Anthony arched backward and groaned as the consuming flame of his pinnacle burning through him declined with so much intensity. He panted like he ran a thousand miles without a pause. Puffing out a sigh as he relaxed from his release and the chaotic compulsion from his beast, he opened his eyes. His eyes momentarily glowed vermilion and returned to normal in the next second. Did his vision just turn red?Taking his eyes down, a strong realization struck him alongside a deep feeling of guilt and a sharp, piercing pain in his heart. Kayla was on the bed, covering… wait. “Shit.” Anthony leaned down and took off the hand she used to cover her neck. Seeing the mark imprinted on her neck, he shut his eyes and pushed his head aside as anger and remorse rippled through him. God dammit, he lost his mind to the beast. Fuck his beast. Why would it react this way? He claimed her when he hadn't planned to do it any moment. How sure was he that she was prepared for it?“I’m sorry. I didn't mean for
“Qynville is hosting a new brand of a fashion collection, and I am very impressed with the efforts put together by the team to make this possible. The department will be presenting these newfound ideas to you before the end of the conference so that you see for yourself before the fashion show next week.” Kayla smiled.“In that case, and as long as I trust you, Mrs. Kings, I will increase my shares as quickly as possible,” said a woman in her fifties, leaning her elbows on the table and intertwining her fingers.“May I ask, Mrs. Kings? The lady next to you, is she your new manager?” a man at the round table asked.Kayla expected that question. Camlin had chosen to follow her around like a guardsman and his king. The lady went a bundle with her like they'd lived together for years. “Forgive my manners. The lady beside me is Camlin, my sister.”A blast of silence fell across the room, Kayla could tell from their faces that they were floored. She expected their surprise as well. People h
“I remember your name. And the day you were born. It was a bit rough that day.” He faced her, then started stepping closer, his hands behind his back. “If I had known that it was this easy to get you, I never would have let my son in the game just to have him served cold to me.”Kayla, as she existed in her fear, took in the view of him as he stepped closer. His steps were lordly and graceful as he approached. Each step he took toward her intensified her fear, but she couldn't shrink away.His vicious eyes were light green, almost white, and glowing. His face was void of every emotion—strict, stern, severe, dangerous, threatening, and appalling. It took her everything to keep staring at his face without swooning out of fear. His appearance was between old and young, assumed as a man in his sixties. The ankle-length robe he wore was made of a heavy garment. Ornaments of it were expensive, a cobra skin drawn with silver color. “Your mate, and certainly, my greatest rival, KR are on the
Anthony remained in a stance, a foot, a knee, and palms on the earth, his glowing eyes surveying his surrounding. Newborn vampires. Fledglings. They were everywhere around. They were aiming his way. He could smell them, their courage, confidence, and their readiness. He even smelled their deaths. Both far and near, he heard every single sound they made. His right ear twitched. There were two vampires on different trees in his vicinity, fifteen coming at him. They were two hundred in the forest right then, but only a few were after him.The newborn on the tree descended, one coming from his front and three from his left. Anthony yanked his machine gun off his shoulder, sprang up from the ground, and shot the newborn descending from the tree. He threw the machine gun up in the air, sliced the neck of one of the vampires with his poisonous claws, snapped and pulled the other's head. Then he caught the machine gun once it came down, and shot the five coming at him. Their screams, hisses,
Anthony continued further, lurching as he walked. He was hopeless, pained, and afraid, his eyes red with tears as he breathed shakily. His beast wouldn't stop growling in his head, clawing at him, so restless—the beast was enraged and pained as him.Marcus's scent was always there. He might go the wrong way if he followed it. But there were other scents on the path he walked. The scents he'd smelled in the chamber, along with Marcus's. A realization waltzed in, shooting him into motions. He could follow those scents to wherever they took his mate to.With haste and fury, Anthony walked from one hallway to another and entered four different elevators that lead to different floors, paving his way with the solar lamp and pistols he used to knock down the vampires that crossed his path.Anthony was met with ten soldiers in gas masks right in the passage where the scents took him. He stood many feet from the vampires, staring at them, getting himself prepared. He was confident that Kayla w
Anthony and Amber made it back into the building after fighting their way through. They were met with unusual changes when they stepped into the lobby. The whole place now seemed digitalized and modern, rather than an ordinary palace lobby.“Where are we?” Amber asked.Anthony continued strides and Amber followed. “This building is technical. A complicated great work of science. It changes form.”“So, you know where we're going? How do we know where Marcus is?” “Follow me.”Amber retrieved a pistol from his pocket and shot a newborn alighting from the stairs above ground and the newborn burst. Her light brown eyes bore into Anthony's. “Get your head in the game.” She was giving the pistol back when another vampire that had killed his opponent came at them. She spun around and shot the vampire. “I’ll keep this.”They continued further to the rolling staircase.Anthony and Amber stood before a wall that was sliding open. Both froze at the situation on sight. The place was large like a
They looked up and saw Anthony passing the wall Marcus had passed through.Anthony appeared straight right in Marcus's main chamber through the wall. He wasn't sure he had seen anything so demonic as Marcus's throne. One could swoon at the sight of the red-eyed and fanged sculpted cobras serving as the armrests of the throne chair. Sadly, he wasn't intimidated by the creepy things in the room, not even by the people in the room.Approximately ten vampires in black hooded cloaks stood on the left, and twenty in scarlet hooded cloaks on the right. Anthony was certain of one thing… the black cloaks were elder vampires with powers, and the scarlet cloaks were ascendant vampires with powers that were unlike the ones he fought back there.He was here to send this ancient bozo with faded green eyes to where he belonged. The grave. With rage, vengeance, bravery, and readiness trapped in him, he stepped closer and stood a bit close to the middle of the vampires. “I knew you'll come.” Anthony
One of the elders lifted Catelyn from the floor and slammed her against the wall on the platform. The elder with fire radiating from his hands zoomed to the platform and unleashed the fire on her. Catelyn still on the floor, quickly put out her hand and blocked his fire. A hand wasn't enough, as his fire conquered hers, she added another hand.Fierce rumbles erupted from Jacob as he took a defense stance in his hybrid form, ready to take on an ascendant that was baring his fangs in front of him. The ascendant zoomed forward. Jacob met him midway and pulled his head off his body. An elder came behind Jacob's back and lifted him from the floor, trying to dismember him with telekinesis. Jacob growled in pain as the elder spread his limbs apart, pulling them from his torso. Unable to endure the energy and pain, he shifted back to his human form the second his hand fell off his body.Tally spotted Jacob. He growled with rage and zoomed toward the elder that was dismembering Jacob. Another