True Grit Novel Novels & Stories

CHAPTER 17 Engaging The Citizen, Not the Wolf POV: Elara It was snowing. I spent the whole morning watching the snow drift past the glass. Each flake was a tiny reminder of how much I hated the cold. It was quiet here, too quiet, no psychic thrum of the Crescent Pack’s collective anxiety vibrating in my teeth. I lay there lifeless, felt like a ghost haunting my own ribcage.

Her body was already getting tired, but she could not afford to stop running now. She kept running down the quiet street, and just when she thought of slowing down to catch her breath, she missed her steps and fell, rolling down the slope. She grunted in pain as she looked at her bruised hands and legs. Her whole body was now very dirty, and she looked like she was just fished out of the dirt. She pulled her weak body up and started raining insults on Fred for putting her in this situation for something so trivial as tears pricked down her face.

Weakness covered his body while Gritz continued to hurt him. When Gritz was done, he went upstairs like nothing happened. He didnʼt even give a shit about his son. Leones gritted his teeth and covered his mouth. The fear and pain he had tucked tightly in his chest finally exploded into streams of tears. Going away from Gritz became one of his options but where will he go? The Luz family isnʼt rich unlike the Vigliancos. Although the Viglianco family was living peacefully without luxury, their wealth, like gold bars and diamonds, were hidden somewhere.

Fist clenched, breath drawn deep, I channeled strength into my core. My fist collided with the tree's trunk. Crack! Two fissures erupted from the point of impact, racing outward, splitting the trunk in two. Shock painted their faces. The tree's crown lurched, crashing down with a 'whoosh!' The earth trembled, leaves took flight. I shook out my hands and faced them squarely. "Had I actually pushed her, she'd be in the hospital right now." Alice's tears ceased, her complexion ghostly. Victoria's rage gave way to terror, her grip on Alice's arm so fierce that her nails could have drawn blood.

He stopped, closed his eyes and slowly drew in air, and had them out when his lungs had it maximum capacity at hand. He first turned to Devon, and deadpanned, then he made another turn the opposite way, and walked to the gym's exit. He left the gym, and for some reason, Devon was not entirely surprised. Many were stunned. Mr Grundy had the "I told you so" look swimming all around his face... He couldn't hide it. Devon simply crash landed a sigh, and thought of how stupid he must have made Adrian feel for imposing on his person with such a request.

This is the last one. “Calm down. This isn’t exactly as easy as grocery shopping,” Grizz scoffs as he rolls his eyes- I mean his eye- at me. He told Yaya and me the story about how his former Alpha sliced out his eye during a fight. The same Alpha who held me and Yaya hostage, and is still keeping my sister locked in a dirty cell. Grizz slicks back his black hair, the color of freshly spilled ink. I can’t help but dart my eyes to his eye patch. It makes the iciness of his remaining eye more prominent. “How long until you can finish this batch?” he asks as he plops down on the worn-out, reddish-orange chair in the corner. A small cloud of dirt and dust floats away when he does.

JUPITER POV Keeping tabs on Grisha was as fun as it got. I still couldn’t believe that the little naïve girl with big-ass framed reading glasses was the golden phoenix who was going to bring us salvation and save the world from the hands of Anuka. It was still a very foreign concept even though I wanted to make deal with it. From the scrolls, Grisha would be strong, domineering, unstoppable. And the little girl who was not only 18 but also man-blood was really far from what was written in the scrolls! Well, except for her insanely dominating aura even though she was just meek, and pretty much killable!