Yes, ma'am," She nodded and looked into my direction and I don't know why? but she looks so excited." Aisling, I am going to inform your father that we reached safely." Aunt addressed me but I don't care all I care about is Caden and cassy. Aunt disappeared on the left side of the hallway. I wonder, where she goes?Emily cleared his throat and I cranked my neck to see her." Hello, I am Emily and you must be Aisling." She asked me. " Umm, yeah but how do you know that?"She couldn't control her excitement as she threw her arms around me and pulled me into a compressing hug." Oh, I am so excited to finally meet you, Aisling." She was breaking my rib cage with her arms so, I pushed her away from me a little bit and she realized it soon." I am sorry, I am little too excited to see you. And come with me I'll show you your room before ma'am come back and find us still here." she said and I looked down at my luggage and ask her," What about my luggage?"" Don't worry about it, I'll infor
Archard's PerspectiveThere is a gazebo in the back of my garden shaded by Virginia creeper, climbing roses, and a white pine where I sit early in the morning and watch the action. Light blue bells of a dwarf campanula drift over the rock garden just before my eyes. Behind it, a three-foot stand of aconite is flowering now, each dark blue cowl-like corolla bowed for worship or intrigue: thus its common name, monkshood. Next to the aconite, black madonna lilies with their seductive Easter scent are just coming into bloom. At the back of the garden, a hollow log, used in its glory days for a base to split kindling, now spills white cascade petunias and lobelia.I can't get enough of watching the bees and trying to imagine how they experience the abundance of, say, a blue campanula blossom, the dizzy light pulsing, every fiber of being immersed in the flower. ...It was so quiet outside, so quiet that I can hear my own blood flowing through my veins which wasn't good sign for anyone... A
We made our way inside the basement from the back of the house and as we walked down the basement floor. I heard another scream, Cleo was behind me and I walked into a bloody mess. When the man first comes into view I don't recognize him, he's too far away and his gait is all wrong. He walks like a scarecrow more than a man and all lop-sided at that. As he nears Cleo's heart falls right through to his sneakers, he's more purple than brown. His left eye is swollen, he can't be seeing a thing out of that and he won't for a while yet. His face still bears congealed blood and his clothes are an utter mess. Then he tries to say my name, his cracked lips failing at the first syllable, but he doesn't need to, I didn't ask him." Who is he? Archard why are you doing this? You have got us in trouble." Cleo looked terrified.My two men dragged him down on the floor. He was half conscious. They left him in front of me. Jarrod came closer to me and said, " Sir, we have asked him about the girl b
As I was thinking about it, I remembered that maybe I lost my mobile phone that night. And I am so much regretting now going there and meeting with that dick head. Ugh, I hate every moment of it. The way he was looking at me with those wild eyes and the way he was touching me aggressively. I hate everything he ruined everything for me, everything if he won't taken me as a prisoner this won't have happened. Father, will never send me here. We were never falling apart. I cried until I could cry no more. I could not have said just why I cried, but I cried because I knew, in some deep part of him where the knowledge would remain till I was dead, that the world was a more horrible place than I could imagine. It would turn the people I loved and trusted into monsters; it would reveal those meant to help me as mad dogs. I wept for myself, and I wept because I knew there would never really be anyone else to weep for me.After two hours, of me cussing him and doing nothing. I decided that I n
Making my way to the ground floor. I find no one there. I wonder where Emily went?I looked around and it was an open-floor living room. The evening slowly ambered and the sun got cold yet fervent. There was emptiness without any sign of human activity. The room was filled with sun rays relaxing on the sofas, mashing and peeking through the glass window. Everything was depicting thethe absence of life yet illuminated by the warmth.I've moved into the narrow hallway where went earlier. My eyes were fixed on a red door at the end of the hallway. I was so slowly moving towards it and thought, maybe it's aunt's office or library or something. If I can be lucky enough I can find a phone in there to call Caden.Once, I reached closer to the door and outstretched my hand to open the door." If I was you, I shouldn't be opening that door." Someone said from behind me and I jerked back and spun around to see who says that.I find a guy, standing at the end of the hallway. He was wearing a su
The Next thing, I know I was standing in the middle of a small bakery two blocks away from my aunt's house and I wonder why we came.I turned around to see the bakers looked like a boy band on a vacation. They acted like it too, laughing, joking, and singing as they made the bread and delicacies for the day. Their white uniforms masked any flour that dusted on them and only their hands had that obvious covering of dust. When the baking was mostly done a couple of them would open the doors, letting the aroma of the baking waft out to the street and the customers flood in.We finally reached the register where an old man was taking money from the customer." Mr, Wards, how are you doing today?" Emily asked him but he didn't even twitch or moved a single muscle on his face he just opened the small gate next to his counter to let us in." Come on, Aisling I'll show you around," Emily said and brought me to the back kitchen of the bakery." Wait, wait who are the people outside? are they h
And what if someone finds this place?"" It never gonna happen because only the pack members are allowed to come here."" What about humans?" I ask her." Like, I said only pack members are allowed here. Come with me I'll show you something." Emily told me and shoved her arm around me and we made our way back into the actual bakery but this time there was no one, not the old man nor the laughing bakers.I believed now, they have real power but why? Father sent me here. I don't have anything special nor I can learn anything.I don't understand the reason why?Emily and I walked out of the double door of the bakery and Emily pointed to a billboard in front of the bakery that reads, " No humans are allowed."I rolled my eyes and asked her, " Who's brilliant idea was that?"" Benny and Jasper suggested this. Isn't brilliant," she said with a huge smile on her face." I think, it's so a dumb idea to write in big bold letters that humans aren't allowed. This will catch everyone's attention
spin on my heel, thinking like hell I need to get out of here as soon as possible before anything happens and I find myself in trouble.As I was being to move, Emily stopped me from leaving by telling me that I shouldn't be leaving because my aunt will come any second." Don't worry about me, I will talk to an aunt on my own and you know I am feeling tired I need some sleep and I was just asking for your phone, mine got lost somewhere. I need to call my brother Caden."" We don't have phones and only ma'am has a phone in her office back in the house secondly, we aren't allowed to go there."" Why you aren't allowed to go there?"" Aisling there are some rules that we are bound to follow."I look unfazed because, for my whole life, I was following the rules made by my father. I can understand their situation and I don't want to get them in any trouble because of me. I guess we don't have much difference.I remain quiet and thought, I need to find a way to talk to Caden. He would be wor