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THE IMMORTAL/A Novel of the Breedline series
A chapter in the book THE IMMORTAL
A MORTAL life
by scongrove
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Previously . . .
After an age-old creature—buried deep in underground—rises from years of peaceful slumber to feast on humans, it attacks Jena McCain—a young artist who has the ability to speak with the dead—and infects her with the Rougarou curse. As the virus spreads through her body, Jena must resist her newly found urges for human blood for one hundred and one days. If she succumbs to the blood lust, she will become the thing that has cursed her.
Now that the creature is hunting humans, and infected an innocent young girl, God tasks Lailah—a battle angel gifted with the power of holy fire—with an important mission. She must take go back to earth—with the help of her comrades-at-arms—for the sole purpose of destroying this savage creature.
While Jena heals in the hospital, her thirst for blood rises. Desperate for help, she confides in her best friend Angie, realizing time is running out. Surprisingly, Angie has a few secrets of her own. What she reveals to Jena goes beyond unbelievable. Not only is Angie not human—born with the ability to shift into a wolf—there is a secret species of supernatural beings called the Breedline.
Now that Jena’s reality has slowly shifted into a bizarre realm, she must come to accept the unbelievable and trust her friend before it’s too late. As the bond between the two friends become closer than ever, Angie promises Jena she will do everything she can to help her. Left with no other choice, Angie decides to reach out to the Breedline Covenant for help. But unknown to all, the immortal creature will stop at nothing until he gets what he wants—to seduce Jena and make her his bride.
Meanwhile, as Angie has Jena moved to the safety of the Breedline Covenant, the creature manages to seduce Jena, and tricks her into drinking her own blood. Now that the curse is set into motion, Jena is doomed to become what she fought so hard to resist . . . a bloodthirsty killer. Just when Jena begins to feel as though she has lost all hope, someone mysteriously leaves a journal in her bedroom. Soon after, she discovers it’s a memoir from the 1800s and belongs to a Nicolas Ratcliff. As Jena continues to read on, she finds herself drawn to this mysterious person and that he is the creature’s younger brother. When she finishes reading the last entry, there is a note addressed to her. Nicolas asks Jena to come alone to the Salem Cemetery at dusk to help him end his brother’s curse and save a young girl that his brother holds captive.
Regrettably, Jena must face her worst fears. Now that she had weakened to the creature, she had to confess the bad news to her best friend and to the Covenant, not to mention Nicolas’s journal. While the Breedline Covenant process Jena’s dilemma, the battle angels are to arrive at dusk to help Jena destroy the creature.
While the Breedline prepares for the battle angel’s arrival, they unexpectedly discover Jena has shifted into her creature and somehow made it past the Covenant’s security. When Tessa and Angie search Jena’s room, desperate to find out why she took off and where she went, they find a note hidden under her mattress. After reading it, they are completely shocked to find out Jena is heading to the Salem Cemetery to help Nicolas Ratcliff destroy the creature. Before the angels arrive at dusk, they gather everyone in a meeting. When the battle angels and the Fury arrive, the Breedline tell them about Jena’s disappearance. While they discuss their plan, Bull notices Angie is missing and senses she is in distress. Without further delay, they form a plan—sending Jace’s beast ahead of everyone—to help Jena and Angie destroy the creature.
Now that Ashton discovers his brother Nicolas and Jena’s plan to destroy him, he reveals a disturbing secret unknown to all. Not only is Jena a Necromancer, explaining her ability to speak with the dead, she is also a descendant of Isabella and the daughter of Lucifer.
Completely devastated, Jena refuses to believe him. Just when she feels all hope is lost, Nicolas appears out of nowhere and vows to protect her. When Nicolas threatens his brother’s life, Ashton reveals to him that if he dies, so will he.
As the confrontation between the two brothers heats up, Ashton attacks Nicolas and renders him unconscious. As Ashton attempts to take Jena against her will, he’s caught off guard by Angie’s Breedline wolf. Although her wolf is no match for Ashton’s creature, she doesn’t give up the fight and continues to do everything in her power to protect Jena.
When Ashton overpowers Angie, gripping her by the throat, Jena helplessly watches her best friend fight for her life, begging him to let her go. Caught off guard, Ashton finds himself in a hairy predicament when Jace’s beast, the battle angels and many other supernatural beings comes to Angie’s rescue.
While the heroic team of supernatural beings believe they have Ashton’s creature overpowered, a five-headed hydra emerges from beneath the ground, bringing forth a blazing fire. Using their mighty swords, the battles angels destroy the hydra, and in turn, set Jena free of Ashton’s binding spell. Using her inner strength, Jena summons her own creature and attacks Ashton. Unfortunately, they both fall into the hydra’s dark abyss.
Without a second thought, Apollyon jumped into the pit below to save Jena. As the others waited, hoping he’d bring Jena back alive, their prayers were soon answered. When Apollyon rose above the dark pit with Jena in his arms, now in her human form, everyone was worried due to her state of unconsciousness but relieved that she was alive.
