Sinful Mates 1-3 novel Chapter 24

　　Waking to sound of whispers, I am laying on a bed in a room I have never seen before. Heavy red patterned drapes hang from the windows. I could feel the soft breeze coming in, sweeping over my skin lightly. The ceiling is high too high for anyone to reach without a ladder. What a bastard it would be to change the lightbulbs on the lights fixture hanging from the ceiling. Looking down, I am covered with grey duvet tucked tightly around me, making me feel claustrophobic. I wriggle my arms out. I feel like someone made the bed not realising I was under the blankets. Sitting up, I look around the room, it is huge. The bed is four poster bed with a canopy on top that matches the thick curtains. A huge bear skin rug is on the floor of the room, and it has a huge fireplace bigger than I am. A brown curved lounge sits in front of it. The stone walls fit perfectly with the mahogany and red cedar furniture. The room looks like something more fitting of a castle than a house. I look to the door which is slightly ajar and where the fast whispers of voices can be heard.

　　I strain my ears to listen. I could tell it was the same feminine voice of the woman from the office. She sounded angry and was arguing with a man who’s voice I couldn’t recognise.

　　“I will give you month, Tobias, Theo. Fix it, or I will. Whatever it is you have going on with that girl needs to end. Why you would you even think of doing this is beyond me.”

　　“She is our Mate, what did you expect us to do? Ignore her?” Tobias whisper yelled back, his voice rising.

　　“Precisely, you should have left her alone to go about her life and forgot about her. You know the consequences for bringing a human into our world. You have condemned that girl now to a fate she has no idea about.”

　　“If you really loved her like your mate, you wouldn’t have allowed this to happen. I thought you would have known better than to put her life at risk, Tobias.” I could hear the anger in the strange man’s voice.

　　“One month like your father said. One month either you convince her, or we will have no choice but to kill her. We can’t risk being exposed. The council will have your heads if they find out you broke the most sacred law we have.”

　　“And if she says no?” asks Theo.

　　“She dies. We can’t have a human, running around knowing all our secrets. It’s too risky.” The woman’s voice sounded tired drained.

　　“No, I won’t allow it,” Tobias screamed. His voice breaking, hurting my ears.

　　“Either she chooses, or you choose for her, Tobias. I won’t risk our family. If you don’t fix this, I will kill her myself,” the man says.

　　I gasped, fear consuming me. They are going to kill me.

　　“Shh, she is waking.” The man’s voice grew softer. I heard the door creak. I quickly laid back down pretending to be asleep. The door closed again, and I looked up. I needed to get the fuck out of here. As quietly as possible, I walk to the open window and peer outside. I am about three floors up but there are vines wrapping around the stonework of the house and another roof of an outbuilding just below. If I can get to that roof, I know I can find a way down to the ground.

　　Opening the window wider and as quietly as I could, I slipped my top half out the window, grabbing onto the thick vines before climbing out completely. I swallowed, my mouth becoming dry as I look down at the roof top below me, trying as best I could, I tried to climb down the vine, but the skirt I had on was making it extremely difficult. I tried to get a better grip and slipped, falling the couple of metres onto the rooftop below with a loud crash as the tiles broke underneath me.

　　Knowing someone would have heard that, I get up quickly before tearing the side of my skirt up my leg to make it easier to run. Looking up at the window, the woman stuck her head out, noticing me on the roof. I panicked and looked around I had no choice but to jump, my so-called quiet exit suddenly now seemed loud, as I have been discovered.