The Strain Trilogy Novels & Stories

She then went ahead to pack her hair in an updo, revealing her slender neck before turning to her uniform. A corporate attire of black tight-fitting pants, a white button up shirt and a bow tie, coupled with nice black heels that were comfortable enough to work on and a pair of earrings for finishing touches. When she was done, she stared at herself in the mirror and smiled. Danica was beautiful, she knew it and everyone who ever laid eyes on her knew it. She picked up her bag, right at the same moment, her phone rang. Tristan was the one calling and for a strange reason, it made her heart skip a bit. They had been talking good the past few days till it was late in the night. But she never t

I said without hesitation. “Where?” he demanded. I shook my head. “My turn for a question.” He laughed. “So it is.” “What is the Trinary?” I asked. “A group of three very dangerous assassins who pool their resources on occasion and help each other out from time to time,” he replied. “Now, where?” I gave him latitude and longitude coordinates. Those coordinates would be burned into my brain forever because I knew I’d arranged a slaughter there. “Excellent. Ibrahim, are you taking notes?” he asked.

Everyone jumped. Carla immediately rushed into the room. She saw Amanda covering her mouth, her eyes red as she stared at the floor. "Mom, what happened? What..." She walked closer as she spoke. Then she froze. The long straw was lying on the floor and broken in half. "It broke?" Her breathing became shaky. A terrible feeling settled in her chest. She and Amanda looked at each other. At the same time, they remembered what the fortune teller had said years ago. "These straws decide life and death. The short straw represents the younger son. The long straw represents the older son. If one breaks, it means that soul has been destroyed."

Outside, loud music blasted—a tradition when our group of friends gathered. I screamed and shouted, but no one heard my cries. As he smeared sticky saliva over my face, all I could do was struggle to grab a lamp from the bedside desk, smashing it over his head. Then, I made a run for it, stumbling towards the window. Jeremy was like a monster, relentlessly chasing me after he recovered. I threw myself over the windowsill, and as I hit the ground, I clearly felt warm blood gushing out between my legs, as if a life was slipping away.

“This is not about him. This is about our sisterly relationship.” “Then you’ve got nothing to worry about. I’m the one who slept with a stranger and refused to take a morning-after pill. And that wasn’t on purpose. I had slept with Zion a couple of times and I didn’t get pregnant. I thought I wasn’t a very fertile lady so a night with a stranger without protection was probably nothing. But it’s cool. I can’t imagine living a life without Ryan in it. He is my greatest blessing of all.” “The stranger’s sperm was definitely stronger than Zion’s own.”

Maryl was quiet thinking of what to do so her mission for the day wouldn't be known to the man standing with his hands pocketed in front of her. "Let's meet up sometime maryl". said cyrus seeing as she kept quiet."let's catch up on old times.i have missed your company dearly". "That's not possible cyrus and you know that".maryl said."the bond has been broken ever since that day.i want nothing to do with either you or klaus". Maryl then walked away leaving cyrus who stared at her back. *********** Maryl tried to regain her ruined mood as she continued to walk to her destination.

The Queen family had returned to their little Empire and Susan summoned all the workers in the house, the oil stain was still present on the stairs because Susan had strictly instructed that no one should clean it off. She needed it as evidence to show her husband that there was a traitor in their midst.

They even deployed different tactics against each other, including sending beautiful girls to each other. However, Edric was completely immune. He declined all of the girls that Jordan sent his way. Even though Jordan didn't succeed, Edric was getting really annoyed. Jordan was really persistent. However, Edric would never have expected the true intention of sending numerous beauties his way, Jordan wanted to steal Edric's sperm for Irene. Edric didn't fall for Jordan's tricks and hence, Jordan was caught at a dead end. How could Edric be so firm and resist all the temptations that presented themselves before him?

That had been my final year of High school. My third and most heartbreaking disillusionment came with Connor, my boyfriend of almost three years, when he turned violent and physically abused me. I would’ve still continued to love him, be with him, if it weren’t for my two best friends Grace and Ken, and Grace’s then boyfriend now fiancé, Daniel, who’d taken a hit for me when Connor had wanted to smash a beer bottle on to my head.

Now that Chloe was out of the way, Veronica took aim again at Nicki. "Jon get out of the way," Veronica shouted. Jonathan had Nicki in a stranglehold and flipped him over, so they were both on their backs with the naked Nicki on top. Nicki clawed at Jon's vice grip, gurgling and choking and trying desperately to get free.