Now that Jena destroyed the creature, his brother Nicolas was fated to meet his death as well. But to everyone’s stunned disbelief, the angel Lailah wrapped her wings around his body to give him her immortality for the exchange for a mortal life to be with her beloved Roman.
Continued . . .
While everyone stood back in silence, witnessing life emerging from death’s door, Nicolas—still in a state of unconsciousness—heard a familiar voice, whispering in his ear like a distant echo.
“Nicolas . . . Nicolas. Open your eyes, little brother.”
“Ashton?” said Nicolas, swallowing hard. “Is that you?”
“Yes, brother.” Ashton put his fingers under Nicolas’s chin, tilting it up slightly. “Open your eyes so you may see me.”
Nicolas slowly lifted his lids and glanced up wearily to see Ashton kneeling next to him, staring down at him with tears in his eyes. He looked different. All the evidence of evil and darkness that used to mar his face seemed to be gone. Now, light and purity shone as bright as day.
“Where’s Jena?” said Nicolas, his eyes wide, filled with frantic.
“Shhh,” Ashton soothed, lowering his hand. “Jena is fine.”
“But what of you?” Nicolas asked, his eyes searching over his brother’s face. “The curse—”
Ashton smiled. “Jena set me free.”
Nicolas frowned. “Are we,” he hesitated, and finally uttered the word he dreaded, “dead?”
“Listen to me, little brother,” Ashton murmured. “Your soul has been returned. This is a second chance for you to have a good life.”
“But how?” Nicolas slowly shook his head. “I damned our souls.”
“God granted you this gift.”
“Why?” Nicolas sighed. “I’ve done nothing to deserve it.”
“Because, little brother, you have love in your heart.”
“And you?”
“I am going to another place,” Ashton explained. “A place where I can do good. Although I must leave this world, I will always be with you, little brother.” He placed his hand over Nicolas’s heart. “I will be here, always.”
Nicolas bit at his trembling lip, forcing his tears back. “I’m sorry, Ash. I’m sorry for everything.”
“You have nothing to be sorry for. Not for anything. I took the coward’s way out when Isabella left me. I had a good life, a loving family, and a wonderful, devoted brother. I’m sorry I let you down, Nicolas.”
“B-but, I’m the one who let you down. I betrayed you, Ash. Isabella and I—”
“I know,” Ashton quickly cut him off. “And it’s okay, little brother. I forgive you.”
“I don’t know if I can bear to live my life without you, Ash. Please, tell me how I can take all this back. There has to be some way. Please. . .”
“No, little brother. We have no choice. There is no other way. But if there is one thing perhaps I could ask of you?”
“Anything,” Nicolas simply said.
“I want you to be happy. I want you to fall in love and have a family.”
“Do I even deserve such a thing?”
Ashton nodded. “Yes, little brother. You deserve a life filled with happiness. Besides, Jena will need you. What I have done to her—” He paused for a moment, regretting the horrible things he had done to Jena and all the innocent lives he’d taken. “She deserves someone like you.”
“She may not want anything to do with me after all this.”
Ashton smiled again. “I think you’d be surprised. After all, she is your destiny.”
Nicolas smiled back, and at that moment, childhood memories of long ago flashed inside his head. He remembered the two of them as children, running through their father’s cotton field, playing in mud puddles after a spring rain, hours of swimming in the creek during hot summer days, staying up all night talking and laughing. He would never forget those memories.
Tears rolled down his cheeks. “I love you, Ash.”
“And I love you, little brother.”
They stayed looking at one another for a moment, and then Ashton’s face began to fade, until finally, he was gone.
Go in peace, brother, Nicolas thought, closing his eyes.
“Nicolas.” He heard a voice, a woman’s soft voice. “Nicolas . . . can you hear me?”
As Nicolas opened his eyes, a beautiful, young woman was staring down at him, smiling. She had long, red hair and bright, emerald green eyes. Her features looked youthful and there was a kindness in her smile.
Nicolas slightly tilted his head in question. “Who are you?”
“My name is . . . Lailah.”
“Where’s Jena?” he asked, pulling himself in an upright position. “Is she okay?”
“She’ll be just fine,” Lailah said, placing her hand over his. “Jena released your brother’s curse.”
“Thank God.” Nicolas sagged in relief and lowered his head. “It was real. I really spoke to Ashton.” He sat up straighter, and looked up at Lailah. “He’s in a better place, isn’t he?”
Lailah nodded. “Your brother will take my place,” she told him. “He will help protect heaven’s gate.”
“After all the damage I’ve caused, why did God give me a second chance?” he asked, staring at Lailah with a look of confusion.
“God’s love is unconditional,” she told him. “He can see the love within your soul.” She smiled again. “Besides, Jena will need you. And you’ll need her.”
“I would love that more than anything, but . . .” he shook his head, “how do you know she’ll have anything to do with me?”
