1st To Die Novels & Stories

"Okay then, you can die first." Bang!

I didn't meet their eyes, I did not have the courage to look at them after what happened today. “Are you okay?." “Why wouldn't I be?." “You just saw a dead man." Kalum said. “Who says it's the first time I saw a dead person?." I retorted “Where did you first see a dead person?." Vinx asked and opened the door for me. “One time, in college, one girl died from a cardiac arrest. She was in a room, with no way to get another person to help her to a hospital and she ended up dying, I saw her when they carried her out. It was bad."

Because the first one to break might not make it out alive. * * * - - - - - To be continued - - - - -

Kael said finally, his voice hoarse and barely steady, "the first time too." Elara's hand froze in the air between them. "The first time," she repeated slowly. "The first time what?" "The first time you died," Kael said quietly, and the words fell into the small stone cottage like stones dropped into deep, still water, sending ripples through her chest that she could not name. "Those were the last words you ever said to me."

“Why the banners? Where are they?” Before she could answer, Lucious appeared. He grabbed my arm. “Your parents are dead, Ryder,” he said. The words hit like a punch. “I just spoke to Dad yesterday,” I said. “I talked to him yesterday. What happened?” Lucious’s grip tightened. “They were poisoned early this morning. They’re both gone.” I tried to pull away. “I need to see them.” He held me back. “Not yet, remember the pack law. When an Alpha dies, the elders and council see him first. The heir sees him last. You’re the last one and then you will seal their coffin.”

Let one tear fall. “My people,” he began, voice echoing across the stone. “This is the hardest announcement I will ever make.” A murmur rippled through the crowd. “Our Alpha… Alpha Ronan… is dead.” Gasps exploded like gunfire. “No…” “That’s impossible…” “An Alpha doesn’t die quietly like a dog!” Alaric raised a hand. “His ashes were found beside his bed.” Silence crashed down. Then he continued, softer. “And our Luna… Liora… she also met a terrible fate. Shot through the head with a silver bullet.”

We followed him. I introduced us "I'm Emily, but no one really calls me that. Everyone calls me Millie. This is my best friend, Kelvin. Kel" " Ok, nice to meet y'all, I guess" We shook hands " Who are you anyway?. How did you know we were in danger?" I quizzed. " I'm Diego. I was actually passing by when I heard your screams and came to see what was happening. Had to help when I saw that it was a fury".

“Dad you can tell me. I won’t say anything.” “I know sweetheart and I appreciate you waiting until it was just us.” He says calm but a troubled look on his face. “Training is going well, not as young as I once was but your old man can still get after it.” He pauses briefly but continues, “Mia, you know we met Austin and I to discuss the terms of the fight. I’ll be honest with you I think he doesn’t want to go through with it but what’s done is done and he challenged me in public. The terms we came to were one must get the other to submit or to the death. Seeing as I am a Beta and he is now an Alpha that really only leaves the one option.”

The women must have noticed that I was beginning to lose consciousness because they immediately let go of my limp body. "Is she dead?" I faintly heard one of them ask, her voice a mixture of fear and panic. "Who cares... I'm sure Lord Darius and Lady Hilda wouldn't care. They'll even thank us for getting rid of this filth," another said casually. "Thank us!!! How idiotic can you be!? Half-breed or not, she's the daughter of The Great Rafael Bloom. And we've just killed her. Mere vampire maids. We'll be staked alive for this," another declared in panic, making the others start to panic as well, realizing what they had done.

She lay there, covered head to toe in bandages, pale as a ghost. Seeing her like that, all the hatred I'd carried from my past life seemed to melt away. But the moment she saw me, her dead eyes reignited with rage. She grabbed the fruit knife at her bedside and lunged at me, screaming, "It's all your fault! Why do you get to have a better life than me? If I kill you, maybe I can start over!" She laughed maniacally, her eyes wild. But I stepped aside, grabbed her wrist, and forced the knife from her hand. It clattered to the floor.