Angelica’s POV Thankfully, the VIN number was present on the insurance information I had found, and before I knew it Joffrey had a site pulled up on his phone, but as he typed the numbers in, we both stood there staring at the map pulled up in shock. “Isn’t that your Aunt Rosa’s restaurant?” I asked Joffrey, making sure I was reading the location right. “Yeah, but she promised me she would leave town immediately.” Joffrey said, and I could hear the worry now in his voice, knowing that his aunt might be in trouble too. Even though I had tried my best to keep Joffrey out of all of this and keep him in the dark about what was really going on, fate seemed to have other plans, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that this was all my fault. Closing out the map, Joffrey tried to call his Aunt Rosa, but I could hear the call going straight to voice mail. Once again, he tried her number, but he still had no luck, and
Angelica’s POV As I began to move towards the elevator, Joffrey grabs ahold of my hand, steering me towards a thick metal door. Once again, Joffrey swipes the card he had used to get into the parking garage, gaining entry through the door. “What is this?” I asked Joffrey, as lights began to turn on down a long narrow tunnel, making me feel like I was in the twilight zone. “It’s a tunnel that my grandfather built many moons ago to access both his businesses, so he could easily maneuver between them without having to use the busy sidewalks above. Only my family knows about this tunnel, so we should be able to gain access to my aunt’s restaurant without anyone noticing us.” Joffrey explained to me, and I wondered why the other night he didn’t use the tunnels to take me to his aunt’s restaurant, but then I realized that it was before his secrets were outed to me. Making our way through the tunnel, I held tightly onto his hand
Angelica’s POV Thankfully Joffrey wasn’t kept in the dark like myself, with my uncle’s business in the city, as he was able to have a vamp doctor meet us at my uncle’s house to help with the vamp that I had found, that was hanging on for his life. As soon as the doctor saw him, he verified right away that the vamp was indeed one of my uncle’s men, telling me that my intuition about him was right. Unfortunately, now it was a waiting game for him to wake up from the injuries that he had sustained, and I could see that Joffrey was growing impatient knowing that his aunt’s life was in the hands of a mad man. “Is there something I can do to help?” I asked Joffrey, as he rummaged through my uncle’s files, trying to obviously find anything that could help us with finding his aunt and my uncle. “Unfortunately, there isn’t one damn file that pertains to what’s been going on here in the city.” Joffrey said, as he throws the file down on the desk,
Joffrey’s POV Staring into Angelica’s eyes, I could see something had changed in the way she was looking at me now, but after already being denied twice by her, I knew my heart couldn’t survive another rejection. It took every ounce of strength I had inside of me to look away from her, and with my aunt and her uncle missing, I knew I had to do everything in my power to get them back, as the fate of this city was now on my shoulders. This wasn’t how I had envisioned my day, as I should’ve been landing in Europe by now, but it was clear that fate had other plans for me, plans that I couldn’t just run from. Becoming the Alpha of my father’s pack could wait, but now that my vamp side’s Prince was captured, along with my aunt, there was a grave responsibility on my shoulders that I would never have foreseen. Right now, I was at a loss for whom to turn to for support, as I didn’t know who within the city was compromised by this vamp that claim
Angelica’s POV Joffrey and I walked into the room the vamp was being kept in, as the doctor was finishing up his examination on him, but as soon as we entered the room, the vamp turned to look in our direction, before he asks, “What are you doing here?” With a confused look on his face. Instead of answering him, I looked back at him with my own confused look on my face, as I had thought he knew who I was and that was why he had saved me from RJ and then warned me to run at the bookstore, but right now, I was starting to believe that wasn’t the case. Joffrey on the other hand decided to answer him by saying, “We are here because my Aunt Rosa and the Prince have been taken, and we are hoping that you can help us find them, so we can save them.” His eyes at that moment move from me to Joffrey, before he says to him, “It will take an army to get them back, that is if they are still alive.” Joffrey let out a gr
Angelica’s POV With Frank agreeing to go back in, we stood a chance at finding where they were keeping my uncle and Joffrey’s aunt, but as Joffrey and I made our way back to my uncle’s office, I had so many questions for him. As I closed the door behind me, sealing all ears from hearing us, I turned to Joffrey and ask him, “What power does this hold, that you aren’t telling me about?” As I pulled the necklace out from under my shirt. Joffrey moved to take a seat in my uncle’s chair behind the desk, as he moved his hands to his face, looking defeated and frustrated all at the same time, before he finally says to me, “I honestly don’t know the true power it holds.” “What do you mean you don’t know?” I asked him as I moved to the desk, wondering why he had given it to me in the first place as a birthday present. “I mean, it has been past down through generations in our family to our intended mates.” He confesses to me, and
