"So, what are we going to do about this?" Hera asked. "We have to find him...and we have to do that fast.""How did this even happen? I mean when Romeo went missing, I understand that they would have caught him while he was drunk," Lord Romeo eyed him when he heard that, but didn't say anything, "but not Valentine. He hardly drinks and thinks twice about his decision unless he's provoked." Though Valentine was the calmest among the Trio. While Alpha Luca went on in his quest of beating the shit out of everyone who was crossing his path, and Lord Romeo went on 'living his life, you could find Lord Valentine in his study, reading a good book, or in his room sleeping. It was one of the reasons people underestimated him sometimes, because of his calm personality—until he proved them wrong. You could never tell his next move, or read his thoughts from his expression, that's what made him even more dangerous when messed with.Hera looked over to Lord Romeo, though he looked deep in thought
Cassie's eyes were glued to the dead man hanging upside down from a hook above like one would hang a game they had just won like he wasn't human, just some piece of flesh with blood. The blood from his slit opened his neck and landed on a bowl. She eyed the liquid substance as they brought it in a bowl to her.Cassie was still lost with everything that was going on. She wanted to see Romeo again, everyone scared her, she trusted no one, it doesn't matter the number of times her abductors tried to make her feel safe, she had seen them murder people like fowls, the only person she trusted, she could trust was Romeo.She would have gone crazy, except for the fact that she knew he was still out there, she just had to find him first. Once the bowl was filled with the dead man's blood, one of the hooded guys picked it up and brought it over to where Cassie was chained. He dropped it noisily before her. "Drink!" He ordered, but she spat at his feet instead."Get away you monster!""You're t
Cassie waited, counting on her fingers, till one hour had passed. The place was dead silent. It was finally her time to make a move. She couldn't stay there anymore, she had to move, and to do that, Cassie finally had to accept the blood being given to her. She needed it if she was going to escape, so she chose not to acknowledge the fact that she might currently be a full vampire at the moment. All she knew was how powerful she felt, such strength that she didn't know was even possible for a man to contain. For days, unknown to her abductor, she had been working on the chains they had her held with. The day when the guard had first struggled with her to drink the blood, unknown to him, a pin had fallen from his pocket. Cassie had gotten hold of that immediately. Her father had been a locksmith, so she knew her way around. But even though she could free herself, she couldn't escape immediately, she was weak. That's why she had waited, till this moment that she was strong. Also, it wa
Pete and Alpha Luca were like brothers. Even though Pete wasn't close to the Alpha as Lord Romeo and Valentine were. Pete and Luca however, shared a bond. Before his mysterious death, Pete was Luca's beta and after he was confirmed dead, Ryan took his place. Pete wouldn't waste an opportunity to please his alpha. He was the ideal beta any Alpha could wish for and Luca was pleased with him. In the gruesome wars Alpha Luca fought and the deadly invasions he led, Pete was always beside him. Whenever Alpha Luca secretly raided a realm to take a soul, Pete covered his tracks even though the ruthless Luca always boasted of not needing any cover-up for he claims to be afraid of no one.Pete was like his shield and when he wanted to be at different places at the same time, Pete represented him and always carried out the assignments perfectly. Alpha Luca wasn't fond of trusting people. He trusted Pete but never told him and when Pete died, he wished he had told the beta that
After leaving Hera back at home, Alpha Luca drove straight to his office.Pacing from the right wall to the left wasn't helping matters, trying to concentrate on getting some of the packing paperwork done wasn't also helping matters.The anger coursing through his veins was making him so restless, that he couldn't even concentrate on anything at the moment.How the hell could Valentine have killed Pete? was all he could think about.Knowing how important Pete was to him, he wasn't expecting Lord Valentine could kill him.And he didn't even know up until he got the video. "How could he?" He screamed, his voice echoing all around the room.He sat for a while and suddenly leaped up."I better go see Romeo before I go crazy." He concluded, picking up his keys.He got to Romeo's realm and without greeting any of Romeo's guards, he dashed into his study."What did I say on knocking before entering?" Romeo asked with his head bowed over the files he was working on.He didn't even glance up
Hera sighed as she paced around in her room. Ever since Alpha Luca saw the video of how Pete died at Lord Valentine's hands, he hadn't been himself. What worried her more was the fact that he had relented on the search for Lord Valentine because of the video.She sighed again as she thought of something bad happening to Lord Valentine. Then, she knew she had to just tell her brother the truth, so he can take the search for Lord Valentine seriously."I'll just do it." She muttered to herself. Immediately, she walked to the exit of her room and headed to Alpha Luca's room.Alpha Luca was seated on a chair with a pen in his right hand when Hera walked in. He was lost in thought that he had no idea she had walked in until she got to his table and slammed her palm on his table. Then, he jerked back to life in shock. As he did, the pen in his hand fell to the floor."You scared me!" He exclaimed as he glared at her."Well, you zoned out. How could you not have known I entered with such loud
