I crept my way through, both hands and knees on the floor. I crawled until I was directly underneath the window and I could hear voices from inside - the elders in the werewolf council.Standing on my tiptoe, I peered into the large meeting hall. There was a long rectangular table in the middle of the room and Damon was seated at one end of it, my dad at the other end. I glared at him, I hadn't seen him since my aunt Aurora had told me about his involvement in what had happened, and now that I had, hatred coursed through me."We can't put the lives of our members at risk any more than it is. It is disappointing that this is what we've come to." Damon said, running a hand through his hair."I promise Alpha," Alex started. "We've tried our best and we're continuing to do so but at this point, I think it's safe to assume the sorceress is no longer on our lands."A nod of agreement went around the table."If she was, we would have found her by now." An older man said."She must have left o

"Are you sure you're fine?" Marina asked, her eyes worried.I nodded and gave her a small smile in return. Her eyes glanced at Damon who was at the other end of the room, or wherever he was."You guys had a fight, right?" She asked. "Because I can see you actively working to avoid him.""No, we didn't," I said, trying my best not to look in his direction. I was still shaken by what I'd figured out, the necklace was in the small inner lining of the dress I was wearing now.There seemed to be so much more than anyone knew that was Aria and Damon's relationship, and I had a ton of questions for them both. It was obvious she had been cursed but I needed to know why and most importantly, by who. It was only then will I be able to prove Mother's innocence, of course, I wasn't going to simply avenge I and Mother without letting Damon realize the injustice done, and I was going to do so with strong evidence.I took a deep breath, the first step was finding out what was going on with Aria and

“You’ll be fine soon, you just need rest.” The physician said covering up the gash on Damon's side that was already healing with a bandage after cleaning it. The man bowed to us before exiting the room. I saw Damon give me a worried look but other than that, silence remained between us. I stared at my hands that were folded on my legs as if they were the most interesting thing in the world.The man's words from last night kept ringing in my head and I couldn't fathom what to make of it. How could anyone have seen that?For a moment, I felt a pang of something akin to regret. Before now, I hadn't killed anyone. I couldn't even muster the mind to but now I could and had without second thoughts, it almost unnerved me but I knew I wasn't to be blamed.My eyes went to the man who was solely responsible for it all, the man who lay next to me was the cause of everything. He had turned me into this monster I was becoming, into this unrecognizable person and I could feel my rage swallowing me

Stunned silence followed Theo’s words and even I was shocked, I could only stare with my mouth hung open. I turned to Damon to see he was looking at Theo, his lips twitching - he wasn't angry, not even in the slightest, in fact, Damon was utterly amused.“Theodore, for goodness sake!” Alex barked.My dad approached him and angrily grabbed him by the collar.“Have you gone mad?” He yelled. “I understand your grief and anger but challenging the Alpha, do you realize what you're saying?”Theo struggled to get away from dad's grip, shoving him off.“I know what I am saying and I stand by it. The Alpha has gone weak and whatever is happening and will continue to happen to our pack is because of him!” Dad swung his arm and punched Theo squarely on the face, he crouched holding his nose and when he rose with his eyes blazing with anger, blood trailed from his nose.“Who knew we had no freedom of speech in this pack?” He asked in a sarcasm-laced tone.“Oh of course you do, Theo. I'm sorry yo

I was yet again blanketed by the night, its silence offering me comfort. I hadn't thought of what I would tell Damon when he comes into the room from his office to meet it empty but now, that was the least of my concernsI was excited at what tonight could hold. I knew despite it, I had to be careful, careful of what I said and would do, I was taking such a huge risk.If anything, no matter how small went wrong, then it would all be likey over for me. If anyone knew I was meeting the vampires late at night, I knew what would happen to me because I was committing the highest form of treason and it was part of the reason my stomach erupted with butterflies.I, Eliana, was committing treason against the Dark Moon pack.“This is wrong and you know it!” Hazel snapped at me.“Or you could quit being a wolf, get a body of your own and make everything in this world all right and pristine,” I said, shutting her up.The leaves crunched beneath my feet as I made my way through in hurried strides