"Or you could let me live," he looked down at her finger that had snaked under his chin, feeling her claw prick his skin. She moved her finger, tilting his head upwards, making it harder for him to see. "And...?""Get a chance to speak with your family."She blinked. What did he take her for? A fool? She knew there was a block to her link. She found that out a long time ago."That's impossible.""I can make it possible." She chuckled instinctively."Go ahead. Humor me."Without looking away from her, he brought out a small round gem, like a globe, in his hand. The blue soft light emitting from it, made her look down at what he had with him, but she was still very much at alert just in case Akeem tried to do anything funny."Once you place your hand on this, you can communicate through that link you werewolves have." He paused, then added quickly. "Pack link."Her gaze snapped up at him. "And what's in it for you?" He eyed her claw that was still underneath his chin. "My life?" He
Feeling her body go weak, before it all crashed and her eyelids tore open."Are you alright?" Akeem asked. She leaned against the shelf for a moment, trying to regain herself and take in her environment, while she wiped the blood away from her nostrils. Her gaze moved to Akeem and her mind went over what he represented. An opportunity.An opportunity to take down the very person that had put her into this situation. They needed her to get to the King and she needed them, because she couldn't do it alone. None of the two sides could. Maybe their offer wasn't that terrible after all. Maybe they could work together.So even if they were not out to cause demise to all the vampires, as long as the King was part of the ones they targeted, having him out of the picture at any cost would make her satisfied.Although she still couldn't figure out how they could possibly kill him, they seem to have a witch in their midst, the witch should figure it out."Are you---""Yes," she stood uprigh
Delice turned in bed, her eyebrows furrowed, her facial features twitching sharply under the dim red light of her room.A groan of pain. An unintelligible whisper through trembling lips.Nightmares were battles. Battles Delice always fought with but never won, because they kept coming back. Hitting her with more intensity than the last, more real everytime as she relived the saddest moments of her life in her dream, just like she was doing right now. She turned violently in bed, her attempt to wake up futile, her mind been pulled further into an abyss of memories she would give anything not to relive.But suddenly everything became blank and she was doing that exact thing she didn't want to do. Reliving. Dreaming.Once again, there she was, in that cottage, on that raining night, that was filled with flashing lightening and deafening thunder.The room was dark and it was noisy outside with the rain beating against the transparent window glass. Delice moved around with her protrud
She stood up, dragging out a box from under a her bed quickly.In a blink, she flipped it open, then snatched out one of the carefully arranged packaged blood in the box, draining with desperation till it's very last drop before she collapsed on the floor, her gaze fixed on the dim red light at the up, center of her room, tears running down her face.It had been ten years and still, the pain remained the same. Would she ever heal?___The idea of becoming friends with the King last night had sounded almost easy to her despite how she had taken the proposal, but waking up this morning and realizing how real it was and that she had to start putting action for it to happen, made her feel absolutely pressurized.She could almost feel the weight on her shoulders, pulling her to down to the ground.On one side, she had her hatred for him to battle with and on the other side, she had his possible suspicion to avoid.First, she had her breakfast and Gwen had been her usual calm self. She tri
Trigger warning - The word "blood" comes up a lot in this chapter.___It was a bloody mess.Blood on the floor, blood on the walls, blood on their bodies. Just splashes here and there, not a enough to form pool of whatever size, yet it was no exaggeration that they had gone at each other crazily.Laura had Zezi trapped on the floor beneath her, her claws raised, her eyes red with burning rage, while Zezi looked up at her with sick smile on her face. "Why do we always got to find ourselves in this position, uhn?" She chuckled, the slight cut across her face healing, it was just a nick anyways. "Do you need more encouragement again?"Laura hissed. "Alright then." The smile wiped off her face. "Do it.""You fucking bitch!""You curse like a trainwreak. Good thing we don't have kids around, right?" She chuckled again.Laura frowned, standing up and offering her a hand to do the same, but Zezi didn't accept her hand, she stood up on her own, dusting off her gown. "You almost tricked m
"You are all the King ever talks about," he added the cherry on top with a goofy smile."Is that so?" Zezi asked, her lips tugged up in a smirk. "Did you really attack him? Like with the dagger thing right through his heart?" Oliver asked, his hands folded across his chest, his eyes glimmering with excitement and expectation.Zezi nodded and immediately, laughter bubbled from his throat. "Maybe you can do it some day again and I'll be there to watch."Zezi's observing eyes didn't leave him as she accessed him thoroughly.Oliver was just like a child. A plain book to read. But she couldn't be so sure, people with this kind of personality were often dangerous and easy to miss out in the line of suspects. Chameleons.She would have to be careful with him.Besides he was a vampire. He must be just like the rest. A monster."What do you say about dinner? You and me? I think we'll get along very well, infact, I can see the future." His hands formed into circles around his eyes, and h
Still, she stood, listening to the voices of Oliver and Laura as they passed by the door and went further away till their voices became a distant echo and soon they could no longer even hear them again. They were gone."I don't want Oliver seeing you weak, he is a big mouth." He said before she would even ask him why he had done all that he did earlier. "So he is not your friend?" "Friend? No. The only reason I endure him is because my sister loves him.""And you love your sister." She said with an annoyed chuckle, not directly at his statement but something else she was thinking about."I respect relationships. Chosen or fated mate situation, I always respect.""Except mine." She said coldly."You can't blame me, Zezi, for wanting what is mine. You are mine, as I am yours." His grip on her hand tightened, the voices of Oliver and Laura moving around the hallway again seeping into their ears, while they both stared each other down. Soon enough the voices were gone, and then tensio
Never in her life, had Zezi feared the coming of the night, not once since she could remember, had she so much wished that the moon would never come up in the dark sky, never had she dreaded that white glowing, majestic ball of the night, as she did tonight."Milady." Gwen's voice called to her, as she put away the food on the table that her Mistress had refused to eat. She had also skipped lunch too and with the way things were going, she would skip dinner too."Are you sure that you are strong enough to hold me down, Gwen?"She nodded. In true honesty, Gwen didn't share the fear of her Mistress. In fact, she was only trying to hide her excitement out of respect and worry for her Mistress.Gwen was beyond glad that this was happening and the only reason why she would even be an obstacle to this was because her Mistress had asked her to be. If the 'Heat' she had read about was what would be happening tonight, then her efforts to stop her would definitely be rendered useless.Because