# PANDORA

PROLOGUE
Bongeka was in her room going through
her firm offers
not knowing which one to choose, she
passed her matric
very good and she was looking forward to
university.
“I think law is much better” She thought
out loud, still
battling to choose.
Someone knocked, she told whoever was
knocking to
come in. It was her beautiful mother.
“Your father wants to have a word with
you, come.” she
told her, giving her a faint smile. Bongeka
knew at that
instant that something was wrong. Her
father wasn't a
great father. What he knew was drinking
and bossing
everyone around,and his wife always
submitted to him.
That's what Zulu a wife should do right?
When Bongeka’s mother left the room,she
quickly
followed her. She knew very well not
mess with her father
because whenever she does, she'd get a
hell of a beating.
“Greetings father” She greeted as she
took her seat. She
was glad her father was sober, maybe
whatever he wanted
to address was not that bad. It was rare to
find this man
sober.
“Bongeka” he called out her name
“Dad,” she responded in a polite way, not
daring to look
her father in the eyes.
“Your mother has been grooming you to
be a better
woman, not it's time her teachings
become useful” he
says
Bongeka could not understand where this
was going but
yes, she has always been groomed to be
a woman, her
mother always told her to cook, wash,
brew umqombothi
(traditional beer) and many other things
that were believed
to be women's duties.
She kept her silence impatiently waiting
for her father to
get straight to the point.
“Your mother trained you very well, I sent
you to school,
now you have matric. The only thing you
need now is a
husband and guess what? I found one for
you” He said
with excitement while Bongeka felt like
crying. Her worst
nightmare became reality.
“Father please, I still need to go to school,
get a job and
take care of you” she pleaded hoping her
father will
understand her.
If she thought her father was going to
change his mind,
she had another thing coming.
“Bongeka, I wasn't asking you, I was
telling you. The
lobola negotiations are taking place
tomorrow and don't
worry about taking care of me, your
husband will do that
and the bride price will last us for eternity”
Bongeka couldn't believe that her father
was selling her
off, they were not rich or poor they were
just a stable
family that never slept hungry. She
couldn't understand
why her father could be this selfish. His
break laying job
was stable enough to maintain them, but
some people are
greedy by nature.
“You sold me off?” she asked with her
eyes full of tears
“Since when do you question me now
Bongeka?”
“I'm sorry father” she apologized but deep
down she knew
she was not going to marry anyone. She
respected her
father but one thing she wasn't going to
sacrifice was her
future. She didn't go to school for twelve
years just to
become someone's wife, never!
“You are dismissed”
She stood and bowed a little before going
to her room
and cried herself to sleep.
She woke up feeling cold in the middle of
the night. She
stood up with the intention of opening the
bed covers so
she could cover herself but something
came to mind,
running away.
She quickly packed the important things
in her backpack
and sneaked out, when she was about to
open the front
door, her father said “ Where do you think
you're going?”
She jumped in fear and tried to think of
something.
“ I was…” she is not a good liar, she tried
to think of
something with no luck, she can't say she
was going to
visit a friend in the middle of the night,
besides that she
wasn't allowed to have friends, apparently
friends are
corrupt.
Before she could successfully think of
something, the
broomstick collided with her flesh, she
screamed in agony
as her father continued beating.
“Dlamini please stop” her mother tried to
come to her
rescue but he didn't want to hear any of it.
“This bastard of the child is disobedient,
she is just the
same as her father” those words left
Bongeka shuddered.
She didn't know what scared her the most
between the
beating or what her father just said.
“Dlamini you can't say such things to her,
she is just a
child” Her mother says, she swore that
Bongeka will never
find out about her father.
“Oh, are you the one who teaches
Bongeka to disobey
me? Look at what she is doing”
“No Dlamini, it's just-”
“shut up!” he roared
“You know what, get out of my house,
take her with you, I
took you from the streets with your
bastard, I gave you a
home, food and a stable life. Is this the
thank you I get
huh?” he say
Bongeka’s mother kneeled
down,apologising.
“Please Dlamini, please forgive us. I
promise this will
never happen again”
“I said out!” Bongeka was now regretting
trying to run
away, now her mother will be homeless
because of her.
Maybe she should just agree to this
arrangement.
But she still had so many unanswered
questions, so
Dlamini was not her father?
Is that why he was so cold towards her?
After so much begging, Dlamini finally let
them stay.
“You are going to marry Nicholas, you
owe me your whole
life Bongeka”
ONE
The following day Bongeka was
traditionally married to
Nicholas although she hadn't met him.
She expected the
groom's representative and her uncles to
be there to
negotiate the bride price, then some
ceremonies. But her
lobola was different, it was just a one on
one meeting
with that man. Her mother didn't even
prepare lunch for
them. It was more of a business deal then
it was a Lobola
negotiation.
That was the least of her problems at the
moment, all she
thought about is the real father, who is
he? Why wasn't she
told about this? She had to find out about
it in the most
horrible way.
“Bongeka my child, it's time” her mother
says, no one
needed to tell her what time it was. It was
obvious that
she had to go with her so-called husband
which she
wasn't looking forward to meeting.
“Mom, please don't do this. I promise I will
be a good girl
please just don't let go of me” she
whimpered. Her mother
hugged her in compassion but there was
nothing she
could do. Dlamini’s word is law.
“Baby, I promise you will be fine. Nicholas
looks like a
decent man. I'm sure he will take good
care of you. Better
than Dlamini could have”
Bongeka knew that nothing she'd say
would change her
‘father's’ mind. She stood up and heaved
her already
packed luggage. Her mother gave her a
hug again biding
her goodbye before they exited. Dlamini
didn't even bid her
goodbye.
A very buff man was standing beside the
maserati. He
must be rich. But that didn't make
Bongeka feel any
better. The man before her was too buff
for her liking, too
tall and to ugly,well not ugly but scary.
The man opened the door for her to get in
the car, with no
questions asked. She did just that. She
didn't want to
invite any trouble. The man did not even
greet her, they
drove in silence until Bongeka fell asleep.
~~~
Bongeka woke up in an unfamiliar room,
she blinked,
raising her hands to rub her eyes. She
looked around the
room trying to remember how she got
there, the room
was beautiful, creepy but beautiful. The
lights were on but
dimmed . The bed was huge draped in
dark sheets
comfortably soft. It look like the owner of
this room was a
huge fan of black. She almost wanted to
lie back down
and drift off to sleep. That would be it if it
wasn't a
stranger's bed.
She remembered falling asleep in the car.
What she didn't
understand is that how come she didn't
feel something
picking him from the car. She is a very
light sleeper, she
should have felt someone's hands on her.
She stood up admiring the room not
knowing she wasn't
alone.
“Bongeka” the voice echoed making her
jump in fear
“Hmm I see you are comfortable already”
it was a
different man. Who is my husband?
She thought to herself
“Are you my husband?” she asks, looking
thoroughly at
this scary man with black eyes and pale
skin.
“So you really thought you'd be my wife
huh?”
“What do you mean? Someone came and
paid Lobola for
me. Where is Nicholas?” she asked in
confusion
“Listen here little girl, I know who you are.
So drop the
act” Bongeka was even more confused.
Didn't her family
tell this man who her name is?
“I'm Bongeka Dlamini” she says seeing
that the
introductions were not done
“No! You're not! But it's fine, my master
will be thrilled to
find out that I was able to find you”
“Honey!” a female voice said. A blonde
girl appeared. Her
green eyes landed on Bongeka
“Love, don't tell me you brought a snack
in Yamkelwe’s
room. We can't feed here”
Bongeka shuddered again, backing away
from Nicholas.
“No my love, this is Yamkelwe’s gift. He
will be happy I
brought her here”
“Is that her? She looks so human!” Bianca
exclaimed in
amusement
“She is a human Bianca”
“I can't believe this tiny thing is the one
that has been
killing our kind to almost the point of
extinction” Bianca
exclaimed again with her hand against
her mouth.
“Don't judge a book by its cover, this thing
is evil”
“What if she kills us? She'd destroy all this
coterie with
just snapping her fingers” Bianca says
fear starting to
creep in.
On the other side, Bongeka was confused
to the core,
she'd never kill even a fly but these
people are assuming
she'd kill a whole coterie with just
snapping her fingers. A
coterie? What's that? She had so many
unanswered
questions.
“She won't kill us love, I gave something
that'd drain her
power temporarily” Nicholas responded
feeling proud of
himself.
“Well, in that case let's go finish where we
left off” Bianca
said looking at Nicholas seductively. With
that they left the
room leaving Bongeka all confused.
~~~
Bongeka stayed for hours lost in her
thoughts and waiting
for someone to budge in and explain what
the fuck is
happening. She was supposed to be
doing the bride
duties not being held captive.
She was pacing up and down impatiently.
She kept
checking the time, it was eight noon when
Bianca and
Nicholas left, now it's six in the morning
according to her
watch. When she checked outside the
window it was still
dark.
She became tired of waiting, she opened
the doors
thinking maybe they are locked but they
weren't. She
sprinted down the hallway looking for an
exit. She came
across the stairway that led up and down.
She quickly
descended down the stairs until she
reached the bottom
floor. She thought she'd find the exit but
the only thing she
sees is the wilder hallways and less
doors. She didn't
know which one to open, she was scared
she'd open her
death path instead of an exit. Her lips
curved into a smile
when saw the window, but her excitement
was cut short
when she found out that it had burglar
guards. By instinct,
she opened the second door she saw.
She squealed a
little seeing that she was outside. She
glanced at her
wristwatch, it was half past seven but it
was still dark not
too dark but the sun was supposed to be
out but It
wasn't. She started running, not knowing
where exactly she
was going.
She ran, got tired, ran, walked, felt
hungry, ran and ran but
she didn't reach anywhere. She saw
something flashing at
the nearest forest, she walked there
hoping whatever was
there was going to help her.
When she reached where the flashing
light was coming
from, she saw a jar,a very beautiful
vintage jar. She
grabbed with a quick whisk, hoping it was
water. She
shook it a bit, and realized that whatever
was inside the
jar wasn't water or anything of that sort.
She huffed and
walked away but the other part of her
wanted to know
what was inside. Why would someone
abandon such a
beautiful thing?
She slowly picked it up and tried opening
it. I wouldn't
open but one she wasn't going to was to
give. Her
curiosity wasn't going to let her give up.
“Don't” a voice whispered, she looked
around and saw no
one.
“Paranoia” she says
The jar didn't want to open. In frustration,
she threw it,
breaking it into pieces. Her body started
burning and
itching at the same time. The shrill of her
cries echoed
everywhere,she couldn't bear the hotness
of her body. She
felt like the smoke was coming out of her
ears. She ran
around like a headless chicken. After a
few minutes she
started to feel better.
Someone grabbed her from behind, he
must be strong
because she was being held by one hand.
And whoever
was carrying her had the speed of light,
Bongeka felt like
she was flying, that's how fast the person
was. She was
screaming and kicking hoping to escape.
They arrived at some spooky place, the
person threw her
on the floor making her scream in agony.
With tears on
her eyes, she looked at this big creature
before her. He
had black eyes like Nicholas, not normal
black but even
the supposedly white part was black.
“What are you doing in my territory?”
asked a man
“Seth” a second man approached
“We have an intruder” Seth told his
brother Marco
“She is just a human” Marco said not
even bothered by
Bongeka’s presence
“She isn't,” Seth said, grabbing Bongeka’s
neck and
strangling her. Again he dropped her.
“I can't really figure out what she is but…
But I smell a
vampire” Seth said
“Vampires are not allowed here!” Marco
said, he is more
serious now
“Yamkelwe is starting a fight with us!”
Marco went closer to Bongeka who was
terrified and
confused. He sniffed.
“She is not a vampire”
“I know, but she was close to a vampire. I
can smell their
scent in her clothes”
“Fuck Seth look!” it was now Marco's turn
to be terrified.
Seth looked at Bongeka's hands and
backed away quickly.
“Bongeka looked at her hands, they had
writings she didn't
understand, within the blink of an eye her
hands were
clear.
“These motherfuckers brought Pandora
here!”
Seth kicked Bongeka, with the amount of
strength Seth
had. Bongeka’s human body couldn't
withstand the kick.
She passed out

TWO
Yamkelwe just came back from the
coterie master's
meeting, when he entered the room, he
smelt an
unfamiliar scent. He sniffed again making
sure if it was
what he thought it was.
Privacy was one of the things he valued
so much. Finding
that he had been gone for a few hours
and he came back
only to find that someone was in his room.
Someone rang a doorbell and invited
himself in.
“Nicholas, how many times do I have to
tell you not budge
in before I tell you to” Yamkelwe said, not
even looking at
him,but he knew it was him. Nicholas had
the tendency of
thinking he was friends with him
“I'm sorry, Yamkelwe. So how do you find
your gift?”
Nicholas asked, feeling pretty proud of
himself.
“What?”
“I found Pandora”
“You find what!” Pandora's name alerted
Yamkelwe.
Nicholas looked around for Bongeka but
he didn't see her.
“She was here,” he said, wondering
where she could be.
“Nicholas, I don't have time for your silly
games. Why did
you bring a human in my room?”
Yamkelwe hissed
“She is not just a human, she is Pandora”
“get out of my sight”
“but—”
“I said out!” Yamkelwe’s roar was enough
for Nicholas to
sprint out the room.
Yamkelwe just shook his head in
disbelief, did Nicholas
really think he could catch Pandora on his
own?
A doorbell rang again…
“Come in!” Yamkelwe says in annoyance
as far as he is
concerned, everyone knows that his room
is off limits but
today they decided to bother him.
“Master, my apologies for disturbance.
The werewolf’s
messenger is here. He says Seth request
a meeting with
you”
“Tell him the request is declined, our truce
doesn't mean
friendship. Him and his kind are my
enemies” Yamkelwe
said, and the man nodded before heading
out.
He had bigger problems he should be
solving than
attending useless meetings.
Whatever that was killing vampires was
strong and
intelligent and definitely not werewolves.
~~~
“Brother, the vampire’s master refused to
meet with us”
Seth hissed in anger
“That blood sucker is still arrogant” Marco
said enraged,
he never agreed to the shame of a truce
the vampires had
with werewolves. But he had no choice
since Seth is the
one who is calling shots.
The two supernaturals decided to stay out
of each other's
ways, they marked their territories and the
rule was that no
one should disturb anyone's peace.
Marco saw Bongeka’s situation as an
opportunity to start
a war again, seeing the vampire species
extinct wouldn't
be a bad idea.
“We need to get the truth out of her while
she is still
weak”
“Yeah right” Seth marched to her and
found her sleeping
on the floor looking drained.
“You bitch!” he kicked her on her stomach
several times
cursing at her.
“You sleep here and pretend to be
innocent while you are
busy killing my kind!”
In a second, Bongeka was off chains and
in the air,
hanging by her throat in the grip of the
demonic man who
looked as though he'd like nothing more
than to have her
head pop off her shoulders. She grabbed
his hands,
kicking her feet viciously.
“brother! Drop her!” Marco shouted, he
waved his hand
signaling Seth to come to him
Suddenly Seth dropped her on the ground
as if she was
the sack of potatoes.
Seth chained Bongeka again before
heading to Marco.
They whispered something before they
both went out.
Bongeka regretted escaping from the first
hostage, maybe
they were going to treat her better. They
didn't chain her,
she was sleeping on a comfortable
bed,they never beat
her. After all they are the ones who took
her from her
parents. If she didn't escape she wouldn't
have found
herself in hell with demons.
After a few minutes, two people Came
and unchained her.
One of them picked her bridal style trying
not to hurt her.
They took to a more comfortable room. A
girl came and
fixed her a bath.
“I know you're in pain but may you please
stand up so I
can get you clothes” The lady said
unwinding tape
measure. After she jotted down
measurements she left the
room so that Bongeka could bath.
When she headed back to ‘her’ bedroom.
A maxi dress
was laid nearly on the bed.
She wore the dress and it was exactly her
size. She shook
her head thinking about the sudden
change of treatment.
The door opened and a lady came with a
serving trolley
with lots of food she doesn't even know.
She wanted to
say no to food but honestly she famished.
Just after the kitchen lady left. Marco
came sending
shudders to Bongeka.
“Pandora” he called out with a smile
“I — my name is… Bongeka not Pandora,
I don't know who
Pandora is and I'm not evil, I have a good
heart, I never
killed anyone in my life and I serve God.
Children of God
don't kill people,and… And I didn't mean
to trespass. I
was just running away from my arranged
husband that my
father… I mean my step father sold me to,
and —”
“shhh” Marco said putting his index finger
on her mouth,
that's when Bongeka realized that she
was rambling.
“I have a proposal” Marco said kneeling
before her
“Let me turn you, you will be one us, you
will be
protected, no one will ever touch you.
Even the vampires”
he said
“Hmm please elaborate sir” she said in a
whisper.
Marco chuckled “ Marco sounds better”
“Yes sir-Marco”
“That's better. Yamkelwe sent Nicholas to
your father to
pretend as he wants to marry you whilst
he just wants to
kill you”
“But my husband is Nicholas not
Yamkelwe” Bongeka
said, it was not the first time hearing the
Yamkelwe name.
“I guess the truth was hidden from you.
Your father sold
you off to Yamkelwe. Those selfish blood
suckers want to
use you, they don't care about you. All
they want is your
powers”
Bongeka didn't understand a thing. She
never believed in
vampires but judging from the movies and
books,
vampires are said to be powerful. Why
would they need an
ordinary girl who has no supernatural
speed or senses.
“I can protect you from them. Just let me
turn you” Marco
pleaded
“Turn me into what?”
Marco smiled again, if it was under
normal circumstances.
Bongeka would be blushing because of
his charming
smile”
Marco's entire body started to mould itself
into a werewolf
form, he became a lot taller and broader
than a human
and somewhat slouched. His bones
began to snap,
lengthen, and pop through the skin and
back into place.
Bongeka was too shocked and scared to
scream, she just
froze. Seconds later, Marco was in his
human form again.
His clothes were still in shape.
“You are—”
“Yes, so what do you think? Just imagine
yourself having
a sharp sight, smell. The speed of
lightning” Marco
convinced
Bongeka found nothing fascinating about
being a
werewolf, they look horrible. She was
sure if one didn't
bath probably, it became smelly
“What do you want in return for protecting
me?” she asked
“Nothing darling, nothing at all” he said
with a smirk
“Well thank you for the offer but I don't
need any
protection. All I want is my boring ordinary
life in a human
world” Bongeka said, Marco looked
enraged but her rage
was quickly covered by a smirk.
“You have no life there, your awakening is
coming soon,
when it comes you won't be able to live
with humans. You
will become dangerous for them, you will
become evil and
animalistic. What do you think the
government will do to
you? I'm sure the labrats will turn you into
their specimen
for years. When you prove to be useless
they will kill you
in protection of the human kind. You know
why? Because
you are an animal. You possessed the
spirit of Pandora”
he threatened
“Just in case you want to know who she
is, she is that girl
who was given a jar by Zeus as a gift. But
was instructed
not to open it. Because of her stupid
curiosity she
disobeyed and opened the jar. And
released all the evils.
This world is evil because of Pandora,
humans are killing
and raping each other because of
Pandora, the vampires
and werewolves are always fighting
because of Pandora,
the vampire kind are in the edge of
extinction because
Pandora has been slaughtering them for
decades if not
centuries. Do you know who Pandora is?
Pandora is you!”
he continued. With that he took a stand
and walked out.
Bongeka was left with so many questions,
she is only 18
years old but Marco just told her that she
has been killing
vampires for decades if not centuries.
“A jar?” she said to herself, all the events
of how she
ended here came back, she remembered
trying to open a
jar. She remembered hearing a voice
warning her not to
open it, she disobeyed the voice thinking
it was paranoia.
THREE
Days passed, Bongeka was treated like a
queen, Marco
made sure that she got everything she
wanted. But the
challenge that he was facing is that
Bongeka hasn't agreed
to be turned. The imagination of being a
werewolf for the
rest of her life disgusts her, but she was
running out of
time since she promised Marco that she
was going to
think about it but in an honest truth, she
didn't want to be
turned.
Marco knocked in her room and she
welcomed her in.
“Good morning Pandora” he greeted
“Bongeka sounds better” she said
giggling, she had gotten
used to Marco, she felt free around him.
He was the only
person whom she was close with
considering that Seth
didn't like her, not that she liked him.
“ Pandora sounds more sexy” Marco said
with his famous
charming smile
“ but you said Pandora us evil”
“I brought you a smoothie,” Marco said,
handing her a jar
of smoothie, probably changing the topic
as well.
“Thank you, you're the best!” She once
told Marco that she
missed her home, because she'd wake up
with a
smoothie, have seafood as lunch and a
few vegetables for
dinner for her body maintenance. She
liked keeping her
body healthy and a bit masculine.
“My indulgence my beautiful Pandora”
Bongeka took a sip of her smoothie and
moaned in
pleasure.
“oh my word, what did you put here?” she
asked, still
amazed by the taste. She had never
tasted a smoothie as
nice as that one.
“it's a secret”
“oh please tell”
“it's a secret to your heart,” he gave her a
wink and put a
book beside her before heading out.
Bongeka shook her head smiling and
continued with her
smoothie. With each sip, she felt electric
shock throughout
her body, not in a bad way but it was like
the smoothie
was giving her some sort of power and
confidence. After
she finished a smoothie she took a book
Marco left.
THE BONDING OF VAMPIRES… That
was the title of the
book. Since she was bored she decided
to read it. It took
her hours to read through it but she was
very intrigued by
the information. The book was about the
bonds of
vampires and their kinds.
There were different types of vampires
and different types
of their bonds.
There are vampires that are called the
royals. Like humans,
vampires have royals. They were
powerful, in charge of
everything. Even their bonds were strong
because their
bonds were created by simply having
royal blood, their
existence was created by sharing their life
force by blood,
flesh and spirituality. Which works hand in
hand with
mental link, it gives them the ability to
speak to each other
even when they are miles away from each
other.
Then there is a coterie bond, a coterie is
an exclusive
group of people, who associate closely for
a common
purpose. Even vampires have their
coteries. Each of the
coterie has a master.
Unlike with politics, coterie members don't
vote for their
masters. Some masters grow into it while
others were
born with abilities of being a master,
which was to build
or break the bonds, heal with their spirit
while Normal
vampires heal with only their blood.
Each and every vampire has to be a
coterie member
because if they are not bonded with
anyone, they can
become rogue.Rogue vampires are just
that – they are a
special kind of evil, will easily turn on their
own kind, and
are generally loners.
Royals can also bond with Masters, that
type of bond is
very invasive and dangerous because
both of them have
dangerous abilities.
There is a maker and Kindred bonds.
Vampires can turn
humans into vampires, so if a vampire
turned a human,
that vampire is a maker and a human is a
kindred. These
two bond for a few years until a kindred is
mature enough
to choose a coterie.
There is the last one, human and vampire
bonds.
Vampires can claim humans, the claimed
humans are
protected, vampires are not allowed to
harm them. Only
the royals can break that bond. Humans
will have their
powers but not as strong vampires.
Bongeka enjoyed reading about vampires
although some
of the things didn't make sense.
She was asking herself why did Marco
give her this book?
Why he didn't give her a book about
werewolves instead
and where did he get this book in the first
place.
~~~
“She escaped Dlamini!”
“What do you mean she escaped
Nicholas?”
“I don't know, I left her in yamkelwe’s
bedroom” Nicholas
said, they were on call with Dlamini
“Nicholas, I didn't raise that girl for
eighteen years for you
to lose her. Find her before she finds a
Pandora's box”
Dlamini roared.
“I will find her, I need to get to
Yamkelwe’s good books”
“All you care about is being Yamkelwe's
right hand man
while we have bigger problems. Find
Bongeka!”
“Okay, but I'm sure the werewolves found
her and fed on
her” Nicholas said feeling sad that he was
no longer a
hero who found Pandora”
“It'd be better that way, now we need to
find that Pandora's
box”
“We should be, our kind is losing its
touch, we need to
get hold of Pandora's spirit so that we
won't be killed
anymore and we'll be able to finish off the
werewolves” .
After they hung up, Nicholas went to the
headquarters.
There was a coterie meeting.
“I was able to track the person who has
been killing
vampires for so many years”
There was a hubbub of shouting, some
were happy that
the vampire hunter was found , some
were confused and
wanted Yamkelwe to further explain.
“I was wondering why it was so easy for
me to find her
while I failed all these years. Only to find
that she was just
a vessel for Pandora's spirit” Yamkelwe
continued
“Master, you're saying that she is no
longer possessed by
Pandora?” one if the vampire asked and
Samkelwe simply
nodded his head.
“Which means, Someone else will heredit
Pandora's
spirit?” another vampire asked, again
Yamkelwe nodded
“In the past few weeks, no one died
meaning no one
found Pandora's box as yet. Which leads
to why we are
here, each of us here will have to look for
it!” Yamkelwe
said.
“But Bongeka is the one with Pandora's
spirit” Nicholas
said
“William, you've telling me about Bongeka
but I've never
seen her”
“I once brought her here and she
escaped”
Yamkelwe chuckled “if you are so certain,
then find her
William”
He shifted his attention back to everyone “
while our
beloved William looks for his Bongeka,
some of you will
have to go to the west and look there
while some will
look in the human world.”
“Master we are not allowed in the west,
you know that”
Nicholas blurted
“I know, that doesn't change the fact that
you will go
there. Unless you want a werewolf to find
the box first”
Yamkelwe said
“If they find it first, I'm sure that the
belligerent called
Marco won't hesitate to kill us” Nicholas
said.
“exactly. I will also take part in this quest. I
know I'm
asking a lot from you but we need to do
this. Once we
have Pandora's box on our side, we will
have more power”

FIVE
Dlamini has been consuming transiet’s
bloom which we
can call the mortality flower. This flower
can make a
vampire temporarily mortal which works
hand in hand with
human features. It can take a few weeks,
months or years
to wear off depending on how often the
vampire feeds on
blood.
Dlamini has been consuming the
transient's bloom for him
to stay ‘human’ so that he could be able
to eat, drink and
walk under the sun as normal humans do.
He'd sometimes
go and hunt because after all he was still
a vampire and
needed to feed now and then.
Seventeen years ago when Nicholas was
on his hunting
spree, Bongeka was going to be his next
victim. It was
around eight noon when Bongeka’s
mother was carrying
her on her back from the local shops. By
then Bongeka
was only a year old. Her father was
working far from home
so he only came back on weekends.
Nicholas’ lips curved into a smile, it's been
long since he
tasted sweet innocent blood. He didn't
care about the
parent, all he wanted was fresh blood.
Some vampires like Nicholas himself are
very picky when
it comes to blood. They prefer healthy
blood. What
humans consumed had an effect on the
taste of their
blood, vegetarians taste better than those
who mostly eat
junk. But then, no one has written on their
foreheads that
‘I'm a vegan’ and babies are not always
easy to find at
night.
Nicholas wasn't going to let this
opportunity slide, it's not
everyday one gets to taste the baby's
blood. Within the
blink of an eye, Bongeka was on his
hands and his fangs
were pricking through her little neck. If it
was under normal
circumstances, by the time Bongeka’s
mother tried to
reach her baby, she would have been
long dead. But this
time it was different, when Nicholas tasted
Bongeka’s
blood, he spat it and he was so close to
puking. That's
how horrible her blood tasted. Nicholas
just dropped the
baby and ran back to where he came
from,he was not
even thirsty anymore. When he got to the
vampire village,
he told his best friend who happened to
be Dlamini about
what went down in the human world.
So both of them went back to hood,
following Bongeka’s
scent, they were able to know where she
lived and stalked
her.
They suspected that maybe she was a
vampire since her
blood tasted horrible. Yes! Vampires don't
feed on each
other. They don't like the taste of their
own blood.
Nicholas and Dlamini abducted
Bongeka’s father and
turned him so they could make sure he
does not die. But
he was not bonded to any coterie. When
the kindred and
maker bond broke, he went rogue.
So he is still held hostage, they feed him
but they don't
dare free him because he could turn
against them.
Bongeka’s mother was shattered, she
became a broken
woman who was left by her husband.
That's where Dlamini
came in. He became her shoulder to cry
on, they
eventually ‘fell in love’ and Dlamini raised
Bongeka as his.
Years later, Bongeka started seeing
things that were not
there, she'd talk about how cruel the world
is and it was
her fault, she blamed herself for
everything that is
happening in the world. They took her to
the therapist and
she had no symptoms of any mental
disorder other than
anxiety since she was doing matric. Few
days later she
was fine again. And could not remember
any of her
episodes.
Bongeka’s behavior confirmed Dlamini’s
suspicions. There
was something special about her,
something him and
Nicholas could use to take over the
vampire species,
something they could use to kill wolves.
Something that
was going to give them eternal power.
She was Pandora.
That's why they arranged a ‘marriage’ for
her.
Dlamini could have just ran away with
Bongeka but he fell
deeply for her mother. She learned to love
her and
Bongeka. He didn't want to be the reason
for her to feel
pain.
Back to what was happening… After his
encounter with his
wife, he went out and went to the vampire
village.
“Nicholas!” he was pacing up and down.
“Dlamini, I don't have time for your
games. We are busy
hunting for Pandora's box, Master
shouldn't find you here!”
Yamkelwe wasn't told the real plan. They
just told him,
Dlamini found love, and she wasn't ready
to be turned. So
he decided to claim her and live with her
in the human
world.
“She knows, she knows what I am”
“Does it matter? I mean the mission is
accomplished. If
Bongeka is really Pandora, we'll have to
kill her. Then we'll
be able to have her spirit” Nicholas said,
not even paying
attention to what Dlamini is talking about.
“Nicholas you are not listening to me! We
can't kill
Bongeka”
Nicholas just shook his head and left him
there.
~~~
Yamkelwe followed Cate, she led her to
the same forest
that Bongeka found The Box at. She
started shaking, her
iris and pupil (the black part of the eyes)
was nowhere to
be seen. The foam started to come out of
her mouth.
Yamkelwe just watched, not knowing
what to do. After a
few seconds, Cate dropped dead.
“Fuck!” Yamkelwe cursed irritated by a
dead end.
~~~
Bongeka started shaking as well, she
started chanting
“manet spem!(hope remains)
Marco shook her “Pandora!” he called out.
“Manet spem, Manet spem, Manet spem”
“Shit, Seth!” Marco yelled
Seth came running.
“She is awakening!”
“No she can't” Seth shook his head in
disbelief. Pandora
needed to awake as a wolf so that her
loyalty would be
with wolves.
“Bite her Seth!” Marco was beyond
frustrated now.
“Why?”
“You're a fuckin’ Alpha! Bite her”
“But there's no full moon brother, a wolf is
only born on a
full moon” Seth explained the obvious.
“Just try Seth, try!”
“It won't work brother!”
Bongeka was now growling like an animal
“manet spem!”
“She is going to kill us like she has been
killing the blood
suckers” Seth says, Bongeka growls,
giving him shudders.
“Just turn her Seth!”
In a swift, Seth was biting and scratching
Bongeka, hoping
I would work although it wasn't a wolf
moon.
Bongeka growled louder, feeling too much
heat on her
flesh. Her hands become very painful. Her
nails turned into
claws, her facial features became larger.
“Oh goodness, Seth look!” Seth said, not
knowing how to
feel, he was scared to be happy as yet.
“Pandora!” Seth called out.
“Shift” he commanded, his voice was
calm.
Bongeka growled again seemingly
resisting.
“I said Shift!”
“Shift Pandora”
There were sounds of bones snapping
and stretching,
Bongeka couldn't handle the pain she was
howling. Her
clothes were ripping, she felt she was
dying or the pain
was to last forever. After two minutes, she
was now able
to take the pain. She started developing
white beautiful
hair in her body, her eyes glowed, she
had abrasions on
her arms and legs.
“Yes!” Marco jumped up and down and
shifted. That's
how happy he was.
.
.
.
Manet spem (Latin) means hope remains
SIX
Now that Bongeka was turned, she was
under Seth's
control as an alpha wolf. If he orders her
to do something,
she will automatically do that. That's how
powerful an
alpha wolf is.
Seth was hoping that his powers would
also work with
Pandora.
After hours of sleeping, Pandora was
finally awake, still
confused. She was still frightened by what
she had turned
to before she passed out. She felt like a
powerful monster.
She didn't even need to look at her
reflection to know how
monstrous she looked like. She was just
glad that she
shifted back to her human form. For a
moment she
thought she wouldn't shift back.
“Pandora” Seth disturbed her from her
train of thoughts.
She just looked at him,too drained to say
anything.
“You’re awake” Seth says, Bongeka didn't
understand if it
was a question or a statement. If it was
under normal
circumstances, she'd say something like
‘no I'm digging
the graves’ in a sarcastic tone but at that
moment, she
kept quiet. Scared that the slightest
movement of her
body would transform her into a lycan.
“Pandora, look at me, please talk to me”
Seth's statement
caught her by surprise. The only person
who was nicer to
her was Marco, Seth had been a jerk
towards her.
“What did you do to me?” She finally
spoke.
“I was protecting you—”
“What? Protecting me? Is that your
definition of protection
huh? Is turning me into an ugly monster
protection!”
Bongeka didn't know where that anger
came from, she
was fuming.
“You son of a bitch!” she continued to
shout at Seth. You
want to use me for your selfish reasons.
You want to
fuckin’ use me. Is that what you call
protection!” she
heaved and started to cry. Her shrill cries
echoed too loud
for the lycans to bear as they had a sharp
sense of
hearing.
The ancient looking building started
shaking, the windows,
glasses, vases and mirrors broke.
“You're so cruel! Why don't you let me
go? Let me go!”
“Pandora!” he called out.
“Shift!”
“Just let me go” Her voice was now calm
and soft. Seth's
demand tamed her anger.
“Shift!” Bongeka couldn't reject her
Alpha’s instruction.
She shifted immediately, this time it was
fast and less
painful.
“Now calm the fuck down and do as I say
or else you will
never be able to shift back, you will be like
this for the
rest of your life” Seth said promptly.
Bongeka released a small growl.
“Now shift back and behave” Seth
ordered
Bongeka did as told.
“Now, go to the east, snap Yamkelwe’s
neck and bring his
heart to me. That would be just a warning”
Seth said
laughing. He couldn't believe his dream of
bringing the
workers of the night to extinction is
working. And it will
come with the power of owning the
powerful spirit of
Pandora.
“While at it, Make sure all the coterie
bonds are broken, I
want to see all vampires becoming rogue.
I want to watch
them killing each other, destroying their
own kind. GO!”
Bongeka slowly stood up. She felt
something powerful
that was calling her. Something was luring
her to the east.
It was this powerful force that was
dragging her. With the
werewolf speed she ran off. She didn't
have to worry about
direction, she had been there once. And
the forces were
attracting her to where she should be.
She arrived at the beautiful castle looking
build. It was
heavily guarded. She started grasping the
vampires,
snapping and killing, following the force
that was attracting
her somewhere.
The house was still the same, white
marble floor, granite
black wall that was to die for,black and
white vertical
blinds. The dimmed beaming lights were
just a cherry on
top.
She heard footsteps coming towards her
direction. The tall
fair skinned form appeared, he looked at
her from head to
toe while Pandora was focusing on his
brown eyes that
sent a shuttering wave of electricity
throughout her.
All the energy that Bongeka had was
gone.
“I've been waiting for you since
yesterday,” Yamkelwe
said, walking closer to her.
When Cate dropped dead, it was obvious
to Yamkelwe
that Pandora found a new vessel. Judging
by the fact that
Cate led them to the lycan forest, it was
clear that Pandora
was a wolf. He knew that wolves would
get too excited by
power and attack. He was ready to fight
whatever that
would try to destroy his kind. He was
actually expecting a
whole pack.
Bongeka didn't know what to say or do,
she was
intoxicated by Yamkelwe’s scent.
When she was still living her normal life,
she never
thought vampires really existed,if they did.
She imagined
their scent as like incense or like human
blood maybe like
an embalmed corpse or even death itself.
But the beautiful creature that was before
her was smelling
creamy and gourmand.
He raked his hand slightly on her cheeks
making Bongeka
blush. If she was light skinned, she'd be
red like a
tomato.
“Pandora, sweets” he said with a smirk,
showing his fangs
Bongeka huffed.
When Yamkelwe realised that Pandora
was at her weakest
and under his mercy, he licked her neck
in an attempt of
sucking her blood so that when he killed
her, the blood of
Pandora would be mixed with his which
would give him
the power of Pandora.
He was about to bite her when he noticed
the wolf mark.
“Fuck!” he cursed. He wasn't about to
consume lycan
blood. The vampire bloodline could never
mix with the
vampire bloodline.
“William!” Nicholas came.
“master”
“Sedate her and tie her, make sure she
remains
powerless. I still need to decide what I
should do with
her” Yamkelwe ordered.
“Master, she is the one I've been telling
you about,”
Nicholas said.
“I don't care!”

