Sweet Redemption: The Morningstar Series Book 3
Sweet Redemption Chapter 70

The last four days have been amazing. Bianca and I were thoroughly enjoying our new place. We've f****d in every room of the house. It was amazing. Still, we would go outside and continue on with our lives. We hadn't seen our twins since getting the keys though. I thought it was strange. Where were they?

A buzzing behind me distracted me from my thoughts. I turned around but nothing was there and the buzzing was gone. What was I thinking about again? "Babe you wanna have a movie night with tons of junk food?" Bianca asked from the kitchen.

I was thinking of something just a moment ago. What was it? Oh yeah, my twin. I walked to the door.

"I'm gonna go invite our twins." I called over my shoulder.

I put my hand on the doorknob and that buzzing returned.

"Who?" Bianca asked me as she came over to the living room. "Where are you going?" She asked with a frown.

I looked down to see my hand on the doorknob. Where was I going? I was going to see someone right? Who?

"You okay babe?" Bianca asked, concern lacing her voice.

I turned around to face her.

"Uhm, I think so. Yeah." I said with a smile.

"Good." Bianca smiled then kissed me. "So, movie night?" She asked.

I nodded to her. "Yes. Movie night."

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A few hours later we were on our third movie. Bianca spent the time joking about the characters but I was having trouble focusing. Something was off right? Why do I feel so foggy? That buzzing started again and I looked around in search of it.

"You okay babe?" Bianca asked me.

I turned to look at my mate.

"Do you hear that?" I asked her.

Bianca gave me a confused look. "Hear what?" She asked.

Just then the buzzing stopped.

What did I ask her again? Something about looking for someone? No that wasn't it.

"Should we go to bed honey?" Bianca asked me.

Just then pounding at the front door startled me. Bianca didn't seem to hear it at all. Am I dreaming? I shook my head but the pounding continued.

"Ahkari? You okay?" Bianca asked me.

I tried to focus on the door. Something important is on the other side of that door. I know it. I reached out to Sage but I couldn't feel her. What the hell?

Wait a second, who is Sage? The pounding continued. Ugh, I'm getting a headache.

Finally the door burst open. In walked Akeehla. I frowned at her. What the f**k is she doing here? And why did she swing my door open so hard? All she had to do was knock I would have answered. Wait... Who is Akeehla?

The buzzing sounded and my brain went foggy. I closed my eyes and after a moment the buzzing stopped and my brain cleared. When I opened my eyes I turned my attention back to the TV. Suddenly I was yanked away from my mate and pinned down. Anger rolled through me and my eyes snapped to the person sitting on top of me. Akeehla. That's right, she just marched in. I opened my mouth to start yelling at her when she dumped a dark blue liquid into my mouth.

Akeehla held my jaw shut as I flailed around. She gave me no choice but to swallow the disgusting liquid. After Kee was satisfied she got off of me and I started gagging as I sat up. Tia crouched down in front of me and I could see Max holding Bianca back. "Ahkari." Tia snapped her fingers in front of my face. "Can you hear me?" She asked.

I rolled my eyes at her. "Yeah I can hear you you f*****g werido." I said as I got to my feet, then turned my attention to my little sister. "What the f**k Kee? What did you just force me to drink?" I started shouting at her.

"Ahkari, what day is it?" She asked me, ignroing all of my questions.

"What?" I asked confused.

"What day of the week is it?" She asked.

"It's Wednesday I think." I told her.

Kee shook her head and looked at Tia. I looked between the two of them as they had a silent conversation. After another moment I started to get angry.

"Okay, what the hell is going on?" I asked them.

Tia turned to me and took a deep breath.

"Ahkari, today is Sunday. You guys have been locked in your apartments for eight days." She told me.

I blinked at her as her words settled in. Then I started laughing. My sisters gave each other worried looks.

"This is a joke right? It's only been four days. Bianca and I have been outside and to town." I told them.

"Have you?" Tia asked me.

"What do you mean?" I asked her.

