Clarissa
I was growing angrier by the minute and decided to go to the washroom instead to wash my face and calm down.
My phone rang and I picked it up.
“What are my two princesses doing?” Dad’s voice asked me and I immediately tried to relax myself.
“We are at the Madhouse dad, Talia dragged me here,” I grumbled.
Dad only chuckled, “You should try to make friends, Clary. Anyways, I tried Talia’s phone but she didn’t receive my call so I gave you a ring. I and mom have to go to the west to discuss and renew our accords for the pack treaty.”
I frowned, “When are you going?”
“We will be leaving in an hour and returning in a week or so. While we are gone try to behave and return home soon tonight, ok?”
Dad said and I replied, “Yes dad”
“Also ask them to not forget practicing the runes” I heard mom shout at him from a bit further away.
My father laughed and said, “They don’t need to be reminded about that, right?”
I replied in a low voice, “Ok dad. Come back soon”
“Love you and take care of yourself and your sister for me. You are my brave girls, aren’t you?”
“Dad, I am not five”
I grumbled and he said in his same light hearted voice, “You will always be my little babies. Both you and Talia. Ok, I have to go. If you need anything give me or mom a call, okay.”
“Yes dad, have a safe journey”
I disconnected the call and absent mindedly headed in the direction of the washroom and I opened the door, nearly smacking it into someone.
“Damn it” I muttered and was about to ask if the girl was hurt when she held grabbed my hand. She was bent a little so I hadn’t seen her face yet.
“Just what do you think of yourself? You and your sister are good for nothing.”
Holy shit.
Miranda was fuming and a few girls stopped to see our bickering.
I shook off her hand and tried to get to the bathroom stall but she placed her foot in front of me, making me stumble and fall flat to the ground.
A few girls giggled and snickered while Miranda and her friends began laughing loudly as they openly made fun of me.
I got up from the floor and glared at her, “do that again and I will kill you”
The girls all around only mocked me more as they high-fived and began booing at me loudly. I angrily stormed out of the washroom, the door closing behind me with a resounding thud.
My mood had just gone from worse to low and I needed to cool off a bit. I was done with the party and I wanted to do nothing more than drag Talia and disappear into my room.
The thought of coming face to face with these girls at school made my stomach churn.
I shook my head and headed to the booth where I had left Talia but she was nowhere to be seen. I gave her a call but she didn’t pick up.
Not knowing what to do, I simply decided to head towards a corner and maybe play some stupid games on my mobile to calm myself down while deciding to wait for Talia to give me a call back.
While I leaned on the wall, I heard a muffled cry and immediately looked around but couldn’t see anything.
I buried my head in my phone again but this time I definitely heard it, a bit sharper and clearer.
Shoving my phone back into the pockets, I furrowed my eyebrows and looked around again, more intently this time.
The music drowned out most of the noise but as I was standing far from the dance floor, I had been able to hear the cry.
I saw a streak of blonde hair fly past the wall on the right side and decided to take a look. Tiptoeing my way towards it, I slowly inched towards the wall and sure enough, I heard another muffled cry.
I took a peek but couldn't see anything in the dim lights. After peering intently, I saw a boy pressing his hand over the mouth of the girl.
The boy had broad shoulders and he was quite tall. My 5.5” of height could see nothing past his buff body and his height could be around 6.2” or 6.3”.
The girl was struggling but then stopped moving as he leaned in closer. I assumed they were just a couple making out in the dark corners of the pub and was about to turn away when I saw a purple colored hairpin that glittered in the dim light that shone on it.
Not again.
It was Miranda. That purple hairpin was an eyesore to look at.
Wasn’t she glaring at me for snatching away Kyler from her when I didn’t even go near him?
Now she was with another guy. That was fast.
I had been worried for nothing. Blaming myself, I was about to turn around when I saw the scared look in her eyes for a brief second and then my gaze fell on the boy who was dragging her away from the crowd.
Her eyes looked bloodshot and she was trying hard to free herself of the grip of the boy to no avail.
I would have dismissed them as a couple that was arguing, but while rubbing my shoulder my eyes fell on his hand.
He held a dagger in his hand that he carried in a firm grip and was advancing towards a narrow passageway that went into the inner private booths of the club.
I threw my eyes at the booth where I had last left Talia and I must say Kyler was giving her much more attention than he had given Miranda or the others.
Their noses were practically touching and Talia was laughing her heart out. I then debated between going to the bouncers and asking for help for the girl who could be in danger but by the time that would happen, the boy and the girl would slip out of sight.
After spending a confusing moment debating with myself about the next course of action, I decided to follow the couple on my own.
My danger senses were tingling and I feared that he was going to rape her or worst maybe even kill her.
