Chapter 87
“I guess the fact that Emily was a fated mate, that I claimed, is what made it different,” Deacon explained. “Why do you ask?”
“Just making small talk,” Jessica said.
“No, no. You are not getting off that easy,” Deacon chuckled.
Jessica could not find the right words, so chose to say nothing.
“Seriously? You are not going to elaborate?” Deacon chuckled.
“Perhaps another time,” Jessica chuckled and pulled her knees up to her chin, wrapping her arms around her legs. “We should have gotten vampires to take us.”
“What do you feel right now?” Deacon questioned.
“What do you mean? Us?” Jessica misunderstood him.
“I mean, do you have any feeling that Lestat is still in trouble?” Deacon questioned.
“Oh,” Jessica said and focused on Lestat. “Nothing.”
“Michael and Wynn should be there soon enough,” Deacon said, and put his foot on the gas.
“I just don’t know what Lestat’s connection is with Torvald,” Jessica said.
“Have you considered the fact that a spell was used to fate you to Lestat?” Deacon asked, calculating in his head the time period that Torvald escaped, and the moment Jessica fated to Lestat.
Jessica thought about it for a moment. “I do now,” she said, but because she claimed him as her forever mate, her heart overruled common sense.
“Well, we will get to the bottom of it,” Deacon said.
Wynn mind linked Jessica and Deacon at the same time, showing them what he saw.
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“Brother,” Michael chuckled when he and Wynn arrived.
“You think you are clever for trapping me?” Torvald snarled at him.
“Is my sister here?” Wynn interrupted them, hoping she was not.
“Why would she be here?” Torvald questioned, playing dumb.
“We all know the relationship the two of you have so cut the crap,” Michael said, believing that Shysie was there. Michael wished that Shysie was there so that he can show her mercy and win Wynn over.
“She is not a stupid a girl. I have not seen her since you locked me up in the dungeons,” Torvald lied.
“Bullshit!” Michael snapped. “I smelled the both of you in my room the night you escaped.”
“Who helped you escape? I know it was not my sister because she made the same promise that the rest of us made,” Wynn questioned, relieved that Shysie was off the hook.
“Paris did,” Torvald lied.
“Liar. He would never,” Wynn defended Paris.
“Not that it matters now, since he is dead,” Michael said in the hope that it would be the end of the conversation since he did not wish for Katelina’s name to be mentioned.
“What is your business with Lestat?” Wynn questioned, responding to Jessica’s desperate mind link.
“Lestat?” Torvald chuckled. “I have no business with him.”
“Then why is he fated to Jessica?” Wynn questioned, drawing the same conclusion that Deacon did, thinking that Torvald was behind the two of them, being fated mates.
“All vampires and hybrids,” Michael brought everyone’s attention to him. “The last one standing gets to live.”
The vampires and hybrids immediately turned on each other and started to attack one another.
“What the hell do you think you are doing?” Wynn choked in disbelief.
“They can’t be trusted, so they might as well die,” Michael snorted. “Where is Ondrink?”
“Why?” Wynn questioned.
“I want to go fetch him to unravel the spell,” Michael explained.
‘Leave Ondrink out of it. A few hybrids are on their way with my best shamans.’ Deacon mind linked Wynn.
“Deacon says to leave Ondrink out of it. His shamans are already on the way,” Wynn said and focused on Torvald again.
‘Can we please get back to why Lestat is there?’ Jessica mind linked Wynn.
“Where is Lestat now?” Wynn questioned, ignoring Michael, that didn’t seem too happy about being over-ruled.
“Lautari!” Torvald called out to her.
Hesitantly, Lautari walked out of the building and when Deacon saw the gypsy enchantress-looking woman, he felt glad, knowing that Jessica and Lestat are not true fated mates and that it could only be a spell.
“Care to explain why your son is fated to Jessica?” Torvald put her on the spot, wanting some answers himself.
“I don’t know what you are talking about?” Lautari denied it.
Torvald sped over to her and grabbed her around her neck. “Tell the truth or I will end him!”
‘No!’ Wynn heard Jessica cry in his head.
‘At least now you know that he is not your true mate,’ Wynn mind linked her.
‘I claimed him,’ Jessica mind linked him back.
Deacon hit the brakes. “You did what?”
“I didn’t want to tell you, fearing you won’t help me if you knew,” Jessica cried.
“You are damn right!” Deacon shouted and turned his car back to drive back to the higher council.
“What are you doing?” Jessica shouted.
“Taking you back to the higher council,” Deacon said.
Jessica unbuckled and jumped out of the car, making Deacon break.
“You crazy woman!” He shouted. Deacon got out of the car and ran over to where Jessica was laying, bleeding.
“Why did you do that?!” Deacon shouted.
With great effort, Jessica shifted into her wolf form and ran off into the woods, hoping that she will find Torvald’s compound.
‘A little help please,’ Deacon mind linked Wynn.
‘On my way,’ Wynn mind linked back and sped over to Deacon’s location. He caught up with Jessica within seconds and grabbed her, lifting her off the ground and speeding her over to Torvald’s compound.
‘Take her to the higher council!’ Deacon demanded in a mind link while jumping into his car.
‘Too late. Already at Torvald’s compound,’ Wynn mind linked back. Behind a tree, he took off his shirt and held it out to Jessica that was still in her wolf form.
Jessica shifted back into her human form and pulled Wynn’s shirt over her head. His shirt barely covered her rear end, but she didn’t care. She ran over to where Torvald was holding Lestat in an arm hold.
“Let him go, please,” Lautari pleaded.
“Jessica, no!” Wynn shouted as he watched her run into the spell wall.
Torvald laughed evilly before snapping Lestat’s neck and letting him fall to the ground.
“Nooo!” Jessica cried out and fell next to Lestat’s dead body, feeling her heart break into pieces.
Lautari stood there in shock unable to grasp that her only son just died at the hands of Torvald.
“That will teach you to never betray me again,” Torvald said and scooped Jessica up before speeding off, Wynn speeding into the spell wall to save Jessica.
Torvald ran into the building and when Wynn followed him, he got trapped in an old spell that Lautari placed over the building years ago.
Deacon knew something was wrong when he could no longer mind link Jessica or Wynn.
Torvald was never trapped, to begin with. He was waiting for Michael to come along to trick him into the spell wall and then into Lautari’s spell. Tovald left through a secret passage that was protected by a spell. Even though it was not his plan to run off with Jessica he knew he could use her as leverage as he planned in the first place to lure her mother, Jovita into his own trap.
The Shamans arrived but Michael ordered them to stand down. “Wait for all the vampires to kill each other first.”
“But it is against the rules,” one shaman objected and mind linked Deacon.
‘Where are Wynn and Jessica? Are they ok?’ Deacon mind linked back relieved that his shamans has arrived on the scene.
‘I don’t see Jessica but Wynn seems to be trapped in the building. I can see him in the doorway, but he is not able to step out,’ the shaman mind linked.
‘I want that enchantress alive,’ Deacon mind linked.
Michael realized since Torvald escaped that Shysie might have escaped the same way. ‘But why did Torvald not let his vampires escape as well? Perhaps he did let some of them escape, meaning I still won’t know who to trust at the bloody council.’
