I hadn’t meant to say that. Not then. It was as if I continually created the most embarrassing moments for myself over and over again. One wouldn’t think that it was possible and yet someone I managed to do it.
I closed my eyes and wished for a giant hole to swallow me up.
“Rachel,” the humor in Alden’s voice wasn’t helping things.
“Don’t look at me!”
Someone laughed, in hindsight, it was probably Abel.
“It’s kind of impossible not to look at you, Rachel. You’re naked, tied to my bed.”
Yeah, that was Adrian.
I popped an eye open and saw the three of them peering down at me with varying levels of concern and amusement, but there was another thing in their eyes that managed to make my other eye open.
It was love.
“I didn’t mean to make things weird,” I said defensively.
“We love yo
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CHAPTER 48 – RachelI tripped along a dark corridor with the Triple A’s following closely on my heels. We were back in the warehouse where I had watched Susan Browning and Sven Draven be shot and killed by my mother. And yet I could hear Susan’s voice clearly barking out commands.I didn’t stop to think about why we were there or how they had managed to kidnap up again. It seemed that my normal fears and limitations were muted, and I was going on gut instinct. I knew that I needed to see what was happening in the meeting.A door opened, and Susan’s voice became louder than before. That was the room they were in. The person who had exited didn’t seem to see us at all and walked straight towards me until they walked right through my body.A jolt of awareness rushed through me that something was off and everything started to fade.“No!” Alden grabbed my hand and pulled me back from wherever I was slipp
CHAPTER 49 – Anna“What aren’t you telling me?”I rounded on Luke and Roman the minute we were back to our room. It was another quick pack and we were headed back to England. But I could tell that they were weirded out about the dream walking.Luke looked up at me with wide eyes, “What?”It was a good thing that I loved him.“You suck at acting.”Roman’s bit his lower lip, his eyes were clearly showing his amusement.“Just tell me,” I insisted.Roman took me by the hand and pulled me into his lap. I wasn’t one of those girls that needed a guy to feel secure. But there was something about being next to my guys that centered me. Even when they were lying douchebags like Luke was presently trying to be.“What Luke is not telling you is that witches and Lycans do not mix. Witches are thought to be evil, deriving their powers from the devil or som
CHAPTER 50 – Rachel“Are you with the bad people?”The Triple A’s and I had been exploring again in the dream world. Only this time the occupants of the room could both see and hear us. I jumped back, startled and nearly plowed over Aiden.The voice sounded young and as my eyes adjusted to the dark room, I saw the shapes of two small figures huddled into the crawl space.“We are not. We are here to stop them.”Alden made a little hmphed noise, clearly indicating that he was there under duress. It was endearing and had the effect of calming me a little.“My name is Rachel,” I crouched down so I was closer to their level. “Who are you?”The other one shook her head, “No, don’t tell her. People always pretend to be nice when they want something.”I could now see that they were two little girls maybe six or seven years old. One had dark hair like me and
CHAPTER 51 – Anna“Run it again.”Roman’s friend in the lab looked up incredulously. “Your Majesty with all due respect, I have run her bloodwork three times. The results are the same every time. Evangelina does not share your DNA nor does she share that of Angelica or Rachel. Her closest match is Cian Constantin. I am more than willing to bet she is his daughter.”“It doesn’t make any sense,” I shook my head trying to make the pieces fall into place. But no matter how many times I did, they still refused to cooperate.“But the next closest relative is Margaret Dumitru.”The man looked almost apologetic. Roman, on the other hand, was completely poleaxed. His face had lost all of its color and I worried that he might pass out. I knew better than to reach out to him in front of someone else. Roman was very proud and didn’t like feeling weak. But my instincts were screamin
CHAPTER 52 - Amy“Amy! Shit! You killed them?”I rolled my eyes at Helvetica, Veti for short, and wondered for the hundredth time why I let her constantly criticize me. She could be such an old hag. Okay, she’s not that old, maybe three or four hundred years. But to my nineteen years on the planet that could have been several lifetimes, and if we were human, it would have been.“I staked them,” I protested, motioning to the bloody stakes in my hand. “It was painless.”One of the girls that had popped into our home coughed. “I wouldn’t say that.”“And then you brought them back to life!” She threw her hands in the air in disgust.“Um, so are we like zombies now?” the other girl asked.I looked over at my prisoners. Two girls about my age were standing in the entryway to our home looking shell shocked.I smirked. “You aren’t a zombie
CHAPTER 53 - Amy“No, I am not leaving here. I don’t care what you say!”I plugged my ears like a four-year-old and started humming—loudly. Anna and Rachel had just spent the last twenty minutes telling me how wrong I was to hide away.“Amy,” Rachel’s tone was placating, and loud. I suppose that I could hear it over my humming. “You can’t live the rest of your life in a cave. There is an entire world out there to explore.”I unplugged my ears for the briefest of moments. “There is an entire world to explore in these caves. Did you know there is an entire jungle down here? And that it has its own river system? I could explore for eons and never get bored.”Anna’s eyes narrowed. “What about people?”“People are bad,” I parroted what I had always been taught. “We kill first, ask questions later, right Veti?”Helvetica actua
CHAPTER 54 - AmyI let Anna and Rachel stumble about, trying to remember the spell that they had used to end up in the cave. Was that a little mean? Of course it was, but I didn’t care. They were making me leave and that was more than a little mean.Veti, however, wasn’t amused.“Amy, stop being a bitch and do the damn spell.”Anna and Rachel turned to me wide-eyed.“You have had the ability to leave all this time?” Rachel’s tone was incredulous.I shrugged. “Relocation spells aren’t difficult.”It would seem that I had stunned them yet again.“Did you think I was a prisoner here?” It dawned on me that it might look that way.“Why else would you stay?” Anna’s lips were tight. “This doesn’t make any sense. Don’t you want to find out who you are and where your real family is?”“Veti is m
CHAPTER 55 - BradDon’t look at her tits and just respond to the summons. I could do this. The moment that I got word from Amy that she needed me. I wanted to come crashing in like a knight in shining armor. I was one once, a long time ago, so I know how a bloody hero is supposed to act.But these days, I am not sure if I am the hero or the bad guy. My brother, Henry and I, were palace guards for the Vasile family. We were present during the massacre and were only able to save one child—a twin.I enlisted my older sister, Helvetica, to help protect the baby, and I swore her to secrecy. Not only would she have to give up everything and go into hiding, but I didn’t even want the child to know of our connection. The less the girl knew the better.Helvetica reported to me that the child cried nonstop for days for her sister. The girls were toddlers and old enough to know that something was dreadfully wrong. I cursed and promised V