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"We went to the Motel," I blurted in a rush and every eye in the place turned on me. And none of them were happy, and Tyson was one of them. I had started this so I would finish it. "Chucky wasn't the only one staying there with the Council. Annabell has been staying with them too."
This had everyone but Tyson and Rain sucking in angry breaths. If I didn't hurry they were going to blow and poor Tyson would be the one to take that hit.
"She's been harassing Tyson for a while now," I rushed out and this time their angry eyes moved from me to Tyson. All except for Rain who stayed watching me. "He didn't tell anyone except for me because he wanted to take care of it, of her on his own because he felt responsible for what she did the last time she came around. He told me about it and I made him promise we would work together to take care of her. Last night we went out to the motel and handled that. Th-"
Quinton cut me off. His voice was low, angry and bordered on hostile. "Youhandledit? What the fuck does that even mean?"
Oh boy. This was not promising.
"No," I said and watched his head jerk to the side. "I actually handled nothing. I mostly watched as Tyson handled it. I'm fairly confident though that the problem has been solved and she'll no longer be bothering any of us."
I actually wasn't confident about that last part at all, but Tyson had seemed confident and I had decided to put my trust in him and roll with it. If he said the threat had been neutralized, then who was I to tell him different? Besides, confidence was everything and if I faked it enough for Uncle Quint then maybe he wouldn't kill Tyson or anyone else today and we could get back to talking about Marcus.
"Anyways," I said, and his mouth opened and I just knew he was going to interrupt me so I spoke as fast as I could, spewing out words at an alarming rate. "That's done. We are moving on from it. Now, about Chucky. He may or may not be dead. We didn't stick around to find out because I was supposed to be invisible, but I screamed, and we were worried someone heard me and we didn't want to be there when people came out to check and see what all the fuss was. So we got the heck out of there. As for what happened to him... well, we'll just say he took a bad fall and there was a lot of blood. I've only seen one person before who was dead and since that's not going to make me an expert on the subject I didn't know what signs to look for. Also, we were running, and it didn't allow for us to get up close and personal with him. And that's that."
Quinton crossed his arms over his chest and glared at me.
"That's that?" He sneered. He shook his head and turned his burning gaze on his nephew. "What the fuck were you thinking?"
Not good and getting worse by the second.
"He was thinking he felt guilty for what happened with Annabell in the past and wanted to do what he could to make sure she didn't hurt any one of you in the future," I replied for Tyson hotly. "He also didn't want you going in there and doing something unfortunate to her that would backfire and cause the Council to turn on you all, turn on us."
"They wouldn't-"
This time it was me who cut him off. "They're sleeping with her, Quinton. They want to see if they can get her pregnant and they wouldn't like you or anyone else doing something to get in the way of that. What Ty did made her forget and didn't do anything to harm her body. It's really no bid deal, Quinton and it's been taken care of. Nothing to freak out about."
That last part was a lie. It was a really big deal to me, the whole thing had been, but I was trying to hide the fact it had freaked me right the heck out from them because I didn't want to get left behind if Tyson or one of them decided they needed another partner in crime.
"Who is this Annabell?" Rain asked, and I was glad he did because it drew the attention away from Tyson.
"She's a female witch," Damien told him and I noticed he didn't look angry at all. He was looking at Tyson with an appreciative light in his eyes. "Some of us were involved with her. She's a bitch, tried to fuck us over and almost destroyed our family. I'm glad she's the Council's problem now and I for one and grateful to my brother for taking care of that little problem for us."
"Damien," Quinton growled. "You can't be serious."
"I am, Quint. And you should be too." Damien focused on Ty and my breath caught in my throat at what I saw in his eyes. "I'm sorry my brother and I'll talk to Jules. We'll let it go, I promise. It shouldn't have dragged on for this long and I'm sorry for that as well. But, I'm glad it was you who did it and if she resurfaces I'm volunteering myself right now to be the one who goes with you to deal with her. It should be either myself or Jules who goes with you because you're not the only one who harbors guilt over what she did, we both do."
"It's done," Tyson said in a rough voice. "You don't need to apologize. We're done with her and that's that."
That's that, he'd said. Now he was stealing my lines. I hoped they worked better for him than they had me.
"Sounds like you two had a busy night," Rain muttered.
My head turned to him and his eyes were shining bright and on me.
"Do you want to be like this Annabell?" He asked me in a serious voice.
My head tipped to the side in confusing as I studied him. When I couldn't figure out what he meant, I asked, "What do you mean? Of course I don't want to be like her, she's horrible."
And that was definitely no lie.
Rain nodded once. "Then, like I was saying, you need to fake it for the Council. Make them think you're the perfect little witch who is studying magic with her coven and learning the ways and maybe they will go away. I will also encourage you to maybe pick one of your coven members to officially marry. That way you will be tied up nice and tight with them and even the Council won't want to rip you away from them, too much paperwork."
My body strung tight as his words and I stared at Rain as if he'd sprouted a second head.
"I'm seventeen," I breathed out. "I don't want to get married."
"This actually works for me," Quinton said happily and my head swung to him in time to see him flash Rain a smile.
