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I knew the guys didn’t really understand what I was trying to say. But the truth was, I had never
had a birthday cake before. I’d never had balloons, I’d never had presents. No one ever celebrated my birthday.
Evelyn never gave a s**t and Wesley was never there. He didn’t even call me or send me a card on my birthday. It was just the same old monthly check that I got. It was nothing special. And I wasn’t even getting that until I turned 13.
“You mean, you’ve never had anything as special as this?” Koda asked.
“No. I mean, a cake, and presents and balloons.” I said.
They all looked at each other with a bit of shock on their faces and then it changed to a little
bit of anger.
“Well, that’s never going to happen again. Not while you’re with us.” Dean said.
I hugged and kissed them all for what they had done for me.
It’s more than anyone else has ever done and they really went out of their way to make sure
that it would be something that I liked.
So we all had dinner first and then we had cake.
After that I opened the presents that they got me.
They got so many presents that it was unbelievable.
There was jewelry, clothes and bags. Everything a girl would want. And I was going to actually
put these things to good use. Even if I didn’t before. I was definitely going to now.
I got so much jewelry that they ended up buying me a jewelry box as well to keep it all in.
It really was the perfect birthday.
And I couldn’t stay mad at Tyler and Dean after that.
So when I suggested the hot tub again, they were more than willing.
We had another late and exhausting night that night before we finally got some sleep.
But when I woke up the next morning, I just laid there staring at the ceiling.
“What’s wrong?” Tyler asked, rolling over to face me.
“I was just thinking.” I said.
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“I know. What about?” He asked.
“I don’t want to go home.” I said, looking at him. So he put his hand on my waist and forced
me to roll over and face him.
“None of us do. But we have to eventually.” He said.
“I know. But this trip has been perfect. I don’t want to go back to the chaos and the backstabbing and the disloyalty.” I said.
So Tyler wrapped his arms around me and pulled me close to him, like a nice big warm bear
hug.
We waited for Koda and Dean to wake up before we went skiing again that morning and then
we got some lunch before we had to pack up and leave the resort.
We all had the same feeling when we were driving back home.
None of us wanted to return to our normal lives again.
We all wanted to stay in that protective bubble where we just were and pretend like everything
in the world is perfect.
They pulled up in front of my house and I started taking all of my stuff inside and that’s when I
realized that there had been a few changes since we’d been gone. And we’d only been gone for
two nights.
I stood on the patio of my house and Koda walked out beside me.
“Is everything alright?” He asked.
“No. There’s more people here. I can hear them. They’re thoughts. Everything.” I said.
“Really?” He asked.
“Have more pack members arrived from California?” I asked.
“Maybe. We have to go and see.”
“Yeah. I’ll come too. I want to go and see the Supernatural council.” I said.
So the four of us walked up to the packhouse and as soon as we walked in the three guys
were practically tackled by three other guys that were just as big as them.
I just made sure that I stepped out of the way so I wasn’t taken down with them.
The triplets looked really happy to see them and hugged them when they actually got to their feet again.
But then the three strangers looked at me strangely.
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“Oh. This is Nova. Nova, these are our best friends from back home. This is Aiden, Julian and Anthony. Well, Tony.” He said.
“It’s nice to meet you all.” I said.
“It’s nice to finally meet you. We’ve heard so much about you.” Aiden said.
“I can only imagine.” I said.
“It wasn’t all bad.” He said.
“Well, whatever it was, I’m sure it’s true.” I said. And they laughed.
“Good to know.” Julian said.
“Alpha Grayson. I am only here to see if I can go down to the basement?” I asked.
“Absolutely. I’ll go with you.” He said.
So Grayson and I went down to the basement and the supernatural council were all still in their cages looking pretty depleted so I pulled up a chair and sat in the middle of the cages.
“It’s nice of you to remember that we are here.” Vampire Lincoln said.
“I never forgot. I just wanted to make sure that you knew what a f****d up mistake you made by betting on the wrong horse.” I said.
“What are you talking about?” Fae Nicole asked.
“You bet on Wesley. That was the wrong horse. And now I’ve not only got you all locked
cages but I have that b***h by the balls.” I said.
“What do you want? Are you going to kill us?” Witch Celine asked.
“You’re no good to me dead. But we do need to find a new supernatural council.”
“We worked our asses off to get to that table. You can’t take it away like that.” Wolf Elias
growled.
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“You all conspired against one of your own. You never even knew that I existed until Wesley
told
you about me. I think that’s proof enough that I wasn’t going to be a problem for you. But
you chose to believe him and chose to believe that I was going to take the council away from
you. Well, congratulations. You did that to yourself.” I said.
“We will do anything.” Nicole said.
“I think having you on my side will come in handy. Which means you’re not being let out of these cages. I’m just going to allow someone to start feeding you.” I said.
“That’s all?” Lincoln asked.
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“Would you rather I didn’t feed you?” I asked.
“We’ll take it.” Elias said.
I walked back upstairs with Grayson and we stopped in the hallway to talk because we could hear the triplets in the living room with their friends.
“What are we going to do with them?” Grayson asked.
“I’m not sure yet. Do people know that they’re missing?”
“Yeah. But that’s as far as it has gone. No one knows where they are.” He said.
“That’s good. We’ll keep it to ourselves for now. But we’ll have to figure out what to do with them soon.” I said.
I had to get back home so I went to the living room and I said goodbye to the guys.
I was surprised when the triplets hugged and kissed me goodbye. We were meant to be
keeping a low profile, but they said that their friends won’t say anything. They’ll make sure of
- it.
So I left and I went back home where Jacob was sitting on the couch watching TV.
“Is she still alive?” I asked.
“She is. She’s been a real pain in the ass and demanded that I let her go.” He said.
“Well, that’s not going to happen.”
“Hey, your computer has been going off all day today and yesterday.”
So I walked over to the computer and I turned it on and I started searching through the files that I had received.
I’d received notifications about the missing women that have been found.
“Five of the missing women have been found. They were the older ones. The ones that were kidnapped first.” I said.
“Are they alive?” He asked.
“No. They’re all dead.” I said.
So I started typing and I hacked into a government site where I pulled up their autopsy reports.
Jacob looked really nervous about me doing that but no one could trace my computer. I made
sure of it.
“Holy shit.” I said.
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“What is it?” He asked.
“I think I might be right. All of these women had given birth or at least been pregnant before they died. More than once.” I said.
“They’re trying to replicate you.” Jacob said.
“How many other women have they killed while trying to make more of me?” I asked.
“Why would they even be doing that?” Jacob asked, confused.
“They’r3e creating an army. An unstoppable army.” I said.
