Evelyn POV
Waking up, I was laying with my head on Thaddeus' chest. I sat up suddenly, the events of last night coming back to me, though the memory was a little fuzzy.
Thaddeus was watching me, a strange look on his face. "Morning" comes Rylands voice from my other side making me look over at him. Orion was sitting on the end of the bed, also staring intently at me.
"Where is Mara?" I ask nervously, not liking the silence as they stared. The feeling coming from them made me anxious.
"With my mother" Thaddeus says. I nod about to climb off the bed when Ryland grips my wrist tugging me back to where I was. I felt caged, backed into a corner being eaten alive by their judging eyes. I fucked up, I knew I fucked up.
"Don't run," Ryland says before letting my wrist go.
"You are not to leave this house for the next three days" Thaddeus says.
He can't be serious, can he? They weren't seriously grounding me like some disobedient kid? I go to say something when Thaddeus cuts me off with one finger in the air, making me shut my mouth.
"You have betel nut and jimson weed in your system, which means for the next 72 hours you can be compelled, so you will be staying home for the next 3 days to be safe no arguments" Thaddeus says.
"Because I took ecstasy, I am grounded?" I ask incredulously, I am not a child.
"No, because you are at risk of being compelled again, that is why" Thaddeus answers.
"Again?" I ask, remembering the weird voice I kept hearing. I thought, I wasn't sure what I thought but thinking back I know it felt wrong.
"Yes, unless you're telling me that man's voice that was in your head was your own consciousness, then yes you were compelled, but that doesn't explain why you were on mainstreet. I specifically told you to stay away from there"
"I didn't know that's where she was taking me" I argued back.
"That may be true Evelyn but you knew you weren't to go there, you should have said no and came home, same as when she offered you drugs, you are an adult that just made childish decisions"
"I'm not listening to this, I am not going to be scolded like a fucking child" I tell them getting up and heading for the door. Just as I was about to walk out the door suddenly slammed in my face. Orion beside me in an instant. An angry look on his face before he points back to the bed.
"Sit down!" He snaps at me and I roll my eyes at him about to go around him when he steps in my way, his arms folded over his chest as he looks down at me.
"Don't test me, Evelyn. I am not in the mood" he warns me, his eyes turning crimson.
"Now Evelyn" Ryland says from the bed. I turn around looking at them.
"Stop saying my.name like that" I hated when they used my whole name, it irritated me and I knew I was in shit when they did it. Ryland raises an eyebrow at me and Thaddeus shakes his head before looking at the ceiling, putting his head back on the wall behind him.
"Do I have to count?" Thaddeus says.
"I'm not a child" I tell him. What's he going to do count to 3 and if I don't what I am told is he going to spank me.
"Don't act like one and I won't treat you like one, now sit down we aren't done speaking" he says looking over at me.
"Oh I am so done speaking, I won't be stood over by you 3" I tell him.
"1!" He counts and I fold my arms across my chest defiantly, he won't do shit. I thought to myself.
"2!" He says and Orion nudges me forward.
"Want me to count the last one for you?" I ask. When he suddenly gets up, my heart skips a beat. He steps toward me, and I could feel his frustration. He reaches for me and suddenly I don't want to know what happens after 3.
"Fine, fine I will sit down" I tell him, stepping back only to bump into Orion behind me. He leans down his voice next to my ear.
"Bed is over there" he says, nudging me forward with his hand. Thaddeus stares at me waiting expectantly. I walk past him sitting back on the bed. Ryland reaches over grabbing my waist and yanking me to the centre and Thaddeus sits back down.
I groan becoming annoyed.
"Don't be getting annoyed Evelyn you never walked in on any of us screwing around" Orion says from where he was leaning on the wall next to the door.
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