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“Number 3, I’ll let you touch my boobs if you let me speak to Nyra,” I said.
“Really?You’ll really—”
“Yes, but I have to see Nyra first,” I said in a resolute voice, trying to force a smile onto my face and trying not to cough, even though there was an uncontrollable itch in my throat that made my eyes water.
Number 3 eyed me for a few seconds before turning around.“Wait, let me speak to Number 1 first.I’ll—”
I interrupted her while trying to stop the coughing that started when her words spiked my anxiety.“Don’t, don’t ...Number 1 doesn’t want me to see Nyra.If I want to see her, only you, my true mate, can help me.”
Number 3’s eyes widened as she stared at me like I’d told her she could hold the moon in her hands.“Only me?”
“Yes.The others don’t like me.You’re the only one who does.So this night, I’ll cuddle with you if you promise not to touch me inappropriately.”I sweetened the deal with those words.
Sure enough, Number 3 couldn’t resist.“Okay, okay, I’ll get you Nyra and I won’t tell the others.Give me a second.”
5
Aurora
It only took a few seconds for Number 3 to switch with Nyra.I watched as the switch happened, scared that any of the other two who didn’t like me would find out that I’d persuaded Number 3 to invite Nyra out.
Although Nyra’s face didn’t change, her demeanor changed, losing the childish innocence of Number 3 and revealing Nyra, who had furrowed brows and clenched trembling fists.
“What do you want?”Nyra asked.
I tried to see her facial expression, but looking up at her in my weakened state was no easy feat, and the darkness in the room wasn’t helping.
I sluggishly turned to lie on my side, using my hand to pat the tiny space in the single bed they had made me lie on when it became evident that I could no longer sit up for a long time without help.
Nyra was silent as she gingerly laid beside me, her face looking up at the ceiling as if she didn’t want to see my face.
“How long have you known that I was your true mate?”I asked, staring at her neck.
“The day you came over after Angelique and Hank’s death.”She replied in a flat tone, her lips twitching when she called Angelique’s name.
I stared at her intently, remembering how she had hit me from behind and the manic, pleased smile on her face the night she kidnapped me.
Something about her smile that night and Reuben and Number 1’s hateful and sadistic choice to poison me slowly with Wolfsbane made me develop a strange suspicion.“Did you have anything to do with Angelique and Hank’s death?”
Her voice was empty of emotion as she said, “Apparently, Reuben killed them, but Number 1 erased that memory.I only recovered the memory when we kidnapped you.Just like I only found out you were my true mate after the other personalities pushed me back to kill Angelique and Hank.”
“She tried to hurt you?”It was a question and a statement at the same time.
From what I’d seen, Nyra’s personalities were all protective and if Number 3 was to be believed, there was a good reason for that.
“She told Hank to ...force me ...as punishment for remaining friends with you after she told everyone to stay away from you.”Nyra’s voice broke, but she continued to speak in that emotionless voice.
“I’m sorry.It was my fault.I should have—” I couldn’t finish speaking as a cough racked my body, and I spent the next several seconds coughing.
She waited for me to stop coughing, raising her voice for a second before it went back to that flat tone that I now knew was a coping mechanism.“It wasn’t your fault ...people like Angelique?They always react that way to anyone who tries to have a different opinion from them.”
“I’ll find them ...and make sure they get punished,” I said.
“What are you talking about?Angelique is already dead.”Nyra asked, turning to face me with a perplexed look.
“All the people that hurt you.I’ll find them ...”I paused to cough for a few seconds, swallowing back the blood that came up my throat with that cough.“ ...and punish them.”
Nyra sat up, staring down at me.“You just coughed up blood.How can you find anyone in your current state?What’s going on?Why are you so weak?”
