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Chapter Seven: You Came Back

Emma's POV:

The night was rough for me. I could barely get any sleep. Sean's face after he seen what I was doing with Aaron was burned into my brain. The betrayal, the confusion, everything. It's not like I didn't expect something like this to happen one day because I did. An ending like this is inevitable but a part of me thought that if I could talk to him it maybe would have ended differently.

Tearing myself out of my bed I put my hair up in a bun, threw on a thin striped long sleeve with black skinny jeans and sandals, and made my way downstairs.

Coming into the kitchen I locked eyes with Spinner, "Save it." I put my hand up taking a seat next to the boys, "I know what you're going to say."

He smirked, "Do you?"

I glared, "Don't I?"

"Look, you're old enough to make your own decisions." He shrugged, "The only thing I can do is give you advice and hope you take it."

I glared harder, "So what? You aren't going to tell me how wrong all of this is? And how badly I screwed up? Or how I could've exposed us?"

"Sounds like you know enough." He gave me a sad smile, "Plus, I got an earful from these two-last night." He motioned to my brothers, "They explained a lot and gave me a little insight into this."

Looking over Blue and KC both gave me a smile which I returned. Blue cleared his throat awkwardly, "On a better note, Paige leaves today."

"Blue!" Spinner halfheartedly scolded

"What?" he rolled his eyes, "The girl planned her own goodbye party."

"Just relax, bro." he chuckled, "She only comes around every so often."

"Yeah, now we just gotta wait till the next special occasion." Jane added walking in, "She's outside with Alex ready for goodbyes."

Spinner gave the three of us a look signaling to get up and go outside. When we were all out there Paige squealed sadly latching onto Spinner first.

"I'm going to miss you guys." She moved onto me, "But now that you all live closer I'm confident we'll see each other soon."

I hugged her back, "Of course, Paige. You can't leave us with Snake and Spike forever."

She chuckled and stood back to look at me, "Spin filled me in on some things Em." I bristled, "Don't worry! I'm not going to lecture you! As the first one of the group to give mom and dad a heart attack with my dating life I understand. I just want you to be careful. Things like this can get messy."

"You won't have to worry." I looked down seeing Sean's betrayed face flash through my memory, "I'm positive Sean's out of my life."

She gave me another tight hug whispering lowly, "Don't give up on him so easily." Pulling back, she winked at my shocked expression then ran back to her car waving goodbye.

Looking back at my brothers I cleared my throat, "I'll be hibernating if anyone needs me."

Blue and KC grabbed ahold of me, "No, no, no." Blue shook his head, "We aren't letting you mope all day."

"Guys seriously-"

"They're right." Spinner bucked his head, "Just come down to the Dot with us and hang out for a bit."

Groaning I hung my head, "Fine. Whatever."

Once we were there Spinner had to start working but Blue and KC were doing everything they could think of to distract me. I wasn't paying attention though which is probably why they stopped. Not that I didn't appreciate it or anything I just wasn't in the mood to socialize. I couldn't stop thinking about Sean and how bad I royally screwed this up.

"Em? Emma?" I snapped out of it to see Manny waving a hand in my face, she frowned, "I've been sitting here for like ten minutes trying to get your attention."

I shook myself, "I'm sorry. I'm just distracted."

She nodded, "Sean came over last night…" my head whipped up, "He told Jay and I what happened."

Tears sprung to my eyes, "I'm such a horrible person! I- I should've never started up with Sean. I knew this was going to happen…"

She pulled me into a hug, "Emma calm down. We could talk some sense into him. All of this is new. He just needs some time."

"Some time?" I sniffed, "So he's not running for the hills?"

"As far as I can tell he's not. I mean I can't speak for him but he didn't seem like he wanted to drop things with you. More like he just couldn't wrap his head around the whole 'Vampires exist' thing. Which is understandable. When it happened to me I completely flipped."

I laughed, "Right. Of course."

She nudged me, "Just cheer up and relax a little. Things will work out the way they're supposed to."

I wiped my face, "Sure. Maybe they will. I can only hope. Right? There's not much else I can do." Shaking my head, I looked at her sadly, "I've seriously never felt this strongly about anyone. He's so different from anyone I've met. It's weird..."

