The figure turns towards me with a slowness that chills me to my soul.
The mist laying heavily around him so that I could not make out who sits upon the horse.
Their leather boot taps the side of the horse gently, pushing the beast to walk forward with impossibly slow steps. Each step closer, only making me even more on edge.
“Rosalie?” a voice calls out.
My heart stops in my chest, my breathing coming fast.
“Shit, they know who we are.” Every inch of my body seizes with fear making it impossible to breath let alone move. Nina’s fight or flight instinct battling within me. She pushes herself to take control, her heightened senses coming into focus as she takes in the figure coming towards us.
I turn to make a run for it, only to be held back by Nina.
“Will you think rationally for one moment!” she chastises. “Firstly, they are on a horse, there is no way you can outrun them. Secondly, they know who you are
Alexander Everything around me was cast into darkness. I couldn’t even see my hand before me as I reached out and tried to feel my way out of the darkness. It shrouded me from every corner, the feeling of repression and bleakness sitting heavy upon my chest. No matter which way I turned, there was nothing to be found, nothing to be heard or felt. Just a never-ending pit of helplessness and that there was something missing inside of me. No matter how much I tried to think what I could be missing, I simply couldn’t work it out. In fact, I was struggling to remember anything at all. Nothing really mattered, all that I could find myself caring about was the emptiness, and the feeling of missing something. “Alex.” A voice called out to me through the nothingness. Looking around myself I tried to work out where the voice had come from. It was the sweetest voice I had ever heard, and my heart thrummed
“Rosalie.” Alexander murmurs through his sleep. I find myself fighting to pull my eyes open, my temples banging in my head, threatening to bring on the worst headache imaginable. “Alex?” “Rosa. I’m here.” His voiced sounded stronger now. Although still deeply etched with undertones of fatigue. Managing to pull myself up off of the floor, a hand on my head to try and prevent by brain exploding out of it, I find myself at Alex’s bedside once more. Much to my relief to find him alive and well. Opposite me stood a very confounded healer. His glasses askew as he tried to take stock of Alex’s miraculous change. “I don’t know how this is possible. It’s as if all of your side effects have just disappeared. How is this possible.” He murmured to himself whilst inspecting the wound on Alex’s stomach. Although the wound was still very much there, it did at least look better. The harsh red swelling and putrid discharge had abetted, and it look very much as
Some months later… Life had all but returned to normal in Castle Black. After several days of recovery, Alexander had finally found himself once again in full health. And for all of those days, he refused to let me out of his sight. Instead, I found myself bound to his side, forced onto his uncomfortable recovery bed, pressed against him as he caressed the small bump of our unborn child. It seemed that each day that passed by, the small life growing inside me got stronger and before long his tiny kicks could be felt. Alexander knew now that he was to have a son. Something which I already knew in my heart but was confirmed by alexander’s ex vampire lover. A son that not only the history books will record, but Thomas would grow to be one of the most powerful and well-known Black’s in their long history as leaders. He would be the one to see them through to the start of a completely new age. He would be th
Hi guys! Wow! I feel like the last chapter has been a long time coming, and for that I am sorry. For those of you who do not follow me on social media, my family has had a run of bad luck with illness over the last month, most recently that we have all been isolating with covid! I feel thankful that we were all able to get through it reletively easily, but it has taken me a few weeks to recover, hence the delay. But Mists of Time has now offically come to a close, and will hopefully be marked as complete during the course of the next week of so. I want to thank each and every one of my readers who have managed to get this far. Your comments and likes are what drives me to keep on writting. If you are not ready for Rosalie and Alexander's story to be over, do not fear! My plan is to pick up straight away with book 2! I have begun working on The Return of the Luna Queen and will share some more information in the n
Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to figure out where you really need to be. -Mandy Hale Prologue There are often times when I wonder how I got to be where I am in my life right now. At the age of twenty-eight, I’m the oldest unmated she-wolf in my pack by at least 5 years. It’s not through lack of trying. For over a decade my parents shipped me off to every ball, picnic and diplomatic meeting that, not just the US, no, the world had to offer. All in the hopes that I would find my mate. I think I can safely boast that there is not one pack that I have not either visited or attended some form of function with. Either my mate died young, and I never got the chance to meet him, or he has not yet come of age. If it is the latter, I might as well shoot myself now because I’m pretty sure that would make me the definition if the word cougar. No, I’m pretty sure my m
“Are you sure about this, Rosie?” Jace asked me with a sigh. He had not taken my news well. I had always been there for him. Even when he was made Alpha, I had been acting Luna for several years until he found his mate. We were as close as any brother and sister could be. Even now, with Madeline at his side, I was an asset to his pack. I had guided our new Luna in her newfound responsibility. When she was heavily in pup, I stood in for her where I could. I knew almost everything about the running of the pack and our defensive strategies. Information that in the wrong hands could be catastrophic. “Yes Jace. I need this.” I take one of his hands in mine and looking into his eyes I pleaded my case. “I am twenty-eight years old. Unmated and I have never found love in this pack. When I visited the Eclipse pack, I felt whole. I don’t know how to explain it.” Letting go of his hand I walk over to the window and look out over the pack lands. “Do you remember when you
“Wake up, we’ve landed.” A man’s voice whispered in my ear. “Hummm.” I grumble back to him, snuggling myself into the pillow. A very hard lumpy pillow. Goddess, did someone put a brink in the damn pillow? My eyes flutter open sleepily, it was only when I see a man’s face staring down at me a smug smile on his face that I register where I am. Sitting up with a start I look around myself and all the other passengers collecting their belongings and vacating the plane. I look back to the smug looking man next to me. My cheeks heating in embarrassment. I look down at his shoulder which I spent most of the flight sleeping against only to find a very wet patch where I had drooled. I wipe my chin hastily which only seemed to make the stranger smirk harder. “I’m so sorry, you should have woken me sooner.” By now I’m sure my whole face had gone scarlet with embarrassment. “It’s no problem doll.” He replies before giving me a wink and standing from his s
We finished the last stint of the journey to the pack which was only a few more miles down the road from Castle Black. The pack had built its own little village amongst the trees. Most of the people that live here are werewolves, there are a small handful of humans. But you get this in any pack, generally they’re mated to one of the wolves within the community. A few, who’s family are understanding and trustworthy, may have been able to move into the village along with their sons or daughters on the understanding that they kept the secret. The Eclipse pack was not like most, they were extremely inclusive. Being situated right in the heart of a tourist destination meant not only had they grown used to passing human visitors, but humans actually lived in amongst them. Although they never made it blatantly obvious, most of the humans who lived in the village were aware of what the people around them were. If they were scared, they certainly didn’t show it. The Eclipse P