My Surprise Vampire

Guess Again

Rowan’s Point of View

Things had settled down after everyone left, well almost everyone. Lucky and Eka were still downstairs with Dewi, Lucky thought she’d be able to go home in another day or so. As far as I know everyone else went to Boom and Danny’s house. I drew a bath for Dylan while she rocked Jones to sleep, I knew she was emotionally exhausted, and this was the only thing I could come up with to help her feel better.

“I know your tired, but it’d be a shame to waste a perfectly nice bath” I smiled at her when she laid Jones down in his crib. “You don’t have to talk or anything, you just have to get in and try to relax.”

“Are you going to get in with me?”

“I will but we both know what happens when we’re naked and that close to each other” I smirked “and we still have a sick little girl right below us. So, there’s that. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind helping Dewi at all and I’m happy they’re all here, but I can’t say I’m disappointed that they’re not staying with us. I like it when it’s just the three of us.”

“Me too, but how could you forget Raffa?”

“Oh no! I didn’t mean too, don’t tell him!”

“I won’t but only because it’ll break his heart” she smiled as she stepped into the tub. She was very quiet while I gently poured warm water over her head so I could wash her hair, I massaged her head, working the shampoo into a lather. “It’s so strange all of us being together without Scarlett here” she said softly.

“I know baby, I know” I was careful to hide my disdain for Scarlett in my tone. The guys were right, Dylan and Lucky felt bad enough without me putting my feelings about what she had done on them, but it was hard. Even if by some miracle they were able to work stuff out with her I didn’t think I would ever be able to fully forgive Scarlett for breaking their hearts.

“Never in a million years would I have ever believed Scarlett would treat me like that” her voice cracked. I moved to the side of the tub because I knew she was going to start crying any second. “It… it makes…” her bottom lip was quivering so much it looked like she was cold.

“What baby?” I held her chin up.

“It makes me feel like I can’t trust anyone. If Scarlett can turn on me like that, anyone can” she barely finished her sentence before the tears started to flow.

“I understand why you feel that way, but please remember I would never hurt you. Not for all the tea in China” I smiled. “Laa, Rebecca and Bastien would sooner die before they betrayed you. Suke would absolutely die before that happened, I doubt he’s ever turned on anyone, ever. Not without them asking for it anyway. Boom and Lucky have hearts of gold and can’t hurt anyone if they deserve it or not. And Danny, forget about it. You couldn’t get rid of Danny if you wanted to, maybe I could but not you. He loves you with his whole heart.”

“I just don’t know what I did to make her so angry” she sobbed. “What did I do to make her hate me?”

“Hey, hey don’t do that. Don’t beat yourself up. Beloved, you didn’t do anything. This is all on Scarlett. Every bit of it.” I wrapped her in a towel and carried her to bed and held her while she cried herself to sleep.

Scarlett’s Point of View

After the tongue-lashing Stacia gave me, I certainly wasn’t going to hang out in mine and Lucky’s empty apartment, so I decided to check on Nabi’s. It was closed but it had been a while since I had been there. Everything was just how I wanted it which was no surprise since Faye’s were running it for me, I knew I could count on them. I stopped on the corner on my way to my car and watched people shuffle in and out of Beloved’s. That place was always busy it didn’t matter what day of the week it was. Monday was just as busy as Friday was, who did Stacia think he was, telling me I wasn’t welcome there. f**k him, comparing me to Remi like he did. What was he going to do if I went in there? I decided not to bother, it wasn’t like I could eat in the mortal world anyway. I told myself as I walked to my car that Trice was right, people belonged with their own. I was a Faye; I didn’t need to worry about what witches thought of me or anyone else for that matter. I drove the car back to the building and headed down the beach to the portal, I had enough of this drab boring world. I couldn’t wait to get home. I hoped when I got there Stacia’s words would stop ringing in my head because they hadn’t since he went off on me. If they didn’t, I’m sure Trice would give me something to make it go away. That was our thing, we would get high together and I would watch him have s*x with whoever had caught his eye that night. He told me that he was tri, like his name, he’d try anything. And he did. I’ve watched him have s*x with men, women, sometimes at the same time. I hadn’t joined in yet but that might change tonight, I needed more of a release than what I got from my hands and the show I was watching. Me, Trice, and some hot, horny Faye chick sounded like the perfect remedy for the day I had. Not that I hadn’t blown through all the Faye women that worked for me because I had, and Lucky knew it. Whenever we had s*x, I would tell him all about my exploits, whether he believed them or just thought I was talking dirty to him while he f****d me was on him. I didn’t tell him Trice watched a lot of them, there was no point. It wasn’t like Trice, and I had feelings for each other. We just liked hanging out and getting high together, sometimes watching the other get laid. I decided I would call Polly when I got home, she was one of my seamstresses in my factory and always a good time. The things the two of us had done on my fabric table were incredible. She wasn’t a beauty queen by any stretch, but I was hot and bothered just thinking about what she did to me with her tongue and fingers. I looked at my parent’s beach house that they had never seen. I kept telling them it wasn’t done yet, hopefully when Lucky and I get back to Florida, I told them to buy myself more time. The thought of hanging out with them for however long they were going to be here made me itch. I could hardly stand to be here for a few hours, forget days and weeks. Dylan and Rowan’s dark castle loomed over Rebecca and Bastien’s empty house, I rolled my eyes as I thought about the last time, I was in it. I might as well not have even been there for all the time Dylan spent with me when I was. She was too preoccupied with Jones and Rowan to even notice I was there. Suddenly I could’ve sworn I heard Dylan laughing from her patio. I ignored it, I knew it wasn’t possible, she was in Bali living her best housewife life. I was glad I told her she was a trophy wife to her face, that’s all she did was take care of that baby and Rowan all day every day, how utterly boring as Trice would say. Then I heard it again, I stopped and waited and heard her voice again.

“Scarlett, come here” I heard her laughing.

“Dylan?” I walked up the sand to her patio and looked around. I didn’t see anything except the dark house, there wasn’t any sign of anyone being there recently.

“Scarlett! What’s taking you so long? I don’t have all night” Dylan’s voice said again. I cautiously walked closer to her house, still not seeing any signs that she or anyone was there. I cupped my hands around my face and peered into the sliding glass door that was in her living room. There was no one there, everything was pristine and put away. I looked up at the roof, annoyed because I knew I couldn’t get up there from down here, but Dylan would’ve been able to get up there with no effort at all. I shook my head and figured it was my mind playing tricks on me with the help of the pill I took from Trice earlier. Until I heard a splash behind me, like someone had jumped into the pool.

“Dylan?” I spun around.

“Guess again” a deep voice that I couldn’t place said before throwing some sort of dirt or dust in my face. And then everything faded to black and then there was nothing.