Aether Beasts Novels & Stories

And its eyes… They burned like molten metal. “What is that?” I whispered. Ash studied the creature with something that looked suspiciously like satisfaction. “That,” he said, “is called a Vorathrax.” The creature’s massive claw struck the stone wall as it moved, gouging deep trenches through the rock as though the labyrinth itself were nothing more than soft clay. “I created it,” Ash continued calmly. My head turned toward him. “You… what?” “I was experimenting with ways to create a stronger soldier for the demon armies. Something that could not be killed easily. Something unstoppable.”

" Yeah, I probably understand where she is coming from. I apologized for what happened earlier and Damian apologized for everything." " Wow! That's huge." " Do you guys hear that?" Ellie, who had suddenly gone quiet, said and we all listened. I didn't hear anything but I think the others heard something because their expressions changed. " It looks like there is an ongoing war." Kenny said. He stood up from his seat and kissed his mate. " Where are you going?" Lilly asked with watery eyes. " The Alpha just summoned all the warriors. We need to protect the pups. Lilly, stay here, you are pregnant. There is a big threat outside."

Stronger. “Your licentious desires have defiled who He made you to be,” Battle Axe said earlier, her hands clasped as she sat forward. Her elbows straddled what he suspected was his file, the cardboard bulging with the weight of his failures, his desires, his guilt. “Soul battled flesh,” she said, her finger tap, tap, tapping the ragged folder as she spoke. “And flesh won.” Miss Venti now sat at the foot of the door, her thighs open. An invitation, it was. The home, this place on Eidolon, fulfilling its earlier promise to bring him his heart’s desire. To answer his earlier hope. Gift him with the girl who lingered and left.

He laughed loudly, “Oh dear child, the goodness in my heart left a long time ago! Why would a dragon EVER help some wolves, hm? Your first lesson in doing business with other species is this: there is ALWAYS a price for doing business with other species.” “How do we know you aren’t just going to rob of us whatever we give you? How do we know you know where to find the fae?” Alec challenges him. “Because I am the gatekeeper to their realm. No one go in or leaves the realm without my knowledge. If you want my help, you must pay the price.” “What’s your price? Name it.” Ares asks, ready to pay whatever he requested. “I take many forms of payment: gold, shiny objects, I do collect princesses if

It erupts from his fingertip, stretching toward me until it connects with another thread beating directly from my heart. My entire body pales as recognition crashes into me. A bond. A mate bond. Something I have never experienced before. Something I have read about countless times. Something I always expected to find. But never with a human. Never. I always imagined finding it with one of my own kind. So why…why is it coming from a human? "Come on, Athena." His voice reaches me again. "Channel your beast and end me once and for all." I stare at him with trembling eyes. My human side shakes inside my beast.