Darkest Hours Novelas e Histórias

Jasper Absent-mindedly, I listened to the clock ticking, eagerly waiting for the hour hand to strike midnight so that this wretched day may over. Tick Tick Tick It was now half past eleven. Thirty minutes left of this agony. The room was cold and empty. It was dark too. The only light that was on was the one on my desk, the one I was currently pretending to use. The walls were thick, thick enough for me not to be able to hear past them. They were made that way on purpose as were the walls of all the chambers on the South and North wings of the castle.

My eyes fall shut, trying to keep the tears at bay. “I accepted the path of darkness for myself. I’m a vampire,” Lucas continues. “That’s what we are. That’s what’s inside of us. Darkness.” He slips one hand under me, and my heart swells in my chest. “I believed I could never be anything but dark. I let it consume me, and I told myself that’s how things were meant to be. For over a thousand years I clung onto that false truth…and then I met you.” A tear rolls down my cheek.

They are sharp yet deep, a swirl of greenish-brown filled with death. It is the last thing I see before he points his gun to my face and pulls the trigger. My eyes snap open as my body jerks off the soft mattress beneath me. Heavy panting fills the air as I take in my surroundings. The gun on the dresser behind me, my soaked pillows, and the wall clock on the wall ahead of me. It’s 3:00am. The exact time I always wake up from my nightmares. The exact time my life changed many years ago.

Damian whipped around, dragging me tighter against him as dust exploded around us— And the lights in the building flickered and then went out completely. All we had left was darkness, blood, a hidden sniper closing in

9:00PM was what his wristwatch read. His breathing was heavy as he silently and stealthily grazed the bushes. Today was definitely Eric’s busiest day. The news of missing people kept spreading rapidly like wildfire and there were also reported cases of escaped criminals. For the past two hours, he had massacred 25 vampires on his rampage and the remaining he had seen had fled into the bushes.

They give him the look of a ruthless, calculating strategist who could cold-bloodedly strip a company of its assets in a boardroom. Then again, that same man is currently sitting there watching me fall apart. Rowan depresses his thumb on the remote, bumping the vibration up a single, agonizing notch. A muffled gasp tears from my throat as the sharp buzz sends a wave of liquid heat straight up my spine. He takes a slow, unhurried sip of his scotch. His dark eyes, magnified behind those delicate lenses, track every twitch of my thighs, every frantic heave of my chest, every reaction.

“After the incident in the fifth district happened under my command, we investigated it and found no trace of the perpetrator. Then three days after, the west section of sixth district went dark.” “Dark?” Tihon interrupted. “Yes, there were no interactions and day refused to dawn in the district, I reported immediately to Prince Fredrick,” sighs, “it was then he sent Sri Jerrod Rooks and his elite squad to investigate the cause. A day past and morning came back to the sixth district but no sign of life. I and some of my men went in, only to find every single elite Soldier dead all slit by the throat and a hay of ash.” “I was told my father died while fighting off unknown outlaws, not some oc

☆☆☆ (Alex's POV) It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed." ●●● Darkenes filled the place I was currently in. How did I end up here I thought for a second. I don't understand how things came to this. My eyelids were closed shut. The smell of tablets, injections and all that mediacl clinical filled my nostrils and that's when it sank in. I must be in a hospital.

Even if it was, I desperately wanted it to be a nightmare that could never be the truth. However, look at my luck, it was true, the dark truth about me that I killed my one and only friend, my best friend, Jiahn Kang. She was in a lot of pain, pleading, begging me to spare her life. Was this really me? A person who could never see her loved ones in pain and here I was, the one who killed her own best friend, a best friend who was more than an elder sister to her.

"The greatest evil unknowingly resided in the womb of the greatest good ever known alive. Until that day. The darkness in her, choked away every light of hope and happiness from her eyes. " - Book 3 - The Annihilation 6 months later, The Werewolf Castle 11:59 pm