Evelyn s POV
Thaddeus phones Bianca and we spend around an hour waiting before I hear movent outside. I was sitting on the lounge with Thaddeus and Ryland when the front door opened, and Orion stepped inside. Standing, I go to see Lana when Thaddeus pulls behind him. Lana walks in cautiously. Looking around the room before her eyes land on . Her hair was ssy, and she was wearing a hospital gown. Her eyes going wide when she saw and rushes over to , a little too fast nearly knocking over. If it weren t for Thaddeus holding my arm, she would have knocked to the ground.
"Thank god you re okay" I whisper hugging her back. She sighs deeply squeezing tightly. Thaddeus I could see was watching her with a strange expression on his face and I could feel his caution through the bond. Orion, I noticed was standing behind her his hand on her shoulder awkwardly like he was worried sothing was going to happen.
Their worry through the bond making uneasy, why were they acting like that. It was Lana? Orion and Ryland have t her plenty of tis, she isn t like April.
Lana steps back and looks around "This place is nice. Do you live here with them?" she asks.
I nod, her eyes darting around the room quickly, in fact all her movents seed jerky and too quick.
"Co, I will get you so clothes" I tell her, grabbing her hand. Thaddeus places his hand on my arm stopping when I went to take her up the stairs.
"Orion will get her so clothes" Thaddeus tells .
"Why are you acting like this, it is Lana?" I ask him. His eyes not leaving her.
"It s not safe" Ryland says stepping closer.
"I am not going to try and leave again; I am right here" I tell him, but he shakes his head.
"We aren t worried about you doing anything Evie" Ryland says using Lana s nickna for .
"I m not going to hurt her" Lana exclaims, shocked by his words, she looked appalled he would even suggest such a thing.
"You may not an to but it s a chance I won t take, not with my mate" Thaddeus says pulling against him.
"You re being ridiculous, Lana won t hurt " I tell him, but he doesn t let go.
"I will go with them Thaddeus. Evie will be safe" he says. Thaddeus reluctantly lets go and I grab Lana s hand pulling her up the stairs. Orion right on our heels. I rummage through the wardrobe giving her so clothes before following her into the bathroom and shutting the door before Orion s hand stops it.
"Door stays open" he says. Lana looks mortified at his words, as any teenage girl would be.
"Not all the way just so I don t have to knock it down if sothing were to happen" he says confusing . I turn the shower on for her, and Lana gets undressed. She seed different almost perfectly fine, like nothing happened.
Sitting up on the sink basin. Lana hops in the shower. I noticed her chest was covered in blood under the gown and she had a scar where her heart would be.
"Are you okay?" I ask her, Lana s head whipping to so fast, she nearly gave whiplash just watching how quick she moved.
"Yeah fine" she says her voice almost lodious.
"So, what happened?"
"I don t really rember, child services got involved. April had been acting strange the past week and I was staying in a motel near the hospital, I was visiting Dad and she ca in crying hysterically. Saying these horrible things that dad raped you, that he was sick in the head. She was waving his gun around. Dad tried to get her to calm down. I heard a bang and Dad fell off the bed and I saw blood pooling and the next thing I know; I heard the gun go off again, felt like I was punched in the chest. Then I woke in the morgue that s when I rang you" she tells .
I hated the way Lana called him Dad, hated that she had an attachnt to the vile man, but I also understood he was good to her, she never saw the parts of him I did.
"Orion wouldn t tell if they were okay, he brought here. Said I couldn t go ho, said that I was vampire now. Pretty cool don t you think? I love the vampire diaries" she says excitedly. Her attitude shocked . So unfeeling, like she didn t know the people who raised her, like she had no connection or emotion at all.
"Is it true what mum said, did dad really do that?" she asks. I cringe at the word feeling disgusted hearing it leave her mouth.
"Yes Lana, what April said was true" I tell her. She looks at .
"But your over it right? You re good now?" she asks. Her words shocking . Was this the sa Lana I knew? What happened to is not sothing you get over, you just live with it, deal with it or in my case not deal with it, thanks to Thaddeus who dealt with it for .
I say nothing. "So, what about mum, did she get arrested?" Lana asks and my lungs restrict. She didn t know. She didn t know they were dead.
"Lana..."
Orion pops his head in the door and shakes his head and presses his fingers to his lips. He didn t want to tell her.
"I am not sure," I tell her turning back to her. She was washing her hair. Why was I lying to her? What was going on. I had so many thoughts racing through my head and nothing was making sense, Lana s strange behaviour, Thaddeus sudden distrust of her.
