Awakening (2 book series)
Awakening – Following Fate Chapter 120

I blink open my lashes and look around and adjust to my night vision before I notice the sitting figures dotted around the room, all seemingly poised yet do absolutely nothing at our appearance. My heart drops and my insides flutter at this weird anticlimax. I do not trust these men and I feel like this is way weirder than I could have imagined and gawp at the fact they remain as they are and don't even blink at our arrival.

"Welcome.... You finally showed up." Juan's blood curdling, husky voice comes at us from the far corner of the room. By the huge four poster bed and my eyes are drawn to the figure sprawled out like a lording king in his domain. He doesn't seem phased at all by us, in fact he's sprawled out, one arm propped under his chin, so he's semi sat up. His glowing amber eyes coming at us out from the darkness of this room and I wonder why they have no lights or power in the manor at all. If this is to cloak them and give advantage or if there's something wrong with the electrics.

"You were expecting us?" Radar bites back with a sardonic laugh, moving to the front of our party and putting himself directly in front of Sierra in a protective manner. That cocky confidence on show of a seasoned warrior who is ready to go at it in a blink.

"I was expecting my son, but his bitch and his mother are fine by me. Guess I just have to deal with you first." Juan laughs and the sound is almost manic, blood curling, and so not like the man I remember. He seems to have changed so drastically since the last time I laid eye son him and I wonder if he really has lost all sense of sanity in recent months. His eyes are wild and burn with something terrifying in the depths. I shudder and break contact with him, looking across at Sierra instead who is locked on in a death glare and has no intention of relinquishing

"All these years haven't been kind to you, Juan. You look old and haggard and have lost any kind of alpha energy you once possessed. You're a sad old wolf with hopes of grandeur and zero ability. Give it up before you hurt yourself!" Sierras words cut through the air like a knife, dripping venom and Juan just laughs at her with a throaty cackle.

The air in here is stale and sparks with heightened tension. A feeling in this place of unease and I shift closer to Carmen who is now beside me. She grabs my hand and yanks me to her side before clawing up and fully encompassing my fingers like a shield. She is making it clear she isn't going to let me go and that Sierra is trying to stoke the embers of a fiery fight.

"Maybe like you I should have slept a decade away and left my son to fend for himself, huh?" he sniggers at his own words and I catch a glimpse of Sierra shifting forward before Radar steps in front of her and pushes her behind him once more. Her anger flaring and losing her own sense as despisal fuels her.

"We're here to take you outside. The Vampire lord wants to see you. You can either come easily, or we can do this the hard way. I have no doubt you won't be the victorious one in this." Radar moves closer to him to shorten the space between them and leave Sierra where she stands. I flinch, eyeing up the other wolves in this room, all eyes honed in on us but yet they don't move at all, in fact seemed uncaring about trying to. I nudge Carmen to eye them up too and as she scans the rest of the space, she too furrows her brow at the lack of motion from his so called loyal. I knew he would have some here, but I expected some sort of attempt to shield their alpha.

"Try. You think I didn't expect this?" Juan laughs again, that mighty and snarly sound as though he's in possession of some great superior secret. His noise curdles my blood and I start to perspire with this invading nervous energy that tells me to be on full alert. The inner powers inside of me swirling because I'm afraid.

My guards move out from our circle of protection, linking to Radar for direction and I watch as they move towards the figures around the room, preparing for them to intervene while Radar and another wolf head right for Juan. A tactical move to position themselves between them and their Luna and Rema. I don't understand why this seems so easy, why he's so smug, or why his protectors are motionless and watching. It's all a little too simple.