THIRD PERSON'S POV
“Everyone is dead,” The Alpha says in horror as he stares at the dead bodies of his people.‘The Darhk's had carried out a complete massacre of everyone present in the castle in his absence.He should have known leaving wasn’t a good idea, he did have a bad feeling earlier but Aurora, his mate, had assured him that it wasn’t anything serious and that he should go.But now he doesn’t even know where she is.He speeds up the stairs desperately praying that he finds her sitting down or most likely hiding or even unconscious at worst, regardless, he just hopes desperately that she is alive.He stands in front of his room, with his door wide open and an appalling sight is before his eyes.The sight before him as he walks into his room shatters him internally, it is the most deadly assault he has ever received, the most lethal blow a being could land on him, his mate, his queen, and lover lay mutilated before him, covered in her own blood.“ No!” The Alpha screams in horror and walks to the bed looking at the severed pieces of his beautiful mate, which is arranged to spell out the word 'DARHK', the collective name of the group of supernaturals who did this, right on their bed.He stands beside her staring down at the pieces of her body unable to bring himself to touch her.Her head is placed to start the spelling of the word and her eyes are wide open revealing an empty lifeless void that stabs his soul, quelling his source of life.Tears roll down his eyes as he goes through the turmoil of losing his mate, he takes a hand to his chest, right above his heart in a bid to ease the overwhelming pain in his heart.Amaeldria isn’t known to be one capable of reckless conflict, this act completely breaks the balance of peace within the realm.The act of murdering the mate of the Alpha, the tribrid king of the entire realm, is an act of war, but the act of mutilation and fearless desecration of the Alpha's mate, rather leads to complete alienation of the species involved without giving them a fighting chance.“ What shall we do?” Liam, a mage vampire and his closest ally says.“ We bury the queen and then rain hellfire on all those who caused this.” He says as darkness swells around him and his eyes turn pitch black, the exact color of his soul while staring at his only source of happiness laid in pieces before him.After mourning, comes war and after which comes expulsion.He is prepared for the worst.DECADES LATERJASMINE'S POVI have always suspected that my grandmother is sick due to the obvious signs. But whenever I asked, she’d lift her lips in a weak smile and say she was fine. For a few months, everything seemed completely fine until one night when I returned from school and overheard her weak voice over the phone.“No doctor, I won't be undergoing the surgery. I have kids to take care of if you have forgotten. I’ll come and get the drugs tomorrow. Thank you, doctor,” Grandma says as she ends the call“Good evening Granny,” I greet, announcing my presence.“Welcome sweetie, how was your day?”“It was okay, so uh, granny. Who was on the line just now?”“Oh, nothing for you to worry about," she says with a smile while using her thumb to caress my cheek.I smile weakly, confused about why she would reject surgery and then still try to hide the details from me. "You should go upstairs and help your brother, he has been waiting for you to come home," she completes, trying to change the topic.“Granny, please tell me who was on the line,” I insist.Grandma sighs, knowing that I will not let it go, and decides to tell me everything. She tells me how she is battling cancer and also about how she doesn’t have enough money to undergo any form of surgery, adding that the only things she can afford are drugs.The greatest shock is when she tells me that she has only till the end of the year to live. I feel so shocked that I don’t even know when we both start crying until I hear myself sob.“I don’t think it is necessary to spend so much money to prolong the inevitable and then forego you and your brother's upkeep,” Grandma says sadly with tears rolling down her eyes.I stand still processing everything just said when I get wrapped in a hug.“Don’t worry child, I'm not leaving you today, or tomorrow so be strong for both me and your brother, focus on your studies so that you will make me proud,” Grandma says as she soothes me while I cry.Months pass by and Grandma starts losing weight drastically, her hair falls off, and she becomes unable to walk, automatically becoming bedridden.I feel devastated and disbelief crowds my mind, my grandma is dying and I can’t do anything about it, my last parental figure is losing her life and I can’t stop it.The thought of dropping out of school has crossed my mind a number of times but each time I bring it up, the dying woman forbids it, insisting that I continue schooling.Several doctors have already confirmed that it was too late to help her and all they said was for me to take care of my grandma till the day she died.It feels like the world is coming to an end for me. How am I supposed to take care of my dying grandmother and my little brother Raphael when I can’t work as per her wish?I am just seventeen and my brother is five and we are going to lose our grandmother. Much to my dismay, I don’t have enough time to ponder about this as one night, grandmother calls for me. “Good evening granny,” I greet while sitting down beside the bed.