"Ahkari, no one has seen you, or Bianca, or either of your twins in eight days." Tia told me.

I frowned at her. Shaking my head I tried to recall the last few days. Bou and Acaisia. I had tried to go see them several times. Everytime I would hear that buzzing. It would distract me and then I would forget. Forget everything. Only Bianca and I mattered. "No." I said shaking my head. "How is that possible?" I asked, then I looked to my mate. Max released her finally and she ran over to me, wrapping her arms around me. "Do you remember much of the last eight days?" I asked her.

Bianca shook her head. "No. It's all foggy. I vaguely remember doing things with you but.. That's really it." She told me.

I looked up at the three guests. "What the hell is going on?" I asked.

"Tia had been trying to reach you guys through the mind link. When you didn't answer after a couple of days we came over here but no one answered the door, so at the time we just went home." Max told me. "We started to get worried though and then Kee stormed in our office the next day."

"Your wolves reached out to me. Selma and Sage haven't been able to get through to either of you for days." Kee told me.

"How did our wolves reach out to you?" I asked her.

Kee shrugged. "I stopped questioning things long ago sis."

I rolled my eyes at her and tried to reach out to Sage.

"I still can't feel Sage." I said in a panic.

"We need to get Bou and Acaisia and figure this out. It has to be the curse." Tia said.

Just then my door brust open once again. Bou stormed in, panic evident on his features. He has tears streaming down his face.

"He took her. He f*****g took her!" He started shouting at us. "We have to go get her back. She can't die." He rushed out.

"Whoa calm down Bou." Max said placing a hand on Bou's shoulder. "Who took her?" He asked, probably assuming the 'her' is Acaisia.

Bou looked into his brother's eyes with more sadness than I have ever seen on someone's face.

"Omen." He said. "He took her."

The room went silent for a moment before Tia jumped to action.

"I need to know exactly what happened Bou. Do you hear me? Not one detail left out." She rushed out.

"How did he even get to her?" I asked.

Just then Bianca was thrown from my side. Before I could even register what the hell had happened arms circled around me. A hand covered my mouth. Chills ran down my spine.

"Sorry, but I need both of you for this to work my dear." Came a raspy male voice to my ear.

Panic coursed through me. Bianca reached out for me and I reached up to grab her hand. Just before our fingers touched everything went dark.

Bianca's P.O.V.

Eight days.

It has been eight days?

No, that can't be true..

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As soon as Ahkari was tackled to the ground I was grabbed by my brother. Max stopped me from going after my mate and I didn't understand what was happening. Then he shoved a disgusting liquid in my mouth and forced me to drink. That was when the fog lifted. A raging headache took place of the fog and it was hard to focus on what they were telling us. Especially when they said it had been eight days and that we had never left the apartment. How was that even possible? How did we lose so many days? What about our memories?

Then the worst came. Omen appeared behind my mate. Before I could get to her he took her. He took my mate. Ahkari disappeared right before my eyes. I stared at the spot she was just standing in, in disbelief. Then I started to sob. Ahkari must have been far away because the pain that I was in was intense and nothing like I've ever felt before. Like someone had just stabbed me in the gut and twisted the knife, but it never went away.

"Bianca you need to get ahold of yourself." Max told me, but I couldn't.

I sat on the couch staring at nothing as tears flowed down my face.

"Sh-sh-she's g-g-g-gone." I blubbered. Oh my Gods, I don't think I've ever cried like this in my life.

Tia grabbed my shoulders and gave me a shake, though it did nothing for me.

"Yes she's gone. Don't you want to save her?" Tia asked.

That got my attention. My eyes snapped up to meet my sister-in-law's. Tia's are firece, looking like they always do. There was a determination in her eyes that I would normally replace admirable, but right now I was too much of a wreck. "How? We don't even know where they are." Bou stopped his pacing to ask.

My poor twin was as much of a wreck as I was. When he burst in here to tell us that his mate was gone s**t really hit the fan. Omen had both of our mates and possibly the last pieces to his puzzel that we were still trying to solve.