"You know what's weird?" She smiled slightly, "He said the same thing. Sean's not the type to have relationships. You're the first girl he's fallen for. Maybe you should just go talk to him?"

"Manny, that's probably the last thing' he wants right now. What if he thinks I'm there to like kill him or something?" I shook my head, "I wish I knew what the right thing to do was. I've never had to deal with this before."

"I have something that might make you feel better." Nudging me a little she placed a small black box in front of me, "Jay said Sean picked it up the other day when the guys went to go pick up some parts. Sean left it on the counter last night."

Looking at her apprehensively I opened it and gasped. It was a shimmery filigree rose belly button ring with short dangling chains.

My eyes snapped up to Manny, "It's… beautiful." closing the box back up I slid it back over to her, "I can't keep it Manny."

"What?" she squeaked, "Why not?"

"Because he didn't give it to me. You did. Maybe he doesn't want me to have it anymore."

"Emma don't be ridiculous." She grabbed it and put it into my purse, "He bought it for you. He left it at my place for a reason. He wants you to have it. Trust me this will work out, okay?" She smiled sadly, "Let's do something to take your mind off this coocoo bananas stuff! Like shopping or going out or something fun and spontaneous! Or shopping!"

"Manny… I don't think-"

she grabbed my hand grinning, "Nope. We're going and you're going to have fun. That's that." grinning she tugged at me, "Shopping makes every girl feel better. Trust me."

After letting the boys know we were leaving, and kidnapping Jane because we all know how much she loves to shop, we took off to go shopping.

We ended up in this cute little vintage shop in town. We have the big house party Friday night and then Radditch's little dinner party Saturday that we needed clothes for. Jane sighed as she pulled out a long cotton mint dress with polka dots covering it.

I smirked, "That's actually super cute. Try it on."

"Please." she scowled, "Doesn't this place have anything… I don't know… Black?"

"Not really. This is a vintage shop so what you see is what you get." I smirked as Manny giggled from the other side of her, "Lots of pastel colors."

"Just try something new Jane!" Manny sifted through a rack, "Something that says 'Innocent but sexy'. I bet Spin would go nuts!"

She scowled deeper, "Really Manny? If I showed up in this Spinner would think I was possessed or something."

Laughing I shook my head at the two.

"Emma?"

Turning to the sound of Mia's voice I smiled, "Mia? Hey!"

She smiled shyly at us as her daughter peaked around the back of her, "Hi Jane." Jane nodded as Mia turned to Manny, "Oh I'm Mia Jones. This is Izzy."

"Manny Santos." they shook hands

"We didn't know you were in town." Jane mused

"I wasn't planning on it but I got Radditch's summons to the dinner this weekend." She rolled her eyes, "I had to find something to wear. I don't have anything… fancy enough in my closet."

Jane scowled at the dress in her hand, "Tell me about it... I vote we go somewhere else."

"We're actually shopping for Spins party Friday night as well." I smiled, "Come Mia! It'll be fun. We can all catch up."

She looked a bit caught off guard by my request and nervously shot a look down at her daughter, "Um Emma-"

"I'm not saying you should go because of 'You Know Who' I'm saying you should go so you can have some fun. You deserve it." I corrected before bending down to Izzy's level, "And then on Saturday we can get Izzy all dressed up and pretty. I think I even have some jewelry you could wear."

Her eyes lit up as she grinned widely, "Really?"

"Really." I answered laughing

"I'll see if I can make it." She smiled, "It was nice seeing you guys."

"Hey we're probably gonna end up at the gown shop in a few hours if you wanna meet us." Manny smiled

Mia nodded politely, "Okay. I'll see you later." Taking Izzy's hand, she walked out

"All you gotta do is mention Lucas and she runs." Jane mumbled

"Their relationship was rocky at the least."

"Yeah..." She looked at me curiously, "Friday's going to be one interesting night."

"Why do you say that?" I sifted through dresses

"Mia, Lucas. You, Sean And Damian. Very interesting."

I stiffened, "There's no me and Sean, Jane." I narrowed my eyes at her, "And there's certainly no me and Damian."

"We'll see." She smirked but it turned to a scowl seconds later when Manny held up a bright pink ruffled dress, "We're leaving."