SEVEN
Seth was pacing up and down, it's been a
day since
Pandora went to the quest but never
came back.
“Stop doing that you are making me
dizzy” Marco says
“I told you Marco, I told you that keeping
that devil here
was going to land us in trouble! Seth said.
“Relax!”
“No, I told you that this girl is working with
vampires. She
is a snitch”
“She has nothing to snitch, brother stop
being Paranoid.
Pandora will come back with Yamkelwe’s
heart stop
worrying yourself with petty things”
“I swear Marco. If that girl didn't come
back with the
vampire’s heart. I will slaughter you. You
will be the one
to pay on their behalf” Seth threatened
clenching his fists
into a tight ball.
“Threats won't get us anywhere. Lure her
back here.
Command her to come back” —Seth
~~~
Bongeka was locked in the basement,
again it wasn't bad.
It was a beautiful bedroom, a bathroom
and a mini
kitchen. But she couldn't even see the
door. It's like it was
hidden or it wasn't there at all. If so then
how did she end
up here? All she could remember was
being injected with
something and it was lights out for her.
“Pandora! Kill them, all of them” Seth's
voice was ringing
in Bongeka's ears.
“ I said kill them!” The voice became
persistent. She
stood up and searched for the door but
couldn't find it.
This place was square shaped. She kept
looking around
until she got frustrated and started hitting
the walls. With
each bang, the walls kept on shaking
alerting everyone on
the building that there was danger. Every
vampire ran for
their lives, knowing how dangerous
Pandora is.
“Stop!” Yamkelwe came out nowhere.
“Kill him,” Seth's voice was echoing in her
ears, for a
moment she got consumed not knowing
who to obey.
Seth's voice was demanding and she
wanted so much to
obey but there was just something with
Yamkelwe she
couldn't understand.
“I need to kill you! I'm here for your heart!”
Bongeka was
now shouting on top of her lungs like a
mad woman.
“Just calm down,” Yamkelwe said.
“haha maybe Pandora is not as
dangerous as we think”
Nicholas appeared again.
Now Bongeka was back to his senses.
“Nicholas, sedate her again” Yamkelwe
before exiting.
“Why do you keep on delaying? Kill her”
Nicholas said.
“Have you done what I told you to do?”
“yes, I sedated her”
“okay, don't you have anything to do
rather than following
me around telling me what to do with my
prisoner?”
Yamkelwe said in a bored expression.
“But you don't treat her like a prisoner,
why is she getting
a special treatment?”
“Because she is special”
“No, she is not. She is just evil”
“Nicholas, just go and and fuck your mate
or I will fuck
her on your behalf”
With that Nicholas was out of sight. But
he didn't go to
fuck his mate as Yamkelwe said. He
sneaked Dlamini in
and they both went to the basement
where Pandora was.
“There she is. Yamkelwe does not want to
kill her”
Nicholas said, shaking his head.
“I always tell you that he is weak. Too
weak to be a
master. But this is a right opportunity to
get power”
“What are you up too Dlamini?”
“let's take her blood and kill her, with that
will we attain
her powers and be the rulers of the
vampire species”
“What no! You can't. She is turned,she is
a lycan”
“I don't care even if I become hybrid. That
would actually
work in my advantage. I will rule the
lycans and vampires.
I will be stronger than both” Dlamini said
excitedly.
“This is a bad idea”
“Are you backing down? After all these
years? I'm so
disappointed in you Nicholas”
Dlamini says while grabbing Bongeka, his
fangs on her
neck, sucking rather too much. He
couldn't stop sucking,
her blood was still terribly tasting but the
power that
Came with it was soothing to him, not
knowing that the
power he felt was actually his doom.
He felt her stomach turning, feeling heat
everywhere.
“are you okay Dlamini?” Nicholas asked,
noticing his
friend's discomfort.
Dlamini tried responding but he couldn't
utter anything,
hemis teeth started dropping like coins
and foam came
out of her mouth.
He looked pale and dehydrated like a
vampire that has
been sleeping for centuries.
“Dlamini! Wake up!” Nicholas kneeled
beside him, trying
to wake him up.
That was a very strange death, vampires
are undead
creatures. The only thing that can kill
them is the sun and
fire. With holy water it depends on the
amount. One glass
of holy water is not enough to kill a
vampire. It can only
cause a small damage that can be fixed
by regeneration.
Crucifixes are just rubbish, they can be
irritative a bit but
they're nothing. A stake/dagger… also
cannot completely
kill until stabbed directly to the heart. The
only sure thing
you one can do to kill us going for the
heart... Not as
easy as it seems though.
So the death of Dlamini was something
that has never
happened. Feeding on humans was
actually a boost to a
vampire, not a bloody doom.
Nicholas was really convinced that
Pandora was evil. Her
blood was not to be consumed.
He bit his hand and let his fresh blood
drop into Dlamini’s
mouth with an intention of waking him.
That is how a
sleeping vampire is woken up anyway.
He picked his friend's body and went to
the nearest
graveyard. He built a wooden coffin for
Dlamini, dug the
grave and buried him with dignity hoping
he wasn't dead.
Maybe he was just sleeping.
After that he thought of plan B, he wasn't
about to give up,
he wasn't going let Dlamini’s death go
down the drain. He
was going fulfill his wish.

EIGHT
Bongeka was trying to recover from from
her heavy
headache probably from being drugged
when two
vampires came and grabbed her.
“Please let me go” She pleaded, seeing
how they looked
at her like a piece of meat ready to be
eaten.
If it was under normal circumstances, they
would have
long feasted on her, seeing her veins
popping and
pumping but they were given strict
instruction not to feed
on her and they knew better than to go
against
Yamkelwe’s orders.
They took Bongeka to a small empty
chamber0 and threw
her hard on the concrete floor earning
themselves a shrill
from her… Not that they cared though.
Just after they left Yamkelwe made his
way in making
Bongeka's heart skip a hit.
“Yamkelwe, let me go or I will scream and
your beautiful
walls will be demolished”
“Haha, you'd make a great clown” he
mocked, but he
knew very well that she was right.
“So you think this is some kind of
clownery session?
Clearly you don't know my capabilites ”
She threatened.
‘I hope my threat works’ she thought to
herself. Yamkelwe
smiled in relief… Yeah you got that
right. Bongeka didn't think out loud but he
heard her.
“Hmm very well. I'm glad you know your
capabilities
sweets now it's time you put them into
good use” With
that he exited the chamber.
After a few seconds, asphyxiant filled the
chamber
suffocating Bongeka. It was too strong to
bear, she ran to
the door only to find that it was locked.
She remembered the last time she
banged something she
almost collapsed the whole building. She
started banging
and screaming not knowing that she was
giving the gas an
easy success to her lungs. Just as her
lungs were about
to give in, the door swung open. With a
quick whisk,
Bongeka was on his hands. He took her
to the clinic to
get help, fortunately there wasn't much
damage on her
lungs. They will just have to drain the
poisonous gas and
monitor her.
~~~
“I've been looking for you William, where
are you coming
from?” Yamkelwe asked when Nicholas
Came in.
“Me? I had some errands to run but I'm
here now. What
did you want?”
Yamkelwe just folded his arms and looked
at him sternly
without saying a word. Nicholas knew that
he had to make
up some lie.
“I went to put Dlamini to rest” He said,
after all he did put
her friend to rest,it wasn't a big lie.
“You put Dlamini to rest? When was
that?” Yamkelwe
wanted to invade Nicholas’ thoughts but
Nicholas learned
to block people from reading his mind.
Besides that, it was a crime to read
someone's mind as it
was the invasion of privacy.
“Two hours ago if I'm not mistaken”
“Dlamini decided to go to sleep? This is
his coven, he
does as he wants. Firstly he went to the
human world now
this” he did sarcastically.
“I'm sorry I hid this from you…he… He fed
on Pandora and
died on the spot”
“And you decided to hide this from me?”
“I was going to tell you”
“Serves him right… Now let's get to
serious issues.
Pandora is missing,where is she?”
He looked at Nicholas trying to read his
expression.
“I don't know Yamkelwe, I left her in the
basement when I
took Dlamini’s body”
“What about the cameras, why were they
turned off?”
Nicholas shrugged, he wasn't the one
who was
responsible for cameras and shit.
Yamkelwe got vampires to raid
everywhere in the village,
even the clinic. Bongeka was nowhere to
be found.
.
.
.
.
{Few days later}
Bongeka woke up in an unfamiliar room
with Nicholas by
her bedside.
“I guess this is my new norm” she says
sarcastically. She
was tired of begging. It's not like it would
change her fate.
These creatures wanted her dead.
“Hmm you finally woke up” He said in
excitement
“Yeah, this is what I always do these
days… Waking up in
an unfamiliar place now and then” she
says
“But if you weren't here. You'd be history
by now”
“Don't make your look better. I know you
also want me
dead”
“Pandora that's not true. Why would I risk
my life just to
kill you? If i wanted you dead I would
have let you die on
that gas chamber” He defended
“Okay thank you I guess, what's the
catch?”
She was so convinced that she was just
here to be used
since everyone wanted a the taste her
power.
“Bongeka, I paid Lobola(Bride price) for
you because I
love you. I loved you from the first day I
laid my eyes on
you. I took you from your parents, they
gave you to me
because they trusted me with you. I
couldn't just let you
die. You are my wife, it's my duty to
protect you. There is
no catch” he explained apparently
sincerely…
“But you handed me to him” her
statement was more of a
question
“I wanted him to create a bond, a mate
bond”
The part of her wanted to believe him,
after all he is the
one who brought her into this mystery
world. But the other
part of her just told her that she would be
naive if she
believed him… she should just play along
yes! …
“I believe you” She said with a shrug and
Nicholas smiled
“I will do everything to protect you”
“Hmm, so how long have I been here?”
she asked
curiously
“it's been a few weeks, not only the
poisonous gas was
found in your system. But there were
some toxins that
were found. Those toxins happen to be
the herbs of
immortality. They are used to speed up
the process of
breaking the maker and kindred bond ,the
lycans use them
to speed up the first time shifting while the
witches use
them for speeding up their spellcraft. They
can be
dangerous if used constantly and
unnecessarily” Nicholas
explained
“Oh my goodness. Why would someone
give me… unless
someone wanted to speed up
something… Marco! Oh my
word that dog was.. Shit” she rambled not
making any
sense to Nicholas
“How do those herbs taste?” she asked
thinking about
Marcos smoothies
“Never tasted any but they are said to be
sweet depending
on the flavors”
“Marco gave me those I think… For
Pandora to awaken”
She thought about everything, the
beatings, then all of the
sudden she was treated like a queen,
Marco insisted on
turning her, he constantly gave her the
smoothies. Then
after, she turned into something she
doesn't understand,
immediately after shifting she was sent to
kill a vampire
master
“They used me!” She screamed.

NINE
“Are you okay Pandora, you seem absent
minded”
Nicholas’ hand has been extended for
nearly a minute with
a cup of coffee that he made for Bongeka.
“I wish you'd stop calling me Pandora”
She said.
“But you are Pandora”
“then I don't know who I am. Care to tell
me about
Pandora?” she asked wanting to hear if
Nicholas would
also describe Pandora as evil just like
Marco
“Pandora was a human who opened the
jar that was left
under her car out of curiosity. She is the
one responsible
for all the miseries of this world. She had
the ability to
summon an object into one's hands
through either
willpower or a hand gesture. Pandora was
able to recall
the evils to the box once they had been
released” Nicholas
explained, his explanation gave Bongeka
more questions
than answers.
“But she didn't know that opening the jar
was going to
bring problems” she stated not seeing
anything evil about
Pandora
“Just like you didn't know that opening
Pandora's box
would bring you problems”
“But I didn't release any evil”
“You possessed evil. You know… This
happened many
years ago, it was not even during this Era
but she does
not give up”
“Give up on what?”
“She had her abilities, she wasn't
immortal but was given
a longer life span compared to humans.
But she wasn't
satisfied, all she wanted was immortality.
She wanted to
live forever. When her mortality was
closer she swore that
her spirit was to be passed from
generations to
generations. So she chooses her vessels”
“And I happened to be that vessel…” she
said with a sigh.
This whole thing made no sense to her,
she had no evil in
her. Pandora awakened in her but she
had no desire to do
evil, her heart was still the same.
“This is all your fault, if you didn't take me
from home,
none of this would have happened”
“Bongeka, this was going to happen. You
showed the
signs, Dlamini saw those signs.
Remember when you were
writing your matric exams?”
“I don't remember any of those events”
“Exactly. To be honest with you, Dlamini
arranged this
marriage so that I could protect you. You
were going to be
danger to the human race, I don't even
want to imagine
what they would do to you”
Bongeka thought about what Marco once
said to her, that
she'd become the government's
specimen. If she turned
out to be useless they were going to kill
her.
“You need to stop coming here everyday,
your master
might have you followed” She said
changing the topic.
The discovery was just too much, it was
just enough for
the day.
The only person she trusted was
Nicholas. He had proven
to be loyal to her after Yamkelwe tried
killing her with a
gas chamber.
“I need to take care of you myself, I don't
trust anyone
with you” Nicholas said the obvious.
Bongeka had been living alone in an
isolated cabin that no
one knew about except her, Nicholas and
the witch that
helped them with the cloaking spell that
no one could ever
see the cabin even if it was before his or
her eyes.
“I know but I'm a big girl. Staying here
alone won't kill
me” She said sipping her cup of coffee
that was slightly
different from the one she is used to.
Apparently the
vampire grows their own coffee that is for
their kind.
“Pandora, I won't leave you all alone here,
what if you run
out of food or any other necessities. This
is not a human
world where you can wake up and decide
to go to the spa
a for bread”
“Where did you get those?” she points at
the chocolate
muffins Nicholas brought her.
He chuckled “This is 2021, modern
vampires eat such
things. The difference is that we grow
them ourselves and
they contain different ingredients.
“I hope you are not feeding me human
blood” The thought
of her consuming human blood made her
abhorrent.
Nicholas shook his head no “I'd never do
that to you” he
said with a smile
“I know” she returned the smile. They just
sat in a
comfortable silence, their eyes fixed on
each other, their
hearts beating hard and fast, their lips
were two
centimeters away…
Nicholas stood up in swift when he felt the
presence of
Bianca, his mate.
“I have to go. The sun will be rising soon”
he said, within
a second he was out of sight.
“I've been looking for Nic, what are you
doing in the
forest?” Bianca asked when Nicholas
appeared out of
nowhere.
“Hunting” he realized after the word left
his mouth that he
just uttered rubbish.
“Haha come on honey, a human can't be
possibly
wandering around in a vampires den”
Bianca laughed at
Nicholas’ sly response
“We need to go, the sun will be rising
soon” He said
ignoring Bianca’s statement
“Ahhh it's just one O'clock. We have a few
hours to chill
here before the sunrise.
“Lets just ago, Yamkelwe must be worried
about us”
“You mean that creepy bastard can be
worried about us?
You got jokes”
“Well yeah you are right but we need to
go. About
Yamkelwe… I'm coming for him.
“yeah right!”

TEN
“Master, we're no longer safe!” one of the
vampires said.
“We're fearing for our lives!” The other
one said followed
by almost everyone. Yamkelwe didn't
even know what you
say. The plan was to keep this Pandora's
thing a secret.
“Shut up!” He roared and it became silent
instantly.
“Who gave you the authority to talk? To
talk to me like
this for that matter” He asks the first
vampire who didn't
answer.
“And you?” He asked the second one who
didn't answer
too.
“You two spoke when you weren't
supposed to, now I'm
giving you the chance, you keep quiet” He
said fiercely
before shifting his eyes to the whole
coterie.
“Who is your master? Is it me or these
two?”
Silence
“You folks surprise me sometimes. Many
of you ran away
from your previous coteries and came
here, because your
masters didn't treat you well, because
some of you were
slaves. I had to go through so much just
making your
previous masters let go of you and break
the bond so that
you can bond with me” He said…
“Some of you were pathetic humans who
were left to die,
some of you were already dead. And who
saved you?” he
continued.
“Some of you were born here. I gave you
strict rules so
that we can all live in peace!
Now I'm giving you a chance to speak out
whatever you
want to say, if you want to complain,
simply complain, if
you want to leave this coterie, I will gladly
break the bond
and set you free. Now talk!”
“I just want my ability to compel,” the little
vampire said.
“Hmm, so Enhle… You want me to let you
manipulate
others? Would you like it if anyone
invaded your privacy?”
Enhle shook her head no
“Your request is declined. You don't want
your privacy
invaded but you want to invade others? It
doesn't make
sense. I'm your leader. I'm able to read
compel and read
your minds but… I Don't. I don't invade
your privacy, I don't
use any of my abilities to you. Don't you
think it's fair?”
“But it could help us when we are in
danger,” Enhle said.
Yamkelwe smiled “Let me tell you
something little one. I
never took anyone's abilities. Did I?” he
asks looking at
everyone. They said no.
“You can't compel because you don't
have the ability to,
simple as that. Now can I have serious
enquiries?
Everyone knew that Yamkelwe never took
their abilities.
It's just that everyone was forbidden to
use compulsion. If
you are caught compelling you will have
to face
punishment as you'd committed a crime
“Master, we are worried about Pandora
wandering around.
We heard that she was here and she
escaped” another
vampire stated.
“True. She was here and she thought she
escaped but she
didn't. She is still in my territory. So she is
not missing. I
Know exactly where she is” Yamkelwe
answered
Nicholas couldn't hold his cough. That's
how scared he
was. Yamkelwe looked at him and gave
him a fake smile.
“William, is everything okay?” he asked
him with raised
eyebrows
“Ye..yes”
“Very well” again he shifted his attention
to the crowd.
“Pandora's situation is under control no
one is in danger
for now”
“Oh so we keep Such things from royals
now?” Precious
said making his way to the quarters. Her
six inch stellitoes
clicking on the marble floor making sure
her presence is
felt.
Precious is one of the royal vampires who
didn't like
Yamkelwe much or pretended not to like
him. She felt like
he was going to eventually take over the
vampire species
since he owned a big and a richest
coterie.
“Precious” he called out.
“I'm right here. Now explain!” she yelled
“Okay, you are all dismissed. I need to
talk to the
princess here” he addressed the
vampires.
“No, no one is going anywhere. You will
explain everything
in front of them” precious opposed.
Vampires obeyed
since she was superior to Yamkelwe.
Yamkelwe got closer to her and cupped
her face.
“Okay princess I will explain. Just give me
some
motivation” he whispered to her. She
could feel his hot
breath on her neck that sent shudders
throughout her
body.
“Well... I'm…” her voice failed her.
Everyone was now
looking at her flushed self”
“You are all dismissed” She says to the
coterie members
feeling embarrassed.
She looked at Yamkelwe who was folding
his arms across
his chest feeling proud of himself. Anger
took over
Precious.
“Don't ever pull that stunt on me
Yamkelwe or you will
pay!”
“Okay, okay. Calm down Presh. Your
threat scares the shit
out of me” he said with his hands on his
left side of his
chest pretending to be scared.
“Sarcasm doesn't suit you”
“I know my lady. So what brings you
here?”
He asks a bit seriously now.
“My feet brought me here”
“Hmmm”
“Yeah, my father sent me here. He is not
happy, at all” She
said.
“So he wants me to tickle him?”
“No! Stop calling shots!”
“Calling shots where? This is my coterie.
I'm bound to
call the shots”
“He is angry. You didn't tell him about
Pandora. How can
you hide such a big matter? This Pandora
issue is serious
and a threat to the whole vampire
species”
“He shouldn't be angry because he knows
now., isn't he? If
this was serious as you say, He should
have come to me
himself. Does he really think you can
handle this better
than me?”
“One day I will make you stop
undermining me”
“Really? Make me…”
Precious grabbed Yamkelwe and pinned
him to the ground
within a second.
“Ahh stop you're hurting me” he cried out.
“I will squash you Yamkelwe”
Yamkelwe swiftly pinned precious down
and kissed her,
she slapped him “What the heck do you
think you are
doing?
“Tell me to stop” with that he kissed her
again. She let out
a moan as Yamkelwe’s tongue slipped in
her mouth, his
hand traced circles on her thighs. She
pulled him roughly
and took charge. Yamkelwe pulled out
and released a
chuckle.
“Why did you stop?” Precious asked, her
blonde face had
turned pink.
“Let's take it upstairs, someone could
walk on us”
“Arghh” she complained, she was real
aroused
“Patience Presh”
[removed]

ELEVEN
“That was epic!” Precious said, still
heaving. Yamkelwe
didn't say anything, he just looked at her.
“We should do this more often, I like
spending time with
you” she continued talking but minding
Yamkelwe’s
silence.
“ As far as I know, you don't like me”
“Yeah that's because you are mean!”
“Am I?” he asked with a grin.
“Well not anymore. I like you, maybe we
should mate”
Yamkelwe just looked at her wide-eyed
“I think you need to go,” he said
dismissively. Precious
frowned “but we are still bonding?”
“We'll do that some other time.
Remember I need to fix
the Pandora issue?”
“Okay” she was sceptical but she got out
of bed and
picked up her skirt and blouse.
“I need to use a restroom?” she said.
“That side” he looked at her as she swung
her ass. He
just shook his head and went to the main
bedroom to
freshen up.
“Now that I've temporarily dealt with her.
It's time I deal
with real problems” he said to himself
before heading out.
~~~
“You need to relocate! Yamkelwe knows
you are here”
Nicholas said, packing some of the
important things
Bongeka might need.
“Where will I go?”
“I think you should go back to the human
world for now”
“What! No it's not safe, you said it
yourself”
“Ever since your awakening, you never
had any
supernatural episodes except that day
when you were
angry”
“Oh my goodness”
“We have no choice, as I said no one is to
be trusted
here, maybe the witch that helped us is
the one who got
us busted”
After a lot of convincing, Bongeka finally
agreed to go
back to the human world.
Bongeka did not even know how long the
drive was. After
hours of sleeping, waking up and
sleeping, they finally
made it to her home. The lights were still
on.
She signed thinking of the last memories,
Dlamini telling
her she is a bastard child, him selling her
off. It was going
to be better if he really arranged her
marriage. Surely
getting married to a fifty nine year old was
much better
than what she was going through.
Discovering vampires,
lycans and her being the Evil Pandora
who turned into a
lycan was just too much. Life was much
better when all
she worried about was her school work.
She huffed again before knocking.
Nicholas was with her
all along. It didn't take much time for her
to open the
doors which was surprising since it was
the middle of the
night.
“My daughter, you are back!” Bongeka
attacked her with a
hug with tears streaming down.
She invited them in. Bongeka looked at
her mother who
had lost weight, had dark circles around
her eyes.
“I thought you they killed you, Dlamini is
—”
“I know everything mom, I'm alive and
kicking but not
entirely safe”
“Welcome back my child” She then looked
at Nicholas.
“Are you also an animal?”
“An animal? No I'm not” Nicholas
defended, Bongeka's
mother just nodded.
“Why are you not sleeping mom at this
time?” Bongeka
asked.
“I have a visitor, he has been taking care
of me and
making sure that I'm safe” she explained
with a smile.
“Mom! You have a boyfriend!” Bongeka
exclaimed
smacking her palm against her forehead.
“No, he is half my age. I can never date
him. Come” She
led them to the lounge. Nicholas and
Bongeka couldn't
believe their eyes.
“Mom! He is a monster!” Bongeka yelled.
While Nicolas
wished the ground could open and
swallow him.
“He is not. He is a young man who is
generous”
“Young? He is probably two centuries old”
Yamkelwe stood up and walked around
with her hands in
his pockets.
“William, do you like the surprise?”
“Master, it's not what you think,” Nicholas
said. He was
dead scared.
“What is happening?” Bongeka's mother
asked, confused.
Yamkelwe just glanced at her and shifted
his eyes back to
Nicholas.
“I see your loyalty lies with… Power” he
said with one
raise eyebrow.
“It's not what you think”
“Hmm okay”
“Sweets” he was now referring to
Bongeka
“I like your mother” he said going towards
her direction,
he stood behind her and pinned her
against his chest, her
right arm on her neck.
“I wouldn't like to snap her neck,” he
continued.
“Please, Yamkelwe please don't involve
her. She is
innocent. I will do anything you want just
spare her and
kill me instead”
“Kill who? I'd never kill you sweets… I
I mean not yet” he took his arm off
Bongeka's mother and
cupped her face.
He looked straight on her eyes and
commanded “Go to
your room, sleep. When you wake up you
will forget about
me, forget about Bongeka's arrival. Now
go” Bongeka's
mother obeyed although she didn't want
to but something
kept on pushing her to do as told.
“What did you do to her?” Bongeka
asked.
“Compulsion sweets. But we'll talk later.
For now let's
deal with Nicholas. He is getting between
us”
“You are really crazy, no one is getting
between us. You
are the problem here”
Yamkelwe just wiggled his eyebrows and
put his hands on
Nicholas’ shoulders.
Bongeka didn't know what was happening
but whatever he
was doing was draining Nicholas’ energy,
he was
screaming so loud and shaking. After two
minutes or so
Yamkelwe released him.
Nicholas just stood there and looked at
his no longer
master.
“When you wake up, Make sure that you
find Bianca before
you two go rogue and look for another
coterie to bond
with” with that, he snapped his neck.
Bongeka screamed.
“Shhh sweets, he will wake up before
sunrise”
“What did you do to him?” Her curious self
asked.
“You are so curious Bongeka. Your
curiosity is the one
that landed you in this situation in the first
place. But I will
answer you anyway, I broke the mate
bond between her
and Bianca. The coterie bond was broken
as well”
Bongeka remembered everything she
read in the book that
Marco once gave her.
“Let's go” Yamkelwe instructed.
“I'm not leaving my mother here. Just
leave me alone!”
“Not happening, unless you want to find
your beautiful
mother under Nicholas’ circumstances” he
said with a
shrug.
“okay fine!”
He thought about what Seth instructed
her to do, maybe if
she breaks the vampire bonds and Make
them kill each
other, then run away from lycans. She will
get her normal
life back.
“Good Luck with that” Yamkelwe warns.
“Fuck you!” she said, realizing that her
thoughts were
invaded.

TWELVE
Yamkelwe and Nicholas went back to the
vampire Village.
Bianca was screaming her lungs out, she
looked pale, her
veins were popping and her eyes had
changed to color
black.
“She is in pain!” Bongeka yelled, she
marched towards her
trying to help.
“Please help me Pandora” Bianca said
barely even uttering
the words, if Bongeka wasn't listening
Alternatively, she
wouldn't have heard her.
“I can't, let's get you to the clinic” she
helped her stand
up which turned out to be a dismal failure.
“Yamkelwe
please help”
“Clinic won't help sweets, there is no cure
for rogues. Be
careful, she might attack you” —
Yamkelwe
“Do you even have a heart?” Bongeka
asked in disbelief.
Bianca tightened the grip on her shirt until
it ripped.
“Pandora get away from her!”
“No! She needs help” Bianca started
making animalistic
sounds. Bongeka got scared and stepped
back. Bianca
started to crawl towards her. Bongeka's
breathing
accelerated and ran toward ls
Yamkwele’s direction only
to find that he was no longer in sight.
Bianca jumped on Bongeka, they both fell
with Bianca on
top of Bongeka. She opened her mouth
showing her
fangs.
“Please, don't do this please '' Bianca
growled, licking
Bongeka's neck. She opened her mouth
with an intention
to bite her. Bongeka just closed her eyes
and waited for
her fate. Instead, she felt Bianca’s heavy
body and she
opened her eyes and released a sigh.
Yamkelwe had
staked Bianca.
“Thank you” She said sincerely while
pushing Bianca’s
body of hers.
“Next time, teach yourself to listen,
sweets. But I was not
going to let you die as yet. Your time is
also coming, just
not now.
Teas just streamed down on Bongeka
thinking of all this
torture she was going through and still
was to go through
before she died.
“How can you kill one of your own?” she
asked, “Don't you
have a little compassion?” she continued
not getting any
answers. She may have acted all tough
all along but deep
down, she was hella scared of Yamkwele.
This man has
no heart at all. If he could kill his own
kind, his own
coterie. Who was she?
“Sweets” Yamkelwe disturbed her from
her thoughts.
“forget about things that do not concern
you. On the right
side of the first floor. The second door is
the room that
you will be using. Now go” he instructed.
“No!”
“Do you want me to compel you?”
“Okay fine I will go.
Bongeka did as told. She was impressed
by her room. It
was beautiful.
She toured around the room admiring the
art works.
“This one doesn't have that thing” She
said looking at the
portrait. She touched it and broke. “Oh my
God”
Out of the sudden she felt some kind of
anger and hatred
against Yamkelwe.
She started throwing and breaking things.
Yamkelwe
barged in “Pandora!” he screamed.
It was like Bongeka had zoned out. And
Pandora was the
one who was active.
She felt the edge to attack Yamkelwe but
something was
stopping her.
“What did you do to me? I want to rip your
heart off. You
are evil. You wanted to kill me!” Her eyes
turned black
and her skin became pale, one could see
the blood
flowing I'm her veins. That's how pale her
skin was. All
she imagined was Yamkelwe suffering,
screaming and
begging for her mercy.
“Ahhh!” Yamkelwe screamed, his fangs
came out, her eyes
also changed from brown to greyish. He
stood up in an
attempt to attack her but he flew across
the room. His
bones snapped.
Pandora saw that the sun had risen, she
went straight to
the blinds and broke them allowing the
sunlight to enter.
She expected to see Yamkelwe burning
but he wasn't.
Her eyes landed on his turquoise pendant
necklace. She
went to him and took a look at it. “What is
this for?” she
asked.
“Ahh fuck. Get away from me. I will fuckin’
kill you
Pandora!” Pandora didn't pay attention to
what he said.
She just took it off his neck and he started
burning.
“Hmmm Pandora you are hurting me” He
hid behind the
bed. His skin was damaged but slowly
healing.
“Wanna have a taste of my blood? The
taste of my
powers hmm?” she was definitely
enjoying the torture. She
bit her wrist. Surprisingly she felt no pain.
The blood
started oozing, dropping on the white
marble floor.
“Come sweets” She said with a smirk.
Yamkelwe’s thirst
made him shiver. Plus he needed some
blood for his
healing. Pandora did her bad before the
sun made things
worse.
~~~
“I feel her!” Seth said alerting Marco who
couldn't believe
his ears. They have been waiting for
some kind of
movement for days until they gave up.
Until Marco gave
up to be precise.
Seth had been consuming some herbs
that allowed him to
be connected to Pandora. That was quite
easy because he
is the one who turned her into a wolf.
Since learned that Pandora is an angry
spirit, it was the
best way to use her anger against the
world to control her.
When killed Bianca, Pandora was
angered because it was
Yamkelwe’s fault in the first that Bianca
went rogue and
tried to kill her.
“I feel her anger, I'm sure she is attacking
now” he
continued in excitement.
“How did you pull this off brother?”
“I have my own ways”
“I can imagine the look on Yamkelwe’s
arrogant face” he
laughed at his own statement. He wished
he was a fly so
that he could go and witness what was
happening in the
west without being noticed.
“Now that Pandora seems to be obeying,
I'm sure the wolf
in her along with her Powers is going to
be vehement”
Seth thought out loud.
“Shift!” Seth orded. His words were
echoing in Pandora's
head. She obeyed.
The shifting was easy and faster than the
last time
Yamkelwe he was doomed, A wolf bite
kills a vampire and
cannot be cured.
“Pandora please, come on sweets don't
do this to me”
Yamkelwe settled for begging, running or
defending was
not a choice at this moment. He was at
the weakest.
“Pandora I'm sorry please show a little
mercy on me
please sweets”