When Ryan arrived at her room with a heavy heart, she locked the doors and walked over to her bed, plumping down immediately. For a moment, she half expected Alpha Luca to come down and kick the doors, she waited, ready to start apologizing, but he didn't come. Ryan wondered what her punishment would be. She had just slapped Alpha Luca. Disrespecting your Alpha could earn you years in the cell, you could also get banished from the realm, or served other worst punishments, so she could only wonder which she would be given. Her plan had been simple, try to make Alpha Luca fall for her, and she had used Eric for that. She didn't see it turning out so horribly.How could she let her emotions get the judge her actions? She had asked herself this many times. She had acted without thinking, far from being the disciplined woman she was known for. Ryan knew she needed to do something and fast before Alpha Luca would take action.She rushed to the bathroom, she needed to wash the makeup she ha
"So, do you want to tell me how you ended up half-naked in the shape-shifter realm?" She glanced at him before focusing on the road. "The almighty Lord Valentine..." She shook her head, letting out a low whistle. "This will make an interesting headline.""Stop." He eyed her. "Also, I can't remember.""Are you kidding me?" She asked in disbelief. "What are they doing to you guys' memories? The same thing to Lord Romeo.""I don't know Hera. If I could remember, then I wouldn't say I can't.""Okay."They drove on in silence for a while, with Lord Valentine stealing glances at her every minute, but Hera didn't acknowledge this, if he didn't want to talk, she wouldn't make him talk. "How have you been?""I'm fine. Oh, I forgot to inform you. Luca now knows about Pete's murder.""What?" "You heard me well.""You told him?""Why would I do that? After you left, somehow someone hacked into your system and sent the video to Luca. He was really angry...I swear if you were around he would proba
1 year later."Cassie, are you ready?" Romeo called, taking another glance at this wrist watch. He would never understand what it was about women and preparing. One would expect Cassie to be different because she wasn't a modern woman, but the following months after they had defeated Pete, the two went on to get married and Romeo had taken Cassie to Earth for their honeymoon. He had taken her to all the beautiful places, and to try out all the amazing foods, one thing Cassie had also picked up was the fashion sense of the women of the twenty-first century.At first she had expressed her strong dislike for it, as long as her shock. She would always call every woman she saw in dresses that revealed their cleavage, shoes that showed their ankles, or dresses above knee-length a prostitute, Romeo had to teach her not to call women that, letting her know that time had changed and fashion sense had also. Though, she still called it nonsense most of the time, Romeo could see her slowly taking
Alpha Luca still lay on the same bed, while the witches performed the ritual, with Ryan by his side. She had refused to leave his side. She sat down on the bed beside him, holding his hands. The witches had tried to get her to leave several times, but she refused.The others have gone to wait outside the room, waiting for good news, nothing else but good news.Cara frowned as she watched the Queen, who was holding Alpha Luca's free arm while muttering a spell under her breath, she could see the look on the Queen's face, she didn't need to ask before she knew there was no improvement. Cara didn't understand why it was so difficult to bring him back, they have done the spell several times in the last hundred years, it was one of the first spells that every teenage witch would learn once she got into high school, but if the Queen herself couldn't do it, then Cara didn't think any other person could."Well, isn't this just great," a friend of hers whispered in her ears. "From one problem
"What are we going to do? We can't just sit and watch her die," Alpha Luca said. "Come on," he faced Cara. "Surely there's something you can do, try again.""We've tried...If Pete was alive, we would have been able to do something, but now that he's dead. It's...I don't know. We'll see what we can do, we will try our best.""You have to, s-she can't die.""She won't die, Luca," Alpha Romeo said, placing a comforting arm on his friend's shoulder. "I'm sure we'll find a way, even if we have to turn the world upside down to find a cure for her, we will. Okay?""Yes," Cara assured him. "We will try our best." They were able to talk Alpha Luca into leaving the room so he could give them the privacy they needed to perform the ritual. Ryan was laying on her back, staring straight up at the ceiling, she was the only one in the room at that moment. She could hear voices talking just outside the door, she couldn't recognize them, so she knew it was probably the witches. She couldn't hear the w
