Tree Of Souls (Transfusion Saga #6) - Stephanie Hudson Page 0,17

to say.

But this time when he closed his eyes, he didn’t open them again until after he answered me, making even his wife hold her breath.

“Yes, I accept your claim on my daughter,” he finally admitted, and it was a sentence that seemed as if it had been torn from him, forcing others to lay witness to his acceptance. I, too, found myself closing my eyes as the true meaning of this moment branded itself to my soul.

It was a decree he could never take back.

“Good, because I promise you this, the moment I find her again, then make no mistake, Dom…” I said taking pause and extinguishing the flames of Hell with nothing but a click of my fingers. Doing so with ease now that my mind was back to being centered and focused on only two things, one was finding her and the second was the promise I then made to her father,

A promise not even the Gods could prevent…

“Make no mistake…I am making her my wife!”

Amelia

Chapter 4

Bribes and Phone Calls

Once I left the airport, I found myself driving until I could stand it no longer. I didn’t know how long it had been, but it was now dark, and I knew that if I didn’t fill up the car soon, then this journey would come to an end a lot quicker than I first anticipated. Now, that was the problem with stealing a twin turbocharged V8 engine that kicked out 986 horsepower…it was damn expensive to fill up the tank!

Now, if only my father had parked one of his electric sports cars nearer to the entrance then this little getaway of mine would have been a lot cheaper, as the electric part of this engine gave you all of about fifteen miles and that was it, although it did help air in making it go faster, so that was something at least. Damn it though, why couldn’t I have stolen a Tesla, his two-seater roadster could do about 600 miles on one charge.

Which meant that it was time to form the next stage of my plan. To be quite honest, I had been surprised I had even made it this far, knowing that by now my father had no doubt called the cops and reported the theft. Which meant that I needed to ditch the car as soon as I could, and to do that, I needed first to use it as collateral. Which was why the second stage of my plan was admittedly an insane one. But then again…

What did I have left to lose?

My heart was shattered.

My life was in pieces.

My future gone.

All I had left was my mind and before I would allow it to fully submerge in the self-loathing, self-pitying, bitter hatred, pathetic part of the night, I first had to use it to get the Hell out of Dodge. Which was why I had been ignoring all the tears that escaped, trying instead to focus on the road and not the sight of my own heartbreak in the mirror.

I barely knew how my mind had even managed to get this far, but it had. It had all started when I had run back into my room and just found myself standing in the centre of what had once been my entire world. But all I found myself saying over and over again whilst looking up at the ceiling was,

‘Lies, lies, lies…nothing but lies.’

I had then looked around the room and in the end knew I had no time to take any of it. I had no time to pack. I even grabbed my bag but then realised that I wouldn’t have been able to use anything inside it. Not my phone, not my bank cards, not even my passport…everything could be traced.

So, in the end, I grabbed the only thing that I knew was worth enough for me to make it as far as I did. Then, I pulled the map from my bag and placed it on my desk in plain sight, knowing that it would be found. Doing so in hopes of fooling whoever found it into believing that the last thing on my mind was anything to do with the problems we faced. After this I had run out of there and doing so to the sound of destruction as my father and Lucius obviously fought it out.

In fact, it brought me so much pain that I found myself falling into the wall and crying out in agony, knowing