Chapter 14
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KENDRA
I kept hearing Maya’s voice in my head over and over again, repeating her words ’He’s not who he says he is’. I didn’t want to believe it no matter how sure she looked. I had to talk to him about it so I sent him a text, telling him to come here whenever he was done with Wales. Hours passed and when I looked at my phone, he was on his way here. Was I actually bursting our happy bubble? I didn’t know what I would do when I heard his car pull up on my driveway or when he walked through the door.
”Hey babe.” He kissed the top of my head and I just sat there on the edge of the couch. ”Wales has officially lost it. He thinks that if we lose this he will get ’fired’ or retired is more correct.” He was in the kitchen and getting some water before walking over to me again. ”He needs to breathe, he won’t get fired. Not that I would mind.” He looked at me for the first time for real since he got here. ”What’s wrong?”
”Who are you?” I felt tears in my throat as I asked him that.
”What do you mean?” He acted so innocent but I could tell that he was phased by it.
”I know about your coven, so don’t try to tell me otherwise.” I couldn’t hold the tears back anymore.
”So I didn’t tell you everything about my past. I am not my parents Kendra. I will always love them but when they died I decided that I don’t want the same faith as them.” In a way it sounded rehearsed, in case I would find out he had it all planned out. But a part of it felt true.
”But black magic Marcel..” He tried to take my hands in his but I pulled them away, moving a little bit away from him on the couch.
”It’s not something I do anymore. I used to but I haven't in years.” He tried to look me in the eyes but I couldn’t look at him, knowing that if I did I would buy into whatever he was saying. I wanted to keep my feelings out of it for as much as possible.
”So that’s why you never talk about your coven?” I glanced at him but returned my eyes to my hands just as fast.
”Being born in a black magic family keeps me from joining any other coven. So I had to do it on my own. It’s hard but I make it work.”
”Why didn’t you just tell me?” My emotions were getting at me. I didn’t care who his parents wanted him to be but I care that he didn’t tell me, or planned to tell me about it.
”Cause I didn’t want you to look at me like you’re doing. Like I’m some bad guy, warlock that’s out to get you.” He raised his voice and stood up, walking around the living room.
”I don’t.” I was being honest, I didn’t think he was a bad person.
”Your face tells me otherwise Kendra.” The look he was giving me in that moment broke my heart so I stood up and walked over to him.
”Look at me. I’m here, not running away. I love you.” I took his hands in mine and looked him right in the eyes for the first time since he walked in.
”I love you too.” His words were a mere whisper before his lips found mine.
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MAYA
I honestly had no idea what Kendra thought when I felt her place. Either she believed me and was ending things with him or his claws in her were deeper than I originally thought. Either way I needed to know more, if he was out to get her his lies were an attack on the coven and my family. We needed more information. I picked up my phone and clicked on the call button once I found Nick’s name amongst my favourites.
”What did she say?”
”Honestly I don’t know. Get Edward and meet me in the Realm, we are getting to the bottom of this.”
”Okay, see you soon.” And the line went dead.
It didn’t take me long to get to our ’cave’, I was going through every single book the coven owned for any information on Marcel, if that was even his real name.. Nothing was helping. There was a lot of history on Blake but they rarely mentioned his son or even wife other than she was from a powerful bloodline. Not which line or anything that was really helpful.
”How’s it going?” Edward’s voice broke the silence making me jump at the surprise as I hadn’t heard them entering.
”Not good, please tell me that you have more information with you?”
”Maybe. I looked a little deeper into his parents and we already know that his father is Blake Ashwood but his mother was a mystery. Until I found this.” He started browsing the pages of the book in his hands. The page he stopped at was one of a partial family tree, it ended with an empty space and the name above it spelled out Leeta Ashwood. It was clear that her maiden name was crossed over.
”Okay, so who is she?”
”That’s the thing. I looked back at the start of the family tree and it goes further back than any of our family books. I think she’s a part of some ancient family and if that’s so.. Marcel is worse than we thought.”
”Let me see.” I took the book from him without waiting for an answer. I traced my finger over the names in the tree, they seemed familiar for some reason. Then I saw it.
”Sylvia and Randall Wood.” I whispered their names as a way to spark my memory further. I went back to the other books that I had just looked through, I had read those names in one of them. ”Yes.” I said once I found the book I was looking for while Nick and Edward just looked at me with confused expressions on their faces. ”Look! Sylvia and Randall Wood took power after a coup against Sylvia’s father, head of the royal family.” I read the words written on the page in front of us.
”Shit..” Edward said under his breath unike Nick who were practically yelling.
”Are you telling me that Marcel is the heir to the royal warlock family of black magic? Are you f*****g kidding me?!”
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