chapter 172


    Evelyn POV


    Driving down the highway I was brought to a standstill by a figure in the middle of the road. The


    lights illuminating hisrge intimidating stance. I stopped the car, pulling over and off the road.


    Thaddeus walked over, ripping the car door open. I was too mentally fatigued for his shit right now.


    “ Get out now” Thaddues says, reaching for the ignition and ripping the keys out.


    “Thaddeus I don’t want to do this right now just leave me alone” I tell him willing myself to not cry in


    front of him.


    “You don’t get to make a scene at home, then tell me to leave alone” He says, I could feel the


    darkness consuming him like a raging storm. The air became electrified and I could smell the buzz of


    his magic rippling out of him like an aura.


    “Can I have the keys back please” I ask him, holding my hand out for them.


    “No, you need toe back and apologise”


    “Apologise for what, I don’t have to apologise for shit. I am not the one pretending we didn’t just


    lose our fucking son” I scream at him now pissed off.


    “You think you are the only one that lost him, at least we didn’t run off ignoring Mara, you did that!


    left us to deal with all this shit because you are weak, fucking weak. Grow up and stop running from


    shit”


    “I’m not running you fucking prick, you could have pulled me out, you think I wanted to be stuck in


    my own fucking head. It would have took you two seconds to pull me out and you chose not to, so don’t


    put that on me” I tell him getting out of the car, if he won’t give me the keys I will fucking walk.


    “Here you go running again, soon as shit gets to tough you fucking run just like you ran from


    derrick, ran from your fucking childhood” I freeze he did not just say that?


    “You did not just say that?” I say spinning around to face him. He shrugs, and I could tell he


    wanted to inflict pain, wanted to hurt me. One thing I hate about letting people in, you let your guard


    down, they learn your secrets then use them to hurt you, though I never expected him to use that one


    on me.


    “I know how many opportunities you had to make that stop, you have no one to me but yourself,


    I saw the amount of times you would stand outside that police station but never go in, instead running


    away like you are doing now” Of all the people to me me for what happened I never thought it would


    be my own mates.


    “Is that what you truly think Thaddeus, that it was my fault. I was fucking child and that has nothing


    to even do with now so why would you even bring it up?”


    “Because you ran just like you are doing now because you''re weak, ruled by fear. Ruled by


    emotion” He says.


    “And you''re not? Anger is an emotion Thaddeus the only fucking one you are capable of and you


    call me pathetic. I had no control over anything from my childhood, and why is that Thaddeus? because


    you fucking killed my parents, everything that happened to me is on you” I tell him. Hurt by what he


    said, he knows how much that shit destroyed me and yet he was using it against me. It was almost


    worse than what Derrick actually did. He was my mate or supposed to be and yet hearing that shit


    reaction I feared from everyone, the me being put on me, them not believing. Thaddeus knows


    exactly what he did, watched my life of horror and then had the audacity to me me for it.


    “You walk away Evelyn don’te home, you eithere home with me now or not at all” He


    screams to my retreating figure.


    “Then have nice life Thaddeus” I tell him before taking off. I ran the entire way to the cafe. It was


    on the main street of the city. Imogen opened the cafe with me. When I was pregnant I worked until I


    could no more, the bigger I got the harder it got to maneuver around the ce. And I couldn’t exactly


    keep running here. The city was a couple hours from our ce. The running was too much, yet if I


    drove it would take half the day so we hired others to take over while I remained home, or went to work


    with Rnd whose office was a few blocks down from the cafe. During the week we sometimes stayed


    at Imogens so we didn''t have such a longmute. Thaddeus grandparents would sometimes take


    Mara if not she woulde to work with me.


    Stopping through the front door, the ring of bell above the door signalled my entry. I walk in flicking


    lights on. Walking into the kitchen, I start turning on the burners and deep fryers letting everything heat


    up when I hear the bell. I walk back to the front of the store, Thaddues walks in looking around. I can’t


    remember thest time he came in here. He rarely had time with work. I grab the coffee jugs ignoring


    him and walking out the back to wash them out before putting them on.


