The Hybrid Lover

e echo of the last noises of the battle moving away in an almost unreal silence. Juliette, her hand trembling, dared not ask the slightest

rt beating, until finall

eak voice, almost muffled. We have no cho

the beginning. She was not ready to hear everything that implied. The world he had just described was not part o

bring me into this world? She asked

his family. A long silence stretched, heav

w what we really are, they would exterminate us. It's the reality of a world that never wanted to see us. We are

gined that the world of supernatural creatures, hybrids, could be so brutal. She may

others like you? she a

dded

ong them, invisible, and simply hope to go unnoticed. But hunters ... they don't forget us. They track hybrids. They kill them. Destroy them.

scribed was totally different from everything she thought she knew. Hybrids, banned creatures, parias of the human world. And in this

him, before asking a question that had bruis

did you involve me? You could escape alon

emed difficult to hide. His eyes hardened, and for a moment, Juli

person I can show who I really am. An

omething deeper, more intimate. But she was not ready. Not yet. The revelation of his

st told me will change my life forever?

sture, as if he were alr

you want to understand, if you want all that to make sense, you will ha

to resolve to flee. This world, that of Damien, called him more and more.

t jostle in her mind, but she knew that anyway, nothing would ever be as befor

She finally asked, her tr

ash of brilliant dete

racking down those of my kind. They now know that I am alive, and they will c

all of that seemed as overwhelming as before. She knew what she wanted. She had s

ow them that we are not at their merc

half-sourire emer

, Juliette. But maybe,

if all, at that moment, depended on what they were going

reat. It was a carefully orchestrated ambush, and she hadn't seen the signs. Th

ed in a fraction of a second. She tried to get up, but an unknown force kept her in place, pushing her again against the soil, and unbearable pain spread in her chest. The metal smell of bloo

op? asked a hoarse voi

her, his figure that is both familiar and frightening. Her features were hard, as sculpted in st

have the same eyes. Not the same pain, not the same torment. He was more... wild. His face was marked

whispered, despite the s

limmer of conte

want you in their war. You have nothing to do with what you are about

is lips, and he added, al

what you can understand, clans that fight for the future. And

. She could feel her blood flowing. Another hybrid, another of them ... This one se

breathe, raising a bl

I want to know why they hide everything from us, why th

is laughter resona

ve in peace and those who believe that humans must fold under their domination. And you, you try to understand secrets that burn you before

once again, a threat tha

o you think you can save the humanity from thi

lmost feline movement, like a

t to retreat. She remembered what Damien had told her, what he had revealed: a divided world, creatures of the shadow tracked by other more dangerous creatures

her trembling hands touching her belly

f challenge. No matter what you do, no matter

again, but a thud, like a roar, vibrated the air around them. The man stopped suddenly, f

om darkness, a body all in muscles and in force. She immediately recognized Damie

e tried to defend himself, but he had no chance. In a few seconds, he found himself on the ground, ta

alone, he rumbled in a l

ove man, dominating the situation with disconcerting ease. She could almost see the differen

y felt it, this dangerous aura, this power that invaded him from each m

but he shattered him suddenly. The man straightened up slowly, g

ifferent light, as if something even bigger was hid behind. She understood. What he hid was not only a question of rival clans, o

e, he finally said, br