Black Silk (Book One)

Chapter Forty Four

(An: 2 new characters are introduced in this chapter, one that you never knew existed but that Sophie knows, and another that Ezra knew well and is back from the dead. Its getting dramatic, Julianne is doing everything in her power to KILL Sophie without touching her, because well she cant, because of the baby...who IS EZRA's despite everyone's wishes, that includes you STELLA! Anyways, there is literally only 6 more chapters left before this book is done and I send it to my beta for significant revision and editing. But have no fear the second book :SILVER SATIN will be up and posted (not in full but chapter by chapter) soon after this one is finished! SO! I hope you enjoy this chapter, ReVomment, love you all! Opal )

Chapter Forty Four

Ezra moved away from me and walked over to Ryder. “Jax got a little free with his words, can I talk to you alone please?” he asked. I didn’t forsee this coming out as Ezra had planned. Ryder looked at me then set his jaw and nodded and followed Ezra out of the living room and into the kitchen. 

I looked over at Cam and Charlee. “Do you think that is a good idea, leaving them alone, in the kitchen, where there are knives, knives that they could stab each other with?” I asked. “They are both grown men who…” her sentence was cut off from a growl emitting from the kitchen and a crash. “Men who are now destroying my damn kitchen!” Cam snapped as he stood up and stalked to the kitchen to check on the two. I looked at Charlee. “None of this could have been controlled by you and you know it, you’ll just have to choose.” she told me. “I cant choose havent you figured that out yet, besides who would I? I love Ryder, its something I have no control over, I don’t have choice whether or not to love him, and Ezra, Im carrying his kid because I did love him at one point, fucking A Charlee, Im a basket case here!” I cried. Charlee sighed and got up from the couch. “Come on,” she said. “Let’s see how much money in damage those two idiots caused.” 

When we walked into the kitchen, Cam had Ryder at bay using his Alpha command, Ezra was sporting a busted lip and a ripped shirt. “What did you two do!” I howled. Ezra wiped the blood from his lip and took a breath, but Ryder interrupted him before he could talk. “That bastard had the nerve to ask me if it was okay if he was still part of the baby’s life!” Ryder snapped. He was still being held in check by Cam. “Its his baby!” I exclaimed. “He has his rights,” “It could be mine!” Ryder yelled. “Oh NOW you want to talk about possibilities!” Ezra asked. “It could be mine, you know that her body isn’t like a normal humans, she is a Pure Blood after all,” Ryder said. “Yeah one that ovulates the same as every other women,” I told him. “I get that the whole werewolf sperm are super fast swimmers, but that doesn’t change the days that Im fertile Ryder, no matter how much I want it to be yours, if I really am pregnant, which by the way it has been tested POSITIVE yet, it wouldn’t be yours.” I told him. Ryder growled at me. Seriously did he not know any other sounds to make? “You could have just been late, some women don’t even bleed, I could have gotten to you at your next window!” he exclaimed. “Ryder, just stop…the baby isn’t yours okay, Ezra has a right to stay or go, its up to him, the same goes to you, if the parentage of this baby is going to cause problems, I’ll give you the same option, you can stay or you can go,” and with that being said I walked out of the kitchen, back into the living room, and right out the front door.

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I walked before I even knew the destination of where I wanted to go. I kept walking until I finally felt secure enough that I had put enough distance between myself and the lodge, I walked until I realized it was dark, and I had no clue as to where I was going. I was by the woods that lined the border of Harmony and Peril. I wondered if Julianne still had her minions watching us from the sidelines, I guess the border was back up, we were all safe until someone from the other side crossed over or vice versa. I started to walk into the town, which was a mile away from the lodge, I could faintly see the lights in the distance. I took a step and stopped as I heard a twig break. I looked to the woods and desperately tried to see something. I was beginning to scare myself. Then I heard it, the sounds of paws hitting the ground and then they changed, into the thud of feet hitting the ground instead. I tried to get my body to move but my body wasn’t moving fast enough. It was all in slow motion. Before I could stumble back I saw him. “Eliot?” I asked. He looked at me. My older brother looked at me. The same older brother who left home when I was 10 and never looked back. “Sophie,” he said, his eyes growing an eerie red. I did step back this time. This was one of those Epic Oh shit moments everyone always hears about. 

“Why are you running from me?” he asked. “Im not running,” I replied. “Im just surprised.” “Long time no see huh?” he asked as he crossed his arms. It was freezing still and like every other idiot in Peril he was wearing nothing but jeans and a shirt. “Yeah like 9 years,” I told him. He hissed through his teeth. “Damn that long? I must have lost track when I ditched the failures we call parents,” he told me. “You didn’t just ditch them you know, you ditched me too,” I replied. That hit a spot. He looked a little sad. What was going on? This was not how I imagined me reunion going. “You smell odd Sophie,” he saiod out of no where. “And you’re starting to freak me out,” I replied. Did I stink? I went to ask Eliot and then I realized those red eyes were back. Then I remembered. “You cant kill me even if you wanted to you’re a Pure Blood too!” I said hastily. “No one said anything about me killing you,” Eliot said smirking. “I just need to take you to someone who will,” then he pounced and his fist connected with my face and then I fell to the ground in an unconscious heap.

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When I came too, this bitch was no longer in Peril. I could tell that because I was laying flat on my stomach in the backseat of a car that was going a little too fast for my liking. My head hurt and I soon found out how much when I tried to sit up and all the blood rushed to it. “Don’t fucking puke in my car,” Eliot snapped. I wanted to, oh how I wanted to. What was going on? Before  I could ask I heard my brothers phone ring. He answered it with a brisk hello. “Yah, I have her….yah. You’ll let her go after I drop my sister off?” he paused and looked at me in the rear view mirror. Maybe he did have remnants of a soul, he looked like he was tossing up his options. “and she’ll be alive?” he asked. Whoever was on the opposite end obviously told him something he had wanted to hear. “We’ll be there in under 10 minutes,” he said and then he hung up the phone. 

“So who’s it list am I on now?” I asked cutting to the chase. “Sophie Im sorry, believe me when I say this okay, if it was up to me, I never would have came back here, I never would have gotten involved but she has my daughter!” he cried. Daughter? “You have a daughter?” I squeaked. He looked at me in the rearview again. “Yes, she’s 5, her names, Emma, and she took her….” I finished for him. “To essentially get to me, knowing that you would hand me over to get back your baby,” I said. 

We were nearing Harmony’s outer limits. Still cruising at a steady pace. “Sophie I didn’t know what to do, she told me where you would be and I did everything she asked, got Jax drunk and….” “You got Jax drunk? Thanks for that, that caused a lot of problems,” I crossed my arms. Eliot smiled. “Emma’s a lot like you,” he said. “Stubborn, beautiful, independent, I hate to do this Sophie I really do, if you have a plan to get out of this where I can get my daughter back safe please let me know, but I had to choose,” he told me. I sulked a little. At least someone could make themselves choose. We crossed over the border of Harmony and Peril and I sighed.  “Wait, Julianne cant touch me, Im pregnant,” I said, this old information dawning on me. “1. I don’t ever want to hear that coming out of my baby sisters mouth and 2, its not Julianne Im taking you to, its her daughter, Scarlett. 

OH hell. That witch was supposed to be dead!