From Blood And Ash Series Novels & Stories

It turned out that people like them eventually meet someone worse. I lowered the brim of my cap and turned to leave, not wanting to be recognized. However, fate has a twisted sense of humor. My leather shoe stepped on a dry leaf. Crunch. Brian's head snapped up. Our eyes met. His eyes went wide. Like he had seen a ghost. Or a savior. "Bro?!" That single shout drew everyone's attention. My dad looked up, too, a flicker of light in his eyes. "Chester… Chester!"

But Serena's rogue action had been seen as a threat, and they had responded accordingly, sending their best assassin to send a message. Damien still remembered the sight of Serena's body laid bare and bloodless for him to find. It had taken every ounce of his self-control not to seek his own vengeance. But Serena had been in the wrong, acted against orders, and Damien wasn't going to continue the chain of bloodshed and take more innocent lives. No matter how heartbroken Serena's death had left him, his job was to make the world a better and safer place. The gates parted as he pushed them open, heading toward the station's main entrance. He was going to need a shower and a beer after tonight'

Toward. Toward Ash. Toward Cove. Toward the kid about to explode. “Mother!” Wrath shouts. “Don’t!” I hit the vines. They don’t grab me. They part. First Blood knows First Blood. Ash is on her knees. Burning. Cove is on his. Smoking. Vines connecting them. Feeding. Killing both. I drop between them. Bone knife’s in my hand. Again. Always. “Stop,” I tell them. To Cove. To Ash. To the Tree. “Both of you. Stop.”

She laughed again, darker this time, crazier, like she was unraveling in the shadows of my twisted mind and I badly wanted to shut her down! I opened my mouth to fire back something truly Italian and truly unholy when I walked straight into something solid, hard, and immovable. I barely caught myself before bouncing off his chest, fingers splaying instinctively against fabric soaked through with something warm. I looked up slowly, already knowing. Asher. He stood there like a quiet apocalypse, blood splattered across his shirt, his forearms, his jaw. Not his blood. Never his. His eyes were glowing red, not with heat, but with that eerie, controlled focus that meant something had gone very wr

“They did but they never realised you have a natural link with aspen and Baylee, you don’t need to blood share for that, it’s how I’m talking to you, it’s through aspen” He goes quiet so I try again “We are going to attack the warehouse but they have the place locked down with supernatural borders, salt circles, sonic pulses, mountain ash, we can’t get through that but you can! You can carry Baylee through it and meet us on the outside but you are going to have to kill those inside first” “See your not real! I can’t get through any of that either” I groan, the boy was as stubborn as a mule

Yet, I kept watching, how he tucked a strand of her hair behind her ears once the breeze sent it sprawling over her face and how he smiled so brightly saying some things to her until. A scream ripped out from my lungs. A burning sensation coursing through my wrist, something hot and liquid pouring. My eyes darted to it, the pain igniting every movement I made with the hands. And then I saw it. Blood. “Blood.” I didn't even know when I whispered the words until I felt a shadow kneel before me, and grabbed my hands. I looked up, it was Kael. I tried to let go of his grip but it was firm, not too tight though.

she asked. “How did you think I first found you?” Cassian asked. Julianne remembered and she said, “You came to meet me in the restroom. I took you to be a pervert.” “Wow,” Cassian placed a hand on his chest. “So that was your first impression about me.” “Why else would you be there?” “It was your blood that brought me to you in the first place, Ash. Your blood was calling out to me.” Julianne thought about it more reasonably for the first time. “How could my blood…” she paused and took a few rides down memory lane. That day, she remembered bleeding through a cut and then running into Cassian who seem more interested in something other than her.

“And you are?” “You answer me first.” Asher demanded. “I cannot remember summoning you here, so why are you? Rest assured, I have not forgotten the hit you gave me, I shall come back to that later.” “Excuse you, you were sucking her blood!” “And you saw what it did.” He raised his now fleshed hand. “However, you stopped me. I have not fully recovered.” “Which means you still want her blood?” “Aye.” “Ha,” Asher scoffed. “Like hell I will let that happen. Listen, if you leave these woods, you would come upon human settlement, you can have as much blood as you want there.”

I asked Kade, spinning the hot rod in my hand, ready to carve into his flesh and continue from where Vi had stopped before the engagement ceremony. “I…I swear by the goddess there’s no other way,” he sobbed like his tears would move me. The metal door creaked open and Asher crawled in covered in sweat as his body trembled. Ysara stood behind him, arm folded just watching. “Brother, I need you!” He whizzed as he tried to catch his breath. I could smell the Ashpine in his blood as it ruptured his blood vessels one after the other. A scoff left my lips.

" Why don't you come at me instead? Why go to the man who seems to have lost everything? " Kyle gritted his teeth now as he realised there would be no forgiveness for him. " You are supposed to die too, " He suddenly mutters, stunning everyone who begins to think he has gone insane. " Asher you were supposed to drop dead when the blood touches you. Isn't that right? Gra34, when applied, shouldn't be in contact with any other person or its death. That was why you sent your team out. To protect them but you ... The blood is right there on your hand but you are still standing tall. You are not human. You are not human! "