Evelyn’s POV
Hanging up the phone, I go do some washing, hanging out the last piece on the clothesline when I feel cold hands touch my shoulders making me jump with fright.
“Geez, don’t sneak up on people” I turn around and tell Orion. He runs his hands down my arms before I bend down picking up the empty basket.
“What did you do today?” Orion asks as we are walking inside.
“Nothing much, washing, spoke to Lana” I tell him not realising Ryland and Thaddeus on the back porch listening.
“How did you speak to Lana, Evelyn?” Thaddeus growls out as I reach the top step. I roll my eyes at his angry tone only for him to grip my chin forcing me to look up at him. He presses his lips together.
“There is this thing called a phone, you know sends signals to a satellite in the sky allowing you to speak to people” I tell him, and he growls at my sarcasm.
Thaddeus grips my chin tighter, a little too tight making me smack his hand away from my face, pushing past him he grips my arm above my elbow. “Hand it over” he says holding his other hand out.
“No, Thaddeus I am not going to stop talking to her just because of April” I tell him ripping my arm away from him, only to be ripped backwards as he yanks me back with an arm around my waist pulling me against his chest. His voice deadly calm yet, I could feel his anger surging through the bond.
“I am not in the mood today to put up with your tantrums, now give me the phone.”
“Thaddeus leave her alone, she isn’t doing anything wrong,” Ryland tells him, stepping forward but Thaddeus refuses to let go instead starts rummaging through the pockets of my shorts until he finds it. He lets me go flicking through my phone before handing it back to me and I see he has deleted and blocked her number. I try to undo it, but it comes up I need to put in the password he added.
I hand it back to him and he takes it. “Keep it,” I tell him walking off pissed off with him.
“It’s for your own good, Evelyn,” Thaddeus tells me, and I ignore his words instead walking into the laundry and chucking the basket in the corner before walking upstairs and locking the door.
I don’t see what the problem is. Lana is fourteen and no threat to me. One thing I do know is, that none of them will take me to see her, so that leaves only option two. Find Thaddeus keys, but I feared his wrath if I went against him. Hearing a knock on the door before hearing Orion’s voice just as I lay down on the bed.
“It is only me.”
He says and I get up off the bed and unlock the door. Orion comes in shutting the door before laying on his back next to me. “He just worries about you” Orion states rolling on his side and propping his head up on his elbow.
“Doesn’t mean he can be jerk,” I tell him.
“He is just on edge; the magic is tainting him.”
“But he hasn’t been using it.” Orion brushes my hair behind my ear before kissing my forehead.
“He doesn’t have to, it’s the magic in general. Using it makes it worse. He feels destructive therefore wants to destroy things himself.”
“Did he destroy anything while you were gone?” I ask.
“No because he knows you would have heard about it on the news or radio, but he doesn’t know what to do with it but bottle it up, which will just make it worse” Orion tells me, and I look away and sigh. How the hell are you supposed to help someone that actually needs the destruction that gets him in trouble.
“Don’t think too much about it, Ryland and I will figure something out to help him” Orion says, and I nod.
“Did he kill anybody?” Orion shakes his head.
“No, but he needs to feed, his bloodlust is making him worse.”
“Fine then,” I tell him getting up.
“No, not you, Evelyn. Not when he is like this. Ryland is going to let him,” Orion says grabbing my arm.
“He can feed off Ryland?” I ask wondering how that works with him being Lycan.
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