The Beginning After The End Tessia Novels & Stories

The gold was gone. “You did it,” she breathed. Kael swallowed hard. “No,” he rasped. “We did.” Aria pressed her forehead to his, trembling. For a moment, there was only them, the smell of earth and blood, the sound of the Hollow settling around them. Then footsteps approached. Tessa emerged from the treeline, her rifle slung across her back, eyes wide at the sight of the sealed ground. “Tell me that’s over.” Kael forced himself upright, each movement slow. “For now.”

Tears spring to the corners of my eyes. My head whips back and forth frantically, searching hopelessly for an exit. I breathe out a sigh of relief when I finally spot a door to my left. Still dazed, still deaf, still panicking, I manage to stumble towards the door and slam it shut behind me, fleeing into the cool air of the night. Evander’s POV As I’m caught up socializing with the rest of the partygoers, I catch my gaze drifting occasionally towards Tessa.

Moonlight filtered through the clouds, turning everything silver and strange. In the center of the clearing stood a structure. Not a building exactly, more like a ruin. Broken columns and crumbling walls, covered in vines that seemed to move slightly in the darkness. At its heart was a stone platform, raised a few feet off the ground. Tessa was kneeling on the platform. Her hands were bound behind her back, her head bowed. She looked smaller than I remembered. Older. Her gray hair hung loose around her face, dirty and tangled. My heart slammed against my ribs.

“Wow.” My grip on tightened on the railing. "Damn, what got you so hard?" Bitch was salivating. I could hear it in her voice. "Nothing." Sebastian said. "Can we drop it." "No, I want to know. Tell me." Shit, can she back the fuck off? "I told you it's nothing." “Okay…” Tiffany’s tone softened, turning almost sugary. “Then do you want help with that? I mean… we’ve done it before.”

But she wouldn’t let go. Her silver eyes glowed even brighter, and with a final, brutal twist— She ripped his throat out. Scar's body went limp. His massive form collapsed onto the blood-soaked ground with a heavy thud. For a moment, everything was silent. Then— Kael let out a breath. “It’s over.” Henry shook his head in disbelief. “We won.” But then Tesla turned. Her silver eyes locked onto them. And something wasn’t right. Her fur bristled. Her body trembled slightly, as if battling something unseen. Her ears twitched, her breaths coming in short, ragged bursts.

"I'm so tired of the excuses, of the lies. You can be the victim all you want, but this is what it's been reduced to, right here, right in front of us." She'd opened her mouth again, and I'd cut her off. "I don't want to hear anymore. I have made up my mind already." Tears sprang into her eyes as she took a step back. Her voice came low. "Aiden, please, just listen-" "No," I said sharply. "You're fired, Tessa." There it just hung in the air, like some kind of sentence. I watched as it finally seeped into her brain. Her face just crumpled and just for that second I almost wished that I could take it back. Almost.

It had moved her. "Only me?" William let out a mocking laugh. "If she only loved me, then why did she run away again when I was at my worst?" "I–" Tina was at a loss for words. I had already been shattered into pieces by grief. "I didn’t run, William. I never ran away. I’ve always been here." He couldn’t hear me. In his rage, he grabbed a box from the ground. It was the one I used to store our photos. There were pictures of us climbing Mount Titancrest and hiking the Stormridge Heights. Everytime we reached a peak, he would pull me close to take a picture. He once said that one day, we would look back and reminisce on all these photos when we were old.

Rollins shouted following Richard. Duncan's Mansion. *TESSA* I jumped on my bed after dressing up in my pyjamas. I couldn't stop day dreaming about Christian. I am loving him right now, how I wish he is my boyfriend. His looks are breathtaking, his black curly hair appreciates his eyebrows as they almost touch each other. I looked at my phone repeatedly expecting his call. I kept myself busy with a novel, I got tired of it so soon.

“Or don't you remember me?” He stopped walking, so did the girl. “You?” He pointed at her with a poker face. The girl smiled, her blue eyes radiating joy as she clapped her hands together. “So you do remember me.” Damien shook his head and adjusted the collar of his shirt. “I don't know you and I don't want to know you.” “But we met yesterday night,” her expression faltered as she stared at him. “I'm Tessa, the Alpha's daughter. Don't you remember?”

“What took you so long there? And what happened? Why did you run?” Jaira asked me. “Just focus on driving fast, okay?” I answered. I am hoping that the man in the bar earlier didn’t follow us anymore. “What really happened there, Andricia? Can you please explain to me?”