“What? No... Wait, you're not well Wayne!” Dolly yelled after him and ran to hold him back. Jake got on his feet and so did the rest of the men. He hurried to Dolly and stopped her from going after their Alpha.“Don't worry. We'll go with him. Just stay here with Olive, okay? If we don't get here in time, just call us as soon as the surgery's over. Okay?” he told her in a soothing voice. She looked at Wayne's receding back as he took the turn down the hallway and went out of sight. She gulped nervously. She was too worried about her brother.“But he... He's injured, Jake,” she protested.“The injuries have been attended to. And he heals rapidly, remember?”“What about his emotional wounds? Would they heal rapidly? Wayne loves Olive so much. He could go on a rampage because of what happened to her. You know him!”“Which is why we're following him. Stay here, okay? Call Vanessa too,” Jake stated and began to hurry away with the men. They were all wearing leather jackets of black, brown
All the men knew instantly that this detective of a woman just crossed a line. Their faces showed that what she said was bad, but she didn't know why.Even the Police Captain didn't understand why their faces looked horror struck. It wasn't like they were shocked by the revelation. It was like they were shocked at the audacity of the revelation.Captain Luiz looked to the Alpha to see if he had the same expression as his men. But Alpha Knight's eyes were shut. He had crossed his arms and all veins popped out as if he was carrying a very heavy weight. His jaws were clenched tight but he appeared calm. He never opened his eyes to look at them.“I'm sorry but did I say something wrong?” Detective Kelly Reynolds asked. This wasn't the reaction she expected from them when she broke the news.“Uhm, Detective Reynolds. Don't you think you're wrong? If you say she was responsible for the attack, then why would she make herself a casualty? She's
Wayne arrived at the hospital and ran as fast as he could, tracing Dolly's scent. He saw that a few thugs were destroying things in the hospital and the police was trying to round them up.He could perceive the same dark energy coming from them all. But, it didn't belong to them. It was foreign to their soul's energy. They were under something's possession.Alpha Knight frowned deeply and ran upstairs, taking the stairs because he was not patient enough to just stand doing nothing in the elevator. As he zapped to the final floor, where he perceived Olive would be kept, he began to hear noises. Someone grunting and hitting objects. His heart failed.“Olive. No... Olive,” he kept muttering to himself as he tried to locate them. Dolly's scent was so strong now. But so was the smell of the dark energy.He found and entered the ward the sound was coming from and his eyes widened. Dolly was in a direct combat with one of her colleagues, Doctor Aurelius. He was
Terry and Crusoe were the ones who accompanied Wayne to the car. They were looking all around, trying to see if there was anything unusual. Or if anyone was looking at them. However, outside was quite calm. Only a few policemen were standing around, on guard. Wayne walked to the car and Terry opened the backseat for him to lay down Olive.“You are driving, Terry,” he said as he sat down on the seat while still carrying Olive instead of laying her down. He didn't want to part with her. Terry nodded and entered the driver's seat.Crusoe sat at the passengers side and Terry drove out. On the way, Wayne was very much at alert. He didn't let Terry drive fast. First, because he didn't want to make his mate feel uncomfortable with the speed. He loved how she was sleeping peacefully.And second, because he was listening and filtering the environment. However, everything seemed calm until they arrived at the castle.Dolly had arranged for Olive a few things alread
Olive heard the noise and she worriedly stepped out of the bed. What was happening there?“Wayne?” she called weakly. She couldn't breathe properly.“Wayne,” she called again and took slow steps forward. She kept walking slowly until she reached the door. She opened it and came face to face with Wayne.“Hey,” she hailed and he smirked.“Missed me already?” he asked with mischief laden in his voice. She rolled her eyes and looked out of the hallway.“I thought I heard a noise,” she stated.“I mistakenly broke a vase. That's all,” he shrugged and held her waist.“It's cold out here in the hallway. Let's go back inside,” he said and helped her walk back into the room.“I'm worried, Wayne,” Olive mumbled and hugged his arm as he walked with her to the bed.“You don't have to be. Everything's under control,” he whispered and patted her hair gently with his palm. His thumb rubbed soothingly on her forehead and he bent down to
(OLIVE'S VISION PART 1)Lois, a petite, beautiful brunette—hated her boss so much she often imagined breaking his nose. Who wouldn't want to break Elijah Stern's nose? He was such a freak and psychotic human, and all his employees detested him.Lois had to rush home for dinner with her family in two hours, but could she? Elijah Stern had given her double of her work and she couldn't leave the company in the next five hours. She had to send five different emails to over a different hundred clients, and she had to scan a bulk of hard copy documents into the company's system. That was too much work for her to do under three hours. She decided to call her mother and apologize.“Hello, Mom,” she began, with her eyes still glued to the monitor and her fingers moving quickly over the keyboard. The phone was tucked between her ear and upraised shoulder.“Please, don't tell me you are not coming for dinner,” her mother said immediately she picked up the call. Lois closed her eyes and sniffed.“
