Ooooooooops for the Delay !
Just a little warm-up.
Chapter Twenty
I just hoped that the beginning of tomorrow would end just like tonight absolutely perfect.
A family that loved each other and could live in peace- but I was having major doubts about that, many secrets would be revealed in the next couple of days and it aint going to be pretty.
Who am I trying to kid I thought to myself as I lay awake in bed that night shortly after tucking Phil in, I couldn't believe that I allowed myself to be so navie. To become someone who let their guard down even momentarily.
Maybe one day in years to come I may become open to the idea but at this moment in time i had people to protect… my family. I also had to fight evil.
Why is my life always so complicated?
I think I must be like a magnet a positive one of course attracting all these negative attitudes and crap from everyone. Im not one of these people to think why me and why not someone else?
But, I do tend to think that I get a lot more shit thrown at me than others not that im complaining that's the way life is and you have to get on with it but, come on give me a break for a while.
Looking to my side I can't help but look at my husband sleeping peacefully, he seemed to be relaxed so much these days that I don't understand how I haven't become accustomed to it.
I mean he was the same god I met all the years ago but he seemed entirely different at the same time not as uptight. Like he had truly become free he was a man, a guardian but with a life- something I bet he never imagined would ever happen.
Maybe those years separated had done something it had made us see how much we loved each other and how our life's were better when we are together.
It just shows that we truly never needed each other as we had both survived before we met and had got on with our lives around 6 years ago, but how we had something that would always pull us back together.
I believe that is because we are soul mates and even if we hadn't been together in this life due to circumstances that we would always be together in the next. Our love is what fills our hearts, its like a lock and key mechanism.
Each are good functioning items on there own and can fit together but when you get the perfect fit it just clicks and nothing else can better it. With us being locked together like a door needing a key there is no reason ever to break that door down as we had the two essential items for opening and shutting.
We are wise enough not to allow anyone to come between us we are a family a slightly dysfunctional one but we work.
Feeling the darkness creep in to my body eventually by eyelids started to flutter as the arm draped across my waist curled under my side slightly so the warm callusced hand was pressed firmly but soothingly in to my back.
My last thoughts before sleep took over were to ask Yeva about the bond.
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Sitting up right I was awakened from my sleep from a sudden thud on top of me, not being the best morning person I felt a dark cloud start to form above my head. Until I saw the toothy grin of my five year old dazzling in the crack of light through the curtains.
Somebody was up early this morning normally I had to drag her out of her bed toes first as she held on to the top headboard of the bed. She was a strong little Dhampir good fighting genetics were in her blood from her mother and well I couldn't say much about her Moroi father he was mostly a jerk.
She was strong but reality hit once she got off the bed and ran over to the looming shadow in the doorway. Rather than look to see who would be in my bedroom doorway I couldn't help but think how small Phil was and wonder how she would grow after her premature birth.
Not the time or place for it now I tell myself as I shake my head to get rid of any nonsense lurking in there, raising my head I could see Dimitri had been in the doorway he was now crouched like a ninja conversing in fast hand gestures to the little girl standing in front of him.
At points it was so fast that my tired eyes couldn't seem to keep up with them, but I did pick up bits about breakfast and everyone dressed and something about adults have a big talk later and then the word that propelled me out my bed pancakes.
As I ran in the bathroom to get ready I heard the worlds slow down Mrs Belikova being whispered into my mind- I think my smile at that point actually reached my ears.
After my shower I headed down to the kitchen to find everyone tucked into Breakfast, before grabbing the stack of pancakes that had my name on them I stepped to my fathers side to ask him how Nickolai was doing.
It broke my heart to find out that he was still unconscious like the previous day but hadn't got any worse.
Sitting down at the table beside Phil I looked to see her face was covered in chocolates sauce, after doing my motherly duty of cleaning her face I started to eat myself.
During my intense chewing of my lush breakfast I looked up to be faced with smiles from the people around me some were in mini conversations themselves, Yeva was doing a sudoku in the paper and Olena was speaking to Paul.
