AroThe spell or whatever it was from Miriam’s book had backfired. The dark magic has strangled the seer to death. When I approached her parents, Arwan had given me a sympathetic look, while Fen had looked at me as if I’d grown two extra heads. She scolded me about non-spirit

CRACK!            I had delivered almost one hundred lashes to his back; he had only grunted as each landed. My arm was tiring, and I could tell from the way his head and shoulders were beginning to sag that I had achieved my first goal. He would listen to my story as he knelt in a pool of his own blood. I set the whip aside and moved in front of him.            “Now you will listen.” I whispered as I lifted his face to me.*Flashback*            “Katherine, this is madness! You can’t do this; they will kill you!” My voice

                                                                  Aro             “So you’re the witch that was with that traitorous wolf.” I spat, clearing my mouth of the blood that had begun to pool.            “I’m a hybrid, unlike my sister I never developed a wolf. I only have the enhanced strength, speed, and sense from my wolf side.” Dietrick responded.            “And yo

                                                                  AroI watched Miriam as she slept in our bed. She had been out cold for days. I had picked up her limp body from the floor, fearing that what I had witnessed when she lost control had killed her. I barely had time to fret over my mate when we were surrounded by wolves and fae. The barrier had fallen as soon as Miriam had used her magic to rip the hybrid’s head from his body, and our men had come flooding into the great hall.            Her parents had tried to comfort me, telling me she needed a lot of rest as we made our way back to the keep. Fen seemed as if an unconscious fae was a normal

“You know that we are now the rulers of all five kingdoms, right?” Aro asked after we had returned to our rooms for lunch. “Your birth parents insisted that they hand over their kingdom to their rightful heir, you.”            I stared at my mate dumbfounded. My birth parents had shown up in the midst of the madness, talking about me being prophesized to reunite all five kingdoms, but I hadn’t expected them to just hand over the spirit kingdom. I was still a stranger to them after all, I had grown up believing I was water clan. I picked over my food, mulling over what Aro had just said, not quite able to wrap my mind around everything.            “Miriam.” He said, pulling my attention fr