ZAIA.
I shot him.
Fear is consuming me from the inside as we rush out. We have Dad now, and I can see Atticus running over to him. He’s covered in blood, but he’s fine. I jerk my head and he nods, knowing what I mean.
Get Dad out.
I glance around the tunnel before I run ahead, ready to lead the way out, when the sound of gunshots up ahead makes me back up.
“This way!” Atticus hisses as he runs down the other dark, long hall of this place.
Dad hurries after him, staggering. He isn’t in the best of shape, and I can tell he’s in pain.
I bring up the rear when suddenly we come to a stop seeing several men ahead. I find myself
staring at a man who looks extremely similar to Sebastian. Only his jaw and eyes are sharper.
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He’s a mix of Gerard too and I wonder if he
could possibly be his son… but I also feel like I’ve seen him before…
I notice the tattoos on his hand, instantly remembering the man back at the cabin when we attacked Olivan. His aura – it was him!
“You really have nowhere else to go,” he says, glaring at Atticus and the hatred in this man’s eyes is chilling.
“Says who? You ain’t fucking in charge.” Atticus snarls.
“But I am.” A voice that sounds somewhat familiar says, ringing off the walls.
We all turn and stare at the man who now steps
班
forward. His aura is reined in, but it’s powerful.
He’s dressed in a casual black suit, his pure
white moustache is trimmed, and his white hair is brushed back.
Four large men flank him and each one is
holding a gun as they surround the elder man in the middle.
“Father,” Gaultier says, his voice cold as he
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lowers his head ever so slightly.
My heart thunders as I watch every man here lower his head to him. So, this is their leader… but the shocking thing is, I know who he is.
My mind is a mess as I stare at the man I have not seen in years, someone who I thought was living in a rural area enjoying life with his animals.
“Zaia, it’s been a while. Now, how about we talk like civilised beings? We are family, after all.”
Grandfather? 2
at the men surrounding him. What is Mom’s father doing
uneasy. He’s clearly as confused as I
hands in his
sound of
towards us from behind.
We’re circled…
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her something
command is unnervingly relaxed. Almost
forward my aura as a shield as someone tosses a top at me, I pull it on extremely fast, staring at the man
said ‘My father took him’. With everything going on, I was more stuck on the names I didn’t
trying to name, and
did I miss such an
yourself,
going on. I
is the meaning of this?”
sharply.
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strong southern accent,
know that Mom’s dead?” I ask coldly. ” Not that you
has taken the location of one of my treasures with her to the grave. Something
he mean the Moon Dust? Is that how Mom knew about the triquetra… because
with the three points of the triquetra being here. I don’t want
Focus, Zaía.
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if I did, I wouldn’t tell you,”
“Hmm… yet you found us here… coincidence, I guess.” He smiles chillingly before he
and fight in you, if only you chose this side and
two Kings,” Lawrence says.
looks down, his eyes flashing. Grandad’s words didn’t seem to settle well with him, but he doesn’t
at
bed, and now
your brother, Gaultier. He cannot die.” Lawrence says, his eyes darkening with rage. Despite how he’s talking,
lowering his head before
I look at
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one behind it all. The one pulling the
I have been preparing for the Blood Born just as my family before me has, for years. And finally, the time has come and right in front of me, I have two of the Sublime at my mercy… Victory is ours.” His voice is calm,
No, you won’t.
race that you are doing the right thing?” I
He isn’t in a good state but he’s still
be called werewolves are dead, those who cannot shift, those who cannot call on their aura, their
die. And
goddess will be the
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strong like Zade and Gaultier, not losers like you and your sister.”
sister? Why did he
Atticus’s sister?
something to my
you!” Atticus snarls, his
for them. Atticus has been helping me. What if
innocent
touched Linette-”
He
That you deserve to win, that you are correct, yet you know nothing about the truth behind your own life! You don’t even
you mean?” I
and Sable are born from three bloodlines…
Blood Born are siblings.”
part of the Blood Born?
trying to say?” I ask sharply
apply to the Toussaint twins
the Scott’s.” Dad says suddenly. “Do you mean she’s
both
Atticus and Valerie?
on Grandad’s face makes it clear
Dad is somehow correct.
“What?” Atticus asks sharply.
is spinning as I try to
together.
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