KATRINA
‘What next is how we get out of this sh*thole?’‘Right.’My poor kids. They’d be worried sick about me.‘They’ll be fine, they have Susanna but the Alpha Triplets don’t and I’m sure they would’ve turned the whole pack and forest upside down.’She wasn’t lying. I know I said they’d come for me but I was barely conscious and a bit delusional, I wasn’t sure myself. This cave looked like nowhere in Azonos. Finding it in Dorcha Azonos might even be harder.‘They’d have turned this into a race. First to get Katrina wins because those three cannot work together.’ I shrugged that off but was very uncomfortable in the underwear I was wearing. ‘You should be glad she didn’t strip you naked. Who was that crazy lady anyway?’‘A demon.’ I recollected her frosty hands and chilly voice. ‘Her hands were so cold and she was pale, too pale.’‘Vampire?’‘Vampires don’t exist, Mel.’‘Humans said the samKATRINA Don’t look down. Why the f*ck did I say that? The bridge was reasonably wide but that didn’t dim that there was still a high chance of someone falling over and Melora, as always, wasn’t making things any better.‘It’d hurt if you fell inside. Like really hurt. I can’t even imagine.’ Just ignore her. Ignore her. ‘The lava is super hot and we’ll melt. We’re right under this lava! Doesn’t that freaking scare you?!’ Ignore. Her. ‘If we slip and fall it’s over. The bridge isn’t wide enough!’ “MEL!”I stopped walking as my voice echoed in the caves. I froze, waiting for any movement, and didn’t walk further until I was sure I was safe. But who the f*ck, was I kidding? I was over boiling lava!And Mel almost blew my cover. Sometimes I wonder if I got the wrong spirit animal.‘Hey!’It got worse when I looked down. Mel’s words haunted my consciousness and partially affected my body. I looked ahead and was relieved when I saw that the end wasn’
30 MINUTES EARLIER…HENRY “I’ve done everything you wanted me to, Lilith. It’s your turn now.”She came closer, smirking as her fingers played with each other. Her presence choked me and I wanted to strangle her to death but that would be instant death for me. I must think.“The deal is broken. We are detached,” she said.“You didn’t acknowledge my first statement,” I reminded.“Why so keen, Hen? She’ll arrive.”“I need her now,” I roared with a tied tongue, pinching myself so I wouldn’t do something stupid.She stopped at a small table at the center, and sitting on this same table was a bowl of white powder. Her fingers encircled in this white powder, and as she did, it made her paler and she seemed to be getting addicted to it… until she pulled away.“Someone is deep in love. Deep deep in love. I know how you feel.”I scoffed. “I’ll hardly call that love,” I muttered to myself. “And I’ve been patient enough. If you know how I feel then bring her back to me.”Her red eyes rolled and
KATRINA While I watched what was happening, I tried to break the silver bracelets that the demon had cursed on my hands and legs, but the more I tried, the more it got worse and it annoyed the hell out of me.“Where is Katrina?!” Kane’s prevailing voice echoed in the cave and he was a different wolf from the partly comedic and frisky Kane I had gotten to know. He was unnerved and I could feel his angry aura all the way here.Cannon had a gun pointed at the demon but Ian held a sword with another one behind his back while Kane directed a different-looking sword at her.She raised her hands in the air, trying to take a step back but shook when Cannon shot a bullet next to her ear.“Move and this goes into your head!” I could feel his fuming aura too, but there was something personal and choking about it. A crowd of Sigmas swarmed out of the entrance and stayed behind them, each aiming a deadly weapon at Lilith. I though
KATRINA“Where was she when you came begging to me, asking for help, and ready to do anything!”“Lilith…” he whispered, lowering the gun but she still kept her sword at him.“Don’t call my name backstabber! I should kill her right now!” She turned to me but I was already on my feet, my bullet claws ready to attack her. The gun clicked and Lilith hissed, turning back to Cannon. “You wouldn’t dare shoot me.”Cannon’s gaze was fixed on her forehead and his fingers fiddled with the trigger of the gun. “If you don’t dare touch her.”Lilith laughed and dropped the sword, raising her hands in the air in the same bothersome way she did last time. “Wow, I had no idea that a little mate bond could have this much effect on you.”Cannon scoffed, holding the gun tight as I watched them suspiciously. I had so many questions and a bad feeling that Cannon had something to do with all this.‘Ya think?’Cannon took slow steps tow
IANThe war was f*cking crazy. Agmarbhs were bouting from every corner and they’d wiped out almost half of our Sigmas. Good news was that more agmarbhs were dying than wolves.While I fought one off with my sword, another jumped in and grabbed my sword by its teeth. I pulled out my gun and shot the previous one in its head, trying to free my sword from the other monster’s mouth.Sturdily, I moved it closer to me with a single pull and raised my leg to its face, kicking it hard. It was forced back and I used the opportunity to rip its head apart.Just as I was reloading my gun, one unsuspecting beast attacked me from behind and tried to crush me with its weight, scratching its claws on my head. But I stunned the beast with a gunshot and when it had released me for that split second, I rolled away and got back on my feet, shooting it for real this time.Cannon and Kane were nowhere to be seen and I couldn’t help but feel that I was missing
KATRINAAll three of them were here… but they weren’t three anymore. Their auras were stirring and wavering, sending depressing sensations flying around the room and while Ian stared in utter shock, Kane backed away from the corpse, unable to close his mouth as he came toward my direction.I was numb and had lost control of my body, just sobbing quietly as I continued to cradle back and forth in my clasping position. These brothers were never on good terms. I doubt all three of them had ever been. They were always fighting… arguing over something and were sometimes ready to kill themselves because of this.A part of me believed that their behaviors were due to… circumstances. Because of how they were raised. Without a good father or their real mother but I’m not sure. But what I knew was that, behind these large handsome wolves that drove every she-wolf crazy, there was a broken past… and now a broken present.‘Kat…’ She paused, her words swelling up and the burden she placed on me,
KATRINA Melora hadn’t said a word since it happened and Hilda’s question just made her further curl into the darkness, leaving herself out of everything but I couldn’t blame her. I’d do the same thing if I were in her position. I’d do anything to be in her position now.I had nothing to say, and even if I did, I didn’t know how to say it. The kids were looking at themselves, unfortunately connecting the two incidents, causing my heart to race.Hilda’s eyes fell on me for the last time and she opened her mouth to say something but I made a run for it.Swiftly, I turned around and rushed up the stairs, trying to hold back the flood of tears that were just waiting to drown me in an ocean of sadness. I heard the kids call my name and Ian’s voice as well but there was no turning back.My room was distant from here and it was devastating to know that I still had to pass a long way to reach it. Then I caught a faint eucalyptus aroma. My steps traced back and there I was, standing in front o
KATRINA Carissa stayed with me for an extra hour before she left and what we mostly discussed was centered around the things we loved to do back in Seattle, to take our minds off things. We shared the sweet blissful memories we had over there and missed them.I wished I could go back but I was also secretly wishing that if we did, I’d want a different version of the Triplets to join us.Carissa said she wouldn’t be able to stay for long because she had to clear things with her father. According to her, she had dreams while she was in this ‘bubble’ where she saw her heartbroken father on his knees, going to her graveyard every day and crying, begging his daughter to come back.Mr. Watson is a terrible person, no doubt, but he was a father after all. She said she’d be with me for the day before leaving since she was a little afraid to leave me alone again. She didn’t say so but I knew what was going on in her mind.One by one, everyone was leaving. Kendra left. Gina and Jason left. She