CHAPTER 75

CHAPTER SEVENTY FIVE
NADIA’S POV
I paced around the house, tapping my chin with my index finger repeatedly while deep in thought. Miranda knowing nothing about portaling magic was certainly not in our favor.

“You need to see this,” Sasha suddenly said, grabbing both Sasha and I’s attention.

I rushed over to where she was patched up on the window, looking at the street below where the wolves were manning it, watching our house, clearly ready to strike the moment they got an opportunity. I had spotted Carson White earlier and it had taken me every ounce of energy to stop myself from trying to kill him. When I peered out of the window, it was Collins who had just walked out of the car. I felt a tiny squeeze in my heart, swallowing it down. I hadn’t laid my eyes on him since the coffee shop. Despite looking like someone who had been living in a cave, he did pull off good looks. If only our worlds hadn’t suddenly crushed against each other. I shook the thoughts away, focusing on whatever was going on. There seemed to be a heated exchange between him and his father for a few minutes but then his father stomped off to a nearby car, seemingly angry before taking off. The wolves dispersed except for one who I immediately recognized as the doctor wolf. He said something to him and Collins looked up at the window for the third time but this time his gaze lingered a bit. Remorseful eyes met mine even though I knew he couldn’t see me and then he walked over to his car with the doctor, driving off.

“Do you think they retreated from the fight or something?” Miranda questioned. None of us could put the pieces of the puzzle together.

“Maybe it’s a trap to lure us out of the house,” Sasha reasoned.

“Could be,” I drawled a bit but then turned to Miranda,” You do have spell books at your house, right?”

“Yeah. Why?” She questioned.

“Does any of them have spells on portaling that you can learn?”

“My mother always kept them hidden in a safe. I figured the combination but after she got wind that someone practiced magic on the day I saved you from being torn apart by Carson, she confronted me. She not only changed the combination but also strictly forbade me from associating with you,” she fought tears from trickling down the narrow edges of her eyes,” That was the last time we talked right before Carson invaded our home and the next thing I saw was…their blood on the floor,”

I pulled her against my chest, feeling her whole body shake up with sobs. We were all hurting inside but I knew she was in a much more pained state, considering she witnessed her parents being butchered just three days ago.

“We are going to make Carson pay,” I whispered, massaging the back of her head in a bid to calm her down. For a while, I let her cry her pain out, something she hadn’t done yet and finally after an estimated twenty minutes, she got a grip of herself.

“I needed that,” she attempted to smile despite her state. Deep down, I knew I needed to do the same but unlike Miranda if I were to let myself breakdown, I wouldn’t be able to pick myself up like she did. I would probably go on days, letting the strokes of pain whip every part of me until I was drowning in it.

“Now are you ready?”

“Ready for what?” She questioned, sounding a bit hoarse.

“We have to figure out the combination of the safe and get those damn books tonight. We have around fourteen hours before the spell wears off and we become susceptible to the wolves. I don’t know about you but I intend to stay alive enough to see Carson begging for his death,” I said, shifting my gaze from Sasha to Miranda and back.

“You know damn well we are in. So what’s the plan?”

“I’ll call Trina, see if she is still in town and then we can-oh, speaking of the devil,” I said just as my phone suddenly blared to life with Trina’s name flashing across the screen.

I picked it up,” Trina. We were just talking about you,”

“Why? You missed me already?” she joked. At least she was safe and knowing how tough she was, it would take more than just a few wolves to put someone like her down. When she was still human, she was always the strong one among the three of us and the added confidence of being a hybrid made her almost sound untouchable.

“A little. You’ve been gone for three days with no call whatsoever,” I started, putting her on loudspeaker.

“Yeah. I had a lot of things to sort with myself and um…I travelled to New York to see Sean too. It was about time we talked about his cheating ass,”

“Oh no!” Both Sasha and I muttered, sharing a look of pure horror.

“Don’t worry. I didn’t kill him but I did egg his house though. I know its sounds crazy but I guess I now realize him cheating on me was not because I wasn’t enough for him. He was just a jerk who never cared about me as much as I cared about him. Being part vampire kind of makes me see things more clearly now. Anyway, that’s not why I called. So I returned from New York yesterday and well I dug up something which I’m pretty sure by now much have shaken the werewolves in town. My source from the inside claims there was a massacre of wolves in town some minutes ago and Collin’s pack seemed to have suffered the most loss. This is either going to set them back or make them more eager to attack,”

“That explains why they suddenly left. Adrian must have struck again,” Miranda pointed out and now that whole sudden departure was pretty much explainable.

“But isn’t he being a little too reckless? The wolves are in high alert now which means if he was to slip up even in the slightest, he should count himself as dead meat,” Sasha’s voice was drenched in concern.

“If Adrian is still the way I’ve known him from childhood, then he is too smart not to have a plan B. He has always been stealth, more composed and always has every probable counterattack on his plans drawn to detail prior. He likes to be prepared for anything,” I explained. Inside, I was dying to see him. A glimpse of the man he’d grown up to be would suffice the longing of family inside me.

“So does that mean you are not in town?” Sasha questioned.

“So the werewolves can have a good time tearing me apart? No, thanks. I’m meeting up with Drake and the rest of our team outside town tomorrow,” she paused,” Nadia?”

“Yes?”

“You know there won’t be coming back from this, right?” her voice was soft, filled with concern.

I swallowed down,” I know but I do know too that its going to be worth it when Carson falls on my feet, begging for mercy,”

“Then you need all the good luck,” she said, before cutting off the call.

I had known right away she was referencing to Collins and was I okay about killing the father of the man I cared about? Of course, not and so I chose to think of Carson as just the murderer who slaughtered my family in cold blood.

“You know she is actually right. We’ve been so consumed about what is happening around us that I did not stop to think of your connection to Collins,”

“We fucked, so what? That won’t stop me,” I said, shrugging dismissively. I did not want to talk about Collins or confide that the connection I actually shared with him was perhaps more than what they thought it was.

“Right. Because I’m so stupid not to see that its more than just about sex,” she shrugged.

“I’ve always been curious though. How did you meet Collins? I mean, if he wasn’t a werewolf and he approached me, my brain wouldn’t have the space to think of saying no,” Miranda questioned.

“We are getting off course here but if you must know, we met at a club in the outskirts of Las Vegas, shared a steamy night and that’s it. Now can we go back to what’s really important here?” I snapped unintentionally. I did not want to dwell in the topic of Collins and they must have read my mood because they both grew serious.

“Trina is out of question. So how do we retrieve the safe from my house? They obviously have people guarding the house in case I show up,”

I looked at both of them,” I think we are not going to wait for the spell to lift. We need to get to your house and I know we are probably just a bunch of women with absolutely no fighting skills but we do have one thing they don’t,”

“Vengeance?” Miranda responded.

“I mean, yeah but that’s not what I was going with. I’m talking about you Miranda. You are a time witch and maybe that’s what we need,”

“What are you asking me to do?”

I clasped her hands in mine,” Is it possible to stop time just long enough until I get to your house and retrieve the safe?”

“F-Freeze time on the whole town? I’m not even strong enough to freeze time on a quarter of this town,”

“Please Miranda,”

Hesitation struck her eyes as she whispered,” Maybe I could do it for probably thirty minutes but considering you are not a mortal, I could use you to supplement me. There was a time I read something about siphoning powers from a non-mortal person if a witch is weak,”

“Take whatever you need,” I said. I needed this to work.