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Chapter 26

Raiden's POV

A week has passed since my uncle backhanded me. When I'm on guard outside Tallon mocks me of that day. I ignore him but he knows that I have a temper and continues to do it, to see if I loose control.

I haven't looked into my uncle's eyes ever since that day. In fact, I've gone out of my way to avoid him in ever way possible.

Nadia started noticing. She purposely went out of her way to 'accidentally' bump into me on my break. I was in the prison's cafeteria with my cup half full of blood and wasn't in the mood for an interruption as I sat at the furthest table.

After she apologized and giggled stupidly before joining me at the table, she sighed.

"Seriously, Raiden. Just get over it," she said infuriatingly.

"Have you considered shutting up for a change?" I responded, raising my eyebrows.

"You're funny," she said sarcastically. "Now as I was saying-"

"Look, Nadia. I don't care what you think about this situation. You have no idea what's going on. So stop running up to my uncle and asking him for information that's none of your business," I retorted.

"Someone woke on the wrong side on the bed today," Hayley teased, coming from behind me and sitting down in the chair next to me.

"Strigoi don't sleep, fruit loop," I teased back.

She giggled and leaned in and kissed me on the cheek.

"So how's my brother?" she asked after leaning back on her chair. She had her arms folded across her chest and was waiting for an answer. I shrugged.

"Bored. Can't complain much."

She gave me a sad smile and patted my shoulder comfortingly. "You should go on patrol with me and Tallon tomorrow. Then at least gets you're out of this place," she said, scrunching her nose with disgust.

"Hey, what's wrong with living in a prison? I think it's cool," Nadia piped in.

"You're definition of cool must be pretty fucked up then," I muttered.

Hayley burst out laughing, hitting the table with her fist twice.

"Oh buuuuuuuuuuuurn," Hayley said teasingly.

Nadia sneered at me, which I ignored.

"What's so funning, sis?" Jenna asked, joining us with Tallon on her heels. They both sat down opposite to me and my eyes briefly met Tallon's. I nodded once to him then looked away.

"Raiden's just being good ol' Raiden," Nadia snarled.

I rolled my eyes.

"Raiden said something funny, that's all," Hayley defended me, giving Nadia a dark look. Nadia held her hands up in surrender.

"Hey, he was being a jerk to me," Nadia said defensively.

"Whatever," Hayley sighed.

I couldn't look away this time as my eyes went to Tallon again. He looked different. He looked strained, under pressure. I frowned at him, which was our way of asking what's wrong to one another.

He slowly got up and gestured for me to come with him. Before I could ask why, he was already walking towards the massive door, which then led to the main office. I sighed, dragging my chair back and jumped out of my seat.

"See you in a second," I said mostly to my sisters.

Their goodbye's consisted of 'yeah okay' and 'see you soon', whereas Nadia's was "jerk'.

I snickered, pleased that I annoyed her.

I forwarded out of the cafeteria without another word and hurried to Tallon. It was nighttime so he didn't worry about following Tallon outside. I saw a Ute parked inside the prison. Uncle was talking to the driver when Tallon and I made it to his side.

"-never ordered for a replacement for our last feeder," was what I first heard of their conversation. I looked at the passenger and saw that she was a girl. That wasn't a good sign. We usually went for male feeders so that the male members in our coven wouldn't play around with the women too much. Our feeders, like our last one, were driven mad after a lot of biting. We don't know why but it wasn't something that was looked into yet. It's not like the coven's busy enough.

"Yes, but I'm giving this feeder to you for free," the driver said with an Indian accent.

Uncle sighed. "I understand that, but how did you even know about Strigoi being here?"

"We're a local and have driven passed your prison a lot of times. Mira here would very much like to be a feeder for your group of Strigoi here," the driver responded.

Uncle regarded the feeder with suspicion. She never looked up. Her blonde hair covered her face so we couldn't see her properly.

Tallon piped in. "If we take her in you will not speak a word about our settlement here, understand?"

"If you do, we'll hunt you down and kill you after strapping you to a chair so you have to watch that girl die first," I added.

I saw a flash of surprise on Uncle's and Tallon face as they watched me threaten the driver.

I was acting ofcourse. No way were Uncle and my brother in my good books but I didn't particularly want to stand out here all night, waiting for my Uncle to make a decision.

Uncle finally agreed and ordered for the feeder to get out of the Ute.

"Raiden, take the feeder up to your room. You may have the first drink from the girl. Then place her in the feeder's room," Uncle said.

I nodded and walked around the Ute to grab the feeder's arm and led her through the front doors. As we walked in, a few men were standing inside and eyeing the feeder with hungry eyes.

I shuddered inwardly and quickened my pace.

After we went up a flight of stairs and forwarded into my room, I gestured towards my bed after closing my door.

"Sit. I'll go get a cloth," I said, so that I could wipe away the excess blood from her after I feed.

"That won't be necessary, Raiden. You're not going to feed from me. You're going to tell me where Maggie is," the feeder said.

I stopped dead in my tracks and turned to her slowly.

I couldn't believe I hadn't noticed it before.

She disguised herself so well that I could only recognize her voice at first. But then I closely looked at her features. It felt like my heart missed a beat.

The girl standing in front of me pretending to be a feeder was Rose.

A/N: Dum dum dummmmmmmmmmmmmm

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