Tilting her head to the side, Lailah raised a brow. “I have a feeling . . . she’s pretty fond of you already.”
Nicolas smiled at her soothing words.
Then, she felt a warm hand on her shoulder and heard a familiar voice that said, “Lailah—”
As Lailah turned to look over her shoulder, she had never felt so happy. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she looked up to see her brother standing above her.
“Manuel,” she gasped.
When she rose to her feet, Manuel reached out and tugged her into his arms. “I can’t believe it,” he whispered next to her ear. “Is this real, or have I lost my ever-loving mind?”
“It’s real,” she told him. “And I’m back for good this time.”
As Manuel pulled from their embrace, he looked at her from head to toe and back up again. “It’s really you, isn’t it?” When she nodded, he said, “Sis, you have no idea how much I’ve prayed. I never gave up hope.”
She wiped at her eyes. “I know little brother. I heard all your prayers. I’m so proud of you.”
The corners of Manuel’s mouth curled up. “Little brother?” He smirked. “Hell, I’m an old man now. You still look like my seventeen-year-old sister. You haven’t aged one bit.”
Lailah giggled. “Yeah, being an angel comes with perks. Although I may look seventeen, I’m still four years older than you.”
“Like I said, you haven’t changed a bit.” Manuel hugged her again. “I love you, sis.”
“I love you too, Manuel,” Lailah said, and then her eyes caught sight of another person she was happy to see. The joy and relief in her eyes were crushing.
“Roman?”
He looked at her shell-shocked. “Wow. Y-you’re . . . h-human,” Roman muttered.
When Manuel released Lailah, she said, “Well, not exactly.” She smiled at Roman. “Technically, I’m no longer a battle angel, but I still carry the genetics of a Breedline.”
“T-that’s unbelievable,” Roman said, stumbling over his words. “I-I mean . . . that’s fantastic.”
As Lailah slowly moved closer to Roman, she reached out with her hand. Without hesitation, he slipped his hand in hers and squeezed. My beloved, he silently thought, his expression content as she nestled against his side.
Manuel eyed Roman with uncertainty, and Roman stared back, his dark eyes steely with resolve.
“Just remember, Roman,” said Manuel, placing a hand on his holster that held a Colt .45. “Accordance with the laws of California, I can shoot whoever I perceive is the bad guy.”
Roman cocked a brow. “Good to know, Detective.” He chortled lightly. “Message received.”
That brought chuckles from the others, but they all stared at Manuel, and then to the new couple with complete respect in their eyes.
A glimmer of a smile lit Manuel’s face. “Looks like we’re starting on good terms so far.”
Roman pulled Lailah tight against him. She smiled and looked up as his arms came tighter around her.
“I do have one question,” she said, keeping her voice low.
Roman shrugged. “Oh?”
“You do want to be with me, right?”
“Hell yes,” he shot back. “I wouldn’t have it any other way. I want you more than anything, Lailah. You’re mine.” He batted his brows. “All mine. Are you okay with that?”
She stared at him for a moment, devotion shining in her eyes. “Oh, I think I can live with that.”
For once, Roman thought, things seemed to be moving in the right direction. To him, having Lailah here was as close to heaven as it got. The very thing he’d prayed so hard for when he’d thought wasn’t possible or even imaginable. A chance at love. True love.
To be continued . . .
After an age-old creature—buried deep in underground—rises from years of peaceful slumber to feast on humans, it attacks Jena McCain—a young artist who has the ability to speak with the dead—and infects her with the Rougarou curse. As the virus spreads through her body, Jena must resist her newly found urges for human blood for one hundred and one days. If she succumbs to the blood lust, she will become the thing that has cursed her.
Now that the creature is hunting humans, and infected an innocent young girl, God tasks Lailah—a battle angel gifted with the power of holy fire—with an important mission. She must take go back to earth—with the help of her comrades-at-arms—for the sole purpose of destroying this savage creature.
While Jena heals in the hospital, her thirst for blood rises. Desperate for help, she confides in her best friend Angie, realizing time is running out. Surprisingly, Angie has a few secrets of her own. What she reveals to Jena goes beyond unbelievable. Not only is Angie not human—born with the ability to shift into a wolf—there is a secret species of supernatural beings called the Breedline.
Now that Jena’s reality has slowly shifted into a bizarre realm, she must come to accept the unbelievable and trust her friend before it’s too late. As the bond between the two friends become closer than ever, Angie promises Jena she will do everything she can to help her. Left with no other choice, Angie decides to reach out to the Breedline Covenant for help. But unknown to all, the immortal creature will stop at nothing until he gets what he wants—to seduce Jena and make her his bride.
