Amara EldwoodMy walk back to the familiar quarters of my room came to a stop when I paused at the mouth of my hallway.Had it always been this dark?The square behind me had gradually emptied of wolves and filled with bustling decorators as the night wore on.But even the soft twinkle of fairy lights and strobe lights behind me couldn't dent the darkness yawning ahead.I resisted the urge to run straight for my door, feeling around the walls when my eyes could only make out the silhouette of the tall doors and the square rim of the paintings hanging along the walls.“Hello?” I called out, hating the pathetic breathlessness of my voice before freezing when the creaking moan of a door opening echoed down the hall.I could have sworn a I saw a pair of luminous red eyes staring right at me from the shadows and a scream rose in my throat when I felt claws wrap around my rounded shoulders.Bria’s small face peeked from the crook of my shoulder before I exhaled, staggering away from her and
Amara Eldwood My heart was still pounding when I left the Alpha’s study, reeling from the adrenaline hurtling through my system.Everywhere I looked, reminders of what I would miss out on when I left lingered.The sky blue pond only feet away from the royal study had pink and green hydrangeas floating over it, with water pods that shook when small green frogs bounced off of it.Caius was quiet at my side, his hands jammed into the pockets of the thick jean pants he was wearing beneath a thick woolen vest that revealed the bunching muscles of his arms.His blond mohawk bounced off the wan light of the evening, catching the yellow glow of the fairy lights twinned around the archway as we stepped into the royal garden.I still didn't understand where things were between us…if the kiss we shared back in the stone tower even meant anything.“Are you still thinking about leaving, Mara?” His quiet tenor came suddenly and I sucked in a sharp breath, turning my face up to his and forcing myse
Dante MilburnI must have stared at the note for what felt like hours, until the words blurred in my eyes.How long had it been since I’d gotten a good night’s rest? “What are you going to do about this, brother?The longer we wait the more lives are in danger,” Ronan’s stern voice rumbled from behind me and I spared him a glance where he was leaned against the large table.My reflection in the stained glass of my window was disheveled.Dark wolf-cut hair fell around my angular face, brushing the full slash of my pink lips that had tugged down around the corners.My blue eyes were dark and foreboding, hooded against the glare of the overhead white light.The dark waistcoat stretched over my muscular chest and the thin black shirt I wore beneath it that I had rolled up to my elbows.The gold crown resting on my head had never felt as heavy as it did tonight, and pain throbbed behind my eyes as I watched the fresh patrol of soldiers from the window.A spy in my fortress was unthinkable.
Selene WillowsThe Alpha of Shadow Pack was bigger than I would have imagined, with a stern, dark face that told me he was even more ruthless than the infinity pack Alpha.There was a darkness to him that Dante didn’t possess.A cruelty that told me he enjoyed watching others in pain, and regularly dabbled in senseless torture.“We found ‘er snooping around the treasury, Majesty. She smells like she's from The Darkness. From those Infinity mongrels—” The buck-toothed wolf who seemed to be the leader of the string announced as he shoved me before the throne, his spear digging into my back painfully when I tried to back away.Kiernan Bones’ beady eyes darkened and grew tight, like he couldn't believe what he’d just heard.“You dare to intrude on this great pack? Confessor?” He hissed out the words like a snake, and shivers racked down my back and neck.He knew who I was? Damn it! Of course he did! The blue eye shadow I wore was one only worn by people of my mind.By Confessor witches.
Selene WillowsThe wind whipped around me, blowing dust and fog into my eyes and making me gnash my teeth against its freezing bite.My hands formed a ball of crackling blue energy, trapping some of the dark wind and mist before I pushed it out and watched it expand into a portal.Strength drained from my body and my shoulders sagged when I stepped through.“Come on, please take me to Shadow Pack. I don't have another turn around in me,” I muttered after my first seven attempts had failed.I felt my stomach drop between my legs and when I blinked, my vision of the dark woods had changed to a sandy clearing.Tall gray walls stood between me and a towering castle with noises of wolves and machines working seeping from it.“Stand in line everyone! Let me see those ID’s!” one burly wolf shouted down the small line of disgruntled looking traders who shoved their food carts infront of them.ID’s? Blood roared in my ears when I realized the line was moving way too quickly, and I drew the ho
Selene WillowsI paced the small walls of my room with bile sitting squarely in the back of my throat.All this time I’d wasted planning my comeback when I should have been plotting for a bloody revenge!The tears that had dried on my cheeks tore when I swiped at it, its salty mask itching my skin.I drew down the thick cotton coat on the rail, draping it around my shoulders and pushing through the small door of my room.“The nerve of them to put me in this hell hole when that Mara bitch was off in one of the luxury suites, enjoying steam baths and shit!” I cursed under my breath, wrenching the coat tighter around my body when I stepped into the slow drizzling rain of the square.The slow burn of nicotine from the cigarette I had in my fingers faded when the rain doused it and I cursed again, my gaze narrowing on the distant string of soldiers barricading the stony cave mouth.Of all the structures to build around their dungeons, they had to go and choose the ugliest vagina they could