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Chapter 15

Ash's POV

"What do you mean?" Mom was making no sense right now. Out of everything that could happen to him, I never thought this was even a possibility. "How did it even happen?"

"We don't know exactly what happened. All we know is that he went to see his nephew a while ago, after a while he stop getting in contact so I sent some people over there to check on him." Mom got off of her chair and came closer to me. I could see how she was devastated about this. "When they got there, they found no one . . ."

"Mom, that doesn't mean that he's dead, maybe he's just went into hiding again." I tried my best to reassure her. There was no way that he could be dead, over the years he has been in so many situations where he should have died, but he never did.

"No Ash, he was there among everyone else, they were all dead though." The water had welded to the point where it was overflowing her eyes. "We're still trying to figure out what in the world has that much power to even kill them all."

"It's going to be completely fine mom; you still have me and my sisters." I got up off of the chair and wrapped my arms around her for support. My chin rested on the top of her head and I could feel the tears landing on my shirt.

While I held her I imagined Mare in my arms. Within a minute I could feel the tears start to form in my eyes. Right now I would have done anything just to hear her voice, just to know that she was fine. I pulled on the cord again as lightly as I could to feel her on the other end still. I felt slightly better that she was still there but I still wanted to know how she was.

"Excuse me Mrs. Redfern." A girl slowly opened the door. When she looked in she looked directly at my mom. "Jared just called saying that he might have figured something out, he is waiting to tell only you." Her eyes just turned to see that I was also in the room. Her eyes trailed down my body. A smile tugged at her lips and I knew that she liked what she saw.

"I'll be there in a minute." Mom waited for the girl to leave before she turned back to me. "I understand that you don't want to stay here and that your sisters will be completely opposed of the idea of returning . . ." She looked like she was fighting against breaking down in tears at any moment when she realized that none of us wanted to be here with her.

"You do know that it has nothing to do with you, we just like the space we have out there." I did my best to keep her from crying again. She just tilted her head and studied me for a moment in silence.

"You've changed Ash." She quickly raised her hands. "I don't mean that I don't like it at all, it's just . . . different, to see you actually care." She came closer and placed her hands on both of my cheeks. "I always knew that you had it in you, and I'm glad that you've changed."

"Thanks mom." I motioned to the door. "You should probably go and get the phone before they start to worry about you. If it's alright with you, I'm going to go and find Quinn and James to go and tell the girls about what happened."

"Of course it's alright with me. Let them know that they are more than welcome to get in contact with me for anything, the same goes for you." We were in the hallway when she gave me a hug before she went off in her own way.

"You're Ash, aren't you?" I turned around to see the girl that came into the room earlier. She was still scanning me with her eyes. Without giving any real acknowledgement to her I just nodded to her before walking away. I planned on going to the securest place I knew here, my room. "I've heard a lot of things about you and what you were doing out there." She walked right beside me.

"Don't believe what you hear girl." I stopped walking and turned to her. "Now if you don't mind I have things that I have to take care of." She raised her eyebrow and when I scanned her mind I knew that she wanted to do something else. Pulling out my phone I sent a message for Quinn and James to come and meet me in my room right away.

My room was the same as it was the last time that I was there. The moment that I closed the door I pulled out my phone and debated on who I should call first. I knew that I should call Thierry so he would know that my dad was dead, but then I wanted to make sure that Mare was safe.

In the end I decided to call Mare, Thierry would understand why I would call her first. The phone rang, and rang. Finally her voice sounded through the phone. The only thing was that it was her voice mail.

I let the anger out of me now. Does she hate me now? It was making me insane that when I needed to get in contact with her, she wouldn't answer. I ended up hitting the wall until there was a noticeable mark. She couldn't hate me; I'm doing exactly what she wanted. What if she found someone else to be with? I didn't know what would happen to me if I couldn't have her, I needed her to survive. I`ll prove to her that I`m still worthy of her.