Meanwhile, as Angie has Jena moved to the safety of the Breedline Covenant, the creature manages to seduce Jena, and tricks her into drinking her own blood. Now that the curse is set into motion, Jena is doomed to become what she fought so hard to resist . . . a bloodthirsty killer. Just when Jena begins to feel as though she has lost all hope, someone mysteriously leaves a journal in her bedroom. Soon after, she discovers it’s a memoir from the 1800s and belongs to a Nicolas Ratcliff. As Jena continues to read on, she finds herself drawn to this mysterious person and that he is the creature’s younger brother. When she finishes reading the last entry, there is a note addressed to her. Nicolas asks Jena to come alone to the Salem Cemetery at dusk to help him end his brother’s curse and save a young girl that his brother holds captive.
Regrettably, Jena must face her worst fears. Now that she had weakened to the creature, she had to confess the bad news to her best friend and to the Covenant, not to mention Nicolas’s journal. While the Breedline Covenant process Jena’s dilemma, the battle angels are to arrive at dusk to help Jena destroy the creature.
While the Breedline prepares for the battle angel’s arrival, they unexpectedly discover Jena has shifted into her creature and somehow made it past the Covenant’s security. When Tessa and Angie search Jena’s room, desperate to find out why she took off and where she went, they find a note hidden under her mattress. After reading it, they are completely shocked to find out Jena is heading to the Salem Cemetery to help Nicolas Ratcliff destroy the creature. Before the angels arrive at dusk, they gather everyone in a meeting. When the battle angels and the Fury arrive, the Breedline tell them about Jena’s disappearance. While they discuss their plan, Bull notices Angie is missing and senses she is in distress. Without further delay, they form a plan—sending Jace’s beast ahead of everyone—to help Jena and Angie destroy the creature.
Now that Ashton discovers his brother Nicolas and Jena’s plan to destroy him, he reveals a disturbing secret unknown to all. Not only is Jena a Necromancer, explaining her ability to speak with the dead, she is also a descendant of Isabella and the daughter of Lucifer.
Completely devastated, Jena refuses to believe him. Just when she feels all hope is lost, Nicolas appears out of nowhere and vows to protect her. When Nicolas threatens his brother’s life, Ashton reveals to him that if he dies, so will he.
As the confrontation between the two brothers heats up, Ashton attacks Nicolas and renders him unconscious. As Ashton attempts to take Jena against her will, he’s caught off guard by Angie’s Breedline wolf. Although her wolf is no match for Ashton’s creature, she doesn’t give up the fight and continues to do everything in her power to protect Jena.
When Ashton overpowers Angie, gripping her by the throat, Jena helplessly watches her best friend fight for her life, begging him to let her go. Caught off guard, Ashton finds himself in a hairy predicament when Jace’s beast, the battle angels and many other supernatural beings comes to Angie’s rescue.
While the heroic team of supernatural beings believe they have Ashton’s creature overpowered, a five-headed hydra emerges from beneath the ground, bringing forth a blazing fire. Using their mighty swords, the battles angels destroy the hydra, and in turn, set Jena free of Ashton’s binding spell. Using her inner strength, Jena summons her own creature and attacks Ashton. Unfortunately, they both fall into the hydra’s dark abyss.
Without a second thought, Apollyon jumped into the pit below to save Jena. As the others waited, hoping he’d bring Jena back alive, their prayers were soon answered. When Apollyon rose above the dark pit with Jena in his arms, now in her human form, everyone was worried due to her state of unconsciousness but relieved that she was alive.
Now that Jena destroyed the creature, his brother Nicolas was fated to meet his death as well. But to everyone’s stunned disbelief, the angel Lailah wrapped her wings around his body to give him her immortality for the exchange for a mortal life to be with her beloved Roman.
Continued . . .
While everyone stood back in silence, witnessing life emerging from death’s door, Nicolas—still in a state of unconsciousness—heard a familiar voice, whispering in his ear like a distant echo.
“Nicolas . . . Nicolas. Open your eyes, little brother.”
“Ashton?” said Nicolas, swallowing hard. “Is that you?”
“Yes, brother.” Ashton put his fingers under Nicolas’s chin, tilting it up slightly. “Open your eyes so you may see me.”
Nicolas slowly lifted his lids and glanced up wearily to see Ashton kneeling next to him, staring down at him with tears in his eyes. He looked different. All the evidence of evil and darkness that used to mar his face seemed to be gone. Now, light and purity shone as bright as day.
“Where’s Jena?” said Nicolas, his eyes wide, filled with frantic.
“Shhh,” Ashton soothed, lowering his hand. “Jena is fine.”
“But what of you?” Nicolas asked, his eyes searching over his brother’s face. “The curse—”
Ashton smiled. “Jena set me free.”
Nicolas frowned. “Are we,” he hesitated, and finally uttered the word he dreaded, “dead?”
“Listen to me, little brother,” Ashton murmured. “Your soul has been returned. This is a second chance for you to have a good life.”
“But how?” Nicolas slowly shook his head. “I damned our souls.”
“God granted you this gift.”
“Why?” Nicolas sighed. “I’ve done nothing to deserve it.”
“Because, little brother, you have love in your heart.”