THIRTEEN
Pandora was expected to attack
Yamkelwe but he didn't.
Instead she shifted back to her human
form.
Bongeka slowly opened her eyes, all she
could see was
Yamkelwe hiding behind the bed, his skin
was a little
peeled off and he was bleeding. She tried
to help him but
she was feeling light headed, she fainted
before she could
reach him.
When she woke up, she was in a room
that looked like a
jail cell. She was chained.
“Hello!” she shouted hoping someone
would hear and
come to unchain her.
“What is happening?” she asked herself
before she
remembered the last events. Yamkelwe
was in a dying
state and that somehow hurt her. But how
did he end up
in that state? All she remembered was
touring around the
room. She had no idea what happened
then after.
A few minutes later a vampire came and
offered her a
butternut soup. He told her to sit up so he
could feed her.
“Why don't you unchain me?, I can feed
myself,” Bongeka
asked.
“I'm so sorry Pandora but I can't” The
vampire said.
“What happened to Yamkelwe?” out of
curiosity Bongeka
asked.
“He is healing with the help of his
regeneration and
healers” The vampire explained
“Okay, my name is Bongeka”
“I'm Nora” she introduces herself while
scooping on the
soup. Bongeka was famished so she had
no choice but to
eat.
“Am I the one who did that to Yamkelwe?”
“It was Pandora. Don't you remember
what happened?”
Bongeka shook her head no.
“One of the vampires found you
unconscious on the floor.
Your nose was bleeding. And Yamkelwe
was stuck behind
the bed since his pendant necklace was
far from him.
Then we checked the footage and saw
what went down”
Nora explained.
“What went down?”she asked trembling
“You attacked him before you turned into
a werewolf”
“Oh my goodness! Is he okay? Will he kill
me? I swear to
God I didn't mean to hurt him, I don't even
remember what
happened—”
“It's ok Bongeka. It wasn't you, all you
need to do is to
calm down. Stop letting your emotions
control you. It was
your anger that unleashed Pandora. But
don't worry I will
help you discover your abilities and how
to control them”
“I don't want any of this, I just want my
normal life back”
She cried.
“This is your real life. This is your normal
life just adjust”
“But whatever that is inside of me is evil”
“No it's not, It's just that people have been
misusing
Pandora's powers. They used it for all
their evil doings.
Now that Pandora chose you. You need
to use this gift
wisely”
“How?”
“Don't worry about that. Let's finish up
here”
Nora fed Bongeka until the bowl was
empty. She then
asked to see Yamkelwe. Nora said she
will talk to him but
he is a hard nut to Crack.
“For now, let me check something” Nora
said before she
slapped Bongeka
“What the fuck?” Bongeka exclaimed
whilst her armpits
were sweating.
Nora gave her another slap, again
Bongeka blacked out
unleashing Pandora. In a swift, Pandora
broke the chains
and attacked Nora who was prepared for
an attack. She
was able to disappear in front of Pandora.
“I'm right here, miss Pandora” Nora said
just behind her.
Bongeka picked a single bed that she was
sleeping on
and swung it like a T-shirt or something of
that sort but
she wasn't fast enough. Nora had her
pinned down and
injected her with something that was
going to calm her.
“Nora, what is happening here?”
Yamkelwe appeared.
“I was—”
“Didn't I tell you to stop that nonsense?”
Yamkelwe asked
fiercely.
“Master this is the proof that these chains
and herbs won't
stop her from attacking. That's why she
needs to learn
how to control Pandora. As long as she is
being
controlled by her. No one is safe'' - Nora
“And you think it's safe for you to provoke
her. She could
have killed you!”
“I know but I have it under control”
“Nora, I'm okay now. I appreciate your
efforts but I will
take it from here”
“Noted master but she's had enough for
the day. She
needs some rest… Oh and she requested
to talk to you”
Nora said before leaving them. Yamkelwe
picked up the
bed. Fortunately it was not broken. He
fixed the sheets
and laid Bongeka who was peacefully
sleeping. Of which it
was the only time that she had peace
since she was
introduced to this life.
~~~
Seth was still trying to connect with
Pandora with no luck.
“No, I thought our plan was going well, I
don't know what
is happening now”, Seth was frustrated by
the fact that he
could no longer control Pandora.
“Maybe they put something on her just to
tame Pandora.
But don't worry. Bongeka is a sad, angry
and confused
person. It won't be long before her mixed
emotions
frustrates her” - Marco
“I'm tired of waiting!” Seth roared
“Let's forget about that, it's the day of the
sacrifice. We
need a new wolf” Marco said.
It was the day of the full moon so a new
werewolf was to
be born. They made it their culture to hunt
ten humans.
They'd make them fight each other for
survival. The rule
was for them to kill each other until only
one of them is
left. Obviously the survivor would be the
strongest
amongst the ten.
He or she will then be trained to become
a warrior wolf.

FOURTEEN
Bongeka woke up only to find Yamkelwe
watching her.
“How are you feeling?” Bongeka asked
thinking about the
pain he went through because of her.
“I'm the one who should be asking you
that, how are you
feeling?”
“Awful. I'm really sorry for what I did to
you, it wasn't my
intention at all” she said sincerely.
“It's okay. You should learn to control
Pandora, not the
other way around.”
“I don't know how to”
“Just be yourself. You will surely learn” he
said with a
smile. Bongeka looked at him thoroughly,
he had a
beautiful smile, dimples, long lashes and
thick eyebrows.
She wondered how such a beautiful thing
could be this
evil.
“Sweets” Yamkelwe waved his hands
bringing her back to
earth.
“Penny for your thoughts?” he asked with
a raised
eyebrow. He seemed to be doing that
quite a lot.
“Are suffering from a personality
disorder?” Bongeka
blurted out, earning herself a frown from
Yamkelwe.
“I beg your pardon…”
“No! Pardon my left foot, you heard me
correct. Your
sense of hearing is too strong—”
“sweets, you are rambling. It turns me
on… Anyway to
answer your question. No, I don't have
that kind of
disorder. It's a human disease and I'm not
one” Yamkelwe
answered calmly.
“I'm sorry, it's just that I don't get you.
Sometimes you're
cold and sometimes you are hot.”
“That's so rich coming from you sweets,
But then you're a human, half human
precisely but you
have a human in you so…” he said
shrugging.
They just stared at each other for a few
minutes until
Yamkelwe broke the silence—no scratch
that. Here is the
paraphrase—until Yamkelwe dropped a
bomb.
“I love you Bongeka” for the first time, he
was addressing
her as Bongeka not sweets or Pandora.
“No! Shut up. I know what you are trying
to do, it won't
work. Marco did it too. He pretended to be
my friend
while he was using me to get to you. Now
you’re doing
the very same thing. No! I won't fall for
that trap again.
You hate me, you want to kill me I know
—” she was
talking very fast, Yamkelwe could barely
get her words.
“Sweets, calm down. We don't want to
trigger Pandora, do
we?” He was two centimeters away from
her. His hands
were stroking her rich afro. For some
reason, he was able
to calm her down.
“How do you do it? How are you able to
tame me?”
Yamkelwe just shrugged.
“Something is not right, I can feel it” she
was certain that
something was wrong somewhere.
“Sweets, I'm sorry if I upset you. I didn't
mean to” He
apologized sincerely.
“No, it's not you. Something is just not
right”
~~~
Ten teenage girls who were fearing for
their lives were put
in an enormous circle of fire that
prevented them from
escaping. Not that they'd try that. Even if
they were to
escape the flame but they wouldn't even
go far since the
place was surrounded by lycans.
There were so many different weapons
that were scattered
everywhere inside the fire circle: sword,
axe, dagger,
hammer, gun, bow and arrow just to
mention a few. There
was only one set of the particular kind of a
weapon.
“What a beautiful evening” Seth said,
turning around, his
hands in the air. He was smiling like a kid
in a candy
store.
Not to mention Marco who couldn't wait
for the real fun.
“it's one of those nights where we
welcome a new
member in our pack. Without wasting any
more time, let
me just give out the instruction and let the
match begin.
What is going to happen is that you
(pointing at the girls)
beautiful girls will be fighting for survival.
Have you ever
heard of Darwinism?” Seth asked, walking
around the fire.
Everyone was quiet, the only sound that
was there was the
sobs of the girls.
“When I ask you something, you give me
an answer! . Are
we clear?” Seth roared.
The girls nodded repeatedly in terror.
“Good. Back to the initial question… have
you ever heard
of darwinism?”
The girls shook their heads no except for
the one who
was doing grade twelve.
“Hmm, seems like one of you knows, tell
the other girls
about Darwinism” Seth instructed.
“It—it is… it's natural selection” the girl
answered.
“Hmm, what is your name miss?”
“A-Amandla”
“Hmm. Amandla, Your friends over
there—oops(raising
eyebrows in sarcasm) I mean your
enemies over there are
clueless.what did your life sciences
teacher told you?”
“She said it's the survival of the fittest”
“Yes! Survival of the fittest! That's what is
going to
happen. The fittest amongst you will
survive and stand a
chance to become our omega. Isn't that
nice?”
Silence
“Now, there's only ten of you and more
than twenty
weapons. You pick whatever weapon you
want to use, or
whatever is near, it's up to you. You can
even pick two or
three or pick them all if you want. You kill
whoever is in
front of you, remember only one of you
will survive. I hope
you didn't make any friends because you
will be slaying
each other. Even if you decide to pair or
team up but at
the end you will have to fight against each
other . So it's
up to you. The game does not have any
rules. Play it
however you want. The strongest and
bravest will be the
last woman standing .Fight for survival.
Free advice to
y’all, show —no— compassion. Let the
match begin…”
After Seth explained, all the lycans shifted
into their wolf
form and growled in joy for the fun that
was about to go
down. They couldn't wait to witness the
fear of their
victims. Their fear of killing, but they had
no choice. It
needed to be an individual or the
opponent. They will end
up slaughtering each other until one of
them remains. It
was Life or death!

FIFTEEN
As expected, no one moved an inch
between the girls.
Some were standing wide eyed, some
were shrinking away,
some were trembling with tears gushing
down their
cheeks. Seth howled with his wicked
laughter shifting
back to his human form “no one wants to
fight? okay”
“Look around you, do you see all these
wolves? They are
hungry. ” boastfully, he threatened.
The girls looked around again only to be
met by
thousands of hungry looking monstrous
creatures with
amber eyes, some have green some with
red eyes. Few of
them came closer to the girls open
mouthed dripping
foam on the corners of their mouths. One
of the omega
who was just excited by his newly found
wolf jumped over
the fire and went straight to
Amandla,sniffing her.
“Yes! The clever one” - seth
By reflex, Amandla’s hand collided with
the nearest knife
and shoved it straight to the heart of the
girl who was next
to her. The girl’s agonal gasps alerted
eight of the
remaining ones Amandla excluded. They
all grasped
whatever that was near and started
attacking each other.
“That's more like it. Good job Andre ( The
little woft that
went to Amandla)
__
Bongeka didn't know what was happening
to her but she
felt like something was not right, by
instinct she ran off.
Normally she was not a good runner but
at the moment,
her tiny feet did an exceptional job which
surprised her as
well. She thought her chest would close
up but it didn't.
She attempted to slow down but her feet
were faster than
her brain.
Awoooo
Awoooo
Awoooo!
That was when she realized that her feet
were taking her
to the wolves’ territory. She closed her
ears as the high
pitched howls became hypersensitive to
her ears..
Young girls probably in her age group
were assassinating
each other. She kept her gaze at what
was happening,
there were only three of the girls that were
still standing.
“No! Stop!” that's when everyone noticed
her presence.
The wolves growled at her in anger
infruitung her even
more.
“I SAID STOP!”
For a moment she was spooked by what
was before her
but irruently jumped over the fire.
“let's see how you get yourself out of that
big
flame,Pandora”
“No!” her dulcet voice turned into raucous
echoing
everywhere. The wolves just ran away
growling because
Pandora's voice was very sensitive to
them.
With each second, her breathing
accelerated, her veins
engorged. The rain started pouring,
destroying the fire, no
one told the injured girls to run off.
The rain got worse, the dark sky was lit up
by lightning
followed by heavy storms and a mini
earthquake. The
pack houses started getting flooded, not
only the wolf
pack was getting destroyed even the
vampire territory was
getting affected.
Bongeka got back to her senses. “oh my
word!” she
explained seeing the damage she had
done.
“It's okay. You should learn to control
Pandora, not the
other way around.”
She remembered Yamkelwe’s words
before he confessed
his feelings for her. She sighed trying to
calm herself. As
soon as she was calm, the rain stopped.
“Hmmm, not bad,” she said, looking
around seeing that
the damage wasn't that bad. The pack
houses were not
entirely tarnished. But everything else
was a complete
mess.
___
“Master please calm down” Nora pleaded,
when Pandora
went out running chanting ‘Something is
not right’ . Nora
advised Yamkelwe not to follow her.
Yamkelwe was blaming himself for
confessing his
feelings.
“ Don't fuckin’ tell me to calm down! Look
around you!
Look at this mess, the earth was shaking.
She is angry. I
know it's her viciousness. If I have
followed her. I would
have tamed her.”
“I'm sorry Master,i didn't want you to
overwhelm her”
“You didn't want me to what...? How can I
overwhelm my
mate!”
“She is your—”
“Shut up!” Yamkelwe exited the coterie
house following
Bongeka's scent…
“Yamkelwe!” her heavenly voice was
music to his ears. He
ran towards her direction.
“Sweets, are you okay?I'm sorry sweets I
didn't mean to
upset you okay. Please don't be mad at
me” Yamekwe
pleaded cupping her face.
“Your eyes, they are… Grey” Bongeka
said amazed by the
sudden change of his eyes.
“Yes, they change colors. Are you okay?
Are you not angry
with me?” it was Yamekwe’s turn to
ramble.
“It's okay master. I'm not angry at you. But
I did
something wrong… I couldn't control my
anger and…” she
confessed
“It's okay sweets, It's okay.our home was
not destroyed
let's go.” he picked her bridal style and
ran off with her
using his vampire speed.
___
Few hours later, the wolves recovered. It
was busy as they
tried to fix what was destroyed by
Pandora.
“We didn't get any new wolf today!” Seth
was fuming.
“I know Alpha. I Know” Marco said.
“The vampires have declared war!” —
Seth
“They have Pandora! We need her”
“Pandora my left foot! You brought this
thing here, you
made her think she was our friend. Look
at her now. She
thinks she can turn us on. I don't want that
thing here. We
need those three girls,they need to
continue with the fight
so we can turn a winner into a wolf” Seth
said frustrated.
“Or we can just get any human and turn
her” Marco
suggested.
“No! I want those three girls—” Seth's
phone rang “damn
it!” he cursed before heading out to
answer the call leaving
Marco all confused by the fuss over the
new wolf. Their
pack had many wolves, he thought the
sacrifice or what
Seth called it was just for fun. He heard a
growl from
Seth, he decided to eavesdrop…
“I will fix this, I promise. I will find those
three girls, even
if I have to kill them myself I will do it. Just
be patient
with me” Seth said to the person on the
other line.
For the first time, Marco witnessed her
apha frustrated and
scared. He wondered what was important
about the girls.
He was also determined to find out.
SIXTEEN
Yamkelwe took Bongeka to the main
bedroom, he laid her
and attempted to walk out. “Please stay
with me,”
Bongeka said with a low voice. Yamkelwe
was astounded
by Bongeka’s sudden clinginess. Not that
he was
complaining…
He took off his shoes and lied next to her
and waited for
her to fall asleep, after she dozed off,
Yamkelwe went to
run some errands.
Bongeka woke up feeling the dullness of
sleeping alone
on a king sized bed, her heart ached
longing to see
Yamkelwe.
Her stomach growled in farmishment. She
woke up,
washed and wore one of yamkelwe’s
sweaters that almost
reached her knees.
She walked around looking for a kitchen
so she'd make
her something to eat. The last time she
ate was when
Nora fed her.
“How big is this house?” she said to
herself after almost
an hour of parading.
“I smell a wolf!” a deep voice said behind
her.
“Who are you?” the tall, dark, red eyed
figure asked,
showing his sharp fangs.
“I'm Bongeka. I just need a kitchen” by
then, many of the
vampires were present ready to attack.
“She is a human” one whispered.
“Nah! She smells like a wolf” the other
one said.
“Who are you and what are you doing
here!” the other one
added.
“Yamkelwe knows me, oh and… i'm his
mate,yes I'm his
mate”
The room became the hubbub of loud
laughter.
“His what?” the tall man said, struggling to
talk because
of laughter. “Listen here wolf bitch! It's
over for you” he
threatened. Within a blink of an eye, he
grasped Bongeka
ready to bite her when her fear shook the
quarters,
everything fell down breaking. The
vampires stepped back
in awe.
“She is the witch! It's Pandora!” one of the
vampires
shouted.
“What the fuck is happening here!”
Yamkelwe roared in
anger, he was also red eyed.
“I leave for two damn minutes and I come
back to this?”
He yelled.
“Our apologies Master, we thought she
was a wolf”
“Get the fuck out of here. I'm still going to
deal with each
and every one of you accordingly” the
vampires obeyed.
Yamkelwe shifted his attention to
Bongeka who was still
scared. His eyes softened and turned
back to their normal
brown color, his fangs disappeared along
with his claws.
“Sweets, I'm sorry. I thought you'd wake
up a bit later”
“Why did you leave me?”she whimpered,
hugging him for
dear life.
“I'm sorry sweets, I had some errands to
run but I'm back
now. No one will hurt you. Let's go feed
you, you must be
hungry” he said taking her hand leading
her to the main
kitchen. On the vestibule vampires were
stealing glances
at Pandora.
“Why are you not eating?” Bongeka
asked, stuffing herself
with bacon.
“I'm not a fan of food sweets”
“You watching me eat like this is
awkward”
“Okay fine, I will drink whiskey while you
eat”
“You don't like food, do you?” Bongeka
asked
“No sweets, but I can stomach it just for
you” he took a
slice of toasted bread and a sausage from
her plate and
ate.
“So the only decent food for you is blood”
“Yes sweets”
“How does it taste? Probably like death”
Yamkelwe chuckled “you are eating but
you are busy
talking about blood. Are you offering
yourself?” he asked,
wiggling her thick eyebrows.
“You'd never feed on me”
“How would you know that sweets?” he
asked laughing
“Because you are sitting here, sharing a
meal with me.
You like calling me sweets. You also treat
me good”
“I play with my food before eating it”
Silence.
“I'm kidding sweets. I'd never bring any
harm to you
intentionally”
“For a moment I was scared, I thought
you are feeding me
just to feed on me”
“Hell no!”
“Can I ask you something?” Bongeka
asked with a serious
face.
“Shoot”
“Were you serious? About the confession
you made
yesterday” she asked, embarrassed by
the desperation in
her voice.
“Yes, I love you. I loved you from the first
time I laid my
eyes on you”
“But you tried to kill me”
“I just wished you were at least a normal
human who I'd
eventually turn into what I am. I refused to
believe I could
fall in love with the person who possesses
the spirit of
what killed my kind for decades. Every
bad thing I did to
you was a result of me fighting off my
feelings for you.
When I tried to kill you, I wanted to kill my
love for you. I
was in denial of the possibility of us being
mates. I didn't
want to be a human’s mate. The only
relation I wanted
between humans and I was to kill them,
feed on them. All
I ever wanted for humans was to indulge
in their pain and
fear. I don't even want to mention
Pandora. My kind hate
the person living inside you. The only
thing I ever wanted
from Pandora was to posses her power
so I can rule the
werewolves and any other creatures on
earth. My feelings
betrayed me, my heart betrayed me. My
soul betrayed me.
Even my body did the same. I tried
resisting but I failed.
You're the missing piece of my puzzle.
Trying to kill you
will be the regret of my immortal life. I'm
just glad
Nicholas saved you. I'm glad Pandora
saved you. I'm
sorry for all the pain I caused you. I love
you so much. ''
he explained sincerely.
“Oh my word. I can't believe I love you
too. I forgive you”
Yamkelwe attacked her with a hug in
excitement.
“Thank you so much sweets” he said
planting kisses all
over her face.
“Okay! Let me eat now master” she said
with a smile.
“As you wish my queen” after eating,
Yamkelwe cleared
the table.
__
“Bongeka” yamkelwe said as they made
their way to the
bedroom. Bongeka knew whatever he
was about to say
was serious judging by his tone and him
calling Bongeka.
“Hmm, I will leave the quarters for a few
weeks. I have
the meeting in Norway”
“What! No! You are going to Europe for
two weeks?”
Bongeka said with unshed tears.
“Yes sweets, it's important. I would have
sent my second
in command but Nicholas is no longer
with us, so it has
to be me” he explained. His heart was
aching.
“Yamkelwe you told me that you love me.
Were you lying?
Were you lying to me” she was wailing.
“Of course not sweets. I love you so
much. I will come
back before you l know it. I would have
taken you with me
but you are not safe. Every vampire and
lycan want the
taste of your power. At least here you will
be safe. I will
make sure of that”
“But your vampires hate me”
“They don't, they just misunderstood you.
But there is a
way where you can be safe from them
and be under their
protection while I'm away”
“And what is that?”
“If I mark you”