(OLIVE'S VISION PART 2)After Lois's long bath, she got dressed in one of her old dresses and blow dried her hair with her brother's blow drier. She walked to the dining room and helped her mother set the table.“Where is Dad and Percy? I checked his room and he wasn't there,” she said to Rebecca.“They both went to get some wine. I didn't know we had none for the dinner,” Rebecca replied.“All right,” she mumbled.“Hey are you alright?” Rebecca inquired after finding out her daughter looked rather gloomy.“No. I just found out Walter Lance is having a match here soon. And I can't afford the ticket,” she answered.“Oh, my poor baby. It must be the VIP match I heard about. It's limited to a few people so they made the ticket expensive in order to check some people out,” Rebecca cooed.“Yeah. Not fair though.”“Don't worry, you'll get to see him another day.” Rebecca kissed Lois's forehead and entered the kitchen. The front door opened then and Percy walked in with their Dad. They were
(OLIVE'S VISION PART 3)Finally, it was the Saturday of the match. Lois couldn't wait to watch the game and she even got a new hairdo for the event. She had her nails done, got a very nice sports wear and bought a new pair of shoes. It was a VIP event, so she wanted to look like a VIP.She took one last look at herself in the mirror. Her white joggers were neat and fitted her white sneakers. She wore a fancy white crop top and a baseball hat, with her ponytail sticking out from it.“I look superb!” she squealed and jumped happily.“I bet Walter Lance is going to see me dazzling in the stands”, she joked and twirled around.She then looked at her wristwatch and it was thirty minutes to the time of the match. She grabbed her white fanny pack and clasped it over her arm then walked out of her room. She entered her kitchen and took a bottle of soda, gulped it down and returned it to the fridge. Then she headed out of her house.She entered her Uber and in a few minutes, she was off to the
“I half expected you'd not give me back my dagger,” King Xandros joked as soon as he stepped out of the forest, the way he had done two days before. Only Wayne and Olive were standing there to meet him. The others had mostly returned to Balendin Pack earlier. “I just finished one war with a vampire, I'm not quite ready to start another,” Alpha Knight joked in the same light.The vampire king laughed. It was so soft and innocent a stranger could fall for it. If he didn't see the fangs that is.“Wise of you. Very wise. Well, thank you for bringing it back.”He lifted his hand and the dagger lying on the soil rose to meet it. King Xandros looked it over, examining every crystal on it and the way the moon's glow bounced off the sharp blade.“It's not a fake. It's the very same knife,” Olive declared. King Xandros smirked.“If it wasn't the same knife, I'd have known the moment I stepped foot on the ground. I'm just... wondering how it felt like to have plunged into Prince Valerik's hea
Olive woke up abruptly after a nightmare. She saw The Baron touching her again and her Firewolf hadn't damned the bloody dampeners this time. She exhaled and rubbed her neck, right over her physically hidden mark. She looked around her and realized she was in a very cosy tent. The walls were icy. Literally icey and as she looked around with compression, she realized her mate had iced the entire tent.Why?“Burning hot you were. So hot you could have barbecued us all from fifty metres away.”Olive looked up to see Mufasa threading carefully towards her on the ice ground. She smiled brightly but couldn't bring herself to hug him. She had no strength.“Beautiful to see you back with us, my dear. Believe me, life without you is not worth living. Especially as your mate took it upon himself to personally see to our premature deaths.”Olive laughed at this. “Here. Drink this all up. It's the Ethe Orbs but for a different purpose for you. You need strength.”Olive gulped it all down but ma
The Baron smirked and Olive would have given anything in the world to just smack it off his face. “That one is very dear to me. He came in two days ago, two days after you came. You both are very dear,” he drawled. “Let him go. Don't you dare hurt him. Or any one of them!”“Sssh now. I said I wouldn't keep them if you complied. I'll free them if you strip.”“Never.”He shrugged.“Well then. I'm very sure this suit doesn't stop them from getting a brain rush. They can stay upside down for as long as it takes for them to choke on their own blood.”Olive exhaled and shut her eyes. She tried to summon something, anyone, anything. But she was blank on the inside. She looked at the manacles around her ankle and gritted her teeth. She knew what they were. Special Vrek Cult punishing tools. “I see you recognize the dampeners. Good. You will remain helpless for as long as it would take to get you to cooperate.”With this, The Baron flicked his hand and darkness clothed the cave again. His c
