Status Updates From Etched in Honor (Aspen Pack...

smells vampires, like they’d been wait for him. How did know where he’d b? vampires sentient, red eyes angry but w/total control. Circled Chase, he heard howl & knew who coming, hoped get there in time. Cuts to arm from vampire claws. Vampires lunged for him, Chase couldn’t think of anything else.

War coming, they hadn’t been ready. Vampires been among us for 30 years. Chase still nightmares about silver & metal against back scream in agony. He’d been caged, locked away for yrs. He/Audrey caged together w/metal separating them. He wasn’t able save her. She didn’t know he alive there, everyone thought he dead. Still hear her screams as torture her. Steel not happy Chase running alone. Turn go back when

agree. Form council fight vampires. Coven won’t work w/Dara so witches from redwoods & talons will. Chase tired being on defense. Will find vampires, end them, protect pack cuz they’re strong. Audrey/Gavin mating ceremony. Cole, Cade, Gideon alphas of other packs there celebrate mating too. Mating ceremony sweet. Chase go to meeting w/visiting alphas, beta. Wouldn’t able hide vampires from humans much longer.

Audrey neck hurt, Ren exhausted from healing everyone. Dara/Lily sleeping, Ren say b ok. Nico/Cole gone to own packs. Nico took cousin Skye w/him. Adalyn sleep home. Steel angry vampires gotten by his sentries. Hayes try help others but emotional toil high on all. Chase angry, hurt but so strong. Chase tell pack fought well. Tell Audrey he would’ve sacrifice himself for wolf pup too but tell her not do again. Gavin

He’ll fight w/them. When done, humans know what is to b prey. Sunny slash to Audrey but venom weaken her, Gavin jump front of her, blade go into his side & he falls. Sunny runs, Valack & rest vampires run away too. Ren between Gavin & Audrey heal them. They’d killed 2nd in command, hurt Sunny & survived. Don’t know if b enough going forward but they’d survived & Audrey was alive. Gavin take that as victory.

but more kept coming. Dara screamed, wards fell, Valack surprised. Harold kept pull blood from Audrey, look at Gavin run toward her, she take hidden blade, shove into Harold’s heart. Harold fall in pool blood, Harold done it all for Audrey, made sure demon took Gavin as experiment. Gavin get to Audrey. Sunny come at them for kill Harold. Gavin/Audrey fight Sunny. Chase/Nico/Steel fight Valack. Master b there soon

All Audrey’s fault. She didn’t recognize Harold but he’d wanted her, Gavin taken & hurt cuz her, now wolf pup hurt cuz her? No, Audrey wouldn’t allow it. other vampires had hands on Adalyn, Skye. Little wolf pup was hers to protect. Valack come thru ward say start next now Harold has his lion (Audrey). Harold turn her toward others, Gavin look in horror as Harold bit Audrey. Adalyn kill vampires left & right

Audrey ask what? Harold human then, saw her w/Basal. Master want try make vampire w/shifter, he took Basal. Didn’t turn out way master want, not at first. harold say not time yet for them but when master turned him, he promised him Audrey but he had b strong enough. Harold tell Audrey come to him & he let wolf pup go. Audrey doesn’t have choice, agree go w/him. Hears howl & know it’s Gavin, they’d all heard.

feared vampires all along. Audrey say humans caged them how they fare better, cuz beating shifters so humans b easy. vampires came thru own ward, Audrey see Harold w/wolf pup still in human form. Harold just had call to wolf pup & she crawled to him. vampire can do it w/innocent weak wolves. He bite & drain pup if Audrey come closer. She ask what wants. Harold wants her like he did before when she alone & mate gone.

her arm. Audrey outside ward w/Adalyn, Skye. Adalyn claw vampire in face, Skye use bat but outnumbered 20 to 1. Steel & others try get to them but can’t cuz vampires put up protection spell around themselves & Audrey, Adalyn & Skye. Vampire bit Skye in leg. vampire claw in Audrey side. Vampire say aspen pack is beginning, they’re weak, they destroy them, then other packs & world know shifters r weak & should’ve

