The moment the bathroom door closed behind them, it was like the outside world disappeared. The war, the monsters, the council, Mason—all of it faded into fog as thick and heavy as the steam curling from the faucet.Emma turned the knobs, letting the hot water pour into the oversized tub carved into the stone floor. The room smelled faintly of mint and mountain pine. The tiles glistened under the warm lights embedded in the wooden ceiling, casting golden halos on her skin.Steve didn’t say a word.He watched her.The soft clink of her boots coming off. The zip of her jacket. The way her shirt slipped over her head, revealing skin marked with faint bruises from battle. She peeled off her pants next, revealing her long, muscled legs and the soft curve of her hips.Her underwear followed.She turned, eyes burning into his. “Are you just going to stand there like a statue?”He didn’t move. Not until she stepped into the bath. The water rippled around her, covering her thighs, her waist, u
The stench of death followed them home. Emma and Steve knew that Mason, wherever he was still lived. They had witnessed first-hand what she the mad Alliance Alpha was capable of. He needed to be stopped.As the helicopter soared through the clouds, Steve knew that he owed his life to the Dragon and he hated it so much. However, he knew that without Lady Long, he would have died. But he still was not happy about it. The Sterling Alpha did not like being indebted to people.Emma saw that the destruction had affected almost half of the city. She saw military armour tanks and lots of soldiers. Numerous barricades had demarcated the city to keep the infected cornered in one place. The whole horrible scene was a glaring statement that Mason Laurent was behind this.The healer thought of the packs that had been affected and was certain that Mason was not going to stop until he infected all the werewolves of the world. She was not going to let that happen no matter how many ugly and powerful
"I know your secret, Steve," The grotesque looking head of Mason croaked. "My virus has no effect on your pack and I do not know why." Steve shivered in fear. "When I kill you, I am going to find out why." The sixth new head said with a cold mad glee. The winged monster turned to Emma. "Come with me, Doctor. There is no victory for you here. You have no other choice." Emma said nothing as she thought deeply. She could do nothing except think neck the options she had was fear and surrender. "I would rather die than to go anywhere with you," Emma spat despite how scared she was. Faced with two different kinds of monsters, she knew that this was where everything would end. But somehow, something was telling her not to give up. Six Head, formerly known Five Head slowly stalked forward, enjoying the fear that Emma and Steve was going through. "The taste of your fears is driving me wild, Doctor," Mason's head spoke. Emma and Steve knew that there was nowhere to run but yet
The rooftop roared with chaos.Five Head lunged blindly, each of its five mouths dripping saliva and blood as it searched for them. The sounds of the helicopter above were a dull thrum beneath the monster’s bone-rattling growl.Emma, crouched low, glanced at Steve. “If it’s tracking by vibration, we need to be ghosts.”“Not possible,” Marcus groaned. Blood trickled from his temple where he’d hit the wall earlier. “That thing is wired for war.”Suddenly, the helicopter swooped in closer. A spotlight flared, illuminating the beast. The gunner didn’t hesitate—massive rounds tore into Five Head’s back, jerking the monster mid-charge.It screamed.Not from pain.From rage.Bullets shredded muscle and bone—but the thing wouldn’t go down.“We need to help them!” Steve shouted. “We hit it now, together!”Emma pulled out three silver-tipped needles, eyes narrowing. “Aim for the faces!”Steve’s claws burst free, and Marcus—still limping—shifted fully, snarling as he bounded toward the beast.Th
“I am only doing what is best for the good of all wolfkind, Doctor Emma,” Mason said through the phone.“What good is the countless dead bodies of women and children on the streets, Mason,” Emma demanded. “Explain that to me.”“To make room for the strongest, the weak has to be wiped out,” Mason replied coldly.“So, more dead bodies,” Steven said, already fed up with the conversation.“Do not be so shortsighted, Steven. Look at yourself, you were once infected by the virus and you should be dead but somehow, here you are talking, fighting and surviving,” Mason said. “Which means that you have a cure.”Emma went quiet. She was not surprised that the mysterious Mason figured it out.“I will make you one last deal, Emma,” Mason said in a grave low voice. “Join me and bring the cure along with you or die along with the rest of the unchosen.&rdqu
Emma walked up the stairs in a sullen silence. She was thinking about the people she heard dying by the jaws of Five Head. She dreadfully wondered about how many people were going to die or were actually dying as they climbed the stairs.She took out her phone and called her mother. She was dying with anxiety as the line rang.“Emma,” Priscillia’s voice was calm but it had a small hint of nervousness.“Mom? Are you okay?” Emma asked with relief in her voice.“I am fine, Emma, where are you?” Priscillia asked.“I am in a tall building in Seattle trying to survive against a five headed werewolf,” Emma answered. “What are you up to?”“He was here,” Priscillia stated.Emma did not have to know who her mother was talking about. “Your father,” Priscillia added.“I know,” Emma replied. “I have met him.”Priscillia’s shocked silence followed. “Guess you have been on your own little adventure,” she said to her daughter.“What did he want?” Emma asked.“He wants his family back together,” Prisc
“Losing your shit is not going to change anything, lawyer,” Steve scowled at the human’s outburst.Emma sprayed him with one of her scent maskers. “This will mask your scent but we need to stay out of sight,” Emma said.“You think a perfume is going to help me against that thing out there?” the lawyer exclaimed fearfully.“No, but bitching about it might,” Steve answered. “Noise attracts it,” Steve said in a cold manner.Emma handed the remaining small cans to Steve and Marcus who immediately sprayed themselves.Emma reached into her enchanted coat and brought out another one. She sprayed herself and the smell of ink assailed her nose. It was a heavy scent.“Now what?” The human asked.“We hide, while it seeks,” Steve said.“That’s your plan?” The man asks in disbelief.“If you have a better one, we are
“Nothing!” Marcus griped in anger and desperation. “There is not a thing I can use here.”“Do not lose your shit, Marcus,” Steve ordered. “If we are going to get out of this, we need to stay calm.”“Staying calm is not going to help us, Alpha Kane, we need a plan that will let us survive the next forty minutes,” Marcus replied.“Hide” Emma said. “We have to conceal ourselves, if we want to survive that thing,” She added.“How do we do that?” Marcus said. “That thing has our scents.”Emma reached into her leather coat and pulled out three small cans. They were the scent maskers.“How do you do that?” Steve asked.“The last time I checked, those things were in a suitcase,” Marcus said.“It’s the coat,” Emma replied. “It is enchanted and has infinite spaces inside it. All I have to do is put the image of something I have seen before in my mind and it appears in the jacket.”“That is genius,” Marcus muttered.“But its only things I have seen before and they must be at a certain size,” Emm
“We cannot possible hide from those…things for forty-five minutes, it is impossible,” Marcus said in a strained voice as he climbed up the long flight of stairs.“This way,” Steve led them to a door that led to a floor in the building. “This building has a helipad so we just need to stay alive till the rescue team gets here.”“Is the whole city overrun with those things?” Emma asked in a distraught voice.“That would seem like the case, a lot of werewolf pack are have been affected.” Marcus replied as they walked through the hall way of the unknown floor.“Are those think even killable?” Steve wondered aloud.Emma shook her head. “I looked into their anatomy with my wolf sight, the only thing alive is their brain, they have no heat in them except for the head.”“Mason really outdid himself?” Steve said in low angry voice. Emma felt that the Alpha’s voice held a promise of pain and torture.“It was all Grimkeeper,” Emma said. “Mason is just a tool,” she added.“You know, I have not hea