“Okay! That totally just happened,” Sky said with a grin as he threw his arm around Damien in a side hug. “Oh, wow. You are something these days, Prince Damien. You just danced with the hottest chick in the whole of Maryland High in front of her parents. Not only were you not shot, but you also seemed to have been accepted as well. Wow”Damien laughed with a shake of his head “Tone it down,” he said as he looked over and waved at Isabella, Morgan, and some other girls to the side. The king had graced the occasion and left earlier. Isabella waved at Damien exuberantly, then cocked her head in the direction of Laura’s family. Morgan only smiled a bit before she looked away. She had changed a bit since Isabella officially declared her as her tutor and she was currently brushing up on her education so she could go to college as well. Still, Damien could feel that she still had her inhibitions.It must be from the fact that she had been betrayed by people who should have loved her from an
“Woohoo! Buddy! we are on our way to Stanford!” Sky bellowed as Damien drove the Rolls-Royce Boat Tail that King Saldus had customised for him. He looked at his friend and laughed out loud. “I was beginning to think that this was a real bad idea” he said and Sky widened his eyes in mock horror. “What?! You are not going to rain on my parade too, are you? I had enough sensible talk from Michel. I don’t want to do sensible for the next twenty-four hours. In fact for the next twenty days. I mean, come on, have a mercy on a heartbroken guy” he wailed out to the air. “You are not heartbroken” Damien said with laughter. “What? What do you call it when your boyfriend, whom you are in love with, specifically told you that he doesn’t think that you could work long-distance and he went right ahead to suggest you give yourselves some time apart? Uhm, what do you call that?” “Seperation” Damien said with a shrug and he laughed out loud at Sky’s expression. Sky merely turned away from him and
Isabella had decided not to partake in the madness that Sky had proposed. Sure, she liked that dude, but she was not about to give up her comfort for that. Nor did she take up Damien and Morgan’s playful suggestion that she could just teleport herself to the school if she so wanted. Surely her power had grown and she could control it better now, but she had no intention of using it on something so silly. She had this premonition that she would need all the power she had in store very soon. For the moment, she simply took her father’s private, enjoying the luxury of being pampered all the way to California while she laughed at the foolishness of her brother and his silly friend.Brother. Isabella mused at how easily that rolled off her tongue. She couldn’t imagine how easily she had come to accept Damien as family. Maybe it had to do with the fact that they had gone through a lot together in the past months. Morgan and he had become such a constancy in her life that she almost couldn’t
“Damn! I am really friends with a rich dude! Guy look at your crib!” Sky crowd as he got the first view of the blue and white-trimmed mansion. Of course, they had all seen it on the phone together but nothing came close to seeing it up close. Damien was overwhelmed for a moment as he wondered what he had done to deserve such a blessing. His mind automatically went to the events of the Big Chaos and he marvelled at the fact that humans that could be so brutal in their annihilation of his kind could be also capable of such magnanimity.“Let’s go check out the interior. I am sure it is going to be as badass as the exterior. If not more” Sky said as he opened the car door swiftly and jumped out. He looked at Dmaien, who was still behind the wheels “Come on, you want to sprout root out here in the driveway? I am not jumping on that plan, he said as he jogged over to the entrance, and took the porch steps in twos before he swore as he paused a few steps from the porch. “Dang it. I forgot th
Damien watched Isabella go upstairs and wondered what she had on her mind. He knew it wasn’t anything as she had said and he could remember the little talk that the king had with him before he came to school. The man was so nervous about letting his baby girl go that far from him. Though he never showed it in her presence. He had implored Damien to keep an eye on her for him. So technically, Damien was her guardian while they were in California. A fact that he was sure that he would almost kill him for if she knew. “You? A guardian? Pfft! And you couldn’t even get her to tell you what was weighing on her mind? Yeah, good luck with that” a voice that's rounded very much like that of Helios said. Damien start up straight and his drooping eyes cleared “Helios? Helios, are you here?” No answer. Damien lay back again as he wondered if he was hearing things now. He closed his eyes and lay against the headrest of the couch. He was tired from having to drive for almost half the day from S
Isabella couldn’t sleep. She tried as hard as she could but the comfort was just not coming at all. She had no idea if it was because of the change of location or the fact that she was hyped to start college life. She thought of different reasons that could be the cause for her unrest. Everything was considered and discarded as she tossed and turned on the large princess bed piled high with fluffy pillows. Everything except the one thought that her mind chided away from.No, Isabella refused to think of the fact that she was restless because of the presence of that arrogant bastard. She was certain that the fact that she thought that he might be here for her had nothing to do with why she was tossing and turning. Though the room was fully conditioned and the staff that arrived at the house minutes after they arrived, had made the room as comfortable as possible did nothing to alleviate her discomfort. They had had a roast for dinner. It was one of the simple food that Isabella loved a
When Isabella remembered what happened to the victim who had only gone on screaming and screaming, as the assailant broke her limbs rhythmically before bashing her head in, without ever trying at all to save herself, she instantly made up her mind not to go down like the hapless victim in her books.“Get DNA under your fingernails” was the first thought that came to her mind as she reached out to hit the man as he stepped in her path.“Woah!” the man dodged her fist and stepped nimbly to the side as she lashed out with a power kick then he quickly wrapped his arms around her as she almost fell over from her kick.Adrenaline pumping, Isabella clawed at the bastard’s arms that were banded tightly across her midriff in a strong band. Frustrated tears came to her eyes as a thought came to her mind that this strong man wouldn’t be easy to throw off after all. Her struggle seemed futile against his strength as he held her tightly against his body, her back to his body and all she could feel
College life was everything that Damien had pictured it to be and more. Sky had filled him in on what they were to expect even before they got the news that Standford University accepted their applications. The orientation program was iconic on its own. Damien had to tamp down the excitement of his urge when packed together with those mass of bodies. The increasing attraction he felt for females of the opposite sex couldn’t be denied as well. The only thing that had stopped Damien from the urge of acting on his increasing fascination with the opposite sex was the fact that he couldn’t picture all the activities that Sky explained in detail without thinking of having a chunky bite out of the long swan-like neck of these beautiful and curvy girls too. He had once thought of telling Sky that but since that would alert Sky to the fact that Damien had fed. Though Damien felt somehow about the fact that he had not informed the man who called him friend about such vital information but the