leave us now and he is not welcome here.” Ulrich hissed as he surges to his feet. “Papa he is my mate you cannot separate us now, you know that.” Ada quaked knowing what she said was true but knew her father was not listening. “Sir, please let me introduce myself. I am Leon.” Leon stated as he stood a little taller in the doorframe and stretched his hand out to her father. “I don’t care who you are you cannot have her!” Ulrich seethed as he made his way towards Ada. He slammed his fist in her face. Leon gasped at what he just witnessed and went to move in front of her. Ulrich was faster though and pushed him out of the house slamming the door shut. Ulrich locked the door and then stalked towards Ada once more. Ada saw him coming and ran to her room closing the door and locking it. She was trying to get out the window when Ulrich broke the door open and grabbed her feet. He pulled hard and slung her by her feet across the room. Ada slammed into the wall then fell to the ground hard feeling a little dizzy. She got up and tried to run out of the room even though her head was on fire. Ulrich surged forward and snagged her by her long black hair. He flung her across the room again sending her flying towards the wall with the one window in the room. She slammed into the window breaking the glass. The glass shards cut into her face and neck. Ada felt the burn and sting of the cuts but all she saw on the other side of the window was Leon’s worried face. With the window shattered she heard him yelling for her. Her voice would not work however and she wanted to yell at him to go, to leave her to die knowing that this was the end for her. Ulrich stomped over to the bloody mess of her. He grabbed a jagged shard of broken glass and stabbed her with it in the stomach. He then threw her lifeless body out the window. Tossing out the remains of the only woman left who wanted to leave him. When he was done he went back out to the table and sat there in wait for his son to come home. Things had changed and he needed to let the boy know. They would also be packing up and moving now that the town would be dying in just a few days. He was only home early because he had infected the last one earlier than expected today.
Chapter 3
Sleeping Giants The nightmare Kaiden had envisioned and spoke of earlier was now a real thing, just with a different person. In one conversation a woman who he thought of as family and trusted, had twisted that trust into an uncomfortable thing. The nightmare had just become a living thing. Kaiden lay in bed worried about this new twist that fate has brought them. Leon had pulled the soul mate bond away from Ada and it latched on to Sarah all by itself, like it was meant to be there in the first place. Ada had moved out into the barracks and Kaiden had made sure to take some precautions before he went to bed. But the worry would not leave him. He had a gut feeling that something more needed to be done about the situation he just didn’t know what that was. “Kaiden, why are you tossing so much? What is bothering you?” Zoe asked groggily “I feel like there is something more we need to do and I just don’t know what that is. But what I said at dinner about how I would feel if Aldrich was living in this house. Well now I feel that way only it’s because of his sister and not him. It doesn’t feel right.” He explained “Then you need to do something about that. You know what your ability is right?” “No I haven’t really figured it out yet.” He responded and little confused at why she would ask that. “Honey you are a natural leader with a strong intuition. Marsali told me that you are mostly never wrong, if you just listen to yourself.” Zoe told him and she sat up in bed and turned towards him. She was fully awake now. “Well then I need to go wake Alexi and Gosha and speak with them about what I am thinking. Angel I don’t want you to think