Collateral Damage Book Novels & Stories

She was getting bored. She went into the study to search for a new fantasy book. Alberto, her brother, added a new collection after fifteen days. He knew his sister loved to read fantasy books instead of love stories. She was running her fingers over the queue of the book's titles. "Twilight, Dead Beautiful, The Kiss of Deception, Relentless." She whispered the names of the titles, "City Of Bones," She pulled it out from the queue. She hadn't read it.

The book quivered in resistance to her touch, and the chains tightened around Vincent even more tightly. Vincent cried out, “Camela!” She screamed back, gripping the cover tightly with both hands and pulling it apart forcefully. The book tore cleanly down the middle. The noise wasn’t the sound of paper tearing. It was flesh ripping apart. Her chest burned, as if something inside her was ripped too. She stumbled forward, gasping for air, blood smearing her lips. The chains broke apart, exploding into sparks. Vincent caught her and held her shivering body with horror in his eyes.

I thought my weak body was dragging the family down and wasting money. However... My hands shook as I typed 'milk' into the search bar of Mom and Edmund's chat history. So many messages popped up, going back years. The latest one was from last month. Mom: [Got another box of milk from the discount section at the store. It was just ten bucks!] Mom: [The ones with red caps are past their expiry date. Give those to Frank! He's got an iron stomach. The blue-capped ones are still good, so save those for yourself.]

"I don't concern myself with whether collateral damage deserves what happens to it, Jace. I concern myself with outcomes." "Collateral damage." I repeated the words, horror crawling up my spine at how easily he'd said them, how completely he'd stripped Ariana down to nothing but an obstacle in his calculations. "She's a person. Not a chess piece you get to sacrifice whenever it's convenient for your plans."

“I got this” I feel defeated and I leave the room as Meme returns into the room with the clothes for Loyalty. Some of the women have started cleaning Sofie’s splattered blood from the walls and floor, and I sink onto the couch. “Man, she fucking tore Sofie up”, says Dan.

“I saw you guys. Watched you for some time, your little romantic outing with the kid. You were the perfect family and I got jealous. I couldn’t stand her having what was mine.” “She was the only one that was meant to die, I didn’t mean for your daughter to die. She was just a collateral damage.” “Collateral damage!” I lounged before she could see me move and grabbed her by the neck. “You killed my kid and you say she was just collateral damage!” I tightened my hand around her neck watching her with hate and fury as she struggled to breathe. “Damien you are hurting me,” she gurgled, flapping her hand at my grip trying to dislodge it, but her attempts lacked power.

"It wasn't like that; I didn't know they have such detailed information about safe rooms. I only helped them to enter the packhouse; I have no idea how they knew so much about our security! I thought..." "That doesn't change the fact that you deliberately endangered everybody many times! You told me that the previous Alpha saw you and your family as nothing more than collateral damage, but aren't you the same? My family was collateral damage to you; your own neighbors and warriors you were in charge of were collateral damage to you. Tony was only collateral damage for you. Even your own mate was nothing more than collateral damage!" She flinches as I say the last sentence and looks at me wit

He whispered one word to himself. “Firewall.” Then he walked toward the light. ~~~~~~~~~~ BOOK OF BLOOD — NEW ENTRY “There was never room for love in our world. So we carved it into the spaces between bullets and betrayals.” “We didn’t fall in love. We folded it into the war and dared it to survive.” —Aria

"Wait a moment. I'll find a book that contains information about the incident. Damian walked away, leaving Alex still standing, staring at Damian's library. "Here it is!" Damian shouted soon after. "Come on, come here Alex!" He invited Alex to sit down at a large table in the centre of the room. On the table was a large book sealed with a metal chain. Damian opened the chain with the same gold key. He opened the book carefully. On the first page of the book were The legacy that once was.. Clan Echelon: Past, Duty and Destruction.