chapter 151 Forty-Nine


    Evelyn’s POV


    Thaddeus phones Bianca and we spend around an hour waiting before I hear movement outside. I


    was sitting on the lounge with Thaddeus and Rnd when the front door opened, and Orion stepped


    inside. Standing, I go to see Lana when Thaddeus pulls me behind him. Lana walks in cautiously.


    Looking around the room before her eyesnd on me. Her hair was messy, and she was wearing a


    hospital gown. Her eyes going wide when she saw me and rushes over to me, a little too fast nearly


    knocking me over. If it weren’t for Thaddeus holding my arm, she would have knocked me to the


    ground.


    “Thank god you’re okay” I whisper hugging her back. She sighs deeply squeezing me tightly.


    Thaddeus I could see was watching her with a strange expression on his face and I could feel his


    caution through the bond. Orion, I noticed was standing behind her his hand on her shoulder


    awkwardly like he was worried something was going to happen.


    Their worry through the bond making me uneasy, why were they acting like that. It was Lana?


    Orion and Rnd have met her plenty of times, she isn’t like April.


    Lana steps back and looks around “This ce is nice. Do you live here with them?” she asks.


    I nod, her eyes darting around the room quickly, in fact all her movements seemed jerky and too


    quick.


    “Come, I will get you some clothes” I tell her, grabbing her hand. Thaddeus ces his hand on my


    arm stopping me when I went to take her up the stairs.


    “Orion will get her some clothes” Thaddeus tells me.


    “Why are you acting like this, it is Lana?” I ask him. His eyes not leaving her.


    “It’s not safe” Rnd says stepping closer.


    “I am not going to try and leave again; I am right here” I tell him, but he shakes his head.


    “We aren’t worried about you doing anything Evie” Rnd says using Lana’s nickname for me.


    “I’m not going to hurt her” Lana exims, shocked by his words, she looked appalled he would


    even suggest such a thing.


    “You may not mean to but it’s a chance I won’t take, not with my mate” Thaddeus says pulling me


    against him.


    “You’re being ridiculous, Lana won’t hurt me” I tell him, but he doesn’t let go.


    “I will go with them Thaddeus. Evie will be safe” he says. Thaddeus reluctantly lets me go and I


    grab Lana’s hand pulling her up the stairs. Orion right on our heels. I rummage through the wardrobe


    giving her some clothes before following her into the bathroom and shutting the door before Orion’s


    hand stops it.


    “Door stays open” he says. Lana looks mortified at his words, as any teenage girl would be.


    “Not all the way just so I don’t have to knock it down if something were to happen” he says


    confusing me. I turn the shower on for her, and Lana gets undressed. She seemed different almost


    perfectly fine, like nothing happened.


    Sitting up on the sink basin. Lana hops in the shower. I noticed her chest was covered in blood


    under the gown and she had a scar where her heart would be.


    “Are you okay?” I ask her, Lana’s head whipping to me so fast, she nearly gave me whish just


    watching how quick she moved.


    “Yeah fine“ she says her voice almost melodious.


    “So, what happened?”


    “I don’t really remember, child services got involved. April had been acting strange the past week


    and I was staying in a motel near the hospital, I was visiting Dad and she came in crying hysterically.


    Saying these horrible things that dad raped you, that he was sick in the head. She was waving his gun


    around. Dad tried to get her to calm down. I heard a bang and Dad fell off the bed and I saw blood


    pooling and the next thing I know; I heard the gun go off again, felt like I was punched in the chest.


    Then I woke in the morgue that’s when I rang you” she tells me.


    I hated the way Lana called him Dad, hated that she had an attachment to the vile man, but I also


    understood he was good to her, she never saw the parts of him I did.


    “Orion wouldn’t tell me if they were okay, he brought me here. Said I couldn’t go home, said that I


    was vampire now. Pretty cool don’t you think? I love the vampire diaries“ she says excitedly. Her


    attitude shocked me. So unfeeling, like she didn’t know the people who raised her, like she had no


    connection or emotion at all.


    “Is it true what mum said, did dad really do that?” she asks. I cringe at the word feeling disgusted


    hearing it leave her mouth.


    “Yes Lana, what April said was true” I tell her. She looks at me.


    “But your over it right? You’re good now?” she asks. Her words shocking me. Was this the same


    Lana I knew? What happened to me is not something you get over, you just live with it, deal with it or in


    my case not deal with it, thanks to Thaddeus who dealt with it for me.


    I say nothing. “So, what about mum, did she get arrested?” Lana asks and my lungs restrict. She


    didn’t know. She didn’t know they were dead.


    “Lana…”


    Orion pops his head in the door and shakes his head and presses his fingers to his lips. He didn’t


    want me to tell her.


    “I am not sure,” I tell her turning back to her. She was washing her hair. Why was I lying to her?


    What was going on. I had so many thoughts racing through my head and nothing was making sense,


    Lana’s strange behaviour, Thaddeus sudden distrust of her.


