Status Updates From Blood and Malice (The Witch...

20 pages left and Hudson and hailey are doing it for the first time 🤦‍♀️

there’s other forces they aren’t aware of yet at play. General runs into meeting, new threat approach boiling glass sands, only dragons can cross that but dragons haven’t been seen in long time. General say Malantha found way reverse banishment spell, is here & brought army of dead w/her.

But her smiles weren’t for Caradock, they were for her monsters Jax, Elian & Hudson. He’d watched Hudson pleasure her, make her smile in ways Caradock only dream of. They monsters who held her heart. Caradock want take off ring, let glamour fall & let midnight fall to ash. He wouldn’t let dark winter fae claim Amaranth City for themselves. Una say rumors of increase magical activity around borders which suggest

he’s not well. He doesn’t know details, just asked find her & bring her back. One eyed demon said she’d b hard convince her, Jax tell him say her saint needs his little sparrow, time for her to choose, stay or go. Her/Hudson take off for facility. Caradock in meeting w/generals, not happy w/them. He loved taking Haley to market, saw it for 1st time thru her eyes.She moaned at taste of their food,smiled,laughed.

have b ashamed or afraid of grow them. He furls his wings, shows off for her, she touches them, he say feels incredible. She wants him, he wants her too. He licks her. As he on top her w/wings shelter them they hear other wings flap. Caradock gargoyle land on balcony, Hudson shift warrior form, tell her stay behind him. Gargoyle put hands up, he’s there on behest of Gem. He say it’s vampire fae, been incident &

He say she either gonna kiss him or send him bed w/broken heart, pick one. She smiles up at him & rambles. He tell her he loves her rambling but he really want kiss her so please put him out of his misery. She need him kiss her too, he does & so good they didn’t notice knocked over one of bowls of blood into dirt, she say look & whole bunch black roses bloomed in moonlight. He say her roses beautiful & doesn’t

also how he escaped cave & stone form. She smiles, says that’s cool. He laughs, he tell her they have mystical connection & it’s cool? She say as soon as he said it, something clicked in her & she say of course they’re fated mates, feels right. He needs ask her something & needs her b honest. She say always. When he told her he’s got her, he mean it, he’s there for her, she say means more to her than knows

heart is evil baby girl. but all of us are capable of doing evil shit.” Hudson tell her he feel connection to her to since she walk into saints & sinners. He tell her gargoyles have mate bonds & she is his, his to protect & guard, his to cherish, his to love. doesn’t mean they have b in love but there’s potential but means bond will tie them for life. Fated mates? yes. Is that how he felt her in trouble? yes

when she touched his stone form in garden she felt spark, thought he felt it too. He say they do have connection that runs deep. She feel connected to all, Jax’s came fast & furious. Also feel connection to midnight & think might understand Caradock, doesn’t think he’s evil. She feel like she meant b in midnight. She ask he think she evil like dark winter fae? He say evil is choice. “No one with love in their

feel need cover up, she says nor should he. She say maybe she walk around castle nude, give guards something talk about. Hudson say no, why isn’t she wearing jacket, gloves, scarf? He ask where Jax/Elian r, she say they avoiding her past 2 days. She tell him about seeing facility, happen w/Elian, fight w/Jax. She worried about them. Hudson reassure her. She tell him feels connection to him even before they met,

Hudson never like watch shows, see art but watch Haley do magic warm every part him as he watch from shadows. She was work of art. She does spell, doesn’t work, she try ask why she been forsaken but gets caught up as whether should b present tense or past tense. Hudson think she adorable & can’t stop his little laugh, she gasps. Her eyes widen at naked body. Gargoyles don’t have hang ups about nudity, don’t

cuz they’re his family. If she really think he’s someone who’d walk out when things get real then maybe she not woman he thought she was. Caradock find them, he thought she ran off. Jax look her waiting her tell Caradock back off, she doesn’t, Jax shakes his head like he can’t believe he wasted time being w/her & walk away. Caradock ask she ok, she tell him take her back castle, she needs b alone.

Jax knew how she felt about Elian so why he so worked up? She realize watch Elian like this killing Jax just much as her. She say Elian is family. Jax say breaks his heart see Elian like this, every night Jax decide btwn watch Elian go thru withdrawal or help ease his pain, breaks heart more, tear fall down his face. Elian there for Jax when needed it, Jax need b there him now. Jax choose to stay w/Elian, Hudson, her

Elian want tell her he doesn’t mean things he say but she already walk to door, Jax follow. 2 of 3 people he care about leaving him alone, he take another pill. Haley didn’t realize running til Jax stop her, sorry they didn’t tell her Gem supervise them, he/Elian didn’t want her worry. It breaks her heart to see Elian like that. He say she can’t help him, she say but that’s my…Jax fill in ex,first love?

at him w/sadness, worry. She ask why he does it, he say cuz he has holes inside nothing can fill. She say taking pills fill it? No but he’ll take high & numb versus pain own reality any day. Even if reality include people who care about him, love him? Elian say that’s fantasy, she’s hurt by it. Jax told Elian earlier that he poison to Haley, he’s right cuz every time opens his mouth all wrong words come out.