“Hey sweetie, come closer," Grandma says beckoning me forward. I go and sit on the bed, holding her hands.“Sweetie, I have to say this before I’m unable to anymore," Grandmother says weakly.“No granny, please don’t sound like that, “I say with pleading eyes while shaking my head stubbornly.“Listen sweetie, I don’t have much time,” Grandma says in short breaths "In our family, we have a peculiar gift which you will soon come to find out about. You will soon turn eighteen and you will start noticing changes in your body.”I freeze up at the statement, wondering the kind of changes she is talking about, but Grandma continues anyway. "Listen, once these changes occur, you will be looked for by a lot of people, both evil and good, some may disguise themselves as friends in order to harm you. Be very careful sweetie, you have a very great destiny, one you cannot comprehend right now but as time goes on, you will.” She pauses and stares at me with a very strict look and a stern face. “ The only person you are to fully trust is your mate. He will come looking for you and he will find you. You would know exactly who he is to you immediately you lay your eyes on him.” Grandma says when she starts coughing severely before I can even respond.“Protect your heart. It's your greatest strength and weakness." Grandma continues between coughs.“Please Granny, just stay still and rest, you can continue tomorrow,” I say in haste when I see that she is about to continue talking again.Grandma stares at me as if she is pondering over something, then she smiles.“I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you earlier, at least this will give you more time to comprehend everything, you will have three more years of a normal life sweetie and then you will be thrown into a life you have no idea of, I’m sorry child that it has to be this way.” She says weakly and raises her right hand, placing it on my heart.“But don’t worry Jasmine, I will do in my death what I failed to do now that I’m alive.” She says as she begins murmuring words that I can’t understand.Just as she drops her hand, I start getting lightheaded but I don’t fail to notice when her heart stops beating.I cry so hard and cling to her hands when I see that she is dead. My heart feels so heavy and tears pour out my eyes freely, I feel my emotions drowning within.The air starts becoming intense as I struggle to breathe. Slowly, I start losing consciousness as I fall against the bed and on my grandma's corpse.***As the air calms down, the two females lay silently. One dead, one asleep.Suddenly, a soft glow starts emerging from Jasmine, straight from her heart till it envelops her entire body.No one knew what happened, or how it did and the only person that knew was dead.JASMINE’S POV I feel his hot breath on my neck as he pushes me to the wall trapping me in front of him. I am totally naked before him. It is pitched black and the usual black wisp of smoke emerging from his body surrounds us. All I can see are his blue eyes, all I do is feel. His hands trail down from my neck to my left breast, finding my already erect nipple, he circles it with his fingers and then flicks and tweaks it. I let out a moan as he applies pressure in massaging it. He makes a soft hum of satisfaction as I arch towards him seeking for more silently. He sets my body on fire with his touch and I would be damned if I stop him. I let out a needy sound as his other hand trails down my stomach towards my aching sex. His hand moves so slow that I am about to complain when his other hand leaves my left nipple and immediately caresses my right mound and tweaks the nipple even harder than the first as he sucks on my earlobes, sending high jolts of pleasure down to my already wet pus
I hail a cab and head to the office still very nervous but excited as well. The pay of the job is not as much as I want it to be but the company stated on the employment letter that is not fixed, and that the employee's performance will determine if the pay will be increased or not. I’m determined to put in my best effort, probably even more to ensure I get the pay up to what I’m comfortable with. I am about to relax and calm my excited nerves when I feel the car collide with another. “Jeez ouch! What happened?” I ask when I bump my head on the car door. “ I think I hit a car.” The cab driver says looking very worried as he gets down from the car to inspect the damage. “I'm so sorry, it was an accident.” I hear him say apologetically. “ What bloody accident will make you not see my trafficator or are you blind?” The other driver says angrily with a thick French accent. I get out of the car before the cab driver responds. I need to settle this nicely so I won't get late, first impre
JASMINE'S POV We got every necessary document we needed to base in New York without anyone’s knowledge a few weeks from the time we were supposed to leave. We were both eighteen, and I had just turned so recently, so the travel documents and all the others were not much of a problem. Considering that we both had people we were running from, we were determined to make it work. Reina had much more at stake if the plan were to fail as her guardian, MR Lawrence, who was given access to her inheritance did not show an atom of care towards her. Reina's parents believed that he would take great care of their only child since they had known him for so many years and had no other relative, but they were completely wrong as Reina was turned into a slave in her father's house which MR Lawrence and his family had moved into after her parents were buried, she was made to serve him and his family. She had no luxury at her disposal and lived a life of a common maid and was allowed to go to the best
