The grinding crunch of gears, the sound of an engine and the jolt and bump of an uneven surface beneath what felt like square wheels rocking her sharply from side to side and back and forth to send pain throbbing through her shoulder pulled Sinn back towards consciousness. Her mentor’s training and her experience waking up in difficult situations; usually, ones created by him, held Sinn still and helped her to fight against her natural instinct to react to the pain or show in any way that she was awake.
She listened carefully as she swam through the lingering haze of drugs and tried to piece everything together, She caught the distant, muffled sound of movement and voices to her right and guessed that it was from the front of whatever vehicle she was being slammed around in. When she tried to use her powers to gain more details, she could barely get a flicker of anything to register through the cotton wool that seemed to have been stuffed in her head.
Focus.
Day 123 – Ten Weeks After The Events In EnglandHumming softly under her breath, Yoanna turned off the bathroom light and made her way back into the bedroom. Sinn had barely even moved when she had left their bed. A rumbling groan of protest had been her only acknowledgement at the disturbance. She had moved more since then though, her body obviously reaching out endearingly across the bed in search of her for the way her arm was stretched as far as possible across her side of the bed was any indication.Moving across the room, she followed the path of faint light from a hastily lit privacy candle as it highlighted the golden glow of Sinn’s tanned flesh where her movements had caused the covers to fall from her body.Green eyes peeked out with a metallic glimmer from behind a curtain of dark hair as she lifted her head and turned lazily onto her side in a move that allowed even more of the covers to fall away. It took every ounce of willpower Yoanna possessed, and Sinn’s wickedly know
As she waited for the traffic lights to change, Yoanna reached out and turned off the radio with a frustrated jab of her finger. Silence fell over the interior of the car while she focussed on the beat of the town she was searching instead of the beat of the music.Carefully adjusting her sunglasses to cut down on the headlight glare from the other cars, she looked surreptitiously at the drivers and occupants of the few vehicles around hers. McKinney, Texas was a medium sized town at best so luckily the traffic wasn't too heavy. As it was a Friday night though the people within their air-conditioned metal cans and walking the streets were celebrating the end of a week by drinking and partying like it was their last night on earth. Which for some of them would be true if they didn't take more care of where they stepped, Yoanna thought as she watched a group of giggling girls spill out of a club and walk straight into the road to be greeted by a hail of car horns
Tilting her head to one side, Yoanna studied the big redheaded Vampire as he stormed into the dining cum meeting room with Ella, his young human wife following along in his wake as fast as she could given how long the stride of the near seven foot Vampire was and the advanced state of her pregnancy. Her dark, almost black, eyes blazed with exasperation and all the fire in her Puerto Rican blood. "Something seems to be troubling you, Marcus. What is wrong?" Her tone was measured, calm, but it cut across the room and made him pull to a halt, his body drawing up in realisation of his behaviour and who was witnessing it. Pausing, Marcus gave their Queen a belated bow. "My apologies for my absence and behaviour, my Queen. I just had word that, Sinn was spotted back in town." The room broke out into heated mutterings at the name. "Sinn, she is a Hunter that we have had 'dealings' with in the past. She can be… troublesome," he explained to Yoanna, his body tensing at the ex
“Yoanna?” Getting no reply to her knock, Ella opened the door to the apartment and glanced around the expansive living room area for the Vampire. “Damn,” she whistled quietly as she took in the wicked array of guns and knives on the table. For most people it would have been a lot but from her own experience with what she liked as well as what Sinn usually carried, Ella could tell Sinn had been travelling much lighter than usual. She bit down on the spike of fear that closed her throat off at the thought that Sinn had awoken and done something. “Yoanna?!” “In the bedroom, Ella.” Ella paused in the doorway at the sight that greeted her. Since Yoanna had arrived in town she hadn’t seen her anything less than impeccably dressed in the finest of clothes so it was something of a shock to see her naked. Her pale beauty was on full display as she knelt behind an equally naked Sinn on the bed, the other woman’s head and shoulders resting in her lap as she used a thick
After Yoanna had reluctantly left Sinn and the mansion for the day, Ella settled herself down in a chair next to the bed so she could keep a close eye on Sinn. Picking up a book she tried to let the story take her away but she was more worried about her husband than she cared to dwell upon and after turning a couple of pages she let it rest upon her lap when she realised she couldn’t even remember a word of it even though it was a book she usually loved to lose herself in no matter how often she read it.She hated that Marcus was locked up in one of the super strong Vampire and Werewolf proof cells in the deepest part of their home almost as much as she hated that they even had them there in the first place.There was nothing she could do to help him though other than take care of Sinn and hope that if… when, she recovered Sinn would help free him or that Yoanna would soften upon the harshness of the punishment and would release him. Forgiving was somethin
Ella cracked open her eyes, confusion running through her as she tried to make sense of where she was and what could have woken her. Sitting upright she leaned back in the chair, rubbing the back of her neck to try and ease the tension out of it from being in a hunched over position with her upper body resting upon a mattress that wasn’t her own. A kick from her baby let her know that he, or she, hadn’t appreciated her sleeping position either. Rubbing the bulge of her belly she whispered soothingly to her unborn baby as she reached over to turn on the bedside lamp to combat the darkness in the room so she could better work out which of the many rooms in the mansion she had nodded off in. “Oh!” She jumped, startled for a moment by the sight of a body lying in the bed she had been using to rest against. “Sinn,” she sucked in a breath as the shock cleared the cobwebs from her mind as she remembered everything that had happened. Biting her lip, Ella reached out
“Ella? Where the hell- Ahh, there you are!”Looking up from the book she was reading, Ella smile slipped at the troubled expression on her friends’ usually happy face as she walked across the patio towards her. Wearing the typical black garb that the guards favoured while on duty and her almost blue-black skin she blended into the night almost as well as her black Werewolf form did when she changed. Usually though her bright smile and her pale blue eyes gave her away but right then only there was no smile. “Oh god. Hi, Mel, something wrong?”Even though she had been sent there with a task to do, Mel pulled out the chair Ella gestured to and sat down with her to enjoy whatever time she could grab with her. They saw each other every day and yet it felt far too long since they had managed to have any time together to just chat and be friends. “Yoanna wants to see you.”Ella slipped
While she waited for the sun to set, Sinn returned to the main cabin she was renting. Even though she had arranged with Ella that she would go back to the mansion willingly, Sinn looked around carefully as she checked the spare gun she kept hidden on her bike. Before she went near the small building she wanted to be as sure as he could that there weren’t any unwanted surprises from the mansion or anywhere else lurking around.Crouching down amongst the bushes in the shade of the trees she looked down at the cabin and reached out with her powers. The sun being up meant she was safe from Vampires but Werewolves could move around at any time of the day and were almost as strong as a Vampire even if they weren’t Alpha enough to change with the full moon still weeks away.Sinn knew she was good, better than good, with most weapons and hand to hand combat but no amount of training helped much if something that could toss a truck and ri