CHARLOTTE POVI nod and force myself to relax as I look out the windows. After a little while, he squeezes my hand. "We have just entered my pack's territory."We go a bit further on and he squeezes my hand again as we go past a five-story house, or should I say mansion, "This is the official packhouse."I sit up and forward a little more. "Isn't that where we are going?""No! I have an even better place to show you... A more private place."He kept going and going, even after the road all but disappeared until he pulled up in front of this beautiful little cottage. He pulls the car to a stop, gets out, comes round to my side and opens the door. He holds out his hand. I hesitantly place my hand in his, and he helps me out of the car and leads me to the front door."This place used to be my mother's. She would come here with Tina and me as a baby. My father used to call it her escape hut, a way for her to escape all the pressures of being the luna and just be a mother and mate. One of
STEFAN POVI wake up in the morning surrounded by the most wonderful intoxicating scent. As I take a deep breath in, images of last night run through my mind. I open my eyes and look down at the beautiful female laying in my arms, confirming that it wasn't a dream. I can't believe that I have actually found my mate and after everything, she is part vampire.No wonder I could never find her. I mindlessly run my fingers over her soft, smooth skin, thinking how lucky I am and how I must actually thank my sister for annoying and insisting that I attend that party last night.As she starts to stir, I pull her tighter to me, kiss her and turn us, so I slide slowly into her as I stop on top of her. I feel her soft hiss of pleasure as I begin to move. I build our pleasure fast so it isn't long before she is shattering underneath me and I hold her tighter against me as I release my seed into her again. Once we both come down a little, I kiss her, saying."You are amazing Angel! Good morning!"
AXEL/ STEFAN POVI looked at her, a little confused until there was a knock on the door. I step back from her and fix my sweatpants. I then head to the door. I open it to find Michelle. Before I can say anything, she jumps into my arms, wraps her legs around my waist, and kisses me. I try to push her off, but she doesn't move until we hear a gasp coming from the kitchen door. She finally breaks the kiss but still will not let me go as she looks at Charlotte."So this is today's conquest. She seems a little plain for you, Stef! Wait, why is she here? You never bring your one-night stands here!"Axel gives me back control. He has never really liked Michelle except to use her on nights he felt that he needed some pleasure. Michelle finally lets me go and puts her feet back on the floor, then continues,"You haven't even bought me here to spend the night. What's so special about her?"She then walks away from me, and over to Charlotte, circling her like she is an object."Oh! I see it now
SCARLETT POVI wake up with a start. I sit up slowly, taking slow, deep breaths. Phoenix was out doing his patrol run. It has taken four months with the help of Nathaniel and Charlotte's blood once the transfusions finished, but I can finally start to feel Ruth and Cara stirring, which also reopens my links with the rest of the family.Unfortunately, now that they are returning, so are my nightmares, my visions. I make my way slowly to the bathroom to splash my face. I haven't had one while awake again, but I have been having a variation of that first vision. I run the latest vision through my mind,VISIONA male in the shadows… A threat close to home...Rogue Vampires and Werewolves running free throughout the kingdom…Enemies threaten the Vampire’s Queen and Princess…The Vampire King, on the verge of death, can only be saved by his Queen...All lives will be lost if war starts….Must protect... But most of all must love unconditionally…We have managed to change a couple of things,
UNKNOWN POV There is a buzz around the castle. Scarlett is getting better and her pregnancy is progressing quickly. Princess Charlotte has found her mate and has moved to his pack under his protection with a couple of trusted guards from here as well, for added protection. It might be a little hard to get to her now.I heard that a group of vampire rogues are willing to take the Queen, hoping to get the King to start a war trying to get her back, as they are based in a werewolf pack in King Noah's kingdom. The leader of these particular rogues is said to have a personal grudge against the King and has waited over one hundred and fifty years to find a weakness and be able to repay him.I might put out an ad and see if he answers. If I can have a private word with this rogue leader, I may even be able to help him. I duck into the shadows as I hear someone coming."Yeah, I'm on secret patrol and doing some personal guard duty for the Royal family's monthly picnic." "Yeah, I got that to
ROGUE LEADER POVI go over what the informant gave me, all the patrol's schedules, including the ones that aren't meant to be known. All the routes that those patrols will take, the layout of where the picnic will be held and the times the family members are meant to be there. My clan knows that no one is to be hurt. The Vampire King is the target, and he is mine to take down. Unless I decide to make him suffer more by taking one of his daughters.I gather up all the members of my clan that can fight and make our way to the field. We slowly take out the patrols surrounding the field. Once all the clan was in position, I had another quick look around and glanced at the notes I made for myself. It seems one of the family members is running late. I see her and the new Alpha of the Blue Moon pack walk out of the woods just up from where I was perched in a tree, dam typical Alpha he bought some of his own personal guards with them but there aren't that many so we will still be able to do t
*FLASHBACK CONT'* The second then walks over to where the King's daughter and my daughter are still trying to protect Phoenix and Sebastian. He grabbed the King's daughter first by her hair, pulling her to her feet. He put his hand on her cheek and then ran it down her body before saying. "We will get to you soon my little princess" He then pushes her into the arms of a rogue standing nearby, a couple more rogues move to stand over Phoenix and Sebastian as he then grabs my daughter by her hair forcing her to her feet as well except he kept a hold of her, he used his claws to shred her dress making her stand naked in front of everyone. He moves behind her, pulls her tight into his chest and then pulls her head back using her hair stretching her neck. He opens his mouth, showing off as he lengthens his fangs and then runs them along her skin and hisses. I watched her shiver in fear as terror shows on her face. I fight and struggle against the rogues I didn't even realise were holdi
ROGUE LEADER POV "So you see, my queen, if your little king had stayed away from my daughter, he wouldn't have killed her and she would still be alive today." "I was going to make her my queen!" Dominic says quietly "WHAT??" "I was going to make her my queen," he repeated a little louder. "We had already agreed, and we were going to announce it over dinner that night. We wanted everyone to know our intentions before we gave ourselves to each other. Maximus, I loved your daughter with everything in me. It wasn't the death of my mother or father that caused my heart to freeze and me to become the cruel and ruthless king... It was the loss of her. She was the one that kept me centred, kept me honest even when pulling pranks with Seb and Nix. She was the one that made living for so long worth every second of it. But the prince of that time died that day with her and the king everyone came to know and fear was born." I can't stop the couple of tears that slide down my cheeks after hea