The safety edge was drawn up again for the third time in two weeks of nonstop fighting. This time, however, the Unbidden Army seemed to be dwindling in their numbers. Hopefully, they would soon run out of all unbidden warriors and The Baron would show himself for the final battle.Alpha Knight's hair was chin length now and he had it tied to the back of his head in a small ponytail. The effect of using his powers was shown in the growth rate of his hair.He was now standing in one of the tents, receiving reports of the war and how the people enclosed in their safety facilities were faring. A huge frown was on his face as he listened to a new report.Some of his soldiers were missing and they had last been sighted while fighting.“It's extremely strange. Even their mind links have been silenced. Nothing from them, as if they are dead,” one of the commanders revealed.Alpha Knight shut his eyes and traced them. He felt their auras and followed the trail. It kept going and going and goin
The suits were ready in two days. They were this full-body, extremely fitting like-a-second-skin, midnight blue, superhero-like suits. They clung to the bodies of the soldiers like wet polyester and were as tough as metal when struck from the outside. However, they weren't heavy neither did the soldiers feel like they were wearing the toughest and strongest uniform on earth. Impenetrable. After training with the new uniforms and suits for a whole day, Alpha Knight called the next day a day of partial rest then the following day they would move out to war. A pathway had been created from their park to the hideout location of The Baron by the joint work of Ami, Lutz and more Alchemists. All they had to do was march through the massive pathway only the Alpha family could control and they would wage war on the side out of the blue. The partial rest day had already begun, soldiers were milling around fully dressed, weapons strapped in and ready for war. But they were laughing and jesting
The hustle and bustle in the pack was evident even to a napping baby. The entire pack had more tension than the electrical tension wires around the pack. Pack members were growing nervous and fearful, with all the rumours of war and vampires flying around. Some were trying to leave the pack but Alpha Knight ordered that no one left. At first, it seemed like a tyrant command. But it soon became clear to them that if they had left the pack and were attacked, what would they do? None of the packs had the security that Balendin Pack had, and surely they wouldn't even accept them in. The human world was out of the question for those who had never left their realm. If they fled Balendin Pack at the moment, they would just be rogues—not accepted in any pack and not able to return to their own pack. There was also that fear surrounding the rumours of disappearing rogues. It could be anything. Alpha Knight had summoned his generals and commanders, ordering them to get troops ready to be depl
“Gia's head!” Olive gasped, a chill running down her spine at the revelation.Wayne nodded, his jaw locked tight.“That's what it looks like,” he affirmed. “What's the order, Alpha,?” Jake inquired, his face just as rigid as his Alpha's. “Send orders to get her detained at the border. She shouldn't step foot on our land. Send word to General Kalif to meet me at the board room in five minutes.”Jake nodded and bounded off immediately. Olive crossed her arms.“What are you thinking?” she asked. His thoughts were quite jumbled up she couldn't understand a thing.“Wondering why he went this extra length just to send a message,” he answered and began to walk. They followed after him. “Wayne, what if it's a trap?” Shem asked.“That is also crossing my mind,” his brother answered.Olive exhaled as they got into the elevator. Her heart was racing. If that was truly Gia's head, then The Baron had just used her and now disposed her off. Typical villain behaviour. She never liked Gia but she
The camp was empty safe for a massive building that was like a stone tower. There was a huge field surrounding it, cleared clean of trees, shrubs and plants. Calor could smell it.“Damn, it that's foul!” Olive sneered and gagged. “The Unbidden Army. They smell dead,” Astra explained. “But where are they?” Wayne asked, looking at the camp through Astra's vision too.“Underground, in that building. Laying low,” she replied. A few men with thick leather hoods were stationed outside, and there was an occasional movement of other people to and from the tower. A few tents were pitched on the field and they contained a few people.“How can we attack and besiege this place? It doesn't look impossible but...I kinda feel like there's more to this place than any we see,” Olive noted.“You shouldn't even be seeing this place in the first place,” Calor communicated. “Why?”“Because it's warded. Heavily warded to be simply invisible. No one should see or access it. But we can. And by that, I me
The van parked in front of the castle and they alighted. The fresh air hit their faces and Olive took in a deep breath. She was home. Oh, she missed home so much. She couldn't wait to see the guys. Alpha Knight came around her and sneaked his arm around her waist.“How does it feel?” she asked, looking up into his face as he gazed at his magnificent castle. The sun was setting already and the glow illuminated the building.“Feels like peace,” he answered and looked down at her.“I thought you felt at peace wherever I was?” Wayne chuckled.“I feel at home wherever you are. But I feel at peace when you're home with me.”Olive rolled her eyes.“You're just good with words,” she muttered and he laughed. “Are we heading in or gazing at the castle like it's a new building?” Jake asked as he made his way towards the entrance. Olive chuckled and followed after Jake, with Wayne right beside her. Her Guard followed behind them and they entered the castle together. Guards nodded pleasantly at