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CARNAL Chapter 37
"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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Narrative P.O.V.Cain's knee bounced up and down rapidly as he sat in the uncomfortable plastic chair, impatiently waiting on Dr. Zosak to return.Footsteps echoed down the long hallway and he looked up expectantly, only to see it was just Daniel walking towards him. Daniel sat down in the chair next to Cain and handed him the steel cup.It was the sixth time in two hours that he had refilled that cup. While he knew that Cain's body was just going into overdrive to compensate for what it had been starved from, Daniel knew that the more that Cain drank, the harder it would be for him to back off of it.He watched with wary eyes as Cain lifted the cup to his lips. Cain could feel Daniel's eyes baring into him. He knew he was a sight to behold.Ella's blood still stained the sides of his face and neck. It coated his hands and fingers and, although it had dried, he could imagine that it painted a gruesome image against his skin. He was still shirtless, despite the freezing temperature of
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Ella's P.O.V.I laid on my back on top of the examination table. Thankfully, Dr. Zosak had elevated the back of it slightly and I was able to lean back without being uncomfortably flat. My injured arm was pressed against my chest while the fingers of my other hand toyed with the conjoined oxygen tubes that ran down my chest from where they had been pressed up under my nose and tucked behind my ears.Hearing the faint murmur of conversation in the hallway stop, I opened my eyes and turned my head to see Cain walking into the room. His shirtless, muscular chest was the first thing I saw.After I managed to tear my eyes away from naked torso, I saw the blood on his face and arms.It was my blood.The sight was gruesome and it was hard to look at.I felt my heart begin to race and the neon green lead on the cardiogram that I was hooked up to begin to bounce up and down quickly, pinging its way loudly across the monitor besideme. His lavender eyes scanned me, observing both the saline dri
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Ella's POV"Ella.."The sound of my name split my unconscious mind in half."Ella, I need you to wake up."l opened my eyes to see Dr. Zosak standing over me."We need you awake for this," he told me.I felt the bed begin to tilt upwards, a mechanical whirring noise filling the room as it did so.Turning to my right, I saw Zak as he helped me sit up straight."What's happening?" I asked."We're going to test a theory," Dr. Zosak said.I looked over to see him standing beside a cart that had been pushed beside the bed. He was unraveling tubing and various other phlebotomist tools."What are you going to do?""Your brother's blood type isn't a match for you," Dr. Zosak said."We can't transfuse his blood with yours."So, who else are you going to try and match me with?" I asked.Dr. Zosak looked up from his tools and made unflinching eye contact with me."You."My eyebrows furrowed."Me?"Just as I said this, Cain entered the room."He drank your blood," Dr. Zosak said."All we have to
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Unknown P.O.V."Are the final preparations for the memorial service being made?""They're being completed now, sir."He nodded in satisfaction."Will she be there?"The young man nodded, the hands that were clasped behind his back shook as he did so."Yes, sir, she will be.""And he'll be with her, I presume?""Yes, sir."The young man let out a shaky breath."Is that all you need from me, sir?"He wove his hand, dismissing the young man."Yes, Zak. That's all."Ella's P.O.V."Ouch!""Sorry, watch your head.I sat down in the plush leather seat rubbing my head."That warning came a little too late," I told Daniel, who was swinging luggage into the overhead compartment above me."Technically, I gave you one before that," he retorted, closing the compartment."I don't think shouting 'Four!' counts," Jai said, shuffling in behind him with his two duffle bags.Daniel just shrugged."Knock it off, you two," Cain said, entering the cabin of the plane."Go help everyone else load the rest of
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My grip on Cain's hand loosened as I fought for oxygen.The weight of shock in seeing my grandfather made me feel like I had an elephant on my chest.I felt like I was seeing a ghost.Do I run to him? Do I run away?My grandfather was supposed to be dead, but there he was. After nearly two months of searching, my answers were only about a hundred feet away. I began to take a step in his direction, but Cain tugged me back with the hand that still held mine."Don't," he said as I turned to look at him."But Cain..." I said softly, still somewhat dazed.He shook his head slowly, his sharp eyes still trained on my grandfather."Something isn't right," he said. "You're not staying here.Cain began to pull me away and I tried to resist, turning to look at my grandfather.He was gone."Where did he go?"My voice was drowned in the sea of conversations that were going on in multiple dialects around us. An overwhelming sense of dread began to wash over me as I frantically scanned the crowd for
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Narrative P.O.V."Put the building in a lockdown. No one leaves and no one enters."Upon hearing the Alpha's command, the large wooden doors were closed immediately."I want this building searched from top to bottom," Cain said to Dinesh.Dinesh walked away swiftly, giving orders in Marathi through a radio hidden in the hem of his shirt sleeve."Where is the guest list?" Cain asked, pointing to Daniel."I have it," Jai said, producing a clipboard from the bag he had slung around his shoulders."What's going on?" Daniel asked, alarmed by Cain's command for outlandish security measures."We have an uninvited guest in the form of Otto Müller," Cain said, taking the list from Jai.Daniel went pale."Where's Ella?" he asked."Locked in the car." Cain said.Jai's facial expression morphed to one of confusion."You just locked her in the car?" He asked.Cain said nothing as his eyes scanned the guest list."You honestly think that he listed himself as Otto Müller?" Daniel asked in disbelief.
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Ella's P.O.V.I watched in a cold sweat as Cain and my grandfather held each other's glare.Using the moment of distraction to my advantage, I whipped around and, in one fluid motion, yanked my arm from my grandfather's grip and swung the other one to slap him across the face.He stumbled away in shock and I took several steps backwards until I ran into something hard.I turned around to see Cain wink at me."I was wondering how long we were going to have to stand there until you did that," he said sarcastically.I shook my hand, which was now stinging from the slap.Two of Dinesh's men each ran up and grabbed my grandfather."We can handle this from here," Dinesh said.He began to thrash around in their arms. As he did so, my grandfather turned his head to look at one of the men."Would you unhand me?" he said angrily.I raised a hand to cover my mouth."Cain," I said, my voice barely above a whisper.He leaned in, a look of concern on his face."Look at his neck," I said.Cain turne
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