EthanI was avoiding Sharon. I rolled my eyes in disgust as I thought of her. I didn't think that she was that annoying. What part of I was now married didn't she understand? I had told Ava that we were just friends and she didn't have to be jealous of her. Ava was trying to be mature about her presence and not flip out but I didn't want to push her.What was going on with her? What was wrong with her? What was wrong with me? Had I been wrong about her? When did she change or had I been a bad judge of character and she had always been like that? I was sure that she wasn't that type of annoying friend or I wouldn't have become friends with her.What was the drama that she had done at the table while we were eating? Regardless of how close we were, she was a guest yesterday and wasn't meant to sit beside me at the table. There was an arrangement to how we ate at the table. None of my palace officials would have sat anywhere to eat with me. As a guest, she was meant to sit at the far en

RudolphI pushed my food aside, not interested in it at all. This was becoming a frequent habit with me and I frowned at what I was doing. I had lost my appetite. My stomach cramped at the thought of taking in food and I was worried of getting weak. Since we couldn't hunt and feed on blood as much as we wanted, our other option was to eat and binge on food as much as we could to get the strength that we needed.There was no amount of food that we could eat that could give us as much strength that we could have gotten from blood and that meant that the men had to eat more than necessary to make up for the deficiency of blood. I suspected that was one of the reasons the enemy attacked our men on our hunting ground, to keep us from feeding on animals and make us weaker when it was time for the battle. There was a limit to how much we could drink from the domestic animals and pets, unlike we wanted to kill them.Some of their owners who were attached to the animals refused to drink their

EthanI glanced up at Rudolph as the door opened. I wished I could have joined the battle but Ava had become so sick that I couldn't leave her alone. Pregnancy was always hard on vampires and I already concluded that I wasn't getting her pregnant again no matter how beautiful she looked.Her fever had gone down and she was sleeping peacefully but my own heart wasn't at peace. What was going on on the battlefield? What had happened? How many men had the other king brought with him? Who was winning? Were we the one? How was it? How tough was the war? Who had dared to want my wife? I almost ran myself crazy with questions as I sat there in the room, tending over Ava and torturing myself with imagination of what was going on at the battlefield.I breathed a sigh of relief as Rudolph walked in. That had to mean the war was over and the enemies had fled to their land. He wouldn't have been here otherwise but his blank expression wasn't helping.The war was over but had we lost? Was he sad b

QuinnWe bade the vampires goodbye and set out on our journey. They were sad to see us leave but they understood us. I watched as Ava and Mia got emotional, waving each other goodbye. I smiled as I tried my best to not roll my eyes. Those women were as dramatic as they could be."Promise you will come again to visit?" Ava pouted.Mia chuckled. "I can't guarantee that as I don't know what we are going home for." She glanced at me, wondering if I had figured it out yet and I shrugged to let her know that I didn't know much of it myself.Dad rarely gave emergency calls and I couldn't imagine what it was about this time. I knew that we would find out once we got home and I was curious to know why he had called which was why we were leaving the very day he called, even though it was late already to travel.I was sure that nothing could harm us and we didn't have to worry about late night travel. It wasn't like any human could jump out of somewhere to rob. The greedy thief would be the one

QuinnI sat on the balcony of my room, twirling a glass of wine in my hand and lost in thoughts. What was this? Was there never going to be any rest for me? I doubted that. There had to be a rest for me. I couldn't keep doing this. I couldn't keep going from one adventure to another problem. I was tired. Even if Mia and my brothers weren't tired, I was.This was ridiculous. What a bad timing, a perfectly wrong timing. I wasn't scared of the duel between me and my cousin. I knew that I was going to have to be the alpha one day. I had been prepared for it all my life. It wasn't a foreign deal to me but I didn't want it to be now.I turned to the door as I heard it open and someone walked in. I caught a sniff of the person's smell and smiled, knowing that I didn't have to turn to know who had entered. My senses had improved ever since dad's own started waning and I knew that Tyrex, my cousin would have also started feeling the same as I was. He would have known that it was time for the d