(Grayson) “HURRY up, Gray! We are going to be late to your father’s party! We can’t let his first family take all the glory again. We have to be there pronto, do you understand?” Mom preached as she wiped the blood off her mouth. She just finished feeding on her latest beau. She threw the dead body off the road while my twin brothers were still feeding from the female college student they snagged on their campus. I did my fair share of feeding already but looking at them was making me thirsty all over again. “Jealous?” Steven asked when he caught me staring. “Didn’t you see the news? That son of a gun had left tons of bodies in the bathroom. He fed on seven people in one go and left traces. This is why papa dislikes you, Gray.” “None of the humans were able to catch me. I broke the CCTV.” “But everybody in the circle knew it was you, idiot.” I chuckled. “That’s pretty rich coming from you, Leo. Besides, as soon as papa starts his plan, this realm will be ours so what are you wor

BLADE looked at me, expecting me to waver in this staring contest he started. I smiled and groped his proud member between his thighs. It was erect.“It looks like I’m not the only one here who wants more,” I whispered in his ear.If he was the Blade from before, I would quickly follow his every command because I knew he had everything in control. Who wanted to be in a crowd filled with people like Dela Rosas anyway? I would rather go home and daydream about a hundred and one ways this man could make me happy in bed.But this Blade beside me now was dynamite. If I look away even for a moment, he could end up destroying things and even his own self.“Are you saying that you are going to disobey me again?”“I’m saying that you’re not the only one who can have fun, love,” I replied as I dipped my finger in the icing from the cake on the table. I closed my eyes as the sweetness spread all over my mouth. When I opened my eyes again, I caught Blade staring hard at me, especially at my lips.

(Katniss)“NO! You can’t die on me, Richard! Not after what you just revealed to me! I’m not the right person you should be telling those words to!” I took my dagger and slit my palm. Blade once told me that my blood was special. It worked on him once. And I was hoping now more than ever that it was true, that it would work on Richard, too.“Please don’t die, Richard. You need to tell those words to your son. You owe it to him!” I fed him my blood while desperately searching for Blade in the crowd. When I saw him, I screamed, “Blade!”He turned to me after he was done with the mages. “Please come here right now! Richard needs you here!”Luckily, he listened to me. He ran to us and when he shifted back in his human form, I carefully placed Richard’s head on his lap. His father was still pale and his heartbeat was erratic.“He has something very important to say. Don’t worry about the enemies and just listen to what Richard wants to tell you. The hybrids and I will take charge from here

(Onyx)FELIPE grabbed my collar as soon as Katniss stepped onto the wolf territory. Fury and worry were evident in his gray eyes when I looked at him.“You know where His Grace is, don’t you? You are the closest to him! It’s impossible for you not to know!” he screeched. “My student right there will die, Onyx, along with the baby, if we don’t do something! If I could just tear the barrier myself, I would never ask for your help but I can’t do that, damn it!” He loosened his grip and pleaded, “Help her, Onyx. I’m begging you.”I pushed him away and ran my fingers over my hair. It was not just Felipe. All the hybrids looked at me, asking for the same thing. In all the decades we knew each other, they had never asked for anything except this because before we met Katniss, we had never cared about other people who were not in our circle.“I feel torn as well!” I yelled. “If I could fight on Katniss’ behalf, I would do it in a heartbeat!”“You don’t have to do it yourself, Onyx,” Khal said

(Katniss)THIS morning, when I woke up and didn’t find Blade by my side, for the first time, I didn’t panic. My heart was calm. There was warmth in the room. I could smell his scent from the pillow beside me, a sign that last night was not a dream, that he was truly with me.And there were petals falling out of nowhere, filling the room with his presence, which meant that he did not leave. This time, he was… staying. It was just like the first morning I woke up in his tower. I was young, afraid, and unsure about everything.It felt like just yesterday when it happened.Blade knew that I would be worried. Every petal falling on my skin had his warmth.I know that there were many unresolved issues that he and I still need to face. After our encounter with Magnus and his army last night, I still hadn’t discussed anything with the council yet. My brothers and I didn’t have the chance to talk.All of us needed a rest so we had to delay it.But soon, all of us would have to come to a decisi