“And you?”
“I am going to another place,” Ashton explained. “A place where I can do good. Although I must leave this world, I will always be with you, little brother.” He placed his hand over Nicolas’s heart. “I will be here, always.”
Nicolas bit at his trembling lip, forcing his tears back. “I’m sorry, Ash. I’m sorry for everything.”
“You have nothing to be sorry for. Not for anything. I took the coward’s way out when Isabella left me. I had a good life, a loving family, and a wonderful, devoted brother. I’m sorry I let you down, Nicolas.”
“B-but, I’m the one who let you down. I betrayed you, Ash. Isabella and I—”
“I know,” Ashton quickly cut him off. “And it’s okay, little brother. I forgive you.”
“I don’t know if I can bear to live my life without you, Ash. Please, tell me how I can take all this back. There has to be some way. Please. . .”
“No, little brother. We have no choice. There is no other way. But if there is one thing perhaps I could ask of you?”
“Anything,” Nicolas simply said.
“I want you to be happy. I want you to fall in love and have a family.”
“Do I even deserve such a thing?”
Ashton nodded. “Yes, little brother. You deserve a life filled with happiness. Besides, Jena will need you. What I have done to her—” He paused for a moment, regretting the horrible things he had done to Jena and all the innocent lives he’d taken. “She deserves someone like you.”
“She may not want anything to do with me after all this.”
Ashton smiled again. “I think you’d be surprised. After all, she is your destiny.”
Nicolas smiled back, and at that moment, childhood memories of long ago flashed inside his head. He remembered the two of them as children, running through their father’s cotton field, playing in mud puddles after a spring rain, hours of swimming in the creek during hot summer days, staying up all night talking and laughing. He would never forget those memories.
Tears rolled down his cheeks. “I love you, Ash.”
“And I love you, little brother.”
They stayed looking at one another for a moment, and then Ashton’s face began to fade, until finally, he was gone.
Go in peace, brother, Nicolas thought, closing his eyes.
“Nicolas.” He heard a voice, a woman’s soft voice. “Nicolas . . . can you hear me?”
As Nicolas opened his eyes, a beautiful, young woman was staring down at him, smiling. She had long, red hair and bright, emerald green eyes. Her features looked youthful and there was a kindness in her smile.
Nicolas slightly tilted his head in question. “Who are you?”
“My name is . . . Lailah.”
“Where’s Jena?” he asked, pulling himself in an upright position. “Is she okay?”
“She’ll be just fine,” Lailah said, placing her hand over his. “Jena released your brother’s curse.”
“Thank God.” Nicolas sagged in relief and lowered his head. “It was real. I really spoke to Ashton.” He sat up straighter, and looked up at Lailah. “He’s in a better place, isn’t he?”
Lailah nodded. “Your brother will take my place,” she told him. “He will help protect heaven’s gate.”
“After all the damage I’ve caused, why did God give me a second chance?” he asked, staring at Lailah with a look of confusion.
“God’s love is unconditional,” she told him. “He can see the love within your soul.” She smiled again. “Besides, Jena will need you. And you’ll need her.”
“I would love that more than anything, but . . .” he shook his head, “how do you know she’ll have anything to do with me?”
Tilting her head to the side, Lailah raised a brow. “I have a feeling . . . she’s pretty fond of you already.”
Nicolas smiled at her soothing words.
Then, she felt a warm hand on her shoulder and heard a familiar voice that said, “Lailah—”
As Lailah turned to look over her shoulder, she had never felt so happy. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she looked up to see her brother standing above her.
“Manuel,” she gasped.
When she rose to her feet, Manuel reached out and tugged her into his arms. “I can’t believe it,” he whispered next to her ear. “Is this real, or have I lost my ever-loving mind?”
“It’s real,” she told him. “And I’m back for good this time.”
As Manuel pulled from their embrace, he looked at her from head to toe and back up again. “It’s really you, isn’t it?” When she nodded, he said, “Sis, you have no idea how much I’ve prayed. I never gave up hope.”
She wiped at her eyes. “I know little brother. I heard all your prayers. I’m so proud of you.”
The corners of Manuel’s mouth curled up. “Little brother?” He smirked. “Hell, I’m an old man now. You still look like my seventeen-year-old sister. You haven’t aged one bit.”
Lailah giggled. “Yeah, being an angel comes with perks. Although I may look seventeen, I’m still four years older than you.”
“Like I said, you haven’t changed a bit.” Manuel hugged her again. “I love you, sis.”
“I love you too, Manuel,” Lailah said, and then her eyes caught sight of another person she was happy to see. The joy and relief in her eyes were crushing.
“Roman?”
He looked at her shell-shocked. “Wow. Y-you’re . . . h-human,” Roman muttered.
When Manuel released Lailah, she said, “Well, not exactly.” She smiled at Roman. “Technically, I’m no longer a battle angel, but I still carry the genetics of a Breedline.”
