Nora Universe Novels & Stories

The connected call only carried the sounds of Jaime Walter and Derek Surrey’s pleasure. She did not seem to hear what I said. After an impatient click of her tongue, she hung up. I lowered my arms and stared at my mother’s decomposed body. My strength felt completely drained. Derek then sent me a series of messages. When I opened them, I saw videos of the two of them having sex that night. Their intimate sounds filled the room. Derek smiled in the video and asked Jaime, “You really are not giving him the miracle drug?”

"Come. Sit." I sat. She looked at me the way she always did, like she could see straight through whatever face I had decided to wear tonight. "How was the ceremony?" she asked. "Wonderful," I said. "Very glamorous. Very expensive. Very not us. Elder Mara wore her good robes. The ones without the gravy stain. So you know it was a special occasion." My mother's mouth curved. "And?" "And Victoria Hale is going to be Luna." I kept my voice light. "The whole pack is very excited. Someone released actual flower petals into the air Mama. With their hands. Like they had nothing better to do with them."

Well, it appears that it already is. After the ceremony, we had food laid out. Mom and Emlyn sent some sprites to help ours, so there is plenty of food to go around. I’m glad because with everything else going on, I hadn’t even considered that we’d need food to feed so many. But I should have. I’m this pack’s Luna and I need to be the one thinking of these things, even if I’m suffering my own grief. The day after Alpha Anders and Luna Calista’s funeral, everyone who hasn’t left, heads back to their packs. All of our packs are grieving, and we still have a witch out there who may or may not attack us again.

And that, I could be. Nora sat there, still trembling from the storm she’d spilled into the air. I lingered beside her, close but not crowding, letting the silence settle long enough for her to breathe. Yet her walls, those brittle defenses she always carried, were cracking wider with every heartbeat. “I’ve been holding it all in for so long,” she whispered, voice roughened by fatigue. “Even before this place. Before you. Before Caelum or Elias or anyone. Back in the human world, it was different, but not better. At best, I was invisible. At worst…” She laughed without humor, shaking her head. “At worst, they made me wish I could be invisible.”

Nora sat up from the her bed a d put on her fluffy flops. She then made her way out of her room. As soon as she stepped out of her room, she began hearing voices that obviously belonged to Rufus and Bella. They were arguing about stuffs she don't know and we're even raising hmtheir voices at each other. Nora got curious and wondered what could be the reason for their misunderstanding. Anyways, it shouldn't be her business, her prayers had always been for them never to have peace or happiness. Nora made her way slowly to the pool. Without wasting much time, she stepped into it and dipped herself completely leaving her head floating around the water.

Tera whispered softly in her heart. She stared at the dark ceiling, trying to release herself from Sebastian's embrace, but it was all in vain. While she was contemplating the fate of her mounting debts due to the Dom Perignon, Nora's whimpering voice could be heard. The little girl woke up from her sleep. Immediately, Tera caressed Nora's damp forehead, giving her reassurance and the belief that she wasn't alone. Nora, who felt Tera's attention and warmth, nodded, but instead of going back to sleep, Nora got up and held her stomach while grimacing in pain.

Nora admitted. Trisha laughed and handed her a bottle of water. “Drink. Before you pass out and ruin the moment.” Nora took it gratefully, twisting off the cap and taking a long sip. “That wasn’t supposed to happen.” “And yet,” Trisha said smugly, “it did.” Nora shot her a look. “You pushed me into that circle.” “I pushed you into the universe,” Trisha corrected. “Big difference.” Nora shook her head, but she was smiling now small, disbelieving. “I don’t even know him like that.”

STELLA I am woken from my restless sleep to Nora unlocking and opening the door, holding a screaming Aurora. She walks over to me and says, “I wouldn’t have a clue of how to look after one of these little monsters. I can never understand why anyone would want one of these things. They are horrid, noisy and smelly.” “That is another reason Axel would never make you his Luna or Queen. You don’t care about anyone but yourself..” Nora growls and then slaps me. She puts enough strength behind it this time to knock me to the floor. She then stands over me, growling.

Hazel snarled, the primal power in her voice causing Nora to take a step back. “I am Hazel, the rightful Luna, and I will not beg for what is rightfully mine.” The world seemed to pause for a moment, the wind stilled, the birds silent. Nora laughed loudly and the laugh was a mocking message “Oh you think you’re still relevant here, well let me bring it out to you..my brother is getting married to the mother of his unborn kids and also his Luna” Nora said The world snapped back into focus, the sheer absurdity of Nora’s words striking Hazel like a physical blow.

Jake and Hollis stopped walking to crowd around the two women, offering awe struck praise and the like. "That was in Berlin." Nora pointed to a picture of herself balancing on a tight rope, wearing white tights and a Cinderella blue sparkly body suit. She was on her tip toes, arms splayed out wide. A huge grin plastered across her heavily made up face. Her hair teased and curled into a gorgeous arrangement twice it's normal size. "You're from California I'm guessing? Since that's what Jake called you earlier." Nora started warming up to Whitney especially, wanting to know more about the bubbly artist. The group started trudging up a small hill as the conversation continued.