Chapter 146


    Alora’s POV


    Our luggage was taken by the bell hops to be stored in our cars, we were taking a limo to the


    restaurant, after breakfast we would return to the Hotel for our vehicles. The girl Sunny River McKnight,


    came down in an oversized ck t-shirt and a pair of army green cargo pants and ck Doc Martins.


    Around her neck was a thin ck ribbon with a white crystal hanging from it. She had all her curly hair


    up in a high tail, a few of the curly strands were free, refusing to be contained. With her hair up I could


    see her ears were not pierced, and they were faintly tipped at the tops.


    That was usually the mark of a Dragon Master, bringing Selena and Xena forward, we take in her scent


    to see what we could find. After analyzing her scent, we found she smelled almostpletely human,


    but their was just a faint trace of something else, something that I couldn’t ce. 3


    “Damien…smell the girl and tell me what you get.” I say through mind link.


    Damien takes in a breath and is silent for a moment. While I was waiting I observed the girl more, she


    seemed shy this morning, a little withdrawn. She was practically hiding behind Asher, and Asher was


    looking a little helpless about what to do. Looking at the worry on Asher’s face, and the gentle care he


    took with the girl, I suddenly had questions. Was the girl attached to Asher because he was the one


    who saved her, or was there something more at y.


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    Damien’s mind link startled me from my thoughts “She is not one hundred percent human, maybe sixty


    to eighty percent, but there is something ancient, very ancient in her blood, older than the Werewolves,


    the Vampires, older than the Witches and Dragon Masters even.” He tells me.


    “What do you think it is?” I asked him.


    “It not being Dragon Master, only leaves one species, one that’s left our world for their own long ago.”


    he says grimly.


    “Elves, your talking about elves” I said, surprised. O


    “Darling mate, you know very well the word Elves is an insult to what those beings were, the


    Sidhe….are much more than Elves” He says. 2


    I knew, and was sorry I had used the term for them the moment I had. “But how?…Both the Seelie and


    the Unseelie Courts took all their people when they departed this ne for another, and they sealed all


    the entrances to and from that ne, after the War that nearly obliterated the ck Magic Coven.”


    “Clearly, they were either not all taken to the Fae world, or some continue toe and go from our


    world.” He said.


    I decided I was going to wait till we were in the limo to ask her some questions, for now I greet the girl


    with a friendly smile and offer her a warm hug. “I’m d your up and walking.” Leaning back, my hand


    on her upper arms I ask “How are you this morning, did Asher get everything you needed?” I asked her.


    She nces to the side at Asher as soon as I mention his name, blushing she nods. “Asher went and


    picked up all my things from….that house.” she said thest quietly. I bring her back for another hug,


    feeling like she needed it. 2


    The limo gets there and I wrap an arm around her shoulders and lead her with me to sit next to me in


    the limo, Damien sat on my other side, and Asher sat next to him. It seemed Asher wanted to talk to


    Damien about something, probably the girl.


    “I’m going to apologize now if I seem rude, but we Werewolves are nosey by nature.” I start, getting a


    giggle from the girl.


    “Your ears, do you know which parent you got them from?” I asked her.


    A sad smile came over her face. “My dad…my real dad.” she says.


    “If you don’t mind me asking….can you tell me a little of your families history, and how it was you got to


    be here?” I asked her. 2


    She looks hesitant at first, then resigned. “My mom and dad were a very happily married couple. My


    dad had gotten the shape of his ears from his great, great grandmother, she was born out of wedlock,


    and it was said the man she had been with came from another world.” she lets out a smallugh. “Of


    course everyone thought she was crazy…anyway, every child since her has had pointed tipped ears.”


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    “What happened to your father?” I asked her.


