Trinity - Defying Destiny (4 page)

Chapter Six

I must have nodded off because I was woken up by Lachlan shaking me. We were driving down what seemed like a road.  It was all dirt, surrounded by more dirt and then up ahead, lots of grass. As we drove closer, a barn house came into view. The sun beamed down and I started to feel a bit light headed and woozy.

“We will be under cover soon,” Lachlan said in a way of reassurance.

“Why do I feel like this?” I asked, breathless, like I was starting to cook.

“It’s the Vampire side of you,” he said.

“But you seem to be fine, so does Vex,” I pointed out.

“We are used to it,” he replied.

“I thought Vamps could handle the sun?”

“We can, but ultimately the bat was a night creature. You won’t burn to ash, you just won’t feel like yourself until you get used to it,” Vex easily replied.

“Why now?” I asked since I had been in the sun, plenty of times after Lachlan bit me.

“Because you have had your first feed. It activated your vampire side to 100 percent,” Lachlan told me.

“Oh Nikkee. So she will not feel like this?”” I asked more worried about her than myself.

“She will because she was human, you were not,” he said.

“Was I ever?” I asked, quickly adding, “Don’t answer that, I want to at least have some sort of fantasy that won’t be destroyed.”

The car started to slow, as we got closer to the barn house. The place looked run down the closer we got. All the painted timber was pealing and flaking away. The windows at the front had boards nailed into it and the roof looked like it had more rust than a ship sitting at the bottom of the ocean.

Jason’s car turned behind the barn and as we followed behind, we started going down as if driving into a garage that was underground. I looked behind me as the car dropped into the darkness and saw the opening close up.

“That’s pretty cool,” I said, then added, “A barn house, huh. Well the place has charm, I will give it that.”

“Wait till you see the rest of the place before you dismiss it,” Vex said.

“I wasn’t dismissing it. I like it,” I said honestly.

The car stopped and the place lit up as the lights came on.

I opened the car door and hopped out. There were seven other cars in the garage already.

I looked around in awe.

“Who built this place?” I asked.

Jason’s hand grabbed a hold of mine and held it tight. “We have all done some sort of thing to help, but it was mainly Vex and Garth.”

With Jason’s warm hand in mine, I decided to not stay mad for the moment and just enjoy it even if it wasn’t going to last.

“Come, let me give you guys a tour,” came Garth’s deep voice from the doorway on the far side.

My hand tightened around Jason’s as butterflies started to swarm inside me.

“I see you have decided to join our side. Found any humans that will let you bite them?” a familiar voice said.

I looked over to Nikkee and saw Steven the bar guy. He had a huge smile on his face as he walked up to Nikkee.

“Oh, you know, I got tired of being the only human in the bunch,” Nikkee replied matching his smile.

“Human made you appealing, this…” he said, waving his hand up and down signifying all of her, “makes you breathtaking.”

Jason’s hand clenched mine harder. I laughed a little, which got Steven’s attention.

“Hey, how’s it going with all the saving the world stuff?” he asked me.

“Yeah, great,” I replied pulling an unsure face.

“Let’s go,” Jason said and pulled me slightly after him.

“See you later,” I called out.

“Oh, that you will,” he called back.

For a moment, I thought I heard Jason grind his teeth. I decided to ignore it. If he could have his EX ride in his car, then I could have someone say hello to me.

“Where is Chelsi?” I asked, thinking he would be with her.

“She is waiting in the car,” Jason said.

“Waiting for what, an open invitation,” I said with a laugh.

“For us to leave.”

I stopped where I was which made him also. The rest kept walking ahead of us, but Nikkee and Sky both looked back and gave me a small smile.

“What do you mean, leave? We just got here,” I said. I felt small and weak that he would be leaving.

He grabbed both of my hands in his, put them up to his lips, and kissed them.

“I can’t stay,” he said in a sad voice.

“But... I…” I looked away and stared at the wall next to me. I screamed at myself silently in my own head.

I pulled my hands out of his and let them drop to my side.

“Don’t block yourself from me,” he said as he reached out and took my left hand in his again.

“I’m not,” I said in a kind of dead voice.

He gave a small chuckle, “Yeah, you are. Since the servo. I miss it. It feels unusual.”

“Well, now you know how I feel,” I said plainly.

He put his hand under my chin and tilted it up so I would look at him, “Trinity, is this our first fight?” he said with a sexy smirk.

“I didn’t know we were anything to even have any first,” I said flatly. I know, I know, it felt childish as I said it, but come on. After everything I have had to go through, could just one thing be straightforward? No games, no questions with no answers?

His head tilted and his smirk grew bigger, “It’s a wolf thing. Maybe ask her what we are. Some things don’t need to be spoken,” he said.

“Yup, more riddles. What else is new? You have been hanging around Lachlan too long,” I said.

“Trinity.”

I looked away.

“Trinity, look at me,” he demanded.

I did, not because he told me to, but because he was so cute, I just had to.

He laughed.

“Stop that,” I said.

“But you’re really sexy when you’re angry,” he said. Then he turned me around and slowly pushed me backwards. I was going slowly but I looked up to his face and saw his eyes turn a bright green with a hint of blue.

“Your eyes have gone all freaky,” I pointed out still stepping back until my back was against the wall. His chest pushed into mine.

“You should see your own,” he retorted, moving his hand down from my hips to my butt, and lifting me. My legs went around his waist automatically. His lips crushed into mine with a hunger that seemed more animal than human.

Mine.

