Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Clandestine Saga: Kabanata 491 - Kabanata 500

Cadence made her way to the apartment Brandon shared with Elliott and was about to knock on the door when she remembered she’d said she’d speak to her mother. Since Liz Findley didn’t have one of those “eye computers” as she put it, Cadence decided to take the elevator one floor down and speak to her mother herself, in person. It might actually be faster than her cell phone.“Hey!” Brandon shouted after her as she was about to board the elevator. “What’s up?”“Sorry!” Cadence stopped and turned back, taking a few steps in his direction. “Cass and I were going to chat in your apartment, but I remembered I need to go talk to Mom first. I’ll be back.”“Okay. Where is Cass? Still talking to Aaron Burr’s side project?” He snickered like the fact that he hadn’t been killed by a friend and brought back from the dead somehow made him a better catch than the

Brandon waited patiently on the other side of the door leading to the rooftop of the new recruits apartment building, listening. It was the same routine as usual. Whenever Cassidy went up there to find some solace so she could eavesdrop on the Vampires, he always waited for her here. Juan Diego had even brought another chair and left it for him, which was quite considerate of the custodian, but Brandon rarely used it. Most of the time, he stood with his ear pressed to the door, waiting to hear if his girlfriend was in any distress or if she needed him. She usually only spent ten or fifteen of her allotted thirty minutes actually in her trance, and then she’d let him know over the IAC she was done. Sometimes, he’d have to go in and get her. He distinctly remembered the time she’d been trapped in Holland’s head, right before they’d gone to Melbourne, and he’d had to shake her fairly violently to get her back. That episode had scared the shit out of

“Are you sure?” Cadence asked for about the fifth time, still staring at her younger sister like she’d just said she was growing a second head. “A baby?”“Yes, I’m positive, Cadence!” Cassidy practically screeched. “I know it’s supposed to be impossible, but I’m certain. She’s pregnant.”“But… that’s impossible,” Cadence repeated. She wasn’t sure why she didn’t believe it. After all, everything she’d assumed to be true about the world up until she was nineteen years old hadn’t been the case, so why was the idea that a Vampire could be pregnant so hard to absorb?“We’ve been over this,” Brandon, who was being snarky, chimed in from his spot in the armchair across Cadence’s living room. “She’s certain. So what now?”“I don’t know,” Cadence admitted. “I mean, obviously

Cadence’s eyebrows perked up. “That’s not a bad idea. He did say something about us being worried about him just made it worse.”“Okay, I’ll talk to her. Can’t hurt.”She nodded, hoping that would fix things, at least temporarily. She had a feeling, though, until Holland was gone, none of it would matter.“You need to get some sleep, kid. I know how you are when you’re cranky. Jamie might end up sticking that needle right into your jugular to shut you up.”Knowing he was teasing she forced out a chuckle. “Thanks. Okay.”He grabbed the beer can off of the coffee table and chugged down the rest of it. “Man, it’s quiet up here. You should come down to my place. Never a dull moment.” He stood, crushing the can, and carrying it to the kitchen.“Do you want us to find Brandon another apartment?” she yelled after him. There was an empty one n

Aaron dropped down so that he was crouching next to her at eye level. Part of him wanted to remind her that she could get up and walk away right now, but he knew she wanted this, and if he suggested such a thing, it would only make her angry, not deter her. “Hey, beautiful. You’re okay,” he said quietly. Cadence’s eyes widened, and across her, in his peripheral vision, he could see Jamie finding the vein in her arm. “You’ve got this. You’re going to be just fine.”Jamie pressed down, and Cadence immediately started to sob. Reaching up, Aaron smoothed back her hair. “You’re okay. It’s okay. Take some slow, steady, deep breaths.” He could feel the pain himself now, and it was burning like fire. But it wasn’t having the same effect on him as it did on her. Jamie picked up the second syringe. “You’ll be asleep in a minute and it’ll all be over.”“It… hurts&hel