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Festive Fates
Being home for the holidays should be comforting, a time of joy and happiness surrounded by those you care about most.
Yet, here I am, heart pounding through my chest, tempted to jump back on the plane and fly back. Even though Christmas is only a few days away, home isn’t a place I really want to be.
After years of tear-filled phone calls from Mom, I finally caved, stepping foot back in the town I had avoided for years. All because of a certain alpha, one who made it his mission to chase me out.
I expected high emotions being back there, my wolf having revealed the moment I left this place after lying dormant when I needed her most.
What I didn’t expect was them, or the fact that being around them would trigger a chain of events that I could never come back from.
What started as a small trip to see my family for Christmas became something so much more, altering my life in ways I never thought were possible.
Bound by Darkness
They say loss gets easier with time, but it was all a lie.
Loss eats away at your happiness until you are left a shell of your former self, wishing for the life you once had.
Escaping the darkness of my home was one thing, but leaving him behind was another.
It forced me to build an impenetrable wall, keeping everyone at arm's length to avoid the pain of losing someone else.
For years I mourned him, his existence all but wiped from the earth once I left. My regular searches coming up blank every single time.
Until fate decided to lure him from the shadows one night, crossing our paths in a way that would change the trajectory of my life forever.
The encounter pushed me into a world I knew nothing about. One filled with beings that are not supposed to exist, and secrets that could potentially ruin me.
Locked
From the moment I stepped foot in Blackstone Academy I have been hunted.
I am not safe within these walls, not from the monsters living in the bodies of men, or from the demons in my nightmares. They don't want me here, or so they keep saying.
Their darkness feeds my soul, drawing me in and leaving me broken and bloody. They expect me to run, to fear them.
Instead, they are giving me all the things I crave. Pain. Excitement. Danger.
My life quite literally hangs in the balance whenever they are close and yet my body has never felt so alive.
Only it isn't just the boys of Blackstone after me or the demonic protector that forced his way into my life.
Other sinister beings are out there hunting me, with orders much more deadly than the monsters who forced their way into my soul.
Chained
Bale
I wanted her gone.
Our breakable, defiant, human mate.
I wanted to run her out of Blackstone Gates never to see her again. That was until the last night she spent with us, and now she is missing.
Taken from right under our noses by a being who has hated our family for centuries.
I want to destroy him. The need to feel his blood running through my fingers is strong. But even I know it will not be that easy. Not with him.
It will take sacrifice to get her back, a sacrifice all of us are willing to give.
Wynn
I was hunted.
Falling prey to both the men who forced their way into my soul, and to the being who is hellbent on revenge.
He wants to hurt them, to watch them suffer at his hands. He craves power, and I am his golden ticket. Or so he tells me.
But something he has no control over is the fates, fates that have a different path carved out for me.
I become intertwined in the web of secrets and lies, finding allies in places that I least expect it.
If I make it out, my life will never be the same.