Wicked Fate by Stokes Monique

Author:Stokes, Monique [Stokes, Monique]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: %Paranormal
Goodreads: 61176753
Publisher: Monique Stokes
Published: 2022-06-09T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

We finally reached the passage lined with torches leading to Lydia’s door. The Seer of Prophecy.

I looked over at my two demonic escorts before pushing inside. But it wasn’t sunlight that hit my face this time. Torrential rain was flooding the mountains, and lightning crackled in the dark gray sky filled with clouds. It was storming, creating piles and valleys of mud and muck.

I grimaced, heading in the direction I recalled her home being while water droplets quickly soaked my hair and clothes.

She was sitting on the porch in a rocking chair, frowning at the destruction to her plants as the wind began to rip up roots and overturn trees. Spotting us, her face lit up.

Lydia shot up from her chair, tossing the book in her hands aside, her blonde curls bouncing.

“You found the hybrid, then?” she demanded over the storm.

I used my hands to wipe water from my eyes as I hurried up to the porch and out of the rain. “I did. What the hell is up with the weather in here?”

Ryder and Leo soon came to stand with us, both of them drenched like alley cats and neither of them seeming too happy about it.

Lydia let out a dramatic sigh and looked out over her garden, saying, “It’s my mood. I know what’s going on up there. My nerves are a bit frazzled.”

“You didn’t warn Marcus and his men?” I asked, letting out a disbelieving laugh.

She shrugged, stoically playing with the frays on her magenta dress. “Killed my sister, remember? I don’t really owe them anything anymore.”

Rage began to boil inside me. “Those are our people being slaughtered,” I snarled, stepping closer. “And you just let it happen.”

She bared her fangs at me, getting in my face.

“I only knew an attack was coming, not the specifics, and they should have been prepared considering all this war talk. If they weren’t, that’s not on me.”

Ryder pulled me back by the arm, separating us. “Calm down,” he ordered. Then he turned to Lydia, who was still fuming mad, her cheeks turning red. “You told Zada to see you once she found the hybrid. Now what?”

She glared at the three of us, then looked in the direction we came from. Sighing again, she stomped over to the front door of her house and threw it open, gesturing for us to go in.

At least this place had windows, unlike that underground room I’d been in with her before.

It was just as happy and homey as the outside of her house appeared: colorful quilts, yet another burning fireplace, flowers and plants everywhere. The furniture was all bright wood with plush accents and blankets.

“Fuck,” I muttered to myself, cringing at the décor. “For a vampire, this is unexpected.”

Lydia snorted, snapping her fingers and making some more wine glasses with blood appear on the old-fashioned white tile kitchen counter. “I never asked to be born a vampire. I much prefer the seer side of my upbringing. It was far more human. Far more alive.

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