I Volunteer As Tribute の小説・ストーリー

“Then what the hell am I doing here? Where is this?” “I told you your family owed us a long time ago.” He had to be lying. I never met anyone in my family except my mom and dad. We lived a very simple life even before my mother passed away. Men like him have nothing to do with people like us. “You can’t just kidnap someone and expect them to be okay with it.” “Yes, I can, especially when your father was the one who offered you as collateral.”

I finally understood. My devotion. My gratitude. My entire life. It was all a fucking joke. I had thanked the wrong man. I had loved the wrong man. I had wasted ten years of my youth and my dignity on a lie. The one who saved me, who had always been there, was Drake. Kane was nothing but a pathetic thief who stole another wolf's glory. I pulled out the micro-comm Drake had given me. My fingers trembled as I typed a single line. 【Four days. Blood moon. Get me out of here.】

Whose blood? My blood? Someone else's? I clenched my jaw, refusing to show hesitation or weakness. Lucas gestured toward a black bowl on the podium. Inside was a small white cloth with the Iron Vibe’s emblem, a coiled viper. “Hope you are not squeamish,” Lucas joked, and I resisted the urge to glare at him. “You must mark yourself and let the blood fall on the crest,” he continued with his serious voice. “It's a show of commitment and sacrifice and being bonded by blood. We are your brothers now.”

I kiss her lips gently then step back. One by one we walk up to the pyres with the torches to light the pyres. I am supposed to go first, each of the others right after me. She was a Luna, an Alpha. This is the tribute she deserves but all these people are equally important so we decide we will go all at once.

"My name... my life... I am part of an organization that exists in the shadows. The Argentum Order. I founded it nine years ago." "The people in that video," Aubrey asked, her voice small but brave. "Did you really have to kill them?" Travis found it harder to breathe. "Those people... were traitors. I made the rules. In that world, treason is met with death. I'm so sorry you had to see that side of me. If you want to leave because of it, if you want to cancel the wedding... I’ll accept it. I just don't want you to live in fear of me. If you want me to stop."

she said, her voice thick with tears. It was the first time she said the words out loud, and he could hear the longing in them. “Soon,” he promised, smoothing her hair back. “I am ready to go too.” Earlier that evening, when he told her that the enemy vampires were on their way to pay tribute, she was so angry she almost spat in his face. “It’s a vampire thing,” he explained after she finally calmed down, “after a war, the losing side pays tribute to the winning side. It’s symbolic, but it has to be done.”

I asked. She shrugged, but the action looked forced. “No mate, no use for me. My mate was sent on a sea voyage and never returned. Many men disappeared at sea. I felt it the moment he died, and made the mistake of trying to go back home to my family.” Her eyes looked lost for a moment before she continued. “I was captured and called a traitor. Myself and a couple others like me were sent to this place as tribute, along with Alpha Wayne’s daughter.” This surprises me. “He sent his own daughter as a tribute to demons?”

I crushed the cigarette and tossed it. ‘To answer your question. I didn’t do it for brownie points, or we didn’t. We did it because it was the right thing to do. We weren’t going to hand over women to be abused and after what Tess told me, I’m bringing the whole motherfucking shit down.’ I declare and I know I’m sporting a huge ass grin, filled with some many promises. I’m also grinning because it’s officially confirmed. I now know who Luna’s human form is.

Beth took a small step back, she was happy here and while she was sure Lillah, with her huge belly full of the egg she was required to provide, was genuine in her concern, Beth did not need the pity. “There are seven ‘trials’; one every two days after an Omega is chosen as tribute. This is from the final trial.” Beth indicated the left side of her face, so badly burned that despite the healing prowess of a wolf-shifter it had never recovered. “They take the stone from the trial prior, heat it in the campfire. When the flames have died you kneel in the ash and press your face to the stone. Every unmated male of age takes their fill, and when they are done it is over but, if you lift your head