The Beast within

Chapter 17 jake

Jake's P.O.V

  After I heard that Casey's parents had died and that she was burying them today, I wanted to, no I needed to be there for her. I waited until everyone had left, before I approached her, she looked so lost and alone. I wanted nothing more than to hold her, to kiss her and tell her she wasn't alone, but I didn't want to scare her and I thought that would be just too much for her to handle at the moment. I couldn't believe she gave me her number and when I got back home, my dad and mom called for me. I went into the living room to sit down with them, my dad and mom were sitting on the couch opposite me.

  "Did you see her?" My dad asked me and I nodded.

  "Yes, but we have a problem. She doesn't know about vampires and werewolves, or about the others, we know her parents knew, but she didn't. I want her, she is my mate, dad." I said, looking at my mom and she smiled at me.

  "Then you need to take your time with this, let them tell her and then we will all protect her. She's a human son, so she might get scared off and run and we don't want that, she might run into rogue vampires or rogue wolves and then what? We might lose the future Luna." My mom replied, I nodded, knowing that she was right. 

  "I promise, I won't say anything to her, but I'm drawn to her. I want nothing more to hold her in my arms and mark her as mine." I said, confessing my feelings.

  "It's the mate bond sweetheart, it's telling you all this, but remember she's human and may not accept it." My mom said, I nodded and got up from the chair, heading to my room. I looked at my phone, hoping she would text, but she did say that she was going to try and get some rest, maybe she's still sleeping. I'll try not to text her. I'll let her text me first if I can wait that long. I decided to take my mind off it by taking a shower, it has been a long day and I had already fed before coming home to talk to my parents. Our clan had long ago decided to feed on the blood of animals, we wanted to live beside humans and the wolves agreed to let our clan stay and now the tradition had stayed. I took my shower, dried and got dressed, deciding to watch tv, until I felt tired.

  Casey's P.O.V

  I woke up and stretched, I didn't realise I had slept for so long. Everything over the past few days had caught up to me and knocked me into a deep sleep, which I guess I kinda needed because I felt so much more rested than I have in a while. I looked around my room and saw the last two briefcases, I was a bit hesitant on opening them at first, worried about finding more letters and notes, but in the end I decided to just get it over and done with. I placed them both on the bed and opened the first one, which contained even more paperwork. I started going through them and found the deed to the house.

  "Well that's one less thing for me to have to find,  at least when the house sells I'll be able to give them the deed." I said out loud to myself, putting it to one side and carried on going through the rest. I found old photos of me from when I was a baby and a letter from a woman addressed to me, I didn't know her and this was strange, but I began to read it.

My dearest Casey, 

I'm your real mother, If you are reading this, it means we are no more. I want to let you know that we love you so very much, and your father and I are very proud of you. I wish we could have watched you grow up and become the beautiful strong woman we know you will become. We didn't have much, but I hope you have everything that you need in life and I hope you have a happy life with your new parents.

Love your mom and dad.

  I finished reading the letter and there was a photo attached to the back of it, it was of my birth parents. The woman had short blonde hair and was a little chubby, but she was very beautiful, the man had short brown hair and he was very handsome.

  "So these are my birth parents." I said, looking at the picture again. It was the first time I had ever seen them, I wonder why my mom and dad didn't show me this before? I shook my head trying to clear my thoughts and looked back at the briefcases, I don't know if I could handle any more surprises and I was so tired of crying. I looked at more and it was just old papers, pens, notebooks and a few more love letters to my mom from my dad. I folded them up and placed them in the shoe box I had, I closed the case and put it on the floor. I moved onto the last briefcase and opened it, yet again there were more folders, but there was also five hundred dollars and another note.

  "Lord, if this is another goodbye letter I'm going to scream." I said, feeling my stomach tighten and knot up, I can't handle any more goodbyes. I opened the letter and all it read was 'spending money'. Alright, I'll go shopping tomorrow I thought to myself. I looked in the folder and found a strange photo of a guy, his name was Tenn and he was put in jail for murder, my dad was his lawyer and was going to try and help him, but he can't anymore. Thankfully, that was all that was in the briefcase.