Night Guardians

Chapter Fourteen- Meeting The Family

Hey guys! So far I've kept my word of uploading every 3 or 4 days. Are you proud? I hope so :) Unfortunately I may have to break that amazing streak. My grandmother is having an operation soon and so I probably wont have time to upload, hope you understand. If you could please pray for her it would mean a lot. I love my grandma so much and I wouldn't know what I'd do without her. So anyway, here is Chapter Fourteen. I have a feeling you'll like this one :)

*Beth's POV*

When I had heard someone enter the house, I knew I had to get Ash out. It was completely forbidden for a human to associate with a Shadow Being, let alone be inside a Night Guardian base. If it had been a Luna, I probably wouldn’t have had to worry so much. They all understood me, and anyway, I was their boss.

But I hadn’t known who had gotten inside. Not until I had stepped into the foyer to see Zane standing at the bottom of the stairwell waiting for me.

I don’t think there could’ve been a worse possible ‘visitor’ to have arrived. It would’ve been a lot easier if a pack of rabid werewolves had burst in through the windows. But, no such luck. Instead of the easy option, I got Zane.

I instantly thanked my better judgement to have called on Garnet to get Ash out. I gave her specific instructions to get him to one of the cars and drive him home, giving her a quick mental map of the way there.

I couldn’t take the risk of Zane sensing me search for Garnet mentally when I was right in front of him, so I had to put blocks on all of my mental communication to her. I just had to hope she got him away. I could save Ash from a werewolf sure, that was easy, but to get him away from a psychopath like Zane was going to be a lot more difficult to do.

Zane’s last sentence echoed in my mind.

“It’s not as if you can’t figure out what he’s up to.”

For once in a long while, he had me completely confused.

Of course I knew who he was referring to, the only man in our world who was superior to him.

Cairo Grey.

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It had been a day since Cairo had saved my life.

He took me away from the clearing as soon as he could. The journey was a blur. I just remembered stumbling through the forest after him. Eventually I couldn’t walk anymore, so he ended up carrying me there. I had expected him to complain, or at least show some struggling when he picked me up because of my size, but he just marched on through the night as if he weren’t carrying anything at all. I shouldn’t have been surprised by his strength.

After all, he was a Shadow Being. 

He took me to the old manor house on the outside of town. I knew it quite well.

During summer when I was younger, my friend Ash and I would come out here to the old Greenvale mansion and explore the grounds. It had been abandoned years ago so no one ever came here. Or so I had thought then.

The place was huge, the total land space acres upon acres large. I hadn’t been anywhere near here since I was twelve. It had all changed, it was as if somebody had taken the whole house and completely modernised it. After all of the times I had come here, who’d have thought that the person who owned it was my father?

What now stood in place of the old crumbling down building was a brand new looking manor, three floors worth of it.

For the past twenty four hours I’d been living in one of its many bedrooms. The double bed in the centre of the room was exactly the same as it had been when I had arrived. I hadn’t been able to sleep last night, not even if I tried.