Harlyn “It’s okay, Lyn, you were just a child then. You don’t have to force yourself to remember.” She assured me.“Yes, she’s right. We barely have any memories of our mom. If we didn’t find her diary and if our relatives didn’t show us her photos, we would probably have forgotten what she looked like too.” Harry added. We strolled together to the front door. Whoever has been taking care of the house must have been really dedicated because everywhere was clean and even looked like someone recently tended to it.“Here goes nothing.” Harry said and inserted the key into the front door. It worked at once and he pushed the huge door open.“Whoa.” Helaine said, we both looked at each other. Harry stepped in first before beckoning us to do the same. The first thing we noticed was the huge family frame on the wall of the entrance. “Our mom and dad.” Helaine whispered. We were still holding hands. I looked at my mom. I have seen her from the photo Helaine had shown me but she looked m
Harlyn “What do you think happened to them?” Helaine asked, for the first time since we met yesterday, she sounded sad and emotional. I could feel myself tearing up too just looking at the room my father had set up over twenty years ago. Frozen in time. It was an emotional sight to behold because it just showed that my parents wanted our family to be together but they couldn’t stay together for reasons that we still have no idea about.Seeing photos of me from when I was literally a baby, knowing that I once knew the love of my father and once had a mother who constantly thought of me but couldn’t be with me made me teary.“Whatever happened, they clearly hated being away from each other.” Harry responded. I wish we would be able to find a clue, anything that would lead us to know what happened and why it all happened. I don’t know but I couldn’t stop the feeling that everything is connected somehow, the reason our parents separated, the reason my Dad and Bernardo’s father were k
Harlyn“What did you find?” I asked when I got to the room but I didn’t see her or even Harry. “We are in here.” Helaine called out from within the photo room. I entered and looked around only to find that there was a hidden door. “What’s this place?” I asked when I got in. Helaine had her phone light on but the place was still relatively dark so I turned on my touch too.“A secret room.” Helaine said. I already knew it was a secret room but I wondered why there was a secret room inside the photo room of all places.“How did you open it?” I questioned. Harry was too busy looking around so I only had Helaine to answer my question. “I moved the big portrait and saw a push sign. I pushed and viola.” She explained.“I found something.” Harry said. We both looked at him. He waved something at us.“What’s that?” I asked and walked towards him. “A recorder. Not just that. There’s a bunch of papers in here too. Plus, that safe over there, I think there’s something in it. I will o
Harlyn “I promised that I would give this to you guys when you grow up but I don’t think I will be here by then. I am so sorry that I couldn’t bring our family back together.” Our dad said. He sounded like he had been crying. “This might be the last one. I enjoyed leaving these notes even though it got really sad. I wanted our family back together and was working hard to get that to happen. Alpha even promised to lift the ban on vampires for that to happen but they keep coming at him. They don’t want him on the throne. They keep trying to take him out and now we are going to war.” Dad’s voice broke. Helaine looked at me in shock. I nodded. “The alpha king wants me to step back and leave the kingdom but I can’t do that. It’s my job to protect the Crimson Moon from intruders and I refuse to back down so I am going to fight to the end. Even if it means I won’t get what I want the most. To be with my family.” His voice broke again and a sob escaped from me. I covered my mouth
BernardoI heard Harry’s words before the line went dead and I panicked. Whatever he found out must have been bad for him to sound so angry.I quickly dialed Harlyn’s number again.“Please, please pick up.”I let out, pacing around the room I was using as my temporary office since Sean bugged my main office“Harlyn, you and your siblings should come back to the palace.”I let out as soon as she took the call. I couldn’t let Harry act on his anger and approach my uncle. I will deal with him myself. I didn’t want to get Zeta Ross' children involved in the fight against my enemies. It was bad enough that I got Harlyn involved. “We are trying to get Harry to listen but he is angry and he won’t tell us what he saw. Only that your uncle is the reason our parents separated and the reason our fathers died.”Harlyn explained. I clenched my hand in a fist.“Give him the phone.”I told her. I heard her telling her brother who wasn’t ready to listen at first but he soon did.“Your majesty.”I le
HarlynTrying to get Harry to tell us what he saw failed so both Helaine and I just silently helped him pack the stuff he gathered from the secret room and placed them in the trunk of the car.He barely said any words to us after the call with Bernardo ended, he looked angry and out of control. Thank goodness Bernardo called to talk him out of going to his uncle’s house. It would have been hard for me to talk him out of it.Helaine and I tried to get him to disclose what he saw but he only got angrier when he tried to explain so we ended up telling him not to bother.He spent five minutes just pacing around and talking angrily to himself. Even Helaine said she hadn’t seen him get so angry in all the years they spent together and they were always together until she left for medical school.“Make a turn Harry,”I told him when he drove past our direction. Helaine offered to drive but he refused. I hated the mood in the car. Hated that Sean was the reason for the mood. That bastard did
Harlyn“Hey, it's okay,”Bernardo said, patting my back. I don’t know whether it was what we found out, seeing all those photos of our childhood and knowing our parents wanted to stay together or the fact that Sean was responsible for everything, or if it was just the sadness of having to say goodbye to Helaine after barely spending a day with her that broke me, I just know that I couldn’t stop crying. My heart hurt, my head hurt, everything hurt so fucking bad. Bernardo held me while I cried.“I am sorry.”I sniffed and lifted my head off his chest. I didn’t mean to cry over him while in the parking lot. My siblings must be uncomfortable seeing me break down, especially Helaine.“Hey, don’t say sorry. Everything has been overwhelming.”Bernardo encouraged me and hugged me back to himself. “Go with Helaine while I talk with your brother.”He told me when we pulled apart. I was too emotional to even argue so I nodded and turned to Helaine who looked sad. She reached for my hand and w
Harlyn“Have you dated a girl before?”I asked, too nosy not to ask.“Yes, once in high school and another time during my first year in medical school. Both times we broke up because they moved away.”She explained. I didn’t know what it was like to be with other people, Bernardo was my first and my only.“You had a boyfriend before your mate?”“No, I was a lone wolf-less wolf, no one wanted to date me with serious intentions, everyone who asked me clearly wanted to sleep with me and I wasn’t having it.”I explained.“Wow, it must have been hard for you.”She let out. I shook my head. “That’s actually the easiest part of my life. Especially when every one of those guys realized I wouldn’t give them what they wanted. Even the loser who went rogue was one of them.”I could still remember when that bastard had an interest in me and kept talking about changing my life and so not what. I didn’t give him a listening ear and after a while, he started being insulting. Then he stopped. Not ju