‘’I don’t know and until I do I can’t say,’’ he tells me, with a shrug ‘’but it doesn’t look good. It would have been easier if I could have gotten my hands on him to find out who wanted your sister that badly and why’’ he eyed me as he asked, tilting his head to one side as though trying to read my mind ‘’is there something you’re not telling me? Why someone would want your sister so badly?’’
I shrugged I don’t see the point in lying, ‘’I’m not going to deny that we are witches. I do not see the point; you knew what I was the minute you saw me.’’ I sighed ‘all our family are witches. Some know we are here, others don’t,’’ I omitted the part of being an Omega and the combined powers we wield together.
‘’Witch,’’ came the screeched from the woman standing beside him, making me jump out of my skin. Pointing her bony finger at me ‘’we have a family of witches on our doorstep,’’ I wondered if she had a split personality, had she been hit on the head as a youngster? She just sounded completely crazy ‘’Lucien you can’t help these …… things. No matter the agreement you made with this one,’’ she told him, shaking the bony finger at me.
Could things get any worse? I questioned myself, looking at the woman standing next to the man I wanted. Yes, even though it was fucking stupid and insane, I wanted him. How worse could it get? I expect at some point in the near future I’d find out.
‘’In case you’ve forgotten the agreement I have isn’t with you,’’ I reminded her, staring directly at Lucien with what I hoped was a, are you fucking kidding me look on my face, ‘’and we’ve been here for a hell of a long time,’’ I said the whole time starring at Lucien wanting to shock him. I needed to see some sort of emotion a reaction on his face, ‘’we just didn’t make ourselves known until now,’’ I admitted with a shrug of my shoulders ‘and have never caused you any problems.’
‘’Don’t you talk to me like that or look at him,’’ she screamed at me, her face started turning red with temper, did she see something I didn’t? Yes, I was attracted to him. He set my mind and body alight, and I hated that he made me feel as I did, but I had thought that I was hiding it! ‘’You. Are. Nothing,’’ she spat out, her whole body seemed to shake with uncontrollable anger ‘’Just remember who your talking to, I could kill you with just a flick of my finger,’’ she told me, clicking her fingers.
Fuck, I knew that I kept getting an inkling that something didn’t sit right with her, now I had the feeling that …. Well to put it bluntly, she was mad as a hatter, I tried my best in ignoring her hoping that Lucien would be able to stop her if she tried to attack me. She just wasn’t worth my time or energy; it was becoming more obvious as time passed, that she was bat shit crazy and crazy meant dangerous. How he put up with her craziness, I didn’t know. Lucien needed to get her under control and soon. I’d have to watch my back and warn my family, I had no doubt that she would harm them in any way she could. The fact he knew that he had witches living practically on his doorstep for years, wouldn’t sit well with him. I would have to tell them that we could have a profoundly serious problem on our hands. It was true when I told him we had never caused any problems, we were peaceful. We liked to keep to ourselves and unlike the full-blooded witches that were still walking the earth, we could now control the witch inside us.
Not all our ancestors had been able to do the same. The witch inside them had been able to take over control so easily, that humans and naturals had turned against them. When the Pure blood witches had nearly been wiped out, one coven, ours, had decided that to be able to control the witches and to save ourselves, the only choice was to mate with humans and the supernatural’s. It had taken a few generations until it had worked to the point that the witch could be controlled. It had driven some to such madness that they had ended up killing themselves through it. That time had become to be known as ‘nightmarish,’ those days had been dark and wasn’t something that was talked about. Eventually we had been able to blend into the population.
We came across as any normal human, unless we wanted to reveal ourselves, which wasn’t very often. In doing so was frowned upon. The elders were extremely strict about what was allowed and what wasn’t. Using our powers in front of humans, even in front of some supernatural’s wasn’t allowed. Witches were still hated and feared. Certain supernatural’s and some humans would kill us, in a heartbeat. Neither trying to find out if we were a threat first.
Things had to change; Megan was missing. I couldn’t bear to think she wasn’t longer with us. I’d know that wouldn’t I? She was my sister after all. I needed to stop thinking down those lines, it wasn’t going me any good. I had to concentrate on what was happening in front of me.
I watched as he tried to appease her. Watching her closely it crossed my mind that she could have ‘Witches’ blood in her. I couldn’t sense any, but that didn’t mean that she couldn’t conceal it. It wouldn’t shock me if she did, I had briefly met a couple of Pure Witches and she was kind of acting the way they had. I could sense the demon in her. Was it possible she had Pure Witches blood in her?
If she did.
I was in a heap load of trouble!!
CHAPTER EIGHT
LUCIEN
The fire inside me has been well and truly lit, burning deep within my belly. I’m explosive with raging anger and being around her right now, has me incensed with a violent rage. I must get a grip of the situation that was developing around me, I hadn’t wanted Aria to come with me to meet Scarlett. I had this need deep inside me to protect her and I hated the way she was bringing these feelings forth.
I wished it were to do with the demon inside me. I knew it wasn’t. Aria had insisted that I take her with me. The more she’d insisted, the more my anger had started to rise. Scarlett had dared me by sticking her head out of that fucking window and shouting down to me. In doing so, she had sealed her fate. She’d sent me a dare; I wouldn’t back down on. I’d wanted to fuck and punish her at the same time. I had felt Aria’s excitement on seeing her, it had pulsated from her in waves, and I now know without any doubt, that Aria had known about her being here. The minute she opened her mouth, I had bloody known. I had to play my part and calm Aria down, even if it meant I had to touch her and to give into her demands. To act as if I gave a shit about her. My stomach rolled at the thought of having to touch her. I’ve never had these feelings before, and it was messing with my head. My demon, the big shit. He was bloody over the moon, fucking thrilled about it in fact.
It was just a shame that I wasn’t.
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SCARLETT
I watched with relief as he took control of the situation, it was obvious that he knew how to calm her down. The thing I couldn’t understand is, that if he knew she was so unstable, why on earth he brought her with him, to have this discussion with me.
I didn’t want her going ballistic again, I wanted her far away from me as humanly possible. ‘’I’m not carrying on having this conversation with you, until she’s gone,’’ I told him, nodding towards the woman standing beside him. The sooner she left, the better I’d feel. I didn’t trust her. I still didn’t trust Lucien, why would I, but he was the only one who could help me and if at any time I felt threatened, I was gone.