Ian opened his eyes just as the sun was rising. The feeling of bliss still had not left him, and his body buzzed with a new energy - the mate bond with Scarlett had been completed.He looked to his left, where the sleeping girl still lay. She looked peaceful, and his arm that was curled around her waist tightened. He did not ever wish to let go of her. He had been conflicted before on whether he wanted to pull her into his mess of a life, but now, he felt nothing but peace, and he was complete. Ian had never felt this way before, and taking the risk was worth it in the end.He watched as she began to murmur in her sleep. Scarlett seemed to be coming away slowly. His eyes roved up and down her body, at the marks that he had made on her. Then he narrowed in on her neck, where he had bitten her, as a sign of their mate bond. The mark was still red but was healing up nicely and quickly. As he looked at it, he felt the tingling on his neck, where Scarlett had also bitten him. Their couplin

Meera walked slowly and quietly, slowly approaching the cave once more. She had definitely heard a sound before. What had made it? And was someone spying on her? If someone was spying on her in the first place, why? She crept up closer and closer to the spot where she was very sure that she had heard it, keeping herself alert and ready to pounce. Her magic swirled around her, making her eyes glow even brighter, and look a lot wilder than it was before. Her hair was waving about as if there was a breeze in the air, but it was only her magic making it move around, by her mere unconscious thought.The witch crept closer and closer, unaware that an 18-year old teenager was hiding in the bushes just near where she was heading. Unfortunately for Meera, she also could not find the head nor hide of whatever might have made the sound from earlier. It was as if the person had just disappeared into thin air.But in the air was something else, actually. And she raised her nose to sniff. Her eyes

Plop! Plop!!!The first thing that Oliver noticed before he even opened his eyes, was the sound of water dripping from somewhere around his vicinity.He grumbled, feeling disturbed.“Mom, please stop that,” he muttered under his breath, hoping the dripping of water would stop disrupting his sleep flow.But all he heard was a whisper in his ear, “I am not your mother.”His brows furrowed and his face scrunched up as his brain slowly processed what he had heard.Not his mother..?All at once, his eyes flew open in alarm and he glanced up in front of him.It was then that he realized that he was on his back, and as his vision focused on the ceiling, he also had the stark realisation that he was not at home, or in his bedroom.He was not even anywhere familiar, like his girlfriend’s room (or was it ex, now that he knew she was cheating on him with Taylor), or any of the places he had been to before in his life.No, he was in a cave.Or at least, it looked a lot like a cave from what he co

Jay cursed his luck.He was in the woods again, having decided to take the trail path through the forest and see whether or not he could find someone - anyone - who would know where his daughter, Scarlett was.Now, it was evening, and he was trying to make a fire using the firewood he had gotten. Luckily, it was summer season and there had been no rain for the past three days, so he could find dry wood to use as kindling.However, he was trying to recall the last time he had made a fire like this, which had not been for a very long time. In fact, with Jay being a wealthy Alpha, he had barely utilized any survival skills in his time, especially since he had built his family with Skyler, and had to take care of Oliver and Scarlett.He tried once again, rubbing the sticks together and bemoaning the loss of his lighter. How had he not remembered to bring it? It was just his luck, then, that after a few minutes of trying, he was able to produce a small spark, which he fanned generously unt

Meera was trapped, and she hated it, loathed it with every fiber of her being. The anger in her body flowed off her in waves as she watched the Elders of the Sacred Court of Hades surround her, and stood upon the podium as if she was on trial.How had things gone so damn wrong in the blink of an eye? How had the one thing that stood between Meera and that she-wolf caused such a commotion, and brought chaos to her plans in such a way?Her mind whirled as she flowers at the faces of the Elders, thinking about what had happened in the past hour.The battle right at the gate had been fierce and had used up more of her magic reserves than she had ever expected. In fact, it had been one of the worst fights that the witch had been in, in her entire life.And that was saying something, given that she always had the upper hand, even with her battles with werewolves, many of whom she had their skulls decorated on a shelf in her coven.She was ingenious, and a bit of a trickster in battle. Her m