All Chapters of Durable: Empowered Series: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Graduation was a week away, and all my classes were finished but they had given me the option to keep attending, and I had taken it. Unfortunately, there were no sports scheduled after the last bell, so I had to go home. I was getting off the bus down the street from my house, when the group of friends I had been riding the bus with for years screamed, “BYE NIKKI!!!” and burst into laughter. My lips pulled into a wide grin and I waved back at them. I would miss them. My name was actually Nicholas Winspere, I to everyone but the people I lived with and with the thought of home the smile dropped from my face.

Free At Last. Right?As I sat waiting for the Amtrak to leave the station a hundred different scenarios on how my parents would find me bounced around in my mind. It wasn’t until I felt the first pull of the train as it left the station that I calmed down and my breathing returned to normal. I was going to make it. I was going t

“Wake up little one. If you sleep any longer, you will miss the breakfast cart.” With a groan, I rolled onto my side and ignored Keith. The last two days had been filled with him hovering over me like a

With my heart hammering in my ears and my thoughts a jumbled mess, I drove towards home. I needed to be surrounded by the familiar sweet scent of vanilla and cinnamon; lay in the plushy goodness of my futon sofa, and binge on lots of ice cream and cake until today’s events were lost in a haze of sugar. After I came down from my sugar rush, I would open a bottle of wine and slowly process just what had transpired.  

“What the hell are you talking about?!” Fear ran rampant through my body even as something within me simultaneously relaxed, when he said werewolf. Not another word, I didn’t want to hear another word. “Shut up, SHUT UP AND GET OUT! “GET OUT!!”I couldn’t breathe, I couldn’t think and what was worse was that the weird sensation of pins and needles that was beginning to crawl up through me. “Nikki, we have to talk! You are part werewolf and I know how it happened.”