Awakening From Ashes
Lucas Graham's life unraveled on his eleventh birthday when his father returned home with a mistress in his hand and her child at his beckon. The reason? Lucas's inability to awaken his innate gifts. Cast out from his family, he endured a harsh existence, clinging to the love of his only remaining kin—his mother. Years later, everything changes. Lucas awakens not with one or two but five extraordinary abilities that rival old legends. Yet, instead of reclaiming his lost title, he and his mother choose a quiet life in a remote town, shielding themselves from the past. But fate is relentless. The mistress resurfaces, sending assassins to end Lucas and his mother. The assassins succeed in taking the mother's life, but Lucas survives. Now fueled by a burning desire for vengeance, he vows to make them pay for his mother's death, even if it means reducing the city to ashes.
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Chapter: Chapter 6: A Rollercoaster of EmotionsSoon enough, Lucas followed close behind Tobias as he showed him around the mansion, not that it mattered since Lucas already knew this house inside out. After all, it was his once upon a lifetime. The tour was over within an hour, as Tobias obviously didn’t show him every inch of the house. Just the parts he would be allowed to enter since he now worked for the family.“So, tell me, where did you learn how to do that?” Tobias asked Lucas as they walked out of the mansion and towards the cars lined up in front of the house. Lucas shrugged to show that it was no big deal, but his mind was racing to come up with an answer. Well, an answer that wouldn’t be too far off from what he wrote down in his application. It was one thing to lie, and then it was another to go completely off script.“I used to train a lot with my mother. Well, not training per se. She used to teach me how to use my gift and my father taught me how to refine them in case I got into trouble at school.” He somewhat li
Last Updated: 2025-07-12
Chapter: Chapter 5: Trojan HorseThree months later and an entire personality and physical change, Lucas was ready to go back for revenge. Hell, he was already in the same city as his old family, only a few streets away from them to give him a fair vantage point. In his time of waiting he had seen an ad by the Graham's, looking for some men to joing their security team. The security team would be with the Graham's for the most part and would be given quarters in the mansion. A tense thought but an opportunity that Lucas didn't hesitate to jump at to move to the next step of his plan. It took about a week for Lucas to actually get called back on the basis that he wanted to apply for the job with Graham's and another three days after filling out forms, submitting identifications, and undergoing a rigorous test to ascertain if he was fit for the job. On the other hand, Nicole was nowhere to be found in New York. Lucas had hired a private investigator to find her, but she hadn't turned up anywhere. It was like she disap
Last Updated: 2025-07-01
Chapter: Chapter 4: A Path to RevengeLucas entered the morgue a damaged but somewhat clothed man ever since he woke up in the hospital room.The nurse led him towards the slab under the bright lights in the middle of the room. The same slab that had a covered dead body under it and somehow made the room of death seem even more daunting. Lucas winced at the slight pain he felt from his surgery stitches but he still pressed on. If the body under there was who he thought it was, then he had no time to stop. He needed to see her.They reached the slab and the nurse turned to him with sadness in her eyes. She bit her lip but still spoke to Lucas.“I asked for you to see her alone. Well, not alone since I’m here as your chaperon in the hospital. Is that okay?”Lucas gave her a nod, his eyes trained on the sight before him.“Are you ready or do you need some time?” she asked Lucas as she gripped one side of the sheet.“I’m ready,” he answered her, bracing himself for the revelation and at the same time hoping against hope that
Last Updated: 2025-07-01
Chapter: Chapter 3: Realizing Betrayal“Sit back down and die, worm.” Nicole’s words echoed in Lucas’s head.“What?” he managed to ask through the splitting pain in his head.“You heard me,” she said, her face devoid of any emotion. Lucas furrowed his brows, confused as to what was going on. The woman whom he had just proposed to, the woman whom he had promised the rest of his life to, had just told him to die. No, this can’t be right, Lucas thought to himself.Another sharp pain ran through his body and he screamed out in agony. His mother’s hands gripped his body in a bid to soothe his pain. “Nicole, what’s the meaning of this?” Marrisa asked.“Oh, shut up, hag. I’ve never liked you and tonight is the night I get rid of you and your sickly sweet son,” Nicole replied, her eyes menacing but true to her words.“Stop this, please,” Lucas heard his mother beg. She was probably confused but seeing the same changes he saw in his fiancee.“Restrain her,” Nicole ordered the men behind her who wasted no time in doing what they
