-Kaia- The entire household is asleep by the time I get up the next day, but I notice the guards are actually werewolves and not vampires. Wow, the kind of pull you must have to get wolf bodyguards when you’re a vampire. Gabriel Priest is a fucking legend. After showering and changing into the clothes Elijah’s mother provided, I head downstairs to grab some breakfast. While I’m fixing myself some toast and scrambled eggs, my thoughts go to the possible vampire baby growing in my belly. Does this mean I have to drink blood to keep them fed? Am I going to have to Bella it up and drink out of a sippy cup? Oh, my Goddess, I don’t want to think about it right now. I might just hurl. “You’re up early considering we went to bed so late,” Elijah says as he walks into the kitchen and immediately heads toward the coffee machine. “It’s ingrained in me to be up at sparrows' fart to get myself ready; blame Alpha Azura for that,” I say and walk to the kitchen island. “And you? Get any sleep?”

-Elijah- I walk into the rented villa and breathe out a nervous sigh; I’ve been dreading this all day but I have to do it now. After getting back from my parent’s, I drowned in paperwork, but now I have to fucking do what I’ve been putting off the entire fucking day. My mother pulled me aside before she went to bed, and told me the complete story behind her marriage to my father, how uncle Valentine met aunt Autumn and the mind-fuck of a tale behind uncle Church and aunt Xenia. All three couples thrown together in the weirdest way, all three couples who found each other when they shouldn’t have. Uncle Valentine’s history is the best out of all of them; he gave up his Fated to keep her safe, only for her to die…then he met his Chosen, aunt Autumn. A Chosen is different to a Fated; a Chosen is someone you fall in love with, where the bond is so strong that it creates a Golden Thread similar to a wedding ring. How fucking amazing is that? It spurred me on to do this, to end what

-Kaia- “What does that mean? Absolute nothingness?” I ask my aunt after she drops a bombshell on me. If she doesn’t see me living happily with Elijah and our child, the only other thing is death. “I think you know what it means, Kaia and for the last few days I’ve been wracking my brain over what leads to it, but I cannot see a thing. Bjorn prays to and worships a different God altogether, so I am not privy to his present or future.” She sounds so frustrated by this that it nearly makes me cry and I have no idea how to comfort her. She wants to help, but if these are my futures, isn’t it up to me to stick to an outcome? I wrap my arms around her and breathe out a sigh. “Thank you for telling me this, aunty Cat, even if you cannot see much. I’ll do my best to keep my future clear and at this moment all I see and feel is a future with Elijah.” A week ago, I would never have admitted it to myself, but here I am, pregnant because I couldn’t stay away from the one the Goddess intende

-Kaia-I don’t remember much after Bjorn punched the side of my face, but I recall him throwing me over his shoulder and putting me in the trunk of his car. He hasn't mentioned a word to me the entire time. How did he get onto the estate and where is he taking me?I try to contact Arkyn or Kira over the mind link, but I find I can’t reach them clearly. Then I bang on the inside of the trunk, only for my hands to burn as I punch it. Fucking silver; no wonder I can’t reach them.“Bjorn!” I call out. “Bjorn, I know you’re out there. What are you doing? Why am I in here?!”The car gradually comes to a stop, and I hear him getting out and slamming the car door. If I’m not too far from the estate, then I can still contact Arkyn or Kira over the mind link. But if not and Bjorn is aggressive, then I’ll have a harder time getting out of this.He pops open the trunk and drags me out; I can still smell the dry air of the desert, so I know we’re not far off from the estate. It’s still dark, too,

-Kaia-Aunty Cat mentioned my bond to Bjorn would sever over the next few days, I just didn’t expect it to be Elijah who would sever it. How the hell did we get here and how am I supposed to feel about this?“Name it and it’s yours, kitten,”Elijah should not have said that because common sense left my body at those words. I wanted to just take a long bath and go to bed, but now my body might have other things planned. How the hell can I be thinking about sex when Elijah just ripped out Bjorn’s heart?Goddess, does this make me cruel?We’re both quiet as Elijah drives us to one of Arkyn’s hotels because no way am I going back to my house and I still think Elijah shares a place with Avanah. I don’t want to ask.“You still haven’t told me what you want, kitten,” he suddenly says just as we enter the strip. “I told you that you can have anything you want.”“Right now I just want a hot bath to wash this entire day away, not to mention the jetlag and stress of the entire weekend,” I say as