THIRTY-TWO

TINA POV

I don’t touch her other than to put a soft blanket over her. Scarlett doesn’t move. She just whimpers again and cries softly. I sit by the window and wait for Stefan; he needs to see how far Dad has fallen, maybe then I could get him to believe that he has been lying to us our entire lives, that vampires are not all bad, he is nearly there I am hoping this will tilt him over the edge and make him finally challenge and take Dad's Alpha position.

True to his word, not too long later, I hear a knock on the door. I look at the bed and see Scarlett flinch, but that is all. I get up, go to the door, and open it, stating,

“You are not going to like what you see.”

“What do you mean, Tina? What are you doing here? What’s going on? Who is under that blanket?”

"Dad told me he got a tip that the Vampire Princess Scarlett was being held in one of the abandoned packhouses somewhere along the Vampire King's territory. He sent Andy and Dan out to look for her under the ruse of scavenging, a