Chapter 17

I turned my attention to D. His eyes were on the unhappy teen, his expression filled with a passive curiosity, like a kid watching ants scurry around on the pavement.

"But.! I started and tried to say something before I stopped. I had nothing to say anymore. He took a

deep breath and forsook his amusement, his voice was calm and so much overpatient. There is no doubt but, no magic way out. It is already cut and dried: Mother witch has been interested in you for quite some time, first as a weapon to serve against Someone in your lineage.

And even With Jack's death you are still a Suspect and, now that Simeone can confirm your involvement, your capture can be guaranteed. They will be sure that you know something!"

"What thing? You mean I know! Know what?" I was tired of the stupid half-hints I Dkept on making.

"Where it is, and for sure." His posture radiated annoyance, as though he expected me to already know what he was talking about. "Where? And what is this thàt you kept on talking about?" I cried out.

A man who was behind the gas pumping it glanced towards us, and I had to drop my voice, though my eyes blazed and my hands balled into fists at my sides below my waist. "I am getting tired of the runaround, so I suggest you just spit it out already!" D's dark eyes snapped with annoyance, but he refused to tell. Instead, his voice was weary. "The love of her life!" Love of his life, when I had asked about what Jack had stolen from his mother I had expected it to be, money, gold, some kind of heirloom. but it saddened my heart, that it was a person- or maybe I couldn't understand what Shawn tried to mean when he said, o lover of her life I almost dropped the remaining quarter of my drink. "They stole a person from him?" I cried out and then I lowered my voice calmly,

"Seriously?" " Yes, they took someone whom she had loved the most and Would want to spend the rest of his life with. Mother witch would kill anyone she has to in order to get the girl back to him"

D paused, grabbed the cigar from my fingers, and took the last sip, and he continued.

"It was planned that they were to get married before she disappeared from her eyes!" I didn't know how to say or even how I felt, Jack had taken away his mother's girlfriend someone his Mother had deeply cared for from the inside, the girl part of me, could even appreciate the situation and see the real romance in it. The girl was taken away and her desperate lover mother witch would do anything to return her back. I couldn't figure out if she was kidnapped or was just taken away, and if she was just taken away, how could the girl even accept to go away with her 'son' I mean Jack and Simeone were all her sons, how could she accept to betray his lover to her Sons?"

Did the girl love him? And why did she decide to go away!" My selfish nature did not allow me to let D breathe, I still felt that I needed to know more and more, and not to be left hanging. The story seemed confusing, but as usual, for the few hours I have known Shawn, he always kept the plots of his stories with a lot of cliffhangers.

That they could keep me wanting more and more. He stretched and yawned," I can't affirm that the girl loved her. But to be honest she was being given away by her father to pay the price. Her father owed the coven something important. And he had promised to give her away as a way to pay for the debt he owed!" I turned away and looked at the teenagers moving their way down from the gas station, one held a purse that resembled that of my sister, and my heart pounded as I felt missing her.

"Are you with me!" D asked, stretching his hand to wake me up from the little fantasy that I had been drawn into by the little teenagers. And. I assured him that I was still with him. I fished into the shopping and picked an orange. It was agreed, and mother witch was going to marry one of the daughters of the man! Before the two could get married, D and Simeone discovered that their mother was not in love with the girl, and he only wanted to marry her to get something from her. Something her father failed to give it to her.

This secret was further revealed to Mother Witch, and the two were in trouble, they decided to go away and rescue the girl from their mother's slavery.

They knew very well that their mother could do anything to get her, but they decided to risk it all." "But what did she do to the family of the girl, so he could blackmail them like that?" I asked, standing in a mystery, holding my waist with both of my hands like a pregnant mother who was just about to deliver. My eyes were wide and shiny." Saved her from a dangerous virus that had attacked her, the Virusi virus!"

I was stunned, my right side of the high than the other side, my lip raised had heard that before. The deadly virus.

I once overheard my father talk about it, as he assured his company Workers to always be keen at the office not to fall into the same problem of being infected with the virus. Could it be one of the workers from the company, or maybe it could be from my family, I couldn't fetch a thought of when I was diagnosed with the virus, then it possibly could t be me. Or could it could be my sister?

But I have never heard that she was affected by it, then who was this? I was confused as Ds story was more complicated, and it seemed to be rotating around my family, but I could quite get it well.