“T-that’s unbelievable,” Roman said, stumbling over his words. “I-I mean . . . that’s fantastic.”
As Lailah slowly moved closer to Roman, she reached out with her hand. Without hesitation, he slipped his hand in hers and squeezed. My beloved, he silently thought, his expression content as she nestled against his side.
Manuel eyed Roman with uncertainty, and Roman stared back, his dark eyes steely with resolve.
“Just remember, Roman,” said Manuel, placing a hand on his holster that held a Colt .45. “Accordance with the laws of California, I can shoot whoever I perceive is the bad guy.”
Roman cocked a brow. “Good to know, Detective.” He chortled lightly. “Message received.”
That brought chuckles from the others, but they all stared at Manuel, and then to the new couple with complete respect in their eyes.
A glimmer of a smile lit Manuel’s face. “Looks like we’re starting on good terms so far.”
Roman pulled Lailah tight against him. She smiled and looked up as his arms came tighter around her.
“I do have one question,” she said, keeping her voice low.
Roman shrugged. “Oh?”
“You do want to be with me, right?”
“Hell yes,” he shot back. “I wouldn’t have it any other way. I want you more than anything, Lailah. You’re mine.” He batted his brows. “All mine. Are you okay with that?”
She stared at him for a moment, devotion shining in her eyes. “Oh, I think I can live with that.”
For once, Roman thought, things seemed to be moving in the right direction. To him, having Lailah here was as close to heaven as it got. The very thing he’d prayed so hard for when he’d thought wasn’t possible or even imaginable. A chance at love. True love.
To be continued . . .
NOTE: This is not part of the chapter. A reference for terms and cast of characters, especially for new readers:
BREEDLINE - A species of humans that have the ability to change from human form into wolf form if they are born an identical twin. They are not like the old legend of the Lycanthropy myth. The Breedline species can shift into their wolf at will. The moon has no power over them. They do not pass their ability to other humans. Although they live among humans, their species is secret. In wolf form, they have super-strength, speed, and heightened senses. Compared to humans, Breedlines have tremendous advantages when it comes to health. Their bodies heal fast and are not subject to illness or diseases. The only thing that slows their healing process is silver. It is their kryptonite. Besides old age, a silver bullet to the brain is the only way to kill a Breedline.
All male Breedlines change into their first wolf at the age of eighteen. Female Breedlines do not go through the change until they make love to their Breedline bonded mate.
ADALWOLF - A species that has the power to shift from their human form into a beautiful creature, twice the size, resembling half man and half wolf. Born with super-strength, they can move from one place to another in supernatural speed. Their eyes take on the appearance of two shimmering diamonds. With the power to regenerate their own cells, an Adalwolf will stop aging at thirty. The moon has no power over them, and they are immune to silver. They can bond with any species.
Jem Chamberlain (a.k.a. the Chosen Son) - He is a Breedline species and Jace's identical twin brother. He carries the gene of the Chiang-Shih demon which gives him the power to create a portal and a force of electric energy used as a weapon and other powers he discovers later. His bonded mate is Mia Blackwood. He's an IT engineer and the drummer in the band Chaos.
Tessa Fairchild (a.k.a. the Breedline Queen) - She was born into the human world and later discovers she's a Breedline. Abandoned by her parents, and raised by her aunt and uncle, Tessa has no knowledge of being born a twin. After she meets Jace, they become bonded mates. During her first change into her Breedline wolf, she shifts into the new Breedline queen. She is an inspiring artist.
Dr. Helen Carrington - She is a Breedline species and a physician at the California Bates Hospital for both Breedlines and humans. She later bonds to Alexander Crest.
Roman Kincaid - He is an Adalwolf trained in military tactics, hired as a special breed of warriors from Brazil. Hired as a bodyguard for Valkin Steele - a billionaire funding a group of unethical scientist's research - he later learns of Steele's underground sex-trafficking and illegal drug and weapons trade, and informs the Breedline Covenant. He also forms a team of Breedline soldiers who work for a private Special Ops group contracted by the military for missions that no one else can or will do to help put an end to Valkin Steele's corrupt organization. He resides in the California Breedline Covenant along with team members, Lawrence, Bull, Justice and Lena.
Lawrence Colbert - A Breedline council member of the New Jersey Covenant, trained in military tactics and as a medic who worked alongside Roman Kincaid, the Special Ops Team, and the Breedline Covenant to help take down Valkin Steele.
Bull (a.k.a. Benjamin Allen Calvero) - He is a Breedline, highly trained and an expert in a variety of military tactics who is part of Roman Kincaid's team. He gets his nickname because of his size.
Detective Manuel Sanchez - Raised by a single mother, Manuel never knew his real father. At age thirteen, his older sister Lailah was murdered, and never solved. Consumed by Lailah's death, Manuel chooses a career in police enforcement hoping someday he will catch her killer and bring justice to his sister. Now in his fifties - living his life as a bachelor and a homicide detective -he discovers he is not entirely human, and has inherited his father's Breedline genetics.
