Evangeline’s POV
Chapter 1
“Evangeline, Evangeline, EVANGELINE!” my maid, Emily yelled. “I’m awake Emily,” I told her hastily. “Sorry Miss, We are about to arrive at the Ellison residence,” she said shyly. I nodded my head and slowly opened my eyes “Norwich really is a beautiful place, perfect for feeding,” I said with a monotone voice. Emily said nothing, just nodded her head and looked away. We came to a stop in front of a beautiful home. Emily opened the door for me “thank you Emily,” I said kindly “Your welcome miss.” As I climbed out of the carriage I looked up, my eyes locked with a beautiful pair of grey eyes, “Hello Miss Peirce, welcome to our home,” another voice said. I looked over to see a fairly attractive man with hazel eyes, but my eyes were still drawn to the boy with big grey eyes. The hazel eyed one spoke “My name is William and this here is my older brother Eli ,” the grey eyed one has a name. “Well hello, My name is Evangeline,” I said shyly, Eli stepped forward “hello Evangeline” he said seductively as he kissed my hand. “Oh Eli don’t be so flirty with our new sister,” William said “I’m not, just being friendly is all.” Eli replied, keeping eye contact with me. A tall man came out of the house “Ah Evangeline you’ve made it, come come let me show you to your room,” He said kindly, but there is something about him, a mysterious evil. As we walked through the house I looked around “Your house is beautiful Mr. Ellison” I said dazed at how beautiful it is “Thank you Evangeline, your room is just down here,” he said, opening a door that led to a dark cold basement. As we walked down the steps it just got colder and darker. We walked down a long hallway, at the end of the hallway was a rusty old door, he opened it. All that was in the room was a small bed with a thin mattress and a small chest. “Here you go Evangeline, there is your bed and a chest for your clothes” he said with an evil grin. “Oh but Mr, there must be a mistake I-” I was cut off with his fast talking “ No No Evangeline, there is no mistake, this is your room,” he said with an evil grin. The type of grin that you knew what you were doing but you were trying not to make it obvious.
“Oh” I said hastily “yes yes, now I’ll let you settle in” he said closing the door. I sighed, opening my bags and transfering my clothes to my chest. I heard a bang outside of my door, I rushed out and saw William lying on the ground grunting in pain. “Oh my goodness William are you okay?” I asked him “yes luv I am, it’s just so dark down here I tripped” he said getting up. “I just came down to ask you if you would like to go on a walk with me and Eli , you know just to get to know each other because your mother is marrying our father..” he rambled, talking about how we’re gonna be siblings soon and we should probably get to know eachother better “yes William I would love to go on a walk with y’all,” I cut him off. “Lovely,” he said, grabbing my hand. We walked up the stairs and when Mr. Ellison saw me and he had a disappointed look on his face like I had done something wrong, I didn’t feel welcome here. We walked out to the garden, I saw those piercing grey eyes “Eli it is lovely to see you again,” I said very posh like “It’s wonderful so see you again too Evangeline,” he smiled, I giggled. We started walking around the beautiful landscape “Now I think there is something we must do about that name of yours,” William started “yes yes, it is much too long” Eli said “We need a nickname like Angie or...Evie!” Eli exclaimed “Perfect!” William said, “Now is that alright with you darling, if we call you Evie?” William asked “of course! I’ve never had a nickname before,” I said excitedly “Well now you do,” Eli smiled at me. “So Evie tell us about you,” Eli said, “Well I am originally from Georgia, I am 17, and I just moved here” I said smiling and looking at the boys. “Well yes we know that, our father has told us the basics about you. We want to know what your favorite book is, what are your hobbies, your future plans, who do you fancy. Things that are about you” Eli said looking me in the eyes, “Okay well my favorite book is Little Women, I like painting and writing, in the future I want to be a writer, and I fancy prince George.” I said with a giggle. The rest of the walk we talked about ourselves and what we liked, we also talked about our parents wedding which I was dreading. When it got dark the boys thought it would be a good idea to go stargazing. As we laid there I started to doze off a bit “Well I think I’m going to head to bed” William said as he got up “I think I will stay'' Eli and I said in sync, we both laughed. As we laid there my head swarmed with thoughts of Eli, he was laying there so peacefully. All I could think about were those big grey eyes and his small pink lips. I felt it is wrong to feel these feelings for someone who is going to be your step sibling, but I couldn’t help it. He was just so hypnotising. The rest of the time was silent except for when we said our goodbyes and went to bed. I couldn’t sleep, this mattress was just too thin and the room reeked of rat droppings. I contemplated going up stairs to sleep on the couch, I could wake up early so no one knew I was sleeping up there. I decided to go, I lit my lantern, grabbed a quilt, and headed up stairs. Every step sqeaked,I was scared that I would wake up someone. As soon I opened the old heavy door I saw Eli sitting there “Oh my Eli, you gave me a fright” I said startled “Sorry Evie, I just felt bad that you had to sleep down there in that cold dark room all alone,” he said looking down. He looked back and said “Wait what are you doing coming up here?” I panicked, I just decided to tell him the truth. I felt that I could trust Eli “Well the truth is, the mattress down there is too thin and causes my back pain, It reeks of rat droppings, and it is much too cold” I said nervously. “Well I guess that we are just gonna have to fix that, but until we do I guess you will just have to come and sleep with me” he said looking up smiling. He knew what he was doing and honestly I didn’t mind. “Well I guess so” I said giggling. We went up stairs and headed to his room. I had never been in Eli’s room before, it was formal but simple. I like it, it was like if Eli was a room. We climbed into his bed and tried to fall asleep, at the start of the night we were both as far away from one another as we could. As the night went on we grew closer and closer, we were both awoken with a shake. “Guys, Guys! Wake up, wake up!” the voice said with more shakes. After minutes we were both up in a panic. “what” I said worriedly “We can’t have father catch y’all, what were y’all thinking doing this, you could be sent away if father found out!” William said looking at us like we are lunatics. “Sorry sorry it’s my fault, I couldn't sleep in that room and Eli was just being nice and letting me have a nice rest,” I said getting up “It is ok just don’t do it again, or you will be punished greatly. Now Mr.Ellison would like to see you down stairs, now Evie,” William said strictly. “Yes,” I said ashamed. I walked down stairs to see Mr. Ellison “William said you needed to see me” I said shyly “Yes, there are many things that this house needs fixed and since you're a woman I am going to put you should be, which is the kitchen. I have put together a list of chores to be done by the end of the day” he said handing me the list “yes Mr I will get to this asap” I said walking away. I could have him dead in a second, one bite and he is gone. I went to change and started on my work in the kitchen “the kitchen is where women belong” I mocked Mr. Ellison “You know he is not a bad person” Eli came up behind me “Jesus Eli! You scared me” I said, turning around “Sorry but My father isn’t a bad person, he just doesn’t relate to women, he thinks he’s do the right thing, I promise,” he said “Well I must go father wanted to talk to me and William about something, see you later Evie” he said winking at me and walking away.