I could deal with my sister later. For now, I had a girl to free from the clutches of a rapist/ killer.
Miranda girl kept throwing furtive glances backward every now and then as they parted their way through the crowd.
Not wanting to show that I was following them lest the boy would be alerted, I grabbed a drink in my hand quickly from one of the waiters roaming around with trays of glasses spilling with liquor, and tailed them.
I nod my head when our eyes met, trying to reassure her that she wasn’t alone.
My skin prickled with a nervous energy. I cast a glance at my sister and she and Kyler were passionately making out in the public.
‘At least, she doesn’t require my help there’ I thought in annoyance.
When I knew she was going to be fine without me, I decided to look back for the person I had been following.
I thought I had lost him but I found him quickly enough.
He slipped past one of the black doors before turning around once again to see if he was being followed. Miranda girl was still trying hard to wrench free of his hold but couldn’t do anything.
I quickly hid in the shadows behind one of the pillars and stayed there until I heard the soft thud of the door falling close.
Going ahead with great care, I gently waited outside the door and strained my ears to see if I could hear anything.
After ensuring that there was nobody waiting to gut me the moment I opened the door, I slipped inside and quickly hid behind the large blackout curtains, making as little noise as possible.
Then, I carefully pulled off the folds of the curtain and craned my neck outside.
What I saw next shocked me.
Miranda was on her knees, cowering in front of two men who were more or less around my age.
She was blabbering incoherently, perhaps begging for her life but both of them appeared unmoved.
“Pl-please, let me go. I did not harm anyone. I swear,” She was in tears.
“In the name of?” The other boy who was dressed all in black asked and the girl in front of them fell silent.
“Can’t even say you worship a demon openly? Such a shame.”
Worship a demon? What was going on?
I strained my ears to hear more and calm my raging heart as, “Enough, Dacre. We are not here to chitchat” The boy in the red shirt said as he outstretched his hand, opening his palm in front of Dacre.
Dacre shot back, “Politically correct as always, Silas” and grudgingly handed over the dagger to him.
Silas ignored Dacre’s comment and simply took the dagger from him.
“Are there more of you?” Silas asked the girl and she hissed, “you are going to pay for this”
“Are you a virgin?” Dacre asked and my fears came true. So, they were going to rape her and then kill her.
The two boys laughed like devils and my blood boiled. Were they serial killers wanting to rape poor, hapless girls before discarding their bodies into dark alleys?
Sure I hated Miranda for what she did to me back in the bathroom but not so much that I would let somebody kill her.
I had to report these boys to the council but before that I had to get out of this mess, alive and with my virginity intact.
I was thinking hard about how to save Miranda from this situation when Dacre said something that made me freeze on the spot,
“Silas, she also brought another one along for us to kill. Well, more the merrier,” He said, and raised his head to look at me.
“Shit.”
Clarissa “Shit” I muttered and stepped out of hiding. I walked towards the two and Silas chuckled in a rather dangerous way, his eyes glinting with malice. “You sure she is with her? She looks rather pale and weak to me.” He asked as I walked towards them. Now, I could see the room clearly and gave a quick scan of the place to see where were the nearest exits. It looked like a store room with piles of discarded broken chairs, ropes, and other forgotten things. The only source of illumination was a big bulb that hung down from the ceiling right above Miranda’s head. The rest of it was dark. There were rectangular windows high above near the ceiling that I could not reach and only a single door, the same one we had walked in through. I shivered despite not feeling cold. Dacre had gone completely silent as he saw me step out of my hiding spot. He threw a lingering gaze on me, his eyes raking me from bottom to top and then quickly dismissing me as a tissue paper. I felt his gaze sta
ClarissaDo I worry about taking the life of someone or do I revel in the feelings bubbling inside of me? Dacre had taken me off guard and despite my multiple protests kept advancing toward me.My first instinct was to run away, to fight him, and to even bite hard into his hand holding the dagger. But, all of them vanished when he did the unexpected and leaned in to kiss me.Of all the things I would have imagined him to do to me, this was the least. I should have protested hard, should have kicked him where the sun didn’t shine.But the moment his lips touched mine, it was as if all logic flew out of my head. There was something about him that was odd…different. Like he was different from the rest of us.Whatever this ‘different’ meant!When his fingers brushed my bare back, I shivered, not due to fear but due to pleasure. That was definitely not how a killer would touch his prey. There was something sensual about the way he touched me. At least I hoped so.Because the emotions I n
Clarissa I took a moment to steady my raging heart, adjusted my top, and then stepped out of the door. When I did, I was surprised to see that there was practically nobody in the pub save a few stragglers who were still drinking or passed out. How did everybody leave so soon? I wondered and looked for my sister. Damn, I had forgotten everything when I was with Dacre. The main doors were locked on the inside and a few waiters were waking up the passed out people to make them leave through the back door. I wildly looked around and saw a door on my far left falling shut slowly. It was on the far end of the passageway that I had entered to follow Dacre earlier. I rushed towards the door and flung it open before stepping outside. The cool wind splashed into my face and I saw that the path led to the forest. I again looked around, not knowing where to go next. My instincts told me that I should head home as Talia had either left with Kyler to have sex with him or been the good girl and
Clarissa“Just what in the name of Goddess is going on?” I heard a voice but couldn’t quite pin the owner to it.I was standing on the ground, transfixed at the sight of the girl who had just died in front of me and stated that I was the killer.The two girls who were Miranda’s friends began shrieking and howling loudly as more and more people began to approach us.Gasps followed murmurs and those followed stares and accusations as both the girls I didn’t quite recall the names of, began to loudly wail and tell everyone of how I had taken the life of their best friend.I was too dazed to even move and for a long time, I only kept staring at the dead body of Miranda that was soaked in blood.Dacre and Silas exchanged a look upon understanding how the issue had blown up. A look passed between them but I was too busy to pay attention to them.A chill ran down my spine at the thought of my parents seeing the body of the dead girl and how they would react upon knowing that I was a suspect.
