Chapter 6 Embry
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My chest tightens as one of my closest friends closes her eyes, deeply inhaling.
Raven doesn’t have to say a word. Just another person who doesn’t trust me with the truth, doesn’t think I deserve to know exactly what is going on.
Why my gramma brought me here to find sanctuary with the witches.
And looking at Raven, I already know, whatever the secret is, she knew all the time.
I’m just not worth the price it will cost to give me the truth.
Romano is paid to keep the peace, and I’m sure she helps him do just that. I didn’t mean to bring trouble to their door, but I’ve managed to do it just the same. No matter what I do, what my intentions are, they’re just not ever quite good enough. No matter where I go.
All the years I wanted to be a vampire, thirsted for any and every story my grandmother could ever tell.
I know in my heart she was dedicated to the vampires until her very dying breath.
She breathed that love of our kind into me from early childhood.
What secret can be so bad that Raven wants to keep it from me, would keep a witch’s evil little game protected over telling her friend?
Everyone is looking at me and Raven, gauging what’s going to happen. Corvinus certainly wants her to tell us to help the vampires, while Romano is looking at her with nothing but loving support in his eyes. I can see it. Tell them if you want is written all over his face. Everyone must know but me.
I should walk away, away from all of it.
The vampires don’t want me anymore. Sure they send Corvinus and pretend that they do, but will they really want me after all that has transpired now?
I’m just more trouble, stirring things up, when what they were trying to do was keep the peace, let the vampires have a rest from battle, especially without the warriors and special ops team in place.
But I just couldn’t leave well enough alone.
When it’s clear now that’s what everyone else was trying to do…
And as much as I know it’s true, I still can’t just walk away. In my heart, I know that Gramma brought me here for a reason, a profound reason and whatever the secret, I simply need to know. I look Raven in the eye. “What aren’t you telling me, Raven?”