Tora From Midnight Poppy Land Novels & Stories

(Reference chapter- To The Claiming Of You, My Boss Is My Tormentor) ____ A. Gupta

My gaze landed on the club's name, and a giggle escaped my lips. "Tango Hearts," I said out loud, looking back at Mila. "What is that supposed to mean? "I don't know," she said. "But it sounds catchy." I rolled my eyes, picked up the mask, and put it on. The driver helped us out, and I followed Mila to the door. She showed the bouncer something, and he let us in. "What did..?" "Mate!" Willow howled excitedly in my mind, cutting me off and fighting for control.

Then the laptop opened a new message by itself. Adrian reached for the power cord, but Marcus stopped him. “Wait.” A live feed loaded. The same white room appeared. Milo sat there now, older, breathing, alive. A red timer began counting down from sixty minutes. No one spoke at first. The timer continued. Fifty-nine minutes. Fifty-eight. Lucas felt each second like a nail being pressed into his skin. He reached for the screen, but Adrian caught his wrist before he touched it. “They want you moving without thinking,” Adrian said.

And then the worst nightmare was about to come true, they were going to pounce on her; At the next very moment, one of them jumped at one of those helpless omegas. All I saw was red. I approached them at full speed and with a leap, I caught that rouge's neck between my cannies in mid-air before he could even reach the omega and tore his head away from his filthy body soon as my paws hit the ground. His nasty blood was all over my fur and Sierra shook it away. "Luna...." The omega I just saved, her barely audible gasp came into my ears; She knew me, she knew I was not Ashley yet she called me...Luna.

Maybe in her next life, she won't stumble upon a creature like Lorik. I got up and took a matchbox from one of my guys, lit it, and then tossed the burning matchstick on the lime-yellowish powder. The powder welcomed the flame and quickly roared, spreading so fast and licking every inch of her body. Her lungs tore open as the ear-shattering scream erupted from the inside, filling the early morning sky with her pained cry. The scent of the burned fleshed polluted the air, making it so unbearable to the hearts of the innocent. I was not innocent, and that word didn't exist in my world. And to prove that, her cry soothed me, calmed me in a way I couldn’t tell.

Starting from a weak thud of a drum, it ascended and suddenly reached a crescendo. A burst of light hit Luna's eyes, momentarily blinding her as the dense trees suddenly opened up. Closing her eyes, she had to blink a couple of times to adjust her vision. And as if clearing a hazy veil covering an unknown realm, time stilled for Luna. Every noise was muted except for the thundering sound of rushing water hitting the surface. For in front of Luna was a waterfall born out of fairy tale stories.

I blinked in confusion catching my breath, “Who? Who is this woman?” Eric’s eyes turned dark, “Tamara… She is my... associate. Don’t fret my Love she is harmless. I have been expecting her I’ve just been..” He cleared his throat, “Side tracked.” I averted my gaze realizing I was the distraction. “I’ll be in a meeting with her. If you enter that meeting my Love you will practically be signing the papers as my wife. Tamara is a busy woman and doesn't like to wait on such things.” “Oh.”

I asked, looking around for someone I thought Manny might hang out with. My jaw almost dropped when a very alluring woman laid her hand gingerly on his shoulder. She had shiny black hair, flawless pale skin, with large round eyes. She was stunning and mysterious all at the same time. She had on a small dress with thin straps and a little slit over her thigh. She had all the right curves that were just accentuated by the red dress. Holy shi.t, Manny picked up a hot girl! "I'm Tora." She introduced herself, extending her hand out towards me. "I'm Manny's cousin."

But while I climbed down some demons started to emerge from the broken wall beneath my feet. "Lucif! Lucif!" Linda screamed my name in terror. I moved faster and escaped the grasp of the last demon in the last second. The ground underneath our feet was still shaking terribly and there were cracks on the ground which seemed to be getting bigger and bigger. But while I put Linda down and turned to the others I saw the last thing I could have ever expected. Pablo's both hands were held back by a dried up tree as he struggled to release himself. A snake's tail was wrapped around Diana's waist, holding her up.