Yelena Nikolaev

Companion to Bellatrix. Has a telepathic/empathic bond with Bellatrix.

#### Bellatrix (book)

The book is set in Romania. When Yelena comes home with a broken heart when her boyfriend is unfaithful with the downstairs neighbor. She and Alec went to visit Dmitri who had a new litter of black Germen Shepherds.  The runt of the litter, stole Yelena’s heart and she named her, Bellatrix.

From the very beginning Yelena received mental images from Bellatrix, the very first image showed Bellatrix the size of a small pony.  But after that they continued to communicate a bit.

Ciprian's ego will not accept Yelena leaving him, the attorney who will be a millionaire and such a great catch. He goes after Yelena and hits her when she refuses him. As they struggle Bellatrix bites him and is kicked away. Yelena goes into a fury pounding Ciprian's face until he stops. Her brother Alec haul's him off to the police.

Two years later – During those two years their mental communication had grown stronger, where they were starting to use words in their thoughts with each other.

In the European shifter underground that Stephen dissolved, shifter Emilian plans are to remove a business rival Theodor Dimitru while he is skiing.  Emilian knows Michael is missing and has little respect for BA. But Alec fell into the trap by accident and was kidnapped instead.

Yelena felt her twin’s accident and pain when his kidnappers struck him so was determined to find him. When she found out where he was going skiing, her mother begged her and begged to not go herself.  Yelena insisted that she would call the authorities but she was also going.  Her mother fear finally go through and Yelena got her family history out of her, that at one time her mothers’ family were wolf shifters that were driven from their pack. Yelena really didn’t believe her but Yelena has shown some unusual traits such as being extra strong for her size and being good with dogs, that they always treated her as their alpha.

Once at the sky resort she runs into **Bethany Anne**, John, Peter, Ecaterina, Eric and Ashur who are there to hunt the rogue weres. Peter can sense she has were ancestors but they are distant and they all sense her distress. Bethany Anne locates where the rouge weres are staying and Yelena insists on going with her as she continues to feel Alec’s pain as he is tortured. Bellatrix convinces her they can be trusted and she goes with them to search for Alec. They rescue Alec in time, but Bellatrix is shot so Eric rushes her to a medical pod to fix her with Yelena going along.

Once Alec and Yelena go through the medical pod, their nanocytes were upgraded, as it turns out they both had nanocytes inherited from the Wechselbalg ancestors on their mother's side of the family, though neither of them had enough to shift.

Yelena and Bellatrix go back to the QBBS Meredith Reynolds with Bethany Anne.

In the last chapter, Yelena and Bobcat meet and he forgoes tasting a new beer to show Yelena around the ship and they stop off at “All Guns Blazing”. Yelena loves the beer that Bobcat brewed and wants him to teach her how to brew.

## References

1. ↑ Grey, Natalie. Bellatrix  (Frank Kurns Tales Of The Unknown World). Kindle Edition.