    “So you are done then?” Thaddeus asks but I ignore him. Instead, cleaning up the mess the girls


    who worked here clearly forgot to do, even the table needed cleaning, or maybe I was just picky with


    my now heightened senses. Everything looked filthy to me, yet I knew those that worked here were


    capable and efficient.


    “Are you going to answer me?”


    “Leave Thaddeus,” I tell him, grabbing the cloth and washing the ss jugs and cing them


    upside down on a tea towel to dry.


    “No, legally this ce is mine. I don’t have to leave, so answer me”


    “Yes Thaddeus I am done, we are done I want nothing to do with you now fucking leave. Why are


    you trying to pick a fight with me?”


    “I’m not you did when you were abusing Orion, who by the way has been raising your daughter


    while you were inland”


    “Well I would hope so because she is his daughter too, you know it''s called parenting you should


    try it. I am not some house wife and the fathers are supposed to share the load not that you would


    know, you don’t do shit for anyone but yourself, now get the fuck out” I snap at him.


    “Are you really going to just walk on us?”


    “You want me gone, I am gone Thaddeus, you got what you want now please just leave”


    “What about Mara?”


    “What about her?”


    “Are you going to walk out on her too?”


    “No I wille get her this afternoon” I tell him and he growls, the lights flickering when one of


    them suddenly bursts.


    “You are not taking my daughter anywhere”


    “What are you going to raise her?” I chuckle at the thought that would be a disaster.


    “She stays you can go, but she remains with us so choose Evelyn”


    “Just go Thaddeus”


    “Be a shame if this ce burnt to the ground?” He says looking around while I try and clean up the


    broken ss from the lightbulb choosing to ignore him. Nothing was going toe of me getting


    worked up around him. Especially with his magic all he knows is how to hurt people, and me reacting to


    him would only end with me being hurt.


    “Yes, your mother would be devastated, she loves this ce, now please leave” I tell him.


    “Fine I will go, but don’te home Evelyn you made your choice” Whatever I think to myself


    rolling my eyes, I was used to his tantrums. Like an oversized toddler chucking a wobbly when he


    doesn’t get his way.


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    “Any news from the scouts” I ask looking at Laura as she enters my den.


    “No pretty much the same, they barely leave the house, but his mate went into that cafe they run”


    “Which mate?”


    “The girl. His sister has also gone to Bianca’s. We have men following her but keeping a distance


    so she doesn’t notice them or pick them up”


    “I wonder if she can sense anything?”


    “I don’t think so we have kept Bianca pretty sedated, though the sister I think knows something is


    up, she has been seen looking for her. Went to some old mental hospital too looking for her aunt”


    “Mental hospital?”


    “Yeah visited some girl called Lana”


    “Interesting, keep tabs on Amara. I want to know when she goes home or if she realises something


    sinister has happened to her aunt”


    “Yes sir” Laura says, about to walk out and back up the stairs to the main house.


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    “Oh and Laura, keep an eye on the girl, I might have juste with an idea, especially if she is


    going back to work, we might be able to use that”


    “Possibly, we tapped into the cameras and the footage showed her arguing with her mate, we


    couldn''t hear what was said but it was apparent they are not on good terms” She says. I nod, that does


    get the mind racing, maybe this wouldn’t be as hard as I thought to get revenge on Thaddeus, maybe


    his mate might just very well walk into her own trap.


    “Keep an eye on her and remember to keep your mind nk, vampires can get in your head just


    do what I taught you and you should be fine”


    “Wait, you want me to go?”


    “Yes Laura, I can’t very well go, she would recognise me” Laura looks around nervously, before


    finally nodding. I watch her jean d arse walk up the basement steps, hear the erratic pumping of her


    heart in her chest, smell her fear. I usually keep her on the sidelines for the most part especially after


    the monumental fuck up she caused. But this has just given me an opportunity, one I won''t turn up.


    Now I just need to get that bitch of an aunt to start talking, the only problem is, I have her wake


    her, too long the sister may pick her up, thest thing I need is her to start looking for her before I am


    ready to deal with her.