All Chapters of The Reaver Chronicles: The Keepers (Book 5): Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Chapter 1(Ambrosia)I felt like I had a flaming rod shoved straight into my chest cavity… And I guess by all standards, I did. The pain was explosive in my upper abdomen and I couldn’t tell where the incision started or stopped. Both hands instinctively shot up to the wound, covering the knife handle and the panic set in when I realized he really stabbed me… Andres, he really fucking stabbed me... What a fucking bastard! After all that time we spent together I thought we were friends. Well, I knew we werent friends, but still… STABBING ME? I wanted to yank the knife from my chest cavity and throw it straight at him, but I knew better than to pull it out. I would just bleed out faster if I did. I could hear commotion and screaming from both sides, but my mind was a blur. I couldn't focus on any one thing, just my own heartbeat in my ears. Then the feel of my blood draining from my body and spilling into the ground below where I lay dying. Holy fuck, I was dying… The thought was so

Chapter 3Once we got home and were alone, I turned to Ambrosia. “Are you ok?” I never got to ask her during all the commotion, and the looming apocalypse. “Yes, Rowen. I’m fine. I feel fine.” She said, lifting her crop shirt so I could see her perfect porcelain skin underneath. I softly ran my fingers over the spot where she had once been impaled. Not a scar in sight, just a lot of blood. “I have so many questions, but I don’t want to overwhelm you.” I said. “I know, I have so much to tell you. Being in Pandora’s Box for three months was really insane.” She said. My eyes widened. “Wait, did you say 3 months? You were gone for 3 months?” I said, shock filling my face. “Yea? How long has it been here?” She asked. “It’s only been 3 weeks here. So with the time difference, every week for us was a month for you. I can’t believe you were gone for that long.” I said. “I was starting to think I was going to have to stay there, forever.” She said, with her head down. I could tell it was rea

Chapter 5I think we all were confused at this point. A Human doing magic? And how did us, supernatural creatures with superior senses, not see the creature? Or hear it, until it was too late? Or would have been too late. All questions burning in our throats. “Ok, so first thing is first, I have no idea how I materialized us. I don’t have the amulet, and honestly I just did the same thing I have been doing for the past three months. I thought of safety, and then we were here. So how I did it, with no magic, and only being Human, is beyond me. Secondly, when you’ve lived in Pandora’s Box for three months, you start to recognize the signs of danger. These creatures are stealthy. They never make themselves known until it’s time to attack. By then it’s too late for their prey to escape. I saw the trees moving, I heard the wings flapping, and I knew she only had seconds. I honestly wasn’t even sure if I would make it in time, but I had to try. That creature was an Alicanto. There aren’t a

Chapter 7(Raphael)Watching Ambrosia tame that beast was one thing. I had seen much crazier shit in my lifetime. But feeling the force of magic that was used to command us all to stop holding it down and materialize to safety… Now that was something completely different. Talk about violation of basically everything. One minute I'm helping hold a beast, the next minute I’m materialized onto the porch and confused as fuck as to why I just did any of that. It’s not everyday that there is something with more power than a Reaver… And honestly, I didn’t like it. Luckily everyone had the same feelings of confusion, but no one could tear their eyes from what we were seeing. Ambrosia looked as if she were sucking in the bioluminescence around her. I never noticed it until we were far enough away to actually see it, but it looked like it was drawn to her. Or she was pulling it into her as she moved. I grabbed a hold of Topaz and pulled her close. She flinched when I touched her, but she's no

Chapter 9(Rowen)After listening to Ambrosia explain what happened to her while she was out there with that beast, things started falling together in my mind. I wasn’t sure of anything really, but it almost seemed like Dominik was going against his brother. I remember clearly when he decided he was going to separate his good and bad sides. It was something that everyone warned him about, and he just didn’t listen. The repercussions of splitting your good and bad side could be catastrophic… Especially when you’re a fucking Archangel, and harness that much power. Once the ritual was complete that efficiently split the sides, it turned Azrael into Dominik and Andres. Andres being the bad side. Together they wrecked havoc unlike anything we had seen. Destroying species, plotting to gain control of territories, tormenting the supernatural world in more ways than one. Then one day they were just gone… No one really knew what happened to them. Word around the underworld was they went to a