Me: I believe we must always focus on this tomorrow over breakfast. There’s a brand new recipe I need to check.

Vena: Anchor and I are in. We need to see the portrait when it’s completed too.

Cross: I might be there. With garments on. (Sorry to disappoint, Shepard.)

Shepard: Simply inform me when to be there.

We had been a unusual bunch, however we labored effectively collectively.

I couldn’t look ahead to tomorrow.

EPILOGUE

PET…

The scents of blood and demise from each vampire and wolf alike permeated the air across the shed. I waited, hidden within the shadows of the roof, because the wolves filed out. Some leaned on others because of their accidents. Others carried the lifeless. Theirs and ours.

Rage coursed by way of me.

My brethren had been positive we might beat the wolves, lastly get management of town, and achieve the one factor the grasp needed–the alpha’s ring. We’d had the aspect of shock and the numbers to win. It might have labored if considered one of our personal hadn’t betrayed us and sided with the wolves.

We had failed miserably, and it had value us…value me.

The one solace I discovered as I waited was imagining the grasp’s response when she discovered her favored pet had sided with the mutts. It wouldn’t be fairly. Possible, she would torture the messenger, one thing I had craved to expertise at her arms prior to now.

The pleasure I discovered in ache after being turned was incomparable to the feeble pleasure I’d as soon as cherished as a human. I craved it greater than I craved my subsequent meal. For a time, the grasp had sated my starvation. Now, solely Adriel might achieve this.

My excellent, harmful Adriel.

I watched a wolf carry him out draped over his shoulder. My lover’s hair swayed with every step. Inhaling, I attempted to seek out his scent within the pungent combine however couldn’t. I yearned for even the smallest trace of the person who wasn’t my grasp by hierarchy however of my physique. He alone owned it. Used it.

Monitoring the wolf, I watched him deposit Grasp’s physique in a trench the wolves had dug a distance away. My pores and skin crawled as they started throwing filth on Adriel.

I had no concept if he was alive or lifeless, however I might not depart him to be discarded like trash. So I bided my time till many of the stronger wolves had been gone, chasing the final of my brothers from the bloody battle scene.

The remaining group of wolves completed respectfully eradicating the lifeless wolves and known as to the others. They left the farm with only some wolves patrolling for any of my form silly sufficient to return–-or keep as I had.

Quietly and swiftly, I blurred to my poorly buried Grasp and eliminated him. His physique was gruesomely torn, his coronary heart broken. However I discovered a glimmer of hope because it was nonetheless inside him.

Adriel had been given the present of cat shifting, and with it got here 9 lives. He had informed me that over his lengthy years, he had used lots of these lives, by no means revealing what number of would possibly stay. I hoped there was at the very least one left.

Gathering him into my arms, I raced away earlier than the wolves might detect me.

Distant howls rang out round us sometimes as I ran quicker than any wolf might. We had been a great distance from our hideaway.

After dropping Juicy, our nest needed to hold relocating as a result of wolves searching us. However Adriel and I had discovered an deserted warehouse outdoors of D.C. only for the 2 of us. Reeking of outdated chemical compounds, the air burned my nostril any time we stayed there. However as a result of scent, the place was secure from the wolves. Not even the opposite vampires knew about it. Solely Adriel and I stayed there with the occasional toy we invited to spend the night time with us. And lifeless toys couldn’t inform tales.

We had shared so many scrumptious toys.

After I reached one of many tributaries from Japanese Bay, I paused to clean away the blood from his bare torso and kissed his chilly lips tenderly.

“Stick with me,” I murmured, clutching him to me as I got down to discover a human to drive us throughout Chesapeake Bay.

I broke into one of many coastal houses and located a portly man who reacted with anger as an alternative of worry at discovering me leaning over him in the midst of the night time. Grinning, I rapidly fed and compelled him to depart a hilarious observe for his vacationing spouse about rediscovering his sexuality to clarify his absence when she ultimately returned.

Safely hidden away within the trunk of the human’s automotive, I bit my finger and painted Grasp’s lips with my blood.

“Style me, Grasp. Come again to your Pet.”

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