Night Guardians

Chapter Nineteen- This Never Happened

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*Ash's POV*

The door creaked open to reveal my mother standing in the door way, dressed in her pyjamas, dressing gown and little fluffy slippers. Her semiconscious eyes lazily assessed me lying on my bed, shirtless, bed cover sprawled out on the floor and out of breath.

I held my breath, praying that she was too exhausted to suspect anything.

Kayla must’ve heard her coming from down the hall because one minute we were kissing and the next I was lying alone on my bed, with her nowhere to be seen.

Mum’s voice was hoarse and groggy due to her tiredness.

“What’s with the noise in here?”

I spoke in a nervous rush. “What noise? I was asleep. There’s no noise in here.”

She let out a long yawn.

“I could have sworn I heard something like movement in here. Were you walking around, honey?”

I shook my head vigorously.

“Nope, I was asleep.” I exaggerated a fake yawn. “I’m really tired actually, can you shut the door?”

After a few bemused blinks, she finally mumbled a goodnight and shut the door behind her as she left. I waited anxiously for the sound of her retreating footsteps to hers and Dad’s bedroom. When I heard their door click shut, I let out the breath I’d been holding.

I whispered into the darkness “Kayla?”

She stood still in her black vest t-shirt. Her eyes remained averted, staring at nothing in particular as if her mind were somewhere else entirely.

I slid off of the bed, standing up beside her.

I let out a whispered laugh.

“That was close.” I reached to hold her hand, only for her to step back away from me.

I pulled my hand back, sheepishly.

I squinted at her in the dim moonlight through the window. She stood still beside the bed, her muscles tensed. Her eyes remained away, staring at everything and nothing all at the same time.

Finally, she spoke.

“I’ve got to go.”

I caught her arm as she turned to the balcony door.

“Kayla-”

An eruption of pain scorched my hand where I held her arm. I jumped back, clutching my throbbing hand.

Kayla’s cool grey eyes landed on me, everything that had happened between the two of us a few minutes ago completely forgotten.

“I can heal pain, but I can create it too.” She took one space towards me so that her face was close to mine, but only in an intimidating way. “You need to get this into your head Gautier, and now. Tonight never happened, do you understand me? I was never here, you never saw me. Nothing happened, you got that?”

I stared at her, my eyes wide in shock. Wow, she’d sure changed her tune.

She kept talking.

“I need you to promise me something.”

I snorted. “Is that so?”

Her eyes froze into ice as they glared at me.

“You can’t tell anyone about my world. You must never mention anything that you’ve been told about witches, vampires or anything else about the Shadow World. Do you understand?”