Shadow Falls: A Sensual Werewolf Romance (The Wolves of Shadow Falls) Read Free

they fell in love with. As a gift from her father Despina was given a male wolf pup to devour but instead she grew fond of the creature and nurtured it until it grew into a magnificent beast. Despina called the pup Seth. When enemies of her father tried to snuff out her life, the wolf that she nurtured laid down his life to protect her. In return for his sacrifice Despina gave her fallen guardian the ‘bite’. She sank her ivory fangs into the throat of the dying beast transmitting a virus that consumed his body, transforming the creature into an immortal being. The beast rose with an insatiable desire to kill.
    Seth did not drink blood like Despina instead he reveled in tearing the cold corpses that his master left behind and devouring them, removing all traces of their existence. He was still for the most part a wolf, preferring to hunt, kill and eat animals. As the millenniums passed Despina travelled the globe, gorging on the blood of humans with her faithful guardian at her side, until one life altering night. It was the middle of the dark ages and they met a young Armenian family living in a small colony on the eastern side of the country. The humble couple had four children ranging from ages one to five years and the mother was in her ninth month of pregnancy. Despina wasted little time, plunging her sharp fangs into the necks of the children, draining the innocent babes dry before moving on to the parents.
    Engorged and filled with blood, Despina cast the barely living mother to the feet of Seth for him to finish the kill. The beast was tired and for the moment content from having devoured the children as well as the father, so instead of consuming the mother he merely bit of her head leaving her decapitated remains to rot. The viruses from Despina and the wolf passed down to the babe through the veins of the mother crossing the placenta and nourishing the child within. As Despina and her guardian slept during the day, the baby still alive, passed out of the corpse of the mother. Despina and her companion were awoken by the cries of the new born and she flew to her feet to investigate the disturbance. As she gazed upon the child she became mesmerized sensing her kin as well as that of her guardian within the babe. She bit into her hand allowing the crying child to drink her blood.
    Years passed and the child grew into a man ceasing to age in body on his 18 th birthday. Despina was fond of the boy and she called him Damien and he became the father of all werewolves. Transforming from wolf to man and then werewolf, through his blood line we were created. Seth and Damien protected their mother for centuries until they were killed during the supernatural battle depicted in the drawings. Since the death of her beloved pet and his son, Despina maintained a symbiotic relationship with wolves, ever so often taking one of his half bred werewolves as a companion. Storm was her most recent companion and the reason she was now in Shadow Falls.
    Despite the revelation, I could not shake the sinking feeling that there was something extremely sinister behind her true intentions. I felt like what she projected was a glamour effect; a false presentation of what she wanted us to believe. Aislen felt it too. Despina could not be trusted. I had read about a vampire’s ability to wear a glamour that acted like a veil covering the truth of their intentions. But until now I had thought it only worked on humans. I felt the urge to believe in her and trust her blindly like the rest of the wolves but something deep down inside fought against it. Both Aislen and I fought to stifle the urge to be deceived by her glamour.

Communion
    The visions of the past were firmly planted in my head. There were truths to the visions that she cast into my mind and I was able to discern the difference.  It was as if a veil of ignorance had been lifted and I was now aware of who I was and what my existence meant. Soon the wolves raised their heads to salute