SEVENTEEN
“Mark me? I don't want to be a vampire. I
don't want to be
an animal!” Bongeka cried out.
“That's too rich coming from a werewolf
human—a filthy
dog,” Yamkelwe said, feeling sad about
Bongeka's words.
It hurt him to know that Bongeka saw him
as an animal .
His eyes became dark as he stood up and
left Bongeka
there.
“I wasn't going to turn you, I was going to
mark you and
reverse the mark as soon as I got back”
He informed her
before walking out.
Bongeka instantly regretted her words.
She didn't mean
any of that. She was just shocked by the
idea of being a
vampire forgetting that she was already a
wolf.
The thought of a wolf brought her back to
the day of the
sacrifice. Her wolf instinct told her that
there was
something sinister about that event. She
decided to let
that slide however. It was none of his
business anyway.
Yamkelwe disturbed her thoughts “I think
it's time I give
you back the life that Nicholas took away
from you” He
said without even looking at her. Seeing
that she was
confused, he continued “I will take you
back to your
mother. I'm sure misses you”
“No please, I miss her but I can't go there
now. Nora
promised to teach me how to control my
power. I don't
want to lose control in the human world.
They will kill me
thinking I'm lucifer or something” she
thought about what
Marco told her. Humans are clueless
about these
creatures, the scientists are hungry for
new discoveries”
she pleaded seeing that her lover was
angry with her and
ready to chase her out.
“Yamkelwe please, I'm not ready to
explain of this to my
mother. She will ask me about you, she
will ask me about
Nicholas. Remember you killed him in
front of her?”
“Sweets, I didn't kill Nicholas. Wherever
he is, he is alive
and kicking if not rogue. I compelled your
mother to
forget about me. If you want to stay with
Nora it's okay.
But she won't be able to keep you safe
from the other
vampires unless she marks you”
“I don't want to be marked by her, I want
to be marked by
you. Remember you said you love me?
Were you not
serious?”
Yamkelwe smiled thinking of how she
liked to use the love
card against him every time. “Are you
going to use that
everytime when you want to get to me?”
“I'm so sorry for what I said to you. I didn't
mean it.
You're not an animal, you're my boyfriend.
I don't think
there is any animal that is as beautiful as
you.” her eyes
were already teary. Yamkwele was hurt
by the sight, even
if he wanted to be angry at her he
couldn't.
“It's okay sweets. Please don't cry, I don't
want you to
cry.” Bongeka wiped her tears smiling.
“But beautiful isn't the name you should
have used” he
laughed. “I mean I'm a guy. A man
precisely”
“It was a compliment. Unlike someone
who called me a
filthy dog just a few minutes ago” She
said putting her
hand dramatically on her chest pretending
to be hurt.
“I didn't mean all of that sweets,” he said
regretfully.
“You don't have to apologize, I know you
hate werewolves.
That's why you call them filthy dogs.
Since I'm one, I'm
your filthy dog”
“My—mine. I like that sound. Filthy dog,
my filthy dog”
~~~
Alpha Seth was still stressed over the
missing girls.
“Alpha I have good news” Marco said
cheerfully
“Did you find the girls?” Seth snapped.
“No but —”
“Then shut up!”
“I found the vampire that will help us take
down
Yamkelwe”
“You are crazier than I had anticipated .
Marco I'm tired of
your rustic plans. How can you trust a
blood sucker?
Those things turn against each other.
What do you think
they will do to you? You're not even their
kind”
“Alpha, Vampires had always been
divided. That will work
on our advantage. Remember an enemy
of an enemy is a
friend”
“Expel me from those plans. I don't want
any vampires on
my territory” Seth said dismissal.
“Even if it's a royal vampire?” Seth
smirked, already feeling
proud of himself.
“A royal vampire?”
“Yes Alpha Seth. Precious, the last born”
Seth gasped in astonishment.
“How did you manage to get a royal on
your side? I can't
believe this” Seth suddenly became
grouchy.
“I have my own ways” —Marco
“it's probably a trap. Fool!”
“Okay, I will take down Yamkelwe on my
own”
“That, I will see”
Seth couldn't believe that Marco got hold
of the royal
vampire. He had been trying to do that for
decades with
no luck. Royal vampires are unavailable
even to their own
kind. To get one to work for you was
another story.
He actually wished Marco was lying. If
not, at least his
plan shouldn't work. He couldn't wait for
Marco to come
back to him with his tail between his legs
to confess that
things didn't go well. And he will be ready
to say ‘I told
you so’ and then save the day as an
Alpha.
He was jealous of how much Marco was
the master of
plans.
Deep down he knew he wasn't meant to
be an alpha. He
wasn't born to be one and didn't even
grow to be one. He
remembered when challenged the
previous alpha but lost
the battle. He actually surrendered to
save his life. He
couldn't accept defeat and resorted into
cheating his way
to the top by using witchcraft. He made a
deal with the
witches who were and still the enemies of
the wolves.
Want to know what the deal was? Of
course you do…
The witches gave her the strength of
fighting and defeating
the previous alpha. In return they wanted
him to sacrifice
nine girls at least twice a year. Apparently
there more
sacrifices were done in one year meant
more power. So
the survival of the fittest battle that always
had to happen
on every full moon was just a cover up for
Seth to kill
nine girls and give them to the witches
and gain himself
some new wolf.
Seth deceived his pack. But one thing he
didn't know was
that he was giving more power to the
witches instead of
his kind.
That's why he was determined to get back
those
remaining girls to finish the sacrifice
because the witches
are threatening to take back his Alpha
strength. He didn't
afford to have that because any wolf
would kill him to get
the alpha role.

EIGHTEEN
“Don't worry, we are going to break the
claim as soon as I
come back. Although I know we'll end up
together but if
you want me to break it I will” Bongeka
nodded at the
explanation.
“Is it going to be painful? Does the
marking include
biting?” She thought about the pain she
went through when
Seth hit her,not to mention the shifting.
“I would never hurt you sweets, can you
trust me?”
Bongeka shrugged. The part of her
trusted the man but
she was just nervous about the whole
thing. The sincerity
in his eyes was enough for her to trust
him.
“Yes, I trust you”
“Thank you sweets. Thank you for trusting
me with your
life” Yamkelwe’s voice was soft against
her ear, his hand
was brushing her neck. She felt like trying
to hide her flesh
but she restrained from pulling away
knowing that he
wouldn't attack without her permission. He
clasped her
face sending chills through her extremities
at his soft
touch.
“Do you trust me?” he repeated the initial
question. A part
if her knew it was stupid of her to trust
him, Yamkelwe
held her captive . He literally forced
himself to her life.
She should be fighting tooth and nail to
escape the
mystery. But no, she chose to trust him.
“I trust you” I answered again.
Their lips met, his hand around her waist.
The alignment
of their fleshes sent blushes all over her
body. He slightly
pushed to lie in bed careful enough not to
hurt or trigger
any kind of fear. It wasn't exactly her first
kiss but she
hadn't done anything experimental before.
“What does this process involve?” she
asked nervously as
Yamkelwe Yamkelwe ran his hands over
her exposed
thighs. “You're cute on those sweaters” he
found Bongeka
sexy on his sweaters. But he had to
choose his words
wisely one thing he didn't want was for
her to see him as
a pervert.
“What are we doing?” her voice came as
a whisper.
“Worry not sweets, we won't go all the
way—unless you
want us to” he said seductively, causing
her body to
shudder
“It involves intimacy, it's how I call my
spirit to connect
with yours. It involves flesh and blood”
She just nodded.
“Can we?” Yamkelwe asked, reminding
her that he won't
do anything without her being willing.
The moment the sweater was pulled off,
her skin was
burning from the heart that her body was
consuming.
Yamkelwe placed kisses on her brows
and nose trying to
prevent her from getting uncomfortable.
His soft lips made
their way into her eyes, cheeks before
going for her jaw.
Her breathing was already fast and
shallow. Her heart was
racing with adrenaline.
He reached a hand up to her hair petting
her strands softly
while his hot breath teased along her ear.
Another arm
stayed around her protectively,not
demanding but firm. He
trailed her skin lightly as if he was an egg
or a glass that
could break anytime beneath him. He
then pressed his lips
against her flesh, starting beneath her ear
trailing down her
neck to her shoulder. He stopped there.
His tongue
darting the tsst of her skin just for a
moment.
Bongeka gasped as the feeling of sharp
pleasure striking
through her veins and pooling in her
stomach. He
assaulted her with a kiss as her body
began to relax
sending shivers of ecstasy of her.
His strong hands grasped the back of her
thighs, kneading
them affectionately. She gasped again as
the maneuver
caused her to straddle his lap in a very
suggestive.
Although he was still clothed, she was
embarrassed when
she felt his hard bulge pressing against
her apex between
her legs,aligned perfectly for a certain
activity *winks*.
Out of nerves, she leaned her face
forward to burrow under
his neck. Yamkelwe released a little
chuckle. He then
shifted sending a combining sensation
between her legs
and throughout her body. She moaned
against his chest
without meaning to.
“Ahhh fuck, you're testing me Bongeka”
he growled with
his eyes closed.
He opened his eyes, they were dark
resembling hunger. He
grabbed her, pulling her closer before his
lips claimed
Bongeka's. Without hesitation his tongue
started swiping
her lips forcing them to open. It was the
hungry kiss that
drew Bongeka to him causing her to move
against him
hungrily. She started grinding him for dear
life causing him
to groan.
“Do you want me to fuck you?” his voice
came out huskily.
Bongeka's clit twitched harder throbbing.
She grinded hard
against Yamkelwe trying to release some
heat. Her panties
were soaked on the Amazon river in her
honey pot. Her
kitten was itching so much that for a
moment he
considered saying yes.
Think with your brain Bongeka not your
virgina, she thought
to herself.
“No”
He didn't look offended at all. He just
continued to
worship her body. His one hand found its
way to her
kitten and slowly rubbed her without even
having to
remove her soaked panty. “ahhh oh gosh”
She moaned as her body muscles tensed,
her toes
curling…
She didn't see Yamkelwe’s eyes
darkening of his fangs
extending all she knew and felt was his
fangs plunging on
her neck. Instead of pain there was
pleasure as her body
shook uncontrollably as she nutted—for
the first in her life.
A fire of ecstasy followed, tearing up a
sharp cry from her
throat sending her completely over the
edge. She then felt
the waves of power pushing over her like
vying a space
inside her soul. It wanted all of her, it
blanketed over her.
Claiming her as a piece of existence.
Then after, there was a sense of peace
over her. She
blinked hazily feeling Yamkelwe pet her
face affectionately.
That was when she realized that he had
removed his fangs
from her neck. She looked at her blood in
her lips like
wine before her eyes fluttered shut and
the darkness took
over.
Yamkelwe kissed her on her forehead. He
went to the
bathroom to get a warm towel and
cleaned her up. Then
he went for a cold shower, He needed it!

NINETEEN (unedited)
Bongeka woke up a few hours later, she
was still butt
naked but covered in a throw blanket. She
recalled
everything that went down earlier on. She
gasped in
embarrassment thinking of the things she
was doing, the
foreign things that Yamkelwe made her
feel.
Her hand made its way to her neck,
touching her mark. “I
almost gave my innocence up because of
this” she says
to herself shaking her head. She heard
footsteps coming
towards the room and laid her head on
the pillow
pretending to be sleeping.
The door creaked “Cut the act sweets I
know you're
awake. I brought you something to eat
you must be
famished”
Bongeka didn't move an inch. ‘How dare
he think he can
just assume that I'm pretending to sleep?”
she thought.
Yamkelwe put a tray of chocolate
brownies and orange
juice on a bedside cabinet and petted her
face. “Sweets,
please open your eyes” he pleaded as if
he knew that
Bongeka was scared of facing because of
the events of
marking.
“Sweets, don't hide from me okay?”
Bongeka kept her eyes shut. What If he
looked at her as a
cheap slut? What if he was angry at her
for not letting him
fuck her? Those were the questions that
Bongeka kept on
asking herself.
“Okay, we'll do it my way” He flipped her
as she was
sleeping on her side and made her sleep
on her back. He
started placing kisses all over her face.
Bongeka was
already breathing heavily but too stubborn
to open her
eyes. He continued kissing her until she
reached the mark,
he licked it. She felt the heat and sparks
emanating from
his body. That's when she gave up and
opened her eyes,
she had to clench her teeth to force back
the blush that
was threatening to rush to her cheeks.
“Hello there” he greeted cockily
“Hy master” she was trying to sound
serious but her voice
was not firm enough.
“Here…” Yamkelwe took one brownie and
fed her.
“hmm” Bongeka moaned in pleasure as
her perfect
brownie melted in her mouth the thick,
fudgie and cranky
crust was too good.
“Thank you for trusting me Bongeka”
Their hands intertwined, they laid there in
bed, cuddling for
the rest of the day with Yamkelwe
promises her many
things, the places in the world he would
show her after his
trip.
The following day, it was the time of his
departure. The
hardest thing ever happened to Bongeka.
The goodbyes
were already giving her chest pains, the
mark became
slightly uncomfortable.
“You will be uncomfortable for a few hours
after my
departure since we'll be away from each
other. I will also
feel the same” Yamkelwe said as he felt
Bongeka's
discomfort. YEP, they can now feel each
other's feelings.
Bongeka nodded with unshed tears.
“Sweets this meeting is important. Trust
me I don't want
to, I don't want to leave you, just
persevere, the pains will
get better as time goes on ” Bongeka
gave him a nod
again. They kissed for the last time.
“I love you Bongeka”
“I love you too, please don't leave me.
Please Yamkelwe, I
promise I will be a good girlfriend, I will do
everything you
want. Just don't leave me” The tears were
gushing down.
She knelt down grasping on yamkelwe’s
sweaters.
“Sweets…” He was trying to reason with
her with no luck.
Nora had to pull her from Yamkelwe who
was on the
verge of crying as well. He felt all the
emotions that were
going through Bongeka's mind and heart.
“I love baby, I will come back before you
know it”
Bongeka watched as Yamkelwe got in the
car with his
driver. She watched as the car drove off,
her mark
throbbing. She couldn't handle the pain
and heartache. She
collapsed and wailed in pain.
Nora told the other vampires to pick her
up and directed
them to the healing room. Bongeka was
still screaming
her lungs out.
Nora gave her some herbs to ease the
pain. The mark was
a bit better but the dullness in her chest
was getting
worse. She felt like she was all alone in
this big world ,
she felt abandoned.
“Nora, Nora why did he leave me?”
“I'm sorry Pandora, he had too. He can't
defy the royals”
“Why is it painful like this? I want him
back!”
“He will be back dear”
“Something is not right. Something big
and sinister is
coming Nora. Yamkelwe has to come
back!”
“Everything is alright Pandora, you're just
paranoid”
“No! The last time I felt like this, the
werewolves were
killing innocent lives. Oh my God I hope
nothing is wrong
with Yamkelwe” Her chest closed up
causing her to
hyperventilate.
“Bongeka!”
Many scenes started playing on her mind,
she saw a
blonde girl, he was with Yamkelwe. They
were both naked,
having sex while she was tired up like a
dog.
HE IS MINE!
HE IS MINE!
HE IS MINE!
HE IS MINE!
The blonde girl chanted those words. Her
voice was too
loud to be ignored. Her voice was
powerful.
.
.
.
“Bongeka!” Nora tried to bring her back to
earth seeing
that she was probably hallucinating.
She mixed some herbs into a syringe and
injected her.
Few seconds later, she was fast asleep.
~~
Fourteen hours later,Yamkelwe was in the
palace. The
royal guards escorted him to the kings
office.
“Ahh, my special guest is here” the king
greeted in
excitement. After they exchanged
greetings the king
offered him a brandy, he then briefed him
about the
developments they needed to make.
“We'll do everything else tomorrow. For
now you can just
go to rest, I'm sure the jet lag is killing
you” The king said
jokingly.
“Precious told me that you got Pandora's
issue under
control” the king said.
“She was right, my king. She is no longer
a threat to us”
He wasn't entirely lying, Pandora was no
longer a threat to
the vampires.
The maid came and showed Yamkelwe
the bedroom he
was going to use. He thanked her and
creaked the door
open only to find his biggest surprise.
“Precious!” he said, narrowing his brows.
She was in a sleazy see-through red
lingerie.
“C’mon baby, the last time was fantastic.
I'm sure you'd
like the taste of all this again” She said
seductively as she
played with her boobs.
________
A/N : hy guys. Let's not forget that we
read to understand.
Sometimes the writer shouldn't feed you
everything,
somethings are for you to figure out. If
you read very well
you won't be confused.
Do you guys remember Nicholas? What
do you think
happened to him? What about Bianca, his
mate?
What about Bongeka's real father?
The plan between Precious and Marco?
Oh… what is Seth up to with the witches?
Well the witches are just extras here. We
won't be seeing
much of them in this story but no
worries… I'm brewing a
witch story that will follow after this one.
Lastly, please Comment guys. I observed
that you don't
want to share,it's okay but please
COMMENT. I'd like to
know what you think about the insert, the
story itself and
characters.

TWENTY
[TWO WEEKS LATER]
Bongeka was relieved when Nora
informed her that
Yamkelwe was on his way back to the
quarters. She had
been restless for the whole two weeks.
Although the pains
were over but she would sometimes feel
like she was
intimate while she wasn't. The terrible
scenes and mantras
that were playing on her mind didn't make
things better,
plus Yamkelwe had promised to be in
contact everyday.
But not even once did he call.
She was convinced that something bad
had happened to
Yamkelwe but Nora always assured her
that if anything
was to happen to Yamkelwe, she would
also feel it
because of the mark bond.
“He is here Bongeka. He is safe as I told
you, you were
worrying yourself about nothing
actually”Nora said, smiling
wide.
Bongeka squealed in excitement l “Where
is he? Where is
he? Oh my goodness Master!” she
jumped like a baby,
she was already running down the
vestibule when Nora
told her to stop.
“I'm afraid master doesn't want to be
interrupted in his
rest”
Bongeka's wild smile turned into a frown
“What? No he
was talking about y’all not me”
“Bongeka, Master Yamkelwe had been
good, trust me you
don't want to get on his wrong side”
“I won't! I'm his queen he won't mind”
“Bongeka —”
“Shut up! I'm going to see my man and
you won't stop
me. Perhaps you should mind your own
business, I'm sure
there is some sick night creature that had
been fed a
diseased blood and needs your help”
“Oh, as far as I know vampires don't
sleep” Bongeka
continued giving Nora a fake
smile before heading to Yamkelwe’s
room. She didn't find
him. She figured out that maybe he was in
his study.
“I thought I gave a clear instruction not to
be disturbed”
Yamkelwe said without even looking at
Bongeka who just
invited herself in his study.
“Yamkelwe, it's me”
“I know”
“Yes baby, so how was your trip?”
Bongeka didn't mind
Yamkelwe’s ignorant tone.
“What makes you special?” Yamkelwe
asked
“Huh?”
“Bongeka, I said I don't want to be
interrupted and you
saw yourself fit to go against my word?”
Their eyes met,
Yamkelwe was looking at her in so much
disdain.
“Hmm sorry, I will leave” As soon as she
was outside,
she let her tears flow, the pains in her
chest started again.
“Come dear, you need some sleep” Nora
embraced her as
soon as she entered her room.
“I'm sorry Nora, you were right”
“It's okay darling”
“He hates me!”
“He doesn't hate you Bongeka. Maybe his
meeting didn't
go well”
She went to take a nap in Yamkelwe’s
bedroom since she
was using it all along.
She slept and woke and slept and woke
up again with no
no sign of Yamkelwe. Her heart broke into
tiny pieces. She
was asking herself if she did something
wrong to him? Or
he decided that he doesn't love her
anymore or maybe the
royals forced him to break up with her.
“Sweets, are you still up? you should be
resting”
Yamkelwe said.
“I'm sorry Yamkelwe.”
“What are you apologizing for sweets?”
“That I went against your instruction”
“No, no, no sweets. I'm the one who
should be
apologizing for my behavior. I shouldn't
have spoken to
you in that manner” Yamkelwe
apologized, Bongeka
couldn't read his eyes as she is used too.
She didn't know
if he was sincere or not, there was
something dark about
him, something was wrong with him. He
looked…
Different.
“Was the meeting okay?”
It was silent for a while before Yamkelwe
spoke
uncomfortably “Yes… No I mean it was
hmmm yes. It was
fine”
“Yamkelwe you can talk to me anytime.
You look troubled”
“Vampire problems, sweets. I'm sorry I
took all my
frustrations on you”
“I forgive you” She said yawning
“Let's sleep sweets. I'm so sorry for
making you wait up”
“It's okay, I love you” She said attempting
to kiss him but
he stepped back in discomfort.
“Hmm” clears the throat “I… Love you
more, sweets”
~~~
The following morning, Bongeka woke up
disappointed by
the fact that she woke up alone, she
expected to wake up
on Yamkelwe’s tight embrace like in
novels where the guy
wouldn't even allow his girl to go to the
bathroom
because he doesn't want to separate from
her.
But maybe she went to prepare breakfast
for her. She
woke up and went to wash, she came
back to no sign of
her mate. Her stomach wasn't patient
enough to wait for
Yamkelwe to bring her breakfast. She
opted to go
downstairs to check on him but she found
a bunch of
vampires that were eyeing her weirdly.
“Goodmorning!” she greeted excitedly.
Silence
“Well I guess it's not quite a good morning
for y’all” She
marched to the fridge to get herself
something to eat
when a vampire stood before it, restricting
her from
opening it.
“What?”
“Master gave a strict instruction not to let
you make food
for yourself. Actually, you are forbidden to
use any
kitchen”
“What! No. I'm hungry, how am I
supposed to eat when
I'm not allowed in the kitchen?”
“It is his duty to feed you. Unless he
specifically asked
someone to do it on his behalf”
“oh, I see. Where is he? I need to eat?”
“This conversation is over” The vampire
said dismissively.
“No! Why?”
The vampire rolled his eyes “Master gave
a strict
instruction for vampires not to interact
with you without his
permission. I already broke the rule. I
don't want to get
punished”
“Can I at least get your name?”
“Keden”
“Okay Keden, can I please grab some
fruit. Your master
won't know”
“Bye Pandora”

