“Did you find anything?” Aliyah asked the two men sitting in her living room. They stood up upon her entering and took turns too hug and kiss her cheek. “Where is Edward?”Sean sighed and shook his head softly, “he excused himself on our way back and urged us to go home. We haven’t seen him since then.”Steven nodded in concur. “What about Asher, is he awake now?”At that, Aliyah smiled, “he woke up early this afternoon but I don’t seem to know where he could be at the moment. I was told he left shortly after Anita arrived. Tell, any lead?”This time, Sean ran his hand through his brown hair and sat down. At forty-four years old, he still looked striking like he was in his late twenties. “Nothing different from the other nights we have checked. The foot prints didn’t really lead anywhere, at some point, it just stopped, like something had intentionally cleaned it. I just don’t understand.”A servant walked in then with a tray of drinks and served them. Steven sipped from his and smoot
Asher opened his eyes. He surprised at where he was. The room was dark but the darkness was not a problem to him. The looked shabby, not even average compared to any room he had ever slept in and he wondered where it could be. He sat up on the bed and pressed his temple to die down the headache he was having. A gentle breeze blew into the room, calming him and he glanced at the window to discover that the window was opened and the moonlight was sipping in through the curtain. He tried to climb out of the bed and froze for that was when he saw it, the girl asleep on the rocking chair at the far end of the room.He blinked as even though the girl was far from the bed and was shrouded in darkness, he saw her face and he knew who she was. At the moment, it seemed like his nose had woken up because the scent filled him up. Everywhere smelt like her, the bed, the air around and it wasn’t hard figuring out that he was in her room. He climbed out of the bed and went to her. He squatted in fro
Larry paused and glanced at the corner of the room, he waited but the sound didn’t come again but he wasn’t a man to let things go easily and so he forgot about Naomi and went to check but nothing was there. However, he felt goosebumps rose on his skin, a clear evidence that something supernatural was on play. He walked back to his daughter that was now sitting on the bed and sobbing, and watching him. A trail of blood ran from the corner of her lips and seeing that, he felt sorry about his attitude immediately. He raised his hand to touch her but she avoided immediately, thinking he was going to hurt and that only made Larry hate himself the more.“Naomi…” he called.“I’m sorry,” she cried. “I slept off forgetting I haven’t made dinner, please don’t hit me again, please.”“I won’t.”“No,” she cried, “I’m begging you.”“I said I won’t,” he said irritated now and she looked at him. Her eyes showed her fear and Larry sighed. He reached for her again and she cowered and that seemed to ha
“Oh my God,” Naomi gasped when they appeared in a dark cave. “How did you do that?” she asked, turning around to search for Asher but the cave was dark that she couldn’t see a thing. “Asher?” she called.“I’m here,” he answered, deriving a gasp from her as she wasn’t expecting to hear his voice. His voice came a little far from her and she tried to go to him. “Stay there, okay?” he replied hoarsely. “There are stones here and I wouldn’t like you hurting yourself. Just give me a minute.” Using teleportation means that he had let go of his Night Howlers ability and that forced him to shift back, and with his demon powers in front, he could feel its healing properties fighting to heal him and the weakness was fading away slowly. He leaned over and pried the teeth of the trap open, flinging it somewhere in the cave. He rested his back on the cold wall, his eyes closed as he decided to give himself time.He was still in his moment when a sweet tantalizing smell filled his nostrils and he c
Asher was forced to remember that day, twenty years ago, him convulsing on the ground while Irene and Hephzibah fought to save his life and how he had watched his father despite the pain he felt fight with the woman. He was panting as he leaned on a tree, feeling the sharp pain in his chest. Ever since that day, he had never seen the woman again except in his dreams and now she has appeared to him twice in one night. He knew she was the one in his room earlier and now she was here again. He may not be a pure blood witch to see visions but he could feel it deep in his bones that something would happen soon and he might be the villain in the story.Scared of what might happened in the night or that the woman might return back to really hurt him, he instantly teleported, arriving in the cave. He had wanted to go back home but the thought of leaving Naomi alone here and at the mercy of the woman or any nightwalker that might seem to run past didn’t let him.Naomi gasped, feeling instantly
Asher glanced at her sharply. The question was never one he had expected from her or even asked himself. Their eyes locked and he tried to see what could have prompted the question from her but all he saw were clear beautiful hazel eyes. Seconds ticked by before he answered in a whisper, “I don’t know. I have never been in love, so…” he licked his lips softly, his eyes traveling to hers. “To reject your mate, you have to be feeling a bond stronger than the mating bond with someone else, otherwise, there is nothing stopping the mating bond from claiming you the first day.”“Never been in love you said,” Naomi whispered.“Never ever.”“Does that make you a virgin?” she asked, her face coloring over with her question as she chided herself in her mind.Asher chuckled, “that word is very far from me.” The look in her eyes made him laugh softly, “it stopped applying to me from my sixteenth birthday.”“So you are like a playboy?” she raised an eyebrow.Asher smiled and shrugged, “that’s one
“What happened then?” Gideon asked.His father heaved a long sigh, “well, the remaining alphas guided and led the rest of the wolves here, to the Eastwood. Here, they settled and since they were still three alphas left, they all couldn’t lead under one alpha and so, they divided themselves to make their own packs. The mates of the two alphas were to join in any pack and when their sons were born, they were allocated lands to build their own packs as alphas. However, after the escape from the human’s clutches, it was discovered that every pregnant wolf then survived. No one knew why they survived since they should have been the first to be killed since pregnancy reduces the strength of she-wolves. It wasn’t until the first of wolves put to bed and the pups showed difference from the normal pups they have known that they began to suspect something was wrong or in this case, different.”“What difference?” Gideon frowned.“Not only are they not affected or deformed as everyone had feared
Naomi walked to school feeling a little happier than usual. Thinking about her new found friendship with Asher uplifted her mood in so many ways she never thought possible and the fact that she would be seeing him soon made her want to fly to school. She had dreamt about him all though the night. Even she was surprised at why she was feeling so giddy about him but she just knows that she was. She could still remember how he would often stay at her lips last night and bite his. She knew he wanted to kiss her but what she didn’t know was why he didn’t. She had looked forward to it at some point last night but he didn’t oblige.Not letting it dampen her mood, she had prepared for school happily. Since her father’s slaps last night didn’t leave any bruises coupled with Asher’s words, she decided not to wear a hoodie to the school today and had spent nearly twenty minutes thinking of what to do with her and had ended up settling a messy bun. It didn’t make her look beautiful but it gave he