~Wyatt ~I woke up to the sound of the door closing, its loud and alarming sound ringing out severely in the silent room. "Emmy!" I screamed as I jumped to my feet, my heart in my throat hoping she was just being nosey around the apartment. An apartment I had brought us to in the hopes it would keep us off my father's radar and give me and Samuel time to recover. But regardless of the reason for our visit, I had taken her to a new realm— one that was dark, dangerous, and unforgivably harsh. "Emmy." I bellowed again as I slammed the door to my bedroom closed. It was pointless, I knew that, she wasn't here. "FUCK!" I screamed in anger because I had told her not to go outside the apartment, I was clear! I remember, waking u and giving her a warning. And for good fucking reason. Sliding down the wall I buried my head in my hands as I considered the possibility that maybe she was still here, somewhere. But in my heart, I knew she was gone. Looking at the door my heart began to pound in
~ Matteo ~"Did you get him?" Hank asked from the doorway as he watched everyone pile out of the minivan, his face twisted with concern and a little jealousy, no doubt that he had to stay behind and was not part of the raiding party."We got him." Someone cheered, and I couldn't help the smile that twitched across my lips seeing Hank's face light up with excitement. "Where is he?" He asked, looking around for his friend and beta. Reaching the door way I slapped Hank on the shoulder and nodded to Samuel as he stepped off the minivan clearly battered and bruised but very much alive. "Any news?" I asked Hank stepping in his line of vision now he could see Samuel was ok. "On Emmy?" I added as if he didn't know. "None yet Alpha. We are exhausting all possibilities. Some you may not like." "Will it boost our chances of finding her?" I asked as people started to approach. "Well, it can't hurt." Hank sighed "But it's..""Then I don't care. Do it." With a nod Hank fidgetted from foot to f
~ Matteo~I watched Levi as he walked off to make a call, my instincts whispering that it was probably to the witch. My suspicion gnawed at me, but before I could ask about it further, I noticed Samuel approaching. Blaze growled protectively, the low rumble resonating deep within me. Blaze’s warning was clear: Don’t trust him.I tried to push Blaze’s concerns aside, focusing on Samuel as he drew nearer. It looked like Samuel, hell it walked like Samuel. Yet, I couldn’t completely block out Blaze’s insistent presence, something DID seem off. Blaze's voice was a constant murmur in the back of my mind, cautioning me against getting close to Samuel.“He smells different,” Blaze growled, the words echoing in my head. “I can’t sense his wolf.” It was a disturbing realisation. Samuel’s scent was off, and without the familiar sense of his wolf, there was an unsettling emptiness about him. Blaze’s instincts were rarely wrong, and the more I tried to ignore him, the more persistent he became."s
~ Matteo ~Wyatt stepped into the room, his eyes immediately locking onto Hank, who looked ready to charge. Hank's muscles tensed, but he paused when he saw Samuel step closer to Wyatt, who was wearing the same shocked expression that I was."Samuel?" Hank gasped, his feet slowly rewinding a few steps. The Samuel that stood beside Wyatt, looked at me head-on, his face twisted in a mixture of confusion and hurt. He obviously thought we would be happy to see him, but the look of horror on our faces must have tipped him off because bafflement swirled on his face no doubt matching mine as I turned to look at who was standing beside me: another Samuel. "What the fuck." I hissed, my heart hammering in my chest so loudly I was sure they could hear it, as I processed the pair of them. Two Samuels who were identical, down to the flickers of yellow in their hues and the freckles on their cheeks."Matteo?" The Samuel next to me spoke first, his voice tinged with confusion, anger, and pain. "Wha
~ Wyatt ~ "Don't play games with me, son. You said you had her." My father snapped, and my brows knitted together because my father might be an evil bastard, but he never lied, it wasn't in his nature. He had always preferred to upset people with the truth. Which meant, he didn't have Emmy; and if he didn't have her then who did? "The girl!" He added as confusion washed over his stark features, he had obviously taken my hesitation as a sign of misunderstanding. "the girl you were meant to collect, you told me you had her! Where is she?""Who?" Matteo yapped again but we all knew he knew exactly who my father was talking about, he simply didn't want to admit it. "Someone tell me dammit." The Alpha roared pathetically, I closed my eyes because if I wasn't careful, he would give away the fact that neither he nor I had Emmy. "It's ok, Alpha" The real Samuel, MY Samuel expressed, but I couldn't help but note how he looked both relieved and enraged as he looked over at Matteo, their bond
~ Wyatt ~ "Why are you here?" I asked my father. "And pretending to be Samuel of all people?" I laughed moving closer to his demonic form, leaning up the bar in the spot Matteo had just left. "Your friend needs sugar." I barked over my shoulder at the Alpha male, sensing Samuel's weariness and deciding to make the most of it. I wasn't trying to be an ass, I just needed him to move away from the explosion my father was likely to detonate in this fucking club."Curiosity." My father mocked as his form slowly shimmered with the colours of hell. "Over?" I laughed motioning to the strip club. "You want your cock sucked by a whore?" I asked with a laugh, glimpsing Lula from the corner of my eye as she moved swiftly trying to usher people out of the way of impending danger. "Don't be ridiculous. I wanted to meet the male who thought he could keep my property from me." My father indicated Matteo, my eyes closed in frustration."Pardon." I heard Matteo say from Samuels' side as he offered h
~ Emmy ~ I began to run, my heart pounding in my chest as the fear surged through me. The demonic world around me was a nightmare of shadows and despair, and the creature following me was the embodiment of terror itself. "Fuck off!" I screamed as Its large black wings blotted out the sky, casting everything beneath them in darkness. "Oh yes, that will tell him." Rae growled angrily as it zipped through the chains and the hanging bodies with chilling ease as if their lives meant nothing to it. Each flapping wingbeat was a harbinger of death, snuffing out lives without a second thought."I don't see you helping." I snapped back at my wolf as I glanced back, my breath catching in my throat as I saw it closing in. Its eyes glowed with a malevolent intensity, fixated on me. My legs burned with the effort of running, but I couldn't stop. The screams and moans of the damned echoed around me, adding to the cacophony of horror that filled this realm.Everywhere I looked, there were chains su
~ Matteo ~ I couldn't stay in the same room with Wyatt and Samuel for a minute longer. The fury boiling inside me was too intense, too consuming, I knew if I did I would say something I could not take back. Or do something I would later regret because the fact the pair of them seemed so close was grinding on me like nothing else. Samuel was my Beta, meant to be at my side and support me, not that fucking traitor who had put both our girls in harm's way. Yet he had pretty much licked the fucking demon's ass since arriving back."I need air." I snapped, not waiting for their answers I stormed towards the door, but seeing half the pack loitering around the exit, where Lula had guided them too I shook my head and headed for my office, not able to deal with their needy expressions. "I just need a minute." I barked."Alpha, what do we do now?" Someone asked and I couldn't help the snort that left my lips. "Ask your new hero." I muttered nodding to Wyatt who watched me and my tantrums with