Status Updates From Marked in Flames (Aspen Pac...

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telling Jade his emotions, still has nightmares. Two are pregnant now. Audrey/Gavin had son. Cole, Nico, Adalyn pregnant with 2nd child. Dara/Cruz happy, Cruz stronger than ever been. Chase/Skye chase around 2 yr old.

Sawyer still hurt. Hayes, Ren come see him. Sawyer thought Hayes & Ren together. No, they’re like brother & sister. Hayes had eye of couple people. Sawyer feel something, Hayes felt it too. Sawyer like Ren but she decades older than him. Hayes had eye on Winter. Ren hadn’t been able heal Sawyer entirely, fangs slid out, hunger for blood. He’d have tell pack soon, he was vampire. Epilogue: Steele not good

& still unconscious. Winter hurt too but back helping Ren heal others. Steele tell Jade loves her. Jade say loves him too. Steele realize this future he didn’t know wanted. Still vampires out there, need find them. Moon goddess speak Steele & Jade. Tell Steele what demon did to him won’t b passed on to offspring. It’s her gift to him. Dara pregnant, Jade happy for her. Steele/Jade mating ceremony. Wonderful.

by throat, Jade scream. Opening open behind Malthus, drops Steele. Malthus yell they’ll pay for this, Steele say not before you die, hits him back toward opening. Demons on other side grab Malthus & drag him back to hell. Pack lost 14 pack/humans who’d fought along side them. Human who’d heard about battle came help injured, give shelter. Witches not from coven came help heal anyone could. Sawyer been hurt

power of coven within her. Jade’s firebird go after Lily, she die. Look shock on Malthus, one of him sad realizing hadn’t wanted lose Lily. Siphoned magic spill back into air. Malthus step toward Jade, Steele’s hybrid step front her, slammed hands into Malthus chest. Steele & Malthus fight blow for blow. Chase, Cruz, all Talons, Redwoods, Aspens, Centrals there take Malthus out hit by hit. Malthus grab Steele

Cassius die, Nova screams. Jade/Steele look each other, know Steele has use hybrid go after Malthus & hope can control it. Might not b enough. Sawyer slam on ground by vampire, Hayes pick up, get him to healer. Get to Lily, ask Steele ready, tell Jade he trusts her, Jade know she loves him. Need kill Lily before kill Malthus. Steele shift to hybrid, Lily throw every magic has at Jade but not enough. Jade feel all

Malthus throw Skye across field, Chase rake claws down Malthus chest, he smiled. Malthus held palm of magic out push at Chase, Cassius move front of him, roar, magic pulse back at Malthus like ricocheting off magic he’d put into Cassius. Malthus fall to ground. Chase kneel Cassius, say good man. Cassius say tried fight it but saved him in end. Why Goddess never blessed him cuz knew it happen, he’d b weakest link.

brought wards down. Malthus there. Another explosion. Have hold line til other packs arrive. Cole, Nico, Adalyn arrive. Sawyer, Winter, Ren. Lily w/Malthus, she sweaty shaking, going thru withdrawal, need siphon more. Another wave vampires, these w/demon fire. Jade say need stop them or they burn everything & wont able stop it. Ronin hit w/demon fire, die. Malthus move quick front of Chase, Steele shift run to them

in forest, see Cassius, eyes glassed over, cut palm say they will surrender to master. Run to him, explosion. Malthus brought entire army vampires. Cassius holding head, look Steele & ask what happened? Another bomb go off, human union with vampire army. They always wanted those dead that couldn’t control. Cassius didn’t know what doing, tell Steele kill him cuz doesn’t know what Malthus make him do. Explosions

force Steele do his bidding that saved his wolf. Steele hate self for it. He’d been bonded to parents, when bond snapped, broke him. Why he never want mate. Didn’t want hurt like it again. He’s bonded to pack cuz enforcer & demon tainting bond. He trying figure it out, trying figure them out. He feels like they b more but he freaking out. She trust him, didn’t think she’d ever say that anyone. Still on walk

b there when does. Blade tried recruit Jade but she wouldn’t. Blade used witches break pack from within. Held Steele down w/chains & magic, whipped him front of parents. rubbed magic salt into wounds so they’d scar. Did so punish parents for save older wolf didn’t want live under Blade’s rule. When wolves needed punish Steele, decapitated parents from of him. He 16 & wolf nearly broke. Blade’s dominance

Jade say maybe traitor doesn’t know what doing subconsciously. Steele/Jade don’t really know each other, need fix it. Steele want love Jade, protect her. Malthus angry Jade stopped their power turn Steele to hybrid. Jade moved in w/Steele. Steele give gifts, always place them where find them. Boots, sweater, wood carved firebird Hayes made. She knew he try take care her. He hasn’t shifted into hybrid. Jade want

Jade beats wings at him, beat magic into him. Cruz come back, wtf? Fact that both naked Jade w/wings fire, Steele hybrid. Steele step toward her to kill, then eyes back gold to wolf. Shift hybrid, wolf, human again. Back human, she hugs him, he ask if hurt her. Steele now hybrid, aspen pack screwed. Steele never want b mated, didn’t know feel like to feel her along bond. Scared what he’d become if lost Jade.

space. Jade tell Steele needs do one thing she told him not to. He needs mark her, & then her power can help him. Tell him if he doesn’t he’ll die. He bite her. She control fire of demons, born that way. Feel bond snap in place. She using who she is to save him. He look her, eyes dark grey & throw self back. She say he’s ok, her wings of fire unfurled & Steele knelt at feet. Steele shift part wolf,part human

