PROLOGUE
Flash back
In the outcast of Grimvale, mist covered the air leaving a dangerously sweetened scent of death across the atmosphere leaves rustles as a teenage boy sneaked through bushes in something or should I say someone,soon he pounced on a younger kid and feed on his blood till he got satisfied as he was about to let the boy go ahhh!!! a tiny voice from a red haired twelve years old girl filled the air as she trembled and found a way to escape his wrath soon she turned on her heels and make a run from him
He quickly left the lifeless boy and ran after her soon he cut up with her and said am not wicked please don't just tell anyone let it be our little secret and I promise to save you always.she looked at his blue eyes and said with faint voice you are a vampire and he stared deep into her hazel eyes and said yes and my name is caius and gave her a smile exposing his blood coated fangs from the earlier encounter and she said am a witch my name is Mira huh I can fell the scent of roses and vinegar around you he said she then gave him a light smile and said friends and hug her deeper into his arms and said friends
Days passed and then weeks then didn't see each other until one day Mira noticed a trail of blood of the ground and followed it curiously and found him feasting on a deer he looked at her with deep red eyes and said don't be sacred I was only hungry at least not a human this time right,she gave him a light pat on his slightly broad back and said it good to final see you as her hazel shone under the moon light he let out a light giggle I want to show you something he said has he drag her down to a river bank and took a stone then threw it into the she watched as it skipped and let out a loud laughter so you are not so sacred of me anymore are you? with a warm smile she said am not he locked eyes with her and said you are mine Mira mine and suddenly he gave her mate mark on the right side of her neck looking like a crescent tatoo and they kissed savouring the taste of blood mixed with vinegar which lasted for about twenty seconds after the kiss she said promise you won't bite a human anymore and he said i promise
Two years passed,Mira and a guy named Isaac walked about the woods looking for herbs, Isaac dragged her to the back of a tree and started showing lustful desire towards, Isaac has an habit of molesting young feeble witches in the coven but this was unknown to Mira he said making lustful comments About her looks then casted an obeying spell on her to make her bend to his wishes as he said touching in a very eerily manner all of sudden and an arm slammed on his chest and kicked him across the tree as Mira comes back to her senses she found caius strangling Isaac and about punged his fangs into his neck she screamed stop but anger has overwhelming his emotions then suddenly he remember the promise he made to her few years ago but still when ahead and hit him till he fell unconscious,Mira looked at caius with fear and pain and said she shakily you al-mo- st killed him.
caius found a way to beg for her forgiveness and Mira casted a spell to make Isaac wounds heal,Mira was upset but still thought about the fact that he saved her so she leaned against him and said it alright am here then kissed passionately as the moon light shown on them.
Vampires don't get sick but they starve,winter has started Mira strolled through the woods looking at the frozen river and smiled she hasn't seen him for days then she decided to went in search for him suddenly she saw a figured curled up in a corner beneath a rock,pale ,dry lips ,tired eyes looking like a wounded fox was shown as she looked clearly she found out it was caius . "what in the hell " she yelled and quickly grab his body into her arms and asked what was wrong he said I was kicked out of the clan because I came to see you they don't want me to see you she looked at him desperately and picked up her pocket knife she always carried around has a young witch she is,she brought her palm and s***h it and offered him her blood but he refused but insisted then as soon as he had a taste of her blood he feed on it not like in the stories or romantically but with deep and intense hunger has soon finish she became dizzy he caught her with his arms his eyes got to been the normal icy blue it was and smiled warmly to her do you know
what you just did you made us a mate
They were sixteen and fourteen when the world ended.
It was Litha. Midsummer. The night witches dance and vampires don’t hunt, by ancient treaty. Caius snuck past grimvale borders to meet her. He brought her a crown of night-blooming jasmine. She’d stolen her mama’s best wine.
They were in their willow tree, legs tangled, drunk on stolen kisses and sweeter promises, when the sky turned orange.
Hexgrave was burning.
“Mirra –” Caius was on his feet, fangs down before he even thought. Not for her. For the
The coven came first. Twelve elders, faces hidden, wands lit. “The witch is forfeit,” they said. “She bedded the monster.”
Then the vampires came. Six lords, including his father. “The boy is corrupted,” his father said. “He gave his name to a witch.”
Caius stepped in front of her. “You’ll have to go through me.”
“Youare nothing,” his father said. “You are Calcorous. You are mine.
Mirra stood too. Her magic came up green and wild, untrained, furious. It set the willow on fire. “He’s Caius,” she screamed. “He’s mine!”
The word mine did it.
The willow exploded. The lake boiled. Old magic – the kind that sleeps under gremvale woke up and listened
A witch’s claim. A vampire’s blood-debt. Spoken together, freely given.
It was a marriage. It was a war crime
His father moved faster than sight. Hit Caius so hard he flew fifty feet, crashed into a tombstone. Mirra screamed, threw magic. Three elders went down burning.
Her mother grabbed her from behind. “Dormius,” she whispered, and pain
Pain like her soul being peeled.
The Memory Wipe
They did it together. Coven and vampire lords, united for once.
They dragged Caius, unconscious, into a circle of salt. Dragged Mirra, screaming, into a circle of iron.
“He’s just a boy! she shrieked.the memories of your togetherness shall hereby be erased was muttered underneath their spells.
