Anna woke up just as Victor walked back into the hotel room with food. He unlocked the chain and started unpacking the food as if it was just another normal thing to do. Anna noticed that the food was just enough for one, which was a stark reminder that he didn’t eat normal food.“I gathered that your wolf would be starving by now.” Victor smiled and Anna sighed. He disappeared into the bathroom and she was just about to make a run for it when he returned with incredible speed and locked her chain to the bed closest to the table. “Sorry, but I need to take a shower and you’ve proven that you want to run.” He shrugged and disappeared into the bathroom and as Anna heard the water start to run, she wished she could move as fast as vampires could.If she could run just as fast, she could make it back home in record time. She could escape from Victor. Her eyes caught sight of the chain and she wondered if she would be able to break it. Carefully listening, she confirmed that Victor was in
COLLIN COULDN’T LEAVE VICTOR in the dungeons for too long. The vampire had proven that he was slippery and if they left this too long, he would escape and take Anna again. Even though Anna had proven she was completely capable of taking care of herself, Collin didn’t want her to have to go through that again. She was an incredibly strong woman, but she was his mate and he wanted to take care of her.Collin had just finished his conversation with Sebastian and Nicolas when his mother called him through the mind link. Anna was awake and she was asking for him. He rushed up the stairs unable to wait for the elevator and nearly burst through the door. She looked a lot better after she slept and she was busy eating when he walked in. Her face lit up the moment her eyes met his and his heart skipped a beat.“How are you feeling?” Collin was so totally engrossed in Anna that he didn’t even notice his mother discreetly leaving. He checked her wounds and they hadn’t bled through the bandages a
Anna was expecting Victor to at least ask her not to kill him, but his face was set the moment he saw her. He didn’t say a word as he was pushed down to kneel and although she felt she should say something, she didn’t.Nicolas read the charges and Collin read out the sentence, but all Anna could think about was getting it over with. Collin put his hand over hers holding the sword and she nodded. With her feet feeling as if they were on fire, she picked up the sword. Closed her eyes for a split second, as she held it high in the air and then let it drop down in front of her. Some people gasped and one woman screamed as Victor’s head separated from his body in an instant.As if in slow motion, his body fell to the floor. Anna didn’t look at where his head went as she felt the pain in her feet grows to unbearable levels. Before she fell to the floor, Collin had her in his arms and Nicolas had taken the sword. The body was removed quickly so that nobody else would be upset by the sight of
NICOLAS SIGHED AS HE WALKED into his bedroom. He was expecting his people to be upset about the fact that a werewolf took the life of a vampire, but he had hoped that the fact that she was a hybrid would lessen the blow a little.It didn’t. His people were furious. Most of them saw what Nathaniel created as an abomination and now he had allowed one of those things to kill one of them. He rolled his eyes as he realized how incredibly snobbish some vampires could be. Even after the werewolves won the war, some vampires still saw them as mere slaves created to serve!“Well, that didn’t go as planned.” Beverly sighed as she walked into the room and Nicolas turned to look at her. She was one of Nathaniel’s creations and his people accepted her. Why didn’t they accept others?“Yes.” He sighed, feeling terribly confused.“Nicolas, you are going to have to do something or we are going to have another war on our hands and this time it is not going to be far away. It will be right on our doorst
ELANA ROLLED HER EYES and walked away from Anna, who was not looking happy. She wasn’t sure who she was angrier at. Her mother for blabbing it out to the damn world or her sister-in-law for trying to tell her that there was something wrong with her for not wanting children!If either of them actually took the damn time to listen to her, they might understand. Still, they were usually so busy trying to get their opinion across that they completely lost track of the fact that there was another person at the other end of their tirade and that that person usually had a different opinion. But nooo! With those two, it was just their opinion that mattered.“Elana! Are you listening to me?” Anna sounded slightly out of breath and Elana realized she had been walking faster and faster to try and get away from Anna. She sighed and turned around to look at Anna.“I am, but you have been talking so much that you haven’t given me a chance to get a word in. Anna,” Elana sighed and took Anna’s hands
Nicolas could see how uncomfortable they were all of a sudden and he looked at the male who had been spreading the poison.“Oh? Nothing to say now?” Nicolas smiled, knowing he had just proven one of the biggest points he possibly could. He gave the man one more once over, greeted the others, and walked away knowing that it was probably going to come back and bite him in the butt, that he seemed a little high and mighty, but it also showed that he wasn’t going to back down.He had never thought himself better than anybody else and everybody knew that. It was when the ones who were influenced easily to think otherwise lent out their ears that things around the villa became uncomfortable. He caught sight of Beverly laughing with a group of women and made his way over to the next group of men.This was going to take some manoeuvring, but between him and Beverly they should know where most of their people were standing by the end of the day.ELANA SIGHED DEEPLY, as she rolled out of bed. S
THE MORNING OF THE CEREMONY arrived, and Anna and Leah surprised Elana and her mate with breakfast in bed. They gave them an hour to eat in peace and informed them that they would be back after that hour to take over their room so they could turn it into a beauty salon.Elana appreciated the time they gave them because it settled her nerves enough that she didn’t feel as if she wanted to run for the hills. By the time they climb into bed tonight, she will officially be his mate and the entire pack will know. They already knew, but it felt so much more real knowing they were actually going to have a mating ceremony.Elana tried her best not to complain when the two women returned with an entire army of omegas to turn her into a bride. She really tried, but it was even more difficult to calm down when they were working on her hair, make-up, and nails at the same time! Her mother almost tried to help her take a shower for goodness’s sake! In Elana’s mind, none of this was necessary since
WITH ELANA AWAY ON HER HONEYMOON, things in the pack started to calm down again. Life was returning to normal and Anna could once again focus on her duties as Luna. It felt as if she hadn’t looked at her diary in forever and once she dug into work, she completely lost track of time.Looking up only when she felt Collin’s presence, she smiled and realized she was actually starving. Colling took her hand and they joined the pack for lunch, which was a good change of pace since she also felt as if she hadn’t done that in forever! Life was finally good again and she loved the peace.NICOLAS PACED HIS OFFICE, as he wondered if he should warn Sebastian of what was going on. If he was lucky, which he was most of the time, he could stop his people long before anything happened, but this time things felt different. For the first time in a long time, it felt as if he was on the verge of losing control of his coven.Although a large group of his people still believed in the peace he brought all