Sing a Song a Sixpence ~ 'Destined Lovers' Book 4

The Song That Never Ends

Chapter 3 – The Song That Never Ends

I was inspecting the front windows when a voice behind me caused me to jump. “They do open…” I heard Chris’s voice behind me and I spun to face him, glaring as he smirked at me and held up a key. “But only if you have this.”

“Lovely.” I sighed in irritation as I looked from Chris to Angie…and the small child she held on her hip. “You’re holding a baby…why are you holding a baby?” I asked, eyes widening as stories flashed through my mind of ‘women in white’ with ‘fangs’ stealing children from their beds to… I swallowed thickly.

“This is Monroe…our daughter.” Angie smiled sweetly at me. “I had twins last year…our other little girl, Abigail, is asleep currently…”

“And the key to the windows is so they can’t get outside when they toddle around…” Angelo said simply as he walked by in the background, adding as he vanished. “And you should you think of leaving.”

“Jeepers, that’s fair!” I said sarcastically, clapping my hands together before slumping back against the wall. “C’mon…if there was anything to this I should’ve swooned by now…correct?”

“I didn’t.” Angie shrugged, tapping her daughters nose and making her giggle adorably. “I ran away first chance I got…but once I was gone and somewhere I felt safe I realised I was meant to be with Chris…because being away from him made me feel like I had a hole punch through my chest…”

“Even so…I’m not buying it.” I huffed, folding my arms across my chest like a defiant infant. “I’m gonna end up as food.”

“Is that really what they teach you?” I heard Ricky’s sarcastic voice as he came around the corner and leant against the opposite wall, watching me. “I’d have thought you’d be taught more than ‘they have fangs and will eat you’.”

I glared daggers at him across the room. “They do.”

“Like what? How to be prejudiced?” Ricky smirked, knowing he was annoying me. “How to ‘talk the talk’ but not to ‘walk the walk’?”

I opened my mouth to shout a retort at him and stopped, smirking as I leant back against the wall again. “No, I’m not doing this…this I know.” My smile grew smug as I watched the smile fall from Ricky’s face. “Outbursts of emotion supposedly make you bond quicker… just like close proximity makes you swoon…and your blood is an aphrodisiac as long as you’re not bitten.”

My smug smile vanished in an instant as Ricky flashed across the room to stand before me, pressing me back against the wall. “Knowing that you know that…wouldn’t it be dreadful of me to use each of those tactics against you?” his eyes gleamed wickedly as I breathed in sharply and he leant in a little. “One, terror at being pinned beneath me, outburst of emotion.” He murmured, leaning in a little more. “Two, my current close proximity… three…” he paused for a moment and then crushed his lips against mine, his tongue slipping into my mouth as I gasped in shock…and I tasted… “Our blood is an aphrodisiac…” My head spun and I felt his arms fold around me as I began to slide down the wall; and, as my heart began to race and our eyes met…I  kissed him!

“N-no…” I muttered softly into the kiss, only half wanting it to end…but that wasn’t really me thinking…and when he didn’t stop I shoved him away. “I said, no!” I yelled, my breath coming in short, sharp, gasps as I held him at arms-length and felt a slight pain in my chest. “Manipulation! That’s how any of you get what you want!” I cried, stumbling back from Ricky and heading towards the back of the house. “That’s why I know I can’t feel for you…because you’re all monsters!”