The Vampire & The Witch(Trials of sucess)

Part 45

"What are you doing here?"
"Oh relax witch. If I wanted to kill you, you would've been dead."
  "Okay so why are you here then."
   "My name is Anastasia, Ana for short. My father is Damion McKnight."
I put up my guard and was ready to attack.
   "If you don't leave right..."
   "Didn't anyone tell you that it is rude to interrupt," She had a British accent, her hair was dirty blonde, and it went all the way down to her butt "Damion isn't my real father. He stole me away from my family and killed the woman I loved. She was a witch, just like you, pretty, smart, stubborn she was my one true love. You see my family were warriors and trained killers, but we only killed the wrong doers and Ellie was amongst them. We were like Romeo and Juliet and I changed her. One night she was going out for a walk and Damion kidnapped her and killed my entire tribe. I was setting up a trip so I was away from the village. When I came back and saw the dead bodies and the buildings in flames I hunted him down. He raped Ellie and killed her right in front of my face, he said that he was going to take me in and help my skills become better. I would like to help you."
   "Why, why now?"
   "He doesn't tell me anything, thinks that I'm just a child. I dug around and found you. I want to take him down and make  sure that he doesn't hurt another person. So what do you say?"
    "How do I know that I can trust you?"
She sighed and unbuttoned her blouse, it slide down her arms and she turned around to show the burn marks, the lashes across her back, and bruises all over her arms.
     " I was his slave for 12 years, when I would speak out of disrespect this is what would happen. The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
She held out her hand for me to shake.
    "Okay, I believe you."
She nodded her head and put her shirt back on.  We were in the bedroom and Josh had left to patrol the area. I had nothing but a towel on and things were getting kind of awkward.
   "Maybe I should put some clothes on before we shake hands." I picked my clothes up off of the bed and went back into the bathroom.
A couple of seconds later I was all dressed with my hair pulled back. Now I need to find Josh and explain this before Nick and Damion arrive. I texted him to meet me in the bedroom ASAP.
   "I got your text, what's wrong?"
I explained everything to him and he pulled me to the side.
   "Are you sure about this?"
   "Wouldn't you want revenge if you were trapped for 12 years while the killer of your true love was the one who kidnapped you?"
   "Okay fine but you're staying where I can see you."
I wasn't going to argue with him because I knew he was right.
   "Well then we better fill everyone in."
He grabbed my hand and kissed my forehead.
"How long do we have?" Ainsley questioned.
  "An hour max, they'll be coming in from the West." Ana said.
  "When they get here we'll be ready for them."
I was holding in my breath and didn't realize that I was squeezing Josh's hand.
"We're fine."
I smiled a small smile and followed Josh and Ana to my bait spot. So I just sit here like a piece of meat and wait for the wolves to come.
"I know you don't like this idea, but I'll be here the whole time hiding out. Nothing's going to happen baby."
He kissed me with so much passion like it was our last kiss together.
"Josh, don't do anything stupid. Caleb needs at least one parent in his life, and if I don't make it then it's up to you..." He covered my mouth with his and continued to kiss me.
He shook his head and backed away with Ana into their spots.
It became really quiet and I was slightly terrified so I decided to sing a song softly.
"You and I, we're like symphonies exploding in the sky. With you, I'm alive like all the missing pieces of my heart, they finally collide."
"Do you really have to sing?" Ana said.
"It calms me down." I said with clinched teeth.
"It's okay baby, sing your song."
I continued to sing in my head. Suddenly I had an urge to get up and walk away. Something was keeping Ana and Josh distracted because they weren't following me. I was walking deeper into the woods for what felt like an hour. I stopped in a clearing in front of Nick and who I assumed was Damion.
"There she is, the lovely Paris Johnson. My have I missed you." He smirked while looking me up and down.
   "Oh Nick, how I miss your charm." I said in disgust.
  "So ju are the one responsible for the death of my children, this is a scrawny one no?"
He was big and intimidating with a scar that took up half of his face. He must've at least been 7 feet tall because he stood over Nick like an Oak tree. He stared at me with confusion.
   "She's scrawny but she holds up a good fight." He took a step forward.
"Nick come near me and I will cut off your balls."
Damion chuckled, "Ah yes I can see that feistiness in her."
Out of habit I rolled my eyes and took a deep breath.
"So are we just going  to stand here chit chatting about how feisty I am, What's the reason for me being in this clearing with just you two?"
"A little impatient too." Nick added.
Damion held his hands up as he walked over towards me, by instinct I backed away.
  "I'm not going to hurt you puppet. I came here to negotiate."
  "Paris will do just fine, I'm nobody's puppet."
He grabbed me by my arm and pulled me closer to the point where I could feel his pungent breath on my neck, I cringed as he spoke.
  "Listen to what I have to say Puppet."
He had put extra force on the P as he touched my chin.