Chapter 103
Sadie.
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I am frozen as I stare at Raven. I don’t why, but I should be excited and relieved that she had somehow managed to find who the person is, but for some weird reason I am terrified of the news.
Has that ever happened to you? Whereby you should be happy about finding out something that has been bothering you, yet you are afraid? Take, for example, when you are told your spouse is cheating on you. The news is shocking, and you want to know if it’s true or not, so you set out to find out. You get to the moment of truth, but all of a sudden, you are afraid of knowing, because you know once you know it’ll change everything.
That’s exactly what’s happening to me right now. My heart is hammering, and I can feel sweat trickle down my back. I am terrified of the answers Raven has found out because, deep in the base of my
soul, I feel like knowing it will open a can of worms that neither of us is ready for. I feel like it will open Pandora’s box, and no one will be able to shut it once everything spills out.
“Are you sure?” stupid question, I know, but like I said, I am nervous. I tend to lose my senses when I
am panicking.
She raises her eyebrows. Her face says it all. Are you being serious right now?
I shake myself, trying to get rid of the feeling of foreboding that had currently wrapped its cold tentacles around me. Maybe I just needed to breathe and think positively. I mean, I heard that whatever you think, you attract. I haven’t been having the best of thoughts these past few weeks.
I cross the room and take a seat. Alec, as if he just can’t leave me the fuck alone, comes and sits down
right next to me.
“Please, first tell me where you were the whole of yesterday.”
She must have seen something in my eyes because her eyes narrowed. “What happened?”
“Hybrids”
Alec and I take turns filling her in on everything that happened yesterday. It doesn’t really take that long.
“We did get one thing out of him though,” I say after a minute or so of silence. “He told me that ‘she‘ is coming for me.”
“She? She who?” this comes from Piper.
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I won’t say that I am okay with her because, just like her brother, I am not. Her betrayal hurts more given that she was my best friend. She knew me, yet she chose to side with others and condemn me. I have the urge to ignore her and pretend that she isn’t in the room. One thing I realized about myself is that I am petty, and I won’t apologize for that.
“Focus, darling,” says Nyx in a lazy voice. “We’ll have time to play with her like a little mouse.”
I like the sound of that. Really love the sound of that.
“What’s with the evil smirk?” Micah’s voice breaks through my thoughts.
“Nothing,” I pull myself together.
“Yes, Sadie, who is the ‘She‘?” Rave asks
“I don’t know, but I have two guesses. Either the one who drugged us or the one making the hybrids. It could also be one and the same person, or it could be they are working together.”
I have thought about it since yesterday. I suspected it, but with the confirmation from the hybrid, it made more sense the more I thought about it.
“He said that he hoped she would rip my heart out, meaning for some reason I don’t know this
woman means me harm. If we combine that with the fact that the woman who paid Calvin to drug us also wanted to cause me trouble, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that either they are the same. person or they may be working together.”
“It doesn’t make sense though. Why would she send her hybrids after you now after all these years? You have been killing hybrids since you learned how to fight. Why now and not then?” Raven reasons, her eyes searching mine.
“Something else is going on.” Alec speaks up for the first time since we came back. “I don’t know about you,
but I think something else is up. This looks like something that has been building up for years. Something that she has probably been planning while she bids her time.”
Jason, who was silent, adds. “Alec is right. Like Raven said, it doesn’t make sense that she would just
attack now out of nowhere… And like Alec said, she was biding her time, waiting for something. Whatever it is she was waiting for has probably taken place. That’s why she’s now coming after you.”
To be honest, I am not sure how to feel about that. It’s something that I have struggled with since that hybrid spoke those words.
Sure, I am powerful, but I am not yet confident in my powers. They are still new, and I haven’t even mastered them, yet there is someone seemingly more powerful who is after me for whatever reason. I mean, she can’t be powerless if she is able to create a whole new fucking species.
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My heart rate hits the roof when I think of the possibility of facing off against this enemy. Hybrids are ruthless, so what about their creator? That is the question that keeps ringing in my head. How the hell did my life get so complicated?
The dream I had still haunts me. A tremble passes down my spine as I think of all the ways everything could go wrong. Of all the lives that could be lost, including mine.
Then it hits me. “Oh, my goddess, what if the dream I had was of her? Remember Raven? It was a
woman that killed me. What if it’s the’she‘ the hybrid was talking about?”
Her eyes widen as my words register in her mind. I never saw the woman’s face, and we wondered
who she was and why she would possibly want to kill me. What if I couldn’t see her face because i haven’t met her yet? What if she’s the woman that’s after me?
“If it’s true, then I was right. I wasn’t a dream but a premonition,” her words come out shaky as her
voice cracks.
We both run a hand through our hair at the same time. Now more than ever, I am even more disturbed as pieces finally start to fall into place.
“Wait, I am lost. Dreams? Premonitions? You were killed?” Alec’s voice is tinged with confusion. The
confusion is also on his face and that of the others.
Raven takes a moment to explain what we were talking about because I simply can’t get the words past my lips. My shoulders fall as I feel the weight of the world on them. I feel overwhelmed and messed up.
“Pull yourself together, Sadie” Nyx growls at me, her voice hard and authoritative. “You are my human, and you were never designed to be weak, so much so that this is stressing you. Why the hell are you feeling sorry for yourself instead of finding a fucking solution?”
“Nyx…”
“No! You are Sadie Evans and you are more powerful than you can imagine, Stop whining and cowering like a little girl and start fixing shit.”
For some reason, I feel like she’s given me a slap. A slap to get my brain working. She’s right. I’ve been through hell, and I’ve survived all of it before, so why the hell was I allowing myself to despair?
I shake the despair I was feeling and focus on what needs my attention.
“We can come back to that later.” I pull my shoulders back and straighten my shoulders before turning to Raven. “You said you might have found who the imprisoned person is.”
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Her eyes stare at me for a while, as if searching before she finally answers. “I believe his name is Kaden.”
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