Tree Of Souls (Transfusion Saga #6) - Stephanie Hudson Page 0,14

would have.

Gods, how she could really believe my love for her had been a lie all this time, it made me fucking furious that she could ever believe that! After everything we had been through these last few weeks, did she seriously believe that it meant nothing to me?!

I was as angry at myself, as I was at her. Knowing exactly all the places in the past I had gone wrong and asking myself if there was ever going to be a point with Amelia when I actually started doing things right!?

I lifted the book from the floor on the page it had fallen open seeing for myself the significance of events in those two pages. The double picture depicted was one that looked to have imitated life. A blood-soaked kiss represented her fairy tale unravelling and turning into what now looked to be a poisonous kiss she believed happened between myself and her mother. For I turned around and tried to see it through her eyes. To see what she had seen and quickly realising now that during that tender moment between Keira and I as old friends, it may have indeed looked like a stolen kiss between lovers.

The thought sickened me! I found my hands fisting the pages and tearing away the image of two lovers kissing, a scene now stained in the blood of heartbreak. Their perfect dream now shredded by demonic claws that forced their way over my fingernails. In fact, the more time passed the harder it became to hold back my demon from taking over completely. The only reason it hadn’t been allowed to happen yet was the belief that news would come to me soon and when it did, I needed to be in my right mind to act and act quickly.

Needless to say, that it was a torturous wait.

I left the library, knowing that it held nothing more for me in its discovery. Numb steps soon had me stood outside her bedroom door, cursing the fact that I hadn’t gotten there sooner. Along with it, the knowledge that I had been wasting that time in fighting with Dom before being able to get to her in time to stop her from leaving!

I pushed open her door and tried to take in anything that may have been missing, seeing that not one thing had been packed.

She had left with nothing.

Dom assured me that she wouldn’t get far with no money and no passport, with nothing to her name but a stolen Ferrari. And I hoped…no, more like fucking prayed, that he was right. But something in my gut told me that Amelia wasn’t going to be as easily caught as her father liked to think and no amount of hoping for that outcome would change facts. For her intelligence was nothing but a curse set against me.

Even her copy of the map she had taken today had been left on her desk, making me crush it in my hand before I turned back to her geeky little heaven. Which meant that without the box, one that was back in Dom’s possession for now, and without the map, then she was making a statement by leaving them both behind…she was done with her mission of discovery.

Just as she assumed that she was done with me.

A fact on which she would soon find herself proven wrong…very, very wrong.

I tore my eyes from the bed, tired of seeing her there in my arms like some cruel memory on repeat. For had it not been her room, then I would have found my fist embedded somewhere in space and the centre of the painted wall.

“You!” The second I heard the hiss of anger coming from the door I knew exactly who I would find standing there like some twin image of both mother and father combined.

“I don’t have time for you, boy,” I commented letting my dark tone speak for itself.

“I don’t give a fuck if you do! You did this! You pushed her away just like the first time!” Theo roared at me, storming his heavy frame inside her room and making me snarl at him for doing so. Right now, this room was off limits.

“You know nothing of which you speak and therefore this will be the only warning you get…back the fuck off, Theo!” I growled in a dangerous way, one the brazen youth didn’t take seriously.

“Man, you got some fucking nerve, you treat my sister like that and expect me to just what,