TWENTY-ONE
Bongeka was confused and hurt, if
Yamkelwe made it his
duty to feed her, he should have made
her food before
going wherever he was.
“For all I know he could be busy sucking
blood while I'm
starving here!”
“Pandora, why are you shouting?” Nora
asked walking
down the hallway.
“I'm hungry Nora, I'm hungry”
“Didn't the master make something for
you?”
“Why are you whispering?” Bongeka
asked seeing that
Nora is rather uncomfortable. Her eyes
were wandering
around like she didn't want to be seen
with her.
“Master gave a strict instruction for us
not—”
“No, not you too. Master this master that.
Now I should
die of boredom and hunger because the
Master doesn't
want his vampires to talk to me? Great,
just great!”
“Okay come, I hope no one sees us” Nora
made her
cereal, and took some fruits and snacks
for her to eat
later.
“Nora!” one if the vampires called out.
Bongeka and Nora
instantaneously swiveled in dread.
“Ha ha Good morning Nkateko” Nora
greeted faking a
smile.
“Are you working in the kitchen now?”
Nkateko asked,
folding his arms.
“Of course not”
“Hmm, basically you are confiscating
Masters food”
“That's a big accusation Nkateko!”
“That's exactly what you two are doing.
And tell me, what
is she doing here with you?” He asked,
referring to
Bongeka.
“Food is meant to be eaten. Why are you
jealous with
food! It's not even blood. It's just food!”
Bongeka shouted.
“Tell this thing to stop talking to me,”
Nkateko said to
Nora, totally ignoring Bongeka.
“I don't answer from you. You don't give
me orders!”
“Thank you Nkateko, I will take it from
here” Kaden said,
appearing from nowhere. Nkateko gave
Bongeka a look
before disappearing into the hallway.
“Nora, you will have to answer from me
and take orders
from me. Master put me in charge as you
all know
Nicholas is not here. Not that I owe you
any explanation.
Now tell me, what are you two doing
here?” Kaden asked
calmly.
“Master made it my duty to take care of
her. Now may
you excuse us?”
“Of course I will. Also, I will pretend as if
you did not just
lie to me seconds ago. Now go and let it
be the last time
you are seen with Pandora, unless you
want master to
chastise you”
Nora nodded and pulled Bongeka by
hand and they
headed to Nora's bedroom.
“I like Kaden, he is quite lenient than
Nkateko”
“Be careful, the only thing that stops these
vampires from
killing you is that mark. Other than that,
you'd be good as
dead”
“Okay let me eat. Thank you for standing
up for me”
“You're welcome. So, the master is
back?” Nora said with
a noisy grin.
“Argh, I don't understand him. He is acting
like a
chameleon ever since he came back. He
was so mean to
me, in the middle of the night he came to
apologize,
scratch that. He pretended to be
apologizing, in the
morning he was nowhere to be seen. Now
I'm forbidden
to eat!”
Nora was about to respond when her
phone rang.
“Master” she answered, gaining
Bongeka's attention.
“What are you doing with Bongeka?” his
voice was calm
but full of fury.
“She wasn't feeling well, she needed
some herbal
treatment,” Nora explained.
“Oh, okay. I hope she'll be alright, I'm on
my way” he said
before dropping the call.
Nora sighed in relief seeing that her white
lie worked. “He
is concerned Pandora”
“No no no, I heard all of that cold
conversation. There
was no sign of concern there”
Nora looked at her weirdly “What?”
“Nothing”
~~~
“I'm going to ask the same question I
asked earlier on,
perhaps this time you'd like to give me a
different answer”
Yamkelwe said raising his brows, with a
smirk showing
his dimples.
“I don't understand Master” Nora tried to
act dump but
deep down, she knew she was doomed.
“What are you doing with Bongeka?”
He emphasized each and every word.
“She needed some herbs”
“Ohh, is that so sweets?” He looked at
Bongeka.
“Yes”
“Very well. So who taught who to lie
between you two?”
“Master, I can explain,”Nora begged.
“I take it as it's you Bongeka who
suggested lies because
my dear Nora wouldn't dare” He said
sarcastically.
“I was hungry, you forgot to feed me!”
“Hmm, I see”
“I'm sorry master. I figured that you forgot
to leave food
for her so —”
“You're forgiven Nora. Sweets, let's go,
these chips and
fruits are not enough” he extended his
hand for Bongeka.
She followed Yamkelwe mouthing thank
you to Nora.
When they arrived in the bedroom,
Bongeka was surprised
to find lots of fruits and breakfast food, to
name a few:
cornflakes , cocopops, muesli, morvite,
oatmeal, twelve
pack of farm gate milk, strawberries,
peaches, apples.
“Since I'm a bad boyfriend, a boyfriend
that forgets to feed
his mate, I thought I should make it up to
you. So here is
it, eat!”
“But we're far past breakfast
time,”Bongeka said,
confused.
“I don't care, you almost missed your
important meal of
the day, so eat Bongeka. I'm not playing
with you”
Bongeka took a bowl, made cornflakes
and ate.
“Finish the whole box!”
“What? I'm full”
“I said eat”
Bongeka made another bowl and forced
the cereal until
she was done.
“I said finish the box!”
“No!” she yelled in anger trying to trigger
Pandora.
“Yamkelwe please, I will eat later”
“We are only starting mate. Eat” his eyes
were dark and
his skin was pale.
Bongeka forced eating until she was half
through the 2kg.
Her stomach was so close busting.
“Babe I'm full. My stomach looks like a
Jojo tank” She
Said burping.
“Eat”
As she took another spoon, she vomited
everything she
ate.
“Ungrateful bitch!” He slapped her hard.
“You go around
telling my people that I don't feed you.
Now I'm feeding
you, you decide to waste my food?”
“I'm sorry—”
“Shut up and lick this vomit”
“What? No '' Bongeka objected in disgust
earning herself a
kick on her stomach, she vomited again.
“Lick it off”
“Pandora! Where the fuck are you bitch”
Bongeka yelled
angry at the spirit that she possessed.
Pandora always
reacted uninvited, now that she needed
her rescue, she
was nowhere to be found. Bongeka was
just a human
Bongeka who was about to endure a
vampire's abuse. A
vampire that promised not to hurt her. A
vampire that was
her mate.
“Bongeka, lick it off before I get angry”
Bongeka started cleaning her dirt with her
tongue with
tears gushing down, her left cheek was
burning, her
stomach was in agony, but she had no
choice, she licked
her vomit until the marble floor was clean.
“Good girl, that should teach you not steal
from me again”
____

TWENTY-TWO
It's been four days since Bongeka last
ate. Yamkelwe
made her choose between eating all of
that food at once
or staying hungry. She chose hunger
because she knew
she couldn't finish all of that at once, she
wasn't about to
lick her vomit again. She was scared that
milk might give
her a runny stomach and perhaps, she
would be forced to
eat her own shit… argh, sies. Nevermind.
She was getting weaker with each day.
And Pandora
seemed to have abandoned her.
She woke up alone as usual and decided
to get some
fresh air. She found herself in a garden,
watching the sun
peaking out from behind the mountain
tops, golden rays
giving bright color to the clouds. It was a
beautiful day, a
beautiful morning. Seeing the sunrise
painting the sky with
pinks brought hope.
During the past few days, she learned
that Yamkelwe
wasn't himself, his eyes were not the
usual beautiful brown
eyes that reflected love and sincerity, they
were no longer
looking like the cuddles of a coco teddy
bear, they were
no longer snuggling, inviting and calming.
The beautiful
sunrise reminded her of the first time she
looked at
him,the first time she met his gaze. The
first time he
tamed Pandora. The first time he
confessed his love for
her. Mostly, their first spiritual and
physical connection,
the marking. His eyes were like the sun
kisses, the
reflected love and understanding in the
sun’s favor.
But those eyes were lost in Norway, when
he came back
from there, his eyes were muddy, vast
and horrifying
reflecting darkness and possession. With
each day he
became more evil, but Bongeka remained
hopeful.
Perhaps Pandora wasn't triggered
because Bongeka wasn't
angry.
“Be careful Pandora, those blooms can be
corrosive to
wolves” Kaden spoke behind Bongeka
who was about to
touch a beautiful purple colored bloom.
“I prefer being called Bongeka Kaden”
“Oh, my bad. How are you?... Stupid
question. You look
dead”
“Yeah, dead just like you” Bongeka joked
weakly.
“Trust me, I look alive compared to you.
What happened
to you?” Kaden asked concerned
“The last time I checked Kaden, you
weren't allowed to
converse with me”
“Don't dodge my question”
“I'm fine, just had a rough night. I had a
terrible
nightmare” Bongeka said, hoping he
would buy her
nightmare story.
“Nightmare? You don't look like someone
who was
sleeping during the night. Those
nightmares might have
found you wide awake” He said
sarcastically.
“It's nothing Kaden”
“Well if you say so—wait, what is this?
Who hit you?”
Kaden asked, touching the finger marks
on Bongeka's
face.
“Let it go please”
“If Master sees you like this, hell will break
loose. Who
dares touches masters mate?”
“Let it go Kaden. Where is he? I mean
your master?” it's
been four days since she last saw him.
“He is at his office”
“Could you please make me some
food?please”
“Bongeka you know I can't do that”
“Please”
He was a bit reluctant but ended up
agreeing. “Okay fine,
stay here”
Although Kaden knew he wasn't allowed
to talk to
Bongeka but he couldn't just say no when
it was obvious
that Bongeka was in trouble, the dark
circles around her
eyes, the marks in her face, the weight
loss. It was
obvious that she was starved.
And he can't even address all of this to
Yamkelwe
because looked disoriented. Sometimes
he would be his
old self sometimes he'd just become
monstrous.
He cautiously made her sandwiches and
juice.
“Since when did you last eat?” Kaden
asked just after
Bongeka stuffed two slices at once.
She raised four fingers while gulping her
juice and taking
another huge bite of the remaining
sandwich.
“Whatever is going on between master
and you shall be
well”
Bongeka nodded with unshed tears
“Thank you. Kaden, I hope I didn't put you
in trouble”
“You're welcome. Let me leave you before
we get caught”
“Before you go, how did you know I am a
wolf?”
“I smell a wolf from afar, how did you
become one?”
“Seth turned me, the alpha. Trust me I
don't like the trait”
“Do you turn at will?”
“I don't know, never tried. The only time I
shape-shifted
was when Seth used his alpha ability
telling me to shift, it
wasn't at will” Bongeka explained, Kaden
just nodded.
“Why are you not affected by the sun?”
Bongeka asked,
Kaden showed him the bracelet.
“I see, let me not keep you I'm sure you
have a lot to do”
They bid each other goodbyes. Bongeka
was a bit better,
she was fed, she saw her favorite sight of
the day,
sunrise. Her hope was restored. She went
back to
Yamkelwe’s room. On her way there, her
mark started
aching, much worse than the last time.
She screamed for
help,as the pain on her neck ramped up
from aching to
searing, blinding agony faster than one
could blink. Her
body started hitting up like someone just
poured boiling
water on her.
The vampires did not even aid her, Kaden
who was
possibly gonna help was out of sight. And
Nora was too
scared to go near her. After about thirty
minutes, the pains
disappeared along with her mark.
Nora walked past her “The mark is
broken, you are no
longer safe. Hide” Nora warned making
sure no one saw
that she was talking to Bongeka.
Bongeka picked herself up and ran to her
initial
destination. She gasped in surprise and
hurt when he saw
Precious in bed butt naked with Yamkela

TWENTY-THREE
“You must be the famous Pandora?”
Precious said cockly
“let me rephrase, you must be Bongeka”
she continued
teasing her.
“Precious just stop!” Yamkelwe said
realising that the
mark is no more. Which was a doom for
her and
Precious.
“Shut up!” Yamkelwe kept his mouth shut,
he tried to
connect with Bongeka trying to read her
thoughts but he
couldn't.
“Now that he is out of our way, let's get
straight to
business. I need you to go,go and never
look back”
Precious commanded while putting her
clothes on.
Bongeka shook his head no
“Why are you still here? He has been
treating you bad, he
doesn't love you. All he wants from you is
power. Do you
know why you can no longer control
Pandora?” Precious
asked, Bongeka looked at her for her to
continue.
“Him” Precious pointed at Yamkelwe with
her head.
Bongeka's eyes shifted to Yamkelwe who
was shaking his
head, he looked like he wanted to say
something but
something was stopping him.
“Who are you, lier?
“Oh dear, it's so unfortunate you were
never told about
me. I'm precious, the royal vampire. His
fiancé” Precious
said with a grin.
“She is lying babe, right?” Bongeka
looked at Yamkelwe
once again with tears streaming down her
cheeks. “is this
true? She asked again hoping for the
best.
Yamkelwe moved his mouth in an attempt
to talk but
instead he shook his head again.
Bongeka was confused by his unspoken
answer. Shaking
his head in answer of the question could
mean two things,
yes or no.
“Are you her fiance?” Bongeka asked.
Yamkelwe shook his
head again, for assurance purposes,
Bongeka asked
another question “She is lying right?”
Yamkelwe nodded.
“Why is she not talking? What did you do
to him!”
Precious gave her wicked laugh before
she answered
“Nothing dear, I just asked him to shut up.
He listens to
me all the time, everyone does. Including
you”
“I won't listen to your nonsense!”
Bongeka felt the dullness again, only to
realize that the
mark was broken.
“Yamkelwe the mark —” Yamkelwe
cleared his throat hard,
Bongeka took it as a signal to keep her
mouth shut.
“What about it dear Bongeka? Let me see
it”
“No! Don't you dare come near me”
Precious cat walked closer to Bongeka
and looked at her
firmly. “Bongeka, go and never come
back” Precious
expected her to go as instructed.
“I am not going anywhere” Bongeka
emphasized every
word firmly as well.
Precious looked at her in shock “What is
happening to
her? She asked Yamkwelwe who didn't
respond.
“Talk!” Precious demanded.
“I don't know Precious”
Bongeka was hurt by the fact that
Precious was right
about him listening to her.
“Great, not so long ago I tried speaking to
you but you
only communicated with your head. Now
that her highness
ordered you to talk to you just do that.
Wow mate.”
Bongeka said sarcastically.
“Mate?” Precious was rolling on the floor
because of
laughter.
“Mate as in soul mate?” she asked, trying
to catch her
breath.
“Please go” Yamkelwe said looking at
Bongeka.
“Just go, trust me it's for the best”
“Baby no, you said you love me baby
remember? You said
you love, were you not serious?” those
words always
worked in emotional blackmailing
Yamkelwe.
“Just go Bongeka, go. I don't want you
anymore”
“Yep, he doesn't want you anymore bye
Felicia” —
Precious.
Bongeka looked at Yamkelwe for the last
time before
exiting the room.
She couldn't hold her screams anymore,
She remembered
all the memories of her and Yamkelwe
that were short-
lived.
She slowly climbed down the stairs with
wobbly legs. Few
steps before she reached the floor, she
tripped but Kaden
who appeared from nowhere was fast
enough to catch her
before she fell.
“Pandora, what happened?” A concerned
Kaden asked.
“He dumped me, he told me to leave, he
broke the mark.
He said he doesn't want me anymore. He
made me love
him Kaden, he made me love him. I've
fallen deep for him,
I can't live without him. I want him back”
she was now
wailing, struggling to breath even.
“Shhh, Pandora stop crying. It will be
okay”
“No it won't, I want him only. I want him
back. Oh my
goodness, he left me because I'm not a
vampire”She
gasped before crying again, bringing all
the attention to
her.
“What are you all looking at? Get the fuck
out of
here”Kaden shouted at the vampires that
were staring.
They obeyed.
“You have to go, Pandora. The mark is
broken you are no
longer safe”
She thought for a while before wiping her
tears and gave a
faint smile.
“Mark me Kaden”
“What? No—”
“No, turn me. I want to be a vampire”
“You are already a wolf. Look everyone
hates you for
being Pandora. How much more when
you become a
hybrid? Being a hybrid is a taboo”
“I don't care. He will love me when the
part of me is a
vampire. He is just scared that one day I
will grow old
and die and leave him alone. He is scared
of being lonely
for eternity. All I want is immortality. Just
do this one
thing for me”
“No Pandora, I can't. I will be banned.
One thing I don't
wanna become is to be a rogue. I care so
much for you
but I can't”
“You also hate me like all these vampires,
you are
monsters like each and everyone of them.
If you don't do
this for me I will tell everyone that you are
gay”
Kaden became pale instantly, he looked
more dead than
already he was.
“You don't know what you are talking
about”
“Just do this for me Kaden, my mouth will
be sealed. I
hate Blackmailing people but I have no
choice.
“That's not true. I'm not gay”
“I wonder what Ntando, your mate will
react or feel when
he discovers that you are denying him”
“How do you know about all this?”
“I saw you. I was looking at you
exchanging saliva by the
garden. I was watching you through the
window”
“it's not what you think Bongeka, it was…
We were —”
“You don't have to go on a tangent trying
to explain
yourself. I'm not homophobic”
“Fine! No one will have to know I did this”
“Deal”
Bongeka screamed in pain as Kaden
unexpectedly sunk
his fangs on her neck.
Bongeka had thought it would be good
just like the
marking but instead it was so painful, it
was like someone
was butchering her whole body. But the
part of her was
glad that the process didn't include
intimacy. Her eyes
became heavy as Kaden forced his blood
onto her mouth.
Few seconds later it was lights out for her.
YAMKELWE’S POINT OF VIEW
[FEW WEEKS AGO-NORWAY]
“Precious told me that you got Pandora's
issue under
control” The king said jokingly.
That was after we exchanged our
greetings.
“She was right, my king. She is no longer
a threat to us” I
answered, I wasn't lying. Pandora is not a
threat to
vampires anymore. This time she was
possessed by the
most humble and kind hearted human
who didn't see
Pandora's power as a weapon to kill the
supernatural
creatures. That woman was Bongeka. My
Bongeka,my
mate.
I gulped what was remaining of the king’s
Brandy. Before
I stood up followed the maid to the room I
was going to
be using in my stay in the palace.
I opened the door only to find Precious in
a very
inappropriate manner, she was wearing
sleazy see-through
red lingerie. I
“ Precious!” I exclamained narrowing my
brows in
confusion. Was this her room? The king
wouldn't expect
me to share a room with her daughter.
“C’mon baby, the last time was fantastic.
I'm sure you'd
like the taste of all this again” she said
seductively
playing with her boobs.
Was this supposed to turn me on?
“Precious just cover yourself and give me
space to rest”
“Not happening. You can't just sleep
leaving my sexy self
horney”
You are not sexy, bitch… Well she is a
bit. But not more
than my Bongeka who doesn't need a
piece of lingerie to
make her sexy.
“Baby”
She was so annoying, I wouldn't have
fucked her if I knew
she'd become obsessive and clingy. I only
did that to
destruct her from Bongeka. It did work
because I'm still
on the king's good books but now I'm
suffering the
consequences of touching a miniac.
“Presh, we can't, okay not here. Not in
your fathers house”
I wasn't about to tell her that I can't betray
‘Pandora’
“You think I don't know that you fuck with
that monster?”
How the fuck the she find out?
“Well don't worry baby, I won't tell a soul.
It's actually a
good thing that she has fallen hard for
you. It will work on
our advantage. Did you mark her?”
Was it safe to say yes?
“Of course you did, otherwise you
wouldn't have left her
for your Vampires to feast on her”
“Of course princess I did. Can I get my
rest now?”
“No, you think you're going to do a hit and
run on me and
get away with it?”
“I fucked you, you were cold as ice. Now
get over it and
move on. I don't do cold rooms” I know for
sure that was
a low blow but she was getting on my
nerves.
“What? Cold… What the fuck did you call
me? I'm not a
cold room. My honey pot is hot as lava”
She shouldn't call an overused pussy a
honey pot. But it's
none of my business anyways.
“Whatever float your boat princess”
I hissed in frustration when she swiftly
grabbed my T-shirt
and dragged me to the bed. Not that she
was faster or
stronger than me but I wasn't about to
hurt her in her
home.
“You seem to forget who I am Yamkelwe”
I was now
beneath her. “I'm a royal. I hope you know
what I can do
to you”
Yeah, The royal vampires have an ability
to control
someone using their voice, similar to
compulsion. But
theirs was strong, because they could
possess a person,
live in their minds and control what they
think or do.
“Do whatever you want, but I know you
won't do me bad
with that obsession of yours over me.
You'd die should I
die.”
“Yes baby, you got that correct. Now shut
up and listen to
me” I was about to argue when my voice
disappeared. I
moved my lips trying to talk but I couldn't.
“You will do as I say Yamkelwe” when she
pronounces my
name as Yamkhelwe, I feel like crying like
an ambulance.
“You will go back to South Africa and
ignore Pandora, you
will starve her, you won't talk to her, your
vampires won't
talk to her. Whoever dares to disobey you
will face the
consequences…”
It's so unfortunate for me because I'm
listening to her
nonsense although I don't want to.
Whatever she did to me
was working. But I won't do anything to
hurt my Bongeka.
The part of me was already hating her but
the deep part in
me was resisting Precious’ compulsion.
“You will love me, only me. And together
we'll be able to
control Pandora through your mark bond.
We will suppress
her so that Your Bongeka won't have any
control over her''
she continued explaining nonsense.
The only sane thing that she uttered was
referring to
Bongeka as mine, good.
“To make things easier for you, I will
randomly visit your
mind just to make sure that you are doing
a good job in
taming Pandora. Remember the mark
partially made you
two one person, You love her I see, I'm
sure she loves you
too,agh I hate that but it's kinda useful.
The Pandora's
spirit is now controlled by the two of you
since the mark,
of course Bongeka is the dominant owner
but you will do
a better job in controlling your mate”
Maybe I should break the mark, but it will
be hard since
we are mates. Or I should piss Bongeka
off to the point
where Pandora is unleashed, that should
work. This bitch
has gained control over me but I won't let
her control
Bongeka. I'd die before Letting that
happen.
“Don't worry baby, I won't kill her. We'll
just let her go or
hand her over the wolves. But for now,
let's have fun”
She said as her hand found its way to my
crotch while
licking my neck. My body betrayed me,
contradicting my
mind.
“Talk to me baby” she whispered, I can't
believe she is
hoping for me to sweet or dirty talk to her.
I didn't even
have the energy to take charge. All my
sexual fantasies
will be unleashed when I'm mating with
Bongeka.
Bongeka…
She was the only thing that was in my
mind, I tried by all
means to block Precious from invading
my thoughts. She
was actually too busy to even think of
that.
I eventually kissed her, imagining
Bongeka.
With each kiss and move all I could think
about was
Bongeka.
Precious smiled seeing I was cooperating.
I was thrilled
when I finally came after so many minutes
of misery, yes
our sex was miserable, I even took long
because I didn't
enjoy. Thank goodness, it was over.
“You see baby, the chemistry between us
is so strong.
Look at how hard you groaned when you
nutted”
Did she really have to open her blabber
mouth and speak
utter rubbish. If I wasn't for imagining
Bongeka I don't
think I would have ejaculated.
I suddenly felt guilty, I promised Bongeka
that I wouldn't
hurt her. But I'm in bed with the person
who wanted her
dead because of power. Power!
She is a royal for crying out loud! What
more power would
satisfy her greedy self?
I betrayed my sweets.

PANDORA
TWENTY-FIVE
YAMKELWE’S POINT OF VIEW
After we finished with tons of meetings
with the royal
vampires discussing and planning the
developments we
needed to do, it was time for me to go
back home. I was
lucky that the royals trusted me enough in
having Pandora
under control.
The problem started when I entered the
headquarters,
when I had thought I was free from
Precious. She was not
playing when she said she will
occasionally visit my mind,
the particular reason for the circumstance
is the sudden
feeling of disgust I have towards
Bongeka. I didn't even
make time for her, when I arrived I went
straight to my
office and buried myself with work, well
that's what they
all thought at least. I was actually avoiding
Bongeka,
avoiding to hurt her and mostly I was
trying to retrieve
Yamkelwe that was trapped and struck
deep inside me.
That's why I wanted not to be interrupted,
but Bongeka did
otherwise.
“ I thought I gave a clear instruction not to
be desturbed” I
say without even looking at her. I didn't
want her to meet
my gaze because she would instantly
know that something
was wrong with me.
“Yamkelwe, it's me”
“I know” of course I knew, I felt her before
she even
invited herself in. I know her voice and her
scent.
“Yes baby, how was your trip?” She
asked excitedly,
ignoring my cold tone. I felt bad, my baby
was so excited
to see me yet I'm avoiding her. I cheated
on her,I wasn't
in my right state of mind but that doesn't
change the fact
that I got involved with another woman
that was not her.
***Yamkelwe! You love me not her. You
hate her***
Just when I thought I won in blocking
precious out of my
mind.
I looked at Bongeka and became angry, I
fought the anger
trying to keep calm. I felt like standing up
and strangle
her to death.
‘Come on Yamkelwe’ I thought to myself, I
was fighting
the urge to hurt Bongeka.
I breathed in and out before speaking
“What makes you
special?”
“Huh?” She was confused and I could feel
her hurt.
***Yes, she is hurting, now let's take
control of Pandora***
I ignored Precious’ whispers in my mind.
“Bongeka, I said I don't want to be
interrupted and you
saw yourself fit to go against my word?”
our eyes met,
she finally met my gaze as I looked at her
in disdain.
“Hmm, I'm sorry. I will leave” She ran
outside and cried.
Yes, I heard her cries, I felt all her pain.
The Power I gained when I marked
Bongeka was slowly
drifting away from me. That was all
Precious, she was
taking control of Pandora's spirit through
me. I had to get
her out of my mind as soon as possible.
I dailed her numbers, it rang only once
“I've been
expecting your call”
“Greetings Precious, I'm fine, my travel
was also fine.
Thank you for asking” I said sarcastically,
I was fed up by
the fact that she was expecting my call.
She was playing
mind games so that I can give her a call?
Desperacy at its
best.
“No need for Sarcasm Yamkelwe, I was
going to ask”
mxm
“Precious—”
“I like it when you call me Presh”
“I don't care. Now let's get back to the
purpose of the
call. I would appreciate it if you could
leave my head. I
need to do my Master duties without any
distractions”
“I was still enjoying watching you trying to
fight me off
your mind. You are quite stubborn and
strong. Not many
vampires can manage to find themselves
when I'm in their
minds, you are doing a good job in doing
that. You love
her do you? Be careful, that is going to be
your weakness”
As If I cared about all her nonsense.
“Can you give me my privacy?” I can't
believe I'm asking
someone to get out my thoughts, My
thoughts, MINE!
“Cool, see you later!” as soon as she said
that I dropped
the call. I swear Precious was mentally
unstable.
~~~
In the middle of the night I went to our
room. I found her
not sleeping, although it was dark, I could
see her
beautiful eyes sparkling with tears. I
slowly went to her.
“Sweets, are still up? You should be
resting” that was the
only thing that I could say after the way I
treated her.
I don't want to mention the part where she
apologized
whilst I was the one who wronged her. I
hated lying to her
when she asked me about my meeting
with the royals.
She wouldn't have believed me if I had
told her the whole
truth.
The following day I woke up craving some
fresh blood, I
sneaked my way out of bed making sure
not to wake
Bongeka. I kissed her before going for a
bath.
After I made sure that my sunlight
pendant was with me I
went for the hunt.
I was in some club with two girls. I had
compelled them
to let me feed on them by will, not really
by will since
they are under compulsion. I enjoy
hunting more when I'm
being brutal, I liked it when my prey was
in dread, crying
and begging for mercy. But at the moment
I needed a
clean hunt since it was during the day.
One thing I didn't
need was to gain human attention. I had a
lot on my plate
as it was.
My phone rings, it was Nkateko.
“I'm not in the mood for your snitching” I
said , he was a
coterie newspaper. He always had
breaking news you'd
swear he was a girl.
“Master, Nora stole food for Pandora. She
insulted me
when I reprimanded her” he explained.
As If it was his duty to reprimand my
people.
“Where is Pandora now?”
“She is with Nora master”
“Okay thank you Nkateko”
After my call with Nkanteko I called Nora.
She obviously lied to me, but I could
sense the guilt.
That was when I realized that I forgot to
feed her and no
one was allowed too since I prohibited
everyone from
engaging with Bongeka, so I wasn't going
to chastise
them. My baby was probably hungry and
Nora being her
only friend in the coterie she helped her.
***Is she hungry? Feed her. Feed her
everything you come
across***
“Damn it Precious!” I curse seeing that
she was invading
my head all over again.
***Move!***
My legs moved on their own
***move*** I picked everything I could find
in the kitchen
and went to store it in the bedroom. I then
went to get
Bongeka and forced her to eat everything.
Infact Precious
forced her. My vampire was struck again
in the deep.
Precious’ vampire was the one that was
now dominant in
my body.
It was like always slapping myself when I
slapped her. I
also felt the same stinging pain she felt. I
watched as she
forced the flakes in her mouth, watched
her as she gagged
and threw up.
***She must lick it off***
“Lick it off” those words came out of my
mouth. I didn't
say that. It wasn't me.
When she called for Pandora and she
never reacted,I knew
that Precious had took control of Pandora.
I had to do
anything to break the mark. That was the
only solution —
for now.
Four days later, Precious showed up with
suitcases.
“I'm staying here for few weeks. And you
are not going to
kick me out. Where is our pet?”
The nerve to call my mate a pet.
“I missed you baby, I missed feeling you
inside me”
Sex freak, nice.
She kissed me, while taking my shirt off. I
kissed her
back as I unclothed her. This time I wasn't
controlled by
her, I am consenting. I'm cheating
purposely so that I can
break the mark bond with Bongeka. It was
a good thing
that Bongeka and I haven't mated.
I focused on the sex I was having with
Precious, I didn't
want to think of Bongeka. I wanted to
enjoy as much as
precious does.
Half way through our intercourse, my
body started aching, I
lost my breath for a few times. Groaned
hard as the pain
was unbearable, Precious rided me
harder chanting yes
baby I'm doing you right. She thought it
was pleasure few
minutes later the pain was replaced with
sadness and
dullness.
I knew the mark was broken. Bongeka
and Pandora were
free from Precious. Now I needed to find
a way of freeing
myself too, deal with Precious accordingly
then get my
mate back.
Just when we both came, Bongeka
barged in. I could see
she was hurt and empty, that's how I felt
too. I could no
longer feel her pain but my very own was
enough to let
me know how she felt. I could get into her
head but I
didn't want to do that just incase Precious
invades my
thoughts and find out about my plan.
I tried to reason with Bongeka but
Precious shut me up
and did all the talking, telling Bongeka
that I'm using her
for power.
I almost cracked in laughter when she told
her she is my
fiance. She was really unstable, I wouldn't
marry Precious
even if she was last girl on earth.
Anyway the circumstance wasn't allowing
me to laugh.
What I noticed is that Bongeka knew
something was
wrong with me. My suspicions were
confirmed when she
asked Precious that what did she do to
me? I also liked
the fact that She did not believe the fiance
nonsense. I had
to to stop her from telling Precious about
the mark being
broken.
Precious ordered me to talk to her. I
cringed as I told
Bongeka that I didn't want her anymore.
She looked at me
for the last before heading out screaming.
Her loud cries
were like a grinder in my heart.
I promised myself that I was going to reap
Precious’ heart
once I'm free from her. I was going to fix
everything. This
bitch ruined everything. Not only did she
invade my
privacy and took control of my mind and
body , she also
made me break a promise I made to
Bongeka. A promise
not to hurt her, a promise to love her and
protect her.
_____

