All Chapters of Broken Bond: Revenge in Full Moon: Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

At night there was a deep silence in Firefly Park; hardly anyone made any noise. The constant vibrations of the building caused by the fans circulating the air and the quiet hum of the machines in the background, along with the gentle closing of the doors as people exited the park, created a peaceful atmosphere. As the evening drew to a close, she stayed awake, feeling like she could touch every single sound. That's why she had put the access card in the drawer.But the access card drawer continued to vibrate in Lily's head, as if calling to her. Lily stood up and put her feet on the cold floor. She turned off the light, walked to the window and looked at the small lights lining the paths. There was a guard standing near the well. Outside the walls of Firefly Park, the forest hugged the walls. Only rarely did anyone leave the premises.Dylan's words kept echoing in Lily's head as she lay in bed. “Do it with your eyes open.” As if she hadn't already thought through every detail. Then L

Lily looked at the doors but she wasn’t odd about it. She wasn’t looking at them clicking or waiting for them to be opened; she was looking at the doors as she would look at the people – by noticing their patterns and by observing how they were different once everyone had stopped paying attention to the small things.The Firefly Pack needed everyone to understand that the building was totally self contained – safe, clean, efficient – a place to keep the “trouble” (in whatever form it may take) out of the gates.Lily knew there was no way the building could possibly be perfect. The stairway had already proven that to her; the men who referred to the building as having many weak spots, with cracks everywhere else in the building had also proven that to her.By mid morning Lily had walked down the upper hall twice without appearing to act like anything was out of the ordinary, and received nods from both the staff and the security guard. That is exactly what Lily had hoped for: normal be

The door creaked open just enough to show that it had been waiting for her. Enough to allow a thin strip of blackness to form between the frame and the panel. Enough to show that the latch hadn't held the way it was supposed to. Lily stopped a single foot shy of where the door now lay and froze. Every single one of her instincts tensed up to be ready for anything.She did not reach out to touch it. Not yet.The hallway surrounding her stayed silent but she could tell the difference in the air -- cooler, a bit more metallic, a hint of something that resembled the odor of metal and oil that she'd noticed in the stairwell last night. Every maintenance space had that smell -- a smell of machinery that hid the truth.The gap expanded by another fraction.Lily watched the expanding gap, narrowing her eyes, taking deep breaths and controlling her breathing. No footsteps sounded. No shadow appeared under the door. No hand pulled it from the other side.It was opening on its own.Or someone w

Lily couldn't sleep well since Lena went home. She sat on the side of her bed listening to the building like it might tell her something. The Firefly Pack can be innocent sounding when they want to be – it sounded like soft vents blew air through, the far-off hum of machinery was low, the footsteps did not rush.It was the quiet she was worried about.You know there are moments when you think you should hear a particular sound – but you don’t.In the early morning hours she showered, then put on clothes slowly. She kept telling herself that no matter what she wore, it wouldn’t matter.Then she headed down the hall before the staff poured into their day.She didn’t head to the records room.She didn’t head to the sponsors’ lounge.She took the longer route to the maintenance junction.She didn’t intend to touch anything.She simply needed to know whether last nights tests were small-scale or the beginning of a larger event.She arrived at the corner and stopped right before she would h

After she left Dylan’s office, Lily didn’t immediately go back to her own room. The halls appeared to be smaller than they had before; it seemed that everything in the entire building had changed since the truth had been revealed in that office. She walked down the hall fairly calmly, but nothing had changed about her demeanor.As she continued down the hall she saw Lena. Lena was near the sponsor lounge and her hands were loosely folded in front of her. She wasn’t stopping Lily from continuing down the hall, but she wasn’t moving either. When stillness signals an intent to take action, then that is exactly what is happening. “Your telling him,” Lena said. Not a question. Lily stopped walking approximately five feet from Lena. “You’re fast.” “Observation,” Lena responded. “When he gets something new, he changes his body language.” “That’s pretty deep stuff,” Lily said quietly. “Dylan is my boyfriend,” Lena stated matter-of-factly. There was no emotion or jealousy in the statem