Valencia, finally deciding that her self-pity party should end, stood up from her spot on the rock and stretched. The few glistening pearls of lake water that clung to her smooth skin slid down, pooling underneath her toes before she threw the makeshift sponge into the lake with a wide arc...
Valen watched Sam remove the chip from Nine, locking eyes with her former partner as he grimaced at her. She knew what he had done for them - for her. He had put his own head on the stake to try and save them, if he were caught - she shuddered, thinking about it was not a good idea.
For a...
Valencia spiralled in and out of nightmares - flickers of memories both happy and gruesome. Not one didn’t hurt her mentally for the happy ones reminded her of times long gone and the gruesome ones made her want to vomit with regret.
For years she had wondered why the principal fed her those...
Taren was about to gut the creature that had brought his home to pieces when a hand was laid upon his arm. He looked down at her, as if shocked, as if he had forgotten of the woman that was travelling with him. His silver eyes followed her dirty hands, up her arm to her panicked face. She...
Valencia knew that Jason had gone on a mission with Carla and Samuel. She knew because she had said goodbye to them as they headed out, and the boy had ruffled her hair and grinned before they headed out.
After they had gone, Nine had led her to the Principal’s office and she had taken her...
When the first light finally peeked over the canopy of the trees, Taren watched the water drops fall from the tips of every leaf. Like tear drops, the weeping face of women and children after thunder and lightning were done with their fight in the heavens. It was a shining day, though grey...
Aiden didn’t particularly look forward to his sudden rendezvous with Elizabeth. It was only after, in the confines of his new room, that he realised that his straight forwardness was most unheard of in society. That he shouldn’t have kissed her - although it hadn’t even been a real kiss - and...
At Mara’s sudden shout, Taren’s muscles flexed and he turned around. Ready to fight off any creature that dared to approach them now. He was already in a foul mood and if they came he would kill them.
Yet instead it was his name that Mara shouted out and suddenly he felt her small hands upon...
Luciana heard the man’s soft voice answer that of the queen, devoid of all bitterness that she felt towards the woman who was responsible for these Games. She concentrated on her bare toes, waiting for the man’s judgment she could see his sandalled feet make their way up and down the row.
For...
Aiden leaned against the counter, watching Venus swipe at Elizabeth. He chuckled when the two females seemed to dislike each other, ‘Don’t mind Venus, she’s used to being my favourite,’ he chuckled huskily, rubbing the purring feline between her ears before opening the fridge - displaying the...
Taren was riding, ignoring the drops of ice that seemed to scar his face like spears. He had to find her. By the Gods, why did he have to receive a responsibility like her today? Out of all the days the Gods could have chosen.
Yet she was his responsibility and he was to be blamed if harm...
‘I do not take orders from you,’ his wife’s voice cut through the tension already in the room and Taren felt his temper bristle once more when Noran lifted a brow.
There were few who dared defy Taren van Bale but it seemed that his new wife would be one of them.
Just as Taren was about to...
Valencia awoke at four am, feeling like utter death she rolled over and fell from her bed. She curled up immediately as pain spike through her spine and travelled over her limbs like an electrical spasm.
One glance at the digital clock on her nightstand, she groaned again and got up on all...
Aiden was lying upon his bed, staring up his ceiling as he rubbed a hand over the fur of his cat: Venus. The white cat purred and rubbed her head against his palm, making the sapphire ring on Aiden’s finger glisten in the dim lighting of his room.
The curtains had been drawn, since Aiden was...
For a moment Taren saw a flash of recognition appear in his wife's eyes and then the triumphant moment ended. For the wench slapped him. True and hard, the blow struck his cheek and his head turned to the side, the pain pulsing and drumming over the skin of his jawline.
Even though he did not...