Although one person continued to glare at me and didn't seem to care if anything was watching or not and I knew in that moment that a couple of days before everything flew off the handle was probably an over- estimation but who could really tell, She had lasted 5 years without saying anything.
It was decided after breakfast was cleared up that the debriefing would take place just after lunch and that everyone was free to do what they liked up in till that point. Phil wanted to play with the Belikov children and Olena and jack decided that they would keep a watchful eye over them today and miss the debriefing to spend some secret time together.
Or not so secret.
When it came to the debriefing that afternoon it was down to the hard graft of things but I couldn't help an out loud chuckle as Jill and Sydney entered the board room, mostly I was laughing at the size of Sydney's briefcase it was massive- the size of a weekender bag.
No joke her luggage had been smaller than this case, I just hoped she had something worthwhile inside. Once everyone was seated and comfortable I opened my mouth to start the discussion but Sydney bet me to it.
"Right everyone I have some photos that are evidence so lets get cracking."
I always knew she was serious but something was up, I watched as she opened her brief case and brought out a bundle of photos. Being human I would never have noticed it but when she put them on the table I could seem some of them had a little dash on them- well all of them.
My first thought was that it was there as a printing mistake just something on the back, just a simple smudge.
But I saw the look in Sydney's eyes as I frowned wondering what she was up to or am I just overacting which was possible.
See this is what I was talking about nothing is just simple, everything has to be complicated.
Sydney spread the Photos out onto the table, she pointed to one in particular showing Tasha and her crew now only consisting of Nathan, Viktor and Dimitris dad in what looked like a shed somewhere with Lev and the rest of the boys tied up.
Everyone gasped looking at the rest of the same photos they were all along the same line. I listened to idea after idea of where they may be but I just zoned out. The photos were fakes and Sydney had some explaining to do.
All I had to worry about now was how I was going to tell Christian about the photo I had found in Lukes room of Luke and Tasha together. Only that wasn't the full story and I knew the only person I would be able to dig it up was my baba.
The more I thought about it the tighter the knot in my stomach tugged causing me to feel uncomfortable what was wrong with that picture of Tasha and Luke that was burning a whole in my pocket
I mean there was no doubt he was an Ozera with those eyes I always considered them to be green but they maybe he wears contacts or he his one of those people his eye colour changes with his mood. That's why I couldn't always see the resemblance.
He looked like his dad he looked half like a Belikov but …
He just doesn't look like Tasha how old is Luke? In my head I searched and searched, pushing away all the nonsense in my mind.
He was older than me by a couple of years at least… Lifting my head up from staring at the table I watched the others flick through the pictures until my eyes met the piercing blue ones from across the table.
He looked exactly like Christian who didn't look very much like his aunt, could it be possible? That Luke was another secret the Ozeras had kept, did Christian actually have a sibling that was alive. Even if he was only a half brother?
But if Luke and Christian were brothers why did Tasha look after him and then why did Tasha give him to Sonya? My brain was spinning with possible ideas, but only one good thing could come of this whole mess was that Luke was a Royal Dhampir and that gave us leverage.
And in the pit of my stomach I knew he had only betrayed us because he had been compulsed by Tasha.
That meant that Luke more than likely had been the one to take Lev and the gang, but if there was no signs of them injured it meant he might be back on our team. Everything was starting to come together now and I knew….
Well I know ion my mind I knew where Luke had hid them for their safety my lab. He had always joked about it in the past holding hostages in their.
Pushing my chair back I stood up seemingly interrupting a debate over where the fake pictures were taken. Walking towards the door I felt a hand grab my wrist, I looked down to see Yeva holding me and she spoke 3 words with glazed over eyes.
"The forbidden child."
And for once I knew what she was talking about Luke was the forbidden child, in 2 senses technically he was a mistake a unplanned child and he was the one in prophecy the second shadow kissed warrior.
Never had it been heard of, it was always speculated that this supposed curse and miracle could happen at the same time. Two people would die at the exact time in a similar way, and that spirit would both bring them back to life at the exact same time the motivation of spirit being love. The two shadow kissed also had to be opposite genders.
Guess this situation just got a lot more complicated.