I kissed him with a passion I never knew I had. My hand went to his neck to hold him with me. He was mine until death tore us apart. I knew deep down that he was going to be faithful forever, because everyone else seemed plain and boring in comparison and I felt the same for him. I always had, I just never let myself know. That was why I had no boyfriends and that was why I flirted only with Mark, because I knew it would go nowhere. It was all because of him. The beast in me had already chosen its lifelong mate.

I broke the kiss this time and just looked into his eyes.

“Still freaky,” I said.

“No wonder Chelsi is terrified of you. I kind of think I am too,” Jason said playfully.

“Oh yeah, do I have you shaking in your boots?”

His body started to shake and then he grinned, “I’m terrified.”

He placed me down. My feet were back on the floor, but I felt like I was floating.

“Do you see now? Do you need to hear it in words?” he asked.

“Maybe,” I replied.

“I will hold on to them for when I get back,” he said. He bent his head back down and kissed me, and then he walked back out through the door.

I sagged a little on the wall and watched where he had just gone. I didn’t want him to go. Not because he was going to be with Chelsi, but rather because I felt empty inside that he would not be close by.

Chapter Seven

Nikkee and Sky were waiting around the corner at the end of the hallway. I felt over the moon, but scared and unsure.

“That was a bit, WOW!” Nikkee said with a huge grin.

I couldn’t help but grin back.

“Yeah.” What else was I going to say?

“Great match, Trin. I always thought you and Jason would go good together,” Sky said giving me a half hug with her arm around my shoulder.

We started walking to catch up with the others.

“Jason had gone to mums and she told him that the police had already been there looking for us all. She said she would not ring in case they were tracing the calls,” Nikkee told me.

“I wondered why she hadn’t called my phone either,” I admitted.

“It was actually my fault again,” Sky said.

“How?” I asked.

“Mark had called my phone. I answered it to give him a peace of my mind,” she said and hung her head slightly feeling bad.

“If he had called my phone I would have done the same,” I told her.

She gave me a small smile.

“Wait till I see him again,” I said through gritted teeth.

“You? Wait until I see him. I gave him my virtue and this is the thanks I get. Going on the run with my best friends, putting others in danger,” she said and tears started streaming down her face.

“Oh Sky,” Nikkee and I both said and then we engulfed her in a huge hug.

She cried and cried; her heart was broken. I couldn’t believe Mark had done that. I had always liked him. Stuck up for him when Nikkee and Sky both hated that he was also my friend, then he does this to her. I really, really wanted to smash his face.

“I just feel so yuck, you know. I should have waited,” she sobbed.

“It’s too late now. You just need to look at the future. I am sure you will find yourself a handsome wolf that will bring you deer and rabbit’s instead of flowers,” I said grinning.

She giggled. “I like the sound of that,” she replied smiling.

“Come on lets go meet some wolf fellas,” Nikkee said and started walking again.

“So your wolf found a mate?” Sky said as a question.

“Yeah, I guess she did, but I feel she had all along,” I said and I felt that was the truth.

“What about your vampire side?” Nikkee asked.

I stopped and looked at them both.

“What do you mean?” I asked a frown creeping over my face.

“Lachlan said that both find mates for life or until they die. You have vampire in you as well,” Sky answered.

I thought for a moment, reached up and held Old Mothers tear in my hand, then answered as best and as truthful as I could. “No, I think my wolf actually wins. I have had it since birth; she simply lay dormant until I was scratched. It didn’t turn me from the scratch, because I was an immortal descendant; it was because my wolf lay inside me, sleeping the whole time.”

“Well that’s creepy and weird. How do you know that?” Nikkee asked.

“Cause I’m all wise and stuff.”

“How has that worked out for you so far?” she retorted with a grin.

“Ask me in a few more months and I will let you know.”

“How does that make Jason your master if he didn’t actually turn you?” Sky asked me.

“I think it could be the same theory as being bitten. He was the one to wake her, therefore, creating her to come up to the surface,” I answered not quite knowing how I knew that.

“Makes sense. There is still so much to learn about it all,” Sky replied.

               We caught up to Garth and Vex. They were waiting for us just outside the door they had walked through. We crossed the threshold and stepped into a hotel check out room. What the hell?

“Umm not what I was expecting, but I will roll with it,” Nikkee said.

My mouth was hanging open slightly as I took in the elaborate furniture, timber walls with trimmed carving and large paintings of three people. Carra, Vex and Garth.

“It is like a hotel because we need to know who is here. No one needs to pay but just sign in,” Vex told us.

“Wow, it’s actually pretty cool,” I said.

“How many rooms does it have?”

“About 50. There are 10 floors below us. The area is quite wide. Some rooms have up to ten beds so we can house more if we need to,” Garth answered.

“Where will all the cars go?” I asked.

“We can hide them. The government doesn’t keep tabs out here with their satellites. It’s too remote and a waste of money to look,” Vex said grinning.

“How did you get all the stuff here without anyone knowing?” I asked still looking around intrigued.

“We just bought our own trucks and brought it in ourselves,” Garth answered.

I couldn’t help but feel awed at what they had done. I looked up at Carra’s picture and smiled.

“We were created to protect Sherra’s people. They no longer needed us and our own kind had turned against us so we built it to protect Sherra’s legacy and Carra’s too. We still watch over the humans and do the police work we can without being detected. Marie accused us of not pulling our own weight and doing what we were created for. We have never stopped. We are no army, we cannot help everyone, but we do what we can,” Garth said with pride.

“I think that it is great!” I whispered smiling at them both.

“How many others come here?” Nikkee asked.

“Up until yesterday, ten people,” Vex answered.

“How many do you have now?” I asked.

“Thirty or so, with more on their way.”

“Why that many?” I asked, yet I think I already knew the answer.

“Some to meet you, but mostly because they are running from the people we were once created to protect.”