Bou was distraut over what he had done to his mate over the last eight days. It took Max quite some time to pull the words out of him. Bou was just a mess. The guilt he was feeling was making it hard for him to articulate. It was a really good thing that Kee is here. She pretty much had to translate his thoughts. There were things she saw in his head that she didn't tell us though. I could see it in their faces. I wondered what happened between my brother and his mate. How bad was it over there? "Save them?" I finally asked.

"Finding them hopefully won't be hard since we have their mates." Tia said. "We need to get the the kitchen in the main house. Max, go update Ambrose. He is going to need to help with the school until I replace our sisters."

Max nodded and kissed her head. "I'll be right back." He told her and then turned to Bou and I. "We will replace them."

"Kee, call Aunt Lenny. I have a feeling we are going to need help and Mom and Dad get too emotional." Tia ordered. "Got it. I'll start mixing up a spell enhancer for the skrying." Kee said and then disappeared.

"You two." Tia looked at my brother and I. "You two need to pull yourselves together. You want to replace your mates? Get your heads out of your a*s." She turned her eyes on Bou. "I know you feel guilty right now Bou but you were under a spell. Acaisia will understand, but you need to replace her to be able to explain it to her. You understand?" She asked and my twin nodded to her. Then she looked at me. "And you. I thought you were some bad a*s female who never let the world keep you down? Isn't that who Ahkari fell in love with? I know having her so far away hurts but get your s**t together for her sake." She told me and I nodded to her. "This is the time in your mate's lives that they need you. They need you to save them. You guys need to push your self pity aside and focus on the mission. Got it?" We nodded to her. "I said, got it?!" She shouted.

"Y-Yes ma'am." We stuttered in unison.

"Alright come on." Tia said as she started to walk out the front door.

Damn, she's scary.

Bou and I shot to our feet and hurriedly followed her. My mind was still reeling but I was trying to push everything to the side. Tia was right, we need to replace our mates. There is time to cry later. Right now we need to focus.

We entered through the front door of the mansion. Tia was on a mission as she marched straight to the kitchen. A few of their siblings were scattered around the house. Ares got to his feet once he saw the look on his older sisters face. "What's going on?" He asked.

"Ares I need you to help get the younger ones ready for school tomorrow. I might need your help longer than that." Tia told him.

Ares gave her a curt nod.

"What's goin on Tia?" Amory the youngest of the Morningstar's asked.

"You mean you don't know?" A women I didn't know asked, as she came out of a door that I had never seen before.

Amory giggled. "No Aunt Lenny. My mind doesn't work like that." She said.

So that's the famous Aunt Lenny. We had heard a lot about her. She's absolutely stunning and resembles the rest of her siblings. Her long wavy blonde hair looks almost identical to Tia's. She has bright green eyes like a few of my mates siblings, and they seemed to sparkle in the light. Her smile is beautiful and she is short like Akeehla. Lenny gives off a warm vibe that wrapped around me and instantly made me feel calm. Strange...only my mate is able to do that.

Tia and Ares exchanged a look. I was growing accustomed to the signs of silent conversations. Tia must be telling him what's going on.

"Come on Mo. Let's go watch a movie." Ares suggested to her.

"A scary movie?" She asked making Lenny snort.

Ares gave Mo a hard look. "You're six. You are not allowed to watch scary movies Amory." He told her.

Mo stomped her little foot and crossed her arms.

"Then no. I do not want to watch a movie with you." She said with her nose in the air. My Gods she is so much like Acaisia.

I looked at Bou and he was watching the interaction with a sad smile. He misses his mate. How could I blame him?

"Fine Mo. Nothing too scary. Maybe something you've seen before." Ares grumbled.

"Okay! How about Texas Chainsaw m******e?" Mo asked cheerfully. "Can Aunt Lenny come?" She asked.

"You've seen that already?" Are asked her with a hard tone.

