Demon

chapter 123

"maybe we should do something? Anything? We could have a date night" Damon suggested when they got home.

He had been trying to work out how to tell her but he couldn't so he was putting it off.

"Shopping. I'll take you clothes shopping. Or jewelry?"

Clara knew he was suggesting things to put off telling her and it made her worry.

"Damon stop" she gently said before he could spiral.

"Okay you're right, shopping is a bad idea. We could do something more adventurous" he continued.

"Damon are you planning on breaking up with me" Clara asked.

"Of course not. You mean so much to me" Damon replied.

"Then no matter what happens we will get through it together" Clara reassured him.

Damon sighed "I'm the one who's supposed to reassure you. I just don't have the words to explain it"

"It's bad isn't it" Clara asked and Damon nodded.

Damon grabbed her hand and gently led her to the sofa where they both sat together.  "You were right Olivia is involved" he decided to start with the obvious.

"Okay" Clara patiently waited for him to continue.

"It wasn't her idea though.  Olivia originally just wanted to prove she was better than you. She wanted to show everyone you weren't to be trusted but she didn't have a plan. She got the idea from....from Rose"  Damon admitted.

"Rose as in your grandmother" Clara asked shocked.

"Yeah.  Turns out Olivia went to her for advice before Christmas. Rose knew who you were all along and I think in a way she decided she didn't like you long before you met. My grandfather is still well connected in the underworld and I guess she used those contacts to find out more about you, found out you were a rival gang and gave Olivia the idea. She thought you were just another traitor I guess" Damon explained.

"Olivia had more help. Like I said everything I know about you I kept private. However Olivia got herself a boyfriend, I suppose that's why she doesn't have a thing for me anymore. Her boyfriend is a drug runner for your old gang. I thought I'd killed them all but I guess he was so insignificant that they didn't acknowledge he was apart of the gang.
Rose gave them the kidnapping idea,
Her boyfriend gave more personal details about you"

"There's something else" Clara knew it had to be more as Damon looked unsure of himself.

"Your parents. I didn't want to consider your family but you were kidnapped a short walk from your family home so I had to look into them. I'm so sorry "  Damon said.

"So they all planned it together " Clara asked.

"Yes. Rose gave them details of a gang that you can hire to kidnap someone, Olivia and her boyfriend contacted your family whilst finding out more information on you and they saw your parents disowned you and decided to get them involved. Olivia is smart, she never took the hit out herself, she convinced your parents to do that"

"What is her boyfriends name. I might know him" Clara asked.

"Kyle Smith"

Clara simply nodded "I rejected him a few times. He never really got over that. He wasn't part of the gang fully, he works for the people who pay him the most, at the time it was the gang I was in" she said knowing who he was.

"I need to be alone" she was still in shock. She was trying to remain composed and focus on the others involved instead of her parents but she was struggling.