Fated Mate

“Mi amor, you called me, otherwise you wouldn’t have known I was here.” He had his cool matter-of-fact tone. It annoyed her even more.

A smile crept on her face, she hadn’t heard that phrase for a while, and it touched her more now than it ever did before. She’d missed it and that silly tone he used when he talked to her like a child. She’d missed everything about him, him annoying and wonderful.

“Okay, mister smarty pants, see you in-” A loud bang startled her, she dropped the phone and it shattered when it hit the ground.

She turned toward the noise, the door was on the floor and Sabrina stood on top of it. Ann and Maria were on their feet staring at her, frozen by shock. Sabrina stepped off the door and looked around the room. When she spotted Lee at the window she turned and faced her, her face lit up, her face curved in a smile. She looked happy, not happy joy, but happy wicked.

“Hallo, Merilee. I knew I would find you here. After the big blow up you had at your apartment it was really obvious you’d be here.”

Lee stayed quiet, moving directly in front of the window trying to stay visible, hoping Ash could see her. Considering her present predicament, she was grateful he was close by.

“Aren’t you going to ask me what I’m doing here?” Her grin widened, but Lee still stayed quiet, stealing glances out the window hoping to see Ash running for the house, but all she saw was darkness.

“I’ll tell you anyway.” She moved to the couch past Ann and Maria and sat down. She crossed her legs and leaned back comfortably. “I came here to kill you. And what better place than where your family got killed, isn’t it just poetic!” She laughed, and then her face dulled. “You took Ash away from me. Do you know how long we’ve been together? Over half a century.” Her face creased in anger, her lips drew back over her teeth.

“What?” Lee was stunned. She looked too young to be over fifty. What was she, and how old was Ash?Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive © material.

“Since the day he laid eyes on you, you’ve been a pain in my ass. He was always concerned about you. Do you know he made me keep track of you for over a year? After you moved to a second home, I stopped. You weren’t my kid so why should I have cared? He didn’t see it that way, so slowly he pulled away from me, then, he didn’t want me anymore. And now that you are a grown woman, he’s in love with you-”

She stopped abruptly and turned to Maria, her face livid. “What are you doing?”

Ann moved in front of Maria, blocking her from Sabrina’s line of vision, “She isn’t doing anything.”

Sabrina was off the couch in seconds. She pushed Ann aside with one swoop, sending her across the room and into the wall. Ann hit her head hard against it, and then dropped to the floor unconscious.

“Ann!” Maria screamed. She tried to run to Ann but she was hauled back. Sabrina held her hand that had the phone in it, crushing it with her grip. Maria gave a pained scream before she sank to the ground, her hand still in Sabrina’s.

“Who were you calling?” Sabrina hissed. But Maria was in too much pain to answer. Sabrina raised her hand to strike her.

“No!” Lee screamed, moving closer to them, shifting her gaze between Maria and Ann before she finally rested on Sabrina. “You came here to kill me, not them.”

“They are a bonus.” She looked at Lee, her eyes now silver. Exactly like Ash’s when he almost killed Steve. It scared her, far more than Ash did. She knew Sabrina would kill them all. She thought about Ash and if he figured something was wrong, or if Maria was able to give Joe some sort of clue of what was going on. She needed to stall, for her sisters if not herself.

“You came here to kill only me. Let them go then you can do whatever you want with me.” She tried to keep her voice level but it was shaky, fear branded the edge of it.

Sabrina let go of Maria’s hand. Maria held her hand against her chest and crawled to where Ann was. Ann had a deep cut on her head and was still unconscious. Lee looked at Maria as she checked Ann out. She was afraid the hit had hurt her far worse than it looked.

“She’s okay.” Maria’s relieved voice floated in the room.

“Not for long.” Sabrina moved toward them, Lee ran ahead of her and placed herself in between them.

“Sabrina, I’m begging you please! They have nothing to do with this!” She felt the tears roll down her cheeks. She was desperate, she was ready to hand her a butcher knife if that would make Sabrina concentrate only on her.

A heinous smile crept on her face. “It will hurt you more if I killed them and made you watch. And then, with both the distractions taken care of, I can kill you slowly.” She took a step closer.

“It’s bad enough you’ll have my dad and Ash after you, do you really want to add Joe and Billy to the hunting list?” Lee thought that would scare her, but her smile only grew wider.

“Killing all of you would be a perfect revenge against those four dogs.”

Lee couldn’t explain it, but her fear was slowly being replaced with blinding rage. “And don’t worry about me, I’ve got everything planned out. Where I’m going, they wouldn’t dare follow me.”

“Sabrina, stay away from them.” Her voice was masked by the rage that was boiling inside her.

“Or what?” the smile was gone. Her lips were straight and hard-pressed.

“Take another step and I’ll show you what.” She crouched down, her arms wide. She heard a loud growl escape from her throat as her lips drew back away from her teeth. Sabrina took a step back, her eyes wide with surprise. Lee wasn’t sure what was happening to her, it had made Sabrina take a step back, so she went with it.

Sabrina froze. “Your eyes are golden…how…did Ash bite you?”

“How does that concern you?”

What Sabrina said shocked her, but she wasn’t going to lose her concentration on her. She needed to keep her away from her sisters until the guys got here. How far was their campsite?