LOGINThe healer listened to Adrian attentively. He nodded, and with each one his face grew more grim.The healer turned to me. “Let me see.” I lifted my shirt to show him. He kept a straight face but his wandered away in thought.“We should go somewhere more private.” He told us.Adrian immediately led u
As soon as we crossed the border into our territory we were met with a team of Adrian’s men. Gideon and Tessa among them, emerged from a blacked out SUV.I had sat up a bit ago, and Adrian and Matthias promptly stopped talking. Adrian opened his door and he and Tessa touched base as Gideon came arou
Adrian’s POVI saw the way Matthias looked at Isla. With concern and worry. The way I looked at Isla. She was laying on the counter, asleep, but with some color returning.Flo said the herbs would help, but not cure Isla. Flo wasn’t sure if a cure existed. If her researched led nowhere, Isla would d
Isla’s eyes flew open as she screamed.“Hold her down!” Flo yelled to us.Matthias grabbed her legs as I braced her shoulders down.“Isla I’m right here. Fight the poison.” I told her. Her eyes were watering as she screamed. She gripped my wrists with all her strength.“The pain means it’s working.”
Adrian’s POVFlo went to the back of the restaurant. I heard rustling around for whatever she needed.“So you have no idea idea what kind of poison could possibly been used?” I asked Matthias. It seemed too convenient to me that someone who grew up with his people, knew so little about them.Last ti
I heard the ‘click’ of a magazine into a firearm. Then Adrian positioned himself in the back seat, as a bullet flew through the car, and right through the windshield.“Fuck!” Matthias yelled. The bullet cracked right through the windshield, close to his head.“Just drive!” Adrian ordered him.Then A
Then there were the times when we’d sneak off to raid the pantry for snacks. The kitchen seemed even bigger back then.Yani and I were momentarily alone in as workers flitted in and out. We took that as a moment to rest. Other workers took breaks, as a slave that wasn’t a luxury I was allowed.Yani
Isla’s POVThe music began to fade out. My heart was beating so fast, my anxiety must have been in overdrive. I stepped back from Lucian.I was grateful to be done with out dance. I couldn’t ignore how much the energy of the night was affecting me.I also couldn’t ignore thinking about Adrian. The e
Adrian looked down at me. I couldn’t control my emotions anymore. I felt my breaths huff out of me with steam.“Adrian.” I was going to explode. I couldn’t hold anything in any longer. The idea of him with another woman was painful…but Tessa? I couldn’t handle it.Suddenly Adrian took both of my wri
Isla’s POVAs Lucians eye’s gave me a once over, I turned to the full length mirror in the room.The fabric of my new dress was one of the softest I’d ever felt. It flowed like water down to the ground in almost a grecian style.This dress may have been fresher than my old one, but I felt no more co







