Here is another chapter for you, more to come soon. I own nothing but the plot and no money is being made from this story.
Self-control is a master key, once you have it the doors to so many personal victories open. It is not even ten at night and here I lay awake as Pogue sleeps beside me, I knew he would wake and need to get back to the hospital, which was all well and good, but he would need a few more hours of sleep first. Every nerve was on fire like small beams of electricity are shocking my system right now. I move like a ghost from the bed my bare feet hardly touching the cold floor, the heavy curtains are open on my French doors. My eyes watch the fog moving forming in a truly unnatural way but guess for the brothers it has always been this way, but a tad more so as of late.
In the fog my eyes caught movement like eyes watching me, he was here watching my hands don't tremble as I open the doors. My voice not weak when I was filled with fear, not for me but what he had in store for Caleb. The fear traveled in my veins but never made it to my facial muscles or skin. My complexion remained pale and matt, my eyes as steady as if I was shopping for shoes. " Leave here now, you have no place here. And Chase if you think for one moment I will let Caleb go, you are mistaken. I am destined to be with the most powerful of the sons, and that is him." Letting out a sigh turning to leave, showing I wasn't afraid to turn my back.
I nearly jumped from my skin feeling the warm arms of Pogue, "You also need rest, Chase can't hurt you here. He can go fuck off," leading me back to the bed, it was like being held by a brother in every way. I wished I had a brother for years but my mother never granted me such a request. She thought I was more than enough and she was right, a handful and a half I truly was.
Finally the day I've dreading is here and I can't halt the dawn ebbing its gradual way into daylight. Everything hinges on what I do when the sun goes down, and once done it can never be undone. I can't think straight this morning. Pogue was dressing in clothes Reid brought, I was ready to leave dressed and ready, my boots made the impatient noise on the marble floor. "I want the girls safe, Chase will target them, eyes on them at all times. The dance is the best place, we all answer to the Akasha, the highest and oldest of us and we must never alert the mortals of us. Chase dare not attack while you're around many,"
Tyler grinned, "But didn't you attack Yasmine in broad daylight?"
"Well yes, but I used a glamor before and none noticed us. A loophole," I knew the laws of our kind.
Reid held Sarah, his voice is cold as his eyes locked on mine, "What of Caleb, like it or not we can't go against his orders. He is a sitting duck,"
"Like I don't know, Chase is the eldest and has more power, he was to rule you but that changed. I will take Caleb's wrath later for intervening in this matter. The Son's and Daughters are and have always meant to be together, and in this, it might take us both or just me," if I could just put Caleb into a slumber or knock him the fuck out, my time frame would be open to try and take Chase on alone.
This was love, a new emotion, it was not the love I felt for my sisters, my family, or even my coven this was raw and primitive in old ways. "Isla, maybe we have this all wrong and Caleb has the power," Pogue was ever-present and logical.
"I wish he did, Caleb is powerful so make no mistake. But Chase stole his parent's share of power and might have with Yasmine right before she took her last breath. We are all in the dark on who will win, but we all know who might die," Billie was right her tone worried as I touched her shoulder. "Billie is right. Let's head to the hospital,"
Somewhere in me, my body knew Caleb was already there laying in wait to talk to me as Pogue drove with the rest tailing us. The barn blossomed on the hill amid the grass and the meadow flowers, as if one day it sprung up from some precious seed. I guess what I'm saying is, it belonged there, and if it were absent the picture of that landscape would be missing something very special. So though the timbers were aged and the light that streamed in from the holey roof illuminated the dust like ethereal confetti - it was truly a great place, I loved it. Even just driving by it, it was stunning as much as the landscape around it. My car made no sound as it seemed to float at great speeds down the lobe roads leading is to the hospital, Aunt Rainy needed rest too.
It was bustling already when we walked into the main doors, eyes at times turned to the small group of teens roaming but many knew of Kate. He glided down the glossy tile steps like a slinking panther, Caleb his face stressed and a hard-grim look was plastered on it. "Isla, just stop and talk to me," his voice pleaded.
"Go, I will be with Kate in a few moments," my smile alerted them everything was okay and that I wouldn't put Caleb into a chokehold…at least not right now.
My tone husky, "Caleb, we don't have time for this now do we? I don't give a rat's fart you got upset I saw your father, he is horrid and should die already,"
His face was harsh, "You have no faith in me, you don't think I will win,"
Angrily, "Caleb, if that's what you think stay away from me. Everyone but you understand one thing, Chase has more power right now, you have not ascended. Chase has stolen two power shares that we know of, while Yasmine lay dying he might have taken hers that is unknown. You go into this unmatched," he knew by the look on his face but yet he didn't care if he died while protecting us, it was how he wanted to go.
"Isla, things will work out the way they were meant too," the way his rough fingertips traced my cheek sent waves and waves of tingling sparks over my skin.
