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CARNAL Chapter 30
Narrative P.O.V."You didn't tell her?!"Cain stared at Daniel, trying to regain some semblance of patience."She left the office before I had the chance to," he said."You couldn't just bring it up?"Jai took a deep breath, wondering when the day would come that Daniel would find a way to keep everything he was thinking inside his mind and not let it roll off of his tongue."All of her questions were about me, I wasn't going to bring up her grandfather until I had answered them. Any more issues about my personal life that we need to resolve before we discuss what you called me down here for?"Daniel huffed and crossed his arms.Jai threw the two files across the freshly-sanitized steel medical examination table. Cain reached across and grabbed them both, eyeing Jai warily ashe read the contents of the folders under the harsh, bright lighting of the autopsy room.Cain took a deep breath as he read the line that had been highlighted by Jai. He closed the first folder and opened the ot
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My heart was pounding.The doctor nervously shifted the clipboard in his hands as his eyes glanced from myself to Cain."Well?" I asked, my voice shaky."Ms. Schulz, as we suspected, you're not entirely human.'’The pounding in my chest came to a screeching halt. I began to take deep breaths, immediately feeling light-headed.There was something about hearing him say it that made me sick to much stomach."What do you mean?" I asked as I tried to catch my breath."You have the Lycan gene," the doctor said.I shook my head slowly, rejecting the idea."There is no way," I said.Cain stood from his chair and took the clipboard from the doctor. He examined the contents of the piece of paper with an intense look on his face."Can I read it?" I asked him.I felt my heart in my throat as Cain handed me the clipboard.I grabbed it from him with shaking hands.As I read over the various numbers and data lines, I realized very quickly that I hardly understood any of it."What does any of this me
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Narrative P.O.V.Dr. Zosak looked at Cain in disappointment.When Cain noticed this disapproving look, he snapped. "What did you want me to do?"The old man sighed, the wrinkles in his face sinking deeper into his skin with his frown."You should have told her the truth from the beginning," he pressed.Cain scowled and pushed past the doctor, heading out of the room."I may not know what it's like to be in your shoes, but I know a thing or two about relationships," Dr. Zosak said, stopping Cain."No one, human or otherwise, enjoy being lied to. Even if it's to protect them."Cain looked at him over his shoulder. Cain thought on his words for a moment, his hard stare making it difficult for Dr. Zosak to decipher exactly what he was thinking."Have the lab run the rest of the tests," Cain said. "I want to find out how dominant the Lycanthrope gene is. I need to know whether her body can handle being marked."With that, he left the room.Ella was on his mind the entire time he walked u
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Ella's P.O.V.I sat on the floor in my room, all of the documents we had acquired in the past few weeks spread out around me. The only thing I didn't have was the duffle bag full of files on the doctor that Daniel and Jai had gotten in Frankfurt.Those were in Cain's office.I was still angry with him, even though it had been several hours since the revelation of my grandfather's Lycanthrope heritage that he had passed down to me. While this theory had yet to be officially confirmed, I gathered from several pieces of information that he was indeed a Lycanthrope.For starters, the book I found in his attic on Lycanthropy was a neon sign that flashed in my face. If I was being honest, I felt like an idiot for not noticing it sooner. After a careful review of his medical records, I could see now that there were indicators of Lycanthropy all along. His white blood cell count, for one, was incredibly high, especially for a man of his age. Not to mention that he was nearly seventy years old
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Narrative P.O.V.Cain stood over the open duffel bag, peering into the stack of files that had been thrown inside it.He wondered if it was even worth it to read through them all, knowing he had other things he needed to be doing.Jai and Daniel, not wanting to further burden Ella, had taken it upon themselves for the time being to research into the lives ofthe Vampire men whom they had gotten the DNA results for.They knew she was overwhelmed by the entire situation at hand and she needed to focus on what was important.That left Cain, however, to be responsible for looking through the files on the doctor.He reached into the bag, but stopped. Cain took a deep breath."Sneaking up on me hasn't worked out too well for anyone in the past," he said.Cain turned to look at his father, who stood a few feet away.Adam smirked."Just wanted to see if I could still do it."Cain rolled his eyes and turned back to face the bag that sat on his desk."I heard you when you opened the door downst
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Ella's P.O.V.I woke up in the very early morning, before the sun had climbed over the mountains and chased the moon and stars away.I lay in bed for a few moments before I got up to shower. Changing into fresh clothes after I had done so, I walked back.out into the bedroom to see that the sun had just begun to rise.I narrowly avoided the documents that still covered the floor as I walked around them to exit the bedroom.Walking around the castle that hadn't yet been touched by the earliest rays of sunlight, I found myself wandering to Cain'soffice. I knew he was likely there, but that didn't deter my feet from moving in that direction. I made it to the office door, up the staircase, and eventually found myself staring into the inky blackness of his office."Are you up here?" I asked gently, my voice ringing loudly in my ears."Yes," his deep voice replied, coming from the dark abyss in front of me.A few moments went by."Can I turn on a light?" I asked. "I can't see you."After h
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"Cain, stop! What are you doing?"I frantically followed Cain down the hallway as he pulled my nearly unconscious brother behind him by the collar of his shirt.Zak's bruised and bloodied face was a gruesome sight but seeing him dragged along like a suitcase was even more terrifying."Cain, he's hurt! Would you let go of him? Where are you taking him?"Hearing my rapid-fire questions, Cain stopped walking and turned around before letting go of Zak's shirt collar and letting him slump to the ground.I gasped as Zak's head hit the marble floor, the sound echoing off the walls of the long, empty hallway.Before I could sink to my knees to help him, Cain came to stand between Zak and I.I looked up at him with a bewildered expressions."What on God's green earth are you doing?" I asked."He's not allowed to be here and he knows it,'' Cain said sternly."What-"Before I could finish my next question, Cain interrupted me."The skill with which he snuck into this castle suggests that he's be
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"Ella.."I looked up from the soup that was on the table in front of me to see Daniel staring at me intently as he hovered over his own bowl."Why are you not eating?" He asked.I looked down at the untouched bowl in front of me that was no longer steaming and the clean spoon that laid next to it."I guess I'm not hungry," I told him.He sighed, dipping his spoon back into his own bowl"What's wrong?" He asked, giving me his full attention.I looked around us at our audience, the busy kitchen where the chef and a few others were bustling their way around to prepare dinner for everyone else."Listen," Daniel said, "I understand that you're having a hard time.."My head snapped back to face him and I leveled a glare."You understand? “I asked him. "You understand what it's like to be exposed to another dimension of reality that goes against every presuppositional belief you hold? You understand what it's like to find out that you have a predetermined soulmate, the likes of whom childre
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