Chapter Ten
Corinna
I didn''t have any time whatsoever to respond to my mate before he had picked me up into his arms
bridal style and took off running in a blur through the orchard and out the other side where a hugeke
stood, I wrapped my arms tightly around Mkai''s neck when he showed no signs of slowing down.
My eyes screwed shut tightly when he pushed off the ground, leaping through the air and across the
trees,pletely surrounded by shrubs and bushes with berries and flowers until we reach arge
ck metal fence, through the gaps in the fence I could see a beautiful stone mansion.
The mansion seemed to be on a different level to the garden beyond the fence, it had a stone porch
that had an arch over each set of pirs and on the stories above there were balconies that matched it
with ss railings. Huge rocks werepletely surrounding the perimeter, some of which had a gap in
them making little waterfalls, that flowed into a stream that seemed to wrap all the way around the
house or at least the back of the house.
So busy taking in the beauty of the home ahead of me, I didn''t even notice that Mkai had opened a
two door gate and was walking me down a stone path surrounded by flowers, we eventually reached
the stream that had small t stones that rose just above the water so he could get across easily to the
stone steps which led onto the porch.
Mkai opened the ss patio doors, that were apanied by floor to ground windows on either
side so you could see right into the living room, where multiple people were sitting on a cream n
shaped sofa, that was bigger than any sofa I''d seen in my life.
In front of the sofa there was a modern white coffee table, on top of a cream rug that sat on the tan
hardwood floors, the modern item looked slightly out of ce when youpared it with stone wall the
sofa faced that had a firece with a fire that was burning bright.
There was a huge TV bolted above it, on either side of the firece there was white shelves slotted
into the stone which held an uncountable number of books, the whole scheme of the room seemed to
be white, cream and beige.
The only thing that didn''t follow the colour scheme was the pool table behind the sofa, there was one
small step you had to take before you were standing in the extension where it stood, surrounded by
more shelves where more books sat, along with CDs, DVDs and a sound system.
Mkai gently ced me back down, earning the attention of everyone in the room the second my feet
hit the floor. A huge built guy with dyed blue hair wandered over to us, his light blue eyes take a
moment to scan me before theynd on Mkai.
" Who''s this Mal? " He questions, his voice not as deep as I expected it to be.
" This is my beloved, Corinna. " Mkai introduces. " Cori, this is my older brother Phoenix. "
As I shake Phoenix''s hand, I can''t help but smile at the nickname given to me by Mkai. A couple
more of Mkai''s ne to meet me, others seemed far less excited about my presence, The
raven haired girl who''s name I learned was Josie - short for Josephine, was definitely in that group.
Before anyone else coulde say hello, Mkai led me out of the room and up four flights of spiral
stairs until we reached a long hallway with only four sets of doors, we walk to the end of the hall, where
wee to a set of white double doors on the right side there was an identical set of doors on the left.
We walk through the ones on the right that held a huge bedroom with grey carpet, a four poster King
bed with ck sheets to match the curtains on either side of the floor to ceiling window that had ck
frames and a patio door that led onto a balcony, there was a ck floor to ceiling bookshelf lining one
of the walls and there was not one space missing a book, the other walls were painted silver.
" This is my room. " Mkai mumbles.
I wander over to his bed, running my fingers over his soft sheets. " May I? " I ask him, gesturing to the
bed, he doesn''t respond, only nods making me take a seat with my legs crossed.
Now is when I remember I''m only in his white shirt, covered in dirt and dried in blood. I can''t believe I
met people in this state. I begin to pick at my dirt covered finger nails as I ask what''s been on my mind
from the moment we left the orchard; " Not that I''m not happy you brought me here with you, but... Why
did you bring me here with you? Who were you running from? "
Mkai frowns slightly, he walks in the direction of two white doors that were next to the balcony door
and disappears into one for a moment, then returns putting on a ck dress shirt, when the buttons are
done up he sits on his bed beside me.
" My n, the vampires downstairs.. Lately they have been getting attacked when they go out to feed.
Some of them made it back and some of them were killed off. " He tells me.
" By who? " I frown.
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" Hunters, it seems. Josie''s sister went missingst night, that''s why myself, Dahlia and Josie were out
there tonight. To try find her, I was expecting to find a body, that''s what happened with the others, only
we didn''t find her. We found a couple hunters instead, we killed him but one got away. Josie wanted to
go after him to find the rest, I decided it wasn''t a good idea, hunters usually use herbs so we can''t feed
on them without their blood tasting like battery acid, something was off. And we don''t know how many
there are. " I nod at his exnation.
" Sounds like they may have been trying to lure you guys. Do you think they took Josie''s sister? " I ask.
Mkai nods. " I think it''s likely. "
We sit in silence for a few moments, then he stands up holding his hand out to me to take. " Come on,
let''s get you clean. "
I blush, slightly embarrassed now that he''s pointed out my rough appearance. He leads me into the
door next to the one where he got his shirt earlier and it turns out to be a bathroom that seems to be
madepletely out of ck marble with silver switches, faucets and handles.
Mkai wanders over to the huge bath that looks like a hot tub rather than a bath, puts the silver
stopper in and starts running the water. I turn my back to him to unbutton his shirt and then drop it to
the floor, my hair covers my chest so I ce my hands over my lower half then turn to face him.
His eyes watch me carefully as he moves toward me, he gently pulls my hands away from my body
and then brushes my waist length hair over my shoulders. " You don''t ever have to hide from me. " he
whispers.
His gaze starts to trail down my body, he frowns for a moment as he reaches out to lightly touch a scar
from a stab wound on my right shoulder, then his fingers move to brush over the scars left on my chest
from where my uncle''s ws had punctured me when he got close to ripping my heart out once, he
then moves to the w marks that stretch from my rib cage down to my hip and around to my lower
back, then to the very recently bite mark on my other hip, and then to the other two bite marks on my
upper left leg.
Gently he turns me so my back is facing him, he carefully takes hold of my hair moving it up so he can
see the small de marks, bigger w marks that litter my back. By the time he finishes tears are
rushing down my face and I''m struggling to hold back my cries. Will he be disgusted by me now?
" Who did this to you? " He seethes.
Facing him, I take in the rage that is clear in his eyes. " I... " I trail off not knowing what to tell him.
Other than that time with my mother, I never usually t out tell anyone about myself. People usually
figure out I''m '' the hybrid '' because I usually use both my wolf and my gifts to defend myself, but it''s not
very often I''ve admitted it to people. In the past, when I have admitted it and someone wanted to help
me, it usually blew up in my face... And theirs.
" Corinna, who did this to you? " Mkai demanded