Noah
I’m close to my regeneration, but I hold on a few extra days so I can attend my brother’s wedding. I’m sure I look like hell, but the only one who seems to notice is the gorgeous friend of the bride. She asks me to dance and I’m too intrigued to deny her. When I tell her I’ll be better in a few days, her eyes fill with sympathy. Once I’m reborn out of the ashes, they’ll be a lot of explaining to do.
Nina
He was sick at the wedding. Even so, I couldn’t take my eyes off him. So beautiful and elegant. When my flight gets delayed, I stay a few extra days at Scrim Hall. I’m a little ashamed, but I follow Noah into the woods. I don’t know what I hoped for, but he bursts into flames and a minute later he’s in front of me, perfect and naked, and I’m about to lose my mind. He wraps his arms around me before I crumble to the dirt and it’s like I’m home for the first time.
Havendoor, New York is a small out-of-the-way town. Surrounded by forest, it’s the perfect place to build a mansion and raise six spirited monsters to be extraordinary beasts.
Even though I was born different, generally I believe in law and order. However, by human rules, I shouldn’t have searched for them. I damn sure shouldn’t have taken them.
Don’t be too quick to judge me.
If you had seen how eager those state institutions and foster homes were to be rid of those little boys, you’d have done the same thing.
Monsters, they called them, but they were the monsters. I gave children who were born special a family and an education. I made them a home in Scrim Hall.
That was twenty-five years ago.
Maybe I kept them too safe, too separate. It’s time I flew the nest so they can do the same.
You should know there are vampires, reapers, demons, and people who shift from humans to wolves, phoenixes, and dragons. They’re not like other men, because they are only partially human. You can call them monsters, but they are my children, and they are ready for the world to meet the brothers of Scrim Hall.
~ Wentworth Pettigrew
I’m close to my regeneration, but I hold on a few extra days so I can attend my brother’s wedding. I’m sure I look like hell, but the only one who seems to notice is the gorgeous friend of the bride. She asks me to dance and I’m too intrigued to deny her. When I tell her I’ll be better in a few days, her eyes fill with sympathy. Once I’m reborn out of the ashes, they’ll be a lot of explaining to do.
Nina
He was sick at the wedding. Even so, I couldn’t take my eyes off him. So beautiful and elegant. When my flight gets delayed, I stay a few extra days at Scrim Hall. I’m a little ashamed, but I follow Noah into the woods. I don’t know what I hoped for, but he bursts into flames and a minute later he’s in front of me, perfect and naked, and I’m about to lose my mind. He wraps his arms around me before I crumble to the dirt and it’s like I’m home for the first time.
Havendoor, New York is a small out-of-the-way town. Surrounded by forest, it’s the perfect place to build a mansion and raise six spirited monsters to be extraordinary beasts.
Even though I was born different, generally I believe in law and order. However, by human rules, I shouldn’t have searched for them. I damn sure shouldn’t have taken them.
Don’t be too quick to judge me.
If you had seen how eager those state institutions and foster homes were to be rid of those little boys, you’d have done the same thing.
Monsters, they called them, but they were the monsters. I gave children who were born special a family and an education. I made them a home in Scrim Hall.
That was twenty-five years ago.
Maybe I kept them too safe, too separate. It’s time I flew the nest so they can do the same.
You should know there are vampires, reapers, demons, and people who shift from humans to wolves, phoenixes, and dragons. They’re not like other men, because they are only partially human. You can call them monsters, but they are my children, and they are ready for the world to meet the brothers of Scrim Hall.
~ Wentworth Pettigrew
Brothers of Scrim Hall
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