Detective Frank Perkins - He is Manuel Sanchez's partner, and discovers the secret world of the Breedline. Born as a human, Frank pledges his loyalty to the Breedline. Fighting alongside his partner, they take an oath to help the Breedline protect the world from corruption and unknown creatures that prey on the innocent.
The Fury - Three fraternal twins created by an evil German scientist named Dr. Hans Autenburg. Using his own DNA, he mixed it with the genetics of a Breedline, an Adalwolf, and a powerful Wiccan. After he kidnapped Sonya Hothburn for her genetics of a full-blooded succubus, he forced her into surrogacy. When the children were born, he forbid Sonya to see her children.
Their purpose was to destroy the Breedline species and dominate the human world. The first-born Apollyon, meaning 'destroyer' in Greek grew up with the strength of ten men, and possessed the power to dematerialize, taking others with him, from one place to another. He can transform into a creature that resembles an Adalwolf and a vampire-like hybrid. The second born, Callisto, meaning 'most beautiful,' developed the power to form a shield, protecting herself and others from harm. Electra, meaning 'the shining one' was last to be born. She has the power to conduct electricity from her body, using it as a weapon. Inheriting their species instinct and extraordinary power, their thirst to kill became uncontrollable. As they grew up, the Fury became more and more unstable and unruly. With an insatiable hunger for human flesh and unmanageable powers, they became a hindrance to the physician. He had no other choice but to drug and imprison them for all time, each one placed inside a sarcophagus in a state of deep slumber, until their mother discovered their whereabouts and set them free.
Battle Angels - Their one purpose for existence is to serve the Creator in the war against demons and evil havoc on earth. The battle angels are unlike any of the Creator's angels. The indigenous battle angels, on average, stand ten-feet-tall. Although, a few tower to the height of twelve feet with a more muscular build. Tattooed with unique warrior markings, the black-winged warriors are suited with armor typical of ancient heroes, and they wield a type of sword associated with a long-gone empire. They are the bravest of angels, who consider only the importance of their mission, and are perfectly willing to give their life in the service of righteousness. Gifted with special powers, they fight against the dark side. They are particularly fond of the human race and consider themselves humanity's special protectors.
Cronus - He is a loyal and devoted warrior in charge of God's battle angels. He wields the power of the sword of truth and has the ability to use his body as a shield. His mission is to protect the heavens and all God's creations.
Lailah - She is a battle angel gifted with holy fire used to trap or immobilize demons and other evil supernatural beings, rather than killing them outright. Forty-one years ago, in her human life at age seventeen, she was savagely murdered. Although her killer got away with the crime, her younger brother, Detective Manuel Sanchez, promises to dedicate his life trying to solve the murder.
Helios - He is a battle angel and a descendant of an African king. When God brought him into the group, he converted Helios's body into a lethal weapon. The tips of his feathers are sharp as knives, and he has talons capable of shredding through skin and bone. Although he was born without vocal cords, he can communicate using his mind.
Icarus - He is a gorgeous battle angel gifted with the power of telekinesis. He can influence, manipulate, and move matter using his mind.
Frigg - He is one of God's originals, serving as a battle angel for more than a century. He is gifted with the power to shape-shift into any living thing.
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and 2 member cents. BREEDLINE - A species of humans that have the ability to change from human form into wolf form if they are born an identical twin. They are not like the old legend of the Lycanthropy myth. The Breedline species can shift into their wolf at will. The moon has no power over them. They do not pass their ability to other humans. Although they live among humans, their species is secret. In wolf form, they have super-strength, speed, and heightened senses. Compared to humans, Breedlines have tremendous advantages when it comes to health. Their bodies heal fast and are not subject to illness or diseases. The only thing that slows their healing process is silver. It is their kryptonite. Besides old age, a silver bullet to the brain is the only way to kill a Breedline.
All male Breedlines change into their first wolf at the age of eighteen. Female Breedlines do not go through the change until they make love to their Breedline bonded mate.
ADALWOLF - A species that has the power to shift from their human form into a beautiful creature, twice the size, resembling half man and half wolf. Born with super-strength, they can move from one place to another in supernatural speed. Their eyes take on the appearance of two shimmering diamonds. With the power to regenerate their own cells, an Adalwolf will stop aging at thirty. The moon has no power over them, and they are immune to silver. They can bond with any species.
Jem Chamberlain (a.k.a. the Chosen Son) - He is a Breedline species and Jace's identical twin brother. He carries the gene of the Chiang-Shih demon which gives him the power to create a portal and a force of electric energy used as a weapon and other powers he discovers later. His bonded mate is Mia Blackwood. He's an IT engineer and the drummer in the band Chaos.
