Forbidden (Fallen 2)

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“I want to hear from the girl,” the scarred man said.

“Her name is Kylie,” said Jonathon and Isaac at the same time.

I started forward with Jonathon. “You,” said the man in red speaking to Jonathon, “Back there,” he continued flicking his hand to indicate that Jonathon should move back.

Jonathon growled low in his throat, his pointed teeth slid out again, “No,” he said in an icy voice.

“It’s okay. They won’t hurt me,” I said but even I didn’t really believe my words. His eyes told me he didn’t either but there was nothing else for him to do so he moved back two steps.

“Why would a vampire be after you?” He said in a mystical voice. “Why are you so important?”

“Why don’t you ask me a question that actually means something? Instead of acting like the big bad wolf cause’ I’m not buying it,” I said sarcastically. A year ago I would have never said anything like that.

He chuckled, “I like you. You have spunk.”

I wanted to say, “Well, I don’t like you,” but I held my tongue. Best not to push my luck.

He began pacing his hand at his mouth in a contemplative gesture.

“Tell me what this vampire has done to target you?” he said, finally deciding on a question that had some merit.

“First, she started leaving little notes for me,” I said before he interrupted me.

“Notes?” he asked stopping his pacing to stand in front of me.

“You will not interrupt me if you want answers. Understand?” I said. This guy was seriously pissing me off. Someone needed to put him in his place.

“Proceed.” He said with a wave of his hand as if it was no big deal. I cleared my throat and continued, eyeing every member of the coven, except Isaac.

“She leaves me these notes, on little scraps of paper with things like, ‘I’m watching’ or ‘see you soon’, stuff like that. She places them in places where only I will find them like my bed for instance. I don’t understand how she is getting into the house, the Pulmer’s house, I should say. Another time, when I was staying at my mother’s house she came through the window, this was the first time I ever saw her. Then her little notes stopped for a while,” I said looking back at Jonathon. He looked down in shame. “But shortly they started again. And then on the night of the dance I went to the bathroom and she kidnapped me.”

Isaac suddenly spoke up. “You mean you didn’t stand me up?”

“No, I would never do that Isaac,” I said peering around the man to meet his blue eyes.

“I thought you left me there by myself,” he said and his voice was soft like a little boy.

“No,” I said. “Never.”

“So, he can interrupt but I can’t?” laughed the man that was their leader.

“Yes, because you are rude about it,” I said before continuing. “She took me to an old house. And when I woke up,” my voice was starting to crack as I fought back the tears, “My father was there. She didn’t come back for a little while but when she did,” tears were coming now, “I had to watch my own father’s head be ripped off. I had to watch my dad die. Then, she came after me. My whole body felt like it was burning. I thought that I was going to die and I would have if Jonathon hadn’t shown up. But he did and he saved me when I thought there was no chance of being saved. We thought Jonathon killed her but she outsmarted us. She is still alive and still leaving me messages. She won’t be satisfied until I’m dead and she doesn’t care who she has to kill to get to me,” I wiped a stray tear from my face.

I looked in the scarred man’s face. For the first time it seemed that compassion had filled his cold gold eyes. “We will help you.”

“That’s all we ask,” said Patrick.

“Come with me. We will find a more comfortable place to talk,” the man in the red cloak said starting down the corridor that we hadn’t come from.

“Can we go now? Please?” I asked Jonathon in a whisper. He looked at me and I knew he wanted out of here just as much as me.

“Patrick?” asked Jonathon deferring to his uncle.

“You two can go home now. We no longer need you, we will be fine,” said Patrick. The rest of the Coven followed the man in the red cloak, Patrick, Amelia, Danny, Mason, Joseph, Balthazar, Vivian, Viola, and Gabriel, followed behind them.

Jonathon and I headed back down the corridor we had come from.