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Circle of Six
Brittany
The Drive to Vaughn's place was shorter than I recalled, however it was still refreshing since it had been quite some time since I had been here.
During the ride, I was silent, allowing my thoughts to linger, which was potentially dangerous in a situation like this, yet Vaughn and I knew each other well enough that he didn't have to ask. He knew to keep his distance in my moments like this, even if he was worried.
He knew that if I wanted to talk—to vent—that I would. It was how I always was. I never spoke up before I was ready. I never tr
15LaurenBraided Promises"Lauren, run!" My father shouted at me, through his panic and shock as he was trying to shoo me into taking cover from what had been happening. He was dressed in his battle armor, sword drawn and all. In his other hand, his shield, our family crest decorated on the front.The commotion outside—it only added to the intensity of skirmish that was unfolding before us. From the window, that was just a short space from our living quarters, I could see the starting sparks of a fire on our outside foyer. The flames, they were spreading out and burning everything in their way.The screams of opposing Vikings, becoming louder with each moment that was being taken from us. From every moment that was being taken from him.We didn't know why they had come here, or why they had launched an attack on us. Only that t
16Double JeopardyAlissaMad. She was downright mad, and her idea?It was also unequivocally insane.Although, I could totally fathom her rationale behind the idea, and wanting to trade places with Samantha, considering all the collateral damage that she had been through.Still, Kaitlyn's idea was completely ludicrous. While she was protecting Sam, she also was placing herself in total inherent risk. The damage that could have been wrought from this—we wouldn't know, until after the fact.
17 Dimitra When Thunder Clashes A Few hours after the girls escaped... Watching the girls escape with their lives, was the only good thing to come out of the past few hours. I begrudgingly was dragged by the other soldiers, Cameron, and Sydney, they called themselves, as they tried to parade me through their base, trying to do whatever sick and twisted things they had planned. Cameron was in front while Sydney was behind me while we went through a portion of the base that I hadn't seen before, but I knew one thing—I wasn't wanting to stay a minute.
18Lighting Strikes TwiceElisaRisking my sister was never my intention.It was never something I ever wanted to resort to, however as I had watched her work with Kait with such ease, and seen Kait break down the way she had, took me back to how I remember their relationship.It was deep, and meaningful, along with passionate and loyal.Mine was the same way with Sam. We had a deeply intense relationship, where we were equally passionate with each other, yet that didn't stop me from ever being a girlfriend to Kaitlyn.Ever.I made thi
19Twin FlamesKaitlynI knew that doing what we did, and the choices that we had to make, would be difficult. Did I agree with them? Not always.Was this the best possibility we had open to us?Probably.And yet, when I saw that Alissa had traded places with Sam back there, I intuitively knew why.She couldn't bear the fact of letting me go into this alone. She couldn't bear losing anyone of us. She didn't want to lose me, or Sam in any sense of the word.Hell, even being separated from her own sibling, her other half was agonizing, since I could just feel the pain, she was emanating from her body.The resistance to not breakdown. The resistance to fight off whatever pain she would feel from this long strain away, that would only intensify as the distance between them grew.They did everything together,
20 A Girl Who Raised A Dragon, Part 1 Alissa As soon as Elizabethhad used her magic portal to escape, I took my moment and snapped the handcuffs—that they had used on me and Kaitlyn—free from the pillar and falling hard on my stomach. I knew I was still recovering after being revived by Kaitlyn's magic, as I laid stunned for a moment; my body trying to get feeling back relatively quickly. However, the delay was short lived. For as soon as I l crashed Julian and Sophie reacted and raced towards me swinging their swords at me, and I had to duck and dodge each of their swin
Chapter 21Mother's intuitionMikahI was soaking in the lavish bath I had set up, trying to reflect on the words that Samantha had spoken to me, when she had been here, only a week ago."Only you can decide when it's right for you to step in."She told me back then while I was stuck in my emotions, horrified from what had happened with Julian and here and now, Sam was irrevocably correct.The words stung me, but they were true, nonetheless. Only I could decide.Even if that meant going against Freya and the oath, that she coerced me to take. That was the part no one knew about.Erik and several other members from the Danish Circle back then were aware that I had been held to an oath in exchange for Kaitlyn's safety, yet no one knew that Freya in her own right, had been deceitful about it.She had tricked me into giving away Ka
22The Girl Who Fell for the Valkyrie, Part IILaurenThis is what I remembered from after the war:The Fae warriors I had been raised around, they were the ones had gone war with the Vikings, who crashed uninvited in our land and went forward with their crusade.The battle between our forces, and theirs lasted for several days, almost seemingly without an end in sight.Each night, I heard their screams, and it haunted me, since I knew that at any moment that those screams could have been my father.