TWENTY-SIX
[third person's POV]
“Baby, something is wrong. Something is
definitely wrong.
We have to find her!” Precious said
pacing up and down.
“Could you just stand still and stop
whining, you're making
me dizzy” Yamkelwe also stressed. He
lost the connection
with Bongeka which worried him about
her whereabouts.
She could be stranded somewhere,
unmarked and unsafe.
What if the werewolves prey on her or
even the vampires?
Those were the questions that were
running through his
head while Precious was only stressed
because of power
she lost. She thought she'd still know
Bongeka's
whereabouts although she let her go. But
the connection
she thought she had with Pandora was no
more.
“Are you even listening to me? She is
gone” she waved
her hand on the air in frustration. Her face
had turned red.
“She is gone Precious, of course she is
gone. You
compelled her to go, didn't you?”
“You saw it yourself baby it didn't work”
“Same difference, you wanted her gone
anyway”
Precious’ phone rang…
“What!” she answered the call
“Precious, is that how you answer the
calls now?”
Precious glanced at Yamkelwe who
wasn't even paying
attention to her. She then went to the
bathroom to
continue with the call.
“What do you want Marco?”
“Precious, we had a deal. Where is she?”
he was referring
to Pandora.
“She is out there, I don't know where she
is”
“What do you mean you don't know where
she is? I need
her!”
“Why are you shouting at me? I did my
part, now find her.
Kill her marry her I don't care as long as
she plays far
away from my man”
Marco chuckled “This is about the master
to you huh?
Listen here Precious. I want Pandora
alive or else your
vampire master is good as dead” he said
before dropping
the call. Precious had agreed to help him
take down
Yamkelwe starting by separating Pandora
from him, but
Precious had her own agenda.
~~~
Kaden took Bongeka to his room after
making sure that
no one saw them. Ntando, Kaden’s mate,
was there.
“Oh my goodness what is this Kay!” he
gasped with his
hands covering his mouth.
“She is in trouble love, I had to help her”
“We'll get in trouble too!” Ntando was
really scared,
especially that Yamkelwe was grumpy
ever since he came
back from Norway.
“No one will know, she will go as soon
she wakes up”
“Who will help her with the transition
process?” Ntando
was now concerned, he knew everything
that was
happening to Pandora. Kaden made sure
to keep him
updated.
“I will explain everything to her before I let
go of her. I
hope she understands what she has
gotten herself to”
“I feel for her. A hybrid Pandora?”
Kaden sighed not knowing what to say.
“Maybe she will fight for us?”
“You think so?”
Bongeka gasped for air as she woke up.
“Kaden help!”
she screamed as the venom on her saliva
burned her
tongue.
“Shhh, keep it down Pandora. No one
should know you are
here” Ntando whispered.
“My mouth is burning, my gums feel
swollen. They are
painful as fuck ahhhh” she screamed
again.
“You are in transition Pandora—”
“Shh, could you not talk so loud? My head
hurts” Bongeka
cut Kaden when he tried to explain.
“Bongeka, I did my part of the deal, now
you need to go
before someone finds you here” —Kaden
“I need food, I'm hungry. Please” she
begged as she felt
weak like she was going to die.
“I do have a left over here,” Ntando said,
giving her a half
full glass of blood.
“It won't help love,”Kaden said.
“I know, but it will give her a bit of energy
so that she
could go hunt”
On the other side, Bongeka was
disgusted by the animal
blood that was given to her.
“I won't drink that”
“Bongeka, you wanted to be a vampire.
Now you are in
transition. If you don't consume blood you
will die”
“But Yamkelwe—”
“Yamkelwe is a pure vampire. He has a
choice. We all do.
You will get to make your choices once
you pass this
stage”
Bongeka took the glass and gulped all of
the blood in one
go not minding the taste. Her gums were
still swollen
because her canines were extending into
fangs.
“I'm not full”
“Just go please. You have to go. Make
sure you feed as
soon as possible for your survival. Now
go” Bongeka
wanted to argue but she didn't want
Kaden in trouble. He
had done a lot for her.
Kaden and Ntando sneaked her out but
Kaden was
concerned about her, should she survive
the transition, she
will need to join a coterie and be bonded.
And no one
was going to accept her since she has a
werewolf gene.
Hybrids were always killed because they
were believed to
be bad luck, there wasn't supposed to be
any linkage
between the blood of the werewolves and
vampires. So
the hybrids were not considered as
werewolves and not
considered as vampires. Which will make
Bongeka a
lonely hybrid. A hybrid that will go rogue
and become a
danger to everyone.
Bongeka's eyes were on fire, her skin was
a bit sensitive
to sunlight but it wasn't that bad.
She made her way to the human world.
She went straight
home.
“Oh my child, I missed you. Thank God
you're safe” Her
mother attacked her with a hug shedding
tears of joy.
She hugged her back but pulled out
quickly as her
mother's pulse pumped hard, making a
regular rhythm
with an occasional pause.
“What's wrong Bongi?”her mother asked .
Bongeka wanted to respond or make up a
lie but all she
could think about was blood, all she
smelled was blood.
Her stomach ached, growled in hunger
and thirst,her
mother's loud heart beat didn't make
things any easier for
her. She knew she had to get out, she
had to leave before
she did something bad.
“I'm sorry mah, I have to go” she ran out
of the house
ignoring her mother's screams.
Along the way someone called for her
“Hlw” a little girl
around her age greeted her with a smile.
“Hy, you look familiar”
“Yes, I'm Lwandle. Tell me you remember
please. You
saved my life”
Bongeka thought for a while,it was
Lwandle. One of the
girls from the wolves full moon ritual, the
one he saved
from Seth.
“Oh” that's all she could say, her stomach
became worse
and Lwandle’s voice made her head hurt
even more. She
was getting weaker with each second.
“Are you okay?” Bongeka nodded before
chanting “Get
away from me run”
Her voice was weak and husky.
“No, you helped me when I was in trouble.
I will do the
same. Let's go to the nearest clinic. I have
a few ten
rands with me” Lwandle extended her
hand for Bongeka to
hold.
“I said get away!”
“No!”
She failed to hold herself, she jumped on
her as her fangs
automatically extended,her eyes turned
red and her skin
became pale,as soon as Lwandle’s hit
blood came in
contact with her tongue. The burning
sensation went away,
replaced by the soothing feeling. Her
whole body felt
powerful as the blood ran through her
veins, everything
became peaceful, her hunger and thirst
were gone.
By the time she got back to her senses,
lwandle was
laying on the ground, dead.
“What have I done?”
TWENTY - SEVEN
The wolves have been dying like ants in
the last few
weeks and the other packs have turned
their backs on
Seth's pack.
“The pack is perishing alpha, you have to
do something,”
Marco said, gazing at the fallen warrior
wolf.
“How many times do I have to tell you that
we need those
girls!” His witch told him that if he doesn't
finish the ritual,
his pack will be doomed.
“I managed to get hold of two of them”
Marco decided to
help in finding the girls although he did
not understand the
ritual thing, everyone doesn't.
“Good job, one remaining”
“I'm afraid, the brave one is no more” he
was referring to
Lwandle.
“No! Marco No! I need her alive, I need
her alive” Seth
panicked, not believing what Marco just
told him.
“It gets worse”
“What, Marco what!”
“A vampire attack”
“I've had enough about vampires, You
and that royal
vampire had a plan, what happened to
that silly plan?”
“That's your problem Alpha, you
undermine everything I do
—” Marco was cut off by one of the
wolves.
“I'm sorry to disturb you, but Thando was
attacked by that
girl who disturbed the ritual, the one who
was once kept
here by you two” The wolf explained.
“Pandora?” Marco and Seth said in
unison.
“Yes, it looks like Thando was turned into
a vampire, she
is showing signs of transitioning”
“No, she is a wolf. I turned her” Seth
started pacing up
and down “That son of the bitch turned
her!”
Marco tensed as his heart rate rapidly
increased “I have to
go” he excused himself before calling
Precious.
“Please spare me the calls, we don't want
Yamkelwe to
get suspicious, do we?”
—Precious
“Making hybrids was not part of the plan!”
Seth roared in
anger.
“What are you on about?”
“Pandora! She is now a vampire and she
is busy turning
my kind!”
“Pandora, a vampire?No! Yamkelwe!” she
dropped the
call.
~~~
Yamkelwe found out that Bongeka was
seen around her
neighborhood so he decided to visit her
mother.
“ How son, you can come in, '' Bongeka's
mother said
happily. She welcomed him and offered
her something to
drink.
“It's been long since I saw you. Bongeka's
friend right?”
“Yes mah. I'm here for her”
“Ehh, Son I don't know what happened to
Bongeka, I think
she got her adolescent stage late. She
just disappeared
for months, when she came back, she
barely stayed even
two minutes”
“When did she come back?”
“A few days ago”
“Mah, I don't mean to pry but, how did she
look when she
came back, did she tell you where she
was all along or
where she was going?”
“I thought she was with you all this time.
She looked…
Like a walking corpse. Something was
wrong with her.
She just stormed out… I don't know
where she is” She
was wailing. “This is my husband's fault,
it's the things he
said to her. Now my only daughter had
turned out to be
rebellious ”
“I'm going to find her mom, I promise”
Yamkelwe said standing up.
“Please son does come back”
Yamkelwe was about to say something
when he heard a
riot sound.
“Is everything okay?” Bongeka's mother
asked, seeing that
Yamkelwes is a bit off
“Hmm, I think there is a protest”
“But I don't hear anything?”
“Yeah, you wouldn't because you —”
Not a vampire… but he wasn't about to
confuse an old
lady. “I'm probably paranoid mah” he
continued making
sure not to sound abnormal.
“Wait…” She said running outside to see
where the sound
was coming from.
People were marching just outside her
house, some were
holding tires, some were holding
sjamboks, and many
other weapons.
They also had placards. “Umthakathi!” (a
witch)
That's what they were chanting. “Your
husband left you,
now resorted to witchcraft, sies,” one of
the community
members said.
“No, she killed her husband just to get
herself a boyfriend.
Mrs. Dlamini, I'm so disappointed in you”
another woman
said
“A boy who is almost young as your
daughter!” another
one. Yamkelwe just shook his head, only
if they knew that
he was a century older than Bongeka.
“The same daughter you turned into an
animal” he cringed
just by hearing those words.
“Makashiswe” (she must be burned)
They started running closer to the gate.
“I don't know what you are talking about”
Bongeka's
mother tried to talk in her defense but that
made things
worse, people made their way inside the
yard.
Yamkelwe led Bongeka's mother inside
the house and
locked her in.
“If she doesn't come out, we'll burn this
house!”
Yamkelwe had to do something, he didn't
want to show
his dark side, humans could never know
about his
existence. But he had no choice, he had
to aid Bongeka's
mother. It's the least he could do after
everything he put
Bongeka through.
He Marched to the crowd and snapped
the necks of one
of them.
They all gasped… the flaming tire was
thrown in his
direction, fortunately, he was fast enough
to duck it. He
went straight to the guy who threw it and
snapped his neck
too.
“Now, you will listen to me” Yamkelwe’s
voice was deep,
eyes darker, skin pale with green veins
visible, fangs
extended.
“You all go away, take these two with you”
he was
referring to the dead bodies. “you forget
about everything
that just happened, you forget about Mrs.
Dlamini being a
witch, you forget about Bongeka being an
animal, you
forget about Bongeka's father being dead.
Because those
are pure lies. You will forget about me,
forget about this
shame of the protest. You will tell the
police that these
two were killed by that one” He said
pointing at the
woman who called Bongeka's mother a
witch.
The mind control took its place, the crowd
obeyed.
Yamkelwe then went inside the house
“What happened out
there? What are you?”
Bongeka's mother asked as soon as
Yamkelwe made his
appearance.
“Hmm—”
“No lies! You and Dlamini are animals?”
she was in
aghast.
“I don't know what are you talking about”
“Please, don't lie to me. I saw Bongeka's
eyes, they
looked like yours. Is she an animal too?”
“No mah, she is not, she is just gifted”
“Do you call what you are a gift?” her
eyes reflected
disgust.
“No, she is not what I am —mah I can
make you forget
about everything” he didn't know how to
explain everything
without sounding crazy.
“No, leave my house… I don't want to see
you again
Satan!” She started throwing things at
Yamkelwe.
~~~
“Yamkelwe! All this time I thought I had
you under my
control while you were the one who was
playing mind
games with me!” Precious screamed at
Yamkelwe as soon
as he made his way into the quarters
Yamkelwe didn't know what she was on
about, but he
decided to play along
“Yeah that's what you get for thinking you
are smart”
“Did you have to turn her? a hybrid
Yamkelwe? A whole
hybrid? Is she still marked —don't tell me
you broke the
mark…”
Yamkelwe was shocked by the discovery.
He never turned
her, Bongeka couldn't afford to be a
hybrid. No one
should own so much power on her own. It
will be
dangerous not only for the vampires or
werewolves but she
was going to be a danger to humankind,
to herself even.
____

TWENTY-EIGHT
“Don't just stand here you need to find
her, she is busy
killing and turning werewolves”
“Yeah, let me find her. And please don't
follow me”
Yamkelwe made his way out. He needed
to find her as
soon as possible, he couldn't let history
repeat itself.
Pandora was known for killing vampires
for centuries
Vampirism was one of the evil that was
released when
Pandora opened the jar known as the
Pandora's Box. Now
Pandora made it her quest to possess
body after body for
every generation until there is nothing left
of vampires.
That's why the werewolves want to
possess Pandora's
power to eliminate their enemies.
Some believe these are just rumors
because when
Pandora's box was opened not only
vampires were evil
even circumstances like humans killing
and raping each
other, crime, and many more were also
part of the evil that
was released by Pandora. So why does
she only kill
vampires? That was the question that was
never
answered.
For many years, Vampires were lost. And
they were at risk
again since Bongeka seemed to be on a
killing spree.
He didn't even know where to find her, he
went back to
the humans and used his mind control to
find information
about Bongeka but no one seemed to
know about her
whereabouts. He asked about the girl who
was a victim of
an ‘animal’ no one seemed to have an
idea of what
happened to her, they were suspecting
things like dog
attacks. That was good.
He then remembered that Precious spoke
about Bongeka
killing and turning werewolves, he made
his way to the
werewolf's territory in search of her.
“An intruder!” A sentinel wolf alerted other
wolves. They all
shifted readily for a fight m.
“Stop!” Seth said, making his way towards
Yamkelwe.
“I will take it from here” The wolves
dismissed
themselves.
“What do you want?”
“Hello to you too alpha,” Yamkelwe said
sarcastically,
brows raised.
“Listen here you bloodsucker, if you won't
get straight to
the point. Please leave my territory. I'm
not friends with
bugs”
“Very well Alpha Seth. The feeling is
mutual, I also don't
fuck with filthy dogs, I wouldn't want to be
infected with
rabies —”
“I won't stand here and listen to you
disrespect me, not
when you are in my territory!” His mouth
was dry because
of anger.
“Easy, easy Alpha. Where is Pandora?”
“The same Pandora you sent here to kill
my wolves?”
“That's not true—”
“You fuckin’ lier! You go around making
hybrids out of my
pack!” Seth threw a fist on Yamkelwe, he
stumbled back
before returning the favor. Seth growled in
agony as he felt
the metallic taste of his blood.
“Sucker punch, is that all you got?”
Yamkelwe said before
throwing another punch.
Seth partially shifted and punched
Yamkelwe in the
stomach. Thanks to his fast speed, he
was able to dodge
the kick that was meant for his groin.
Yamkelwe charged at Seth with his
vampire speed and
grabbed his head, his fingers digging to
Seth's scalp, and
lifted him until he dabbled with his toes.
Seth winced
when Yamkelwe slammed his hand on his
ribs as the pain
ripples across his chest.
Yamkelwe then kicked Seth's legs making
sure to break
his tendon.
Seth had no time to nurse his injuries, he
had to regain
some strength and fight. He wasn't a good
fight hence he
cheated his way to being an alpha. But he
had to fight. so
that his pack would see him as a strong
wolf, he wanted
to convince himself that he was worthy to
lead, he was
worthy to win this fight.
He curled his hand into a fist and aimed
for the front of
Yamkelwe’s nose. The blood splattered
all over the grass
as Seth's fist landed on the bridge of the
opponent's nose.
“Fuck you dog, you fight like a girl!” That
was Yamkelwe
refusing to admit that Seth got him good,
His hand
penetrated Seth's chest and went straight
to the heart.
Seth gasped in pain and fear feeling
Yamkelwe’s
massaging his hard beating heart.
“Tell me where is my mate before I rip it
of”-Yamkelwe
“Fuck you!”
Yamkelwe tightened his grasp making
Seth's heart stop
for a second.
By reflex, Seth bit Yamkelwe’s other hand
that was on his
throat. He let go of Seth's heart and
attended to the wolf
bite that sent shock all over his body.
Seth grinned seeing that he had won.
“Journey well, see
you in hell”
The wolves made a hullabaloo celebrating
their alpha’s
victory.
Yamkelwe picked himself up and went
back to his
territory. As expected, Precious was
laying in his bed.
“Baby! What happened? Is this a wolf
bite?”
“Yeah, I'm good as dead,” he said in
defeat
“I won't let that happen. Someone told me
that your girl
turned a wolf. We need to find it”
“As if there is a sane wolf, hybrid or
whatever from that
pack that would voluntarily offer his or her
blood to heal a
vampire master who tried to kill their
alpha”
“I don't care if they consent or not. We'll
take the blood by
force and heal you, let me make a call”
She called Marco and enquired…
“Oh, Unfortunately, Thando didn't finish
the transition. She
was killed”
“What! I need her blood as soon as
possible, my
boyfriend is dying. Please help me before
the bite
becomes severe”
“She is dead, we don't want hybrids. We
don't want any
kind of linkage with your evil kind. Just let
that fool die so
that we can be together forever”
Precious laughed at the contradiction, it
was a paradox
that Marco doesn't want any linkage with
the vampire
species yet he was dreaming of the
happily ever after with
her.
“You are out of your mind!” she dropped
the call.
“Fools”
“Since when are you friends with
werewolves?” Yamkelwe
asked, giving her a dark gaze.
“That's not important, we need to find
Pandora”
____

TWENTY-NINE
Days passed, Yamkelwe’s wound was
getting intense with
each day, his behavior was getting worse
too. He'd
sometimes attack other vampires.
Sometimes he'd
become so weak. What was worse was
that he was
running out of time. If the cure wasn't
found within the next
few days, Yamkelwe would die.
Precious had to agree to date Marco, not
because she
loved him but she was hoping Bongeka
would turn more
wolves so that Marco would help her with
the hybrid
blood.
Unfortunately for her, no hybrids were
made. Instead, the
wolves were dying each day. Strangely,
they were not
attacked. Some would get sick for a few
hours then die,
some would just collapse, some were
stuck in their wolf
form and some were stuck in their human
form.
"Love, I think Alpha is up to something"
Marco's love for
Precious had blinded him. He always
made sure to tell
Precious every wolf affairs.
Bad move.
" Hmm, he is still upset about the dead
girl?"
"Just think about it, we could always get
humans to turn
but he is just obsessed with that girl"
Just like he was obsessed with Precious...
"We need to find Pandora, love"
"Any leads?"
"No, the pack is perishing" Marco was so
stressed about
his pack.
That was good news for Precious. That
meant Marco
would make more effort in finding
Pandora and kill her,
well after using her blood to heal
Yamkelwe.
"Baby! You know why your pack is
perishing?" Precious
gave him her wicked smile.
Marco gestured for her to continue.
"You don't have an Alpha"
Marco narrowed his eyebrows in
confusion "Seth is an
Alpha love"
"He is not, wake up Marco. Seth bit
Yamkelwe because he
was losing the fight, the wolves are dying
bit by bit yet he
hasn't done anything about it. The only
thing he is worried
about is that ritual girl, he is weak"
"Love —"
"Shhh, look at the brighter side, Seth isn't
worthy of
leading this pack. I don't know much
about your kind but I
know that an Alpha's would be more than
average in terms
of size. He should be big just like you" she
said
seductively, cursing his muscles with her
long nails.
"What do you suggest we do Precious,
I'm worried about
this pack"
Check!
"We should do this one thing that will save
the pack, but
it's up to you.".
"Anything love, I will do everything you
say"
Checkmate!
"Let's take over, you are a true leader.
You will lead and
protect this pack with your Luna by your
side"
"You being my Luna"
"Exactly that, a true king should rule with
his Queen by her
side, I'm your Queen"
Marco was reluctant "Seth won't just step
down"
"You will challenge him, and you will win, I
should go now
before one of your wolves see me"
~~~
I'm losing my pack Gloria, we need to do
something” Seth
was in a meeting with the witch that had
been helping him
in manipulating his pack.
“I don't care about your pathetic pack, you
promised to kill
nine girls”
“The dead one is the tenth one Gloria, the
one that
belongs to me”
“That would be true if only you finished
that fight, one
thing you didn't know is that you became
mine when you
signed your soul to me. I was supposed to
channel more
powers that day but the mission was cut
short. Now the
girl is dead. Do you know what that
means to me and my
coven?”
Seth knew what that meant, selfishness!
The witches had all the powers in the
world but it was not
enough. They always seek more. Seth's
ruling came with a
price that he was not Aware of until now.
The wolf pack was ruled by the witches.
The more
bloodshed on the wolf land, the more
witches gained
powers, it was the more they channeled
the whole pack
through their alpha.
“Not everything is about power, Gloria.
You have too much
of it as it is. I can give you as many girls
as you want.
Just stop destroying my pack”
“How can I destroy my source of power?
It's not me, the
ancestors already recognized that girl.
She belonged to
them the moment she put her foot there.
Now they are
angry at you for not fulfilling your
promises. I'm afraid I
can't help you with anything”
“Now I know why you are called the angel
darkness, you
used me! This was supposed to be a win-
win situation!”
“Instead of whining and calling me names
that I'm already
aware of. You should go back to your
pack and enjoy
ruling while it lasts because the real Alpha
will take over”
“What can I do to fix this mess?”
“I want Pandora. She has all the power I
need. I will
channel her and you will be free from me
along with your
pack”
~~~
Bongeka saw herself in a different place.
Judging by her
surroundings, she was in an ancient
world. It was dusty,
the houses were built of wooden frames
and wild breaks,
some with clay.
“Bongeka”, a melodic voice, brought
peace to Bongeka's
ears.
She looked around to find the owner of
the voice, her eyes
landed on a creature that words can't
describe. If she
knew better, she'd call her a Greek
goddess. She looked
like an angel in her long gown, with
sleeves, worn over a
kirtle with a linen chemise The open-
fronted gown laced
over the kirtle . Sleeves were puffed and
slashed, She
pushed her long black hair back so it
doesn't mask her
blue eyes.
“Where am I? Who are you? Where is this
place? It looks
beautiful but I have to go back home, I'm
sure my mother
is worried sick about me. I also need to…”
She stopped talking when she realized
that she was
rambling. She smiled thinking of
Yamkelwe who was the
only one who never got tired of her
rambling. The smile
was wiped off by the memories of the
recent events.
“He loves you,” The mysterious goddess
remarked,
ignoring all the questions Bongeka threw
at her.
“The vampire master, he loves you” she
continued
specifically
“ He hurt me” the thought of that made
Bongeka hiss in
heartache
“He didn't, the princess did. He was under
the influence of
the strongest mind control. He was in a
fight every day,
fighting off the demon that was inside him.
He tried, by all
means, to revive himself from the deepest
core of himself.
He would only win for a few minutes
before the demon
took over again ”
It all made sense, Yamkelwe tried to talk
to her but
Precious stopped her. She was right
about something
being wrong with Yamkelwe.
“I'm Pandora”
“You are what!” Bongeka asked in terror,
her eyeballs were
so close to falling. Her heart was probably
freezing
because of the coldness caused by her
wild open
ingestion agent.
“I'm Pandora. I had to bring you here
because you were
doing so much damage on the other side.
You have three
sources of power controlling you, My
power, the wolf, and
the vampire. You lost control over your
body and the
creatures within you took control. I had to
tame you”
“Am I dead? I know I'm dead already
but…”
“No. But I had to bring you here. It's the
only way I could
ever talk to you.”
“So you talk to all your hosts?” Bongeka
was angered by
the fact that she was someone's vessel to
use for their
reasons that have absolutely nothing to
do with her.
“No, and you are not my host. You are
me. I spent all my
afterlife jumping from one body to
another. But when you
were born, I was resurrected. All my hosts
were not able
to fulfill their purposes. They all thought I
wanted to kill
vampires to reverse all my evil. But that's
not the purpose.
The purpose was to bring hope to life.
You are that hope.
Remember that hope remains. You are
the one who is
going to bring good to the vampires,
werewolves, and
witches”
“I'm not supposed to kill them right?”
“You are only going to bring hope and
restore peace, only.
You are going to face challenges. You
and your mate. Even
nature itself will test you. Stay strong and
calm. Be
humble. Don't let power rule you”
Her voice was soothing; it made Bongeka
accept and
embrace who she was. Pandora, her
vampire, and her wolf
were going to work together in releasing
hope that
remained inside Pandora's box.
“Pandora, you are me and I am you. I live
in you, you live
in me. You are my spirit, I'm yours. We
are one” Pandora
said to Bongeka.
“Now, go to your mate. He is in pain, his
life is at stake.
Only you can save him”
The lady disappeared. Leaving Bongeka
all alone.
She realized that she had been talking to
herself. The
place was familiar, she had been there
before. She once
lived here, the memories of her previous
life came back.
She remembered Zeus the God of
thunder giving her a jar.
She remembered being told not to open
the jar. Because
of curiosity and disobedience, she opened
the box,
releasing all the evil by the time she
closed the lid.
Everything was out, except HOPE.
The only difference is that in her previous
life. She was
Greek. Her hair was long and curly. Her
eyes were blue.
But in her second life, the features
changed. She was now
African, Zulu. Her hair was kinky, a few
inches shorter. Her
eyes were black. But her soul was the
same. SHE WAS
PANDORA

THIRTY

Seth made her back to the packhouse

meeting Precious
along his way.
"Hello Lord Seth" Precious greeted with a
wicked grin.
Seth sniffed before pinching his nose.
"Do you hear that smell?", he asked
sarcastically
"No, what is it?"
"Corpse" Precious rolled her eyes
"What are you doing here Lord Seth?" she
said, folding her
arms.
"First of all, I'm Alpha, not Lord. Secondly,
you don't get to
ask me what I am doing here. I don't
answer to leeches"
"Hmm, my apologies Alpha Seth. It slipped
my mind that
you are a raccoon"
She said.
"Get away from me. I don't like to associate
myself with
death"
"As far as I'm concerned, You shouldn't be
meeting with
your foe" Seth's breath quickened.
"You have no business in my pack"
"You might want to rephrase when you find
out that I will
be your Luna, only if you survive to witness
it though"
"You are crazier than I thought. There is no
way you can
be my Luna. I'd rather die!" His forehead
vein was
throbbing in anger.
"I can arrange that. Only if your witch
doesn't kill you first,
or your pack when they discover that their
mighty alpha is
nothing but a pathetic liar"
"I don't know what you are talking about"
He swallowed
hard as his palms became clammy.
"Okay bye!" she winked before speeding
off.
"Hey, you have no idea what you are on
about. Come back
here!" He shouted in frustration
"Damn!" he cursed, fisting his hands. No
one should know
about this, especially not a vampire. He had
to do
something, the information was already in
the wrong
hands.
The problem was that he didn't know who
Precious was,
he didn't even get her name.
He had a lot on his plate. On the other side,
Gloria was
demanding Pandora, where the hell was he
supposed to
find her?
Precious could just compel Seth to step
down but she
wanted to enjoy seeing him suffer, she
couldn't wait for his
look when Marco Challenge him, his
embarrassment would
be a fascinating thing to watch.
~~~
Precious made her way to Yamkelwe’s
room. He
attempted to attack her before Precious
could stop him,
he fell on the floor coughing clotted blood.
His eyes had
changed to red. His fangs were pricking too
hard on his
bleeding lips, his skin was too pale and dry
like of a siren
who had been out of water for days.
"Yamkelwe baby, don't be too hard on
yourself. You're
hurting yourself"
"Bongeka..." That was the only word he had
been uttering
for days. Precious thought it was because
of her blood.
But Yamkelwe wasn't there. He was worried
about her, the
werewolves wanted her power, humans
wanted her dead,
vampires wanted to eliminate her too. Now
that she was a
hybrid, all the supernatural beings wanted
her. But he
couldn't help her. He failed her, he was too
sick to go and
find her. Even if he was to succeed in
finding her, he was
weak.
"Shhh, I will find her love. We will find her. I
have a
plan..."
"When - when you find her... Pl... Please tell
her that—"
His words were shortened by another hard
cough.
Precious gasped when she realized that his
bite had
spread all over his upper body.
"No, you know what, we need a witch. I
have someone in
mind who can suppress the spread of the
wound until I
find Pandora"
"I love —her. Tell her that" he threw up a
pool of blood"
"Baby, you are dying and all you think about
is love? She
left you! She left you to die. I'm the one who
is taking
care of you, I'm the one you love. Let me
help you up"
She helped him lie in bed and cleaned the
floor since no
one could enter the room. Yamkelwe had
become a threat
to his very own people.
"I'm going to find the witch that will help
you. In the
meantime, drink this"
She helped him drink the herbs that Nora
had prepared for
her.
~~~
"We meet again Alpha," Precious said,
appearing through
the window of Seth's bedroom.
"What do you want from me, how did you
pass through
sentinels?"
Of course, she used her mind control.
"I have my ways. I will get straight to the
point. If you
want me to keep your secret safe you will
have to find me
your witch"
"And why should I trust you?"
"Because my boyfriend is sick. The reason
for the
circumstance is you" she said pricking his
chest with her
index finger.
"I don't know what you on about"
"The vampire that you bit a few weeks ago.
Does it ring
the bell?"
"You are —Precious, the Royal" she
grinned.
"It took you too long to figure that out. But
now that we
are on the same page, let's not waste any
time. If you can
set up a meeting for me with the witch. I will
help you
find Pandora. I will take a few drops of her
blood to heal
Yamkelwe then she will be yours to hand to
your witch,
you will then be free. Your pack will be
saved, my
boyfriend will be saved. A win-win situation"
Precious
elaborated.
Seth was a bit reluctant.
"You can't be trusted," he said.
"My boyfriend's life is at stake!"
He thought for a while.
"Fine! We have a deal"
"Good, let's not waste any time then" she
flicked her hair
and gestured for Seth to make things
happen.
"Go, I will meet you where we did earlier on.
I can't be
seen with you" he said, heading to the door.
"Don't keep me waiting"
.
.
[AT THE WITCH'S COVEN]
"Who are you?" Gloria asked.
"Precious, the Royal. I'm from Europe.
Norway precisely"
"Give me your hand" Gloria instructed.
Precious knew why Gloria wanted her
hand.
"I'm not going to let you get into my hand,
Gloria"
Precious resisted.
"it's the only way I could trust you"
Precious reluctantly extended her hand for
Gloria to hold.
Precious didn't have to narrate the story
because Gloria
had read everything.
"I see, how are you going to find her?"
Gloria asked after
knowing Precious's intentions.
"That's my concern ma'am" She actually
had no plan
"I do have a spell that will suppress the bite.
But It will
only last for two days. Which means you
have only two
days to bring Pandora to me. Otherwise,
you are both
doomed"
"Deal. So how are you going to do it? I
mean the spell"
"You need to get me your boyfriend's blood.
Be quick
because he is running out of time. The
blood will also
help in locating Pandora"
~~~
Bongeka woke up by the river in the
bushes. She had
been out for two days.
"Pandora, I'm her, she is me" she said
believing that her
dream wasn't just a dream, it was real.
"I was not dreaming. I saw her" she said,
convincing
herself.
"Yamkelwe '' she remembered that her
mate was in a
death bed. She ran out of the bushes not
knowing where
she was going since she didn't know where
she was. But
she trusted her instincts.
She kept on running hoping Yamkelwe was
still alive. She
wouldn't be able to live with herself knowing
that she was
the only one who could save his mate but
failed. She
already failed him once. He was suffering,
fighting
Precious on his own. All she did was sulk
and cry instead
of helping him. She should have known the
moment she
met his cold gaze that day he came back
from Norway
that something was wrong with him, She
should have
noticed that he was possessed. She should
have trusted
their love. His pledges.
Her mind was flooded with thoughts and
she didn't even
realize that she was inside the coterie
house. HER HOME.
As expected, the vampires were eyeing her
but no one
dared to say or do something. Her aura
demanded
respect. Her energy was different from
before.
"Thank you for coming back Pandora," Nora
said,
embracing her.
Her eyes landed on Kaden and Ntando who
gave her a
faint smile.
She made her way to her bedroom. The
moment her foot
stepped on the first staircase, her heart
became heavy, the
wind outside became heavy too. Everything
tensed, even
the vampires felt the change of
atmosphere.
She opened the bedroom door, Yamkelwe
was on the
floor, the wound was spreading to his face.
Precious was
beside him...
The tears streamed down like the waterfall
as she dived to
her mate. The sight before her was enough
to crush
everything in her.
"Baby, it's me. Your sweets."
Yamkelwe smiled "Sweets' ' Precious and
Bongeka could
barely hear him. His voice was hoarse.
"Baby what happened to you baby, what
can I do to help
you. I will do anything baby for you. I love
you so much. I
forgive you baby I know you love, me only
me" she
rambled completely ignoring Precious.
Yamkelwe smiled again at his mate's
rambling. He missed
her so much.
"You are a hybrid," Precious said
"Yeah?"
"Your blood. Your blood is believed to cure
a werewolf
bite"
"A werewolf bit her?" Bongeka asked and
Precious
nodded.
For the first time, Precious and Bongeka
had a decent
conversation. Unfortunately under bad
circumstances.
She extended her fangs and bit her wrist.
"Drink baby" she
fed her. Yamkelwe drank and choked.
"I'm sorry sweets" he apologized.
"Shhh, drink baby. Don't talk"
Yamkelwe drank again.
"I love you Bongeka" he smiled for the last
time before
shutting his eyes.
"No! Yamkelwe! Wake up!'' Both ladies
screamed, shaking
him but he wasn't waking up. He had no
pulse, his skin
became dry instantly. There was no sign of
life.
"Yamkelwe, you can't leave me! I came
back for you.
Yamkelwe please don't do this to me"
Bongeka wailed, hugging her lover, kissing
him hoping he
would wake up. Feeding him more blood.
Precious on the other side was screaming
too.
"Yamkelwe please come back to me"
The rain poured outside. Nature was also
crying along with
Pandora. It was enough assurance that
Yamkelwe was
gone.
It was said that if it rained after there had
been a death,
the rain signified a cleansing of the soul of
the deceased.
The arrival of the rain meant the soul was
moving on to
the next life, since in nature rain always
brings new plant
life and growth.
She couldn't believe she was too late to
save the love of
her life.

