have just slinked through the bushes and run away or like a smartass hid behind a boulder or a shrub and observed me even now.I didn’t know. I could comb through the area but it was not worth the time or effort.Thus, I turned around and walked towards my car. It was stuck in the bushes so with some effort I pulled it back to the road.Thankfully, there was no human around or I would have had to do the act of calling a towing service guy and wasting my time when I could move the vehicle myself.I surveyed the damage and saw that apart from the dent on the side where the attacker had rammed in and a few more dents on the roof when the branches had fallen down, the car was relatively okay.I simply sat back in my seat a
DacreI received a call on my phone and I was surprised to see a name I thought I would not see soon.Lucas Klout.I looked at the screen for a moment before picking it up.“Hello?” I said uncertainly as I heard the council head’s voice.“Don't take that mission for now”He said curtly.I immediately shot up from my seat as I asked, “Why? Is there a problem?”I asked and he replied, “We might have had an attack on someone from the council. For a few days, it will be wise to lay low.”His voice sounded tense and I tried to ask again,“Who was attacked? Please tell me.”Lucas Klout took so long to respond, I thought he might never answer me.Then in a barely audible whisper, he answered, “Mrs. Bryant was in an…accident. She is at the city hospital in Jundra.”“What? Is she okay? And who attacked her?”I recalled the kind hearted woman who was nice to me and my heart gave a pang. I did not want her to be badly injured.“For now she is okay and we are tracing the attackers. Best lay low f
DacreThe door to the room closed, leaving us three standing awkwardly outside it. “Just what did she say?”Silas pulled me a bit farther away as Cynthia noticed it and glared at him. She then strode further away, not wanting to associate with us.That was better for us either way.“I asked her and all she said was shallow”Silas raised an eyebrow, “You mean the shadow assassins?”I hit my forehead for not realizing the obvious. “Yeah, you should hit yourself more. You are growing an idiot day by day”I rolled my eyes and saw that Cynthia was pretending to not listen to us, but her ears were straining to eavesdrop on us.“So, they are just attacking council members and killing demon worshippers too. But why?”“That is what we have to find,” I said as I clenched my fist.Let’s leave. We have to go somewhere.I said as I dragged him away from the hospital room. I made a mental note to meet Mrs. Bryant and check on her health again.She was a kind soul and I did not want her ill or dead
ClarissaDacre said the line but I felt as if the ground was slipping below my feet. My hold on his hand tightened automatically. I did not want him to leave.I could not let him leave.Not after I had just begun to know him.The way his hand squeezed mine told me that he did not want to leave me yet too. For a while, I just held his hand, letting my body do the talking as I looked into his blue eyes.“Dad said that he was going to invite everybody to our birthday party.”I said in a small voice.“Yeah someone from my pack will be around to mark our attendance.”He said and I felt that his voice faltered. Or maybe I imagined it.“I want you”I said and I bit my lip.“I mean…I want you to be at the party.”He turned to look at me and placed his hand on my cheek, “My little girl is soon going to be a grown up girl. She is going to awaken her wolf and with all the males in attendance, I know you would soon find your mate too.”I shook my head.“I don’t want to find my mate. I want you to
DacreI had cut off my relationship or whatever it was with Clarissa in the worst way possible. I knew the first time I had kissed her in the pub that she was a mistake.And the second time when I kissed her in the forest while groping her small breasts that she was a drug.I could not get enough of her no matter how much I told myself that she was just another girl, an inexperienced virgin who wanted to be taught.A part of me had known that giving in to the craving would only make her more irresistible to me. But, I had thought that I would just take a taste of her and then leave her. That I would prove it to myself that I was not affected by those dove like eyes and that innocent looking face.A more evil idea had been to make her want me in such a way that she would never again crave someone else.But only now did I realize that I had not been the master planner. The brown haired girl with her gray eyes and petite figure had done that to me.She had made me want her like nothing e
ClarissaI sat back in the car as I kept forcing tears to not spill out. Why did it hurt so much?I and Dacre had not been in love, we were not dating and we were certainly not mates.Yet, I felt as if I would never want anyone else. Maybe, I needed some medication. Talia kept quiet for the entire ride, giving me some time to collect my thoughts.I tried to console myself by saying that what happened had happened for the best. I was going to go back to my home and my people so Dacre would soon become a memory of the past.The car came to a halt and I was snapped out of my thoughts.“Now come on, we have to start packing for home too.”She said with a small smile and I got out of the car after adjusting my hair and taking a few deep breaths to steady my nerves.We went in and I saw that mom had already packed most of the stuff.She looked at us and smiled, “time to go home for your birthday celebration, exciting isn’t it?”I gave her a half smile as Talia decided to cover up for me.“
ClarissaAs we all sat back in the car, I could not shake the thought of those eyes watching me. I racked my brain to recall when was the last time I had seen them.If my memory was not failing me, it had been back at home, when we were in the study and mom had made us draw runes.Then again, I saw those eyes from the window of my room. All these days everything had been silent.With a jolt, I realized that I had also not dreamt of the handsome man burning up in flames ever since I had left home.Instead, another sinful young man had taken his place. But I quashed the thought of Dacre faster than it could take up space in my head again.I viciously buried it and began to think about the events and how they had unfolded over the past few weeks.The eyes that had been tailing me, the dreams about the young man, then meeting Dacre, Miranda being chased by a demon, her pointing her finger at me before her death, then the visions that I saw.Was it really my mind that had been hallucinatin
Clarissa“What do you want?”I asked him the question I always asked him.And as usual, he did not tense or show any indication of me being around or him listening to me.However, this time he took a long time to reply.I knew trying to find out a way from the fire maze was pointless so I just waited for him to speak. The runes that were being etched on his back were finally completed and he spoke.“Your drawing skills are horrific”I was taken aback by his comment. After the fire etching on his skin died down, it left behind a glowing set of sloppily drawn runes on his back.“Different from your mother’s or your sister’s. You are weak”He said and I felt rage boiling within me. “You show up uninvited in my dreams every single night and you have the audacity to call me weak?”I said in a seething voice.He turned his head from left to right and loosened his back muscles before answering.“I thought you didn’t miss me when you were ogling boys and letting him ravish you the way he wan