Winter

"Winter, my baby girl," I hear as I open my eyes to a frozen field, there’s a large willow tree on top of the hill, its long branches blowing in the cold wind. Elissa is stood next to a woman I recognise but it’s still a big shock. 

My mother stands in front of me, in the same white dress as Elissa. Her long brown hair sways in the cold wind like Elissa's black hair does. When they are next to each other, I can see the similarities. They look so alike, but my mother’s gaze is filled with love and tears. I want to run to her but I can’t. My heart pounds against my chest as I meet her blue eyes, just like mine.

"It's not safe and he’ll do what he did to me. You need to wake up and run," she pleads with me, her words desperate.

"You’re dead?" I ask and she nods. I knew it but I had to hear it.

"Yes, many years ago when my father called me to him. My father can call his own blood, it’s like your dream calling power but he can control you. He didn't expect his demons to want to feed on me when he sent them to take me through a portal. They did and killed me but that was a blessing because he couldn't find you. My father has to be close to you for him to have control, you have to run," she says. The wind blows snow against my cheeks and I blink the cold away as I focus on her words.

She steps close to me.

"How can I call the dead?" I ask.

"Because our spirits never left you. I will never leave you my child, war is coming and your heart will break, I only wish I could hold you as it does," she says, making me worry; her words can’t be true. I refuse to believe them.

I realise she can’t touch me when she hovers her impossibly pale hand over my shoulder; we are the same height, I notice when she is so close to me.

“I dream called your friend, Lily, she is going to help me win the war,” I say, looking over every detail of her face. How she has freckles but I don’t. How her nose is slightly different from mine, but we have the same lips.
“She is no friend; that was a grave mistake Winter. The price is too high for the promise.” She tells me and I feel sick. What have I done?

“I don’t…” I say and my mother cuts me off.

"You can fight him; your mates can save you.”

“Only her mates can stop her from the destruction of all.” Elissa says as she moves next to my mother. Her bright blue eyes meet mine.

“Remember that, remember the words," Elissa says, and the sky turns black slowly as I turn my head to watch. The cold air becomes painful to breathe in as my mother and Elissa disappear. I can’t see their faces as the cold wind pushes me over into the snow. I stand up shakily and watch as the demon king walks over the hill.

"Thank you for accepting my call," he says and laughs. 

I wake up and jump in the bed, nearly falling off the side.

I glance at the empty bed and I wonder where Atti is. A shake fills the castle, and the bed slides on the floor and the window blasts open near the bed. I scream and pull the sheets closer around myself.

What’s happening?

I didn’t expect to wake up from finally mating with Atti to this. I blush when I think of the night with Atti but the shaking castle soon snaps me back to reality.

I need to find Atti and tell him about the dream; I need to make sure he’s alright. I get up in the dark bedroom and pull Atti’s shirt off the floor and over my head, it hits my knees with how large it is. The castle shakes again and I fall to the ground. I think a witch or several must be using their earth powers. Jaxson went back to the pack with Wyatt after the fight.

The door is slammed open and I scramble back as the demon king walks in. He smirks down at me, a look of pure evil on his pale face. The demon king’s face is covered in blue veins but they are nothing on his glowing dark red eyes. They’re nothing like mine when they glow; no, they are scary. The demon king has a long black cloak over his clothes and the vampire crown on his head. He looks so much like Wyatt’s father, but everything is harder and lost because of the demon controlling his body.

"Time to come with me, My Princess," he says and holds out a hand. I hold my throat as something takes over me. I can’t move and I fall to my knees as pain takes over my body in a wave.

I suddenly I feel nothing.

My mind screams no as my body ignores me and stands up. I walk over to the demon king and place my hand in his with a large smile spreading over my face. Why am I smiling?

The demon king leads me over to an older witch with long black hair. The dark witch bows, and looks at the demon king with clear desire. I try to scream in my head, I try to move my body as I feel darkness slipping over my mind.

"Time to destroy the world, my Princess," the demon king laughs. I don't refuse him as the witch takes us away and darkness turns everything black.