Last Updated: 2025-07-01
Chapter: Chapter 2: SurprisesThe next day came by much quicker than Lucas had expected. He wasn’t sure whether it was because he had woken up a bit earlier due to his constant nightmares or the fact that he couldn’t sleep again from the sheer excitement of the impending proposal. He got up from his bed as soon as the sun’s rays filtered in through his windows, put his long hair in a ponytail, and went to his mother’s room. Normally, she was the one who woke Lucas up even before his alarm did but today was a special day. He didn’t have time to waste. He rapped his knuckles on her door to try and wake her up. “What?” Her voice echoed through the door, giving him the permission to go in. Lucas turned the handle and opened the door before poking his head through the gap and smiling at what he saw. His mother, although fifty years of age, was the epitome of beauty. Long brown locks paired with honey-colored eyes and a petite face. She yawned as she sat up straight, her hair a bird’s nest.“Why are you waking me up?
Last Updated: 2025-07-01
Chapter: Chapter 1: NightmaresLucas sat in the living room playing with his chewed-out toy trucks and a smile on his face. He could hear his mother’s angelic voice singing to him while she bent down and scrubbed the mansion floor with a small brush. It was quiet and times like these were rare but like always, when they had some semblance of peace, the man who called himself Lucas’s father would barge in and destroy it.The doors flew open, making a banging sound as they came in contact with the wall. Lucas and his mother flinched at the sound, sure that another beating would follow. Like clockwork, he dropped his toys and rushed over to his mother, who grabbed him and wrapped her arms around him, shielding him from this monster of a man. She waved her hand over the water on the floor and like a scene out of Avatar, the water rose up and entered the bucket next to her, cleaning up the mess.Lucas’s father, Mark Graham, one of the wealthiest men in the world, walked into the room with a sneer on his face and a woma
Last Updated: 2025-07-01
Chapter: Chapter 0260••••• After Zara spoke up about what she went through in Estelle and Jack’s hands, it didn’t take much to sway the court on who was the real villain in this story. A ghost had come back and given them their verdict from beyond the grave and that was enough for the jury and the awed people in and o
Last Updated: 2024-02-18
Chapter: Chapter 0259The day everyone was waiting for had arrived. The court case between the Cabots and the Steele’s. The courtroom was packed with reporters, spectators, and lawyers. Everyone who was interested in this case either showed up at the court room, camped outside or even watched it closely on their televisi
Last Updated: 2024-02-18
Chapter: Chapter 0258“Like you said. Former members. Those men heard of my job opening and showed up. They wanted to redeem themselves. Turn a new leaf for the good of society and there you came in guns blazing and killing them.” Callum gave her a mocking face of understanding. “Oh, so when we rushed into the buildi
Last Updated: 2024-02-18
Chapter: Chapter 0257The car ride back to the precinct was one of quiet and self-fulfillment for some but for those who were stuck with Estelle Cabot in the back of their vehicle, the ride was akin to being thrown into the pit of darkness with a banshee as she would not stop screaming and whining all the way to where sh
Last Updated: 2024-02-18
Chapter: Chapter 0256“I did everything for you, and this is how you repay me? By recording me and doing God knows what with it.” Lucius opened his mouth, but nothing came out. “Did you go to the police? Did you show anyone these recordings?” Lucius froze. Speaking of the police, where the hell were they when he ne
Last Updated: 2024-02-17
Chapter: Chapter 0255Lucius couldn’t utter a word as his hands were raised to the sky and he was being pushed along with a gun to the back of his head. He frowned as Estelle’s shocked and confused fac came into view and the man with the haggard voice he caught on his phone glared at him. “Look what I found.” The man b
Last Updated: 2024-02-17