Lenny crouched down as the little girl laughed Saving her from answering her older brother. She got to the same height as the little girl. "Sorry little cutie but I have to help your older siblings with something important." She said. "Can't they handle it themselves?" Mo argued.

Lenny scoffed. "Them?" She pointed a thumb behind her at us. "Pshhhh, please. You know they're hopeless without me." Lenny said dramatically making Mo giggle.

"Okay Aunt Lenny. But if you stay the night you can sleep in my bed." Mo offered.

"Thanks a ton Peach. I'll be up eventually." Lenny said as she stood to her feet.

Ares picked Mo up and swung her on his back. I could hear him asking her about the scary movie again. Her giggles faded as they left the room. Leaving Tia, Lenny, Kee, Bou, and me in the kitchen.

"Aunt Lenny, I didn't think you would make it so fast." Tia said to her aunt while she stared at Kee. Kee shurgged and Tia rolled her eyes.

"I thought that it would be best to just go and get her. So I did." Kee explained.

"My little Derranged scared the ever loving f**k out of me when she popped up in my bathroom while I was in the shower." Lenny said.

"Anyways." Tia said. "Aunt Lenny, this is Bou and Bianca. They are Ahkari and Acaisia's mates." Tia introduced us.

"It's nice to meet you two." Lenny said as she shook each of our hands. "Though I wish it was under better circumstances." She said then walked into the door I had never noticed before.

We followed in after the three of them and I looked around. The room was lage. Long wooden tables outlined the area along with a couple others in the middle. There are all kinds of plants and shelves with many other things on them. "Was this place always here?" I asked them.

"Yes. It is usually hidden though. This is where we keep all of our witchy things." Kee answered me.

Akeehla walked over to a mortar sitting on top a table next to a stool. She scooped whatever was in the bowl into two glasses and handed them to Bou and me. We took them and stared down at the thick green sludge. "Uhm.." I trailed off as I looked up at Kee.

"It's to help with the pain of your mates being so far away. It's going to taste gross but it'll help." She told us.

"Do you make anything that doesn't taste bad?" I asked her.

Lenny snorted. "No she does not but that's how you know it's strong. Our little Derranged here is the best potion maker I have ever met." Lenny said proudly.

"I wish you'd quit calling her that." Tia grumbled.

"Why? That's what she is right? I don't see why it has to be a bad thing." Lenny argued.

"Okay you guys. We have more important matters to tend to right now." Kee interrupted them sounding slightly annoyed.

We spent the next hour telling Lenny everything that happened. All the way from the beginning when my mate and her sister found the cave, when we all went and the s**t storm that was, all the way to right now. Lenny listened paitently. Honestly, I think she felt bad for my brother and I. While we talked, Lenny and Akeehla made a few different potions.

"So you guys were all under some kind of spell then." Lenny concluded.

Bou who hadn't spoke in hours finally found his voice. "If we were all under a spell what does that mean for Acaisia? Is she still under it? And can he really kill her? Like...permanently?" He asked.

Lenny rested her hand on his shoulder and gave it a squeeze. "I highly doubt he can kill her. From what you guys said it doesn't sound like this guy has been around in centuries. He might not know how far supernaturals have come. But even if he does... There is nothing that has worked so far to kill us. I replace it hard to believe that this man can. Especially one that underestimates women." Lenny said with a wink to me.

I love her already.

"Well what about her being under a spell? Could that have helped her become suicidal?" Bou asked. The hope in his voice was palable. We all felt for him.

"I don't know what exactly f**k face's spell could do, but.." Kee said. "I linked her and Ahkari's life lines two weeks ago." She said.

"You what?" Tia asked her.

Kee shrugged. "Mo came into my room in the middle of the night and told me I had to. Her eyes were completely white, like not how they normally are, it was different. I thought she was having a vision. She told me I had to link their life lines and after I did she past out and I carried her back to bed. It doesn't seem like she remembers it though." Kee explained.

Everyone only blinked at her.

"Does she usually remember her visions?" I asked.