Nico use earth magic make him run faster. Nico want help Dara w/magic, Gavin ask Audrey. Gavin explain what happen w/mate. Gavin tell Chase talk to him/Audrey about everything, Chase need sounding board. Chase/Gavin wait for Audrey, others. Loud explosion, can see flames on other side of den. Gavin clutch heart as feel mate bond ebb in & out, like fading. Vampire arm around Audrey neck, kick him, he slash blade on

kill vampire have take out heart, decapitate or make bleed out quick cuz heal fast as wolves. Nico, redwood pack son of witch & tracker help & cole, central alpha also help. Didn’t think demon was cane, one tried take over 30 yrs ago. vampire have own wards, have figure way around it w/out use dark magic. Nico mom healer for redwoods b4 step down, earth witch. had 2 dads, 1st triad which create foundation

no idea what magic is.

to hierarchy except Audrey. She still beta. Gavin say she didn’t deserve b stripped of title. Gavin find scent of vampire. Worry him that seem vampires danced on borders of territory as if knew exactly where were. Corner vampire who’d just drained human of blood. Fight it. Vampire Harold, 2nd in command. Harold take out black powder blow at them & escapes. Magic he used from demon. How can take them out if have

strongest witch, powers aren’t able help w/this. Gavin ask she not elemental witch? No, she harvester death witch. Can speak to death but only one her kind so has no clue what can do. Gavin/Audrey go find vampire to find out how getting by sentries & break down wards. He say so beautiful, strong he falling for her. She don’t know why got 2nd chance. Before, anyone that survived & part of hierarchy lost connection

Both not same people were then, learn how b new people r now. Kiss. He feel her in heart. She scare him cuz she always take care everyone else & afraid when she need help, won’t ask for it. He’s here, tell her lean on him. Get thru anything together. Steel say vampires getting by sentries. Chase say witch coven doesn’t have answers, have issues of own, working on it but don’t have power help
them. Dara is

Adalyn, Ren, Skye say Audrey too exhausted, worry too much about Gavin. Skye say she needs team to help her. Her pack has former leaders help as sounding boards to new leaders. Audrey found as cub, nobody know how or where. Foster parents raise her, Blade kill them early on in madness. Did so have more control over Audrey. Gavin come see her. He want make her dinner. Talk about do things used to.She doesn’t want to

He loved her as Basal, tell her let him fall for her as Gavin. If he could bring Blade back, would & kill him over & over again. Still feel bond, just let human half catch up. Tell her let him get know who is now. Tell her believe in fate. Fate brought them together twice. Reason for that. Gavin know they broken apart before but won’t let them break again.

r but she want him fight for who is cuz he’s her mate. She say Gavin is mate, doesn’t deserve him, there darkness out there, they need train & not focus on her. She leave, Gavin curse. She doesn’t feel deserve any goodness cuz couldn’t defeat Blade & whole pack killed cuz she not strong enough. Gavin find her, she apologize didn’t mean whole pack know, she shaking. He doesn’t want hide being her mate.

they save aspens. broke cardinal rule of being aspen then. Turned human into lion to save life but weren’t allowed to change people, especially since wasn’t into wolf. Woman now Talon, when alpha found out, he torture her. Beat her & others in front of her. He beat dominance that challenged him, kill all but kept her alive. Hayes come, try calm her, others training came help their beta too. Both don’t know who

see pain in her eyes. She begin fight him. Gavin think need do this in front of people & he need claim her but not sure she’d let him. Audrey say not his fault, is whoever took memories from him. Will b both faults what happen from here onward. She doesn’t know who is now cuz tortured, caged, had watch pack die cuz wasn’t strong enough break alpha. She disobeyed order from alpha, shift in front of Talons so

He’s two people now & doesn’t want hurt her. Cruz say don’t, she his mate, can’t take time figure it out (pissed off at him, yell). Gavin say he’s idiot. Audrey come over, Chase/Cruz leave. Gavin sorry, want get know her again, know about her life during 30 years they missed. He feel pull toward her but doesn’t want her hate him for things did during 30 yrs. Audrey only care about what he does now. He