Sing, Canary - Ashley Amy Page 0,9

not wanting to bed the filthy pigs here. In all honesty, I was a lesbian, but I didn't like feeling overwhelmed in a relationship.

They could say what they wanted. I got turned on, and I liked women. They were just mad I didn't jump at the chance to share my blood with them to heighten the pleasure they wanted to achieve.

Luckily, Barcel only allowed himself to feed from my Asian body.

Speaking of the asshole, he pulled me into his lap, showing his metaphorical leash around my neck. He glanced back at the men he was trying to sway his way.

"Simone is my own secret weapon. I let her play when she's been good." He petted my bobbed hair while speaking to the men. "Tomorrow, I'll show you how good she is to get my way with your Angel. Simone is the sweetest of my clan."

I swallowed hard, hating what these boys were signing their female family member up for. I just prayed Lyra might use her powers on me like she did on Jerimiah.

I landed myself in here from being freshly turned by Barcel's man on the outside. Well, right after, my maker was caught eating humans on the side. We all got arrested for his illegal cannibalism. They didn't care that I had been wrongly indicted with him.

Fed to the wolves, Barcel quickly claimed me for himself. My life had been hell ever since.

6

Axel

It was juvenile, but I didn't care. Caine told me to make her life hell, so I would. With the few groupies that shadowed me already, I stood outside the shower room.

Shifters always wanted to follow the top alpha, and my new friends knew that would always be me. None of them—not even the other alphas—could compare to my line.

I knew my birthright as a lion, without needing to be born to my biological parents. I knew they were killed once their pride learned they conceived me.

My adoptive mother just so happened to be the guardian angel of my real mother. Dayna Black thought my father could handle the attack against them.

It wasn't until his blood was shed that she finally hastened her angel to save her. Serene Stamos, Armoni's sister, arrived. But when she got there, my mother's throat had already been bitten out.

With her dying, Serene quickly moved us with her teleportation, that could only be used during emergencies. She had Armoni help her deliver me by cutting my mother's lifeless body open.

As morbid as the tale might be, my adoptive mother was a wonderful person. Though, she still hated that I didn't get along with Lyra to this day.

Oh well.

The sheltered princess really fucked with Caine's head. Even though I grew up with Lyra, Caine and I bonded instantly when Armoni married Seraph. Though, part of that stemmed from the hurt Lyra gave me when she returned home.

Lyra and I were close as kids, but the second she was saved from her abduction, she quit talking to me. Well, she wasn't allowed to be seen by many. Still, my best friend didn’t want to have anything to do with me.

I tried quite a few times to talk to her, but her eyes were always so vacant. They still were.

When Caine began to vent his wrath against her, I couldn't help but have my own. She never gave me an answer as to what had happened.

My fun-loving best friend just came back dead. It wasn't a secret that her grey feather made an appearance that day.

At fourteen, I learned my first form of heartbreak. I was faced with feelings an adoptive cousin shouldn't feel for the girl he grew up with. For that, I never questioned Caine's torment he used against her. It was easier to turn my grief into anger.

So, with that, I opened the door to the showers. My men stood watch as I snuck into the room that was forbidden for us males, during this time. There was only one shower room, so they gave us certain times to shower.

With only two females here, they were given their slots at the end of the day. The water was probably cold, but Lyra would never say anything. She'd just bear through it all until Talon saved her.

Peeking around the corner, I found her and Simone on opposite sides. I also saw the vampire checking out my cousin a few times.

Lyra never paid anyone attention. She did what she needed, then she hid in her room for the night. Here, she wasn't as