Chapter 34- Royal
The road was uneven and pitted, causing us to ricochet around the little black car as we flew down the long dirt road through the thick and deepening woods. We had one mile to go before we crested the border of Ben Avon’s territory, and we all held our breaths as the reality of escape sat just barely from our fingertips. I was gripping the leather seat of the car so tightly that my knuckles were beginning to turn white, and I didn’t know if it was because of Simons reckless driving, or the fear that I would be dragged back into that castle kicking and screaming all the way to the cave of the children. A shiver ran up my spine as my thoughts began to fill with milky eyes, and stretched skin.
“We’re going to the Gold Moon pack.” Simon’s voice cut through the silence, pulling me from my thoughts, and breaking the tension that sat thick in the air. I nodded, even though he couldn’t see me behind
Chapter 35 - WolfEverything moved in slow motion as Keagan began to open his eyes. Simon slammed the brakes on the car, swerving us to the right of the highway, and coming to a dead stop on the side of the road. The sudden deceleration causing me to jerk backwards into the car seat, as the tires screeched across the slick blacktop.Moira’s door flew open and she jumped from the car, moving herself as far from the wolf as possible, as Simon ripped himself out from the driver’s seat. Leaving the driver’s door open as he scrambled from the car and into the cool night air.I stayed where I was though, frozen in time, as I watched the drowsiness visibly clear from Keagan’s mind. His molten gold eyes sharpening as he began to realize that he was not only far from home, but now surrounded by strangers.I didn’t have enough time to react as those liquid eyes slid to me, and he let out a low and dangerous gr
Chapter 36 - Cousins “Come on Moira, he’s not going to bite.” I teased the little mousy girl who stood huddled behind the trunk of a large tree a few feet away from me. She squinted her big brown eyes, glaring daggers at me from behind a couple sap-soaked leaves that were dangling in front of her face. “It’s not the teeth I’m worried about, it’s the claws.” She shuttered being over dramatic, and I resisted the urge to roll my eyes at her antics. “He’s your family, he’s not going to hurt you. Look, he’s already carrying on with Simon, and we both know how impenetrable that man can be.” I nodded my head in the direction of the guys, and Moira shifted to look over at them. Her eyes going quickly going wide before she let out a small terrified squeal, and ducked back behind the tree. “He looked at me!” She squeaked at me, and I threw my hands up in the air, exasperated. “That’s enough, let’s go.” I reached ou
Chapter 37 – Gas StationThe drive went by quickly as Moira and Keagan caught up on their separated lives. We laughed as Keagan told us about the first time he shifted when he was fourteen, describing how he had woken up with his room torn to shreds, and tufts of blond fur strewn across his floor. Keagan told Moira about the times her mother had come to visit him, and how she used whatever power she had to protect him as he learned to control his wolf throughout his early teens. He said that Ginger had studied all she could on werewolves to try and help him, and while he knew the basics because of her, he still had no idea what it was like to be in a pack, and had never actually met another werewolf besides his mother who had died long before he even knew what he was. I watched as tears shined in Moira’s’ soft brown eyes as she fought to hold them in, her emotions running high as they talked about the past. Beyond the sadness though, I knew Moi
Chapter 38 - SisterI tried to scream as long pointed teeth twisted up into a wicked smile, but the sound caught in my throat as ice cold terror wrapped itself around my lungs. I was frozen in place, trapped like I was caught in a night terror. I willed my body to move, but only managed to let out a strangled whimper from the effort.I could see my own wide and terrified green eyes reflecting in the creatures’ white ones, the light from my palm causing the vision to look distorted in the dim light.“Sisster.” Its sharp voice taunted me, and my knees went weak at the sound as it ripped through my body. I fought to keep standing, at I stared back into its unnerving milky white eyes. It’s taunt skin looking even tighter around it’s pointed face than from what I remembered, as it lifted a gnarled hand towards me. I swore it’s stretched smile widened, black saliva staining the tips of the sharp incisors; as it brought i
Chapter 39 - Light“I cannot be a queen of a bunch of monsters.” I laughed out loud, waiting for Simon to cast me some sort of smirk showing that he was just messing with me. When his face remained sharp as stone though, fear began to raise its angry tendrils through my chest. “I barely got away from them before, and you think I’m going to be able to control all of them?” My soft soprano rose to a high pitch at the end, proving my discomfort with the situation. Flashes of being pulled away in the cave by Moira pushed themselves to the forefront of my mind, all of them scrambling to get at me, long claws extended towards us. I shivered involuntarily, unable to get the disturbing images to stop their pillage through my brain. “I mean, they came after Moira and I. They would have absolutely killed me if they got ahold of me.”“I actually don’t think that’s the case.” Moira’s mousy voice
Chapter 40 - ShadowsThe world stopped for a split moment as the large black car appeared again beside us. It was almost as if I watching a movie through someone else’s eyes as the front fenders of the vehicles made contact, and Simon lost control of the car. Someone screamed in terror, as the car shifted and rolled to the right, flipping almost poetically onto its roof, and sliding the rest of the way down the road before coming to a grinding and sparking stop. My dark hair fell above me, falling onto to roof of the car in a coiled puddle, as I hung upside down from my seat belt. I watched as thick drops of crimson slid down a few strands, disappearing into the mess of obsidian. My vision began to tunnel, the edges turning black, as my head began to swim.A loud crack pulled me from my trance, and I whipped my head to the driver’s seat to see Simon had already freed himself from his seatbelt, and was crouched onto the roof. A large gash acros
Chapter 41 – Horror NovelWe ran for what seemed like hours, always on the road and never in the woods. When the sun finally dipped down into late afternoon, my entire body ached and sweat poured down my limbs from the sun beating down on us. My hands were shaking with the effort of gripping onto Simon’s mane, and my head was still spinning from the accident.As Simon came to a slow trot, and then a stop, I took a second to look around us. The road stretched out for miles, barren and empty as it had been since we had left the shadows, and Moira behind us. The forest continued to stretch itself out on either side of the roadway, but now it seemed less ominous, and more of an invitation to come and sit under its shaded trees. Simon had taken every twist and turn he could find, leaving us not only in the middle of nowhere, but also far from the path that we were supposed be following before.I slid from his back, slowly lowering myself to
Chapter 42 - Crow*Marcus*The sun had fell hours before, leading into the dark and damp night. My footsteps just barely sounded through the large stone hallway as I moved swiftly through the maze of corridors that lead to the infirmary. A puzzling message from the doctor had set me on edge, and I had to wait be to separated from the prince to move towards the meeting room.The crow is here – F.T.That’s all it had said. My mind had quickly flashed to the small, short brown-haired girl that had been invading my dreams for the last couple nights. Her timid smile and playful brown eyes setting my heart on fire even though she was a hundred miles away. Watching her leave in that car, dust flying behind the tires, was almost crippling as I was left behind. It was as if the softest parts of me left with her, leaving only the broken solider behind. The only thing keeping me here was the thought of her being safe as far away from her un