"What's got you so mad all of a sudden?" I turned around to see James and Quinn enter my room. They both stared at the mark I made on the wall; meanwhile I went and sat on the end of the bed. I buried my head in my hands while thinking about what to do.

"Mare won't answer her phone and it's driving me nuts." The words muffled through my hands. I raised my head and called Jade. James sat down beside me while Quinn looked around my room until he found the mini bar.

"Hello, Jade speaking." Her voice sounded like she was running around for hours, yet there was still sum perkiness in it.

"How's Mare?" I didn't want to talk about random things; I just wanted to get to the point. "I tried to call her several times and she won't answer." I heard Jade let out a breath like she knew something that I didn't. "Did she find someone else?" My voice slightly broke when I asked my fear filled question.

"No, of course not!" Jade started to laugh at my question. "She's been avoiding everyone since you left! There is no way that she could even like another guy!"

"Thanks." I felt a smile pull at my lips as she reassured me that Mare was still mine. Now it was time to get to the matters that I just found out, but not over the phone. "I have something that I need to tell you three in person. I should be back in Blair Creek in a couple of hours if everything goes right." I eyes Quinn at the end. He raised his glass to me showing that he heard me.

"Um, Ash." Jade was slightly quiet. She sounded like she just did something wrong and didn't want to be the one to tell me. "We're not in Blair Creek right now, and we can't leave right now anyways."

"Where are you then?" I was surprised that they left the small town. I figured that they would be there until they were forced to leave.

"The same city as you." Her voice was quiet as she talked. She obviously wanted me not to actually hear her. "We all thought that we would surprise you and Mare by bringing her here for the weekend. This way when you went to your usual club for the night, you would see her and she would see you, but you weren't there . . ." I was so close to seeing her again, I just had to leave when I did. She paused and I knew what her next question would be. "Why weren't you there?"

"I left to talk to dad about everything, which is why I need to talk to you three face to face-"

"He's not making us go back to the island, is he?" Jade was getting worried now.

"No, he's not, just . . . I better just tell you in person." I rubbed my head as I thought. "I should be back in Vegas soon though. Can you put Mare on; I really need to just hear her voice right now." I said the words before I even thought about it.

"Ash . . ." Jade drawled out my name. Something was wrong with her, but she wasn't telling me about it.

"Jade, you know that you can tell me anything, I am supposed to make sure that you're fine while you're away from the island." Out of all of my sisters, Jade liked me the most.

"It's nothing, I'll tell you about it when you get here, okay?" It was clear that she wasn't going to tell me right now, no matter how much I wanted to know. Instead I just said goodbye and hung up. I dialled another number before either of the guys could say anything to me.

"Hello?" Thierry answered the phone sooner than what I'd expected. Usually he was father away from the phone, or Hannah was with him. It was weird, but I didn't care, the sooner the better, I wanted to see my Mare.

"Thierry, it's me, Ash. Before you say anything there is something that you need to know right away . . . my father's dead." Both of the guys in the room looked right at me as I spoke. Thierry was speechless on the line. I almost thought that he wasn't there anymore.

"Are you sure about this Ash? You can't just assume something like this." He was having a hard time believing this.

"I'm sure about this Thierry, my mom is a huge wreck and everyone is acting weird around here." I thought back to how everyone would look at me like I was the one that died. A door shut in Thierry's room, Poppy's voice sounded but I couldn't hear what she was saying exactly. He told her to go before he talked to me again.

"Thanks for calling Ash. Now, I want you three back in Vegas as soon as possible, we have a situation here that is concerning a human and we need to keep her safe from Jared." Thierry sounded tired now; he was probably trying to figure it out all night again.

"We'll be back as soon as possible Thierry, believe me." Nothing could stop me from seeing Mare now, not when she was so close to base.

After I hung up both of the guys were staring at me. I moved my gaze between both of them as the silence grew.

"Well, are you gonna tell us what he wanted us to do now?" Quinn swallowed the rest of his drink before walking towards me.

"It's time to go back to Vegas." A small smile pulled at my lips as I thought about holding Mare again.

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