POV: Heather“Why are there guards outside her room when she isn’t home?” Alexia asked me as we rounded the corner and saw three guards standing in front of Vinnie's room. It’s weird because she is not home now and yet she stationed some guards right outside her room door. I’m sure everyone is seeing this weird behavior of hers, Why are they not saying anything about it, Why don’t they think that this is weird?We did a little groundwork before coming here. First, I told Alexia everything I knew, keeping no details from her. I could tell that she didn’t believe anything I just said to her about Celia and Vinnie, but she decided to give it the benefit of the doubt, deciding to just check it out. She made it clear to me that she was only doing this to prove to me that in crazy and not because she wanted to find out anything about a dead woman.“Celia was an angel, there is no way in hell that she could have had such evil thoughts against Xander because she adored him. You could see the
POV: Heather“What do you need to tell me, why do you need me?” Xander asked us, staring at me fixedly and waiting for the response. I turned to Alexia and she looked as pale as a ghost, wondering what I was going to say to Xander.“Your heart is beating so fast, Butterfly, what is wrong?” He asked through our mind link. He followed my gaze and glared at Alexia, making her go paler, if that was even possible.“What are you two up to?” He asked fiercely this time, glaring at Alexia, ignoring me. I could tell that she would not be able to hold back anymore, his stern gaze was too intimidating for her to resist for much longer. I had to act fast before she ruined it for me, I can’t afford to mess this up, not now. If Xander hadn’t walked in on us, I was going to tell her how I planned to tell him some part of the truth just to make him believe me. If I told him everything, he would freak out on me and probably call me a liar. I have already come up with a plan and a perfect story to back
POV: Heather“Come on, Butterfly, I already apologized, didn’t I?I’m sorry I yelled at you in front of everyone, I just got pissed at everyone and everything. I didn’t mean to snap at you, I’m sorry.” He told me calmly, pulling me into his arms. I was not ready to let him off so easily. He had stopped me from calling my Foster mom or even going over to check on her. When I tried to argue about it, he snapped at me in front of everyone, making Leon so furious that he walked out of the room angrily. Alexia and her brother left as well because they couldn’t stand his anger anymore. I was left with a furious lover who wouldn’t even let me take care of him and make him feel better.The room was suddenly so stuffy that I couldn’t breathe anymore. I had to leave the room because I was getting upset too. He watched me leave and didn’t try to stop me. I felt so sad because I was losing him slowly. I kept thinking of his attitude towards everyone, and I imagined what I would do if he decided t
POV: HeatherI struggled to get my bearings while trying not to swallow too much water. I could not do it alone because Vinnie was using her supernatural powers to hold me under the water. I had to summon Aurora for help, and I shifted under the water. As my wolf emerged and made me bigger, I felt my foot touching the floor of the pool and I was able to get my bearing and I kneed her in the stomach, taking her off-guard. She lost her footing and nearly fell down in the pool as well. That gave me the opportunity to get out of her stronghold and grab her by the hair, dipping her into the pool like she just did to me. We both struggled to overpower each other, as the waters and the slippery floor kept taking us off balance and tripping us.We kept on struggling with each other, throwing punches and kicks, clawing at each other mercilessly until we both had bruises on our faces and bodies. Finally, I was able to tackle her underwater once more, and I stood firm on the slippery floor, hold
POV: HeatherI couldn’t stop thinking about the mean words Alexis said to me when he knew I was feeling hurt and miserable. To think that I never said one word against him when Xander thought he was a mole. I actually spoke up for him and his sister because I believed Alexia when she said they were both innocent. Now I don’t even know what to believe because the guy we all thought was the mole is dead. Yeah, Lewis is dead and now I’m wondering if I was wrong about Alexis all along.With Lewis gone, Alexis is the next suspect, and with the way he is acting these days, he is simply giving me more reasons to believe that he is on Vinnie's side and not ours. How could he blame me for all this and even ask me to leave, what did I ever do to him to deserve this much hatred and heartache. It’s as if he doesn’t even want me to find the journals my brother kept if it even exists. He was so fast to support Xander and turn down my proposal as if it didn’t make any sense. Sometimes I wonder if he
POV: Heather“Oh, it’s just Alexia,” I responded with a smile, turning off my phone and keeping it can’t on the bedside drawer. I walked over to him and wrapped my hands around his neck, smiling excitedly.“We had plans for today, won’t just have to cancel our initial plans and tell her where we are going.” I lied through my teeth, hoping he didn’t suspect anything. I steadied my heartbeat, leaning to kiss his lips and cheeks as a distraction.“You know I could have just mind linked them and saved you the stress, right?” he asked me, corking an eyebrow in question.“Yes, I know that. But telling her myself is much fun because I’m so excited, Xan. Thank you for agreeing to do this with me.” I told him, to try to take his mind off my earlier actions. He smiled and kissed me fully on the lips, savoring the moment. Then he squeezed my ass playfully, making me giggle excitedly as we both turned to get our clothes from separate wardrobes. I smiled within me as I realized that I’d fooled him
POV: HeatherWho knows if my body would have been dragged down here if he had succeeded in killing me too. I could feel the dark aura in his room, it’s obvious that the last few years had been worse for him. He had these weird drawings of the ladies he had fucked and abused tight here in his room. It felt so weird to see our family portrait on the wall with all our faces smudged with a painting or something. It’s like seeing our faces or even thinking about us was like torture to him.He was not just haunted by his evil acts, it also made him restless and almost drove him crazy. There were pictures of me hanging on the wall on one side of his bedroom. I know this is me because I recognize the outfits I was wearing in each of those pictures. I never had many clothes, so I would certainly remember my clothes when I saw them. I vaguely remember some of the locations where the pictures were taken. I had no idea I was being watched or snapped by my brother, I don’t even know why my head wa
POV: XanderMy excitement when that hidden staircase was revealed had no boundaries. I have no idea what I would find in there, but at least I know that we have little hope of saving ourselves. Everyone seems genuinely happy for us, and I realized that even if the king is trying to turn them against me, they still love genuinely, and I’m happy to have good people around me at this crucial moment of my life when it seems like the whole world has turned it’s back on me. At a point, I was beginning to think that the universe itself had turned its back on me.I wondered where I went wrong for Mother Earth and the moon goddess to abandon me this way. I even felt worse when I realized that Heather was trying so hard to keep me out of her head. I can tell that she is a bit nervous around me, and even when I try to be cozy with her, I hear her heart beating so fast that I would have to hold back a little and try to find out what is going on with her. She kept lying to me that everything was o