12. Fascination

Janus pov

5 months earlier

/Gamma Janus! Gamma Janus! Wake up! Please wake up! Come immediately!/ the panicked voice of Amethyst wakes me.

/Gamma Janus! It’s Opal and Sapphire they are… they are dead/ Amethyst's distress is palpable and startles me upright.

Jumping out of bed, I grab some clothes; pulling them on as I rush to the concubine quarters.

Something is clearly very wrong, as the guards let me through without question. The moment the doors open, I realise why as the stench of fresh blood overwhelms me.

I run toward the bedrooms, and find Amethyst and Emerald sitting in the corridor beside the two lifeless bodies of what were, up until a few minutes ago, two beautiful kind hearted girls. Their clothes are torn, clumps of hair litter the floor around them.

It's the matching silver daggers sticking out if each girl’s chest that stops me in my tracks though. Clearly, this is more than a simple cat fight gone wrong; but where the hell did these daggers come from? My wolf is re