CHAPTER 50

LUCY’S POV

“Whatever this is, Luce, it’s not normal,” Bryan said, inching closer to me. I sighed, falling back on the wooden chair behind me. We stood for almost ten minutes, waiting for Adrian to finish up with his meal.

When he was finally done, he crept out from the darkness, the red eyes still glowing as he made himself visible. I felt tears brewing in my eyes as I stood up and tossed a jacket to him.

“Put these on”.

“How long has he been this way,” Bryan asked, helping me with the empty blood bags.

“A month, two or three weeks. I can’t really tell. All I know is that there was something wrong with him the last time I went home,”

“There’s nothing wrong with me,” Adrian interrupted, walking out of the darkness completely. He exhaled, slowly opening his eyes. The red was gone, likewise the rage. “Dad did something new, and for the first time it worked,”

“For the first time?” I asked, trying to process what he meant. “Have there been other trials, Adrian?”

“Yeah…they all survived for just a day,” he answered.

My heart fluttered, beads of sweat trailing down my back and sending a cold shiver down my spine. My parents were exactly who I thought they were.

“We’ll get you help, Bryan knows someone…”

“Help?” He interrupted, buttoning up the jacket and inching closer to Bryan and me. “You think I need help? Does your boyfriend think I need help? Huh? Is that what this is?” He asked furiously, spitting blood on our faces.

For a split second fear gripped me, but Bryan held my hand and walked in front of me.

“Your sister wants what’s best for you,”

“Lies. Everyone wants what’s best for them…just like you and mum, using the Alpha’s son to get what you want. Now Dad wants something, and he has used me because I am the only…”

“Just…shut up! Adrian,” I cut him short, stepping out of Bryan’s back. I stared into his eyes, and that was when I knew they had completely brainwashed him. “What does dad want?” I asked.

“The blood of the seeker wolves. Rumor has it that there’s one in your school now,”

“No way am I letting you come close to my school,”

“Ohh…you think?” Adrian scoffed, walking into the darkness to take out his shoes and a cap which I found him lying with on the street two nights ago.

“As we speak, my admission papers are getting ready, sis,”

“If Dad cared so much for you why didn’t he come searching for you after you lost control?” I asked, and silence fell in the room. For a moment, I thought my words struck a nerve in his head, reminding him that none of our parents did give a fuck.

The silence in the room was broken by the distant blare of sirens. I hurried to the window and saw a few police vans heading our way. “Bryan, did anyone see you coming here?” I asked, turning to him.

“Urm…I passed a couple of police on the road. But it was all good, they…”

“We’re leaving, now,” I cut him short, grabbing my leather jackets from the window seal and headed to the door.

“Fine, leave. I’ll handle them,” Adrian blurted, and I halted in my tracks.

“You can’t fight them off, Adrian,”

“You think?”

“I don’t think, I know!” I yelled. He wasn’t going to come along if I stopped there, and with an angry sigh, I walked back to him. “Have you heard of Sheriff Sherwood? The alpha brother who lives with the humans? I bet you haven’t,” I paused, watching my words take its effects on him.

“If you know what happens when a werewolf sheriff works on the side of humans, you wouldn’t be thinking of carrying out that dumb action you have in your thoughts,” I said and stormed out, Bryan following behind.

He tossed his bicycle at the back of the van and jumped into the front seat. Adrian hazed out of the building the moment I ignited the engine and joined us in the back seat.

“What? Drive!” He yelled after I turned to look at him.

I hit the accelerator and drove out using the path behind the cottage. I hid the van in the tall bushes until the police cars all passed us, and then I steered and drove away. We’d gone a few meters when I hit the break.

“Shit! The blood bags,” I hissed, looking through the rear. It wasn’t in the back seat, and Bryan looked as shocked as I did, which meant he wasn’t with it.

“Just drive, we’ll get it back,” Adrian muttered. He sounded confident, and for unknown reasons I bought it.

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When we arrived at Bryan's motel, Adrian was the first to come down from the car. He was restless, but Bryan and I needed to talk.

“My father needs the blood of a seeker?”

“He said…seekers,” Bryan reminded. “But there’s just one now, right?”

I looked at him, and we both knew who he was talking about. Somehow the news had gotten to him, but how did he know she was the one?

“You know?”

“Of course. She nearly blasted my brains in the camp a few weeks ago,”

“A camp?”

“Yeah…hung out with Caine at the human camp, kissed him, slept in the same tent,” he said. There was a spark in my chest, one that wasn’t supposed to be there. Caine was just the tool—a fake boyfriend until all this was over. Bryan was the real deal.

“It doesn’t make you a bit jealous, does it?” He asked, snapping me back to reality. I forced a smile.

“Of course not,” I said and kissed him. “How about you? Did it make you jealous even a little, watching them?” I asked.

He scoffed, leaning back in his chair. “Jasmine and I are in the past now,”

“What were you doing at the camp anyway?” I asked again, curiosity eating me up.

The screeching of car tires pulled our attention away from each other. The black familiar car packed at the corner of the motel, and Caine came down.

“Fuck…that’s Caine. Get down,” I freaked out.

“Lucy?” A feminine voice called from the side of my window.

I looked up and found Jasmine waving with a smile, but it vanished immediately.

“Bryan?” She muttered, her face turning red.