Steele push down thing tell him kill friends, heard Malthus tell him kill for master. Steele hands turn wolf claws, back human. Friends there, hands freed, Jade in front of him, Steele wrap hand around throat before realize & pull back. Something controlling Steele, wasn’t self. Steele realize he’s enforcer & if turn hybrid could hurt pack bonds. Tell Jade kill him. Jade won’t, she help him, tell others need

Steele remember scream for mom as her/dad died. Scream as Malthus bite him, knew he want turn Steele into hybrid. When took Steele, awoke to him have runes carved on body. Now Steele as if film over his eyes, couldn’t tell what Malthus doing, didn’t know what needed do but kept fighting. Malthus, Lily disappeared. Steele’s wolf howling. Steele scream again cuz something inside him, was this what hybrid was?

too late but hoped she come. Jade wasn’t demon, was fire witch who also had demon fire. Vampires there & Steele kneel shirtless, cuts all over, eye black/blue, swollen. Burns, slices down flesh, arms tied w/magic front of him. shifters outnumbered but attacked. Malthus say Steele his now, bite neck, Malthus cut palm drop single drop into bite wound Steele’s neck. Steele fight bound arms, try break free, can’t

Jade. vampire bite Steele, then nothingness. Jade wakes to Dara call name. Baby safe but vampires took Steele. Lily sealed fate when siphoned witch power, addiction, wanted more & more til kill you. Gavin can track him, he’s still alive. Gavin, Sawyer, others come find Steele. Jade feel dark magic, runs to it, feel urgency, get to clearing, too late. Malthus & Lily there. Something wrong w/Lily. Malthus say she’s

Steele seen way bonds twisted, forced to watch mate die under Blade so wouldn’t want do that someone, especially with his position in pack. He’d jump in front of Chase protect him. Steele think his/Jade sex was best of life. Jade can’t b pack cuz then she wouldn’t able see traitor. Needs stay on outside do so. Steele feel breach, 3 vampires holding human baby. Throw baby in air, Cruz catch him, hand off to

Say won’t b that vulnerable again & won’t b rejected again. She turn but he press wet body to her, tell her not walk away. Have sex but he can’t bond, sounded tortured when say it. Both agree, she feel scars on his back, know for wolf scar have b cut so deep. He feel her magic, say she’s more than fire witch, she won’t answer. She afraid of her magic. She know Steele walk away eventually cuz guys always did

get him off. Cruz save her, wonder what wrong cuz she strong, should’ve been able get vampire off. Eyes grey, was she bit? Vampires just testing wards. Jade follow Steele in shower, tell him not damsel in distress. Doesn’t want him acknowledge connection cuz mean he’s rejecting her. Tell him she’s done this before, didn’t mean say it but tell him w/wolf shifter & he left her cuz he wanted wolf, not witch.

her again. Malthus seen something in Jade worried him. Her magic special & he needed it. Malthus will sacrifice Lily soon, need Dara & Jade. Steele didn’t sleep cuz of Jade saying couldn’t b mate. Steele notice Skye having contractions. Chase/Skye have baby girl. Steele has bad feeling. Car bomb goes off. vampires fight. Jade arrive throw fire but don’t seem as bright. Vampire behind her get her down & can’t

Sawyer tell Jade he staying in pack, needed more power to protect Jade so he blooded into pack. He tells her this where they’re supposed to be. Jade can’t b connected to pack w/shadow, traitor. Only way Chase wouldn’t know who is cuz person masked w/magic. Jade help but can’t b pack. Cruz follow her, she tell him can’t b his mate, he say good cuz doesn’t want it. SO SAD! 😭 Jade won’t let wolf hurt

control where Jade is. Steele made to torture others under Blade, was good at it. Find cabin on fire, witch fire. Cabin has demon wards on it. Sawyer can douse flames, he’d learned spell do so cuz Jade was fire witch. Steele find Jade bloody, bruised on ground, broken chains around. She opens eyes, knew he’d come. Jade notice something different about alphas but don’t know what is. Need tell Chase what she did

Humans from human union. They tell her she magic user, sacrifice humans to keep power. Tell her want her b mole what aspens & coven doing. If doesn’t, they’ll kill those she loves. Master want her. Used cattle prod on her. Wakes to Lily, want Jade join them. Meet Malthus, most beautiful man ever seen. Another traitor in pack. Steele, Sawyer, Gavin track Jade. Find vampires, kill all red eyed ones, ask one in

unborn child. Dara tell Steele Jade’s building burned down, killed humans, kids. Dara say left note the vampires have her. Jade wake up, remember fire had burnt skin but shouldn’t have been able to. She chained in basement. Only 1 type fire burn her, demon fire. Sawyer, best friend. She need get out herself cuz of magic surround her. 3 men w/guns, military looking vests enter, they human. Feared magic in her vein

not yet where used to b. Steele knew Blake before died but not friends. Blake joined aspen pack. Hayes say good fight, rubs chest. Something bothers me him but wouldn’t tell Steele. Blake wasn’t same as before died. Hazel one of Steele’s lieutenants, friend. Vampires hiding together called kiss. Steele feel enforcer sense go off, single vampire come as warning. Malthus coming, wants aspen pack, witches & Chase

Prologue: Malthus angry witches gained power. Chest aches cuz Dara went his realm, took what wasn’t hers. Lily wasn’t his only lover but was consort. Malthus create vampires from his flesh/blood. He control all. Burn buildings Jade in. Something in Jade called to Malthus, would’ve been perfect consort. Jade b theirs play with. Steele train w/Blake. Blake still healing, need strengthen, getting better daily but