Betrayal (The Forever Series) (35 page)
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Authors: Eve Newton
I start to run and as I pass Jess, I see her looking on calmly. She knew about this. If she didn’t she would be as horrified as I am. Well, nearly as horrified. I win the horrified title hands down. The bile rises in my throat and I really regret eating that sandwich before. I clamp my hand to my mouth as I run or I am going to lose it all over my Louboutins. I hear everyone following me and I make it to the terrace, but no further. I grab hold of a nearby rose bush, the thorns digging into my palm as I lean into it, and throw up the entire contents of my stomach. I am devastated and furious. No wonder he couldn’t look me in the eye, he would have been thinking about hers. Oh god, please don’t let him have been with her before I threw myself at him as Elizabeth. But I know that he was. All his actions now scream at me, making sense. I bend over again and retch until my stomach hurts. I can feel everyone hovering and I feel so foolish. He has made me look like the biggest fool on the planet. It is worse than CK’s Substitutes. He never found an actual
Other me to fuck. I stand up straight and wipe my mouth. I pluck my palm from the thorns and walk up the stairs with what remaining dignity I have left, which is almost nothing.
I enter my bathroom and rinse my mouth out. I am never eating food again. Even as I think that my stomach growls and CK hands me a bottle of blood. He looks more than cautious and so he should. This has dredged up everything I have tried to forget about him. “Aefre,” he says softly, but I shake my head. “I can’t think about it, or speak about it,” I say.
“Okay,” he says and pats my shoulder. It starts my tears and I fall weeping into his arms. Cole consoles me as well, stroking his hand down my back to soothe V.A.
“Liv,” he says. “Hear him out…”
“Do not defend him to me, Cole. He has pissed on everything that we meant to each other by doing this. It’s, it’s unforgivable.” I step back from them both and dry my eyes. This has been the day from Hell and I just want a bath to soak away the disgust and despair of this betrayal. I take the cap off the blood bottle and hold it to my lips and tilt it back. I find myself gulping back a mouthful of air as it has suddenly vanished from my hand.
“I wouldn’t drink that if I were you,” Remiel says as he tips it down the drain.
“What? Why? Grrrrr, you!” I forget about his lethal claws and lunge towards him with my own extended. He grabs my hands and holds me effortlessly away from him.
“Calm yourself, my dear. I just saved you from drinking poison,” he says.
I stop struggling as I take in his words. “What?” I ask again as CK and Cole advance on him. He holds his hand out and it has them slamming back against the wall, completely immobile.
“You two, stay out of this,” he says and wags his finger at them and then runs his hand over my stomach lovingly. “I need you healthy and strong for our baby,” he adds and his all-too familiar piercing blue eyes find mine and I look down in dread at his hand stroking me. It wasn’t a
dream, it wasn’t a Heat-induced delusion. It was him! He Astrals us off, leaving my two husbands alone in the bathroom.
Epilogue
Buckinghamshire, England, October 2013 – Constantine and Cole
Constantine enters the library and sees Cole staring out of the windows. Cole looks as bereft as he feels. This is the second time they have lost their wife this year and it is taking its toll on both of them. Even in some strange way they are growing closer with their grief. It had shocked them both to the core to learn that Aefre was carrying the original Vampire’s child, on top of his kidnapping her to god knows where, they were united in their sorrow and worry.
Cole turns to look at Constantine. He isn’t ashamed to admit that he has been crying. He should be, but he doesn’t care anymore. All he cares about is getting his wife home. He doesn’t even care if she brings that child back with her for the three of them to raise. All he wants is his wife and sire, by his side once more.
“I know how you feel,” Constantine says to him, taking in his wet eyes and feeling like he could cry himself. “But we have to stay strong.”
“How? We don’t even know where she is or if she is ever coming back. She has been gone for three weeks without a trace. I just can’t do this after the coma. It’s just too fucking hard!” Cole sweeps his hand over the desk and knocks everything to the floor. This isn’t the first time that either one of them has done it, but it disrupts a pile of mail that Cole, in his frustration, kicks away from his feet.
“My best guess is that she is in the Dragon Realms,” Constantine says, his eyes firmly on the mail on the floor. There is a letter in there that Cole needs to read. He has kept it aside for a few weeks, but the time has come.
“Great,” Cole says. “Nice and safe where we can’t get to her. Ever. Fuck!”
Constantine lets him vent and bends to scoop up the letters. He rifles through them until he finds the one he wants. There has been no one to sort through anything since the girl left with Devon. He hasn’t been seen since the incident in the woods, no one even knows if he is aware his sire is missing. He places the rest on the desk to be dealt with later and holds out the one in his hand to Cole.
“You need to read this,” he says.
“What is it?” Cole replies and takes it absently. “Unless it tells me how to get to my wife, I don’t want it.” He throws it back on the desk and Constantine picks it up again to his annoyance.
“Read it,” he says quietly.
Cole takes it and looks at the envelope. He gulps loudly and searches Constantine’s eyes. “Do you know what’s in it?” he asks in dread.
“No,” Constantine lies. Of course he knows what’s in it. He knows everything. Except how to get to his wife and return her safely to his side.
Cole nods and his heart clenches. Inside is the DNA result that Nico had ordered for Carolyn’s child.
Her son. In this envelope is the news and he will find out once and for all if he is a father. He opens it slowly as Constantine watches him. He turns away and reads it carefully. He then re-reads it and stuffs it back into the envelope. He strides to the fireplace and scrunches the envelope up in his fist and throws it onto the roaring fire. He had lit it earlier in case Liv came home tonight. She will be cold if there is no fire. Constantine comes to stand beside him and Cole knows that he already knew what it read.
Constantine places his hand on Cole’s shoulder and they both watch the letter set alight. Constantine has mixed feelings over this. He wants to be happy, but it just isn’t reaching him. Cole watches the letter burn and
go black and turn to ash. Just as he is going to when his wife finds out about this.
The End
Other Books by Eve Newton
Forever (The Forever Series Book One)
The Power of One (The Forever Series Book Two)
Revelation (The Forever Series Book Three)
Choices (The Forever Series Book Four)
The Ties That Bind (The Forever Series Book Five)
Trials (The Forever Series Book Six)
Switch (The Forever Series Book Seven)
The Other Switch (The Forever Series Book Seven and a half)
Secrets (The Forever Series Book Eight)
Betrayal (The Forever Series Book Nine)
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