Hidden Children (AL Series)

Chapter 1

Sarah

“Will someone tell me what’s going on already?” Trent yells at Grace and me. I look at Grace seeing her watching Luke very closely, I can tell she is not listening or caring to listen to Trent. Chewy chocolate brownies I don’t want to explain this all but it looks like I have to.

“Well, it’s hard to explain and I’m not so sure myself.” Maybe if I act like a twelve-year-old that’s confused he will let it go for now, but when I look up at him from where Inara is laying in the hospital bed I see him giving me a look telling me I better try or else. I swallowed hard before talking.

“Well, for starters, I’m not who I thought I was.” I just smile at him waiting for something to tell me he will let that be the end of this but nope. Okay fine, then here goes nothing. 

  “We knew her parents, well not really, our parents knew them much like your dad, but our parents were bound to them and when mine died I became bound to Inara somehow. I’m not so sure really because till this morning I thought I was a twelve-year-old girl named Sarah that was adopted but I’m not. I mean my name is Sarah but I’m not twelve. My body just doesn’t age like it should have because of the bond that was placed, well I think that’s the reason, Grace might know more but I think her parents had something to do with this. To be honest, like I said I don’t really know, it’s all fuzzy in my head. I felt like I needed to get to Inara and my body took over. That’s all I have for you. You know if I knew more I would give it to you, Inara is my sister and has been taking care of me for all these years. I owe her so much.” I say looking over at Grace to see her looking at Luke still. What is up with her and him?

  I turn back to Trent who walks over to Inara and picks up her hand to give it a light kiss before he turns to his dad, Mark, with dagger eyes.

“And you?” Trent asks Mark. Oh, sugar cookies with extra sugar this should be good.

“I never kept it a secret from you or Luke that I knew his parents. I am after all the one that made sure to get him away safely and into our pack without anyone knowing where he went or came from.” His dad growled at him. Well, Trent hit a nerve there. Not that it seems to bother Trent as he keeps shooting daggers at Mark which makes Mark sigh and rub his face. Boiling cinnamon sticks and oranges, did Trent just win this one?

“Fine, yes I knew who she was, well not a hundred percent sure, but I was about eighty percent sure she was Luke’s sister. I have been making phone calls since the first time I saw her to find out how she would have gotten out of there safely and by who but everything came back as she died. That is till I talked to Grace's parents and told them about how I saved Luke and how he is leading a pack of his own as a part of our family, that’s when they told me their story, a story I will leave to her family to tell you like they asked me to. Not that it’s mine to tell you anyway.” And with that Mark walks over to Inara and rests a hand on her shoulder before leaning down and whispering something in her ear before turning and walking out of the room. What did he whisper to her?

Inara

  I start to slowly wake up to people talking around me. At first, I try to ignore it and sleep a bit more but then I hear Luke and Trent talking about me. Yeah, as if I'm not going to listen in on that. 

"So, she is your sister?" I hear Trent ask. 

"Yea, my baby sister. Man, I can't explain it but I feel like she's what I've been missing, well other than my mate. My powers are reacting differently too like they are growing." I hear Luke say and then a huff from someone followed by the door closing loudly but before I can question who it was Trent started to talk.

"Care to tell me what's up with Inara's best friend? She's been staring at you the whole time you were unconscious and it seems you just pissed her off." Trent asks with a chuckle. 

"No, I don't." Luke growls. "Trent, we have trouble coming and from what I saw I'm sure it's what our parents were trying to stop before and failed to do so. If it is and what I saw was the truth and they were after my parents then Inara needs to be fully awakened because they are coming after her once they know we are both alive." Luke informed him in a very deep and serious voice.

"I will not force her. Plus I need to tell her about that b***h from my past because you couldn't keep your mouth shut. Do you really think she will care about me after I tell her? No, hell I don't even care about myself after what happened.” Trent growled out. “To me Inara is what matters, the only thing that matters, I will die for her." Trent says while letting out a long sigh. 

"On top of that, even if I do finish the mating with her how do I bring the witch out from her? How do I bring this vampire that I've never known about out of me? I'm so confused and I feel a little lost with all this and you just threw me into even more s**t bringing up that woman. I can’t hurt her and it will break me to see the disappointment she will have towards me after everything. I hate this." He sounds so frustrated. I wish I could hold him to talk him down but I can’t help wanting to keep listening.

"She will love you for you, Trent. I'm bonded to her differently than you are, I can feel her in a different way than you can. Like right now, what do you feel from her?" Luke asks and I feel fingers softly touch my cheek, I can’t help but lean into them.

“I can feel that she’s happy when I touch her and that I’m around her right now. I also can feel that she’s scared and is trying to keep it to herself. She thinks she’s not letting me feel it but I do. That’s all though, the bond is not as strong as it should be, which I’m guessing is because we haven’t mated fully.” He sighs again and takes his hand away from my cheek as Luke laughs. 

"That's why you need to trust me, bro. She loves you more than I think you know and you hiding the truth of your past from her makes her think you don't want her. you should explain to her why you thought the way you did about mates, maybe she won't be afraid of you rejecting her" I hear a loud bang and then Luke chuckle." Don't come after me for your mistakes but while we are at this I think now is a perfect time to talk to her. I'll leave and give you two some space."

"I didn’t reject her, I never will nor could I. I love her. Wait, what do you mean? You’re just going to leave your baby sister who is still unconscious?" Trent growls out. Ugh, it's so hot when he does that. 

"She doesn’t know that, this is all new to her and you are forgetting something stupid." I don't hear anything for a few seconds then I hear Luke chuckle. "I'm bonded to her differently than you, she's up now moron. Now talk, I'll be back later. I have things to do and people to see." There was a soft bang of what I'm guessing was the door and then I felt fingers brushing my cheek again. 

"Is he telling the truth? Are you awake?" Trent asks and I slowly open my eyes to his worried grey eyes.