Seduced by Pain

Author:Alex Lux [Lux, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daring Books
Published: 2013-02-12T00:00:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

This Hallowed House

ROSE

Following darkness like a dream,

Now are frolic. Not a mouse

Shall disturb this hallowed house.

—William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

JASMINE AND I stared each other down in my doorway as Derek loaded the cars with as much of our belongings as we could pack in such a hurry.

She folded her arms over her chest. "I can't believe you'd take the word of some guy you just met over your family and coven. How could you even think these things of Mother?"

"Jasmine, it's not just Derek's word. Ocean and I have found evidence that she's lying."

Derek slammed the trunks shut and leaned against his car, Ocean beside him. She tapped on an imaginary watch, and I knew we had to leave before Mother found us, but I couldn't abandon Jasmine.

Ocean walked over to me and faced my sister. "Jas, please come. We can sort it all out later, but don't stay here. It's not safe."

She huffed in typical teenager fashion. "Now you think Mother would hurt me? You're the insane one. I'm outta here."

I reached for her as she stormed off, but Ocean pulled me back. "We'll deal with her later, but we can't force her to come. She's a minor, Rose. Even if she came voluntarily we could be charged with kidnapping."

Ocean slid into the driver's seat of her car, and Derek held the passenger door of his car open for me. I looked back at my cottage, the place I'd created many memories with Sandy over the last few years.

It hadn't fully sunk in that I was leaving everything and everyone I'd always known for a life I had no idea how to live. The weight of it all didn't quite register, but I knew it would, and I wondered if I'd feel I'd made a mistake when it hit me.

But looking at Derek standing there so full of love and protectiveness, and looking at Ocean, so confident, I knew I belonged with them, regardless of what else happened.

I just had one more thing to do before I could leave. "I left something in the house. I'll be right back."

I closed the door behind me and rummaged through the junk drawer for pen and paper.

When I'd finished the note, I left it on the kitchen table with the necklace and the book. Blake didn't deserve to be hurt like this, but I couldn't feign love for someone just because it was more convenient. I had to follow the truth of my heart, however challenging the road may have been.

I fingered the locket one last time, wishing I could keep it, but knowing it would be wrong to do so, and left that life for good.

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