✔️|| 𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 • 𝐓𝐕𝐃¹

37

~New Orleans~

Hayley and Theo sit at a largely deserted bar at midday. The bartender talks to them, as Hayley ate the gumbo for the third time that week, making Theo worry for his sister, not that he was assuming but she hadn't turned in over a month, making him worry.

"Third time in here this week." The bartender, Jane-Anne told them making Hayley smile at her.

"I'm obsessed with the gumbo, Jane-Anne." Hayley told her as Theo made a face, as he thought about Hayley being pregnant, but that was a big no no, because she had only slept with Elijah. And well Elijah is undead; a vampire.

"You know, ladies in the 9th ward say my sister, Sophie, bleeds a piece of her soul into every dish." Jane-Anne told her as she glances across the room at her sister, who is working on the other side of the restaurant.

"We asked around the Quarter about our family....." Theo gets cut off by Jane-Anne .

"And?" Jane-Anne asked as she wanted to know if they had found anything.

"Nothing. Zero. We can't find a single person who remembers them." Hayley told her as Theo nodded they came up with zilch on their family.

"Because, Hayley, Theodore, people like you two were run out of here years ago." Jane-Anne told them making them frown, what did she mean by that?

"What do you mean, people like us? Is there something your not telling us, Jane-Anne?" Theodore asked her as Jane-Anne walks around the bar to the other side to stand between Hayley and Theo. Sophie watches them as Jane-Anne sets a map on the bar.

"In the bayou, they call the werewolves "Roux-Ga-Roux"." Jane-Anne told them as she circles a point on the map. "You two head out there, you'll find what you're looking for. Be careful. It's the last place you'd ever want to go." Jane-Anne told Theodore and Hayley as the former took the map, nodding at her, smiles, and then the twins leave the bar.

Jane-Anne and Sophie exchange glances, and Jane-Anne reveals that she has several strands of Hayley's hair in her hand.

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Theodore tosses the flaming paper out of the window. Jane-Anne lifts a smoking goblet to the table; Theo puts the car in reverse but the car starts to produce smoke and stops working.

"Are you kidding me?" Hayley muttered as she gets out of the car.

"Hayley Marshall get back into the car!" Theo exclaimed as he exited behind his sister as Jane-Anne continues to arrange the salt into patterns on the table.

Hayley dials a number on her cell phone, as she puts a hand up to stop her brother from talking him scoff and slap her hand away, making her slap him back, then Theo slaps her hands again, but the person on the other line picks up the phone.