I didn’t want to tell Terry, but I felt myself slipping away. She would blame herself and Sebastian and Robbie would blame her also. Night had come and still Sebastian hadn’t returned. Terry sat with me from that morning to sundown. It was then Robbie burst through the door with a look of peril on his now irritated and excited face.
He stood holding a tall woman with long blond hair and blue eyes by her arm as if she didn’t want to be here. “This is Becky.”
“What is she doing here?” Becky hissed as she tried to back away.
“I’m here to protect her from your kind,” Terry said.
“It’s not my kind you have to protect her from. She has been poisoned by an old witch who has years of conjuring up potions. I still don’t know if I can help. Move away from her.” Terry did as she had been told and Becky came to the bed to check my pulse.
“She doesn’t need a doctor. If that was the case we could have had one over in less time it took to get you here,” Terry said to her, and Becky’s face furrowed with annoyance.
“If she’s going to stay here then I’m leaving,” she said to Robbie.
“You have to go, Terry,” Robbie said showing no emotion. Terry looked at me and I shook my feeble head at her motioning to leave me.
“Terry please leave,” I said my voice hoarse and weak. My entire body felt numb and I couldn’t feel anything now. Becky opened my weak eyelids and checked my eyes.
“She is worse than I thought. I don’t know if I can do anything that would help.”
“Just do something. I promised Sebastian that I would watch over her,” Robbie said.
“Sebastian. I know of Sebastian Vesper,” she whispered. “Not the vampire who gave up his throne to be with this human,” Becky said as she opened her pouch and sprinkled something around my bed.
“He must be in love. Then young men are passionate like that,” she said with a smile turning to Robbie.
“Young? He has to be over five hundred years old,” Robbie said.
“For a vampire, that’s very young, especially since he was turned when he’s in his most brutal, passionate, powerful, extreme point of his mortal life—his twenties.
Becky continued working on me. At this point I wavered between no feelings to extreme pain. I could hear but I couldn’t speak.
She sat near me and whispered over me and sprinkled something from her pouch. I didn’t know what it was but it had the smell of a newborn baby. My only senses working at that moment were my sense of sight, hearing, and smell.
“Samantha has gone beyond the boundaries of our rules. She’s using dark deeds and twisted spells to carry out her vengeance on humans. Those are forbidden.” She looked to Robbie, but he wouldn’t respond. He watched at her as if she was a goddess. I suspected he had a violent and warm relationship with her. Why else would she have come to help me knowing that Ann was his true mate?
Becky placed her hand on my head and quickly pulled it away. “She is extremely hot for a human. Her temperature is unnatural, and for her to be alive with such a temperature. It is the very thing that is saving her and the very thing that can kill her,” she said to Robbie.
“Can you save her?”
“Would you have brought me here if you thought I couldn’t?”
“Would you have come if you thought it was Ann?”
“Probably not. But I would do anything for you, Robbie.” She had this sorrowful look on her face. “I would do anything for you to forgive me, Robbie,” Becky said as she fell into a chant.
“I do forgive you but that will never change what happened between us. Now I’d rather not talk about it.”
My feelings came back slowly to my hands, and I began to wiggle my fingers and then the rest of my body responded. Becky looked at me. “You will be well within an hour but you have to rest. Samantha has been poisoning you slowly over time not just this one time. I need you to stay in bed and don’t tax yourself.” I shook my head.
“Anything,” I said.
“If you need me in the future, just concentrate and I’ll hear you. Don’t let that witch Samantha get near you again. And be careful with Terry. She can’t protect you from Samantha. There are only a few who can. Samantha can control your dreams, give you false realities and invade your body if you let her.
“But with your body temperature not much can survive in it, that’s why you lasted so long. Any other human would have been dead with your constant heat. Now I know why Sabastian is attracted to you.”
Becky smiled. She was beautiful with her natural pink lips and full mouth. Her blond hair cut short and her long lashes made her blue eyes look large. I can’t see how Robbie must have fallen in love with her. She was enchanting but his true love was Ann.
I couldn’t help wondering what Becky did to Robbie. They both appeared to be so pleasant and looked good together because they were tall, beautiful, and handsome.
I raised my hand and she took it. I nodded thank you with a closed smile. And Becky smiled back at me. She stood and faced Robbie and then Ann opened the door and Becky disappeared in a mist of white smoke.
Ann glanced at Robbie. “Why does she do that?”
“Because she never wants to see you. Like that she doesn’t have to accept that I’m no longer with her.” He placed his hand around Ann’s waist and leaned down to kiss her.
“Zoey is fine now. She has been through hell and needs some rest. Becky said she would be better than before.” I would be better if I knew where Sabastian was. Why isn’t he here at my side? He had promised me that he would return but he hasn’t.
After Robbie checked every inch of the room he called Terry in to guard me. He gave her instructions and as usual like a child she stuck her tongue out when he turned his back to leave.
“I hate taking orders from that shifter,” Terry whispered. No doubt Robbie heard her, but he closed the door and didn’t argue with Terry.