Trust From Within - Book 3 Daughter of a Monster Series

Chapter 11- Haunting Tales

Warmth envelops me as I open my eyes, awakening to the world. Arms are wound around me, keeping me safe, secure, allowing a smile to spread across my face. I nuzzle into his shoulder and he mumbles something, tightening his hold on me in his sleep. My magic is curled up in his, slowly waking up too, shaking off the sleep.

I stretch slightly and Nate grumbles something, pulling me more into him, causing me to chuckle. I remember last night, I remember waking up, and my feelings haven't changed, but he doesn't need to know that, he doesn't need to think that. He was obviously worried about me.

He deserves to love someone better than me.

Slowly, his eyes open, the endless valleys inviting me in, trapping me as I see the golden flecks, all hazed over with recent sleep. "Morning," he croaks out.

"Morning sleepyhead," I chuckle, reaching up and ruffling his hair, causing him to give me a dopey smile.

We sluggishly get out of bed, settling in the dining hall with cups of coffee. "So, are we going to talk about last night?" he asks casually, looking up at me from under his wet mop of hair from his shower.

"Do we have to?"

"I think we should. You want to at least describe what was in your nightmares? Please, just tell me what happened to you to get these nightmares?"

I take a deep breath, giving him a side eye before sipping at my coffee, placing it down in the table with a sigh. "Get ready, because this is a long story." He nods for me to continue and I look down at my fidgeting hands. "When I was a few weeks old, my mother died in a village attack, Karn found me on the doorstep, and Dad was my father. When I was four, Steve and Notch came in here and took me, but not without scarring me first. I snuck out of my room with Karn because I wanted to see what my uncle looked like. What I got to see was one of my uncles stab Dad.

"They suppressed my magic, almost killed it, almost killed me with it. Steve took me in as his own, renamed me Salena, and I lived a lie of a life, thinking I was Steve's daughter and the reason we moved around was because he was exploring. Really, it was to keep Karn and Dad of our scent. Then, when I was sixteen, I had met Jay and Cole at the first ever school I had ever been too. Up until this point, Steve had homeschooled me.

"Jay told me about her magic, about being half-enderman, Cole didn't know he was Notch's son yet. Also, at this point, Gaby wasn't with him. I met Charlie and their skeleton Iro that first day walking home from school. Charlie was stuck in a tree with a big sword slash across their body. I got them down, and that's when I discovered I could talk to mobs. The suppression was wearing off, Notch hadn't done it in a while. They also gave me memory wipe potions every year, saying it was a vaccination of some sort, but it was to keep the memories of Dad and Karn at bay.

"Few months after meeting Jay and Cole, Dad finds me, stabs me, thinking I'm Steve's daughter and not his, and I die."

"Wait wait wait, you've died before?!" Nathan exclaims. I yank my shirt down, exposing the top part of the scar that runs through the middle of my chest.

"Yup. Wasn't too much fun. Anyway, Notch resurrects me, I wake up in Steve's house and everything falls apart. After a lot of fighting and healing and time, I move here along with Cole and Jay. Cole now knows Notch is his father, but is pretty pissed at him. We live here for a bit before we're kidnapped by a guy called Tristan. Remember him, he's important. Anyway, we're tortured, giving me this scar-" I brandish my forearm. "-and Jay is killed. Jay was Karn's daughter, it signalled to them where we were. It was a trap, but they underestimated Karn who easily killed almost everyone there.

"Karn almost goes feral, Cole and I are pretty traumatized, especially after Jay dying, who was like a sister to both of us. Then Gaby turns up. She was taken by Tristan at a young age, when she was about nine, and she was here to take me again, but Cole recognized her and the siblings were reunited. Cut to Karn now being taken, we find him, kill the Ender Dragon who Tristan was working for, save Karn, find Liam, all at once."