It was almost dawn when Noah brought the car to a stop at the end of 34th Avenue and 3rd Street. He shifted his gaze to the street lined with houses most of which were empty. He knew this was where Cathy and Ginny were.“How do you know we are in the right place?"“Because I know him too well, he won’t take them anywhere else.”“I don’t know if I can trust this guy,” Asher leaned in to whisper to Lance who sat beside him in the car.Lance nodded before realizing it was Asher who has spoken to him and he turned his head to the other man. “I don’t trust you!”Asher frowned. “I don’t trust you either.”“Rather than catch up on the lack of mistrust in this dysfunctional group, why don’t we test if my theory is correct?” Noah asked as he glared at both men through the rearview mirror.Jayden was laughing at Asher and Lance. He was sitting in the passenger seat beside Noah and now he leaned forward and peered out through the windshield into the street. There was no sign of life and though a
With every 5 years that went by the Ptakkagaris increased but and all five of the resulting descendants had features similar to those of the slaves.They were shifting through the years like they were watching the pictures at the cinema. After a while, Evgan pulled on Maggie’s phantom chains and asked her, “Have you seen enough? Do you understand what we are now?”She nodded. “You are the ones keeping our dynasty alive. Without your sacrifices, there will never be Ptakkagaris.”He nodded. His eyes took a dull, pained expression as he looked at the others. They nodded in agreement to whatever it was he was silently asking.“There is one more thing you have to see.”“What is it?”“The very reason why we invited you to the castle. But I need to make sure you are prepared to see this.”Maggie shook her head. “I wasn’t prepared to see the other things you showed me. I watched people get torn to pieces with claws and daggers, I watched sons and daughters kill their fathers and mothers. Ther
A little push on her back from Percy caused a mist to fall over them as they dissolved in the fog from her room into Lance’s.It had been his father’s room when his father was still alive. The strong Alpha of the Lycrox pack had been killed in a freak accident involving a wolf hunter shortly after Maggie and Lance were betrothed as kids. Reggie, his uncle had taken over the affairs of the pack until Lance was old enough to become Alpha. Lance had taken over his father’s room hoping that the day would come when he would have full rights to becoming Alpha.But that day would never come because his betrayal marked him as a murderer. His eyes would never turn the ruby red of Alphas, they would now remain a constant state of blue because he had innocent blood on his hands.But now as he stared into the mirror handsomely dressed in his wedding suit, Maggie felt a pull in her chest. From the clock ticking on the wall, she could tell that this was moments before Vivian barged into her room wi
“Have you tried reaching her cellphone?”Noah came out of the study with the phone in his hand. “She left it.”They had come back to the mansion an hour after rescuing Cathy and Ginny and rested until the next day.Asher and Lance were pacing the floor later that morning with their hands in their hair. Both men were tense and angry enough to ram their fists into the wall. Lance especially could almost imagine himself running into the enemy’s territory, guns blazing, ready to do battle and that was just what he wanted to do.He wasn’t alone in that desire. Asher couldn’t wait to attack the Dark Storm pack, the only thing keeping him from attacking was the fact that he wasn’t prepared for long-term war. Besides, Noah thought it was too soon to fight. They were unguarded and compared to the Dark Storm, their numbers were infinitely small.There would be casualties if they fought now.“Can’t you call Theodore? Ask him where she is?” Lance asked.“You heard what he said, he doesn’t know wh
Though the car was one of the fastest in the garage among the collection Ezra kept, moving almost at the speed of light, it was silent on the tarred road barely making a sound. The only sound was coming from the inside of the jeep and it was coming from the dashboard because Ginny had chosen to play some old romance music. The atmosphere created by the music was so much at odds with the atmosphere at the moment. The men wanted to go to war for the Luna of their newly merging pack, they weren’t interested in listening to Lionel Richie sing “Stuck on You” or Dionne Warwick singing “Whisper in the Dark.” If there was war music, probably an old dragon theme from a medieval movie played over men riding on horses into battle, that would have been a better fitting song at the moment.But they let her listen to her songs because she was young and foolish and romantic.Ginny didn’t care.She sat in front with Noah, knowing that if Asher wasn’t in the car with them he would have tied her up wit
“They are waiting, Lance.”Maggie watched him. He sat at the edge of the bed with his head in his hands. His breath was heavy in his palms and Maggie could see that every second he spend alone he got angrier. She wished she could reach out to touch him and tell him not to believe Vivian. But she was angry just watching him. How could he believe Vivian just like that? After all they had been through?!She was seething with rage but so was Lance and he stood from the bed and threw his jacket hard across the room.“Fuck!”Axel knocked again. “Lance, are you alright in there? They are waiting for you. Ezra is ready to leave for the chapel.”Lance clenched his fists. He slapped the palm of one hand against his fist and his nostrils flared as he fought to control himself. He went back to the bed.“Lance?”When he stood up he was surprisingly calm and he went to open the door. Axel’s face held a frown that showed his concern. He watched his older brother’s face but Lance’s face was very calm
“Why is she here?” Ezra demanded, his face was pale as he watched Maggie stumble upon them.Maggie watched that naïve version of herself come to the realization that it had been a trick. She watched as her trusting eyes clouded with regret and the bitter tears of betrayal a moment before Reggie grabbed her from behind and pulled her hands behind her.At first, she couldn’t even react to the pain, the only thing she could say was, “Why?”Her innocent brown eyes searched for Lance and she couldn’t hold her tears at the stony look on his face.“Lance,” she wailed.“Kill them,” came Ezekiel’s cold command.Maggie watched the scene and for the first time, she saw it unfold differently. In her memories, Lance had been so cold that he rushed at her and tore her heart out of her chest with no regrets or heed for her tears at all. But now that she watched it as an outsider, she saw how his hand shook. The ancient dagger he held in his hand wobbled as fear overcame him.“I – I – I can’t do it,”
Maggie’s back hit the tree. Her breath escaped her lungs, emptying them. She barely had time to refill her lungs with air when Phoenix came to stand in front of her.Evgan and Percy had recovered their breath and rose to their feet, they started to transform to attack the goddess. She turned to them with a look of pure disdain.“Have you learned nothing at all from the memories of your ancestors?” she asked them and with a flick of her finger sent them flying against another tree. This time she did not just stop there, she pinned them to the trees and took their voices, that way they could not cry out. Olivia and Jackson who remained on the floor were pinned there.Maggie opened her eyes. She was panting heavily. The pain in her chest, a result of her sudden contact with the tree, spread throughout the rest of her body.“You – you knew I was here?” Maggie whispered through the pain in her chest.“Nothing happens without my knowledge, mortal. You think I haven’t sensed you watching me