"Damon, why don't you get us a refill? then we can discuss it. Adom drinks a whiskey sour, just put it on his tab" Clary asked her mate, nodding when he glanced at her with a confused expression on his face before disentangling their hands and heading to the bar."You're here to show him what a rejected mate looks like, aren't you?" Adom asked as he watched Damon wander over to the bar where Rong had just started his shift, the sun having set while they had been talking. "You can be a sneaky bastard sometimes, do you know that Clary?" he asked as Damon moved to the bar, unprepared for the misery that was Rong."He needs to see. I think he genuinely doesn't know the consequences of the authority actions," Clary said as she too watched her mate waiting to get Rong attention. "I didn't believe him at first when he said he had no clue, but something makes me believe him," she said.Damon stared at the vampire behind the bar, he looked like something from one of Moni zombie movies she insi

"What is wrong with you?" Damon asked his best friend as they rounded the last corner, entering the quiet road where Clary store was located. He stared at the dopey expression on her face, her gaze unfocused as she grinned at him before shaking his arm off and crossing the road, not even looking before she stepped out onto the empty road. "Moni, focus! What is wrong with you? Moni..." he snatched his hand back from her shoulder when she spun on her heel and snarled in his face, what the fuck? He followed her cautiously when she turned on the spot and dashed across the road.Moni rubbed her hand across her stomach, trying to sooth the butterflies that had taken flight there, completely ignoring Damon as she moved forward. Well, it was more like she was being dragged forward, she thought to herself, grinning as she practically skipped down the sidewalk. She giggled at the happy, complete feeling that bubbled up from the tips of her toes to the very ends of her hair. When had she started

The thought made Moni shudder. He couldn't think about her like that! She was broken, she was selfish and unworthy of that look in his eyes, the look that said she was the answer to every question he had ever asked. She would destroy him; she would drag him down and cause him nothing but misery and heartache and pain. Because that is what mates do to each other, she only had to look at those clave files to understand that she only had to think of her mother's bruises and broken bones, of the tears she had cried and the blood she had bled. She only had to think of her cold lifeless body to know what kind of destruction she would cause him.So, she had to leave him before it was too late. Before he ended up just like her mother. She had to protect him from the monster that she would become. She couldn't let go! She tried, but her body refused to obey the instructions her brain was screaming at her, unwind your legs, untangle your hands from his hair, loosen his grip, climb down and walk

"Who are you to speak to me like that?" Adira growled, shaking Jordon hand off when he tried to restrain her. Every one of her maternal instincts was pushing her towards her brother, to protect him. Even if it meant protecting him from himself. "You would tor...""I am his Alpha, you will not speak to him like that" Moni said, staring the fairy down. She growled when Adira tried to move past her again. She didn't know whether the rage flashing red in Adira eyes and the magic dancing at her fingertips was directed at her or David, but she wasn't letting the woman near him, she didn't give a shit that the woman was his sister."Oh, you're his Alpha are you?" Adira said, the ice in her tone cold enough to freeze the blood in a man's veins. "What kind of Alpha sticks around only to torture their Omega, to toy with his heart before rejecting him and ripping away every one of his hopes and dreams? You get away from my baby brother now before you cause him irreparable damage, damage that his

Adira felt a fierce pride well up in her, for her brother courage and for the protectiveness of his mate. The thought was startling. She couldn't help but gape at them, at the way David was wrapped around her, a peaceful, happy look on his face. She felt the sting of tears when she saw a single tear roll down his face at Moni acceptance of him, of a part of himself that they had all struggled with over the centuries, he may not have had as long as her and Clary to grow to hate that part of herself, but each scared glance, each snide comment or outright accusation could still cut her to the core. A careless word or hateful action could cut deeper than a thousand blades."Guys, I'm all for acceptance," Jordon said, breaking into the moments the mixed blood was having with David and Clary, smiling as he remembered the first time, he had seen his wife's fiery eyes, it had been in a much more private setting, he remembered with a grin before shaking the memory off. "But we have more pressi