Deadlocked Novels & Stories

It was clear the man was frantic as he gripped me. “You were to come here for an alliance!” Alpha Ber roared. “If Alpha Lucas dies there won’t be any alliance!” Eskal retorted as he drug me closer to the felled man. “This is out of your hands Ber.” “She is one of my pack!” Alpha Ber protested, but the fight had gone from him. His eyes pleaded with Eskal as the vampire drew a small blade from his breast pocket.

Lauren hissed. "You are going to kill her!" Osler yelled, yanking the knife from her. "You know what, maybe I should. She stole Damien from me. Who knows what else she'll steal from me!" Lauren shouted. She grabbed the knife from Osler's shaky hands. She sliced Tierra's skin. Tierra shrieked, tears running down her face as she sobbed in pain. "You got yourself into this, Osler. You made a deal with the devil and if I burn-" Lauren grabbed Tierra by her chin making her look at him, "you burn too."

It was a phantom wolf, its eyes sparkling with an eerie intelligence. The pack gazed in amazement and horror as the spirit wolf approached, and then, in a voice that seemed to reverberate from the very bowels of the ground, it uttered, "The Moonlit Meadow is at a crossroads, and the threads of destiny are unraveling. Choices will be made, alliances destroyed, and new destiny established. You are all part of a larger scheme, and the day of reckoning is upon you."

he grunts, his voice heavy with agitation. “My apologies, Beta Pride. I’ve only just returned from my perimeter check,” I reply, careful to stay in line. Drunk Deadrick is a nightmare; sober Deadrick is deadly. My body has only now recovered from Wesley and Russel’s beating. I refuse to earn another this morning.

Finally she had gotten her hands on something useful. She held on the neck of the wine bottle before breaking it on the rack, splashing the red liquid around the room. Before she could do something he had seized her neck, closing her breath with increasing force. He had failed to notice the remaining piece of wine bottle that she held on tightly, knowing fully well that the broken glass would do the job. But before she could thrust the glass in his neck, she saw Donavan barging through the door, finally coming for the rescue. She tried to take a deep breathe but as she failed to, it sunk how she was losing her breathe to Dominic's nails that sharply dug inside her skin, applying more pressur

On Elena’s remote tablet, the Arbiter’s processing speed began to stutter and drop. "It’s working!" Elena’s voice was jubilant, cutting through the static. "The AI is redirecting all its primary resources to the cooling sub-routine. It thinks the sub-station is seconds away from a BLEVE, a Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion. The data release to the dark web is frozen! It’s stuck at 98.4%!"

"They've become foundation—three pillars holding reality's corner. Remove any pillar, structure collapses." The rotation wheel spun nearby, but its movements no longer affected the prison. The three-way deadlock existed outside normal space-time, eternal moment stretched infinite. "Can they communicate?" Connection asked through James. "We hear you," Kieran responded, but his voice came from everywhere and nowhere. "We feel you. But we can't reach you." Through our bond, I sensed their struggle. Not pain exactly, but constant tension. Like holding breath forever, muscles locked in permanent extension, thoughts frozen mid-completion.

" I slowly shook my head, my gaze turning colder by the second. Borrow money? Two hundred thousand. Where was I supposed to get that on such short notice? Besides, this was my money. Why did I need permission from other people just to withdraw my own savings and save someone's life? I wiped the tears from my face. Then I looked through the bulletproof glass and locked eyes with Carmen. "So you're really refusing to process it?" Carmen raised an eyebrow, completely fearless. "It's not that I refuse. The system refuses. "I'd love to help you, but there's nothing I can do. "Why don't you just wait here? "Maybe after three to five days, risk control will automatically lift the restriction." Thre

INACTIVE is reclassified as PENDING AUTHORIZATION. IDENTITY FRACTURE is reclassified as DISPUTED. UNCLASSIFIABLE STATE is reclassified as CONTINUITY ERROR. The room falls silent. Then the screen freezes. When it returns, the classification has changed. NON-RESOLVABLE EXISTENCE STATE — AUTHORITY DEADLOCK. No one speaks. The system is no longer uncertain. It has declined to render a determination. I step back, my chair scraping softly across the floor. Cassian Vale remains motionless.

Lillianna shook her head trying to shake herself together before she refilled his glass. “You have one job…” Marla was speaking to her now. “Like how hard is it… You’ve been here long enough to know not to keep AJ waiting.” “I’m sorry…” Lillianna was about to sob. She was freaking out. Was Paul dead? Was he hurt. “Something wrong Lillianna?” AJ asked her now. This bastard knew what he was doing… “No…” She found it hard to look into his eyes. “You sure… You look a little pale…”