Fates Hands by Lori Ameling

Chapter 100

Chapter 2–Book 3

##WARNING some violence and language.##

Archer had established an apartment for him and August and was working on uniting the families of the

Lion communities.

It was hard frustrating work, not only were they not willing but they were stubborn. They wanted all the

terms to be only beneficial for them.

Lately, Archer had to turn his attention from getting the community together to another report of citizens

being mutilated and killed.

Some of the victims were shifters that were visiting the city, most were humans.

Archer thought that maybe they had

a rouge working in the city and decided to investigate. It did look like it was a big cat doing this, but the

kills even for a rogue were odd.

Rogues like to eat their kills, there was mauling and carnage but there was no sign of actual eating.

The kills also had a strange smell around them that Archer couldn’t place.

Archer and his brother August split up the city, Archer would take the north end and August the south. It

was only a matter of time before one of them would cross its path.

That is how Archer found himself watching the beast stalk another victim. He was about to intervene

when a woman started walking closer to the scene.

She must have heard the noise and was trying to figure out what was going on. He could tell she was

about

to yell.

He ran over to her as quietly as possible and stopped her from yelling out. He looked over at the scene

taking note of everything he could see, hear and smell.

He wouldn’t be able to help the victim this time because he had to save the woman.

He was a little pissed. What the fuck is this woman doing out here at this time of night? Is she a

hooker? She was dressed in a uniform perhaps a campus worker?

Either way, once it was safe he was going to give her a piece of his mind. Once he had her in the

safety of the trees it was already too late for the victim. That was when the beast started to sniff the air.

Selena Orin was a beautiful woman with long flowing purple hair and light brown eyes, she had the

b*dy of what any man would lust for. She was born with blond hair but she liked to change it up every

century or so.

She was born over 500 years ago into a family of strong dark witches. She showed promise at an early

age. She had one weakness she fell in love with a Lion shifter named Dargon. 2

Dargon did not love her though, so she made a love potion to trick himi, however, he fell in love with his

true mate and the love potion backfired.

As time went by though each attempt she made at getting revenge was stopped

She made a deal with the devil, she wanted to be young and beautiful forever as a way to show Dargon

that she would always be around for her

revenge.

The devil did indeed make her a deal, she would stay young and beautiful as long as every 100 years

she would drink the blood of every Were species leader.

If she did this then she would live forever, however, she had to let go of her need for revenge.

If she ever harmed any ancestor of Dargon in any way her beauty would fade and Her soul would

belong to the devil.

She kept her promise, over the years though it had become too hard to keep track of all the linages,

she did her best to stay away from the Lions.

She would purchase the blood she needed from that linage, that way she stayed forever beautiful.

As the years went by she started to become full of hatred, losing her sanity. Now she wanted nothing

more than to destroy all the races of the earth.

So she decided that she would start with the families and communities of the Werelions. Destroy them

from within, using lust and greed as her weapons. 1

She would deal with the devil when he comes for his due. First things first, the blood of a human leader.

I need to maintain my beauty if my plan is going to work.

Anna Stevens couldn’t sleep, she looked at the clock and it was two hours past the time for her sister to

come home, Rachel was known to pick up extra shifts but she always left a note for Anna.

There was no note, she always worried about her sister. She also felt guilty sometimes because she

knew that Rachel led a crappy life so that she could go to school and college.

So Anna made sure that she studied hard, she didn’t want Rachel to have to do all that for nothing.

She was about to get up and make some phone calls when she heard her sister’s car pull up to the

trailer.

Happy that her sister was safe, Anna finally gave in to her exhaustion and fell asleep. She would ask

Rachel in the morning why she was so late.

Archer texted his brother August, he had to keep his wits about him, so that meant no mind link. His

brother was coming to take over finding the trail of the beast. While Archer dealt

with this new complication.

The beast had finally left, Archer wasn’t a fool, it had marked the scent in its brain for future

encounters. It wasn’t his scent though that the beast picked up, Archer could mask his scent.

It was the female that it had scented. She did have an intoxicating scent. It was nothing like all the

fancy perfumes he was accustomed to smelling. This was cleaner, lavender, and citrus as well as some

kind of cleaner?

The cleaner was probably from her job. He stood there for a long while with her in his arms, His cat

Solis was purring and calm. Something he never was anymore.

It was then that she bit his hand.

He hissed in pain, she bit hard

enough to draw blood. He let her go and she started to back away from him. He could tell she was

thinking about running

He was quicker and caught her before she could make her turn to run. She struggled and this time he

managed to subdue her again this time keeping his hands from her mouth.

“Who are you? Let me go. I am going to scream if you don’t let me go right

now!!!!”

“Calm down catnip and I will let you go, I just want to talk to you.” 2

Finally, she calmed down and Archer was satisfied that she wasn’t going to make a run for it.

“What is your name? How are you out here at this time of night?”

She glared at him as if he had no

right to ask her anything, he did suppose she was right to think that, it is how he would have felt.

“Please, I was just getting out of work and heading for my car. I don’t want any trouble with you or

whatever that was over there.”

“Just let me get to my car and I will leave, no one will ever learn I was here or what happened to me. I

promise.”

He watched her she was shaking but holding her own, her scent was still driving him crazy and Solis

barely acted like he was aware of what was going on. He was too busy purring and rolling around.

“My name is Archer, what is your name?

“My name?”

She was trying to get out of telling him her name. He understood her evasion but it wasn’t going to

work. He needed for some reason to know her name.

“Yes, Catnip, your name.

With a sigh of defeat, she looked at him still defiant as she said…

“My name is Lucy.”

He almost chuckled at that bold lie.

“Try again Catnip, that isn’t your name.”

“Fine, my name is Rachel. Alright now let me go.”

Rachel studied this Archer guy, he had on expensive clothes even though they were just casual, he

smelled like heaven and his eyes were a golden color, something she had never seen before. He was

also well

built and tall. In a normal setting, she would be interested in him.

This, however, was not normal and she was starting to get agitated, there was a guy over there in the

dark probably dead. All he seemed to be interested in was who she was.

They needed to call the police, someone had to miss the poor guy. What if he is still alive and they are

over here playing what is your name.

“The guy is dead and his b*dy was taken by whatever killed him. So you can stop worrying about that

Catnip.”

“My name is Rachel, not Catnip.”

He just smiled at her, she got a chill his eyes looked predatory. She took a step back.

“You do know Rachel that whatever that creature was, has your scent now and will be out hunting for

you?”

.

“That is just stupid, why would it bother with me,”

“It will hunt you because it will think you had seen it and it won’t want any witnesses.”

“I don’t have time for this, I have to go home. My sister is probably starting to get worried about me.”

He let her go then, she got into her car fast and didn’t look back.

He let her think that she had gotten away, in truth he was following her to her home. He didn’t want to

let her go just yet and she might be in danger. He will have to keep an eye on her.