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“Because it’s about ten fucking feet off the ground, girl scout is smart, she wouldn’t have risked a fall like that. Besides, this was done in a hurry and the last knots left too much space in between,” Van told me, making me storm over there to look, asking quickly before I got there to see for myself,
“What are you saying?”
“I’m not sure yet but I know a way of finding out for sure.” I narrowed my gaze as he left the window and walked over to the same picture Evie had looked at when seeing my room for the first time. Then Van shocked me as he pulled it from the frame, showing me the hidden wires behind.
“Don’t be pissed but I had a camara installed,” Van informed me and naturally… I… SAW… FUCKING… RED!
“YOU WHAT?!” I seethed, storming over toward him.
“Easy, Ryker, I did it for your own good!” he argued. I grabbed him by the collar of his jacket and raised him up.
“You bugged my fucking room!” At this he closed his eyes before telling me,
“I didn’t trust her not to try something… I didn’t trust that she wouldn’t run again.” At this I forced myself to let him go, because he was fucking right. She had run! She had done the very thing he had tried to warn me about. But I hadn’t wanted to listen. I had wanted to believe that she cared for me enough to stay.
I felt like a fucking fool.
“But, Ryker, I don’t think that’s what happened here.” I whipped my face back to him and just as he tugged his jacket back down, he told me,
“I had Faron direct the feed straight to my phone, so it wasn’t part of the rest of the security. I swear… fuck, man, I swear to you, I never watched it. I never intended to, not unless something like this happened. Ryker, you have to believe me, it was only done as a precaution, so that if she tried to run again, we may find her sooner.” I dragged another hand through my hair before nodding, the bitterness still too strong to speak. But he took my response for what it was, as he quickly got his phone out of his pocket and started tapping on the screen.
“I am starting the feed from when we left the room, not before,” he told me, as if trying to soothe my Demon’s possessiveness, as he knew I would not have allowed anyone to see Evie the way only I was permitted to see her. Her perfection was mine and mine alone and I would tear the eyes out of anyone who dared to try and see it for themselves. I would kill anyone that dared try to take it from me.
Something I realized would soon be the case.
“Shit… Ryker, it wasn’t her… she was fucking taken, look!” Van said, making me snatch the phone just in time to see that soon to be dead fucking bitch now stab her with a needle.
“FUCK!” I snarled, forcing myself to ease up on the phone so as I couldn’t crush it before I had all the information I needed. I was seeing for myself how she had tried to make it look like Evie had run. But she hadn’t. She hadn’t run from me.
She had been fucking taken!
“I will kill her this time,” I warned, knowing now my mistake in just having her banished from my territory. Allowing her to convince me that she had no idea that she was my Siren. That she believed Evelyn to be a mortal intruder and nothing more. Damn my fucking weakness!
“Yeah, well that’s a given,” Van agreed, but then we watched as she pulled a glowing red stone from under the neck of her dress, one I instantly recognized.
“Fuck! She has the heart stone!” I snarled.
“The heart stone?” Van questioned, making me realize now that I had yet to explain what fully happened in the bathroom back in Portland, Oregon.
“It is a stolen piece of Annika Empusa’s heart.”
“Fuck! How the fuck did someone get close enough to steal a piece of your father’s sorcerer?!” Van hissed, reacting just as I had.
“I don’t know much of the details surrounding it, as she explained very little to me and, at the time, I was more concerned with getting back to my Siren,” I told him, something that only managed to berate me with even more questions.
“You’re talking about when you passed out, something you still haven’t explained how that shit even happened, I might add.”
“The fight back in Portland, it was Azhdar.”
“Fuck, Ryker!” He swore through his teeth this time.
“When I walked in, I found him trying to drag Evelyn into a portal, one the heart stone managed to create. And before you ask, no, I have no fucking clue how. I only know that the big bastard had the piece of the heart and used it against me like a weapon.” He frowned at this.
“A weapon?” he questioned, and like most rulers of our sectors and those who held positions of power, admitting what I did next did not come fucking easy for me. Even to my best friend.
“It had the power to overcome me, Van.”
He hissed again, startled by the realization that there was something out there that could bring me down.
