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CARNAL Chapter 33
Ella's P.O.V.I sat on the floor in my room, all of the documents we had acquired in the past few weeks spread out around me. The only thing I didn't have was the duffle bag full of files on the doctor that Daniel and Jai had gotten in Frankfurt.Those were in Cain's office.I was still angry with him, even though it had been several hours since the revelation of my grandfather's Lycanthrope heritage that he had passed down to me. While this theory had yet to be officially confirmed, I gathered from several pieces of information that he was indeed a Lycanthrope.For starters, the book I found in his attic on Lycanthropy was a neon sign that flashed in my face. If I was being honest, I felt like an idiot for not noticing it sooner. After a careful review of his medical records, I could see now that there were indicators of Lycanthropy all along. His white blood cell count, for one, was incredibly high, especially for a man of his age. Not to mention that he was nearly seventy years old
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Narrative P.O.V.Cain stood over the open duffel bag, peering into the stack of files that had been thrown inside it.He wondered if it was even worth it to read through them all, knowing he had other things he needed to be doing.Jai and Daniel, not wanting to further burden Ella, had taken it upon themselves for the time being to research into the lives ofthe Vampire men whom they had gotten the DNA results for.They knew she was overwhelmed by the entire situation at hand and she needed to focus on what was important.That left Cain, however, to be responsible for looking through the files on the doctor.He reached into the bag, but stopped. Cain took a deep breath."Sneaking up on me hasn't worked out too well for anyone in the past," he said.Cain turned to look at his father, who stood a few feet away.Adam smirked."Just wanted to see if I could still do it."Cain rolled his eyes and turned back to face the bag that sat on his desk."I heard you when you opened the door downst
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Ella's P.O.V.I woke up in the very early morning, before the sun had climbed over the mountains and chased the moon and stars away.I lay in bed for a few moments before I got up to shower. Changing into fresh clothes after I had done so, I walked back.out into the bedroom to see that the sun had just begun to rise.I narrowly avoided the documents that still covered the floor as I walked around them to exit the bedroom.Walking around the castle that hadn't yet been touched by the earliest rays of sunlight, I found myself wandering to Cain'soffice. I knew he was likely there, but that didn't deter my feet from moving in that direction. I made it to the office door, up the staircase, and eventually found myself staring into the inky blackness of his office."Are you up here?" I asked gently, my voice ringing loudly in my ears."Yes," his deep voice replied, coming from the dark abyss in front of me.A few moments went by."Can I turn on a light?" I asked. "I can't see you."After h
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"Cain, stop! What are you doing?"I frantically followed Cain down the hallway as he pulled my nearly unconscious brother behind him by the collar of his shirt.Zak's bruised and bloodied face was a gruesome sight but seeing him dragged along like a suitcase was even more terrifying."Cain, he's hurt! Would you let go of him? Where are you taking him?"Hearing my rapid-fire questions, Cain stopped walking and turned around before letting go of Zak's shirt collar and letting him slump to the ground.I gasped as Zak's head hit the marble floor, the sound echoing off the walls of the long, empty hallway.Before I could sink to my knees to help him, Cain came to stand between Zak and I.I looked up at him with a bewildered expressions."What on God's green earth are you doing?" I asked."He's not allowed to be here and he knows it,'' Cain said sternly."What-"Before I could finish my next question, Cain interrupted me."The skill with which he snuck into this castle suggests that he's be
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"Ella.."I looked up from the soup that was on the table in front of me to see Daniel staring at me intently as he hovered over his own bowl."Why are you not eating?" He asked.I looked down at the untouched bowl in front of me that was no longer steaming and the clean spoon that laid next to it."I guess I'm not hungry," I told him.He sighed, dipping his spoon back into his own bowl"What's wrong?" He asked, giving me his full attention.I looked around us at our audience, the busy kitchen where the chef and a few others were bustling their way around to prepare dinner for everyone else."Listen," Daniel said, "I understand that you're having a hard time.."My head snapped back to face him and I leveled a glare."You understand? “I asked him. "You understand what it's like to be exposed to another dimension of reality that goes against every presuppositional belief you hold? You understand what it's like to find out that you have a predetermined soulmate, the likes of whom childre
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Narrative P.O.V.Cain's knee bounced up and down rapidly as he sat in the uncomfortable plastic chair, impatiently waiting on Dr. Zosak to return.Footsteps echoed down the long hallway and he looked up expectantly, only to see it was just Daniel walking towards him. Daniel sat down in the chair next to Cain and handed him the steel cup.It was the sixth time in two hours that he had refilled that cup. While he knew that Cain's body was just going into overdrive to compensate for what it had been starved from, Daniel knew that the more that Cain drank, the harder it would be for him to back off of it.He watched with wary eyes as Cain lifted the cup to his lips. Cain could feel Daniel's eyes baring into him. He knew he was a sight to behold.Ella's blood still stained the sides of his face and neck. It coated his hands and fingers and, although it had dried, he could imagine that it painted a gruesome image against his skin. He was still shirtless, despite the freezing temperature of
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Ella's P.O.V.I laid on my back on top of the examination table. Thankfully, Dr. Zosak had elevated the back of it slightly and I was able to lean back without being uncomfortably flat. My injured arm was pressed against my chest while the fingers of my other hand toyed with the conjoined oxygen tubes that ran down my chest from where they had been pressed up under my nose and tucked behind my ears.Hearing the faint murmur of conversation in the hallway stop, I opened my eyes and turned my head to see Cain walking into the room. His shirtless, muscular chest was the first thing I saw.After I managed to tear my eyes away from naked torso, I saw the blood on his face and arms.It was my blood.The sight was gruesome and it was hard to look at.I felt my heart begin to race and the neon green lead on the cardiogram that I was hooked up to begin to bounce up and down quickly, pinging its way loudly across the monitor besideme. His lavender eyes scanned me, observing both the saline dri
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Ella's POV"Ella.."The sound of my name split my unconscious mind in half."Ella, I need you to wake up."l opened my eyes to see Dr. Zosak standing over me."We need you awake for this," he told me.I felt the bed begin to tilt upwards, a mechanical whirring noise filling the room as it did so.Turning to my right, I saw Zak as he helped me sit up straight."What's happening?" I asked."We're going to test a theory," Dr. Zosak said.I looked over to see him standing beside a cart that had been pushed beside the bed. He was unraveling tubing and various other phlebotomist tools."What are you going to do?""Your brother's blood type isn't a match for you," Dr. Zosak said."We can't transfuse his blood with yours."So, who else are you going to try and match me with?" I asked.Dr. Zosak looked up from his tools and made unflinching eye contact with me."You."My eyebrows furrowed."Me?"Just as I said this, Cain entered the room."He drank your blood," Dr. Zosak said."All we have to
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