Kiya resigned her job at the pub and stopped receiving jobs for babysitting and tutoring but she maintained her job at the grocery store. Her decision did not stem from the deaths of her parents nor Cain but rather because she had received a large amount of money, millions to be exact. A week after the death of her parents, the insurance company came and just gave her the money. It turns out her parents had bought insurance before they fell victim to their vices. Surprisingly, they had maintained the payment. However, despite receiving the money, all Kiya could do was quit her jobs. She still wanted to travel but her desire had diminished. For this time, she doesn’t want to leave or be apart from Cain. She can still get what she wants but not the way she used to dream it but she would still have a chance to see the world.

“I have something to tell you.”

On the first Saturday that Kiya has no job to attend to, Cain had appeared on her door early in the morning. He was his usual self when he greeted her, a kiss on the cheek then suddenly he turned serious when they were sitting in the living room.

“Your…mother talked to me before she died.” Kiya was surprised but she remained quiet. “When I found out what happened, I rushed to the hospital to find you but you weren’t there yet. Your mother woke up and saw me. She talked to me.” Cain hesitated.

“What did she tell you?” Kiya tried to suppress the dreadful feeling that was starting to form.

“She told me things Kiya. Things that you need to know. I wanted to wait a little longer until you are ready but something happened recently.” Cain held her hand and took a deep breath.

If werewolves exist then naturally, other magical creatures exist. This would include witches. It also won’t be a surprise when a werewolf’s mate would turn out to be a witch. This was the case for the Jacobs family. The father is a werewolf and the mother is a full-blood witch, they bore two daughters who were coincidentally born different. The older daughter, Jasmine Jacobs, was born a witch while the second daughter, Gina Jacobs, was born a werewolf. As time passed by, the two daughters met their mate and went their separate ways with their mates. Gina went with Harold Hydens to live in his hometown while Jasmine, who became a historian, travelled around with her archaeologist and scientist werewolf mate by the name of Walter Cross.

One day, during one of their digs Walter and Jasmine came upon an ancient tomb that was believed to be connected to shape shifters, werewolves included. Humans were excluded from the dig and a group of archaeologists that were part of the supernatural world joined them the next day with Walter and Jasmine leading the project. They worked on the tomb for a week until the day when Walter touched something that appeared to have electrocuted him. After that, traps were triggered and the tomb started collapsing. Everyone made it out alive but the tomb was completely destroyed, even when they started to dig again, everything they found were either useless or completely broken to dusts. In the end, the project closed without results. However, a month after the dig, Walter started changing. They thought he was sick since he became weaker and weaker, his strength diminished and his senses grew weaker. He was like a human, a sick human. Then the worst thing happened, Walter could not shift. It was by then that they realized that the impossible had happened, Walter had turned from a werewolf to a normal human being suspecting the mysterious thing he touched during the dig. Jasmin’s magic did not help either.

Walter could not accept the truth and tried several times to go back to the site but nothing turned up. Jasmine could not help her husband any longer during those hard times because she became pregnant. Walter did not give up on the dig site and left his wife at home. As time passed by Walter became obsessed of turning himself back to a werewolf that he decided to do something himself. He went back home and locked himself in his lab, not noticing that Jasmine was already close to giving birth to their child. Jasmine was relieved her husband had come home and focused on her pregnancy. Walter finally came out of his lab the day that Jasmine gave birth. He behaved differently unlike before but Jasmine just thought it was the trauma of what happened to him, she was just happy that he was beside her once again. He became very caring to Jasmine, taking care of her until she recovered from child birth. Jasmine found it weird that he was only focusing on her and did not even seem to care about the presence of their daughter until the day he brought her to his lab. He wanted her to use her magic to create some sort of energy for the machine he was making. She felt used but still did what her husband asked. He would ask more from time to time not knowing that the machine was actually sucking her magical powers away as well. When Walter discovered it, he didn’t have an ounce of care.

Gina and Harold came to visit when their niece was a month old and had noticed the strange atmosphere in the house. Gina became worried when she saw her sister’s haggard state. Jasmine dismissed her worry by reasoning out that she was a mother now. However, Gina didn’t believe her especially when Walter didn’t even come out to greet them for the entire week that they were there; she decided to extend their stay with Harold sharing her concerns. Jasmine was actually comforted with their stay but she couldn’t tell them the truth.

“What are you doing?” Jasmine asked, horrified that her husband was in the nursery, looking intently at their sleeping daughter.

“What do you mean? I’m admiring our daughter.” Walter said before leaving.

Jasmine was not the least bit happy that her husband finally took interest in their daughter. She clearly knows that Walter had changed. He wasn’t the same anymore. She feared for her daughter’s safety and finally she opened up to Gina. Gina and Harold were shocked at how things turned out and wanted to report Walter to his pack but Jasmine still stupidly stopped them. In her mind, these was just a hard phase until Walter finally wakes up and realize that he could do nothing but accept the fact the truth that there is nothing else he could do. Until then, Jasmine needs to guard their daughter from him. However, when everyone’s guard was down, the baby had disappeared from her crib. Jasmine, Gina and Harold had immediately fled to the lab but they were too late.

“Useless thing!” Walter had shouted at Jasmine when he saw them, not caring that his own daughter is already a mere corpse on the table.

Jasmine approached her child slowly in shock and with a shaking hand, checked to see if she was really dead. She wailed when she finally confirmed the horrible truth. Gina and Harold remained frozen in place as they watched Jasmine lament her dead child. Suddenly Jasmine started to chant something in Latin but afterwards, nothing happened.

“What did you do to me?!” Jasmine shouted to Walter.

“Don’t you see? I have succeeded! Just a few more experiments and I would be able to turn myself back. Your powers had been absorbed by my machine. I and my companions had already experimented on some test subjects and it was a success.” Walter proudly stated as he looked at his machine lovingly.

Jasmine couldn’t believe what she was hearing. However, before Jasmine could fall into an endless depression, her gaze fell on the big round glass attached to the machine and inside is a glowing slime-like fluid. She felt it, a part of her. The wheels in her mind started turning and with everything she could muster, she willed her powers back to her. The fluid inside the glass started moving violently and Walter panicked. When he saw Jasmine with her closed eyes, he knew she was doing something but before he could do anything, Harold had jumped on him. Walter was subdued and could not move but he still shouted at Jasmine to stop. Finally, the glass broke and the fluid started to float towards Jasmine. When the fluid was finally around her hands, she started to move her hands in a circular manner and the fluid starting getting smaller and smaller until finally, a small, black marble formed. Everyone watched in silence, even Walter stopped screaming. The black marble rotated around for a while before suddenly moving and sinking in the chest of the baby. Almost immediately, the baby started crying as if though she was startled awake.

“Take her away. Take Kiya with you.” Jasmine said to Gina while blood was coming out of her mouth.