‘BREATHE, little wolf. You are going to be okay.’I did as I was told but the devil lied. No matter how many times I breathe, I still feel worse. I don’t think I would ever be okay again. I laid onto the ground and gazed at the sky. In my head, I kept hearing the devil’s voice.The past conversations I had with him played in my mind.Everything was slowly coming back to me. Little by little, I’m starting to remember things except for his name.‘How long are you going to stay with me?’ I remembered asking him once.Again, I couldn’t see his face but I could see his eyes. They were shining as they looked at me as if I was the only thing that mattered in the world.‘Until the end if you want me to.’‘I already heard that lie before.’‘I don’t lie. Between the two of us, little wolf, I’m not going to be the first to let go. I will hold on only if you want me to and let you go if you ask me to.’I closed my eyes. In my head, I could hear the ministers and my brothers calling out to me but
SOMETHING had changed. When we turned around to the alpha queen, her palms were bleeding and she was sweating so hard as if she ran here. She looked pale. Despite that, we could all see that she was happy. Her eyes were glowing. She could have gotten here faster had she shifted but she didn’t.For some reason, we couldn’t feel her wolf tonight.“What happened to your wolf, your majesty?” I asked what every hybrid was dying to ask.“The journal didn’t work.” Her voice broke. “Even if I found out his name, nothing came to my mind. I couldn’t locate him. I couldn’t remember his face. I’m not like your king. I can’t make spells but I know that to counter every spell, a sacrifice has to be made. Luckily, there’s a full moon tonight.”“Are you saying that you sacrificed your wolf?” Onyx asked, he looked astounded.Katniss looked away. “At least I remembered now. It was a hard journey back home but I’m… glad to be home.”The tower was cursed. It may be the biggest and the tallest tower in th
(Felipe)“IN our next lives, let’s see each other again. Goodbye for now, brothers,” I whispered as the ground shook uncontrollably, every quake was getting stronger. We were now freed from His Grace’s spell which meant that he would soon lose control of his powers and go berserk but none of us left the tower.We are a family. We are one here. We would either die or live together, there was no in between.My only regret was letting my student in. If all of us ever get to meet in the underworld, I’m certain that His Grace would wring our necks once he sees his beloved woman with us there.But even if we were free now, all the doors and windows were closed. Unless His Grace opened them, there was no way we could get in.We stood side by side as we waited for our doom. Drake and Khal’s shoulders jerked as they tried to hold back their cries.Onyx’s jaw clenched when he looked at us. “It had been one hell of a journey. Until next time, brothers.”Walter smiled; a lone tear ran down his ch
(Katniss)‘BEFORE you go out there, let me warn you, Katniss. His Grace had changed. He is currently experiencing the repercussions from absorbing the forbidden mana. He could end up hurting you,’ Khal told me before we left the palace.‘His Grace would not do that! Look at her. He woke up beside her and all the strands of her hair are still a hundred percent intact! He didn’t send her flying away unlike us,’ Felipe argued.‘We should be thankful he didn’t kill us. If the man in the prediction came true, we would have been dead by now,’ Onyx butted in. ‘I’d like to believe that the man you had fallen in love with is still there, Katniss, but he is probably drowning inside from the darkness. With your help, I think it’s still possible to pull him back into the light. It will be very difficult, though.’ He narrowed his eyes as if he was testing me. ‘Are you still up for it?’‘I will take whatever pain he’ll give. I deserve it anyway.’ I took a deep breath. ‘With all the things that took
ALL those motivational talks flew out the window when I woke up the next day and found myself chained around a massive tree. I knew something was wrong when Blade and I held hands last night and something flickered in his eyes.Before I knew it, I passed out when he blew something on my face only to catch myself in this situation. The tree was a mile away from the palace but from here, I could already hear the sound of the women laughing their hearts out.The devil must be having a party and it seemed like my invitation got lost somewhere. I gritted my teeth as the laughter went on.“Oh, you’re up?” Sir Felipe asked. “Then would you mind giving us a hand here? We can’t break the fucking spell but maybe you can.”When I turned to the palace gates, I was stunned when I saw that the hybrids were hung upside down there. I freed myself from the chains and ran to the hybrids’ direction. After seeing their situation and after remembering Blade’s victims last night, I was somehow relieved. B
(Onyx) THE devil narrowed his eyes. The cracks started forming on the walls and on the floors. The air became colder and the humans shivered. In the past, once we saw that look in His Grace’s eyes, we would do anything to get out of his way because that look meant danger. The last time he used that look in the places he conquered, nobody survived. It was cold but all of us hybrids started sweating. We know the devil enough to back down at a time like this. Any beast would recognize a stronger beast when they saw one and our instincts, our inner beasts, were screaming at us to get out of the door right now. “Don’t you dare move an inch, Khal. You heard what Katniss said last night. We are…” I cleared my throat. “A family here. And families stay together in good times and bad. None of us should leave.” “And who the hell said I’m leaving? I’m just… stretching,” Khal answered defensively. He wiped the sweat off his forehead as he glanced at the door. We kept our feet steady on the fl
(Blade) ONE day, I woke up with this maddening desire to slaughter every single person I saw but each time I felt close to doing it, there was a certain face that would flash in my mind. That face was like an irresistible force that kept trying to pull me back. And that face belonged to the woman who had made herself at home in my palace. She was sitting on the carpet and was currently busy unpacking her things inside my bedroom. “Why did you bring your luggage here?” I asked as I leaned on the doorframe. “I have no place to stay, that's why I decided that I’ll be living here with you from today onwards.” “With whose permission?” “Mine. I permitted myself to live here. If I waited for your permission, depending on your mood, I’d either burn or freeze outside.” “For an alpha queen, aren’t you being too unethical?” “Well, I’m sorry for my lack of manners, sir.” “You don’t look sorry at all.” She giggled and glanced at me. I was right. She truly looked uglier when she smiled. An
(Katniss)WHILE looking at Blade as he takes off his clothes, I find it really hard to believe that he was cursed by the moon goddess when everything about him seemed to be her gift to women.Nothing about him looked evil.Even his powers were a blessing. On second thought, that depends on how he would use it.But when it came to his new look, it just made him appear more enigmatic. All he would do was just look at women and they would gladly risk anything for him. If he would ask for their souls, they might even willingly give it to him.Blade may think his guests were all under compulsion but that spell seemed to have broken when I stepped in because I saw fear and anxiety crossed in the women’s eyes when they looked at the dead bodies but the desire in their eyes remained when they glanced at the host of the party.What stopped them from running away was him and the promise of an unforgettable night that they could see in his eyes.But after tempting those women, Blade didn’t care