"I'm going to rip your heart out and kill you at this spot today! No going back!" Alpha Luca shouted, glaring at Pete, who lay on the floor in a pool of his blood. He was still alive, but he was in serious pain and he had lost a lot of blood due to the way Alpha Luca had pounced on him.He was about to do what he had just said, when he suddenly stopped, as soon as he heard what Pete just said. He tried so much to not believe it, hoping it wasn't true. He was not ready to lose Ryan, not now, not ever and the thought of her dying scared him a lot. Yet, he couldn't just believe the rogue before him, as he could only be trying to blackmail him into not killing him."What did you just say?" Alpha Luca asked Pete, making sure that he heard what he said right."I said no, you won't! You can't kill me! Because by killing me, you're only going to kill Ryan!" He blurted out as he spat out the blood at Alpha Luca's cloth. This irritated Luca so much, which pushed him to hit Pete's stomach with h
"Well, well, well," Pete said with a mischievous smile as he stood up from the chair he was sitting on. "If it isn't the dangerous trio, Lord Valentine, Lord Romeo and the one who betrayed me, Alpha Luca." He said the last part and giggled, as he stared daggers at Alpha Luca."Betrayed you?" Alpha Luca said and folded his arms. "I betrayed you, or it was you who betrayed me?"Pete acted like he didn't hear what he said, so he just walked around his chair slowly as he stared at the trio, who were about five feet away and were also staring at him. "I had a feeling you would find me sooner, but it was a shame. I was disappointed that you didn't. I guess you three are getting old after all," he said and chuckled, trying to trigger them to get angry or something. Meanwhile, the trio just stood there staring at him. They were still shocked to see him alive, most especially Lord Valentine. Seeing that they didn't say anything still, he continued. "You three were a bit slower than I thought.
Flashback.Hera returned to Alpha Luca's mansion drunk and weary. A party was thrown in the human world and she had gone there to have her fill, together with her brother and Lord Valentine. Alpha Luca was the one who suggested they grace the event since there were less interesting things to do at that time in their realm, so they went to the party and Hera got drunk.Hera left the event without Alpha Luca and Lord Valentine's notice. She managed to find her way back home even though she was in a terrible state.When she returned to the mansion, she was greeted by its emptiness and unknown to her, Pete was in the building. She made her way to her brother's room and fell on the couch and after some minutes, she staggered to the bathroom and turned on the shower.Pete had arrived that night earlier than Hera and had parked his car in Luca's garage after completing an assignment. He went into the house and when he walked upstairs, he heard the sound of water flowing from the shower. He t
As soon as the doors of the escape room closed, they realized they had only gotten themselves into more trouble, seeing that there was no way out of it. First, they shouted, but it was only echoing inside the room. Their voices could not reach outside."What is this we have gotten ourselves into?" Lord Valentine asked as they all wandered inside the room. He hit his leg on the walls of the room, but nothing came out of it."Fuck!" Alpha Luca growled as he hit his leg on the walls of the room in anger. Still, nothing moved and nothing changed."Uhm, guys?" Advika called, a look of fear appeared on her face. They didn't give her attention at first, as they were focused on how to leave the room they found themselves in. "Guys!" She exclaimed the second time and with the loudness of her voice, they were able to hear this time, as they turned to look at her."Yes, Advika?" Hera answered, same with the others.This time, she even looked more worried, and she was beginning to look pale with
"Now that you guys are cool with each other, can you both share a hug," Eric screamed from afar."Shut up." They both chorused.Hera and Advika had finally reconciled with their argument and Eric couldn't help but sigh in relief.The ladies were beginning to drive him crazy with their uncontrollable banter funny how he wasn't even in the know of what was bringing about the argument.They continued their walk with the human they didn't kill tailing with them. They rounded a corner and saw the dangerous trio coming toward them.They stopped and waited for them to catch up with them."Any progress, " Hera asked when they got to where they were."Nothing yet." Lord Romeo replied."We have also not found anything," Advika said.They had also not found the underground realm, they were beginning to be weary with their walks in a circle.Lord Valentine saw the human with them and was puzzled."Who is this?" He asked."We found him on our way here, we took him with us so he can lead us to thei
When they succeeded in dispelling the dark spirits they'd invoked, the witches fell weakly to the floor.Cassie had also fallen unconscious. Some of the witches outside of the coven who'd been patiently waiting for the success of the ritual heard the thuds and rushed in.They picked each of their sisters and took them back to their rooms, they tended to them throughout the day until they regained their strengths.Cassie was also taken back to her room, she was unconscious for the greater part of the day, she woke up in the evening.She opened her eyes in her room, looked around, and saw she was surrounded by Cara, the witch leader, and two other witches. Cara and the twenty-three other witches regained their strengths and had taken turns in watching after Cassie for the first sign of recovery.It was Cara and the leader's turn with the two other witches when Cassie woke up.She yawned weakly and sat up on the bed."Cara, what's going on?" She was surprised to see them in her room.S