Suddenly the water turns off. I hand her a towel. She steps out, wrapping it around herself, the room full of steam.
"The hot water here sucks," she says making raise an eyebrow. The room felt like a sauna the room so thick with steam I felt like I was inhaling the water in the air. I open the door intending to walk out when she speaks again, the breeze from the open window brushing over .
"What s that sll?" she asks and just as I turn to face her, I notice her face twist into a demon, her eyes going blood red as she lunges at , knocking over before sinking her teeth into my shoulder. I let out a scream, and Orion was already ripping her off , her teeth pulling painfully from my skin. Lana thrashing in his arms, a crazed look on her face.
"What the fuck, Lana. You bit ," I say shocked just as the door burst open. Blood starts trickling down my chest where Orion ripped her teeth out of . She continued to thrash in his arms like a wild animal.
"Let have her," she scread fighting against him. Ryland rips to my feet and yanking from the room, his arm around my waist. I see Thaddeus walk over to her grabbing her face. "Enough" He yells at her and I see her freeze for a second before she starts thrashing again. Ryland drags downstairs, my hand clutching my blood-soaked neck. He sits on the lounge just as Bianca walks in her eyes darting to the stairs at the commotion above us.
"Upstairs" Ryland tells her, and she disappears in a fast blur. I hear banging and crashing upstairs making look up at the landing above us.
"What s wrong with her?" I ask him. Ryland bites into his wrist pressing it against my lips and stopping from asking any questions.
"Drink it" he says, and I let my lips part, feel his blood coat the inside of my mouth warm and thick and I have to force myself to swallow. Feeling my wound healing underneath my hands the sensation felt strange.
"What s wrong with her?" I ask again his blood coating my lips and Ryland wipes it off with his thumb, Ryland looks up before looking at .
"She is a newborn vampire; they feel everything differently or feel nothing at all, your scent must have overwheld her" Ryland says.
"But Orion doesn t attack like that?"
"He has had hundreds of years of practise to control his bloodlust. Even older ones soti slip. Lana has no control yet."
"But she will be okay, right?" He sighs, running his hand down his face. He looked tired. He places his hands on my legs looking up at .
"That is why Bianca is here. She will take Lana and look after her," Ryland tells just as Orion cos downstairs his clothes torn from the struggle.
"Lana won t go with her; she doesn t know her," I tell him. Orion growls at before sitting down clearly angered by sothing.
"She can t stay here with you; she won t have a choice but to go with Bianca," Orion argues back.
"And if she says no?" I ask.
"Then Thaddeus will kill her. She needs guidance, Bianca will look after her," Ryland tells . Thaddeus walks down with a limp Lana in his arms before walking outside. I go to get up and follow him, to check she is alright when Orion pulls down on his lap wrapping his arms securely around my waist. Bianca walks down the stairs fixing her outfit which was wrinkled before coming over to .
"I promise to look after her Evelyn, she is safe with . Promise," Bianca says looking to the door Thaddeus just walked out of. I liked Bianca she was always kind to , and I knew if my mates trusted her I could as well, Bianca is Thaddeus s aunty after all.
"Can I at least say goodbye?" I ask them.
"She is unconscious, Thaddeus broke her neck," Bianca says, and I jump up horrified by what she said. Orion pulls back down on him.
"She is fine Love; it won t kill her" he whispers just as Thaddeus walks back in.
"I put her in Ryland s car you can take that to get ho" Bianca nods before rushing outside.
"You broke her neck?" I ask him angrily.
"Be grateful I didn t kill her, usually any newborn vampire I co across, I kill. The only reason I didn t is because she is your friend" he says, and I can feel his anger burning into through the bond.
I hear Ryland s car start and try and get up again only to be stopped this ti by Thaddeus gripping my arm.
"You will see her again, but when you re not so breakable."
"Not so breakable?"
"Yes, you re human, Evelyn" His words anger . He wants to turn into a vampire and be uncontrollable like Lana? He just said he snapped her neck for crying out loud.
"I have already told you, I won t change and seeing her like that just reinforces that decision" I tell him.
"You won t have a choice you will get older, Evie; you will decide, or I will decide for you," he yells at . The lights flickering in his anger.
"Fine, then I will change," I tell him. He seems shocked by my words. "I will change when you give up your magic," I scream at him. If I have to give up my life, he can give up his magic like his mother wants him to.
"That s not happening," he growls.
"Then I am not changing," I tell him defiantly, crossing my arms and holding his glare refusing to back down; I knew he would say that. We stare at each other for a few seconds before he storms out of the house angrily, slamming the door behind him.
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