There was a small change with Kate, my power roamed over her as I spoke, "She is ready to wake up, his spell is gone now. But she will not wake until Chase dies, that's how this spell works, but even if they pulled the plug she still breathe on her own, she has no permanent damage which is very good," I moved my hand bringing the mist back into myself," Pogue just took her hand resuming his seat to her side. Tyler and Reid watch their girls with good right. Caleb was talking to the fathers of us sisters, while I am by the open window just watching the courtyard below. "After here I am heading back to deal with my pathetic excuse for a husband," she was devoted to the coven and Caleb and if that means her husband dying then so be it.
Doubt it would work, "Caleb should just steal it, but he is way to nice to do as such. Caleb acts like this fight is nothing and I am growing very tired of it, he stands a very good chance of dying and I can not stand by and watch such a thing. He wouldn't even let me cast the spell over his essence," I hated him right now, it hurt so deep the thought of him gone, and not even his essence would be left for me.
She glanced back at her son who was watching us with narrowed eyes, "He is stubborn,"
"He is an asshole, but if he thinks I will stand by and watch and wait for him to die as he starts his ascension than he is stupid too. I much like you will do as I must to keep him alive since he seemly doesn't care," my face turning back to stare out the window feeling her fragile hands grip my shoulder. "I know my sweet girl," she walked off to make conversation with my mother keeping the suspicion off us for now.
The garden that was nestled into the courtyard of the hospital was always a shade brighter in the rain. It was as if the gift of the skies wasn't water, but liquid magic, washing our world to show what was there all along, nature in her in humble brilliance. The buttercups became gold, the grass the shade of every dreamer's meadow, roots quenched, soil renewed. "I don't trust you and my mother when your heads are together. You both need to stay away tonight, I love you both more than possible and to lose either would be my downfall,"
I don't bother to look into his deep eyes, "Your mother has no plans to show up, you say the word love like you mean it. But when I begged you to at the very least as a safeguard make your vase so that I could case the spell to hold your essence, you denied me that. To leave me unloved until I finally just died," I wanted to just be held by him, him to tell me we were in this together but when he tries my body moves.
My eyes like ice, "You made this choice without us, now I make mine. Stay away from me we're done, Caleb even if you manage to survive the night," this was best, it was best the wall was up when I somehow piss him off.
"You're insane to think I would allow you to just walk away,"
Calmly my words come out, "You hold no power over me, it is not about what you will allow,"
Reid and Tyler come and stand between us, "Caleb give her some space and time to think, you two are destined for each other,"
Tyler added, "It is written in both books, but dude you're messing up,"
Chase waits in the shadows, her eyes taking in the dappled shade a little way yonder. He was watching and waiting, maybe even listening. Close by I can hear the deliberations, the discussions of those that judge our every move. Though there is fear in my chest, there is none in my heart, for we know that man may judge ought. Man is born to love and think, to see problems and find the best possible solutions for all. Judgment is for God alone. "I am going to get a coffee," leaving them to watch over Kate.
My father gives me a stern look, "Isla,"
"Yes?"
He knew me, "Nothing my little dove," whatever he wanted to say he hesitated and decided against it.
The moment my feet hit the grass Chase was at my side. "Even you know he will never win against me, yet he will show tonight and I will have his power, all of now that you unbound him. Isla, just give in to me, be mine. I will make an oath to you never to harm the sons, even Caleb as you swear to me in an oath to never see or talk to them all again. I think that is a fair trade," an oath could never be broken and I mean never even if I died he could harm them in any way.
"You know I do not like you, what you seem to want is not possible. It is me there to keep them alive,"
He gave me a large smile, "I would take it, take you that way,"
I could end this all, and save them all but could I just walk away from the sisters because that is also in his deal. "Fuck you," my handspun touching Billie protecting her as Chase attacked.
Power raced over my skin slamming him back into the tree, "Little Billie now now, there is something so different about you. Isla, what has my love managed to do," he treated this as a game and now so was I.
"Bring back old players to the game, Chase. Billie, you are acting foolish,"
He seethed, "That is not possible we can't transfer our power," turning with a sly smirk.
Retorting, "I can, we bond the essence of their being, memories, and magic into their vase in case they perished all of them would not be stolen by any. It would leave them and appear in their vase until another worthy host was found. Your power holds no bearing on how much more I have; my sisters have been reborn and if Caleb doesn't manage to kill you. Take into consideration you have us and we want vengeance,"
Some people are starting to look at us, Chase grinned. "It was fun to kill them the first time and will be as easy the second time. My offer is off the table now that Billie ousted the sisters return, I can always use more power,"
I slammed him hard, "You will never touch them again, I will end you were you stand and be damned of the Akasha,"
"Boys get Billie back inside, Isla please," it was Caleb.
Chase cocked his head, "Bye Billie, be seeing you later same to you Caleb. And as for you my love should have taken me up on my offer, shame such a shame,"
He was gone and sunset was only two hours away…