His words dripped condescension, but we still tried to take him down. He killed a quarter of my followers before they urged me to run and not come back.
He killed my father, mother, daughter, husband and members of our pack. All for a title I never even wanted. Power didn’t mean a damn thing to me, my dad would have even given it to him if he had only asked!
But instead he betrayed us all and every time I disappear, it is to check on the pack I abandoned. He must have caught on to my scent though, and that is why I was shot.”
I was gobsmacked, it never even occurred to me Janelle could have been through so much before she joined us. It’d been clear her past still haunted her to that day, but none of us would have ever guessed about her mate or child.
I had no idea what to say, but before I could even think of anything she shifted into her wolf form and leapt out of the window.
It wasn’t long before her howl travelled along the air, sending chills cascading through my spine.
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Unya
We couldn’t seem to keep our hands off one another, it was ridiculous, but you wouldn’t hear either of us complaining.
His arms were once again wrapped around my waist, as my back was pressed flush against his chest. I could feel his nose trailing down my neck as he pressed feather light kisses down from my ear and across my shoulder.
That mixed in with the bodies littering the streets was getting me all hot and bothered, what could I say, death and violence was my very own kind of porn.
“What’s next on the agenda dearie?” Asked Adiran, popping up in front of us.
“Busy, come back later,” I replied as I pushed my hand inside Malachi’s boxers.
“You can fornicate later, shouldn’t you be leaving? Someone will come down this street, do you think they wouldn’t notice the pile of bodies littering the ground around you?”
“What’s the shadow roach saying now? Can’t you stop him from popping up all the damn time.”
“Don’t worry baby, he’s just concerned about the bodies. He wants to know what I think will happen when someone happens upon us,” I replied, pulling his lower lip into my mouth and biting down on it.
“Well that’s simple, we’ll just add them to the pile. You and me Unya, what does a measly little human matter, when it comes to us?”
“What’s your opinion on me?”
We break apart to come face to face with a fierce looking woman, scars travelled down her face and neck and she had a wicked spear in one of her hands.
“She’s one of the Gods pet, don’t get to close,” stated Malachi, as he tried to pull me behind him. Like hell with that, I wasn’t going to hide from her.
“So what? Aren’t I supposed to be here to kill them anyway? Why not start with this ugly rat bitch?”
“You insolent child you are going to suffer for a very long time, it’s a shame you can’t remember all of the people you used to have in your corner. But the fun should still be the same nevertheless.”
I didn’t have a clue what she was talking about, the only thing that could hurt me now was...My eyes widened in shock as a sickening smile spread across her face, then her spear was flying through the air and embedding itself in Malachi’s chest.
He fell to his knees before slumping to his back, I fellbeside him but was yanked back up by my neck.
“An Incubus, I wonder if he could survive this, then again there’s no one left alive for him to feed from.”
She threw me down on the ground, before slamming two shorter spears through my shoulder blades and pinning me to the ground.
Our hands almost touching, but with just a fraction of an inch between us.
“You know what’s funny, this whole thing started because a sorceress fell in love with a demigod. Are you familiar with the story child?”
I shook my head, as I tried to pull my upper body up, but except from tearing my skin apart, I couldn’t get free.
“Hercules was infatuated with beauty and Calliah was amongst the most beautiful creatures, who wasn’t a God. He had to have her no matter what, and our boy always got what he wanted. The problem was, once he had her he grew bored. He got married and she was left to raise their child alone, I understood her pain but she really thought she could hold on to him.