Kee nodded. "This was the first time she did not. Honestly I'm not even sure it was a vision this time." She said.

"Then what was it?" I asked.

Kee shrugged nonchalantly. "Hell if I know. I just did what she asked."

"You seem very calm about this." I commented.

Again, Keey shrugged. "What?" She asked once she realized we were all staring at her. "I let her sleep in my bed that night to keep an eye on her." Kee said defensively. "We're Morningstar's." She said like that was the only explaination we needed. After another moment Tia shook her head and Lenny snorted out a laugh.

"Since you linked their lives that means that the moment the spell on Ahkari was broken, means the one on Acaisia broke too, right?" Tia asked Kee.

"Should have worked that way." Kee said. "It also helps us to replace them. We can make the skrying stronger by using both mates blood and with the twins being connected we should replace them quickly."

"And do you have a map of all the realms? Because I am pretty sure that they aren't in this one." Tia asked.

Kee looked at her aunt and all around the room to avoid her older sisters eyes.

“Uhm, well...erm.” Then she took a deep breath and looked at Tia. “I have something similar." She said.

"Something similar?" Tia asked with her brow raised.

"Listen, you can't ask me questions okay? But I have this." Kee said as she pulled something out of the pocket of her jeans.

She set it on the table and I saw that it was a small marble. Kee waved her hand over it and it grew to the size of a crystal ball. I gasped as I looked into it. It was all spacey like but everything moved. Honestly, it was mezmorizingly gorgeous. "What the f**k is this?" Tia asked.

"She said no questions Sour." Lenny said.

Tia snapped her head up to look at her aunt.

"Do you know what this is?" She asked accusingly.

"It's a replica of the realms. They call it an Orbuculum. If we skry over this whatever realm they are in will pop up and lead us to them." Kee explained.

"I've heard of this but thought it was a myth." Aunt Lenny said looking at it, then up at her niece. "Good job Kee." She said proudly.

Kee gave her a big smile. "Thanks."

"Don't encourage her." Tia said to her aunt then turned back to her little sister.

"Akeehla, where the f**k did you get this?" She asked.

Kee straightened her back and squared her shoulders as if she was preparing for a fight.

"I cannot tell you." She stated.

Tia looked ready to argue until she got answers but thankfully their aunt is here to defuse the situation.

"Okay Atiana. Akeehla already told you that she can't answer your questions and we have bigger things to worry about right now." Lenny said.

Tia and Kee stared each other down for another moment before Tia finally gave up.

"Fine." She gritted out. "Do you have the enhancer done?" She asked.

"Almost." Kee said and then went back to work. "It's missing something." She mumbled.

"What's it missing?" Lenny asked her.

"I don't know." Kee said as she looked up at her aunt in frustration.

Lenny walked around the table to stand behind her niece. She ran her hands up and down Kee's arms to soothe her. Then she started to guide her.

"Look down at your potion little one." Kee looked down. "You feel it's energy?" Kee nodded. "Listen to it. This is your potion, let it tell you what it needs. Do what feels right." Lenny whispered.

We all stayed silent for a few minutes. My anxiety was coming back and I was almost ready to scream at all of them. Why is it that it's only ever Bou and I that seem to be in a hurry for our mates when they're in trouble? Are their family members really that confident that they cannot die? Gods I hope they are right.

"Dragon scales." Kee mumbled. "That's what I need." She said as she turned to face her aunt.

"Dragon scales? Are you sure?" Lenny asked her.

Kee nodded. "I'm sure." She said.

"And how the f**k do you purpose we get Dragon scales Akeehla? The Dragons barely tolerate us as it is. What are we supposed to do? Waltz in there and demand it from them?" Tia asked question after question.

Lenny and Kee looked at Tia.

"Yes." The answered in unison.

Tia stared at them incredulously.

Lenny looked at Kee. "Just tell her something vague." She suggested.

Kee took a deep breath and turned back fo her sister.

"The Dragons owe me."