* Flashback To The Night Of The Escape* THIRD PERSON POV Under the extremely heavy rain, in the opposite direction of the road path Reina and Jasmine are driving through, a driver drives in full acceleration according to the instructions of his boss who seems through his demeanor seems to be desperately trying to catch up with something. The alley looks deserted and creepy, without street lights, being covered by total darkness. The only source of light for those treading on its path are the car headlights which don’t stand out due to the heavy downpour of rain. Sensing the presence of two girls heading towards his direction who are not paying attention to the road they are driving on, the boss seated on the passenger seat of the opposite car decides to inform the driver to avoid the car moving speedily towards them but gets distracted when he hears Jasmine's voice, which pikes his interest and leaves him eager to keep listening, this is until a scream tears through her lips abrupt
*Flashback to the night of the burial* Noah's POV I don’t like the idea, not one bit. I feel Liam's gaze on me probing me for a response. I turn around and face the witch who brought about the ridiculous idea. “If I were to say yes, what would be the plan?” I ask her with a hard look. “Alpha, I will cast a location spell on her and you will find her and bring her here, she will be trained extensively on how to use her powers and will also be well protected.” The Witch says with a pleading look. I stare at her wordlessly waiting for her to continue as I know there is no way she can carry the spell out because she isn’t at full strength and she has failed several previous attempts which she doesn’t know I knew about. “Please Alpha, I have found a way of locating her, I have saved enough energy up till today just for this purpose, I believe I can pull it off.” She continues, urging me to accept. Knowing the fact that it is impossible for any witch, no matter how strong she is to ca
NOAH’S POV.For decades, I’ve found myself getting less attracted to women with each passing day, up until I met the blonde in the rain and recently, my red-haired employee. Surprisingly, both have the same color of eyes, deep green, with an out worldly glow in them, one could stare and get enchanted by it seems to be drawing me into them.The last time I let myself get distracted from my goal, terrible, bloody things happened to the people I cared about and I was not about to repeat the same mistake. Removing my focus from finding my mate and focusing on the root of such a trickle of attraction would be stupid and I pride myself on being someone who prioritizes important things and doesn’t get distracted.I walk over to the car and instruct the driver on the location of the place the meeting is to be held, and I’m about to get in when I hear footsteps running towards me.“Sir! ehm Mr. Noah, I'm sorry for my lack of coordination and my uncultured manners… towards both you and your
NOAH POV“Everywhere is drop-dead silent, no moving bodies, everyone stands in a frozen state.I look up and glare at the culprits.“I'm sorry Alpha.” Both the witch and werewolf say while my second in command just smirks. It's obvious that both the witch, Zara, and the werewolf, Druid, were dueling seriously, and the spear was enchanted.Still, with a hard face, I look around to find the entire place in a mess, with weapons scattered around.“Clean this up,” I say, which they hurriedly did, they know well enough that I don't need to give a verbal warning, the look is enough to tell them it shouldn't happen again.I look up the stairs to find Liam still standing with that foolish smirk on his face. It's a wonder I've tolerated his insolence this long.He has been there through every single thing that's why I give him the benefit of doubt and that's why he is my beta, the second in command.“Ectrapian,” I say with a low voice and before he could register that I cast a spell,
CHAPTER EIGHT“ See you tomorrow,” I say to my colleagues as I step out of the office. Today was surprisingly splendid unlike how it started. I got to my office and made a few changes as nearly everything was placed to my taste. Mrs. Greenwood was extremely nice and friendly even after I told her what Mr. Noah instructed.At the thought of him, I sigh loudly, 'what an arrogant man.’He is so infuriating, he made me so self-conscious the entire day after he called me Chipmunk. I kept checking myself in the mirror to see if I was in any way looking tattered. I even asked Mrs. Greenwood if my appearance at work is the right one. She gave me a weird look and asked why I would think it was not. I'm still wondering where he got the name from.I arrive at my apartment and I hear loud music coming from within I have a pretty good idea who is responsible for it. I walk into the open apartment to find Reina in a new extremely expensive-looking office suit with a bottle of sparkling wine i