We did end up picking out a few dresses at different boutiques, much to Jane's despair. She's not the dressy type but any time Radditch has any type of function he expects you to go all out. Doing so is better than getting shunned the entire night. Mia and Izzy even joined us which was nice. It was a nice little distraction from my mini crisis. So, Manny was right about that part. Currently I had no distraction. I already went feeding, Jane and Spinner were both at the dot and Snake had the boys locked up for curfew. I was just sitting on my bed trying to work on Manny's dress but I couldn't manage to concentrate. It's crazy to think that someone, a human no less, that I've known for such a short amount of time has me feeling like this.

"Seriously thinking about this shit is making me psychotic." I mumbled grabbing my phone and dialing a familiar number

"Nelson." I heard Lucas, "How's it going?"

I sighed, "Not good. I fucked up. Like big time fucked up."

"You fucked up?" he laughed, "I find that hard to believe. What happened?"

"When I tell you this I want no judgement, okay?"

"You know me Nelson. I'm the No Judgement god over here."

"I'm serious Lucas. No judgement. No jokes, okay?"

"Shit. This must be big. What'd you do?"

"I think I'm falling in love with someone…"

"That's your big problem? We've all been there, Blondie." he laughed, "Emma I thought-"

"That someone is a human." I rushed in before he could finish

He didn't say anything he just cleared his throat. Aside from Manny, Lucas is one of my closest friends. I probably should've told him sooner but it's not something you barrade vampires with. Especially Lucas. 'Oh hey Lucas, remember how we use to hunt humans? Well I don't do that anymore because I'm banging one of them.' Yeah. Smooth.

"Lucas." I broke the silence, "Can you not stay quiet please?"

he cleared his throat again, "Wow… I… wasn't expecting that. Maybe something along the lines of 'I staked Radditch' but not that."

"Yeah." I groaned, "You're telling me."

"How'd it happen?"

"I don't know… it just kind of happened. There was some powerful pull with him. I can't explain it. All I know is that everything is so different with him. We hooked up and then after that we kept seeing each other. It felt so good, so normal, but of course you know me. I always find a way to screw good things up."

"Emma, what does that mean? You don't screw anything up." he scoffed, "Shit, you've got your issues but who doesn't?"

"It's true though!" I huffed, "I mean look at my brothers. They're getting into trouble because of me. Because of how I act and now Sean. I know it's crazy and we barely met but I swear there's something different with him. And now I fucked it up."

"Fight for him." he said simply catching me off guard

"What?"

"Don't let it end like this. Fight for him. I had that with Mia and I royally fucked things up with her. If I had the chance to go back in time and change things I would but I can't. You don't know how much that kills me inside, Emma. Don't let that happen to you. Weather he's a human or not."

"Totally wasn't expecting that answer." I laughed

"What can I say? I'm a fuckin romantic when I wanna be."

I was about to retort something back to him when the doorbell rang, "I'll call you back. Someone's here."

"Keep me posted, Nelson."

Radditch POV

Radditch, in his forty-seven-thousand-dollar suit, sat in his extravagant library contemplating the meeting he just had with the leader of the council. The council thinks it's time for the Nelsons to start training to take over his territory. As if Radditch was doing such a horrible job a couple of ungrateful fang-happy tawdry idiots could step in and do better. He did not work this hard and do this much to have it all ripped away because the council thought Miss Nelson was ready to take her rightful privileged place. After all, it was Radditch who killed her father for his power, not some group of moronic trigger happy humans. As is some group of humans could kill the all-powerful Shane Nelson. No, he's too powerful for that but he wasn't too powerful for Radditch to take on. And when his wife Gabriella found out about this? There'd be more hell to pay. Everything wasn't going to slip out of their grasp quite that easily.

"You summoned me father?" Peter asked peeking through the door

He motioned for Peter to come in, "Shut the door behind you, boy." Once he did as he was told Radditch got up, "It appears we have a problem on the home front."

"A problem?"

"The council is breathing down my neck about our place in leadership." he narrowed his eyes dangerously at Peter, "We must act quickly. I'll be damned if I let my reign fall."

Peter swallowed hard, "What do we do?"

"Not we, son. You."

"Me?" he squeaked before clearing his throat, "What do you mean?"

