Mag-log inZora’s POV“Well, that’s the explanation then, isn’t it?” Max said. “He was probably under a vampire curse.” Max looked at me in the rear-view mirror. “His heart is beating now?”“Yes,” I said. “But he can’t hear his wolf. Gods, he’s powerful though. He made short work of the massive door that was b
But…“Yes,” I said. “But not here…”We were in the middle of a battlefield, and Kairos’ dried blood had transferred to his human form. There was even some on his face. I didn’t want to think about his teeth, knowing he used them for fighting.“Ah,” Kairos said. “Yeah. Probably need a shower first. M
Zora’s POV“Zora!” Max cried, and in a flash he and Thorne were there, stepping defensively in front of me, blocking Kairos.“Stay behind us,” Thorne said. “We’ll try to knock some sense into him.”Kairos growled louder, like he could understand them.If he could, then maybe I could still reach him
Thorne and I got into the car. Max turned it on and started to drive. I raised a hand to wave at my mother as we drove away. She waved back.Then we pulled out of the warehouse, and I couldn’t see her anymore.Along the road, headed back toward our safe house, I pushed my mother out of my mind and t
Zora’s POVI thought mother might take us back to the palace before seeing us off, but to my surprise, she instead had the limo drive us to a non-descript warehouse at the edge of town. After pulling into one of the tall buildings, we found a smaller car waiting for us.“Keys are in the ignition,” m
Zora’s POVThe farther the car took me from Neo, the worse I felt. I had promised to stay with him, but then I had abandoned him.Why hadn’t he stayed behind me? Had something happened to him? Or had he changed his mind about me?Every option I thought of hurt, and I didn’t know which even to hope f
The next evening, I was feeling no better at my current situation and Loren could tell. Was it because I’d been swirling my cereal in the same pattern for the whole hour? Perhaps. But I’d like to think it was because Loren was a wonderful friend.“Do you…want to talk about it?” she asked as my spoon
“Fuck, watch out!” I hissed before I threw a spin kick. My foot skimmed Valentin’s check and slammed into the dummy’s head, knocking him off kilter. Valentin, once out of his daze, used his heel to bring the dummy to it’s knees.“Smith!” Kairos called out.I spun back towards his voice and was met w
Maximus pulled me into his room and immediately brought me to his bed. He sat us both down and I curled into him. My heart was still erratically beating in my chest as I choked on my breath. Maximus ran a hand down my spine, soothing me slightly but not enough that I stopped wheezing.We sat in sile
One down.I turned back and saw that Maximus had also tossed his dummy across the gym. Thorne was grappling with his on the floor. Max smirked as he walked over, picked the dummy off Thorne like it was nothing, and tossed it to land on top of his first attacker. Thorne rolled over and looked pissed.







