“Your brother?” Both Lucian and I speak in unison, staring at her. She had always made it sound like she was an only child. Just her and her father.“Yes!” her voice gets higher; she knew she had made a mistake in not telling us about him.“Why Tasha, why didn’t you say anything?” Lucian looks so disappointed, and I understood why, he was normally so good at figuring things out, seeing the truth even when it wasn't spoken.“You have to understand, he walked out on us years ago. He hasn’t been a part of my life for at least five years!”“I didn’t have anything to do with Amber, but I still shared my knowledge of her with my sister. Who I would appreciate more if she put on some clothes.” Lucian looks at me from the corner of his eye before quickly turning his attention back to the guy who apparently was a sibling of Tasha’s.Thankfully the laundry room was not far, and I have a look to see if any of my clothes are in there, but it looked like they had already been put away. Instead, I

“What are you saying Tasha?”By this point, Daryl had edged us closer to them and joins in the conversation“Yes Tasha, do tell us what you mean?!” Lucian adds, his arms folding up across his chest, his nostrils flaring as he glared at her. I don’t think that I have ever seen him so angry.“It’s just… look I love it here. I just can’t get around how I feel about them.”“Who?” I had no idea who she was talking about.“The vampires Ashley, you saw how they killed my father. You saw how blood thirsty they are. How they will stop at nothing for a single drop of blood.” Her eyes are on Lucian as she speaks.“What about me then?”Her eyes turn to settle on me, and I see the vein in her neck pulsating while she remains silent.“Come on Tasha, say it because you know full well I drank blood, it was the only way to get out of the place Amber had me trapped in.”“I didn’t mean it like that.”“Then what did you mean?l”She starts looking between all of us, just as she had done when she announced

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and when she doesn’t answer, I crawl over to her, where she is sat on a mattress. It’s only as I get closer that I can see she has been gagged. A piece of material wrap around her head and stuffed in her mouth She looked petrified as I reached a hand out to pull her gag down and backs away.“Did Lucian do this?” I whisper in the dark, I didn’t need Daryl to find me, not right now.“Yes” she whispers back at me, her eyes moving to the hatch.So this is why Lucian suggested staying in my bedroom for forty eight hours. He didn’t want me to discover Tasha. What was he planning on doing?I pull at the chains on her wrists, but they don’t budge, even when I ask Reaper for help with strength. They are locked tight, the same as the ones around her ankles. How long had Lucian been planning this?“I’m so sorry.” I mutter. She may not have told us the truth about Roland, and I may have been mad at her, but she didn’t deserve this from her own mate. “It’s oka

“No, it just can’t be. He worked hard to keep us alive!” Reaper whines at me as I watch Tasha sleep.Tasha and I had had a good conversation with a lot of tears and hugs thrown in. She had admitted that she never wanted to become like us, that she just wanted to get to know me. After all, I had kept coming to her in her dreams before actually turning up on her doorstep. The whole time all I could think about is what Lucian had done. Had he really been playing all of us? Had he been working with Amber all along?“But Reaper, what if that was part of his plan? I did his dirty work for him, killing Amber. Everything he told me to do, I listened to him, I confided in him. He used us!”She retreats to the back of my mind. I knew she was feeling confused, frustrated, annoyed that once again we had somehow been tricked.I search for a link to Daryl, to anyone from his pack. I should be able to speak to someone because Daryl had marked me. But all I got was silence. Maybe the distance between

“Pregnant?” Tasha repeats the words quietly as her eyes focus on my stomach.“Apparently so” I mutter back at her.Her chair slides back from the table and she stands.“Tasha?” I ask, wondering what she was up too. When she turns and walks straight out the food court.“I’ll go.” Jax offers.“What’s that about?” I didn’t understand, was she disgusted that I was pregnant. Did the hunter in her not want me to be this way?Daryl hasn’t said anything and is busy unwrapping burgers for me.“You know something?” I glare at him.“Sort of. Lucian screamed something about killing his own child before he took off. Well so Jax tells me, I was out of it."“Tasha was pregnant?” When?"“I believe so, but I am unsure when.” It explained why she had reacted the way she did. I couldn’t imagine having something like that taken away from me, but I also wondered what Lucian did to her. Wolves didn’t have miscarriages.“Give her time and I am sure she will talk about it.”I nod my head at him.“He didn’t k