Chapter 16
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KENDRA
I have no idea how long I stood there in Nick’s arms, not believing what just happened. Nobody said a single word for the longest time, as if speaking would shatter the broken glass that was me. I felt the tears falling but I couldn’t stop it, I just let them fall as I tried to keep a steady breath. I finally stopped the silence and it broke me as I spoke.
”How could I trust him? How could I let him manipulate me like that?” I felt so naive for believing anything he said and thinking that he was too perfect for me. Like I was undeserving of him and not the other way around.
”It’s what he was born to do. The rest of us learned how to treat people with respect and Blake probably had him lying without any issues at the age of three.” I heard Edward say from the couch but I didn’t answer him or even responded. I just stood there with my back against Nick’s chest and his arms around me, his chin resting on my head. I could hear him whisper in a low voice that even I had a hard time hearing.
”You’re safe now.” It was not much but it helped.
We stayed at my place for another hour until it hit Maya that we should probably warn the coven. Marcel didn’t just mess with me for the fun of it, he had a purpose for his invasion into my life and heart. Nick wanted to go with us to Victoria but I told him to get Edward to the Realm and find out as much about Marcel’s family as possible. We needed as much of an edge as we could. They already have an upper hand on us by now. Marcel had been in my life for months, who knew what kind of information he gathered in that time.
”So what did you tell him?” Victoria asked me as we sat down by her kitchen table.
”I don’t know, we rarely talked about the coven. He was kind of jealous that it took up most of my time nowadays.” I admitted and my heart sank by the thought of the ’loving’ side of Marcel, even if it was all a role to play for him. A part of his true self shined through at time, I had to believe that.
”Not how to get there or where we relocated to?” I thought back to some of our conversations but I couldn’t be sure.
”Maybe? I think so.” I felt shame that I had shared our coven’s secrets with someone outside of it.
”Okay, luckily they need someone to let them through since the Empire reinforced the walls after the last attack. That buys us some time.” She talked with some hope in her voice, that everything was gonna be okay.
”I’m so sorry.” I started crying again, I just couldn’t help it. I felt so guilty for not seeing through him.
”Hey, it’s okay. Blake has been after us since his own father got his heart broken.” Victoria sounded cryptic when she spoke, there was more to her words than just that fact.
”What?” Both me and Maya asked in union.
”I used to date his father, Larik before I met your grandfather. The Ashwoods can hold a grudge.” I was pretty sure that my chin was down to the floor. Not that I had known her for that long but I couldn’t believe that we were as alike as we were.
”Wow.. didn’t see that one coming.” Maya said under her breath.
”Yes, but now we need to deal with the father of your Ashwood.” And with that Victoria stood up from the table and started to get to work.
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THE DARK REALM
I could feel that something was wrong the moment Marcel shifted into my office. I saw it on his face and it wasn’t good.
”Just spit it out son!” I yelled, my voice shook him.
”We have a problem.” His head was lowered and I knew that he had f****d it up somehow.
”You know I don’t like hearing that we have problems. Fix it!” We had worked out this plan for a long time and he wrecked it just weeks before the attack. i***t!
”I tried. She knows.” I froze upon his words, with everything that he could f**k up the biggest thing that we couldn’t just fix just had to it..
”WHAT?” I yelled at him once again.
”Maya and f*****g Nick Cooper figured it out and told her.” I could see the anger by the mention of Nick’s name. The same anger that I felt for his father is what he felt for his son, there was only one thing that could be the reason for this. He was in love with her.
”f**k!” I muttered, trying to think of how to handle the situation the best way. This made it harder to get into their Realm..
”I’m sorry but we have to push our plans forward. We need to do this now.” For the first time he said something that wasn’t totally idiotic but then again it was obvious too.
”How could you be so careless?” I asked him, he had let his feelings get in the way of my plan, our plan. Revenge for all that they had ever done to us and he fell in love with the girl.
”Me? It was your actions that made him so determinant in finding out, you killed his aunt.” Ah, I remembered her sweet smile and the fear in her eyes right before I tore her heart out.
”His aunt had it coming.” I answered him, not giving him any emotions.
”She was twelve dad.” The word dad made me want to gag, Marcel should know better than to call me that. I had pretty much beating it into his head when he was six.
”Don’t call me that.” I was stern.
”Sorry father. What are we doing about this?” He dragged on the word father, like it was dripping with hate.
”Tell Edson to get the troops together, we attack at the end of the week.” I commanded
”Okay.” His voice was low as he walked out through the door.
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