Sinful Mates 1-3 novel Chapter 151

　　Evelyn’s POV

　　Thaddeus phones Bianca and we spend around an hour waiting before I hear movement outside. I was sitting on the lounge with Thaddeus and Ryland when the front door opened, and Orion stepped inside. Standing, I go to see Lana when Thaddeus pulls me behind him. Lana walks in cautiously. Looking around the room before her eyes land on me. Her hair was messy, and she was wearing a hospital gown. Her eyes going wide when she saw me and rushes over to me, a little too fast nearly knocking me over. If it weren’t for Thaddeus holding my arm, she would have knocked me to the ground.

　　“Thank god you’re okay” I whisper hugging her back. She sighs deeply squeezing me tightly. Thaddeus I could see was watching her with a strange expression on his face and I could feel his caution through the bond. Orion, I noticed was standing behind her his hand on her shoulder awkwardly like he was worried something was going to happen.

　　Their worry through the bond making me uneasy, why were they acting like that. It was Lana? Orion and Ryland have met her plenty of times, she isn’t like April.

　　Lana steps back and looks around “This place is nice. Do you live here with them?” she asks.

　　I nod, her eyes darting around the room quickly, in fact all her movements seemed jerky and too quick.

　　“Come, I will get you some clothes” I tell her, grabbing her hand. Thaddeus places his hand on my arm stopping me when I went to take her up the stairs.

　　“Orion will get her some clothes” Thaddeus tells me.

　　“Why are you acting like this, it is Lana?” I ask him. His eyes not leaving her.

　　“It’s not safe” Ryland says stepping closer.

　　“I am not going to try and leave again; I am right here” I tell him, but he shakes his head.

　　“We aren’t worried about you doing anything Evie” Ryland says using Lana’s nickname for me.

　　“I’m not going to hurt her” Lana exclaims, shocked by his words, she looked appalled he would even suggest such a thing.

　　“You may not mean to but it’s a chance I won’t take, not with my mate” Thaddeus says pulling me against him.

　　“You’re being ridiculous, Lana won’t hurt me” I tell him, but he doesn’t let go.

　　“I will go with them Thaddeus. Evie will be safe” he says. Thaddeus reluctantly lets me go and I grab Lana’s hand pulling her up the stairs. Orion right on our heels. I rummage through the wardrobe giving her some clothes before following her into the bathroom and shutting the door before Orion’s hand stops it.

　　“Door stays open” he says. Lana looks mortified at his words, as any teenage girl would be.

　　“Not all the way just so I don’t have to knock it down if something were to happen” he says confusing me. I turn the shower on for her, and Lana gets undressed. She seemed different almost perfectly fine, like nothing happened.

　　Sitting up on the sink basin. Lana hops in the shower. I noticed her chest was covered in blood under the gown and she had a scar where her heart would be.

　　“Are you okay?” I ask her, Lana’s head whipping to me so fast, she nearly gave me whiplash just watching how quick she moved.

　　“Yeah fine“ she says her voice almost melodious.

　　“So, what happened?”

　　“I don’t really remember, child services got involved. April had been acting strange the past week and I was staying in a motel near the hospital, I was visiting Dad and she came in crying hysterically. Saying these horrible things that dad raped you, that he was sick in the head. She was waving his gun around. Dad tried to get her to calm down. I heard a bang and Dad fell off the bed and I saw blood pooling and the next thing I know; I heard the gun go off again, felt like I was punched in the chest. Then I woke in the morgue that’s when I rang you” she tells me.

　　I hated the way Lana called him Dad, hated that she had an attachment to the vile man, but I also understood he was good to her, she never saw the parts of him I did.

　　“Orion wouldn’t tell me if they were okay, he brought me here. Said I couldn’t go home, said that I was vampire now. Pretty cool don’t you think? I love the vampire diaries“ she says excitedly. Her attitude shocked me. So unfeeling, like she didn’t know the people who raised her, like she had no connection or emotion at all.

　　“Is it true what mum said, did dad really do that?” she asks. I cringe at the word feeling disgusted hearing it leave her mouth.

　　“Yes Lana, what April said was true” I tell her. She looks at me.

　　“But your over it right? You’re good now?” she asks. Her words shocking me. Was this the same Lana I knew? What happened to me is not something you get over, you just live with it, deal with it or in my case not deal with it, thanks to Thaddeus who dealt with it for me.

　　I say nothing. “So, what about mum, did she get arrested?” Lana asks and my lungs restrict. She didn’t know. She didn’t know they were dead.

　　“Lana…”

　　Orion pops his head in the door and shakes his head and presses his fingers to his lips. He didn’t want me to tell her.

　　“I am not sure,” I tell her turning back to her. She was washing her hair. Why was I lying to her? What was going on. I had so many thoughts racing through my head and nothing was making sense, Lana’s strange behaviour, Thaddeus sudden distrust of her.

　　Suddenly the water turns off. I hand her a towel. She steps out, wrapping it around herself, the room full of steam.