Angelica’s POV Joffrey made a few calls, his first being to Talon, to make sure that the grimoire was still in his possession, and to warn him that the vamps were looking for it. Thankfully, it was still safe in his possession, and now knowing it was what the heir sought, we knew that it must hold something within it important enough that there was a massive manhunt for it. Heaving Frank’s advice, Talon agreed to get it to a powerful warlock that might be able to help us. Joffrey’s second call was to his grandmother, and as soon as he mentioned the sunstone and began to ask her about its powers, his grandmother insisted that we come immediately to her. The only problem was Joffrey’s grandmother no longer lived within the city, and if we were going to be able to reach her, we were going to have to go in our wolf form, using the mountain that my uncle’s house sat on to escape. Since we knew all the roads leading out of the city were now being monitored, i
Angelica’s POV Faintly, I felt like I heard my name being called from far away, but as my eyes tried to open from the slumber of the darkness, I found myself still trapped within it, but now aware that someone was calling out for me. As I listened closely, I began to hear Joffrey’s voice talking to someone, and I couldn’t help but feel relieved, knowing that he was okay, but on the other hand, I wanted to strangle him for running off like that.Fortunately for him, I was trapped inside my wolf, and by the sounds of it, he was trying to persuade her to allow me to take back control, but she was standing her ground against him. It was clear that she was definitely not happy with me, but I too wasn’t happy with her, and what little trust that I had for her was now severed.As if she wanted me to hear what he was saying, the darkness around me began to lift just enough, so that I could hear him clearly, as he says, “I know that she can be a pain in the ass and that she alw
Angelica’s POV My Uncle Bishop and my father began to move around the ballroom trying each of the doors for themselves, but none of them would open, making me wonder if it was my turn again in this game the heir was playing with us. How many trials of fear was the heir going to make us face, and was this game he was playing with us ever going to end? Fear began to sink into me, that this was our hell, and that we were going to be trapped in it for the rest of eternity, as I stood in the middle of the ballroom floor, deciding on which door to pick. Letting go of Joffrey’s hand, I moved to the back of the ballroom to the door that led outside, hoping that it was the door that would lead us out of this hell of a game. But as I took a deep breath, and placed my hand on the handle, I realized quickly that the handle wasn’t moving, making me wonder what game the heir was playing with us now. I wanted to scream out in frustration, but I held it
Angelica’s POV I knew by the look on Joffrey’s face that he was scared to see what lay on the other side of the door, but we had no other choice, as the debris continued to fall through the hole, pushing us to face it. This time my father grabbed a hold of my arm, pulling me in front of him, as Joffrey finally opened the door and stepped inside. Stepping through the door to join Joffrey, I wondered what his worst fear could have been, but as my eyes focused on the room around me, I was stunned to see where I was standing. Joffrey stood in silence with his head down in the middle of the ballroom at my parents’ house, as if he was ashamed to look at anyone, making me wonder why or how the night of my ball could have been his biggest fear. It was definitely one of my own, because it was the night that the heir had first violated me by siphoning my powers, but I didn’t understand how it was his. “Well, isn’t this interesting.” My father says
Angelica’s POV As my father opened the front door, a white light beamed into the cabin, before my father stepped into the light, without a second of hesitation, knowing with what I had just said, that the door would lead him to my mother. But as we stepped through the door, unfortunately my mother was nowhere in sight, and we stood in what looked like a basement, with a huge hole in the floor above our heads. A growl instantly radiated from my father, and my Uncle Bishop quickly moved to his side to comfort him, knowing that my father failed to take us to my mother, even though I know he tried. It was clear his darkest fear still lay there the night he thought he had lost my mother to Tyler, and that was where the heir had taken us with the little game he was playing. “There is still hope. We are now inside the house. Maybe the heir is somewhere inside the house with them.” My Uncle Bishop tells my father with hope, but I knew that was a
