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She paced back and forth, back and forth, in one of the underground sanctuaries she had been driven to centuries ago The dark, rough walls complimented her mood well, and the stale air continually reain been forced to leave the land she called ho over She had to keep control This was all just a setback, not defeat Mona hadn’t realized hoerful the two healers together would be and they also had the aid of that intrusive Fae

After the healers had countered her spells Mona had needed to break the connection before they were able to reach into her, into the verythat she killed, then stored in her black soul She couldn’t let that happen That would destroy everything she had become So she stepped back to reevaluate her circumstances; she did not flee Well, that’s what she kept telling herself

She had left on her faithful steed Octavian and into the protection of the foresst of Romania Heedless of the cold, she pushed hie deep in the Carpathian Mountains If a hue, they would just continue across without a thought The supernaturals, however, would knohat it was because there was no passing the bridge without paying toll to the troll who guarded the portal If they could not pay the toll then they had to work it off by going through the portal to the In Between Mona never paid the toll If she entered the In Between, it was always by choice So every tih the sao to hell and entered under her oer She thought that the trolland a nice break from his mundane existence

The In Betas the place between the human world and the demon realm It here the wicked hen they needed to lay low, and where the not so wicked went to work off an indiscretion toward the wicked It was a place void of peace, or comfort A place where the darkness covered you like a blanket and despair filled your lungs with every breath

The atreatest discomfort If you hate the cold, then you will be surrounded by ice Blizzards will attack you, frostbite will cripple your fingers and toes – your very veins will feel as if the blood is freezing in your body, slowly depriving your organs of the precious fluid they need to live The ice never h you are surrounded by water

If you hate the heat you will stand in the desert under the scorching sun, your lips cracked and your skin dry, your body calling out for water You will hear the vultures above you, waiting for you to fall under the relentless,down, encouraging you to give up so they can pick your carcass until only bones are left, bones that will be incinerated over time

If water is your fear, if the open ocean with no land in sight is what makes you shudder in your dreams, then there you shall be, water as far as you can see; no help in sight Youfluid With every bob of your head under the surface your body weakens Your in to craer knohy you shouldn’t drink the ocean water You give into the teulps, but you are too weak The water that see to the sea, and as you sink and your lungs fill ater the darkness you long to consume you stays just out of your reach

Maybe it isn’t the elements that you hate or fear; maybe it is your own death or the death of the one you care deeply for that terrifies you If this is what fills you with dread and despair, then you atch that loved one die over and over again in the ruesome of ways You will try to help them, reach out to them when they call your na that you see and feel in the In Between appears so real to you, it is only in your All the while you are actually stuck in your mind with no means of escape

Those places were there to hold those waiting their next assignment by the demons, or other evil supernaturals that needed so a e, other ti for a supernatural to do was just pay the toll The In Betas not a place for the light weight evil beings and definitely not a place for the ones pure of heart

Mona had seen many suffer here She herself had never experienced it The evil that filled her was even darker than what lay here Nothing the In Between could use to try and torture her would be effective There were tih very fehen she wondered at what point the evil had completely consumed her At what point did she co because the power that came from the darkness hat she needed and she had a lot of it

Now here she was, pacing, thinking, sche the blood of two healers would make her the most powerful supernatural this side of the demon realm There would be no wolf, no Fae ouldn’t fall at her feet A smile stretched across her face, so wicked that the darkness around her reached out to touch her, and she i before her She would have her revenge; she would take what she deserved But her poaning She could ado before her and weaken those ould stand against her Da her sisters fro to have to go see him At one time he was very powerful, as were his people Now, circuth she sought; it was his knowledge She needed information that only he knew She would do whatever she had to do in order to get that information from him

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"Before we head over to the new Serbian pack s we need to discuss," Vasile announced to the two packs that had assembled per his request

"I always hated it when my parents wanted to discuss -" Jen whispered to Jacque,was sit your ass down because we’re fixing to rip you new one"

Jacque held her fist up for a fist bu they were known for: "Word"

"Hey, what have I missed?" Sally asked as she took a seat next to her two friends

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