them, Elian ask she there sing him sleep, she go to Gem, put knife to throat, Gem touch Haley’s shoulder & Haley fall to ground body twitching. Elian say ouch, gotta hurt, know he should b furious but can’t focus on it cuz so high. Jax grab Gem, tell her he’ll end her if she touch Haley again. Elian takes another pill tells Haley not stealing, quality control. She say funny since he clearly out of control, look

looking at & tell her Gem supervising drug making. Haley give him her bags, she needs 5 minutes. Caradock say she not going in alone, she say he/guards draw too much attention. She just needs 5-10 minutes. Elian try keep shit together but been so high past 2 nights. Gem return from wherever was. Newest batch pills better than last, made him even more high & didn’t wear off as fast. Door slams open, Haley march to

risk her safety. She’d never actually been in Amaranth City, she’d only been in castle & apartment. Sensory overload, market place had everything could want. He buys her what she needs, been nice. That day in throne room when Elian call him Evander, if Caradock had hurt him she would’ve seen some reaction but he didn’t. Haley stop walking, Caradock ask she ok, she spot Gem go into building, he see who she

Haley go meet Caradock see his door open & peeks, she see his back as he puts on shirt, entire back & arms scarred. He’d been whipped, burned, shot, left side of torso mangled w/vicious bite marks. She quietly go to stairs. Jax/Elian said Caradock was politician who spent time behind desk. How did that happen & how he survive? Caradock give her knife back. He put on glamour cuz has too many enemies & doesn’t want

her if want come to market w/him. Hudson couldn’t find everything she needs. He stumbling over his words like he’s ask her on date. She can’t reconcile this Caradock she’s gotten to know w/one Elian told her about last night. Something didn’t add up but something in her gut told her man before her wasn’t responsible for those horrible things. Only way know is spend more time w/him. She agree go w/him.

much worse. He say Caradock is trafficker, he steals fea children from their home realms to give to his friends. She want know what happen to Evander why doesn’t she ask Caradock instead of stick tongue down throat. Elian runs outside, finds dark alley, drops to knees & screams til throat bleeds. Haley wake up in pain, last night she felt good but not today. She’ll stay far away from it. Caradock find Haley, ask

to feel it. He tell her when look at Caradock in throne room he thought saw someone else he know it drugs talking. she saw someone else to, his face & eyes changed. She thought it was Elian. She tell him she kiss him. He furious & ask why? She hadn’t seen Elian in days & suddenly he there so she kissed him/Elian. He wish she didn’t tell him cuz image burned on his mind now. He say Caradock warlord, murderer & so

Elian say she doesn’t want get mixed up in it, he wouldn’t wish it on worst enemy. She say she not enemy & he’s not responsible for her & she takes pill. He feel dread, threaten bite her if she doesn’t spit it out, she finally does & he puts rest of pill in his mouth. Just that little taste will f her up bad when it hits her. Does he feel it yet? no, 1/2 pill won’t register his system, he needs 3 or 4 pills

w/Caradock like they’re friends. Where’s Jax? he doesn’t know or care. She lie in Jax’s bed, Elian jealous, he sit w/her watch over her. 1st time they’ve been alone & he need b near her. Her sisters Grey, Georgie & Adele. She ask Elian lie w/her for bit. She ask him who Evander is, she used hear him say his name in dreams. She holds up black pill, he grabs for it, she ask what it’s like, she curious now.

behind. She hope man in nightmare gets him. He want her stay longer, he want prove her he’s not monster she believe him to b. He say her sisters r safe, his associates in black moon bay keep close eye on them, witches they practice w/ & men they share lives w/. vampire, 2 demons, wolf shifter, mortal man. she thanks him, smiles, hand to his cheek tell him sleep well. Elian come to find her, worry why she have tea

she care for. smart, powerful, quick on feet. He say he doesn’t wish her harm. She say he does & every time he call her dark winter hurts, dark winter his enemy. He realize anger not meant for him but for man whose mask he wore, who’s mantle he bore & all power & judgement w/it. He twist ring on finger, more painful each night, magic faltering, bond btwn them unraveling, his death near & his probably not far

has been defanged, rotting away breath by breath. He’d had nightmare while in library, Haley approach him, ask if he ok. He still half asleep, tell her something hunting him. He feel shame for being scared. She give him mug of tea, she knows what it’s like b haunted by past u can’t remember. He angry at thought of someone hurt her. She kind, generous, fierce, resourceful, fought for self, fought for people

her feet. She know they’re real images of what’s to come. Feelings the images gave her was excitement, hope one day all of it b true. Caradock has nightmare about when younger, man chase him & refuse play make punishment worse. hid behind barren trees (nothing like silver leafed trees at home). wolf of midnight always find him, hold face down in mud, whip him (way say this make seem like maybe rape too?). wolf

her since feast of beast. He tell her how he attacked, spelled into stone form, how he escape cuz felt her in trouble. All eat dinner together, guys exhausted every night, never talk about their work. Haley admit to Caradock she feels magic in midnight, he tell her more time she spends there the more pull she’ll feel for it. He touch her forehead & she see flame at fingertips, black bodies rise from ground kneel at