Azalea I saw them approaching the clearing at almost the same time as we did. I asked if we could try the incenerator first as I had an idea. I spent a lot of time thinking about it last night. They told me to go ahead. I made a small whirlwind and placed it on the ground next to where I piled some sticks. I had added 5 drops of my blood this time, hoping for a stronger connection. I shook the vial and focused on my whirlwind. I threw the vial and as it exploded on the sticks, I had the whirlwind pull the fire into itself, letting the two powers mix before pushing more of my power into it. It flared up a firey tornado now as big as me. I held my hands out to it, letting my power flow between us. I directed it around for a few minutes, keeping it away from the trees, before I created an air bubble around it and suffocated it, slowly pulling the power back into myself. I sat down once I had put it out, exhausted but energized at the same time. It was almost as if I brough
Azalea I was starving at lunch and actually downed a few tylenol I kept in my bag. Cassie looked at me questioningly and commented once again on my scent. "It could be the potions or the magic I've been working on," I whispered to her. She nodded in understanding as a finished the first sandwich. Her friends came over again and I was glad for their distraction for her. When I went to go meet up with Rich I remembered the smell masking potion. I told Rich about what had happened in my classes earlier - leaving out a few details of what I had seen- and that I had brought a smell masking potion to try today. "Great," he said. "What I want is for you to use it on yourself. maybe it will work better on you and you can boost it somehow with your powers. I am going to change into my wolf. You're going to give me a 2 minute head start and then I want you to try to track me and I will circle back to try to sneak up on you. So you're going to be the hunted and the hunter in your hu
Azalea The girls and I had lunch together before meeting at the SUV. Rich had gone on to get the boys and would meet us at the airport. We talked the whole way out there about all the fun things we had planned. Soon enough we were on the plane and off to Hawaii. We all played games on the plane while Rich did some sort of work on his laptop. He was dropping us in Hawaii and then heading home to Colorado to spend the week with his wife. We said good bye to him at the air port and then we were off to the hotel. My father had booked a whole cabana for us - with 8 bedrooms - two of which had double queen beds - 6 bathrooms, a fully equiped kitchen and dinning room and massive living room. The kitchen, dinning room and living room were all open to each other giving the house an even bigger feel. We were right on the beach. The main building for the hotel had other rooms as well as a bar, resturant and club, gym and indoor pools. We each claimed our rooms and took some time to
Cassie "Have you seen Azalea?" I asked Taylor when he came into the kitchen. She had been gone already when I had woken up and wasn't answering her phone. "No, she wasn't with ya'll? Did you check the beach? You know she loves her early morning runs," he replied smiling before gulping down his coffee. We were all walking into the kitchen getting ready to go grab breakfast. "She does, but she's always back by now. Plus she almost always answers her phone. Her scent was faint in her room, like she'd been gone a while and ... I don't know. I just feel like something is off," I replied, wringing my hands. I couldn't put my finger on it but something was wrong. Celia frowned and I noticed she was still sitting there staring into her cup. "You feel it to? Like a sense of foreboding?" she asked me quietly. I nodded and she pushed her cup away. "Look, let's ping her phone's GPS. Just to make sure she's ok. I mean some of those himans have really been hanging around you girls
Logan About halfway through the trip my father set us up on a conference with the girl's father and other enforcers as well as the alpha that was there with my siblings. Each group was gathered around the laptops that connected us so everyone would be on the same page. Introductions were made all around and my father asked for an update from Alpha Kai first. He was young for an alpha, not much older than the twins. "She was taken at approximately 0500 this morning from the beach. It's belived that she was out running as this is a ritual of hers -" he looked towards my sister for confirmation. She nodded and he continued. "There were 4 of them, they caught her unaware. Her shoes and cell phone were found on the beach about a quarter mile away. 2 vampires and 2 witches. There was a pile of ash where one vamp was apparently killed next to some blood, some of which was the girl's. The only video we have is of 3 men getting into a dark sedan with a girl who looks to be pas
Azalea I nodded as best I could. So he continued. "Now I will offer you a little treat so that you can stay conscious enough to listen to me," he said pushing a stray lock of hair behind my ear before walking around to my back. "The whip I used was laced with wolfsbane, just a small enough amount to sting and to slow your healing, not that you need anything to slow your healing more, do you my pet? That human blood is really slowing things down for. But... I can give you a taste of the pleasures I could bring you," he said kissing the back of my shoulder. He kissed his way down to where the cuts started, the stinging pain of his lips against them giving way to a wierd sense of pleasure as he licked each one. It was sick and it pissed me off, but he was right. I almost moaned as I his cold tongue soothed my hot torn flesh. I growled at him instead. Thankfully my wolf was not feeling receptive to his minstrations. He laughed as he scraped his teeth against the side of my ne
Logan My father called out for them to come in - it was Alpha John and his team. Introductions were made quickly and my father and Steve made a plan to extract Azalea. We all geared up and then my father laid out the plans. Alpha John would stay here with a small team - the doctor, Kyle and the other tech guy, my brothers and sister, her friends and brother included -to protect home base and be ready for any injuries that might occur. The other group was going to take out the guards and infiltrate the building to get her out. My father and the fae would stay outside to make sure none escaped as well as to create a distraction and contain the scene if needed. Steve was leading the inside team. "Cassie, get the doctor set up in her room. Jason and Markus bring the gear for the doctor to the room for him," my father directed her. She squeezed her mate's hand and began walking the doctor to the room. I looked at my dad and he just nodded, already knowing where I was going. I
Logan We had the building surrounded, with updated infared showing on the laptop in my father's hands. At some point, a vampire had gone into the room where we assumed Azalea was being held and lifted her from the floor to hang her from the ceiling again. They had landed a drone on the roof of the building and had been able to pick up snippets of conversations. "They're getting ready to move her. We need to move now," Steve relayed. "Last guards are down and explosives are set. Ready in 15, 14, 13,..." He counted down. I let my wolf come forward some, lending me his strength. I was on the roof of the building where she had made the whirlwind with the help of Charlotte and Titus who practically tossed me up here. I could see her hanging unconscious through the window and was just waiting for the explosives to go off before I jumped through the window. I told my wolf our mate was fierce and smart and strong and soon she would be in my arms. Azalea I hung there unconscious