The high-pitched scream was so loud that the windows of the castle rattled, a shrill noise that none of them would ever be able to forget. Amelia Whittaker groaned in pain, sweating profusely. The werewolf king stood hunched and bent over in a corner of the room, trembling from the intense agony “Make it cease!” Conroy yelled at the old shaggy man sticking a sizzling knife inside Amelia, close to her spine. Her skin was so red, blotchy and hot that steam escaped through its pores. As though she was boiling. “You have to trust him, Lucas. You brought her here for a reason.” The vampire king, Fehr snapped at Conroy who in turn glared back at him. “I brought my mate here to be healed. Not to be killed!” Conroy gritted his teeth. Fehr laughed bitterly, showing his fangs, “Mate?” Conroy closed his eyes, trying to reign his anger in. “I…h-have to do this, Lo…rd Rahl or our lady Catalina will die.” The old man said in a shaky voice as he twisted the knife in the long slit on h
Conroy snatched his hands from the vampire king as though it burned and he glared at him, “She does not bear the name Catalina and she is not your wife. She is my mate and my wife-to-be, the Luna of the valerian kingdom!” Fehr looked at him for a long while before he threw his regal head back in laughter, “You do tell funny jokes Conroy, unlike your father.” Conroy gritted his teeth and clenched his fist at his side, “I do not tell jokes Fehr. She is my mate. You know how to test the mate bond. Do so and quit your insanity!” Fehr was losing his mind for Conroy sounded so convincing and as an old vampire, he knew two mates when he saw them without having to do the ritual to test the mate bond. And his Catalina was truly mated to the blood hound. He hadn’t seen her for a century after she died and now some mate bond wants to take her away from him, not in the slightest chance. He called Conroy to follow him and he did, following down the steps of a spiral stairs to a dark roo
Her lips were parched and she was on the verge of passing out if only she could. Her skin was burning yet it wasn’t on fire, the orange glow of the fiery fire was around her but she was not ablaze. The last thing she fuzzily remembered after the hands grabbed her into the dark cave was the ground of the cave splitting open and she was dropped inside the deep crack. Then Amelia Whittaker woke up, chain to an iron post in this underground world. Everything hurts and her eyes couldn’t even bring forth tear ducts. The little girl had tricked her. Going by the hotness and blazing fire, she had an inkling as to where she was. Hell. She squinted but couldn’t see past the other screaming and writhing bodies. But there was a difference between herself and the other people. While they looked almost transparent as she could see through them, her body was still solid and even had a shadow unlike them. The first wave of the fire that had seared her skin was a blast of firestorm and she
Mate?” Amelia Whispered in shock. The last thing she heard that murdering scumbag say before she drank the venom was that word, mate. Her father spoke up, “Nobody knew but turns out you are mated to the werewolf king.” “That can’t be possible. I fucking despise him.” Amelia gasped, “he killed you both.” Her mother sighed, “I know he did. But you have to channel that anger and wrath into killing him.” Amelia also sighed, “I am sorry mama, I have tried to kill him. Hell, the reason I took the venom was because I couldn’t.” Her mother perked up, “Well, there is another way.” Amelia also sat up straighter, “There is…?” Her mother nodded. “tell me!” “Well, the answer is within you, when you get close enough to him and love him, you will know how to destroy him.” Her mother said and Amelia stared at her quizzically. “I-I… I can’t love him.” Amelia stuttered, “mate bond or not…. I will always despise him.” “You will learn my love.” Her mother said lovingly and then t
Her pale snow face lost its pallor as she stared at the vision pouring through the misted mirror; she choked back a sob and staggered back from it in fear. Crystal Conroy, the queen mother Luna of the valerian kingdom who also happened to be the leader of the white witches of the Vikhar coven just witnessed the peril of her son’s kingdom and his death through the mirror. Pushing back her panic, she dipped her hand into the freezing water of the Vermont Lake that one of her tyros had poured into a large basin. She watched as the magical water sparkled and she splashed it over the mirror to watch what she had just seen in the mirror again, if it was true or maybe her old eyes played tricks on her, even though she knew her eyes were anything but. She stared unblinking into the oval mirror, her grey eyes wide and fearful. Moments passed on laden wings, but…nothing happened. She sighed. A single tear slipped down her creamy cheeks. It was the worst Omen! Her lashes fluttered.
“Fehr, you can’t keep us here.” Conroy gritted his teeth as he spat at the vampire king. “I don’t need to remind you of the pact you signed with your blood, I would have your mate to myself for eighty moons.” Fehr chuckled darkly and dodged a punch that Conroy threw at him. He tsked, “Why are you hounds so violent and bloodthirsty? It would get you killed someday.” “I never agreed to you having her to yourself for eighty moons, I have to go back to Valeria!” Conroy dug the heel of his palm in his sides to reign in his anger at Fehr, there was no being diplomatic with him. “No one is stopping you.” Fehr smirked. “With Amelia.” He narrowed his eyes at Fehr. “Don’t you get tired of whining like a little pup, I know you are a little pup but have some iota of decency.” Fehr laughed. “You speak to me about decency when you played on an anxious Man’s emotion and made him sign some stupid pact.” Conroy snapped and Fehr full on laughed. “Well, what can I say? You knew what
Swinging her legs over the bed, Amelia gingerly walked to the windows only to see that it was heavily barricaded against the sunlight and wind. She flung one of the fur coverlets over her shoulder and treaded carefully in between the mass of maids lying on the floor of her room. Sparing a last glance at the snoring maids in the chambers, she left the chambers and went out into the short passageway beyond, which was lit with torches set in metal scones. Two flight of stone steps were lightened by the torches’ flickering light—one led up, while the longer one led downstairs, she took the one leading up to the direction where a blast of wind came. She rested at each climb as she is still recovering. She soon found herself on the large balcony overlooking the seas and she inhaled the fresh air wafting about her, tussling her raven curls. Smiling, she pulled the fur coverlet about her shoulder and climbed up onto the thin, slippery palings of the stone balcony. She held on to a po
“Shitty vampires!” Conroy kept pacing his room, nursing his wounded pride as thought and discarded ideas on how to leave this forsaken kingdom of the vampires with his mate safely to Valeria. There was something wrong back in Valeria, his wolf has refused to shake off that feeling of foreboding and ominous intuition. And he has tried to mind-link his beta unsuccessfully but one thing was sure to him, he was not going to spend eighty moons in Ancientrova because of some stupid blood pact. Just as he kept pacing and growling, it came to his mind that he had not visited his Assassin mate since she was taken into the northern wing. He had felt very uncomfortable and angry when the bastard Fehr had insisted on separating him from his mate and the glint in Fehr’s eyes told him he would hurt Amelia if he didn’t comply. Bounding out of the room, he strode down the stone halls closely accompanied by the vampire guard Fehr had stationed outside his chambers. He stopped walking abruptly