ClarissaTalia’s bickering with Silas had taken my attention away from Dacre and the fact that we had just witnessed a murder.But I recalled it the second my eyes fell on the two girls who were Miranda’s friends again. They were sitting rigidly and whispering to each other.Probably they were trying to ensure that we all rot in jail forever.The car’s ignition took a few minutes to start but I was hyperaware of the fact that I was sitting on the lap of the guy I had kissed half an hour ago.Even his legs felt like bricks to me and I clutched to the headrest of the front seat so as to not slide down.The car took a while to start and the tall man cranked the ignition a bit too hard, throwing me on Dacre’s chest.“Ouch” I groaned as my head bumped with the ceiling of the car. He placed his palm on my back and pushed me forward as I struggled to get up.“Sorry fellas, you have a bumpy ride ahead” The patrol guard stated as he began driving the car like a madman.Before getting in the ca
Clarissa After he said that line, he simply stepped away from me and began walking inside. I quickly looked around but thankfully nobody had seen him say that to me. Somehow, his voice and his words had reassured me. I was not sure why I felt like I should believe him but in the brief second that our eyes had met, I had felt that if anybody could pull me out of this mess, it was him. After all, he was the one to have put me in that in the first place. ‘...but I want something in return’ What did he want from me? Should I trust him enough? While I was lost in thoughts, Talia straightened up and we all entered the large hall that had rooms on either side that served as offices of various employees. The large hall had a waiting area with rows of chairs on either side and a small passage in the center to walk toward the reception. The guard was directly taking us to the council head’s office when a woman in her earlier thirties stepped out of the office hurriedly. She was wearin
ClarissaDacre nodded his head. “Yes mam”Mrs. Bryant straightened her posture and smoothed her hair.“By any chance, is your father going to visit the council? We have heard that the rogues are getting pesky in the south so he might visit the council head to discuss the matters in detail.”Dacre rubbed his chin thoughtfully, “I am not sure mam, but I will check with him. I will also ask him to recommend you.”Mrs. Bryant began glowing like a candle flame. Being recommended by an alpha to the council head worked wonders for an Advisor’s career. She could be fast tracked on a promotion and also receive additional perks but most of all her social standing would elevate to a whole new level.While Talia looked at me and then back at the lady again, Dacre fell silent.Alfred came rushing in and he was almost dragging John along with him. “Mam, I brought John, you may note his statement.”Mrs. Bryant only gave him a frustrated look and uttered, “The case is almost solved. But yeah, I hav
ClarissaDacre patted on my shoulder but I whisked his hand away while still listening to the two girls intently.They were doing all of this on purpose!My blood was boiling and I wanted to kick the door and just drag them outside. But then even if I did, I wouldn’t have any proof about my innocence.And more than my quest to prove myself innocent something else was nagging at me.They were talking about Dacre and I wanted to hear what they thought about him.A small voice in my head said that I was being jealous but I shoved it down viciously and kept listening to them.Stacy purred alongwith Ashley and the two giggled like idiotic schoolgirls.“Yeah, he is so hot. Like hot hot. I want to dig my nails into him and want him to dig into me.”Ashley replied, “I bet he must have a big one judging by his muscles. Oh how would it feel to ride him”Yes, I was getting jealous.I could clearly feel that.Dacre patted on my shoulder again and I whisked his hand away.This time, he leaned into