RYKER“ Alpha. ” Zio tries to grab my shoulders and get me off Fredrick, whose face is now bloody, his jaw and nose dislocated.I lift my fist again, hitting him straight in his face, his eyes bashing in, the flesh tearing off. I can see his smashed bones now and it’s still not soothing, not nearly enough.“ Ryker. ” Natalie gasps from somewhere behind and finally, I find myself coming back to my senses.Dropping the asshole on the floor, I wipe my blood-stained hands on my jeans and turn around to face her.She is not looking at me. Her wide eyes are fixed on Fredrick. He is not conscious. I am sure his neck snapped. He won’t die though. Unless I get his head off his shoulders and burn all his filthy body down, he will come back to life. Fucking Goddess gave originals, vampire-like powers. The gift of immortality.“ What did you do? ” She rushes forward, pushing past me angrily and crouching down near the bastard.“ He is alive. ” I hiss, my eyes landing on Zio. He has placed Rhiann

NATALIEThe situation escalates fast as Fredrick lets out a war cry and lands the first jaw-breaking hit on Abraham. My heart leaps to my throat as I watch them in complete shock.One after another, Fredrick manages to punch Abraham. The floor beneath their feet trembles before some kind of metal start erupting from it.I can’t understand what’s happening. The metal blocks move, shaping into daggers before shooting toward Fredrick.‘ Get down. ’ Ryker yells in my head.But I am too shocked and confused to do what he is saying. Everyone goes still and the metal does too. I breathe in, watching the razor-sharp metal daggers with my wide, rounded eyes.Suddenly, the metal shoots towards Fredrick, me, and everyone else in the living room all at once.I fail to get my body to move. Ryker throws himself over me, getting me down on the floor instantly. My breath gets knocked out of me as my back fits the hard surface. Pain sears through my spine at the impact.Ryker doesn’t waste a moment i

RYKERThe situation took a 180-degree turn. Zero was not supposed to show up. Yet he did and caught me off guard.I always knew he will go mad after seeing those Originals and I always kept him away from them. Those assholes executed his mother, put him in a coffin, and buried him underground for centuries, alive and breathing. Brutally, they cursed a child and made him face the horrors no one should ever go through.I understand why he lost his mind and went after them. Even in that state of mind, he never once attacked me but kept leaping for the Originals, as if he was desperate, dying to kill them right away.During all this, I was too distracted to notice what was wrong with Natalie. She was in pain, bleeding, and on the verge of losing the only thing which matters to us the most these days—our child.“ She will be fine, Alpha. ” Luciana whispers from behind me in a careful tone.I brought Natalie to the infirmary. She fainted after seeing Anne getting hit. Her blood count is as

ANNEWas it one night? Two nights? A week? A month?A year?I can’t tell how much time passed. The deafening silence and the shortness of breath had my mind spinning with anxiety and something I rarely ever experienced and admitted; terror.Terror is always the first step to defeat—an exceptionally humiliating defeat. I hate defeat. But it seemed like all I was doing at that moment was losing. Against myself. Against the darkness, I was in. Against the horrifying memories playing before my eyes.I didn’t ever think I will ever plead for anything. Maybe, I would have done it for Natalie or Giana but not for myself, never for myself. I strengthened myself enough to never plead for my life or because of my suffering ever again but I did it. I pleaded for a long time when my lungs burned and I tried to move but couldn’t.It was like I was in a grave—A dark and deep grave. I was so alive, yet I felt dead. As I saw the memories from my childhood playing before my eyes like a horror mov

NATALIEStaring at my reflection in the mirror, I sigh. I am wearing an amber-coloured fascinating silk mikado dress with a geometric neckline embroidered with rhinestones and crystal. The neck is wrapped up by an imposing loop asymmetrically cut to the bies. It hugs my body at all curves, restricting me from moving too freely.When Ryker said he will initiate me as his official Luna, he was not joking. I realized this in the morning when he prepared everything in a matter of hours and asked me to get ready.I am still getting some bad vibes from this whole situation so I don’t know what to feel yet. Given that Ryker called all the hybrids he knew over so the Originals can pass the law after this ceremony today is making me more uneasy. The most bothering thing is the fact that Evangelina was not the angel I thought she was. She also stopped visiting me in the dreams just as Abraham was gone. It almost feels like she was doing all this for her own revenge or something more…I don’t kn