“Let’s get going, it’s almost night time and I don’t want to be ambushed by thirsty demon eyed vampires. Your eyes changed color by way, like a few seconds ago.” Anthony says to me.
“You’re right Anthony. They are icy blue like the vampire that bit Hunter.” Sabrina says and I run to the nearest mirror to check for myself.
And indeed, they have changed. I love them.
“I love them!” I say enthusiastically and Hunter’s face goes grim.
“Your eyes changed because of the venom inside of you. You now belong to that certain family and Anthony needs to take you to them. Sabrina and I killed all of them but one. He is a prince so if anyone asks what family you belong to, just say you are from the house of Wordsworth.” Hunter explains to me.
“And what would be this prince’s name?” I ask and Sabrina looks down quickly. Guilt?
“Evan!” Hunter calls out as mother fusses over my lack of warm clothing.
“You called?” Evan asks.
“Do you have the name of the prince that bit me?” Hunter asks and Evan nods his head yes.
“I believe his name is Thomas. Thomas Wordsworth.” Evan responds and I see Sabrina look up.
“Josey, please be careful around him if you ever see him. He promised to kill my family because I killed his. When he finds out that you and I are related, I don’t know what he will do. You are stronger than him so that eases things but never trust anyone that has a heart filled with hate.” Sabrina says to me.
“Okay. Why do I feel like there’s more to this story?” I ask looking between Hunter and Sabrina.
“I passed out after being bitten and Sabrina brought me back here. The last thing I remember is throwing that blood sucking tick off of me.” Hunter says and I turn my attention to Sabrina.
“After he bit Hunter, I went crazy and burnt his family alive in front of him. My ear piece fell out and he used his compulsion so I don’t move as he uttered words of vengeance to me.” Sabrina says to me. I nod my head in understanding but I’m not done with this one just yet.
Anthony takes my hand as everyone says their goodbyes. We first land on human territory, right in front of a tattoo parlor.
We walk in to find a lady with pink hair and a big smile on her face upon seeing Anthony.
“Hello Fiona. This is my sister, Josey. She needs that sun tattoo I told you about.” Anthony says and Fiona jumps out of her chair to kiss Anthony’s cheek.
“Hi.” She says to me without turning to look at me. Humans are so rude!
“I see you’re the only good looking one in your family.” She says as her hand touches his arm.
Barf.
“You know, you have to look at me to greet me and why do I need to get a tattoo from rude girl over here? I’m sure there are plenty of tattoo parlors around here.” I say.
Fiona turns to look at me, her smile long gone.
“I’m the only one that can do the tattoo on you. You’re not human so you think a normal ink tattoo will work on you?” She says to me confidently.
“I’m well aware that my body will heal the tattoo since I’m no human but you are…” I say.
I walk up to her, standing eye to eye with her.
“… And do best to remember that you are human and one more rude comment from you will have you squeezed like a lemon. I don’t like lemons.” I say as she tries to keep calm.
“Okay ladies let’s play nice.” Anthony says and Fiona’s smile returns as she turns to give her attention to Anthony.
I pull her back to me.
“If you don’t want to do this then don’t but don’t think for a second that Anthony will stop me from snapping your neck. He is not fast enough to do so and he will go back to being a werewolf, with the love of his life and make babies.” I say. Okay I know low blow but Anthony is not the only good looking one in this family!
“Love of your life?” Fiona asks Anthony. He throws me an annoyed look and I just roll me eyes.
“There’s nothing like that. My sister is just upset and you were being a little rude to a paying customer.” Anthony says and I smile triumphantly.
“Let’s just get this over with.” Fiona says as we follow her to the back of the store. I sit on the old, worn out chair.
“How about getting new chairs, this one is done for.” I say and Fiona scoffs.
“Sorry to disappoint you princess but we all don’t have the means to just pop money on whatever is worn out.” Fiona says to me and this time I scoff.
“This is your business. It will only generate more income if your heart and soul is in it. I may come from wealth but I know that what you invest in to your business, you’ll get the return too. Your whole look is perfect but your store needs work, that’s all I’m saying.” I say and she just rolls her eyes at me.
She takes almost an hour to do the small cute sun tattoo on my wrist.
Once done, we make our way to the front of the store, where she gives me the bill.
“400 for this small thing?” I ask. What in the daylight robbery is this?
“I’ll pay.” Anthony offers and I let him.
“Thank you Ant. Thanks for bringing me business too.” Fiona says.
“Ant will be bringing you a new chair too. Give him a few days.” I say as I walk out.
Anthony walks out a few minutes later, annoyed at me.
“Why would you say that?” Anthony asks me and I chuckle.
“Well, Ant, you are using her and I don’t like it when men use women so you’ll be sending her that chair and more! Do I need to use compulsion?” I ask and Anthony moves a few steps back.
“No no. Calm down. You know me buying her store furniture will only grow her feelings for me.” He tells me and I nod my head yes.
“You should’ve thought about that before jumping in to anything with her. We are capable of doing friends some favors too. You don’t need to flirt with us to get what you want.” I say as I grab his hand, waiting to be whisked away.
We disappear off and land on a very icy pavement. Anthony looks at my shoes.