Heavenly Moonlight

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Lupe watched Aria and her father scream back and forth at each other. Their faces grew redder and redder as the screaming continued. Lupe eyed the doorway to the kitchen, the only exit. She would've loved nothing more than to get out of there but Aria and her father were blocking it.

Lupe stood behind the kitchen table as the screaming continued. Damn, and she thought she had family problems.

She felt a tug at her leg. She looked down and was surprised to see Annie staring up at her, her little green eyes wide.

"They always do this," Annie yelled over the screaming.

Lupe winced and stuck her fingers in her ears. "Really?"

Annie nodded.

Lupe immediately felt sympathy for the poor girl and looked back up at the father and daughter dynamic and felt anger start to rise inside of her. Why would they fight like this in front of a little girl like?

"Guys!" Lupe yelled.

Aria and her dad stopped screaming and turned to look at her.

Lupe rubbed the back of her neck, uncomfortable to be in the middle of this whole thing. "Sorry, it's just--"

"Look," Aria's father interrupted. "I don't know who you are or where you came from, but you need to get out of our cabin. Now."

"Dad!" Aria snapped. "Flynn asked me to let her stay with us, okay? And she's not bad--"

Her father shook his head. "Unless I hear Flynn say that himself, she's not to be in our home. I don't know who this girl is and for all we know, she could be the reason why the--" he glanced down at Annie, "--you know what is outside."

Lupe gasped at the accusation, hurt that anyone would think that of her. "I would never--"

"You have ten seconds to get out before I throw you out myself."

"I'm gone," Lupe said through clenched teeth and strode past Annie and Aria.

"Lupe!" she heard Aria call after her but she didn't pause.

She found herself outside. She walked down the porch steps and looked up at the sky. Clouds had covered the sun, making the sky dull and gray. 

She ran her hand through her hair and sighed, wondering why the spell led her here. For all her talk about how spells don't make mistakes, that spells always have a reason for doing the things they do, she was doubting the Moonblood Clan would bring her any closer to finding Trevor Wayne and the Lewis's.

She shook her head and walked away from the cabin. She could hear Aria and her father screaming again and she had zero desire to be around all that craziness and she felt bad for poor little Annie.

She looked back at where that body had been found. Flynn and a group of shapeshifters were standing over the body, a body bag covering the body. Flynn had a cellphone to his ear, a grim expression on his face.

She turned away, a sick feeling forming in her stomach as she recalled seeing the man's body. She could smell the scent of death even from where she was standing.

She walked in the opposite direction, not sure where she was going, but needing to get away from the scene.

A minute passed and she found herself at the end of the village, where she'd first arrived.