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Blood and Moon: Araya Chapter 44
“Adrian, what the hell? When did you do this?”I stepped into the room to get a closer look. The room was a huge luxury suite. On a table across from me was a vase full of flowers and balloons tied to it and a gift box. On the far-right end of the huge bedroom was a his-and-hers walk-in closet. One side was filled with women’s clothes, things that were definitely my style, but I didn’t recognize any of them to be mine. I saw tags hanging on some. Did he go shopping for me?What was going on? It was like this room was prepped for me, for us.“What is this?” I turned to look at him still somewhat shocked. I couldn’t believe he had gone through all of this for me. Once again, he had surprise me. A gnawing feeling in my gut hit me when I realized he had probably planned all this before I told him about Acelin. He had done all of this for me while I was playing around in someone else’s bed.Trinity was right. I really was a bitch.“This is our room,” he said. “Well, it is if you want it
Blood and Moon: Araya Chapter 45
My hands wrung together in my lap as I felt my palms begin to get sweaty. I was nervous. Tonight, we were having dinner with some important people in Adrian’s pack, according to him. ‘Pack.’ I wasn’t sure that I’d ever get use to this terminology and the meaning behind it. Adrian tried to explain who they were, but I couldn’t focus. I absolutely hated situations like this. I just knew I was going to be so awkward knowing there was going eyes on me and feeling like everyone had high expectations. But I was a human. Even if I was part witch, I wasn’t a wolf. I didn’t feel like I belonged. I probably didn’t, and I wondered what they would think of me.I looked down at myself. My dress was pretty. My hair and makeup had come together nicely when I checked. I looked damn good, but I wasn’t feeling this at all. Last night I had hoped we would be able to enjoy some alone time after everything that had happened, but there was way too much excitement going on for that. Back in t
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“Impossible!” someone yelled. A man sitting on the far left of me had jumped up. One look from Adrian quickly had him back in his seat. “Are you challenging the words from my mate,” Gentry? The man bowed his head looking down while speaking.“I apologize, Alpha. But no one has heard from the Zoldeck coven in many years. It is well known they no longer exist.”“And yet a Zoldeck witch sits before you. Do you think we would come here presenting this information without having thoroughly vouched it?” Adrian’s tone was stern and deep and dared defiance. The man he called Gentry continued to look down in submission and just nodded accepting what he said.‘Thoroughly checked out.’ Was the blood results that Claudis got and taking me an hour away to go see Ciel, his version of thoroughly checking this out? I mean, I guess I didn’t really know how you would check something like this out anyways. Claudis had enough faith in himself and the test results to believe it so it seemed like that was
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We sat around and talked through dinner before I was excused. Apparently there was some war talk that needed to take place which I did not need to be apart of, thank God. As of now I had no official position in the pack. I was just Adrian’s mate. And I was perfectly fine with that, honesty. I wasn’t sure I wanted a position in the pack anyways and was more than happy to get out of there. He could be a leader. I preferred to sit back on the sidelines.My energy had been so drained being around everyone and I needed some serious alone time. A nice hot bath and some wine sounded absolutely perfect about now. As I stood up to leave Adrian grabbed my arm and the sensation sent tingles over me skin. He pulled me down to whisper in my ear.“You did great. I’m proud of you. Wait up for me.” The last sentence was completely loaded. The tingling sensation made its way to other areas of my body. I pulled back looking at him and he had a big smile on his face. My cheeks blushed naturally wonderin
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The sun had started to come up by the time Adrian finally let me sleep, not that I was really complaining. I had never had that much sex in one night. We went on for hours. It was a mystery how I was able to keep up. His stamina was off the charts. Adrian’s need seemed to feed me energy and I wanted him just as bad in return. But now I was feeling it. My body had completely tapped out. I could tell he was tired too, but not nearly as much as me. Must be his wolf endurance. I’m sure he could have gone even longer, but he knew I wasn’t made for that.He rubbed my back and kissed my skin until my eyes fluttered shut, and I knew I was going to be a complete mess whenever I finally did wake up, but I’d deal with that then, I thought, as sleep finally claimed me.Sometime later, a scent hit my nose that begged me to wake up. Coffee. What a heavenly scent it was. I peeled my eyes open, and sure enough Adrian was there with a hot cup in his hand. He was dressed and looked like he’d bee
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Of course she knew it was me. I shouldn’t have been surprised. She was a sensory witch. I smiled at the revelation of her power.“Ciel, how are you?”“I’m doing pretty good. Glad you called.”“You are? Why?”“Yes, of course. Come on now, baby girl. I didn’t want to pressure you before, but I would love to train or help you get a gauge on your powers. That’s just what we do. Helping new and young witches coming into their power is very fulfilling, plus you’re not just a regular witch. I’m interested to see what all you can really do.” I could almost hear the glimmer in her eyes. “If you really are of Zoldeck ancestry, there would be many who would love to get their hands on you.”She wasn’t lying. Hands were already trying to get to me now. But she was exactly the person I needed in my corner. Unlike whoever Claudis had in mind, I knew a little bit about her, I had some of an idea of her powers, and Adrian trusted her. I didn’t think Claudis would hurt me, but he wanted to control me
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Ciel smiled widely as if she’d just won the witch lottery or something. I guess this was a pretty big deal to her.“Come back with me, meet some of my girls and our coven leader. We will help you.” Her eyes glistened with excitement.Was I really doing this? I was about to dive into a completely new world. The vampire and wolf thing caught me by surprise and off guard. It scared me at first as the unknown usually does, but this witch stuff, I don’t know... something was kind of exciting about it like I was about to finally feel whole.I’m not going to say that I felt like I never belonged, but I did always feel like somewhat of an outcast. I was weird, and people weren’t shy about telling me as much. I didn’t really think I was weird, though, just different. My empath ability only made me stand out even more and not in a good way. I found myself hiding in a shell and not allowing people to see the real me out of fear of being rejected. And now, maybe this was why. I was different
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Yeah… so I actually hated road trips. 45 minutes into the drive, and I was reminded of that. I sat up front unable to sit still and becoming restless, fighting the urge to ask if we were there yet. My shoeless feet rested against the dash, something Adrian seemed to be unsure about as he side-eyed me until I gave him that look I wasn’t going to scratch his precious Benz. I did have socks on and I was pretty sure my feet didn’t smell. He eventually let it go without saying any words. Uh-huh. Thought so.Apparently the trip to East End was over two hours away from Adrian’s pack boundaries. I of course had no idea where we were going According to him Ciel traveled back and forth between her own personal home and the coven house, which some of the other members did the same and some lived there full-time. Coven was starting to sound like a sorority house, because unlike Adrian’s werewolf pack and Acelin’s vampire compound, Ciel’s witch coven was only comprised of females. A group o
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