“I don’t know everything. I just overheard him talking about getting his hands on her. Something to do with her mother,” he sighs and looks at me.
“How does he even know about her?” Colt snaps like its Darren’s fault. I mean, it could be. But why?
“I don’t know. I never mentioned anything about her, but you need to keep her safe. He was talking about your unparalleled beauty, and how you look just like your mother.”
“I don’t even know who my mother was,” I tell him, and he stares at me for a minute before something clicks in my mind. “Oh my God,” I gasp and Colt turns me around to look at him.
“What, babe? What’s wrong?” He looks worried. He probably should be.
“The guy from yesterday. He looks familiar because he’s an older version of Darren with hair,” I state simply.
What the hell could his father want with me? And how is it related to my mother? I don’t understand any of this.
“You saw him?” Darren asks, looking between all of us.
“We more than saw him,” Colt growls, and pulls me against his chest. I feel Bry running his hand over my shoulder and giving it a squeeze.
“He threatened her yesterday. Told her a beautiful girl like her should never be alone because you never know what people are capable of,” Bry explains, and Darren growls.
“FUCK!” He looks angry. “He hasn’t been himself in a while. I swear to fuck he’s lost his damn mind, and I have no idea why. We aren’t really close. He’s psychotic, but more than normal lately.”
“That would mean both sides are watching him. If he’s unstable, he’s a wild card,” Bry states, and I look at him.
“Usually, yes, but not with him. He’s mortal.” We all look at him, so he explains. “We come from a long line of shifters but for some reason he was born without powers.”
“What the actual fuck? How does that even happen?” Colten really isn’t happy right now.
The grouchy asshole cares about me a lot more than he ever wanted to, and he’s not used to it.
“So, you’re saying I’m not safe?” I ask him, pulling away from Colten, and Darren looks at me with sympathy.
“I don’t think so. Not if you’re alone.” He looks from me to the guys. “That’s why I came here to warn you. I heard him talking to someone this morning. He may not have powers, but he’s devious and has zero morals, so be careful.”
I just nod at him. I don’t really know how to process all of this before I’ve even had coffee.
Some psycho wants me for some unknown reason because he had an obsession with my birth mother.
Great.
“Thank you.”
He nods and then leaves. He’s really not a chatty person.
“What the hell are we supposed to do with that information?” Colten looks to Bry, and him and I answer at the same time.
“Call David.”
“Call Dad.”
21
Harleigh
Do you know how hard it is to sleep when you know there’s a psycho after you?
It’s impossible until your body is so exhausted you just crash. That’s exactly how we’ve been functioning the past few weeks, and it’s wearing us down.
Logically, we know I’m safe at Connerton, but it doesn’t ease the panic we feel about my life being in danger.
My parents and Addy are left unprotected, and that doesn’t sit well with me.
David made a trip to my parents to tell them to be careful, but the chances of this guy going after them are slim, according to David.
He thinks he will wait until he can get to me because even though he’s mortal, he still has to answer to our world, and harming innocents is a no go for both sides.
I never realized how complicated the supernatural politics would be, and it’s definitely something that I’m going to continually be learning.
David hasn’t been able to find out much about the reason why this creep wants me, and that freaks me out. But they can’t do anything about him without proof, and Darren overhearing a conversation is just hearsay.
So, we do what we can to hone my skills and powers almost every night after school, and that helps drain us enough to sleep. Colt is even teaching me some self-defence moves in case the creep gets close.
Apparently, it’s unethical to use my powers on a mortal unless my life is in actual danger, and I’m not allowed to kill them without serious consequences.
“Come on, babe, you can do better than that. Channel your energy and push me over!” Colt has decided that I need to work on my telekinesis to move humans instead of just smaller objects, but it takes way more energy to move a body.
They aren’t light, and I’m too fucking tired to focus.
I take a deep breath and focus on the power building inside me and try to channel it through a hard push with my hands to move him, but he still barely flinches.
