Xenia's lips lunged into a smile as she looked at the incompetent form of Alpha Vaughan, held in his knees and his wrists bound behind him. "We meet again, Alpha Vaughan," She jeered and laughed at his irked expression. "You didn't think we wouldn't meet again, did you, Alpha Vaughan? I did promise to make you pay for your crimes, what makes you think I wouldn't keep to my words and believe me, I never break my promises,""I'm going to make you pay for this!" The Alpha spat, gritting his teeth and toiling with the sliver binds on his wrists that mercilessly cut through his flesh.Xenia cackled like it was the absurdist sentence she had heard in her lifetime. "Make me pay? Perhaps you still haven't grasped the current situation, Alpha Vaughan, how about I fill you in? Your people are dead, the ones you trusted have all betrayed you, they left you to die by my hands and for the first time, Yarkona did something right," She grabbed his mouth with her fingers and made sure they dug into h
Luna Yaletha had been brought out from the vaults and Seth couldn't say this was the woman he grew up with like a mother, not knowing she was his real mother.Luna Nordika guard her into the pack house living room, letting her rattled form sit on the couch and they all stared at her.Her black hair was disarrayed, scattered all over her face and her blue eyes seemed to lost their spunk at how dim they were, it was like she has grown twice her age in a matter of days which left them to wonder, what Yarkona do to her twin sister?Xenia tilted her head and got closer, scrutinizing the rumpled features of a once gorgeous woman. "This is done by magic, the shadiest form," She enunciated after thorough appraisal. "For it to entail her this much, this is the power of the darkest magic to exist,""Isn't there anything we could bring her back to normal?" Luna Nordika catechized with an apprehensive gaze. Even with the vices Yaletha had done, she was still her friend and she couldn't afford to
"So you mean, Addanc was once our ruler, a cruel and narcissistic one who wanted perpetuity but got sealed instead, and now, his worshippers who seek a new order seek to bring him back to life using the Isolde's blood who in this lifetime is Gwen and now, you believe they have her and they would bring back Addanc and he would take over the world?" Ruel paraphrased everything and looked at Onyx for clearance and the Omega nodded. "We are fucked then,""Why didn't any of us know about this rule since he was so great in his time?" Seth dropped the question lingering at the back of his head."That's because he was snuffed out from history. He was never tallied. Only those who worship him know about him and pass it to their children," Onyx elucidated."And you know all of this how?""Onyx's father is a worshipper and whoever is found to be a worshipper is beheaded in white Claw Pack. Since the day Guinevere was born and we realized who she was, we took it upon ourselves to get rid of these
They didn't know what to anticipate when they arrived at the antre Onyx was sure the sarcophagus of Addanc was concealed, however, they foresaw anything but not the mare's nest that welcomed them at the feet as they concreted for a moment, watching as Oswald go crazy, yanking his hair with his might as if fighting to take control of his own body from whatever that had possessed him but one thing was certain, Gwen's blood was used to bring back what their ancient kind fretted the most.Around them was turbulent. The figures in red strew all over the cave floor moistened in their blood, the screams of atrociousness that came out from those who manages to remain alive but Onyx could tell they would join their cult members soon from the diabolical screams that left Oswald.Oswald, they didn't recognize him. His hair wasn't the lightish brown they knew, it was the darkest shade of black. His eyes weren't so green anymore, they were pitch black while black veins crawled up his wrists, neck
Two days passed before their eyes and there was nothing found in Onyx's father's books and with an aggravated grunt a hundred times, Seth hurled the book across the room and fatigued holes into the wall.Onyx had said there would be something that would help bring Gwen back from the dead, Seth had believed her and he had wasted damn his time when he should have invested that time in going after Addanc and putting an end to him even at the cost of his life. He sat there on the floor, against the wall of the pack library which he had ransacked through without the need for anything else. What could be more important than saving his mate who was laying unconscious on that bed, becoming colder and colder every day while Xenia tried to add a bit of warmth everyone knew the truth, Gwen was dead and there was nothing he could do about it.Animosity, irritation, despair, anguish, he felt every negative emotion swell through his vessels with force and fill his mind with only one thought that m
Seth has never seen anyone this washed-out and the more that he peered at his mate, the more he realized she was going to get paler if he doesn't save her in the next couple of days, and in those days, she was going to finally succumb and he would lose her forever.He loved her, he had always adored her since the first day he gave attention to her voice and saw her face. He thought she was the most gorgeous creature he had ever seen and he was spellbound, however, occurrences didn't let him have her as he and his wolf yearned for and when he left, he thought it would be the last he would see of this beautiful redhead who has made him feel like there was more to life than being the Pack's hunter and trying to keep his best friend's promises. And when he saw her again, it was like his world stopped for a second and she was the only one present and then, reality struck him, he couldn't have her and that shattered him into more pieces than one could imagine and he stayed away, thinking th
"Shame, I would have loved to add you among my warriors, peasant," Addanc teased, watching with a satisfied grin that turned in amusement as Seth shifted and growled into his wolf form, the biggest he had seen in this generation and he was impressed, unfortunately, he had to go and Addanc was going to enjoy ripping him to shreds.They encircled each other, Seth in his mighty black wolf form, canines ready to tear the other into pieces, blinded by rancor and resentment while Addanc peered calmly, holding his hands behind him and waiting for the Alpha to do his worst.The large wolf charged first, however, before he could dive for Addanc's throat, black energy sent him flying back and crashing against pillars."Your wolf form is weak. Tell me, did you not shift your whole life?" Addanc heckled and the black wolf was back on his throat, lacerating through Addanc's black jacket and scraping through his flesh, making the possessed Alpha inhale and jumped back and tear off his black jacket.
"You lost him, what the fuck do you mean you lost him?!" Onyx polled in a garish tone, gawking from the wounded faces of Ruel to Syrin while they kept their head downcast."There were so many of those figures. We had to hide him under bushes but when we came back, he was gone," Ruel deciphered realizing how bizarre those words chimed. There was no way Seth could have vanished from his hiding place."Fuck!" Onyx blurted, placing her hands on her hip and forehead, and paced for a whole minute. "How do find him!""It's a death-wise," Syrin finally enunciated. "Whatever those quirks that Addanc invoked, they are everywhere. We almost didn't outrun them. We don't know what they were made of, they refused to die," he shook his head in disapproval, recollecting the way those creatures emerged from the soil under his feet, faces hidden in their hoods with solely their shallow black eyes gawking malevolently."We can't just leave him out there!" Onyx hurled her hands in the air in hassle."At