THIRTY-ONE
The room was still filled with soft sobs. Both
of the ladies
were lost in their own thoughts. Bongeka
was curled into a
fetal position while Precious was staring
outside the
window, their grief was felt by everyone.
The vampires had
assumed that their master was gone
judging by shrill cries
from a few minutes ago.
"Look" Precious pointed at Yamkelwe’s
healing body.
"Baby, wake up, oh my goodness baby!"
Bongeka shook
him vigorously.
"Give him some air bitch!" Precious pulled
Bongeka
harshly by her dress.
Trouble...
"Oh please stop"
Yamkelwe woke up gasping for air, after he
became
stable, he attacked Bongeka with a hug.
"You came back baby," Bongeka said,
shedding tears of
joy.
"I came back, sweets. I was never gone. I'm
immune to
death"
Cocky much!
"Don't ever scare me off like that Yamkelwe
please"
"It won't happen again, sweets. I'm so sorry
for everything
I put you through"
"Okay, thanks for the romantic scene"
Precious interrupted,
yawning dramatically.
"Precious" that's all Yamkelwe could say.
"I'm fine too Yamkelwe. Thanks for asking"
Yamkelwe was the one who should be 'fine'
not the other
way around.
"Stop being a brat," Bongeka said, rolling
her eyes.
"Wow, the nerve! The audacity to call me a
brat. After
everything, I've done for you. I was by your
side all this
time when this girl left you. I took care of
you. Do you
know what I had to go through for you to be
healed? I had
to open my legs for that beta wolf. A wolf!
Not only that, I
had to involve a power-hungry witch!"
Precious whined, she was on her feet, her
hands were all
over the place.
Bongeka helped Yamkelwe to his bed
before shifting his
attention to Precious.
" You did well princess, your efforts are very
much
appreciated" Bongeka smiled clapping
hands "You deserve
a round of applause" she clapped harder.
"Unfortunately all that didn't work. All he
needed was his
mate's blood" Bongeka continued cockly.
"And who asked you to involve my
enemies?" Yamkelwe
asked.
"Those enemies wanted to help you!" —
Precious
"And you think there is no catch?"
Precious kept quiet
"You promised them something, did you?"
Yamkelwe
asked
"I... -" she was doomed.
"Don't stutter, Precious. Talk!"
"I promised him something"
"What!" Bongeka and Yamkelwe asked in
unison
"They wanted Pandora" Yamkelwe didn't
even let her finish
that statement. He attacked her throat.
"Release me" Precious ordered, barely
breathing.
Yamkelwe did as told.
"You tend to forget that I can control you"
It was her turn to be cocky.
"No, you have no control over him anymore.
Leave his
head, Precious. Leave it for good,
otherwise, you will have
me to deal with"
"I'm not scared of you!"
"You should," Bongeka said, giving her a
gruesome kick.
She tried to return it but Bongeka got hold
of her foot and
twisted it. Precious screamed as her knee
cap lost its
position.
Precious tried to free herself from
Bongeka's grasp with no
luck. Even her mind games did not work on
Bongeka. She
eventually gave up.
"Good girl. Now that you know your place,
let me fix you"
Bongeka said, positioning Precious's knee
cap in its
original position. Precious screamed again
as her bones
snapped.
"You claim to love Yamkelwe but you had a
nerve to give
his enemies the leverage against him, your
kind"
"Don't you dare say that to me. At least I
know I'm a
vampire, what about you? You don't even
know where you
belong! Fake vampire, fake werewolf, fake
human, Fake
Pandora!"
"Enough!" Yamkelwe shouted. "Get out," he
said to
Precious.
"Yamkelwe, baby you don't mean that"
Precious begged.
Bongeka cracked with laughter.
"Precious, I said get out before I rip your
heart!"
"Fine! I will go but I promise you will regret
this. My father
won't take this lightly!"
"Oww shame, daddy's baby girl. Go and tell
him
Yamkelwe’s mate is a hybrid. Let him try to
sabotage
him. He will have me to deal with" she
threatened.
"Just like you have a powerful witch and a
wolf to deal
with, right. Bye!" Precious said before
slammed the door.
"Bongeka" Yamkelwe said softly "Thank
you," he said
genuinely.
"I'm sorry for giving up on us," Bongeka
said, feeling
guilty.
"It's okay, let me go wash, I have a lot to
deal with," he
said, heading to the bathroom.
"I thought we were going to spend this day
to ourselves"
Bongeka had hoped for them to stay hidden
all day. For
them to enjoy each other's company without
worrying
about problems. Even if it was for only a
few hours.
"Your life is in danger" Yamkelwe wanted to
deal with Seth
for biting him. He wanted to finish all the
higher rank
wolves and those who made a deal with
Precious to
protect Bongeka. He had to consult with his
witch to
Protect Bongeka.
"Marco and Seth are small fishes. And the
witches—don't
worry I have something in store for them.
For now, let's
go to the shower. I'm sure your vampires
are dying to see
their master alive and kicking"
Yamkelwe was unsure about the new
Bongeka. He didn't
even know how to react around her. She
was different. But
decided to trust her although he felt less of
men. He
should be the one protecting Bongeka not
the other way
around.
Men and their egos!
~~~
Precious went straight to the witch's coven.
Seth was still
there.
"What took you so long?" Gloria asked as
soon as
Precious closed the door.
"I was about to get his blood when Pandora
healed him. I
hate that girl with all my eternal life!"
She screamed beating the walls.
"Oh, she is back? Why didn't you bring her
here?" —Marco.
"Don't ask me foolish questions. Was I
supposed to carry
her here?"
"Are you not a royal?"—Gloria
"Compulsion didn't work. It doesn't work on
her. She is
strong and fuckin' powerful!"
"I don't care about all of this shit you're
uttering. You see
this power you are talking about, I want it.
And you are
going to bring her here—alive"
"You don't get to order me around. You
were not helpful to
me. So the deal is off!"
"Listen to me carefully. It's not my fault that
Pandora was
a step ahead of you in healing your
boyfriend. It's not my
fault you were late. I want Pandora. Deal or
no deal, we
are tied!" That was more of a threat than a
statement.

THIRTY-TWO
Yamkelwe and Bongeka were still making
out and catching
up, appreciating another chance life had
given them. They
then decided it was time to talk with the
coterie members,
they must be confused, worried and feeling
neglected
wherever they were.
"Sweets before we head down, I have a
question,"
Yamkelwe asked fixing the bed.
"Ask away babe"
"Who sired you?"
"I don't know what you are talking about?"
Bongeka made
a promise to herself that she was going to
hide her
maker. She didn't want to get Kaden and
Ntando in
trouble.
"Sweets, we both know what I mean"
Bongeka gazed at him wanting to see if he
was angry. His
face looked emotionless
"Yamkelwe. You don't have to know my
sire. He is not
even from this coterie" Bad choice of lies!
"Oh, really?" he gave her a stern look.
"Yes. You know what? People are waiting
for us so we
better get going"
"Trying to ignore me won't help you
Bongeka. Already you
were losing control out there. You still need
be to under
your sire's guidance"
That wasn't a lie. During the few months of
turning a new
vampire should be guided by his or her
maker because
they'd still be bonded until a kindred is
mature enough to
survive on their own.
"You will guide me, you're my master
anyways " Bongeka
was dismal and Yamkelwe could see it
through her.
"No, you're not!" His voice sounded a bit
bitter.
"Baby—" She was about to ask why but
Yamkelwe already
anticipated the question.
"Because your sire does not belong to my
coterie. Which
means your master is your sire's master
until the maker
and kindred bond is broken"
He was just acting like that to get the truth
out of
Bongeka. He knew she was lying. His first
suspect was
Nora since she was the one who was much
closer to
Bongeka.
"I'm still bonded to my maker? Does that
mean he can
control me?"
"For a normal vampire, yes. I don't know
about you. So
which coterie will you join? Mine or your
sire's?"
Bongeka was quite a different creature so
no one could
ever be sure what was to happen to her.
Maybe she is not
even capable of turning rogue.
Bongeka sighed "Yamkelwe, please stop
with these silly
questions"
Yamkelwe nodded before they went to
meet their people.
It took only a few minutes for them all to
meet at the
headquarters.
"Greetings ladies and gentlemen"
Yamkelwe greeted. The
vampires were nodding their heads, some
waved, some
bowed in acknowledgment.
"and faggots!" that was Nkateko. That one
always sought
trouble.
"That's a bad word, Nkateko!" Bongeka
intervened. While
Yamkelwe was confused.
"Shut up you beast!" Nkateko referred to
Bongeka.
"Shut up!" —Yamkelwe.
"I was still addressing you before I got
rudely interrupted. I
know I've been absent for a while, by that I
mean ever
since I came back from Norway, I've been
absent.
Precious, the Royal invaded my head and
took control of
my mind, and buried me somewhere deep
around this
body. Not only did she violate my privacy,
but she also
violated you with Bongeka. Most of you
were confused,
angry at how I've been treating you but the
truth is, it
wasn't me. It was Precious" he explained.
There was silence for a whole before he
continued...
"I hope now you see why I forbade you all
from reading
each other's thoughts and all. The results
for invasion of
privacy are never good. Now that is out of
the way. Let's
talk about Bongeka, my mate" he
emphasized on mate, he
then continued
"Yes, she is Pandora as you all know. She
is a werewolf
as you all know. But I think many of you
aren't aware of
the part where she is a vampire. One of us.
She belongs
here"
Silence
"Now that is clear too. If there is anyone
who has a
problem with that, come forth so that I will
break the
coterie bond with you, help you find another
one
immediately. I promise I won't let anyone of
you go rogue
because you no longer want to be led by
me. I will always
be there to find you new masters that will
maybe rule you
the way you see fit"
Silence.
"For the second time I say, if you object
with my
decisions come forth and I will free you"
silence
"I guess that one is clear too. Now whoever
sees her/
himself fit to take my place and rule this
coterie, come
forth and challenge me"
Just like werewolves, vampires are also
allowed to
challenge their leader if they want to rule.
Because it was
believed that a true Lord or Master should
be able to win
challenges, in terms of strength, speed, and
morals of
cause. A vampire lord should be the
strongest.
Anyway, no one came to challenge
Yamkelwe. But
Nkateko, the snitch, had a complaint!
"Master, we have faggots here".
"I said stop with that word!" Bongeka
scolded.
"Okay, so?" Yamkelwe asked with a raised
brow.
"Fag-sorry I mean gays are not allowed
amongst the
vampire race," Nkateko said.
"And which law states that?" Yamkelwe
asked.
"But master, such an act is a disgrace that
will tarnish our
dignity," Nkateko said. This time most of the
vampires
agreed with him.
"Who are you talking about?" Yamkelwe
asked, all the
fingers pointed at Kaden and Ntando who
was looking
down, shoulders slumped.
Bongeka spoke before Yamkelwe could
"They are gays!
Not faggots for fucks sake! And these gays
here" she said
pointing at them "are the ones that saved
your master's
life. They were the ones who took care of
me when
Yamkelwe was tormented by Precious, they
were the ones
who turned me into a hybrid. Yes, you
heard me well, a
hybrid that you hate so much, the same one
that saved
your master from dying. My blood was the
only blood in
the universe that can cure a wolf bite!"
The quarters were filled with gasps.
"For your information, Ntando and Kaden
will remain in
this coterie. They will be treated like
everyone else.
Whoever dares treat them with hostility or
call them
faggots will have me to deal with. I don't
think any of you
would want to the taste of my anger"
Yamkelwe was out of words, he was in awe
just like the
rest.
"Nkateko, I hope you won't ever disrespect
Bongeka
because if you do. There will be
consequences. Also, she
is Pandora to you. The meeting is over you
are all
dismissed, oh Nora, Kaden, and Ntando,
please remain
behind"
Everyone disappeared into their different
destinations. It
was only Yamkelwe, Nora, Kaden, and
Ntando.
"Nora!" he called out
"Yes Master"
"Thank you for taking care of Bongeka
while I couldn't"
"I'm honored"
He then addressed the other two.
"I assume you are my mate's sire, Kaden"
Yamkelwe’s
gaze was enough to send Kaden to his
knees.
"I'm sorry Master, I don't know what got to
me. Please
forgive me please" Kaden begged, Ntando
also got on his
knees too.
"Stand up!" Yamkelwe’s voice was firm but
calm.
The couple quickly stood up.
"I'm jealous you did something that was
supposed to be
done by me but If you hadn't turned her. I
would be dead
by now. I'm alive because of you, for that
thank you, on
my behalf and Bongeka's. She was alone
but you were
there for her. You also saved her life, when
she left here
she was scared and alone, defenseless,
heartbroken, and
unmarked. If she wasn't a vampire she'd be
attacked by
the other vampires and she wouldn't be
able to defend
herself since she couldn't use her wolf
strength and
couldn't control Pandora. I will forever be
grateful for what
you did." Yamkelwe said genuinely.
" Thank you, Master," Kaden and Seth said
in unison.
"I may not understand the nature of your
relationship as
it's something we are unfamiliar with in our
kind but I will
accept and support it. I will make sure no
one
discriminates against you two. I will protect
you from the
other coteries and royals.
As long as you are both happy, I'm happy
too. I'm glad
this is out, now you will be free to embrace
your true
nature without sneaking around"
Their conversation was cut short by a bat
that came in
and made some weird noises. It didn't look
like a normal
bat. Its shadow was huge, its eyes were
red. It was...
Creepy.

THIRTY-THREE
Things seemed to be normal for vampires,
Kaden and
Ntando never complained about any hostile
treatment. As
for Yamkelwe and Bongeka, they were
trying to work on
themselves. Bongeka had let her guard
down whilst
Yamkelwe was restless.
"You seem troubled Yamkelwe, is there
anything wrong?"
Bongeka observed after trying to talk to him
but ended up
unanswered.
"Nicholas" Yamkelwe replied
absentmindedly
"What about him?" She never thought
about Nicholas'
whereabouts since the incident at her
mother's house. She
remembered the last time they were
together, he had
saved her from dying. He promised to
protect her. But
Yamkelwe spoke about him wanting power,
could it be
possible that he just wanted to use her just
like the rest?
Yamkelwe was the only one who seemed to
be genuine.
"He is back, he is coming for us. I'm
frustrated Sweets, he
is not making any move"
"Because he won't be making any move!
I'm sure he is
somewhere with his new family"
"He was here a few days ago in a certain
form"
"Can vampires also shapeshift?"
"Yes, sweets, but not all of us. Only
purebloods can"
"Which means you can turn, right! Can you
turn to a
merman please" Bongeka bubbled jumping
up and down,
she couldn't wait to see the whiz. She was
convinced he'd
look so fox in that form.
"No sweets, no. It doesn't work like that.
You see... You,
humans, have different talents, right? Same
as us. We
don't have the same abilities. And our
abilities are
inherited from our parents. So in my
bloodline, we are not
shapeshifters, I can't turn baby" He
explained, a bit
disappointed that he can't shapeshift for
her.
"That's disappointing, so what about
Nicholas?"
Back to the initial issue...
"They can shift into bats. That's their
appearance sign"
"What about you?"
"I'm one of the few who can build or break
bonds. That's
why I'm a master"
The same way the royals can possess
someone's body.
Their conversion was cut short by the click
sound by the
balcony... The bat.
It made its way in and shifted into the
human form. It was
Nicholas in the flesh.
" We meet again, master. Hello Pandora"
Nicholas smirked.
"You are not welcome here, Nicholas"
Yamkelwe grunted.
"I know, I've never been welcome. You
always ordered me
around like I'm your lapdog"
"Being my second command comes with
perks. You could
have stepped down. Many folks would die
for the position
you had"
" You never appreciated my efforts. I
brought you,
Pandora. Did you thank me? No. You
wouldn't anyway"
"Your efforts of taking my position, the
efforts of using
Pandora as your weapon?"
"Okay, let's stop crying over spilled milk.
You need to find
a way to solve your differences" Bongeka
intervened.
"He doesn't belong here Sweets"
"You are a master I'm sure you can rebond
him"
All she wanted was peace, that was her
quest. To bring
peace. Where there was peace, there was
hope as well.
"He is a rogue, there is no cure!"
"My blood will," Bongeka said, biting his
wrists and
attempting to feed Nicholas. Yamkelwe
rolled his eyes,
annoyed by the naiveness of his lover.
"There is no need for that kid. I have a
surprise for you!"
Nicholas proclaimed with a grin. A male
figure appeared
from the balcony. He was tall, pale, and had
dark circles
around his creepy eyes. The irises were red
and his
scleras were black (where it should be
white).
"I present to you your real father," Nicholas
said proudly.
"Bongeka" The gravely strident voice
shuddered everyone
in the room.
"You are my father" Bongeka sobbed as
she tried to go to
him but Yamkelwe held her back.
"Why are you holding her, you don't want
her to know her
real father so that you can know that she'd
have no one to
defend her?" Nicholas shouted. "You see
what I'm talking
about I'm talking about Mchunu, he will turn
your daughter
against you"
Bongeka attempted to go to him, Yamkelwe
held her back
again. That man was a rogue, rogues don't
think, they
attack and kill. They don't care if you are
one of their own.
"It's okay love. I will be okay" Bongeka
assured Yamkelwe
and he let go of her.
"I thought Dlamini was my father" -
Bongeka
"Master sent us to trap your father, it was
me and Dlamini.
We didn't want to do it but we couldn't stand
against him,
he had so much authority over us. Dlamini
had to be
involved with your mother and pretend to be
your father"
"That's not true William, why are you lying?"
Yamkelwe was bored by the whole thing.
"You know it's true. The least you can do is
to let me and
my friends stay here with you in the
quarters"
"Yamkelwe..." Bongeka pleaded. She never
got a chance
to have a father. Dlamini was the kind of a
man who'd
come back from 'work' and read his
newspaper. After that,
he'd order everyone around. He hardly
smiled or
socialized. She thought he was just being a
Zulu strict
father.
"Bongeka don't you dare consider this crap.
I won't let any
rogues here. We both know Nicholas is
lying!" Yamkelwe
scolded
"He is my father. Both of us were robbed of
a chance to
know each other by your people. This is the
only chance I
have, rogue or not. He is my father"
"If you really love her as you claim you
won't let her father
be homeless" Nicholas boated enjoying his
leverage.
"Please baby, I will make sure your
vampires are safe,"
Bongeka said, holding his father's cold
hand.
Who never said anything other than calling
Bongeka's
name.
Yamkelwe nodded his head, because of
love and trust. He
let them stay, it's not like he could ever say
no to
Bongeka. However, he was unsure if it was
the right
decision. Nicholas still did a good job in
hiding his
thoughts but the mystery man couldn't. He
invaded his
mind only to find that there were no
thoughts at all. His
mind was blank, not because he was hiding
them, they
were not there at all.
A man with no thoughts? A man with no
motive? That
meant something had possessed him.
A possessed rogue? That's a whole ticking
bomb.
"Well, there's twenty of us master"
Twenty? That's a pack, they could have just
formed their
coterie…

THIRTY-FOUR
There were twenty of them indeed,
Yamkelwe have been
sitting in his study. He was stuck between
the rock and
the hard place. Bongeka was stubborn,
unfortunately, he
had no power to control her. But his people
were not safe
from rogues. As cool as it may sound that
Bongeka would
protect them but it was not her duty to
protect his coterie.
It was not about ego but it was about
leadership. A true
leader never puts his people in danger, a
true leader
always puts his people first before his
happiness. A true
leader makes tough decisions. He had to
choose, his
mate or his people... The ball was in his
court.
He made his way to Bongeka who was
sitting with his
father by the garden.
"We need to talk," He said completely
ignoring Bongeka's
father.
"She is spending time with her father,"
Bongeka's father
commented. So he can talk?
"Bongeka Dlamini, I said we need to talk!"
"Mchunu, not Dlamini" The father corrected.
Yamkelwe
ignored him.
"Bongeka, should I repeat the same thing
for the third
time?" Yamkelwe was getting impatient
"No, remember you don't order me around,
you are not my
lord," Bongeka said.
"So much for a mate. Since you don't want
us to talk, you
will have to listen while I do all the talking.
You want to
spend time with your father, right? Then
spend with it
elsewhere"
"Are you chasing me out?"
"No, I'm chasing your rogue friends. Since I
know you will
choose them, you might as well tag along"
"Are really making me choose between you
and my father"
"No sweets, I'd never make you choose.
Unlike you made
me choose between my happiness and my
people. You
are my happiness but I'm choosing the well-
being of my
kind. So now butt out" with that, he left.
Bongeka didn't think Yamkelwe would
resort to chasing
her out.
"What are we going to do?" Bongeka asked
her father
"Master will make a plan"
"Master? are you referring to the one who
just chased us
out"
"Nicholas"
.
.
.
Just as Mchunu said, their 'master' made a
plan. Mchunu,
Bongeka, Nicholas, and the rest of the
rogues made their
way to some creepy dark, otherworldly
forest. The tree
branches were so close to each other, one
could barely
see the sky.
"Where are we going, Nicholas?"
Bongeka asked as they kept going without
reaching any
destination, she realized they had been
going around in
circles. She was tired of walking and the
place was
nauseating and spooky from the dense
shadows,
spiderwebs that were shimmered like
meshed steel. Not
to mention an acrid odour that hung up
everything. She
hoped this wasn't a plan that Nicholas had.
"I have a friend around here. I think her
house is cloaked"
Nicholas explained looking confused
himself. The last
time he was in the forest, there were quite a
few cottages.
"How do we find her then?" - Bongeka
Nicholas ignored Bongeka and spoke to
Mchunu.
"I think you and our team should make your
way out of
here until I tell you it's safe to come back"
"Yes, Master," All the rogues said in unison
like they were
programmed.
"I will keep in touch" after that, they were
long gone.
Bongeka observed that they barely said
anything. They
didn't speak unless Nicholas instructed
them to do so.
When he made a command they'd respond
like robots as
if they couldn't think of themselves. She
attempted to ask
about the behavior but decided against the
idea. It was not
like she knew much about these creatures.
Maybe that's
how they behave...
Maybe not. Judging by Marco's book she
once read,
rogues are said to be lonely creatures who
wouldn't
hesitate to kill their kind, which made her
re-think about
her father. Lonely —which meant, they
make no teams, no
families, no friends, and no leaders. But
these were a
team with Nicholas as their master?
"Earth to you Pandora" Nicholas snapped
his fingers
startling Bongeka.
"I'm so sorry, what were you saying?"
Bongeka said
getting herself together.
"Gloria will show herself when she
discovers you are with
me"
"Oh?" She didn't understand.
"Show her some sign, your magic or
something"
He was getting frustrated, could it happen
that Gloria
chickened out of their plan? She wouldn't
dare!
"What! No, I don't have magic"
"Pandora, work with me please"
"Fine, let me think of something. '' Bongeka
tried to think
of something that wouldn't endanger
anyone. She closed
her eyes connecting with nature. She slowly
swung her
hand sideways, it became a little windy, the
trees started
moving following the rhythm of her hand.
For the first time, she took control of
Pandora. Nature
obeyed him. No one was hurt in the
process. That was a
victory for Bongeka, the feeling was
priceless.
On the other side, Nicholas was restless.
He could see
Bongeka was enjoying herself but he was
running out of
time. He couldn't have just stopped her but
he wouldn't
dare anger the mighty Pandora who could
finish his
existence just by snapping her fingers.
After what seemed like forever, Bongeka
opened her eyes.
The wind stopped, the trees also stopped
moving. It was
silent for a while before Bongeka
complained.
"It didn't work"
"You did nothing!" Nicholas snapped
"What the hell was I supposed to do?" she
snapped back.
"Something powerful, you could have
created something
that we could offer, something tangible"
"I'm not God or an Illusionist. I told you I
don't practice
magic!"
Nicholas was about to respond when they
both heard
some shuffling of the trees. A gate
appeared just before
them. They glanced at each other before
they opened the
gate and followed the walker-way that
slowly appeared as
they continued walking. Bongeka gazed
behind her only to
realize that the gate had disappeared.
Could it happen that they are trapped?
Could it happen that
Nicholas had trapped her?
For his own good, it better be not true!
She thought to herself. She was fed up with
gommers who
thought they could yank her as they
wanted.
After a few minutes, a big house
appeared.%
Just before they knocked. Gloria opened
the door.
"William, I see you kept your word. Hello
Pandora"
Bongeka looked at the woman who was
wide-smiled, but
her voice was obviously honeyed.
Gloria welcomed them in and offered them
tea.
"I'm the man of my world, now it's time you
keep your end
of the deal," Nicholas said uninterested in
drinking a
witch's tea.
"So I'm the deal, Nicholas" Bongeka
commented, calmer
than she should
"Life is a game, Bongeka, I'm sorry. I
needed powers to
form my own coterie. This lady granted me
those powers.
She promised me that if I gave you to her,
she'd give me
riches and grow my coterie"
He wanted to out rule normal vampires and
let rogues
rule. It doesn't make sense but Nicholas is
power-hungry,
he'd do anything to feel superior.
Gloria helped him in taking control of
Mchunu, Bongeka's
father. He could do anything he said.
So he used him to lure Bongeka. He knew
Bongeka would
be naive and Yamkelwe would do anything
to protect his
coterie. He figured if he brought rogues to
live with
Yamkelwe. The vampires would feel
threatened and
Bongeka would have to choose between
Yamkelwe and
her father. Just like he anticipated, Bongeka
chose her
father.
"Life is indeed a game, Nicholas William"
Bongeka smiled
before shifting her attention to Gloria. "How
can I help
you, ma'am?"

THIRTY-FIVE
Nicholas and Gloria looked at each other,
surprised by
Bongeka's reaction. They had expected her
to react a
certain way.
"Don't just look at me. I asked you a
question, how can I
help?" Bongeka asked again, smiling.
"Shut up!" Gloria snapped. Glancing at the
untouched tea.
Bongeka followed Gloria's gaze and
chuckled.
"Hmm, I see" Bongeka took a mug and
sipped the tea.
"My friends and I need a place to stay,"
Nicholas enquired,
breaking the loud silence.
"How is that any of my business?" - Gloria
"I thought we were helping each other"
Nicholas hoped she
would let him and his friends squat for a
little while until
they could stand for themselves.
"That was not part of the deal"
" Gloria, don't be selfish!"
" I can't live with rogues in my coven,
never!" no one
wanted to associate themselves with rogue
creatures.
Their argument was cut short by the sound
of a chair
against the floor, Bongeka was laying there
unconsciously.
Gloria smiled. " Pick her up and follow me"
she
instructed.
Gloria led them to the covenstead,
Nicholas' heartbeat
accelerated by just looking at the deary
skeletal objects
that were the only clear thing after probably
hundreds of
skull-shaped candles. He toured the place
with his eyes
with the aid of candle lights inspecting the
taxidermies
and goths that surrounded the whole room.
She took a piece of coal and used it to draw
a circle on a
basalt stone floor. She also drew a smaller
circle just
inside the big one. She then drew a vertical
arrow that had
two tails and triangles with other lines on
the side and two
big dots.
"This is a sigil for my power, bring her here"
Gloria
instructed again. Nicholas was reluctant,
surmising he
wouldn't be able to come.
"It's okay Nicholas, come" she assured.
Nicholas obeyed, he swiftly put Bongeka
inside a sigil and
then stepped aside.
"I will need your help, we don't know what
we are dealing
with so I need as much power as I can
possibly get. I will
channel you so that I can be able to grasp a
bit of her
power. It will be easy that you are almost
the same kind"
"No" A big no, he was dead scared of
Pandora, conscious
or not.
"I will give you the share of her Power"
"No, take it all. I won't be part of this"
"I can't take her power, it is dangerous. I will
just keep her
unconscious and channel her whenever I
need her. I have
some spell that will put her to sleep for
more than a year"
she reached for a piece of paper that was
on the stand
and showed it to Nicholas as if he
understood the thing.
"Do what you have to do Gloria and leave
me out of it".
"I'm the one who chose what is happening
in my coven"
Nicholas turned to exit the covenstead but
the door
slammed shut before he could reach it, it
had no handle or
anything that could help him open it. It was
obvious that
only magic could open or close it.
"Open the door witch!" he groaned in anger.
Gloria laughed for a good minute before
talking...
"It's either you go through that door and be
free from me
or you do what I say"
Nicholas telepathed his rogues asking them
to help him,
but they kept on circling outside the forest
finding no
entrance.
***We can't enter the forest master*** one
of the rogues
said through telepathy
***Don't be a fool. Go through the trees and
make sure
you find the witches' cottages!*** Nicholas
demanded.
***master, they are too close to each other,
only a needle
can pass through. We can't even find the
entrance we used
when we entered for the first time*** a
rogue explained.
***bloody fool***
" I take it as you were trying to
communicate with your
leeches, shame poor thing" Gloria teased
with her evil
laughter.
Nicholas attempted to attack her but Gloria
saw it, she
fisted her hand, Nicholas was flown across
the wall
breaking the dark art pieces that were hung
all over the
walls. He tried to regain his strength. Gloria
bent her hand
and Nicholas involuntary came closer to
her. His eyes had
changed color to violet.
"You will do as I say, Nicholas," Gloria said.
Nicholas bowed his head "Yes milady"
The other part of his mind tried to escape
the spell and
disobey but Gloria's magic was beyond
Nicholas' self-
control.
Gloria took Nicholas' hand and started
chanting.
"EMAGO EST EIUST ERUNT"
Nicholas also chanted the same thing
although he didn't
know the meaning. He was under the
control of the spell.
"EMAGO EST EIUST ERUNT"
"EMAGO EST EIUST ERUNT"
"EMAGO EST EIUST ERUNT"
"EMAGO EST EIUST ERUNT"
The sigil started changing color, from
charcoal black to
red. The candles blew out, the room
became surrounded
by darkness. Things started falling, the wind
blew hard,
the candles lit again before blowing out.
"EMAGO EST EIUST ERUNT"
"EMAGO EST EIUST ERUNT"
Gloria's eyes had turned white. The
darkness in the room
was replaced by lightning as hailstones
clattered outside
to the ground like the marbles spilled from
the box. The
thunder muttered louder as the wind
continued to rock
everything.
After a few minutes, the wind, hail, and
thunderstorms
stopped. The candles lit up again and
everything was back
to normal, Nicholas was free from the spell.
"What did you do to me?"
"You said you wanted to go. Go!" Gloria
dismissed,
Nicholas didn't even wait for her to say it
twice, he was
out of sight immediately. Surprisingly he
knew the way
out. As soon as he stepped outside the
gate. The coven
houses disappeared. Rogues made their
way towards
Nicholas.
" It took us almost forever to find the
entrance master,"
Mchunu said, feeling like a hero not
knowing they were
late. Nicholas just rolled his eyes in
annoyance.
"Let's go, we need to build our own home"
THIRTY-SIX
It was the moment where Yamkelwe wished
he hadn't
broken the bond between him and
Bongeka, because he'd
be able to track her whereabouts. Without
the bond, there
was no connection between them. Judging
by the sudden
change of weather, something was
happening to her.
After the strange storm, the sky cleared as
if nothing
happened.
"You shouldn't have let her go," Kaden said,
patting
Yamkelwe’s shoulder who was deep in
thought, sitting by
the garden.
"I had to do what's right for my people"
Yamkelwe uttered
what he thought was right but knew very
well he didn't
mean that. He regretted letting Bongeka go
with
dangerous creatures. But those words were
venomous to
his tongue.
"by giving up on your mate? For the second
time?" Kaden
instantly regretted his choice of words.
**for the second time, for the second time,
for the second
time***
Those words echoed like a mantra to his
ears. He failed
Bongeka, not once but twice.
"I didn't mean like that master. My
apologies" Kaden felt
bad for hurting his master. Judging by
Yamkelwe’s body
language, his words had hit home.
"It's fine. I need a way to find her"
They consulted a witch who was friends
with Yamkelwe,
however, the consultations didn't go well
because
Bongeka was cloaked, which made it more
hard that she
had no much linkage with Yamkelwe.
"I'm still her mate, mated or not, marked or
not. My blood
should help in locating her."
"You're right, but we can't find her. There's
another witch
involved here" Yamkelwe's witch said.
"Precious was the one who was associated
with witches"
~~~
.
.
.
After Yamkelwe kicked Precious out, she
went to live with
Marco. She could have gone back to
Europe but she'd
have to tell her father about Pandora and
Yamkelwe. That
man wouldn't hesitate to kill Yamkelwe,
which was
something that she didn't want...well, that
was before she
felt something for Marco. So she had been
living in a
packhouse secretly. As expected, a few of
the wolves
could smell the vampire scent but Marco
and Seth always
made up some cover up stories. Seth also
knew about
Precious's presence, he had no choice but
to listen to
whatever Marco and Precious said because
they had the
upper hand since they knew all his secrets.
He had to
accept everything because if Marco or any
wolf were to
challenge him, he'd lose the challenge. He
was a weak
wolf by nature and Gloria turned on them
when he made a
deal with Nicholas.
"I think it's time you challenge Seth. You
can't keep me
hidden forever" Precious said, applying the
herb that would
minimize the scent of a vampire in her.
" Or we can just run away, go far to start a
new life, and
live our happily ever after"
"No, you're going to overthrow Seth and
you will be an
alpha. You will then tell your pack that I'm
your mate and
I'm not going anywhere."
" I don't care about leadership, I want you"
"And you said you'd do anything I want. I
want you to be
an Alpha"
"Yamkelwe is here" Seth announced
appearing from
nowhere and completely ignoring what he
overheard.
"I will go to him" Precious stood up after
Seth told them
where Yamkelwe was.
"I will go with you"
"No. There's no need" There was really no
need!
"You still love him, Don't you?"
"Argh, I hate insecure men!" she said,
rolling her eyes.
"I'm still going with you, Precious, "Marco
insisted. He
knew that Precious didn't love him, and
might be still into
Yamkelwe. But he hoped she'd learn to love
her back.
Until then, his love was enough for the two
of them.
Marco followed Precious to the nearest
forest that
Yamkelwe was at.
"Look who decided to bless us with his
presence"
She said sarcastically.
"Where is she?" he was fuming.
"Who-"
"I said where she is, what did you do to
her?"
Yamkelwe grabbed Precious by her throat,
Marco grabbed
Yamkelwe and punched him, Yamkelwe
was about to
return the punch when Precious separated
them still
coughing from being strangled.
"Could you two stop this nonsense!
Yamkelwe, I do not
know what you are on about!"
"You are going, to tell the truth, or I will rip
off your heart,
now!
" You seem to forget who am I"
"You think you will possess me? I'd like to
see you try my
dear" Yamkelwe said, stepping closer to
her. Marco tried
to intervene but Yamkelwe’s first was in
precious's heart.
Precious gasped for air as Yamkelwe was
slowly
squeezing the vital organ, her skin slowly
paled because
Yamkelwe was disturbing the deliverance of
blood by
holding her heart still, it's pumping lost
rhythm.
"Stop or I will bite you, and your Pandora
won't be here to
save your ass"
"What are you waiting for, wolf? When you
do make sure
you do it carefully, remember her heart is in
my hand. One
wrong move, she is dead"
"Marco, don't come closer" Precious
begged. Before
looking at Yamkelwe in the eyes and
ordered him to stop.
"Not happening dear" Yamkelwe smiled
wickedly as he
resisted the compulsion. It was an easy
task because he
saw it coming. He was mentally prepared
for it. Anyway,
Marco listened to Precious and stayed
away.
"Come a little closer wolf. Not to close, just
close enough
to see what I'm about to do to your Precious
'precious'" He
said to Marco.
"I want you to remember the day when you
took over my
mind, the day when you made me break the
promise of
not hurting my sweet Bongeka. I want you
to remember
her tears, her sobs, her broken heart, her
broken mark"
His heart broke by just the memories of the
torture
Bongeka went through because of her. The
torture he went
through trying to redeem his true self with
no success.
Precious sobbed seeing her life was at
stake and no one
would be fast enough to be able to save
her. She wished
she had gone back to Europe and told her
father
everything about Yamkelwe.
"While at it, just enjoy the feeling of your
heart pumping
against the hand of the very same man you
are obsessed
with. I'm certain it's a sacred moment for
you since you
always wanted me to take your heart and
make it mine,
now here it is in my hand. Isn't that a good
moment?" He
mocked while moving his hand a bit making
Precious
scream in agony.
" Yamkelwe, I never meant it like that"
Precious pleaded.
"Please, let her go. We will go away from
here. You will
never hear from her or us again" Marco was
on his knees,
tears gushing.
"Hmmm, let me think... No. It's quite
tempting but this is
Precious we are talking about. Forever is
too long for her
not to make contact with me. Remember
you will die
within a few decades, what do you think
she will do when
you are no longer in the picture?"
" Well, don't respond to that wolf, there is
no need. Look
at your girlfriend in the eyes" he used his
free hand to
swivel her head towards Marco's direction.
They both looked at each other sobbing.
"I love you, Marco, I know I didn't show it
but I learned to
love you. I want you to take over because I
want what's
best for you not because I wanted your
pack. I want you
to take your place, the place that you
deserve. I love you"
"I love you too baby, Yamkelwe you heard
her, she is no
longer into you. Please let go of her"
"Hmm, it was quite a romantic moment, I
shed a few
tears. But I have to cut it short" he swiveled
back her head
"Now look at me, Precious. Look at me at
the great
degree because I'm going to be the last
thing you've ever
looked at. I want to be the last thing you
remember. Now
journey well bitch!" With that, he ripped off
her heart.
"Nooo!" Marco cried out. Yamkelwe made
his way to him
with Precious's heart still in his hand.
"This is my gift to you, wolf" He gave him
the still-beating
heart and left him there.