    Suddenly the water turns off. I hand her a towel. She steps out, wrapping it around herself, the


    room full of steam.


    “The hot water here sucks,“ she says making me raise an eyebrow. The room felt like a sauna the


    room so thick with steam I felt like I was inhaling the water in the air. I open the door intending to walk


    out when she speaks again, the breeze from the open window brushing over me.


    “What’s that smell?” she asks and just as I turn to face her, I notice her face twist into a demon, her


    eyes going blood red as she lunges at me, knocking me over before sinking her teeth into my shoulder.


    I let out a scream, and Orion was already ripping her off me, her teeth pulling painfully from my skin.


    Lana thrashing in his arms, a crazed look on her face.


    “What the fuck, Lana. You bit me,” I say shocked just as the door burst open. Blood starts trickling


    down my chest where Orion ripped her teeth out of me. She continued to thrash in his arms like a wild


    animal.


    “Let me have her,” she screamed fighting against him. Rnd rips me to my feet and yanking me


    from the room, his arm around my waist. I see Thaddeus walk over to her grabbing her face. “Enough”


    He yells at her and I see her freeze for a second before she starts thrashing again. Rnd drags me


    downstairs, my hand clutching my blood-soaked neck. He sits me on the lounge just as Bianca walks in


    her eyes darting to the stairs at themotion above us.


    “Upstairs” Rnd tells her, and she disappears in a fast blur. I hear banging and crashing upstairs


    making me look up at thending above us.


    “What’s wrong with her?” I ask him. Rnd bites into his wrist pressing it against my lips and


    stopping me from asking any questions.


    “Drink it” he says, and I let my lips part, feel his blood coat the inside of my mouth warm and thick


    and I have to force myself to swallow. Feeling my wound healing underneath my hands the sensation


    felt strange.


    “What’s wrong with her?” I ask again his blood coating my lips and Rnd wipes it off with his


    thumb, Rnd looks up before looking at me.


    “She is a newborn vampire; they feel everything differently or feel nothing at all, your scent must


    have overwhelmed her” Rnd says.


    “But Orion doesn’t attack me like that?”


    “He has had hundreds of years of practise to control his bloodlust. Even older ones sometime slip.


    Lana has no control yet.”


    “But she will be okay, right?” He sighs, running his hand down his face. He looked tired. He ces


    his hands on my legs looking up at me.


    “That is why Bianca is here. She will take Lana and look after her,” Rnd tells me just as Orion


    “Lana won’t go with her; she doesn’t know her,” I tell him. Orion growls at me before sitting down


    clearly angered by something.


    “She can’t stay here with you; she won’t have a choice but to go with Bianca,” Orion argues back.


    “And if she says no?” I ask.


    “Then Thaddeus will kill her. She needs guidance, Bianca will look after her,” Rnd tells me.


    Thaddeus walks down with a limp Lana in his arms before walking outside. I go to get up and follow


    him, to check she is alright when Orion pulls me down on hisp wrapping his arms securely around


    my waist. Bianca walks down the stairs fixing her outfit which was wrinkled beforeing over to me.


    “I promise to look after her Evelyn, she is safe with me. Promise,” Bianca says looking to the door


    Thaddeus just walked out of. I liked Bianca she was always kind to me, and I knew if my mates trusted


    her I could as well, Bianca is Thaddeus’s aunty after all.


    “Can I at least say goodbye?” I ask them.


    “She is unconscious, Thaddeus broke her neck,” Bianca says, and I jump up horrified by what she


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    said. Orion pulls me back down on him.


    “She is fine Love; it won’t kill her“ he whispers just as Thaddeus walks back in.


    “I put her in Rnd’s car you can take that to get home” Bianca nods before rushing outside.


    “You broke her neck?” I ask him angrily.


    “Be grateful I didn’t kill her, usually any newborn vampire Ie across, I kill. The only reason I


    didn’t is because she is your friend” he says, and I can feel his anger burning into me through the bond.


    I hear Rnd’s car start and try and get up again only to be stopped this time by Thaddeus


    gripping my arm.


    “You will see her again, but when you’re not so breakable.”


    “Not so breakable?”


    “Yes, you’re human, Evelyn” His words anger me. He wants me to turn into a vampire and be


    uncontroble like Lana? He just said he snapped her neck for crying out loud.


    “I have already told you, I won’t change and seeing her like that just reinforces that decision” I tell


    him.


    “You won’t have a choice you will get older, Evie; you will decide, or I will decide for you,” he yells


    at me. The lights flickering in his anger.


    “Fine, then I will change,” I tell him. He seems shocked by my words. “I will change when you give


    up your magic,” I scream at him. If I have to give up my life, he can give up his magic like his mother


    wants him to.


    “That’s not happening,” he growls.


    “Then I am not changing,” I tell him defiantly, crossing my arms and holding his re refusing to


    back down; I knew he would say that. We stare at each other for a few seconds before he storms out of


    the house angrily, mming the door behind him.