T₩enty3 My poor sick wife
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Kennedy
I was very loopy on the ride home, Robby pulled me right up next to him as he drove, he saw me leaning over.
I clung to his strong young man's arm.
" Robby will your mother ever like me?" I wanted to know if I should pursue a friendship with her.
I could see Robby thinking as his brows dropped down.
" I think not, I'm sorry."
I thought about it a moment.
" I want to try to befriend her, I know she thinks I'm ruining Howle's life, I have no clue why he chose to marry me, me of all people.
I'm nothing like those other women he must be used to.
I don't get it, I mean before I thought he was pretending to like me because he wanted something from me....I think it was the key."
Robby kissed my head.
" You are his type, Aunt K."
" I'm sorry I lost that key, it was my family's heirloom, my grandma wore it."
Then it all hit me at once, I was just a pawn in a much bigger game, it all went way over my red head.
" Robby, Orcas only wanted his family's crests back I think, I feel kind of dumb not knowing that before hand, but how else did Rena know that I had that key, yes I see it all now.
But why not let the crowd have me, why save me?"
Robby stopped the car then.
" Aunt Kennedy, Orcas would never have stopped the crowd from hurting you if he didn't love you, trust me. When he found his mate Serena, he was a different man, he smiled, he was nice to everyone.
I haven't seen him that way since she died. But now, he's back. You did that for him."
" Robby, how did she die?"
I know I was pushing it by asking that.
" Murder, her heart was torn out, her head was severed from her young body. He took it very hard." Robby kissed my forehead.
" Robby, that's how all those poor girls all died, she must have been a victim of that moonlight serial killer then, does Orcas know about that?"
" Unfortunately yes." Robby said.
Robby turned my chin up and kissed my lips.
" You taste like cherry cola." He said laughing.
I looked at him with new eyes.
" You are a little Romeo, a little player aren't you, you played me to take me to the gala tonight!"
Robby shook his head and rubbed his fist.
" I got jumped at school, I didn't punch a wall aunt K. I am disliked because my dad divorced my mom.
My peers believe I am evil like he is, they know what he did to my mother, they hold that against me for some dumb reason.
No I took you to the gala for selfish reasons, I wanted a pretty girl on my arms to show them all that I am good enough for a sweet looking hotty to date.
But I guess that back fired."
He threw his head back and laughed loudly.
" What did he do to Rena?"
" When my mother had me, there were two other males born after me. Triplets, they died shortly after this though.
My dad almost killed her and dumped her, blaming her for it.
I told you, pure evil. He has moved on, he has a new family now. I'm glad, screw him."
I hugged him and kissed his arm for helping me.
" Robby, I feel sick. Can you help me into my room please."
My head was on fire. My shoulder pain was unbearable now.
It didn't feel too bad earlier, well after Orcas gave me that pill, but that has worn off.
I leaned out of the car and threw up. I think it was a delayed reaction to almost dying.
Robby picked me up. He was only 15, but he was over 6 foot tall already.
He looked at the gargoyles guarding my doorway.
" Aunt K you must invite me in."
I felt his heart beating out of his chest, he was scared.
"Please come in Robby."
He layed me on my bed.
He felt my head.
" Can you get me some water?" I felt thirsty.
Robby went to the bathroom and got the water.
He looked around in my rooms. He was losing his fear of this place, it was just a girl's room, ordinary.
No witches cauldrons or dead animals or people. As a child he had been warned about coming into this castle, that he would be cursed forever, especially uninvited.
He believed every word.
He relaxed.
" Here. Drink."
I drank it down. I sat up in my bed and pulled his arm.
" Can you hold me for a moment, I'm so cold now."
Robby got under the covers and covered me with his body.
He kissed my head.
" You are easy to love Aunt Kennedy, if I was your husband, I wouldn't leave your side."
This was the scene that greeted my husband when he came directly to my room from the gala.
He couldn't stay there without me. He made excuses to be with me.
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Orcas
My new wife was snuggling in bed with my 15 year old nephew.
I felt my blood boil, my eyes started to swirl. I gave a loud growl.
Kennedy looked up at me, she was very sick. I saw that now.
Robby frowned.
" About damn time uncle, she's feverish and shivering." He reported as he held a cloth over her head.
I felt like an i***t. My wife was sick, my nephew was comforting her for me.
I motioned for him to move.
I took his place.
Kennedy's shoulder wound was on fire. It was red, swollen, and oozing pus.
" Get doctor Stubbs."
I sent Robby out for my personal physician.
Kennedy moaned.
" Make love to me, so I can forget this horrible pain Orcas."
I shushed her.
" Nope, we are getting the doctor to help you. Be still."
" Orcas, before...I I I mean b b b before when I had the key and you were after it? Did you y y you p p p plan on killing me?"
" Kennedy, I couldn't hurt you."
I looked at her wound.
" I mean, I wouldn't have gone through with it, you see I was taught as a boy to hate all Starlings, I know it was wrong.
I couldn't go through with it, I was drawn to you the moment that you got on that plane, didn't you feel it too?"
" I did."
" Kiss me." She told me.
I kissed her hot lips. I touched her face.
I knew that she wanted to be kissed to stop her stuttering.
" I think I'm being punished for wanting to die before, now I am going to die aren't I?"
" Nope, not dying, just sick."
I was hoping this was true. I couldn't survive losing another girl.
About an hour later my doctor arrived.
I whispered to a sleeping Kennedy.
" Doctor Stubbs is at the door love, invite him in please."
" Please...come in Stubbs." She said.
" Ah. thank you. Now what is going on here?" He looked around, he too was scared to death.
" My wife has an infected bite." I told him.
" Okay, let's take a look." He pulled back her dressing.
It was very bad, it had turned black, the wound was moving down into her veins, down to her heart.
" You bit her? A Lycan biting a witch, that's bad. This will not end well. I'm sorry.
Past history tells us the wolf can kill the witch with just one bite, it's poisoning her."
I feared as much.
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