Xander has been in the closet his whole life. He saves Jessie’s life, only to realize Jess is his mate. Xander Dane is a wolf shifter and Second of his pack. He wakes up with no memories of his past, not even of his name. On the way, he has an accident and is injured. One of them ran away, another one just remained stock-still, unable to move.After a long, hard year filled with stress and heartache, Jessie Rohen decides to take a vacation to visit his friend and get away from real life for a little while, hoping it will help him heal. “They simply froze with terror as the car approached. “They were scarcely more than boys, really, very inexperienced,” Clarke said. In addition to Čabrinović and Princip, several of the other young terrorists had opportunities to act against the royal motorcade, but backed off. Armed by connections in the Serbian military and the shadowy ultra-nationalist organization the Black Hand, Princip and his fellow assassins headed to the Bosnian capital. The son of a Bosnian farmer, Princip had tried to enlist as a Serb guerrilla in 1912, when the Serbs were fighting the Ottoman Empire, but he was rejected as too small and weak.Īs a student in Belgrade in 1914, he and several other earnest young ultra-nationalists (including Čabrinović) decided to try and win a victory for their cause by assassinating the archduke during the planned visit to Sarajevo. (Credit: Time Life Pictures/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images) Amazingly, this wrong turn took them right to where 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip had stationed himself along the original published route for the motorcade, under the awning of a general store. “They don’t understand what this conversation’s about, and nobody bothers to translate for them.”Īs a result, the first car turned onto Franz Joseph Street, followed by the second car, carrying Franz Ferdinand, Sophie and Potiorek.
“They’re talking about this in German, and the driver of the first car is Czech, and so is the driver of the second car,” Clark told NPR.
Unfortunately, the drivers didn’t pick up on this changed itinerary. The Czech driver couldn’t understand the directions.Īfter Franz Ferdinand made his own speech and tended to some official business, he wanted to visit the injured adjutant in the hospital before leaving town.įor security reasons, it was decided that the motorcade should proceed out of the city via the Appel Quay, rather than take its planned route along Franz Joseph Street and into the narrow streets of Sarajevo’s bazaar district. They had strapped explosives to their bodies, carried loaded revolvers and were all equipped with cyanide so they could commit suicide rather than be caught. On the morning of June 28, seven young Bosnian Serbs with ties to a Serbian ultra-nationalist group called the Black Hand placed themselves along that route. Franz Ferdinand and Sophie traveled in an open car, and the route their motorcade would take through Sarajevo had been made public well beforehand. Their first attempt at assassination failed.ĭespite warnings of possible terrorist attacks during the visit to Bosnia, few official security precautions were taken.
Vitus’ Day, the anniversary of the Serbian defeat in Kosovo by Ottoman forces in 1389, and this would be the first celebration of the occasion since Serbia had won back Kosovo in the Second Balkan War.įor their part, Serbian nationalists saw the archduke’s visit to Sarajevo on this of all days as an unforgivable insult-and they sought to strike back. June 28 was a particularly significant date for Serbia: It was St. June 28 was a momentous date for Serbians.
In the years leading up to WWI, a series of agreements between the powers of Europe helped determine where and when battlelines were drawn.