The second Aylin and I cleared the treeline, every single vampire turned their head to us. I smiled wickedly as the distraction cost some of them, their throats getting torn out before they could even process they found what they were looking for. To their credit, not one single wolf looked at us, refusing to be distracted. Making sure my mental shields were in place, I let loose any hold I had on my power as it surged to my fingertips and the vampires that remained, fell to the ground writhing as I focused on all their nerve endings. They were all dead in an instant as their opponents ripped them to shreds.There was a split second of silence before I felt the vibration of feet on the ground. We all braced ourselves, and then a herd of vampires cleared the borderline and jumped right onto us. Black tinted the edges of my vision and I didn't fight it away this time. I knew my eyes must have been completely black because the battlefield before me took on a dark tint. I spared my

"So...you gonna explain what that was?" I ask Amara as we land in our room"Well, it seems as though I taught myself how to use my mind reading trick" she says, shaking her head as if she wanted to shake whatever she saw out of her head. Couldn't say I blamed her, I wouldn't want to see what went on in that thing's head"What did you see?""A bunch of flashes of things that didn't make sense, but they have five thousand vampires left, they started off with ten thousand but it seems they lost half of them actually finding me, and they undershot their attack here, sending less of them than they had been sending to the other packs. I still don't know what our numbers are like" she says, she sounds a little shaken."Not five thousand. Half that, maybe a little more" I say and she nods, honestly the numbers were the least of my concern at this point. I needed to know what their actual plans were, numbers alone don't win you a war. Surely it helps, but it's all s

I wake up to Amara shaking me, a golden light is shining through the curtains, telling me its probably past five in the afternoon and I slept way too fucking long."Aylin just called for us. She said to bring your head warrior, beta, and gamma. She told my dad and Az to come too" Amara says.I look at her, she's sitting up in bed, one leg held to her chest, the other crossed. Her eyes are red like she's been rubbing at them and the black and blue under them tells me she didn't sleep at all. I can't blame her, I only fell asleep so easily because I was practically a walking zombie. I got a solid two hours in the morning, but after a battle it just wasn't enough."Alright, I'll mindlink them to meet us in my office. Did you sleep?" I ask her, sending them all a quick mindlink. She shakes her head"Too much on my mind" she mutters and I nod my head"We'll get through this, we have plenty of people on our side. You've come such a long way. I'll hand my so

I just showed the last group of the Fae warriors to their temporary housing, and I'm starving. I get out my phone to order food when I see Amara texted me twelve minutes ago.Amara: Heading to Blair's to get more tea. I need you to come home as soon as you're done with the Fae.Roman: Be careful. I just finished up. I'll head over now. Is everything OK? Love youI wonder if she finally went and saw a pack doctor; I've been worried sick about how unwell she's felt. It's beyond anxiety at this point. There's something wrong with her. Adonis is equally concerned, begging me to take her to a doctor.'Something is wrong. Mindlink border patrol, I can feel something isn't right,' Adonis snarls in my head. I'm about to do just that when I feel Amara's link open up.'ROMAN,' Amara screams, and instantly panic surges through me. I shift into Adonis, starting to run in the direction the bond was pulling me to, and then the bond goes blank.'Amara? AMARA' I yell b

The door opens into a stairwell. I start to run down it based on the sheer fact that most people keep their prisoners in the basement. When we come to a door, I stop Seth and listen. I don't hear a thing, not even a heartbeat, so I move on. We do this for a couple floors, and now easily, at least 10 minutes have passed, and I'm growing angrier by the second. This was meant to be quick. They have probably already moved her by now.We come to another door, and it reeks of Amara. I instantly rip it open and jump in. Adonis and I both let out a snarl when we find it empty. I turn and see a huge pool of blood on the wall next to the door, a bunch of shattered ceramic under it. That would be why this room reeks of her, and now they would know she was pregnant. It would have been foul tasting if they tried to drink her blood. Pregnancy hormones turn blood rancid tasting to vampires. It's the fetus's way of protecting its mother against an attack.Her scent is so potent everywhere