Angelica’s POV “What the bloody hell?” Joffrey asks, as he quickly moves to my side, while my father says, “This is impossible.” As he races towards the window, peering outside. “I don’t understand. How are we in my cabin?” My Uncle Bishop asks, while he begins to look around, moving from room to room, as if he was looking for something. Moving away from the window, my father begins to shake his head, and I can see the dread in his eyes, thinking that we were hundreds of miles away from my mother, but in reality, I knew we weren’t, or at least I prayed we weren’t. A loud click came from behind us, making us all turn to see my Uncle Bishop coming out of his bedroom with a shotgun in his hand, while he says, “This mother fucker wants to play games, then games are what we will play.” Just as those words came from his lips, there was a knock on the front door, making us all turn to now look at it, as a voice e
Angelica’s POV The brighter light that we had seen at the end of the tunnel we were in only proved itself to be a mouth that opened to three new tunnels and a choice that needed to be made. My father and my Uncle Bishop stood before the three tunnels arguing with each other on which tunnel they should take, knowing that time was precious, and my mother was somewhere here on the grounds, or even beneath the ground like we were. Stepping away from Joffrey, I moved in front of the first tunnel, closing my eyes, as I opened my senses, trying to sense the heir’s powers, as I focused down that particular tunnel, but felt nothing. Slowly, I moved to the next tunnel doing the same thing as they continued to contemplate which tunnel to take, but I still felt nothing, making me think that I was stupid to think that I could figure this out for them. I was about to give up, as my father was insisting on taking the first tunnel, when I felt a slight
Angelica’s POV Stepping through the front door, it didn’t take me long to realize that we had just stepped through a portal, and we were no longer above the earth’s surface, but in what looked like a caving system, deep beneath the ground. “What the hell?” Joffrey said, as he held my hand tightly in his, pulling me back towards him, while the two of us took in our dimly lit new surroundings. Just up ahead of us, I faintly could make out the silhouettes of my father and my Uncle Bishop, as the two of them move towards a more predominant light at the end of the tunnel we were now standing in. Taking a deep breath, I began to slightly cough, as the air seemed stale to me, like it had no ventilation to the fresh air on the earth’s surface, making me wonder how deep beneath the surface we were. Knowing that we needed to keep up with my father and my uncle, I went to take a step forward but found myself reaching for the wall of
Angelica’s POV “Let’s keep going.” My father said turning as he began to walk towards the front gates, with my Uncle Bishop by his side, as Joffrey stood there waiting for me along with Ambrogio. I knew I couldn’t keep this revelation to myself, as I was now sure that the telus the heir had still was working at full capacity. If I let all of them walk in there without this knowledge, I was possibly leading them all to their deaths, and I couldn’t do that. “Wait!” I called out, stopping my father and my uncle from taking another step, as they both turned and looked in my direction. Now that everyone was staring at me, I had to find a way to tell them that the telus was still working, without telling them everything that I now knew, which was going to be hard to do. “Something isn’t right.” I finally said, making Joffrey move closer to my side, as if he was trying to protect me from what I was about to say.
Angelica’s POV Unfortunately, the bliss from our union only lasted its duration, as reality came rushing back this time like a freight train, while I realized we no longer had the upper hand on the heir. We were now heading to his territory, and on his terms, and he had hostages, making me pray that I had the strength to overcome what was needed from me. My mind was on overdrive trying to piece everything that had happened together, knowing that it all had to have a symbolic meaning to his plan, but what I couldn’t understand was the whole Talon and reversal of the spell of the telus. I mean the reversal spell had to have worked, I had felt my own powers returned to me that he had taken from me, but it didn’t make sense to me. Now that we knew that his plan was to resurrect his father, I would have thought that he needed as much power as he possibly could to perform whatever spell he was planning to use. By him giving up the power of the
Angelica’s POV “I would travel to the ends of the world as long as it was with you.” I finally admitted to Joffrey, as I secretly prayed that we got the chance to do this, because I knew this was his dream, and the fact that he wanted me to be a part of it made it even more special. “That was the answer I was hoping for.” He whispers to me before his lips crash against my own, sending sparks of electricity throughout my entire body. It was crazy how my body reacted to his touch, another part of my greatest grandmother’s blessing I assumed to her creations, to never fall out of love with each other, making me wonder if her own love still ran this deep for Ambrogio after all these moons. Something though told me it did, or why else would she continue to bless her creations with a mate to love them unconditionally. Joffrey slowly pulled from the kiss, as he stared into my eyes, and says to me, “Something is plaguing your tho