The Black Alder Series (Books 1-3)

Kayla Pov NO

It can’t be

“Solem,” I choked out.

“Hello, sweet sister,” Solem said, and he yanked the sword out of me. The twins growled, but in their weakened state, it was all they could do. Liam backed off to the wall, his eyes narrowing, watching everything.

“We saw you die,” Ethan grunted out. You could hear the malice in his voice.

“I saw what I wanted you to see, mutt’, Solem says.

“How could you do this to our sister?” one man chained up says. I looked at him in confusion. Hunh. Sister. Solem notices my face.

“Ah yes, dear sister, that pathetic shit you see over there is our brother Alverez,” Solem says, grinning.

“You told me Alverez was trying to kill me.” I breathed out. The blood was pouring from my wound.

“I lied to you, idiot girl. Alverez was the one who projected a seer into the Firelands, only for her to learn about the prophecy about you. They worked together to get your father to send you away. Your father knew I was coming to kill you after I heard the prophecy. That is why he tried to keep me locked away. So, he sent you away on earth with the seer while he came back to try to stop me, but what they didn’t know is that I had been practicing the dark arts for decades. All it took was a little bit of poppy powder to make him sleep while I killed our parents. After they inhaled the poppy powder, I slit dad’s throat and poisoned mom with rose ash, which was deadly to the phoenix. The same little toxin will be given to our brother here soon,” he explained.

I looked at the man with black hair and green eyes. He looked so helpless. As I saw the blood, I knew I was going to die. I just hate that I would never have had the chance to meet him.

“Why?” I asked Solem as he mixed my blood into the cauldron.

“Your father was going to let me inherit the Firelands. I served him faithfully for decades as a loyal soldier. Surely, after he died, the Firelands would have come to me, but he didn’t see it that way after you were born. He was determined that you would be extremely powerful. Mom just went along with his plan, and they both seemed to try to forget about me. Powerful, my ass. I just drained all the powers you have. You don’t even know what your full potential could have been, but it doesn’t matter. Don’t take it personally. I have nothing against you, dear sister. I just need your power. Unfortunately, it’s going to kill you in the process. Oh well,” Solem laughs while he walks out of the cave with Liam following behind him.

I am trying to keep my breathing steady. He was right. I was dying.

“I’m sorry, love,” I groaned to them. They both had tears in their eyes. I knew they felt me dying.

“Mi amor, we love you,” Ethan says.

“We love you so much,” Aiden says. I nodded.

“I love you both,” I told them. I turned to Elena. “Thank you for taking me in.” She had tears in her eyes too as she nodded. I turned to Lauren.

“Lauren,” I said, tears streaming down my face. I couldn’t even form words. Without her, my life would never have truly begun. She nodded as if she could hear me. Something said she could. I turned to my chained-up brother.

“Katiana,” he said. Her voice was thick and deep. I felt at home. “I am sorry,” he says.

“Don’t be sorry, Alverez. In the last few months, I was told you were the enemy. The prophecy said evil would try to trick us. We just didn’t know the extent. I am sorry, Brother,’ I told him. I needed him to know this before we died. He just gave me a weak smile and nodded.

“Just die already,” I heard a voice say behind me. It all happened quickly after. A hand shoved into my chest and pushed my heart through. Everyone looked at me with wide eyes, but I smiled. I looked up from my heart in someone’s hands to my twins. I smiled at my twins. The hand pulled backward, and I was no more. Elena Pov Solem’s pulling Kayla’s heart from her chest was what set off the next chain of events. I felt the ground rumble. I felt a wind stir. Snow and I both heard the loud pop of chains in our son’s mind, and I knew there was no going back. They let out the most terrible growl, looking at their mate. It was filled with so much pain. Both of their bodies glowed blue with their powers as their dark lycans manifested. Their lycans were both black and stood up to 8 feet tall. They stood on two legs and were very muscular. Their arms extended long, and their claws were sharp.

Liam’s pack was called instantly to keep them contained while Solem finished the spell. The boys broke free of their chains easily and bit through the necks of all the wolves who came into the cave. I could feel the bloodlust. So thick. I could feel Roland shiver next to me. His wolf recognized that his boys were much stronger.

Boy’s help. I reach out to them, hoping they are not too far gone to help us escape. I need to get everyone else out of here. I seemed to reach Ethan because he ran over and slashed through our ropes. I didn’t hesitate. I grabbed Roland, Nate, Cole, and Mia, while Lauren grabbed Alverez and Serene, and we teleported outback to our packhouse, leaving our boys to kill.

Stay here; I’m going back. I command in Luna’s voice, and even though they all object, they all bow their heads. Well, all except for Roland.

“I’m coming with you,” Roland states.

“No, babe, our boys are unstable. Even Snow thinks she may not be able to bring them back. I can’t take the chance of them killing you. It would break me,” I told him, kissing his forehead. He knew I was right, but I’m strong enough to take on my boys if they are too far gone.

“Protect this house,” I tell Serene and Lauren. They nod. I zipped myself back to the cave. There are 40 bodies on the ground, and more are being added by the second. Wolves come towards me as I bring out Snow in our full-merged form. I am the only female celestial hybrid known, other than my daughter. I let out a deep growl as I made my presence known. I snapped the head of the wolf who attempted to attack me.

Big Mistake

I generate my powers through myself and let them flow through my fingertips. I killed everyone within a radius, but they kept coming.

GO HOME The boys linked to me. I ignored them. They will need me. I levitated, taking a few wolves with me, and slammed them down hard on the ground. The bodies were piling up so fast as I tried to reach Solem to kill him, but the wolves kept coming.

Suddenly, a blast of what looked like a sunbeam shot out of me, and I admitted that the shit was hot and that I was not prepared for it. It felt like I had been burned by the sun itself. I am still able to hold off some wolves, but I know I’m about to go down shortly if I don’t heal myself.

MOM, my boy’s yelling They fight harder, trying to get to me. Solem Much has finished the spell. He now has the power of the sun. He shot another few more lasts at me that I dodged, and it looked like it weakened him. If he is getting weak from a few blasts, then apparently he can’t channel it as well as he thought.

He sends another blast at me. I made a shield of moon energy around me to block most of the attack, but it still weakened me because, at the same time, three wolves jumped on me. I was able to dodge two of them, but one caught me in my arm, and I knew it was broken.

Boy, come back to me, I tried saying while fending off another two wolves. I couldn’t focus on healing myself and fighting. They were close. Solem shot more sun shots at me, and it caught my leg.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

My babies are all I could get out. My boys were in front of my body, fighting as I struggled to stand up.

Moon Goddess, help me, I cried out.

Take her body outside. I heard someone boom through my spirit link. I tore through her chains and lifted her.

What are you doing, the boys growled?

OUTSIDE is all I could get out before I shimmered out of the cave, and we ended up outside the cave. The sun was coming out. Shimmering her out took the last of my strength, and I passed out.