Her Vampire & Her Werewolf

Chapter Twenty-Five

Sitting on the front porch swing, sipping my coffee I could hear the birds waking up and starting to sing their morning songs. The world was peaceful around me.

I could also just breathe, without having to worry who was coming after me, what I needed to learn, or what needed to be done. For a moment in time I could just be me.

The strange thing is I didn't feel any different, I still felt like Tori, the woman who just wanted to do what was right, who wanted to love, and who wanted to keep my aunt's legacy alive for the most part.

I could do without the haunted and demonic collections she had in the cellar. Which reminded me I was seriously thinking of just sealing that room in, so nothing or no one could ever find it or get to it.

That would actually make me feel a hell of a lot better, plus I had hoped these demons were going to just go away.

But I doubt that would happen, I could feel a presence lingering around the outskirts of my property.

I knew Darious had warded both properties to where they couldn't just walk up to my door and demand their brother back.

I wonder why the council wanted their brother to be captured and locked away for all eternity.

"Some things are better left unknown," a small voice whispered in my mind. I almost dropped my coffee when I heard that. I looked around thinking someone was whispering in my ear but there was no one around.

"You're not imagining things, I felt since it was quiet and just us that I would talk to you" the voice whispered again.

"Are you my wolf?" I asked quietly.

"I am, and before you ask me a million questions, I have always been deep inside of you, tucked away until our mate woke me up. That is why you were able to handle the venom from Darious, only people with even a trace of werewolf gene are able to handle it. If not you would have died" she said.

"I never knew any of this, but then why would I? I have a mother who doesn't think anything of me, an aunt that passed away way too early, and I'm a rarity."

"Darious's wolf needs to emerge for us to see if we can change, plus he hasn't shown you his wolf which he should have by now. But with everything going on, it doesn't surprise me at all."

I could feel her in my bones, she had a warm presence in my mind and body. Talking with her felt normal.

I heard a noise, standing up I looked out into my yard and walking out of the darkness was something that I wasn't expecting. It stood over seven feet tall; it looked like a wolf but it walked on two legs, its body was covered in hair? Or was it fur?

A low deep growl emitted from it, which set my heart rate a bit high but at the same time I recognized that growl.

I walked down the steps towards it, looking up at it I saw its eyes. The bright green that showed I knew it was Darious.

"Darious?" I asked as I kept walking closer, hoping it really was him and I wasn't walking to my death.

He stopped growling and looked at me for a moment.

"Our mate," my wolf whispered. That made the wolf creature's eyes narrow at us.

"Hang on, going to see if we can change" my wolf whispered.

And before I could protest, I felt every bone in my body start to rearrange themselves. I screamed but no sound came out.

I dropped to the ground as my body twisted and made popping sounds. I saw the large werewolf bend down and inhale my scent, as my body was trying to change, he picked me up and ran off into the woods.