Keeping Up A Fear Ances Novels & Stories

Piles of bodies to stand on. They could have their kingdom of bones. I shoved the folder under Jax’s office door and backed away like it might explode. Then I grabbed a duffel I’d packed, just in case, and slung it over my shoulder. I pulled up my hood. Turned down the corridor. Headed for the motor pool. My boots echoed louder than they should have. Every corner could’ve hidden a corpse. Every light flicker made me spin. Fear wasn’t weakness. Fear was what kept smart men alive.

Jax looked at me with a serious expression. “Of course I do! I wasn’t born yesterday! It means when you’re scared of something, like I fear my father for example.” I through my hands up in the air. Jax chuckled and took my face in his hands softly making me look directly at him. “No honey. The word fear is more of an acronym.” I scrunched my face up in confusion. “Ok now you got me 38 shades of confuzzled fucked. Explain yourself.” Jax laughed and dropped his hands. “You’ve been hanging around Alida WAY to long hun. She’s rubbing off on you.” He said as he got up to get a pen and paper.

“I won’t have you ruining this mission with your sympathy.” His eyes flashed with annoyance. “Sympathy? You think caring about our people is weakness?” “When it clouds judgment, yes.” He stepped closer. “You don’t lead with strength, Damon. You lead with fear.” I didn’t hesitate this time. I grabbed his collar and slammed him against the hallway wall before he even took his next breath. Derek sighed behind us. “Here we go again…” I growled into Drake's face, “Fear is the reason this kingdom still stands. Fear keeps enemies from crossing our borders. Fear keeps rogues from attacking our pack.”

“I know how it feels to be powerless and frightened all the time. I would not want people in this pack to live like that.” His eyes stayed on me quietly. “Kindness alone does not make people obey.” “I know,” I admitted. “But fear is not everything either.” A faint smile touched his lips. “Sometimes fear is necessary.” I frowned slightly. “Not all the time.” Jacob swirled the wine slowly inside his glass. “The strongest Alphas are the ones others fear disappointing. Fear keeps order. Fear keeps enemies away.” His voice remained smooth and calm but the certainty behind it made something twist strangely inside my chest.

"Fear." Lucas frowned. "Fear?" "Yes." Lucas looked unconvinced. "Fear doesn't explain this." "Sometimes it does." Eryx rested his arms on the stone wall. "People fear what they don't understand." Lucas looked toward the distant forests. "They think we're monsters." "Many do." "But we're not." "I know." Lucas clenched his jaw. "We have families." "Yes." "We have children." "Yes." "We have homes." "Yes." "So why can't they see that?"

This is not a good time to panic. I was about to step back when I felt a hard wall behind me. I turned my head back to see Cole. He's standing still behind me like a wall. I looked at him with furrowed brows. I tend to do this expression when I'm confused. He's scanning the place using his deep brown eyes. "They're not scared of me, Bright..." he said in a monotonous tone. "They fear me." I parted my lips slightly before nodding my head. Scare and fear are similar, but different things. Scare is when someone feels unsafe. Fear comes with respect. He's telling me that these felony makers respect him.

"Was it really fraud? Or was it fear pushing an agenda? An agenda to protect the people they would leave behind. People who would cower in fear when you die." Kael's jaw tightened. "I don't blame Marcus and Felix. I understand it. I know what pushes them. It's the same thing that pushes me. Fear. Fear that this killer will take us all out and we will never know what we ever did to them. To him. To her. To whoever they are. We don't even know who but we see what they are doing." I stopped. Took a breath.

I laughed, "tell me what's with you?" Wayne inhaled, resting his head on the kitchen island. "Collin, I watched our parents struggle through trying to protect us. And sometimes it gets really scary when there is a high possibility that they would lose one of us. Everytime I stare at Annette and see how much her belly keeps growing, a sign that the reckoning day is almost near. The fear grips me like I might be too much of a coward to protect my family. What if I can't do as expected and get weak on the long-run. What would become of them?"

I was not strong enough to confront one of them not to talk of two. “If I may talk regarding this, your father, the great boss had his reasons…” Sammie said calmly. “Apart from safety reasons, it also helps in establishing hierarchy. Humans tends to fear things they do not see more than the ones they see. The fear of the unknown is a very great one. Anonymous used to be one of those names that I used to fear as well. It would have been better if his face remains a mystery but it has been shed here.” I shook my head in pity for myself. I had to be strong and if I lost this argument, it might be the end for me.

Their newborn son, a precious bundle of joy they had welcomed into their lives just a few months ago, had become the center of their universe. Annah continued, tears now flowing freely down her cheeks as she couldn't stop it. She had been living in fear all her life and she hated to think that soon, all of these fears would be actualized because she had a feeling that Michael was going to make good on his promise. She had seen the way he acted all these while and she was scared for their lives. "I can't bear the thought of something happening to him. Michael is ruthless, and with this war, I can't help but think he might try to hurt us through our baby."