Tessa Fairchild (a.k.a. the Breedline Queen) - She was born into the human world and later discovers she's a Breedline. Abandoned by her parents, and raised by her aunt and uncle, Tessa has no knowledge of being born a twin. After she meets Jace, they become bonded mates. During her first change into her Breedline wolf, she shifts into the new Breedline queen. She is an inspiring artist.
Dr. Helen Carrington - She is a Breedline species and a physician at the California Bates Hospital for both Breedlines and humans. She later bonds to Alexander Crest.
Roman Kincaid - He is an Adalwolf trained in military tactics, hired as a special breed of warriors from Brazil. Hired as a bodyguard for Valkin Steele - a billionaire funding a group of unethical scientist's research - he later learns of Steele's underground sex-trafficking and illegal drug and weapons trade, and informs the Breedline Covenant. He also forms a team of Breedline soldiers who work for a private Special Ops group contracted by the military for missions that no one else can or will do to help put an end to Valkin Steele's corrupt organization. He resides in the California Breedline Covenant along with team members, Lawrence, Bull, Justice and Lena.
Lawrence Colbert - A Breedline council member of the New Jersey Covenant, trained in military tactics and as a medic who worked alongside Roman Kincaid, the Special Ops Team, and the Breedline Covenant to help take down Valkin Steele.
Bull (a.k.a. Benjamin Allen Calvero) - He is a Breedline, highly trained and an expert in a variety of military tactics who is part of Roman Kincaid's team. He gets his nickname because of his size.
Detective Manuel Sanchez - Raised by a single mother, Manuel never knew his real father. At age thirteen, his older sister Lailah was murdered, and never solved. Consumed by Lailah's death, Manuel chooses a career in police enforcement hoping someday he will catch her killer and bring justice to his sister. Now in his fifties - living his life as a bachelor and a homicide detective -he discovers he is not entirely human, and has inherited his father's Breedline genetics.
Detective Frank Perkins - He is Manuel Sanchez's partner, and discovers the secret world of the Breedline. Born as a human, Frank pledges his loyalty to the Breedline. Fighting alongside his partner, they take an oath to help the Breedline protect the world from corruption and unknown creatures that prey on the innocent.
The Fury - Three fraternal twins created by an evil German scientist named Dr. Hans Autenburg. Using his own DNA, he mixed it with the genetics of a Breedline, an Adalwolf, and a powerful Wiccan. After he kidnapped Sonya Hothburn for her genetics of a full-blooded succubus, he forced her into surrogacy. When the children were born, he forbid Sonya to see her children.
Their purpose was to destroy the Breedline species and dominate the human world. The first-born Apollyon, meaning 'destroyer' in Greek grew up with the strength of ten men, and possessed the power to dematerialize, taking others with him, from one place to another. He can transform into a creature that resembles an Adalwolf and a vampire-like hybrid. The second born, Callisto, meaning 'most beautiful,' developed the power to form a shield, protecting herself and others from harm. Electra, meaning 'the shining one' was last to be born. She has the power to conduct electricity from her body, using it as a weapon. Inheriting their species instinct and extraordinary power, their thirst to kill became uncontrollable. As they grew up, the Fury became more and more unstable and unruly. With an insatiable hunger for human flesh and unmanageable powers, they became a hindrance to the physician. He had no other choice but to drug and imprison them for all time, each one placed inside a sarcophagus in a state of deep slumber, until their mother discovered their whereabouts and set them free.
Battle Angels - Their one purpose for existence is to serve the Creator in the war against demons and evil havoc on earth. The battle angels are unlike any of the Creator's angels. The indigenous battle angels, on average, stand ten-feet-tall. Although, a few tower to the height of twelve feet with a more muscular build. Tattooed with unique warrior markings, the black-winged warriors are suited with armor typical of ancient heroes, and they wield a type of sword associated with a long-gone empire. They are the bravest of angels, who consider only the importance of their mission, and are perfectly willing to give their life in the service of righteousness. Gifted with special powers, they fight against the dark side. They are particularly fond of the human race and consider themselves humanity's special protectors.
Cronus - He is a loyal and devoted warrior in charge of God's battle angels. He wields the power of the sword of truth and has the ability to use his body as a shield. His mission is to protect the heavens and all God's creations.
Lailah - She is a battle angel gifted with holy fire used to trap or immobilize demons and other evil supernatural beings, rather than killing them outright. Forty-one years ago, in her human life at age seventeen, she was savagely murdered. Although her killer got away with the crime, her younger brother, Detective Manuel Sanchez, promises to dedicate his life trying to solve the murder.
Helios - He is a battle angel and a descendant of an African king. When God brought him into the group, he converted Helios's body into a lethal weapon. The tips of his feathers are sharp as knives, and he has talons capable of shredding through skin and bone. Although he was born without vocal cords, he can communicate using his mind.
Icarus - He is a gorgeous battle angel gifted with the power of telekinesis. He can influence, manipulate, and move matter using his mind.
Frigg - He is one of God's originals, serving as a battle angel for more than a century. He is gifted with the power to shape-shift into any living thing.
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