    She gets a far away look on her face. “There was an explosion, an engine failed on arge cargo


    ne, and while he was visiting his family at their homestead….the ne crashed into the field next to


    their house….they should have been okay….but whatever was being carried in that cargo ne


    caused a huge explosion, leveling ten houses and killing everyone inside them.” her voice bes a


    little chocked up, her pain over her loss still very evident. 2


    “I was only eight when it happened, everything was lost, and because it was a government


    ne….everything was hushed up, and my mom was left with nothing. We lost the house dad had


    bought when the balloon payment on it came a year after he died. Mom was working two jobs just to


    afford my schooling, but it was bing hard on her. That’s about the time she met Michael, my step


    father, I was eleven, she married him and everything was great at first, then he lost his job.” she


    stopped for a moment and swallowed. I grabbed a water from the lin


    wallowed. I grabbed a water from the limo’s fridge and hand it to her


    She takes a drink then continued “He started drinking, after a while when he drank he would get violent


    and hit my mother. At first she would believe his apologies, but after awhile she stopped believing in


    them. She had been back to working two jobs to bring in money, but he would drink it away as soon as


    it came in. When the eviction notice came in that was herst straw, she had packed mine and her


    belongings and told him we were leaving.” Tears are now shining in the corners of her eyes, and my


    heart is breaking for this little girl and her mother.


    “They had been arguing about it at the top of the stairs, then I heard a p and my mother cry out, I


    rushed into the hallway in time to see her tumble down the stairs. Her neck broke during the fall, so did


    her back, one of her legs, and an arm.” She stops again, her tears now falling down her cheeks. Her


    shoulders shake in silent sobs.


    I pull her into my arms and hug her. “I started screaming and couldn’t stop,” she lets out a sob. “My


    mother looked like a broken doll there on the floor.” more sobs escape her. “He came running down the


    stairs in a panic, about the time he reached me I had fainted.” she lifts up out of my arms and takes a


    few gulps of the water. “When I woke up, I was in a hospital room, I was told my mother’s death had


    been ruled as a tragic ident, that she had tripped and fallen down the stairs.”


    She is quiet a moment “When I got out of the hospital and went to the Police to tell them the truth,


    Michael yed the poor stepfather who’s stepdaughter was only ming him because she couldn’t


    handle her mothers tragic ident.” her fists clenched together, I could see a deep anger inside her


    now. “I’m lucky… I guess…in a way…my mother had a life insurance policy, and that my school was


    one of the ces to receive the payout, it paid for the rest of my high school education.” she said.


    She sniffs and I get a tissue for her, she blows her nose. “I graduated early, and was supposed to


    receive the remaining funds, but my stepfather got ahold of them first, and spent it all on booze.” she


    said. This made me angry for her. “What little money I’ve managed to hide from him was to get me on a


    bus to whichever University could offer me the best schrship.” she downs thest of the water in the


    bottle. “Lucky for me it was the University in your Pack that I was given eptance into.” she says the


    When she smiles it’s like sunshine, I wanted to make sure the girl would have more reasons to smile. A


    few momentster we pull up outside the Restaurant my mom wanted to take us to. Stepping out I look


    at the restaurant, the ce looked like a small Ivy and rose covered Castle withrge surrounding floral


    garden and a forest after the gardens. The pathway was a mix of cobble stone andrge t hexagon


    stepping stones set at walking intervals.


    Sunny, standing next to me said “Wow.”


    Wow was right, then I was distracted from the sight by my mates mind link. “Uh dear… I think I’ve


    broken your brother.” He says.


    Confused on to how he would ‘break’ one of my brothers, I asked “Which one?”


    “Asher,” he says.


    “How did you break him?” I asked, starting to feel amused.


    “Asher asked me if the girl was one of his mates” He tells me.


    Oh… “And?” I asked.


    “She is, but she’s not of age yet. He only feels a protective pull and a slight attraction for now, he won’t


    feel the bond tie them together until she reaches her majority.” he informed me.


    Happy and stunned, as well as amused and sympathetic, I say. “Oh…well…. just find a way to bring


    him in with us, he’ll snap out of it eventually….I hope” 2