"I mean you're going to marry Emma Nelson. Keep her in our family, with our last name, so I can keep the power. That should appease the council at least until they decide that I'm too old for the title. One step at a time though." he nodded at his son's pale face, "Is there a problem? Emma's a fine girl. You'd be lucky to be able to nail anyone remotely like her."

And indeed, that was true. She looked just like her mother Natalie; long blonde hair, deep brown eyes, curvy full body. Radditch could almost smell Natalie as if she was standing beside him. She could've stood beside him, they could've ruled together, instead of him being stuck with that wretched Gabriella and her bastard children. If only Natalie could've stepped aside and let him kill her husband and those three rats of kids. But no, she was too weak for that. Too weak for him.

"It's not that. It's just… I doubt she'll say yes." He crossed his arms bitterly, "I'm not exactly her type."

Radditch laughed at his son's pathetic statement, "When your someone from our standing you don't wait for others approval. You take what you want."

"And... How do we do that?"

"Blackmail and manipulation." He smiled evilly

Emma's POV

Hanging up I walked into the den to open the door. Standing there was the one and only Sean Cameron, looking just as horrible as I felt. My breath hitched in surprise when he grabbed me and pulled me into a passionate kiss full of want and need. Pressing me up against the newly closed doors his hands trailed up my shirt leaving hot trails. He squeezed my hips possessively before grabbing my thighs and lifting me up so I was straddling him.

Splitting from him so we could breathe I looked down at him, "Sean…"

"Don't. I don't care. I may not completely get this but I'll tell you what I do know." He smiled gorgeously at me, "You're mine."

"All yours." I repeated before he kissed me passionately again

My hands raked up his chest tearing his shirt off. Sean's hands went up my shirt possessively again as he trailed kisses down my neck.

"Where's your bedroom?" He growled

"Upstairs." I gasped out

Once we were upstairs he put me down as we were still kissing. Smirking up at him I pushed him down on the bed so I could strip my clothes off. Climbing on top of him I could feel how hard he was through his jeans. I yelped playfully when he moved so he was on top trying to kiss every inch of me. taking off his pants he gently slid inside me making me gasp in pleasure. My hands tangled in his hair as he licked and sucked my nipples and fucked me slow and steady. His hands gripped my waist tightly as he crashed me down onto him gaining speed. This time wasn't like the others. It was slower more paced. Like he was making love instead of fucking.

I tightened my legs around him when he stopped just as my orgasm was building, "What's wrong?" I gasped

He looked at me intently, "Bit me."

"What?" I stiffened looking up at him like he'd gone insane, "No-" I tried to get off him but he wasn't letting me budge

To him this was a perfectly sane and perfectly serious thing to ask, "I want you too." He started his hips up again making me gasp in pleasure

The smell of him was even more intoxicating now that he said that. My orgasm was building fast and hard now and fangs dropped. Quickly I moved so I was on top but leaning into his neck, "Are you sure?"

"Positive." he gasped out

Both of our bodies rocked in pleasure as soon as I bit down. His blood filled my mouth with a hot delicious taste. It was intoxicating; just as good- even better, than the smell. The venom in my bite was just as intoxicating for him as his blood was to me. It was almost like a drug and we were both riding the high as far as it would go. We came hard and together this time, gasping for air. I licked the wound clean and it healed right after. He collapsed next to me, drenched in sweat, and a happy smile on his lips.

"Shit." he gasped

"Right." I tried to steady my breathing

"Is it always like that?"

I looked at him happily, "I've never. Done this before. There's a first for everything I guess."

He moved me so I snuggled to his chest, "Did Manny give you the gift?"

"She did." I smiled up at him, "It's beautiful… I didn't think you wanted me to keep it. I sure as hell wasn't expecting you over."

He smirked, "I wasn't about to give up that easily." he scoffed, "As insane as all of this is."

I propped myself up on one elbow, "Well believe it. Any questions? You look like you're dying to ask some. I'm all ears."

He looked at me curiously for a second before nodding, "Have you ever killed anyone before?"

My gaze left him and I awkwardly cleared my throat. All my family, and pretty much the whole damn coven, knew about my past. That didn't mean I wanted Sean to know. He's the last person I wanted to look at me differently.

