. Leo's POVI can't believe what dad has just told us. So, all this time, I have a witch's blood in me and I didn't know. Is it a bad or a good thing? I really don't know what to think. If it is making all this happen to Tessa, then I'm glad I am just a normal beta. "Do my parents know?" Alex asks. "Of course. By the time my mate was turning, I was already your dad's beta. So, yes, he knew and he helped through it all," dad answered and it all made sense. It is like the way Alex and I are now. We talk about everything including our mates though sometimes I feel like cringing when he starts talking about how he and my sister made out. Aarrgh! But I understand him because I am his only friend.So, I try to pretend that he is talking about someone else whenever he starts talking about their kisses, their snuggles, how good he feels when he is with her and such. I guess it's me paying for all those nights I would keep him awake narrating about me and Susan immediately I found
Alex's POV"Alpha, we are ready when you are," I heard Leo say through our mind link as dad, susan and I entered the main mansion.My dad got up to receive us in the living room and he gave me a warning look. There, seated on the couch was the most handsome creature I had ever seen. The man stood up immediately when he saw us and he was smiling at me. I didn't smile back because I didn't know him. Heck, I have never even seen him. But truthfully speaking, he was handsome. He was talking, I think we stood that the same height, almost shared the same body features and I think he rivalled me in looks. I felt threatened as a man. But he didn't exude any danger. In fact, I didn't feel wary of him. I felt like I wanted to get closer to him and get to know him more. "Alpha Alexander Jason Aldean, my name is Mason Jason Silvano, a vampire. I am the first son of the Silvano vampire clan of Mayne. It is my honour to meet you today," he said and I felt Ryker groan. Oh, we shared the middl
. Alex's POVWhen I got home, my mom was fuming. She was pacing around, walking up and down and when she saw me, she stopped and fixed a glare on me. I felt a chill run down my spine because heck, did she want to pounce on me but because she knew I couldn't hurt her? "I am sorry ma. You know I have to give priority to anything that concerns Tessa," I justified and she inhaled and exhaled like she was soothing her demons then looked at me. "Maybe if you had listened to us you didn't have to go," she said and I looked at her wondering what she meant. "What do you mean?" I asked her and she sat down and beckoned me to sit. "Son, not everything is as it seems," she said once I sat and she was speaking in riddles now. "What do you mean ma?" I asked her and she looked at dad. "Bring that young man," she told him and then turned to me, "son, listen to that young vampire first," she said and then left.After a while, the guy came in and he wasn't angry. He seems calm and composed. If
Tessa's POVI felt like I was in one long unending dream. Sometimes I was floating.Sometimes I felt grounded. Sometimes I felt like my head would kill me. Sometimes I felt like there were people around me. Sometimes I felt like my bones were on fire. It was one long dream. Or was it? After what felt like eternity, I woke up. The first thing I noticed was that my whole body was hurting. I tried moving and my body felt like lead. It was heavy. My eyelids felt like they were nailed on the ground. They couldn't open. I stayed still for a long while trying to wrench the pain away and I tried prying my eyelids open slowly by slowly and after a long while, I opened them. It was painful but I forced myself to roll my head and observe my surroundings. I could tell that I was in a small room and it was very dark. What made me see were my wolf powers were but I felt like those were tied from the inside too.I couldn't move my body and after a long while, I tried lifting my hands an
Tessa's POVI looked at the tall woman at the door and wondered why she would call me that. Was I a queen? I wondered but I laughed at the next moment. What queen that was kept in chains and given drugs to keep me docile?"You are awake. Took you long enough," she said as she walked inside the holding cell. She didn't seem to be walking. She looked as if she was gliding or floating in the air. She then walked past me and I followed her with my eyes. She went to the other wall and drew a curtain and that was when I realised that there was a window there though it was heavily barred. And let me guess: nickel bars just in case I managed to flee myself. I didn't talk all the while looking at her. My head was still splitting and I felt like i didn't have energy to talk. After she drew the curtain, light flooded the room and I closed my eyes on instinct and the headache increased. I groaned and I felt her look at me and then walk towards me. "Have a headache?" She asked in a voice
tessa's POVHere I am in a witches' lair listening to a story But this story made me forget my woes for a while and I forgot whether I was kidnapped. Listening to this woman was better than lying here all alone wondering why I was kidnapped and dealing with endless pain. "Oh, you are so naive," she said, again, shaking her head with an indulgent smile. I guess she thought that she was dealing with a fool. "Yes. You see, when a witch is born in our coven, a candle is lit by her mother and placed in the great hall. It is a special kind of candle made by the witch elders. The light stays on as long as the person is alive. It changes colour depending on the situation the person is in. For example, when one is sick, it turns dark, when one is in danger, it turns red, when one dies, it goes off," she explained and I thought that that was genius. Wow! "So, when her light went off a few days after the war ended, there were only two possibilities: one, she had died or two, she had tu
Alex's POVRight now, I don't even know what was worse: knowing that I had a male mate, and a vampire at that, or the fact that Tessa was still missing. I didn't know what to think. Since Mason said that he was my mate, I couldn't agree or disagree but a lot of things made sense now. Like the fact that I could smell him and the fact that I felt like I already knew him from the time I saw him."You said you know where she is?" I asked him as I tried not to think of the fact that I was now seeing him in a way I hadn't looked at him. His lips were full and pinkish. I wondered if they tasted as sweet as they looked. Can I taste them? "First, we need to talk about ourselves. It's by working together that we can be able to help her. What I know for a fact is that those who have her won't kill her because they still need her. So, for now, let's talk about us," Mason said and I turned to look at my dad. "It's okay baby. When he told us, we were also shocked but we decided to give hi
Mason's POVI am twenty four this year and unlike many of my age mates, I still haven't found my half soul. Even my father was getting worried because according to our pack rules, I had to have a wife first before I could take over the leadership of our pack. You see, for us, it isn't like it is with wolves. For wolves, there is always a half chance that one could be mated to a man omega. For us it is always man woman and nothing more. When we visited oracle for the umpteenth time about my lack of a half soul, he told my parents the same thing he usually said: the best braised beef was the one which had been cooked fie hours for the aroma of the spices to sink into the meat and for it to be smooth and tender. "What do you know about cooking meat and living on blood?" My mother asked the oracle one time when she got fed up. "My child, when you have lived as long as I have and seem as much as I have, you will learn that good things take time," the oracle answered her and closed