18. I Am Here

Narrator’s POV.

James Blackburn sat aggressively on his chair with a loud grunt, “Those good for nothing werewolves!”, he yelled, “They have finally crossed the line”, a huge number of people in front of him cheered him on, “Today, we have lost a good number of our brothers and sisters, they shall be remembered and vengeance shall be ours”, the crowd cheered and hailed even louder.

The man watched as his people hooted and hollered for him with pride before he rose up his hand, “Silence!”, the dark cave like room became silent, the only noise that could be heard was the cracking of the fire that gave it a bit of light. The man stood up from the chair and paced around, “We were clearly out-numbered and I am a hundred percent sure that we would be the next time but we are warriors, we our fighters and we need to let them know that we are not backing down from this war, not until we get my son”, he ordered,

“What about the werewolf princess? He is mated to her, if she dies, Harrison dies as well”, one of the men said,

“From what I could tell, the alpha king’s daughter has been placed under house arrest”, James was trying to be logical with the whole situation, he knew that they had to be smart about this since the alpha king was not only strong but smart.

“Should we capture her?”, another man asked,

“No, that would be too dangerous”,

“I am sure we could take a couple guards”, the man scoffed, flexing his muscles and folding his arms over his chest. James rolled his eyes, he had always had a problem with that particular man- always trying to show his inexistent strength, the man was all talk and no action.

“Who is talking about the guards?”, he mirrored the man’s action by folding his arms as well, “I was talking about the princess”,

The man let out another scoff, “A princess? Why should I be afraid of a little rich girl who spends the whole day in front of a mirror?”,

“Clearly, you are underestimating her strength. Desiree Edwards is a princess- yes, but she is no princess. She might be beautiful and mesmerizing but she is also very deadly, almost ten times worse than her father. She is a manipulator and a trickster- if you aren’t careful, she could make you kill yourself without you knowing it”, James explained and a few people let out gasps of horror, “I believe that the only person she could ever be warm to is my son”.

“Do you think he would help us get to her?”, one of the women asked. The human leader almost slapped his head in frustration but decided to let out a sigh instead,

“I assume that none of you know how mates work”, buzzing erupted through the crowd as all of them tried to speak at the same time, “Silence. He helping us get to her is like he killing himself, it is not possible”,

“Then what are we going to do?”,

“Listen closely…”.


“What the hell do you mean by, ‘You cannot help’?”, the alpha king yelled into his phone, “Last I checked, you were more than happy to kill all my human concubines”,

“Yes”, the vampire lord sighed into the phone, “It is a really tempting offer but I just can’t take it. My people have grown tired of animal blood, humans existing is good news for us”,

“So, you won’t do this because of your own selfish reasons?”, the alpha king said in a scolding tone. He could not believe the nerve of this man that claimed to be his friend.

“So, you do not want to end them for your own selfish reasons?”, the alpha king stayed silent, “Look, Dwayne, I do not think you have noticed but over the past few centuries, my people have reduced in number- drastically. Fighting this war would not be fair on them and we both know it, I will talk to you later man, good luck”, the line went dead and the alpha king threw his phone at the wall angrily,

“Damn it!”, he yelled, what in the world was wrong with these people? Why were they not helping him with this fight? He would help if it where them and they knew it, they were weaklings- vampires and witches, all of them. They were good for nothing creatures and his father should have wiped them out with all the humans. Only werewolves were strong enough to have a place on this earth but he knew that there was nothing he could do about that- fighting with humans was one thing but fighting with vampires and witches was another.

Plus, everything that was happening with his mate was very troubling. How was he meant to have a war when it was going to affect his mate directly? The witch head’s words echoed through his brain, “She is life, you are death”. He was death? It made him sound more monstrous than he actually was, but Daphne being light really was not a shocker or surprise to him; she had the ability to brighten up anybody’s day and make everyone feel better about themselves- something he had taken for granted over the past few years.

“What the fuck is wrong with me?”, he asked himself as he leaned down on his desk, “What the hell has gotten into me?”, he wondered further, now placing his head on his palms. He was stronger now but somehow, he felt weaker than he ever was before. The thought of loosing his mate because of this war had him wishing he had called it off early but no, he was a selfish mutt that cared only about revenge.

Revenge? Suddenly, he lifted his head up in realization, for a minute, he had forgotten why he wanted to have this war in the first place; it was to take revenge on the man that had killed his mate but what was the point of all this if Daphne was going to die if he didn’t stop it?

Was it too late for him to make this right and save his mate?


Desiree’s POV.

I knew I shouldn’t be scared but I was- beyond frightened. I took another look down and I wondered how I was going to make such a jump- a leap of faith, that was what it was.

Why were they so many guards down there? I was tempted to throw something down at them, maybe a comb to get them distracted, they might decide to leave if I frustrate them well enough.

But damn, the length from my floor to the ground was a whole journey on its own, it seemed so far, yet so close- just like looking at a map; it seemed as though you could stretch out to reach it but even you know within you that you just couldn’t. It was impossible, even for someone as strong willed and driven as me.

Shame washed over me in waves and I left the window, going back to my bed and flopping down on it. I was not as strong as everyone said I was, I was a weakling, just a little girl who did not know what she was doing.

But, jumping out of the window and landing dangerously was not my biggest fear, my actual fear was losing my mate to all this tom-foolery and I just couldn’t phantom how my life would be without him, I loved him and I was no where near ready to lose him.

I had to find a way to get him out of there before I went completely insane.

A sharp pain suddenly rushed through my body causing a low yelp to emit from my mouth, my body began to shake and sweat as heat spread through me. A knot at the pit of my stomach twisted and my female organs began to pulsate for pleasure.

This could mean only one thing; my heat had began.