Category: Serials
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Sage was home alone tonight. His parents were out on a date and his sister was gone and off to college. Carla didn’t like me much anyway, I didn’t conform to her perfect view of Sage’s life. I was perfectly happy catering to his differences. Sage preferred no human contact, but his family was grateful…
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The pack never bothered me, Adrian made sure of it. He was my therapist and defacto pack leader of the packless wolves in the city. The number of packless amounted to the about the same number that were under Dominick Olmos – the true pack leader of the Manhattan pack. But New York was too…
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I walked out of the restaurant and stopped at the curb trying to decide if I wanted to walk to Sage’s house in Hell’s Kitchen or to take the train. I didn’t get to make that decision as my father stepped up next to me. I could smell the fake leather cologne he was wearing…
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I walked slowly for my mother’s sake, she didn’t know where she was going. We didn’t speak as we walked to Lenard’s Fish Market. It was a local joint, they fished daily and what they didn’t they bought from other local fishermen. Lenard had been retired for years but he was still around taking orders…
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I didn’t look in the mirror before I left the bathroom. There really was no point. It would be healed soon probably before I ever even made it to Lenard’s. But I did grab some paper towels to daub at the blood so it didn’t get on my only suit. I’d hate for the blood…
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While I was in the gym punching a bag because I had to let loose some pent up energy and anger Dae’lin called. I stopped punching the bag long enough to answer. “Yes, mother?” Dae’lin groaned. She didn’t think it was all that funny. Which made me laugh that much more – at least to…
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Kia Viddens stood in the doorway staring at me. I saw an older set of chocolate brown eyes staring back at me. He had wrinkles around his face probably from the perpetual frown on his face. I don’t think I’d ever seen a smile on his face, even when he was with the Vega family.…
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I was early to my testing. Dorian was earlier he was sitting in the testing room arranging boxes on the table when I walked in. “I need a few more moments.” He said without looking up to see who it was. There were four boxes on the table, each with their own unique puzzles inside…
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I don’t know what sent my mind into a panic attack more, the fact that Kai Viddens was my father, or the fact that I had the highest grade of all the Venatori and I was only half Venatori. I could do something about one, but not the other so to get past the attack…
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Dorian called me into his office. Which was better than being sent to his office. But it was nearing time for the Ad Aetatem and I was due my final testing as Magnus so it wasn’t quite unexpected when he had called me to in. But Dorian was called away as soon as I sat…
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I heard a voice in the darkness, a voice I’d never heard. “I was the first.” A familiar voice sounded next, “I was the second.” Together they spoke, “You are the final.” The voices echoed in the darkness and I heard things outside of me, my surroundings coming back into focus. I blinked my eyes…
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The CCB followers were all on their knees. Not that my power hadn’t cowed them before, but now I wasn’t holding the power over them, they bent to acknowledge my authority. I sighed. I had taken a life and now there was more people looking to me for it. Elena Saunders was the first to…
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Outside of the Night Life building Ant waiting in a patch of shade. He had bought a new pair of sunglasses and was tapping mine in the palm of his hand. He didn’t smile when he saw me. He handed me the pair of glasses and fell in step next to me, “So what’s the…
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Hector and Elena had gone off and I hadn’t followed them. I found Darwynn sitting in the same chair Ieft him and I wanted to flop down next to him and just ignore everything, but that wasn’t me was it? I sighed as I tapped my friend on the shoulder. He stood up with the…
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Before I was out of the Night Life building Darwynn was by my side. “Hey boss.” “Stop calling me that.” Darwynn chuckled. “Not on your life boss. “ I sighed. “What did you find out about the Architects?” Darwynn shrugged, “Not much. It takes finesse to find out about secret organization.” I nodded. “Just asking.”…
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Twenty minutes later the boys were in separate rooms being checkout and the little girl was taken from me and whisked off to infant care. Rob was in a room with his girlfriend. They were talking in hushed whispers while I waited outside with Ant. He kept stealing glances at me, “What?” I asked. “Dad,…
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We hadn’t walked more than a few steps before I heard crying. It was muffled and I could have almost missed it. But it was there. I stopped and Ant looked at me then looked around. The others did too. The smallest boy pointed in the direction of a dumpster. “There.” Rob frowned as I…
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I had a few hours to kill and I really didn’t feel like dealing with family matters. I was on the edge of my sanity now. I had no more appointments for the now. And my appointment with Margo was tomorrow, but I needed to be out. I needed to do something productive. I sent…
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Cavenough was lying in bed sipping a straw from a cup filled with water and ice. His smile grew wide when he saw me. “Thank you for not putting me back on those aweful meds.” “You aren’t crazy, you’re werewolf.” He laughed. “You would think the Venatori would know that.” “You’d think a lot of…
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After Mrs. Ven left I called Darwynn, asked him to meet me in the Infirmary here to talk to Cavanough. He was doing better according to Jin and I wanted to know what he had found out. Ant was by the elevator when I went to go down. He smiled at me. “I saw Sage…
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We eventually moved to the couch in the living room. My butt was sore from sitting with Dee’s weight on the hard surface for so long. We didn’t accomplish anything other than some calming of emotions. I was fairly certain Dee was emoting at us the whole time, but one thing at a time. Sage…
The Mind of Nox 