ElizabethI needed to find help, and not the human kind, but it was clear that I also needed food. Over the next couple of days, the food helped me to regain my strength. It was growing tougher by the day not to tell them where I came from. Who I was and what happened were the questions Mark wanted to know most about. They were kind people, but there was no way I could involve them in any of it.I had been recovering for three days, and I was becoming very impatient about moving on. The first night that they left me alone in my room, I escaped through the window and disappeared into the forest. All I could do was hope that they wouldn’t come and look for me. I was grateful that they didn’t take me to a human hospital. I knew they probably had blood samples and that humans would soon have a lot more questions.It was just far too dangerous to stay one minute longer. As the leaves of the trees slapped against me, I wished I could have told them everything, but I pushed on. I had a long

Elizabeth“Elizabeth! Hurry up! They are here!” My omega excitedly shouted before disappearing again. It had been a year to the day since the vampires were defeated and the witches were coming to join us for a festival to celebrate. I sighed deeply and followed the people who were excitedly making their way outside. In the square the witches had just landed as we walked out of the castle. Our pack had lost so much that day. So many lives. If you looked at what the town looks like now, you wouldn’t even believe that we were fighting for our lives.“Welcome!” My brother’s voice echoed, and his mate quickly moved beside him to say hello. They had their little one just a couple of weeks ago. The high priestess gushed over the baby before turning her attention to me.“Elizabeth, it is so good to see you again.” She pulled me into her bear hug and I smiled.“Lilly, it’s been far too long.” I smiled as she let me go just a little. “Come, we have prepared rooms for you in the castle.” There w

ElizabethHalfway up the mountain, the high priestess sat down on a huge rock underneath a tree. A soft breeze was blowing, cooling us down when, out of nowhere, she pulled a basket from the small pouch she had at her side. Inside were some sandwiches and cool fresh water.“It is really beautiful here.” I looked out at the distance we had come and it was an incredible view.“Yes, it is. I wanted to show you some of the beauty of our land, but if you look over there, you will see that some of the trees are dying.” She pointed at a dark spot in the middle of the forest. “I will be sending a notice to the dwarfs to work on it, but if I don’t let them know, they might not know and the disease might spread to the entire forest.” She frowned. She didn’t have to explain. I got what she was trying to say.“I let the disease spread. I know. I just. It just hurt so much.” I sighed and she nodded. “That is why I’m here. I am trying to heal.”“You won’t heal until you admit that you are in pain.”

ElizabethI watched the grown-up world happening in their imaginary one and, although it was upsetting, I could understand why the children were playing that way. In their imaginary world, bad things happened, but they always had a happy ending.When it became clear a couple of weeks after I arrived at home that there wasn’t going to be a project that I could do to better our home, I had no other choice but to accept that my life was what it was. I wasn’t going to accomplish anything ground-breaking. A fact that would have bothered me if I hadn't been so happy. The witches also taught me that sometimes we weren’t meant to be amazing, and that was okay.I just couldn’t go back to sitting around reading every single afternoon. It was a huge let-down. I needed to find something. Anything! I was standing in the library looking out of the enormous windows when movement caught my eye. The warriors were busy with training on the grounds. It had been the first time in a long time that I allow

OliverHer lips tasted sweeter than I anticipated. She responded, and it pushed my need to touch her through the roof. It took everything I had to release her, so we could both catch our breaths.“I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have, but you asked.” I was completely out of my element. I had women before, but I had never been this attracted to any of them! I had never been as rude to someone as I was with her in those first moments we met, but I was just in shock. I knew at that very moment I saw her for the first time that I would give my life to protect her and that was infuriating.To know that there was someone that would be carrying my heart from that moment on. Someone that could hurt me, so deeply, it could kill me if they left. The feelings were overwhelming me and for a moment I took it out on her. I looked at her as she stood in front of me smiling.“You are right. I did ask.” She turned, and we walked on while I stuffed my hands right back into my pockets. If I didn’t, I might just