Dark Possession 'Cailyn's Chronicles' Book Three

Chapter Five Future Tense

Reluctantly I climbed out of Ayden’s large SUV. The atmosphere was feeling a little bleak. At least I was not feeling confident about the situation.

Talbot managed to arrange a meeting with Thaddeus and Layla over the weekend. The high-school would be opening again in the middle of the week since we finished the cleanup yesterday which was Saturday.

Thaddeus insisted on Josh attending and Talbot said only if all the vampires could be present. So I was being escorted by four to meet with two who had more years as vampires than all four of them combined.

Talbot didn’t get any hint or suspicion of a hidden agenda when he spoke to Thaddeus.

The mansion seemed quieter than before a muted calm rather than spectacular showiness. The water fountain was off and there wasn’t that feeling of ‘look at me and my grandiose’ more like a feeling of ‘stay away’. Could vampires influence the environment around them? I didn’t care to ask; most likely they could with all the other little tricks they seemed capable of.

Josh did not want to be here at all. The building made the vivid image and memory of his death come alive which was still taking some time getting used to that for him. Plus he didn’t want to see his creator. Speaking of which he never mentioned so far yet if she has ever tried speaking to him telepathically.

Glancing over at him his face was void of expression. It was strange seeing him like this. His demeanor was usually so bubbly (Beth’s influence) and energetic. Ayden pressed his hand against the small of my back as we walked towards the heavy glass doors.

“Don’t worry I won’t let go of you for a second,” he reassured me, I nodded nervously.

Yes I know we didn’t part ways with Thaddeus on bad terms but he was not the friendliest or accommodating of vampires. He was actually very reclusive and paranoid. Layla was his progeny that never inherited the shape shifting ability.

Thaddeus had another progeny who was murdering people here in town a few months ago during the Layla fiasco and Thaddeus had shown up to help with a way to break the vampiric bond and put down that progeny. With whom he had been in love with, notice the past tense.

Talbot, Josh, and Darius were behind us as we walked up to the mansion. Darius just had that bored look on his face as usual with his arrogance; Talbot was just in a mood of leave him alone. He had been in Layla’s servitude for centuries.

I doubt he wanted to see her so soon considering the perception of time for vampires differs extraordinarily from humans. It had only been maybe two and a half months since we last saw both of them. Talbot probably wanted at least that to be two and a half centuries before he would have had to see her again.

For a vampire I am sure that still felt the same as two and a half months did to a human. That it was not long enough, so I could only imagine as that was how I felt.

I pulled the large braided thread cord that was the door bell to signal whoever was inside of our arrival.

“Let us do the talking unless it is something only you can answer Cailyn,” Darius warned in my ear, I nodded batting him away.

The door was answered by a stranger of unimportance in all black attire and we were escorted down the hall. Into the dining room that Ayden had left and bit me in. I hesitated at the door from going in at the memory flashing in my mind from that night. Ayden tensed seeing it in my mind from my perspective and rubbed my back lovingly as everyone else entered, he pulled my face around to him.

“I’m not leaving you…ever,” he spoke seriously. He nudged me inside encouragingly and kept his hand on my back the whole time.

Once I entered the room was different more gray and soft blues and felt more like a den than a dining room, which was completely different than the oak and fiery reds and blacks of Layla’s taste.