Seduced by My Childhood Sweetheart’s Brother
Chapter 194

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I barely notice as I scratch my legs up on a rather ugly spiked plant as I cut through someone’sbackyard. I’ve never had a tattoo but my hand feels how I imagine getting a tattoo feels. Thousands ofneedles jamming into my hand over and over.I’ll have to ask someone sometime how it feels to know ifmy comparison is accurate or not. But either way the feeling is very unpleasant. Still, I am weirdlyenjoying the pain, because the more pain the closer we must be to replaceing Kiara. All of a sudden thepain in my hand starts to fade a little. I slide to a stop, almost toppling over and turn back around. Myhand is instantly burning again.

“This one. I think it’s this house.” I declare. Instantly Bellamy and the team surge into action. Moving toapproach the front and back doors simultaneously. I can tell that Bellamy doesn’t want me here, butthere’s nowhere else for me to go. We left the cars several streets back. Aaron hangs back from thegroup staying with myself and Megan. I give him a small smile of appreciation but mostly I just want tobarge into the house and replace Kiara. I hold my breath as Bellamy tests the door. It opens, completelyunlocked. I can hear voices coming from further inside the house. Bellamy and the others enter in ahurry and despite Aaron’s raised eyebrow of protest, Megan and I follow them inside.

I replace all the Shifters standing at the ready but clearly not moving. In the centre of the living room isanother female Shifter who looks a lot like me and a tall woman with red hair hanging long down herback. But my eyes are instantly drawn to the small blonde child. Kiara! I instinctively step forward thenfreeze when the redhead’s eyes dart to me.)

She looks oddly familiar.

“You!” She snarls out the word. She is holding up a hand with a glowing blue flame directed towardsthe Shifter woman. Even I know enough about magic to identify Witches fire. One of the most commonoffensive spells out there. Usually a Witch is only powerful enough to use it one time, but it’s fast and

burns hot. It is also nearly impossible to put out without magic so if you get caught in it you can prettymuch guarantee a painful death by burning. No wonder everyone is staying put. One move from theredhead Witch and that Shifter woman will die a painful death. Aaron pulls me backwards and behindhim, physically shielding me with his b*dy. I peer around him and despite my best efforts to focus onthe threat, I keep staring at Kiara. She has backed up against a wall, her hands wrapped aroundherself. She looks so small and pale. I want to reassure her bart I know I have to wait,

“No one move! Don’t come any closer or she dies!” The woman hisses out the words. Bellamy holdsout his hands in a placating manner.

“No one is moving. We don’t want to hurt you. Just let the woman and child go and we can figure thisout peacefully.” He keeps his voice firm and calm, but I can see the fire in his eyes and I know that heis ready to shift in a second if needed. The woman laughs maniacally.

“Peacefully! You want this to end PEACEFULLY? No one cared about being peaceful when youMURDERED my Tristain!” She screeches the words causing me to flinch. I suddenly remember whereI’ve seen her before. That night with Bellamy when we stalked Tristain and saw him with his soul mate.It makes sense that she would be angry and hurt. His mother and his lover teaming up to get revenge. Ican’t believe we didn’t think of her earlier. Probably because none of us have ever actually met her, wedon’t even know her name. We were searching for it before, but then once Tristain was dead it kind oftook á back burner. There were other issues to sort out. Bellamy takes a deep breath. and keeps hisvoice steady.

“You are clearly trapped. There is no chance of you walking out of here. There’s no reason to make itdifficult. What do you want?” He tries to be diplomatic, but I suspect it’s too late, the woman looks likeshe is well beyond reason. Her eyes are wild and she is breathing heavily as if she has been exertingherself. Her eyes focus on me and she glares.

“Give me the Oracle girl and you can have these two. Two for one, it’s a good deal.” She demands. Ohshit. I should.

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have guessed that she would want me, she’s been targeting me this whole time after all. I probablyshould have waited outside. Somehow I think my presence is just going to make this worse.

“That will never happen.” Bellamy growls the words out, his voice low and his expression dark.

“Then the Shifter–girl dies! And the child will be next!” The nickname of psycho really suits her rightnow. There is no way that she is in her right mind.

“Hurting me won’t bring him back.” I comment softly. I don’t actually think it will help, she isn’t someonewho can be talked down, she’s too far gone, she has already committed to her plan. She knows thatthere is no chance of her realistically getting out of here and regaining her freedom. There are toomany Shifters for her to fight her way out and even if she did she would be on the run for the rest of herlife. No even I can see that she is ready to give her life for her cause. For a chance to kill me she iswilling to die herself. I don’t expect anything useful to come of talking to her. But at least if she isfocussed on me, she isn’t aiming well at the Shifter woman and she isn’t looking at Kiara, We

need her distracted, and I’m the best suited for the job.

I stay behind Aaron, I suspect if I

step in

range she will attack me immediately, she doesn’t care about getting caught. She has no need for ahostage other than as a way to trade for me. She probably only has one shot with the Witches fire, so I

doubt she will use it on Aaron or anyone else, not unless she knows for sure that I’ll be caught in it tooor she

is left with no other choice.

“I KNOW it won’t bring him back. Nothing will bring him back, because you KILLED him!” She screams.Huh?

“I didn’t kill him!” I object. She laughs, flicking her bright hair back behind her shoulder. I can see thatshe is shaking in place. Her flaming hand unsteady.

“You might not have been the one to strike him down, but you are the reason he is dead. No one wouldhave suspected him, no one would have thought to question him if you were able to just KEEP YOURMOUTH SHUT!” She screams. Well that’s just outright not true. Bellamy suspected there wassomething fishy with Tristan the whole time. That’s why he tracked me down in the first place.

“Tristan planned to betray and murder my friends for power. What would you have had me do? All hehad to do was stop fighting and he would still be alive!” I argue. I’swear the Witch is turning blue at thispoint. I can see the veins bulging in her forehead. She swivels towards me a little more and opens hermouth to argue, but before she can speak the Shifter woman who is being held hostage takes herchance. With no time to shift, she remains in her human form and leaps at the Witch.