THIRTY-SEVEN
Gloria used her magic to move Bongeka
from the
covenstead to her bedroom, she used salt
to draw a big
rectangle that was big enough to fit a
human. She put
Bongeka inside it and casted a boundary
spell and
cloaked her. She burned some plants and
made Bongeka
sniff it so that she'd listen to everything she
said.
She had enough power to take over the
witches, vampires,
and werewolves. She'd be able to be the
regent, and make
the other creatures her slaves.
There was a knock on the door, Gloria went
to check who
it was.
"The regent had summoned us," One of the
witches said.
The first
She rolled her eyes and secretly smiled
thinking that it
wouldn't be long before she took over. She
wouldn't have
to follow anyone's instructions.
"Someone broke the rules!" the regent
addressed, it didn't
take long for him to know a vampire was in
the coven.
"Who brought a vampire in my coven?"
Their magic sensed that there was a foreign
creature that
placed its foot in their sacred place.
Gloria had to come with a solid story
because they would
know it was her and she'd face the
consequences.
"I did," she blurted out from the back of the
room. All eyes
were on her.
"You better have a clear explanation!" the
regent banged
on the chair before he took a stand.
"The vampire promised to work with me in
finding
Pandora" it wasn't a pure lie
"How many times do I have to tell you that
Pandora's
spirit is dark and we don't practice dark
magic in my
coven" They did their bad things but they
didn't want to
use dark magic because it can be
consuming and
dangerous even to themselves.
"Magic is magic, we won't use her spirit,
we'll just channel
her when casting powerful spells. Spells
that aren't dark"
"She is dangerous, I can't handle such
power on my own"
Who said you would? Gloria thought to
herself. But the
regent was right. Too much power on one
person was
dangerous. She was already a witch who
had her own
powers. Was she strong enough to handle
Pandora's
power?
"The power will be divided among all of us.
Why can't you
trust me? Was I not the one who gave you
wolf and
human sacrifices?" Gloria's deal with Seth
brought so
much power for the coven.
"Yes, you did it. You did it only lasted for a
few years but
your wolf failed to keep up"
"That's why we need a new power source"
"Fine! I will communicate with the
ancestors. If they don't
approve. I'm afraid your plan will be
declined"
"Fair enough. I'm sorry for bringing a
vampire into our
place. I hope everyone will be able to
forgive me on that
one"
"You were trying to do the right thing for the
coven. The
meeting is over, whoever gets a sign from
the ancestors
should come forth. I will do the same"
The meeting was dismissed. Everyone
went back to what
they were doing. The issue was becoming
critical now that
ancestors were to be involved. They
wouldn't agree with
this. Instead, they would just reveal her
plans and get her
shunned.
"Gloria..." Bongeka just woke up and her
voice was
hoarse.
"Ahh Dear, you are awake. That is good.
Since you are a
bit disoriented, I will explain everything to
you... I own
you, you are mine. You belong to the
witches. So you
better adapt to this environment because it
is your new
home" Gloria bloated. She couldn't believe
that she had
the most powerful creature in the palm of
her hand.
Bongeka's body was aching from laying on
the bare floor
for too long. She stretched herself heading
to the bed but
the barrier prevented her.
"Do you perhaps have the invisible wall or?"
Bongeka
asked, too calm for someone who was
practically
kidnapped.
"It's a boundary spell. That will be the only
space you are
allowed to use"
"Uyahlanya" (you are crazy)
Gloria didn't understand but judging by
Bongeka's gesture,
she was probably cursing.
"How do you expect me to use this space?
What if I want
to use the bathroom? Where the hell am I
going to sleep"
she said, throwing her hands on-air in
defeat.
"You will sleep there on the floor. You won't
poop because
you won't eat"
"That's so dumb of you. If I'm weak, you will
be weak too.
I'm your power source, remember?"
Bongeka said, rolling her eyes.
"Arghh bitch. Fine! But I need to manipulate
the
ancestors... Maybe not, oh my God I need a
plan" Gloria
was so frustrated. Pandora may be
powerful but she
wasn't sure if she'd win again the spirit.,
"You are right, you can't use me to fight
your ancestors.
But you can block them from
communicating with the
other witches"
Bongeka suggested, she had learned to
read people's
thoughts.
Gloria smiled, With Bongeka acting like
that, it meant her
spell worked. She was a good pet.
"How did you know what I'm thinking... Oh,
you are a
vampire. Yes! You will get into their heads
and pretend to
be their ancestors. Let's do it now"
She locked the door and gathered the
things she'd need,
including a few pictures of the ancient
witches that
Bongeka was to appear as.
She lit the candles cluttering the pictures
and dark
objects, they both held hands then Gloria
chanted the spell
that was going to protect Bongeka from
being caught
since the witches were cautious about the
dreams. They
knew people could use ancestors'
appearances to invade
other people's dreams.
~~~
Marco picked himself up and went back to
the packhouse,
he was still holding Precious's heart that
had turned cold.
He found Seth waiting for him with
amusement.
"I take it as things didn't go well"
"He declared war! He killed the love of my
life, he will
pay!" He groaned in anger, he could barely
utter the words
properly because of his grinding teeth.
"Hmm, look at you with a broken heart. I
warned you
against associating yourself with vampires
but you didn't
listen"
"Stop bloating Seth. You and the pack will
help me take
down Yamkelwe or else I will challenge you
in front of
everyone and defeat you. The whole world
will know you
cheated your way up. I'm the true alpha.
When I finally
take my position, I will have you starve to
death or have
you hanged.
Seth ended up agreeing to Marco's
demands although he
didn't know how he would approach the
pack, he couldn't
just tell them that they are going to the war
because the
vampire master killed the Royal vampire
who happened to
be his beta's girlfriend...
"Yamkelwe will regret the day he played his
filthy hands on
Precious!"

THIRTY-EIGHT
Just as Gloria planned, They managed to
create fake
ancestors and convinced the regent to
continue with the
channeling of Pandora. They made sure not
to be
suspicious. Bongeka waited for the regent
to be the one
to make contact with the ancestors. She
then appeared in
the dreams of one of the coven members.
So they made an agreement that Pandora's
power would
be linked with all the witches in their coven
to avoid
having one person with too much power.
The witches exited their cottages and went
to the forest to
channel Pandora, which was after Bongeka
was 'found'
unconscious by the coven's gate. Gloria
made up a story
of Nicholas bringing her to the forest after
Gloria gave him
some herbs to knock Bongeka out.
They put her body in the middle of the
forest. They then
made a circle far away from her, they were
even far away
from each other. They needed as much
space as they
could get, fortunately, the forest was one
thousand five
hundred acres which was big and wild
enough for them to
cast the spell.
They started chanting the spell, with each
word uttered,
things turned into ice, the cottages, the
trees, and grass.
One of the witches opened her eyes after
noticing the
temperature change. She alerted the other
witches.
"What is happening?" That question
emerged from many
witches.
"The spell is done," Gloria said before
standing up. And
the other witches followed her.
"I can feel the power," the regent said with a
smile.
Checkmate! Gloria said to herself. The only
thing that was
left was for her to become a regent.
"My fellow witches. We just completed the
first step of
taking over the world. The next step is for
our beloved
regent to step down so I can take over. I've
proven that
I'm more than capable of ruling, I brought
you, Pandora.
What I didn't tell you is that I'm the only one
who can
control her powers, I just needed you to
help me use it
since I can't own it all alone" Gloria bloated
confidently
waiting for someone to fight her so she
could make an
example of them
"You absolutely out of your mind Gloria"
one the eldest
witch rollocked just as she anticipated.
"You might want to refer to me as regent
and address me
like one or else
..."
"Or else what?" the old lady snapped ready
to fight
whatever that was to come on her way.
Gloria snapped her fingers, the lady
screamed as her teeth
collided with the floor, one by one until
there was nothing
left of her chewing agents.
The other witches tried to attack Gloria
using magic but
Gloria was in control of it.
"Gloria you cannot handle so much power"
The regent
begged, it was obvious that the coven was
outsmarted by
one of their own.
"I will, we are all in possession of Pandora's
power. It's
just that Pandora is my friend and she
wants me to be the
one I'm in control of. As soon as you agree
to my terms
and conditions. You will get your share,
much better than
the one you pre-owned" Gloria explained,
her hands folded
and making sure her gaze met everyone's
eyes.
"You made a fool of us, how do we know
you will not do
the same? Secondly, ancestors are the
ones who choose
the regent"
He was right, a regent cannot be chosen by
the living
witch. But she managed to block the
ancestors and
Pandora played mind games with the
coven, that can be
done again. Speaking of which... Pandora
was left alone in
the forest, uncloaked.
Gloria ignored the regent's comment and
went to look for
Pandora before the creatures with fangs
could get to her...
The forest's entrance was hidden but
caution was still
essential.
Gloria's hands automatically made their
way to her head
as her lungs screamed in pain constricting
making it hard
for her to breathe when she discovered that
Pandora
wasn't where they left her.
She's probably around trying to find her way
out... Gloria
thought to herself, there was no way
Pandora could have
escaped, she was under a strong spell.
~~~
Yamkelwe managed to track down Nicholas
and held him
hostage, torturing him trying to milk the
truth out of him.
Nicholas confessed what he did to
Bongeka's father and
that he gave Bongeka to the witches. That
was after
Yamkelwe broke his bones for several
times. It wasn't
easy torturing a rogue because they hardly
ever feel
anything, so he would break almost all his
bones and wait
for them to heal only to break them again,
he would also
squeeze his heart but make sure not to rip it
off. After
hours of doing the same thing, Nicholas
confessed but his
confession had a dead-end since Nicholas
didn't know
what they did with Bongeka.
"You can let him rest a bit, I will deal with
him later"
Yamkelwe abruptly turned still, his body
shutting down for
a moment recognizing the voice he had
been longing for.
In a matter of a few seconds, he went from
being
melancholic to being furious at Bongeka for
being
stubborn but ended up being triumphant by
her return. He
attacked her with a hug.
Bongeka held on for dear life, Yamkelwe’s
embrace was
homely, warm, and full of love.
"I'm sorry baby, it was the only way," She
explained.
Yamkelwe nodded although he didn't fully
understand her.
Bongeka's skin turned pale as Yamkelwe’s
vein murmured
against her lips—she was hungry.
She licked his neck sending electrifying
shudders through
Yamkelwe’s body.
According to the book she once read,
vampires don't drink
from one another, because the taste of their
blood isn't as
fresh as a human or animal's blood.
Probably because
vampires are dead... But she couldn't resist
the urge to
prickle her fangs through Yamkelwe’s skin
and indulge.
Yamkelwe groaned in pleasure, feeling the
rush of pleasure
as Bongeka sucked from his neck. Bongeka
raked her
hands through Yamkelwe’s kinky hair
enjoying the metallic
taste. She had tasted blood before but
Yamkelwe’s was
more than satisfying, it brought more life to
her, and—
orgasm, she was now grinding on
Yamkelwe’s manhood
moaning as weaves of pleasure shut down
her whole
body. They were both lost in their own
paradise forgetting
their audience —Nicholas.
When Bongeka was satisfied, Yamkelwe
returned the
favor. Vampire blood wasn't as good as the
human one.
But when vampires feed on each other's
necks, that was
personal. Especially when it comes to
mates.
His hands moved to Bongeka's flesh,
claiming her to be
his. He bent forward to trail his warm
tongue over her
neck with a low rumbling growl in his throat.
Bongeka
moaned, leaning her head back, offering
herself to him.
His fangs grasped through her flesh before
lifting her still
indulging in her sending fire that made
Bongeka unable to
hold still in his grip and breathing harshly at
the ecstasy,
the intoxication made her yelp desperately.
When
Yamkelwe was done, his lips aligned with
Bongeka while
her hand was exploring his solid flesh.
"Ahh" they both charged their attention to
where the groan
was coming from— Nicholas. Bongeka's
eyes trailed down
to Nicholas's wet pants—he scummed on
himself. She
gestured for Yamkelwe to look at Nicholas'
pants too.
They looked at each other and cracked in
loud laughter
doing high five. Nicholas was pale in
embarrassment.
"She is mine, buddy" Yamkelwe mocked
before they
laughed again.

THIRTY-NINE
The weather was getting extremely wintry
and frosty,
everyone thought it was just a passing
phase. Heaters
were like a fan with no motor while blankets
felt like a
piece of tissues against people's bodies.
Nothing seemed
to be effective towards the cold. Fire
wouldn't last long
because everything had turned into ice, so
the ice would
slightly melt destroying the fire.
In the human world, it was far worse,
thousands of people
were dying each day. The temperature was
minus thirty
degrees, a human body could only
withstand so much.
People were dying like ants. And no
scientist could figure
out what was the reason behind the
extreme weather, all
they knew was global warming.
Most of the citizens, supernatural and
natural were stuck
indoors because walls looked like they were
built of ice, it
was hard for doors to open because of it.
Processed
foods were scarce as Bismuth crystals,
cooking was
another huge task given that stoves were
ice cold too.
Witches attempted to cook different spells
as a solution
but they had insufficient power, wolves
were also dying
like ants. Vampires were lucky enough to
be surviving...
Immortality came with perks.
Yamkelwe went to Nora and asked her to
organize him
some strong sedative herbs.
"I don't have much to harvest, master.
Everything is icy"
Nora explained, her voice quivering while
her lips were
trembling. Yamkelwe was saddened by the
sight. He had
to do something...
"Work with what you have, Nora. It's urgent.
I promise it
will be worth it"
Yamkelwe sat there watching Nora mixing
her herbs, she
would occasionally drop things. Probably
because she
couldn't feel her hands. After a whole lot of
struggling, she
finally came up with something.
"It goes well with tea or soup," she said,
handing the
product to Yamkelwe.
Yamkelwe took it, patted her shoulder in
acknowledgment,
and went to the kitchen to prepare butternut
soup, it wasn't
warm enough but it was something. He
headed to the
main bedroom where Bongeka was sitting
still by the
window, staring at it as if she could see
outside.
"Sweets," Yamkelwe said, holding her hand
leading her to
bed and making sure she was at least close
to being
warm. He made her wear multiple socks
and big gloves
and covered her in multiple blankets. Her
neck was
covered with a fur scarf. And then the
beanie in her head.
"Sweets you never told me what you did to
the witches?"
Yamkelwe asked handing her a bowl of
soup. He was also
affected, his skin was more pale than
normal and his
voice was throaty and shaky. But his
cappuccino eyes
always did justice for him, he was still a hot
mess.
"Nothing much, I just outsmarted them,"
She said, pushing
the soup spoon from the front to back to
catch a
mouthful. "I love it, you should share the
recipe"
Was she being random or she was just
shying away from
the topic?
"How did you do it?" he gave her a stony
look
"They wanted me to be their source of
power. They
thought they were channeling me but it was
the way
around" that confirmed his suspicions.
His hands swiftly caught the bowl that
Bongeka dropped
by mistake. She was feeling light-headed
and her eyes
were heavy.
"Don't fight it, sweets, it's for the best" he
kissed her
forehead, stood up, and headed to the
door.
"What did you do to—" just like that it was
lights out for
her.
~~~
It's been five days since Bongeka was
knocked out,
Yamkelwe kept on forcing the herbs down
her throat
regularly. The weather wasn't entirely back
to normal but it
was better, there was a snowfall for the first
three days,
everything started melting. Living creatures
could now
successfully make fires, cook, and sleep in
peace without
feeling like they are in a morgue. Even in
the human world,
death cases decreased although most of
the humans
caught flu and pneumonia, everything was
gradually
getting back to normal. Which confirmed
that Bongeka
was the reason for the disaster.
"Nora, do you have any idea on how to
suppress Pandora
inside Bongeka? I can't keep her asleep
forever"
"No, master. Bongeka is the only one who
has the power
to control Pandora"
Nora was right, Bongeka had to wake up
and learn to
keep her power on the leash.
Yamkelwe waited for the sedative to wear
off, it didn't take
long before Bongeka opened her eyes and
stared at
Yamkelwe.
"What the fuck did you do to me? Bongeka
snapped,
recalling the last events.
" Don't you dare get angry, Bongeka!"
Yamkelwe warned a
bit too late. Everything in the house was
already shaking.
The vampire quarters were strongly built,
given that they
lasted for many centuries. They survived
every kind of
weather, angry storms, heavy winds, floods.
Even the
earthquake that recently happened when
Bongeka was
angry.
But now Bongeka possessed too much
power, the walls
were cracking, the ceiling was falling bit by
bit.
"Bongeka, calm the fuck down!"
When reality kicked in, she tried to calm
down and
remembered Pandora's words. **EVEN
NATURE ITSELF
WILL TEST YOU, STAY STRONG AND
CALM. BE HUMBLE,
DON'T THE POWER RULE YOU**
"Yamkelwe..." her voice was taut, she was
nervous.
Yamkelwe went to her and helped take off
the collection
of clothes and kissed her sweaty cheeks.
Someone banged on the door screaming
"fire!"
They both Marched downstairs. The grass,
trees were on
fire, everything was covered in smoke.
Fire, the doom for creatures of the night,
they aren't really
immortal because their doomsday came
sooner than
expected.
"Bongeka..." Yamkelwe called out in defeat.
"Babe, I'm calm. I'm not angry. I don't know
the reason
behind this. I don't know what to do, I don't
know how to
stop the fire" She was panicking, making
the fire worse.
"You are scared, fear is a powerful emotion.
Just calm
down sweets"
Yamkelwe embraced her, her head on his
chest, the sound
of his heartbeat did the trick. She calmed
down while
listening to sweet things Yamkelwe was
whispering to her.
The fire finally ceased.
"Yamkelwe, no matter how hard I try to
keep calm. It just
doesn't happen. I don't know how to control
it"
"Okay, don't beat yourself about it. You took
the witches'
powers. You need to take it back before it
consumes you
even more"
"I don't know how to do it. Gloria did the
spell, she is the
one who gave me access to her magic. She
will need to
reverse it. Yes, we need to find her!"
"We can give it a try but I don't think it will
work"
Yamkelwe believed Bongeka had the power
to stop
channeling the witches. As much as she
was under the
spell, if she managed to manipulate Gloria's
magic, she
could easily unlink herself from the power.
"Okay let's go"
Yamkelwe opened an enormous basement
that no one
knew about. He led his vampires there.
"I need you to get all the blood bags in
here. Some are in
that freezer. There is an elevator over there
that will lead
you to ground two. There is a blood bank
that would last
us for a few months should the crisis
continue. I know
this space is not much but it is safe. Don't
eat too much,
we might face hunger soon, this house will
collapse
anytime from now, so I will close this
opening. It is strong
enough to withstand any force the
collapsing of this
building might bring" he addressed his
people with unshed
tears. He couldn't believe that he might lose
everything he
worked hard for, he might lose his mate,
even his life was
at stake. But as long as his coterie was
safe...
He and Bongeka went to the dark forest, as
expected...
The entrance was hidden.
"The last time I was here, Nicholas told me
to do
something to show the witches that I'm
here," Bongeka
informed.
"What did you do?"
"I concentrated on nature... I brought wind
and controlled
the trees. But that was before. Now I'm
uncertain, I might
lose control and make things worse"
Yamkelwe sighed...
"or I can, with you by my side. I can"
They sat down and held hands, Bongeka
closed her eyes
and commanded the trees to move, the
ground would
attempt to rumble but Yamkelwe would
brush her hands to
calm her, they went on and on for a while
without the
witches' response.
"These demons are bullshitting me, they
know I'm here
and they are ignoring me. They seem to
forget who I am."
she stood up furiously. Her eyes changed
to avocado
green. Her skin became pale and it grew
hairs, her fangs
were pricking through her lips, her bottom
lip was even
bleeding because of the sharpness of her
fangs. Her nails
grew into claws.
" Bongeka, this is not the time to unleash
your wolf. It
won't help us" he reprimanded,
unfortunately, he was just
talking to the stone at the moment.
Bongeka fully shifted, it took only a few
seconds for her
bones to break. Surprisingly, it wasn't even
painful. She
growled and went mad, she ran around
howling like a dog
that senses a ghost.
She attempted to bite Yamkelwe but he
quickly ducked
and appeared behind her
"Bongeka, stop it, man!"
She calmed down a bit and went back to
her human form,
a vampire form rather because her fangs
were still there,
green veins popped out screaming blood.
She shifted again, did the same thing, and
turned back to
a vampire. She did the thing of shape-
shifting for the third
time, fourth, and fifth until Yamkelwe lost
count. He was
just standing watching the show with her
hands folded.
After some time, Bongeka looked like a
human again, she
started shivering, her eyes shedding blood
instead of
tears.
"Are you sure you aren't going rogue on
me?" he asked,
flabbergasted.
Bongeka ignored him and slammed her fist
to the ground.
The ground shook hard and fast, it then
cracked and
opened... Into a big whole. Yamkelwe was
on the other
side while she was on the other...
There goes the movie 2010. Or should we
call it 2021?
Whatever that was happening destroyed
the witches
cloaking spell because the cottages were
visible and they
were also collapsing.
Yamkelwe thought about the coterie house;
it was already
on the verge of collapsing when they left.
There was
probably nothing that was left of it. He
hoped everyone
was in the basement for their own safety.
As for him, he
was ready to be buried underground, where
he will
suffocate forever, where he will have to
bear the eternal
torture, where he will wish death upon him
but I wouldn't
come until he rips off his heart... Only if it
would be
possible.
~~
"PANDORA!"
Bongeka saw herself trapped underground,
it was dark,
she couldn't even spot her own hand.
But she recognized the voice, the voice she
thought she'd
never heard of ever again, but it was here.
The voice she
owned in her past life, in the other body.
PANDORA...
"I lost control, please help me" Bongeka
begged with low
sobs.
"I warned you about being consumed by
power"
"You live in me, you should have controlled
me. This
means you also lost control of your power.
At first, you
opened the box of sins when you were
clearly told not to.
Now you are using me to fulfill the things
you failed to
fulfill!" Bongeka shouted, there was too
much that was
expected of her. She was just eighteen
years old. She
never signed up for this. All she wanted
was to go to
varsity, meet bad and good friends,
academics to chow
her, and boys to grate her fragile heart and
learn from her
mistakes not to carry the whole world on
her shoulders.
"Don't blame me, you failed to serve your
purpose just like
everyone. It's clear that my wrongdoing
won't ever be
fixed. The only way to restore peace and
hope is for the
supernatural world to be destroyed. You will
all be trapped
underground, the witches will suffocate to
death along
with the wolves. The vampires will also
starve until your
veins dry out, at least they will be sleeping,
so they won't
be able to feel the pain"
That was awful, the other creatures will get
to be free from
pain while vampires will suffer for years. A
vampire can
survive months or years of not feeding...
"Please don't do this to me Pandora I will
bring peace" she
was begging for survival, there was no way
she could ever
stop the havoc.
"No, if I let you live, you will be caught in a
war, your
boyfriend killed the Royal Vampire who was
the wolf's
girlfriend. The royals are going to Punish
your boyfriend
along with his coterie. The wolves are going
to fight
Yamkelwe for what he did to Precious. The
witches are
going to destroy anything that stood in their
way of power.
It will be a never-ending war. The only way
is to get rid of
you all. There is no hope for peace
Bongeka. Thank you
for your help. but it was never going to
work, I promise
the humans won't be affected."
After that, the voice disappeared and the
ground shook
again. Bongeka gasped for air as she was
running out of
oxygen. Her ears were flooded with the
cries of people. It
was probably the witches.
So this was it?
There was no hope. She cursed the day
she opened that
jar

FORTY- FINALE
After Pandora's voice had disappeared,
Bongeka's mind
came back to reality... She wasn't stuck
underground,
people haven't died yet. The cottages were
demolished,
witches were running up and down to
where it was safe as
the ground cracked open.
Yamkelwe could make it to the coterie
basement in time
with his supernatural speed, but he wasn't
going to run
away like a coward and leave his girlfriend
to die.
He inspected the parts of the ground that
were still in
place, he jumped and jumped carefully until
he reached up
to Bongeka who was still crying blood.
"There's good and evil inside me, Pandora's
is the
combination of good and bad. Right now
the evil is
overtaking. She was in my mind, she wants
all of us to
die, she will only spare humans. I have to
do something
Yamkelwe, I can't just let —" She rambled
in frustration.
" Let's just go to my place, we'll make it if
we hurry and
be safe" Yamkelwe suggested, as much as
she
understood Bongeka's eagerness for peace
but they had to
look out for their lives first.
" We can't just leave, witches and
werewolves will die, I
have to save them. It's my fault we are in
this situation
anyway"
"Damn it, sweets! you cannot save the
whole world! You
need to look after your own, our vampires
are safe!"
"Yes, they are safe. But I'm also a werewolf
remember?
Those creatures are my own too, just like
vampires. You
see these witches... I possess their power. I
owe them my
life!" Bongeka barely finished her speech,
the ground
slightly opened, Bongeka almost fell but
Yamkelwe was
fast enough to catch and move to another
almost safe
spot.
"I can do this, yes. I can do this. Yamkelwe
you need to
go. I promise I will be safe"
"I'd be damned before I leave you here!"
"Fine, help me find Gloria"
After some hardships, they finally got to the
witches, when
they spotted her, they ran away from her.
She became
frustrated...
"There's too much chaos here, where will I
find her?"
"I'm sure you can smell her scent, if your
magic is linked
you can trace her"
"Hey, look out!" Bongeka warned and
Yamkelwe ducked
the stone that almost hit him.
Bongeka kept on looking through the chaos
until they
decided to go towards her cottage, they
found her trapped
under the fallen walls. They helped her out.
She was barely
conscious.
"Gloria, wake up. You need to stop all of
this before we
die" Bongeka shook her.
"I...I have no mag—"
"Channel me, you don't need a spellbook,
you are a witch
by nature. You can do this please hurry"
They helped her sit up and held hands. She
was weak and
could die anytime but she wasn't going to
give up and die,
maybe working with Pandora was the only
way to fix the
mistake of greed that she made.
She enhanced her concentration and
started to speak to
nature, talking to the great spirit of them all
—Earth "
GRANT US THE CHANCE OF FIXING
OUR WRONGS,
SPARE YOUR PEOPLE'S LIVES AND
CLOSE THE DEEP
HOLES THAT WANT TO SWALLOW
YOUR PEOPLE. BRING
BACK YOUR BEAUTIFUL SOIL,
FLOWERS, GRASS, AND
TREES. COME BACK TO US..."
Yamkelwe was getting restless, things were
becoming
worse than better, the ground was opening
wilder and
wilder with each passing second. If Gloria
took long, they
wouldn't survive. And if the Earth was
planning on
swallowing people, not even the basement
will save his
Vampires.
Bongeka noticed Yamkelwe’s uncertainty,
she gave her a
reprimanding look, if Gloria loses
concentration, she'd lose
connection to nature and they will be
doomed.
"NOSIRA RAKRACSK KAE VERT"
"NOSIRA RAKRACSK KAE VERT"
"NOSIRA RAKRACSK KAE VERT"
Gloria started shaking, her eyes turned
white, blood oozed
from her eyes, mouth, nose, and ears. Her
voice was
brittle " NOSIRA RAKRACSK KAE VERT"
she chanted for the
last time and passed out. Bongeka's hands
automatically
went to her ears, her eyes closed,
wondering if Gloria's
spell worked.
She slowly opened her left eye to take a
peek.
The soil had gotten back to normal, the
forest became
beautiful, it was no longer dark and creepy.
The grass was
beautifully green, flowers were colorful and
bright. The sun
shone beautifully against Bongeka's skin...
It was her first
time being directly under the sun ever since
her transition.
She wasn't affected, she didn't need a
daylight pendant.
She looked around, the witches had
gathered around them,
most of them were injured and there were
few dead
bodies. But the majority survived.
Yamkelwe checked
Gloria's pulse... She was dead.
"The power became too much for her"
Bongeka said
sadly, the power that she possessed was
too much even
for the two of them, but it was the only way,
she wasn't
going to win if she did the spell on her own
because it
would be also been too much for her power.
She was
going to die either way.
"Her death wasn't in vain" One of the
witches said with a
faint yet genuine smile.
All the witches nodded in agreement
"Thank you, Pandora, I'm Jack the regent of
the witches.
On behalf of the witches, we are sorry for
what we put you
through"
"It's okay. Now we have to give our fallen
heroes the
dignified funerals, you will do it according to
your tradition,
then we'll find a way to build the cottages
again" Bongeka
explained looking at Yamkelwe. He
nodded... His coterie
was rich, they could help here and there
although they also
had to start over.
They were able to find camping tents for the
witches to
squat until they built the cottages.
Yamkelwe went to check on his coterie
while Bongeka
went to the werewolves pack houses. Their
land was okay
but messy, the wolves were left stranded.
As soon as
Bongeka set her foot on their territory, the
trees and
flowers started blooming. All the
werewolves came before
her and knelt in submission and surrender.
"I'm kind of outdated in current affairs, who
is your alpha,
Seth or Marco?" Bongeka asked
"You are Alpha!" The wolves said I'm in
unison catching
Bongeka by surprise. The reason she had
asked for an
Alpha because she wanted a meeting with
him with
regards to the new living rules and the way
they'd work
together to rebuild the packhouse.
"oh okay... I guess I am..."
Yamkelwe found his vampires unharmed,
the coterie house
was demolished as expected.
.
.
.
Yamkelwe had vampires living amongst
humans
pretending to be humans, some of his
coterie members
had businesses in the human world,
Yamkelwe also had
businesses worldwide. Every member of
the coterie had
their role in keeping it going. For instance,
Nora was a
healer, some vampires were to guard the
coterie house,
some were responsible for the feeding
department, and so
on. It wasn't going to be a problem to
rebuild their new
house. A week later, everything that
remained of the old
house was disposed of, they had started to
build the
house, using the akin plan as the old one, it
was going to
take a long time because It had to be as
strong as the old
one, given that it will have to last for
centuries. It was
good that the building was the appreciating
asset.
The wolves also had ways of making
money, some of
them lived as humans to make money,
unfortunately, Seth
was a corrupt leader so they didn't have
much savings.
The witches didn't have much because they
haven't been
living for long, unlike the vampires who
started saving
centuries ago. Many of the witches had
healed because
they did some spell that enhanced healing
and they were
able to break the magic link they had with
Bongeka which
meant they could practice without
channeling her and their
magic was not dangerous since it wasn't
associated with
Bongeka's.
The wolves also healed with the help of
their fast
regeneration abilities.
Bongeka had set the meeting, since the
werewolves had
made her alpha, they submitted to her and
she
commanded peace and they obeyed,
Marco wasn't
hundred percent happy because of what
happened to
Precious but he had to let go because of
peace. So these
three creatures became allies. Everyone
witnessed the
power of unity from Yamkelwe, Bongeka,
and the late
Gloria.
~~~
Precious was the one who associated
herself with
werewolves!" The king traveled from
Europe to South Africa
when he hadn't heard from Precious in a
long time. He
blamed Yamkelwe for not protecting her.
"You turned against my daughter because
of the evil thing
you brought into our lives" The king roared
in fury
"That evil thing is my mate!"
The king made Yamkelwe choose between
Pandora and
her. And he chose Bongeka. The king
wanted to chastise
Yamkelwe but he knew he had no power
against Bongeka
so he decided to cut any alignment he had
with Yamkelwe
and his coterie. He even influenced the
vampires from
other countries to turn against Yamkelwe.
So it was just
his coterie, against the world. If they were
to go to war or
starve. They'd be on their own. The other
coterie masters
had cut ties with him.
He was completely fine with his decision.
His coterie was
big and wealthy. They won't be needing
assistance with
anything. He was certain that there are
vampires in his
coterie who were born to be masters. He
would groom
them and whenever they are ready to be
independent and
to start their own coteries, he would let
them free. It would
be good that his coterie wouldn't be stand-
alone in the
near future.
"So it is us, against the world baby,"
Bongeka said
hugging Yamkelwe from behind.
"Yes, that's good because we'll be living in
peace. No
fighting werewolves and witches. Instead,
we'll live to aid
each other in unity for the rest of our lives"
Yamkelwe said
with a smile, his espresso eyes glowing in
happiness.
"you did it, sweets, you brought peace
amongst the three
creatures"
"It is sad that the royals cut ties with us"
"Rome wasn't built in one day, sweets. Not
everything can
be done overnight. Gradually the other
countries will see
how peaceful we are and join us, they will
learn to adjust.
In the matter of few years, it will happen."
"I wish my mother would understand my
nature soon"
Bongeka went to see her mother and
explained everything,
it was hard for her to accept her daughter,
she was trying
but she was very terrified of her.
The witches also found the spell called a
vessel trapping
spell. It was a spell that was combined with
a special
sigil to trap Pandora in Bongeka's body so
that when
Bongeka dies, she'd die with Pandora's
spirit and no one
else will ever possess it. Because it can
consume you, the
evil can dominate the good and the disaster
would
happen.
The witches also made a humanity spell for
rogues,
Yamkelwe thought it was the right thing to
do especially
for Nicholas, it wasn't going to cure his
rogue but it would
do the trick. The rogues decided to continue
with their
own coterie away from vampires. They
were not allies but
they made a truce. Bongeka wasn't ready to
make a
relationship with her father.
"After everything we have been through,
hope remained. It
still remains" —Bongeka
"There's another thing remaining"
Yamkelwe looked at her
with a grin.
"We need to mate" she giggled, it was
going to help in
controlling Pandora. Because they were to
be linked to
flesh and spirit.
Yamkelwe closed the tent they currently
lived in. And went
to Bongeka, he squeezed her body against
his, their lips
brushed against each other, his lips gently
tugged on hers,
he touched her with purpose, his lips
moved to her neck
he gently sucked, Bongeka whimpered
already aroused.
He took off her vest exposing her firm tits,
he licked them
like candy and started sucking, he nipped
her gently with
his teeth making her gasp in pleasure
before moving to
the other one. He gently laid down and
dropped on his
knees before her and pulled down her
jeans, he trailed his
wet kisses from her breasts to her belly
bottom, licking
there as well making her giggle and squirm.
He took a few seconds admiring the
beautiful creature that
was laying before her and thinking about
how blessed he
was to have her. He pulled his T-shirt,
pants, and
underwear bearing himself to her. Her
mouth watered
joining her already gushing pussy in
producing the liquid
preamble to their lovemaking.
Yamkelwe made his way back to her
breasts trailed down
to her navel and nuzzled his face against
her panty-
covered sex smiling her scent, he finally
pulled off her
panties and slid his tongue her tight little
starfish to
slowly through her syrupy core to her firm
clit that was
begging for attention. Bongeka screamed in
pleasure as
Yamkelwe’s tongue was licking her clit
from back to forth like a boxer's speed bag,
flicking it
every which way. She never felt like that
ever since she
was born. After a few minutes of oral
assaults, her whole
body tightened...
"Let go, sweets" Yamkelwe whispered, his
eyes were small
and had turned into the darkest shade of
brown.
Bongeka obeyed, she came hard, it was
intense, she felt
like she was going to pass out. Yamkelwe
didn't stop she
licked her clean and renewed his attack on
her clit, she
felt herself climbing into another orgasm,
while he was
licking and sucking her clit he slipped one
finger inside
her drenched
pussy, rubbing the roof of her channel.
Bongeka flinched
in discomfort but as Yamkelwe continued
stroking, the
little pain faded and she moaned in
pleasure. Her body
shuddered at a crippling orgasm that took
over, her pussy
pulsing around his invading finger.
Bongeka wanted to say something but
words couldn't
come out, instead, she decided to kiss him,
her lips were
so soft, her tongue was sensual, she was
perfection.
He rubbed the tip of his cock against her
opening teasing
her. She panted beneath him, he smiled
"It's going to be
painful but I will be gentle"
He made his first push, gentle. Bongeka
moaned in pain
grasping Yamkelwe’s short hair. He didn't
go deep instead
he pulled out and pushed again and finally
made it in.
Bongeka screamed in agony "Are you
okay?" Yamkelwe
asked brushing her face, his hands were
shaking. Bongeka
nodded, Yamkelwe took a moment and
looked at her
eyes, and basked at the emotion of being
joined to her
like this. Bongeka gave him a nod to assure
him. He
started to move "Damn" she was so tight,
he could feel
every inch of her virgina as it squeezed and
loving him as
he made his gentle moves.
"Ahhh" Bongeka moaned, it was painful in a
pleasurable
way. It hurt so well that she wasn't sure if
she was
moaning because of pain or pleasure.
Yamkelwe picked
up his speed, getting lost in pleasure, he
pushed into her
more forcefully fucking her harder and
harder. "Holy shit!
Damn it Bongeka" he pounded her snatch
harder climbing
to the alternate peak, Bongeka was
screaming, tears
flowing freely from her eyes as she felt the
unbelievably
erotic sensation of his cock stroking in and
out of her
taking her higher on each thrust until her
body seemed to
explode in a million flashes of light as her
orgasm. She
felt her pussy throbbing and sucking the
cum right after
her mate's dick. Yamkelwe cried out her
name as he thrust deeply one last time and
held her tightly as he spurted rope after
rope of hot cum into her grasping pussy. He
finally got his release after many minutes of
holding back and making sure he satisfied
his mate. Bongeka wiped her tears of joy as
Yamkelwe pecked her lips. Her innocence
and purïty weren't lost, she shared it with
the love of her life. It wasn't just sex, it was
the sharing of flesh, spirit, power, and heart.
Yamkelwe already knew what Bongeka was
thinking and feeling. He was glad he made
her happy as she made him.
.
.
.
.
THE END