"I take your silence as a yes?"

Nodding I looked back up at him, "I wasn't in the best place back then. After my parents were killed I blamed every human I encountered."

"How'd they die?"

"Hunters broke into our house while we were sleeping and killed them. Afterwards they tried to burn us by setting the house on fire but I managed to get my brothers out safely. The coven leaders decided to have us stay with Snake. Their version of social services I guess." I shrugged, "After that I went through a hateful phase."

He nodded taking my hand in his, "Understandable. Not ideal but I get it. Do you still do it?"

"No, there's dozens of ways to feed without killing. I pretty much use my glamour to feed but if I didn't want to do that the coven has places where we can buy bagged blood from donors."

"Donors? Like you take blood from blood banks?"

"Kind of. All covens have blood banks where willing donors can come in and give blood. If they ever run low on donors though they can always glamour humans into giving donations."

"Wait... Glamour?" He rose a brow, "Is that like magic or something?"

I laughed, "More like a version of mind control. It allows us to wipe or change people's memory after we feed."

"Have you done that to me?"

"Of course not! I wouldn't, Sean."

Looking a little freaked out he took a breath, "Wow okay. Well- alright." He looked at me intently, "This is crazy I know but I'm glad I know now. At least it's all on the table now."

"I know it's a lot to take in. You aren't even supposed to know Sean." I looked at him sadly, "I didn't want to tell you because I don't want you to get hurt."

"Emma I can take care of myself." He leaned over and kissed me softly, "Don't worry about me, okay?"

"I guess." When he kissed me again j smiled

"Okay so how old are you really? Am I dating a cougar?"

Raising a brow at him I rolled my eyes, "Don't be silly!"

"What?" He laughed, "So you weren't changed in like 1815 or something?"

"No!" I chuckled, "It works both ways. My family is born into it. Our bloodline goes way back as one of the oldest families in this coven. Jane, on the other hand, is a made vampire."

Sighing he pulled me close, "Jesus. Let's stop talking about it. I'm getting a migraine."

The next morning Sean had to go to work so I got up to walk him out. Smiling down at me he pecked me on the lips, "I'm glad I came over."

"Me too." I smirked at him, "Keep doing that."

"You can come over tonight if you want to." He leaned on the doorframe, "Jays not going to be there so we'll have some alone time."

"I'll be there. See you after work." With a final kiss goodbye, he left

Shutting the door, I sighed in content. I'm so happy things worked out. Obviously, I still have the coven and my family to watch out for but at least I have Sean back.

"Was that Sean that just left?" I jumped at the sound of Spinners voice; turning I seen him standing there with his arms crossed

"Spinner! Don't sneak up on me like that!" I huffed past him to the kitchen where Jane was idly flipping through a magazine pretending to ignore us

"Don't ignore the question. Why was he here?"

"Why do you think Spin?" I looked at him annoyed

"So you're continuing with this affair? He's human!"

"I know that!"

"Emma you're an adult so I can't tell you how to live your life, but I can tell you that you need to be careful. Radditch is looking for any reason to banish or kill you guys. Your brothers-"

"Don't care who she sees or what Radditch has to say about it." Blue finished, walking into the kitchen with KC following

"Spinner if he was going to find out he would've by now." KC added, "Emma can see whoever she wants. Don't bring us into that."

"Yeah, plus I like Sean." Blue added smiling at me, "Seriously, he's cool. We should all hang out sometime." His eyes got wide, "You think he could teach me mechanics? It's one of my electives and I'm screwed. I don't know anything."

"Maybe." I smiled at them, "I'm sure he wouldn't have a problem with it."

"Fine. Whatever you guys say." Spinner rolled his eyes at Jane

KC huffed at Blue, "Why would you take mechanics if you know nothing about it?"

"Duh. To impress girls." He answered matter-of-factly, "Why else?"

"Idiot." KC rolled his eyes

Spinner laughed shaking his head at the two, "Anyway, I wanted to talk to you three about something."

"What's that?" I asked curiously

"I'm shorthanded at The Dot and thought you three could use the money-"

"Yes!" I yelled, "Yes! We will take it!"

"We will?" Blue asked

"Yes we will. Or do you want to be mooching off Snake and Spike forever?"

"Point taken."