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Sina looked up at each of us, tears heavy in her eyes. She parted her lips, as if she wanted to tell us, as if she was just about to let her terrors slip past her lips, but then she smacked her mouth closed and curled up next to Gaian.
“I’m sorry,” she whispered. “I’m so sorry.”
36
the potions
sina
Small potion bottlessat around the kitchen table, the thick scent of vampire in the air. I poured some vampire blood into a large bowl, then sprinkled in some herbs, just the way that I had at Dad’s estate to keep myself alive.
After last night, I felt so fucking bad. I had been moments away from telling my guys everything, but I got so caught up in the thoughts of what Dad could have done to me. I’d just wanted to be left alone.
Or maybe I was just making excuses now.
Jaroth had told me I should talk to someone about what had happened. He might’ve been my ex-boyfriend, but he was right. I had to tell my guys about how strong and powerful my father really was. I had to warn them.
Tonight.
I would tell them tonight.
But first, I needed to clear my head.
“How do you know how to make this stuff?” Maxine asked, pulling me out of my own thoughts.
She stirred the bowl every time I sprinkled some more herbs into it. In order for this potion to work, we had to ensure that it was mixed constantly and mixed well. Otherwise, it’d work for only a few moments, and then the body would become paralyzed.
“Trial and error,” I said, hoping that she’d drop it.
She might’ve been my only female friend in Durnbone, but I didn’t want her to know the monster that my father really was, mainly because I didn’t want to involve her. I wanted her to worry only about herself and not me.
“I would’ve never thought to mix vampire blood and herbs, and I’m a bartender.”
“Yeah, well …” I scratched the back of my head and added more blood. “You know …”
She didn’t know. She had no fucking idea. She didn’t even know what we were making this potion for. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that we were making it because my father wanted to kill my four guys and take me to experiment.
“Yeah, I get it,” she said, then looked around the room to make sure the guys were still upstairs, doing gods knew what. They had been in Calder’s room for the past hour and a half, coming up with some sort of game plan. “I heard that Jaroth was at the tavern the other night.”
I rolled my eyes and grabbed a couple of empty potion containers, pulling off their corks. “Yeah, he was.”
“And you talked to him?”
“Yeah, I did.”
“With the guys there?!”
“All right, it wasn’t mybestidea ever,” I said, a small smirk coming onto my face. “But it did give me some information about the guys, like …” Dad gathering men to come find me at the northern Durnbone border, like Jaroth had said.
What surprised me the most about all this was that Jaroth wanted to help. He wasn’t going to sit back and not give a shit. He’d actually told me the information he had about my father instead of keeping it to himself.
But I couldn’t tell Maxine. Though that wasn’t everything I’d learned from that experience.
So as to not to lie to Maxine, I grinned. “I’m their mate.”
“You’re their mate?!”
“Yes,” I said, peeking up at the second floor and catching Thayer storming out of Calder’s room.
