The Immortal Cure - Series Two

Chapter Twenty Four - Mountains

I nodded and looked down at my hands in front of myself. I felt relieved when I saw that my ring remained on my finger, still in place and not lost in the battle of last nights chaos

Callum seemed to catch my gaze and I knew instantly that he knew what it had meant. Surely he must have seen it within the past two days, my mind raced, how did he feel about it? Had it pained him to find out this way?

"I.." I wanted to tell him it meant something else, I knew that it had sounded so wrong, but I felt like I had let him down, torn his heart out without a single word.
The girl he was in love with was now engaged to a man he had hated for centuries.

"You don't have to explain it to me" He whispered, faking a smile as he folded his hands in front of himself, his eyes looking at the floor

"I want to" I rushed out, feeling that I had needed to explain it to him, fully

He didn't say anything, just looked up at me from his eyelashes as he waited

"He asked me under the Eiffel Tower the night the fires began. I love him Callum, more than I have anyone else, it feels right, but now, I don't.." It was hard to find the right words to use

"I'm confused, I don't understand what any of this means.." I trailed off

"You're only nineteen Rosie, you shouldn't be making decisions like this at nineteen, you shouldn't even be around people like Duke and I at nineteen" He spoke, frustrated

"Thats impossible when it comes to what I am, obviously I belong to this chaos, because I am not normal, I can't escape these things, I wish things were normal and that both you and Duke hadn't ever met me, because all I've done, is cause problems, there is so much blood on my hands Callum. But you know what, I have to make the best of my situation, and Duke is the best of my situation, I need him"

He shook his head, more out of frustration than anything else, surely he knew I was right.

"You aren't in the right mindset, you said it yourself, you're confused, you can't just recklessly decide that you're going to marry someone like him, someone like.." He trailed off, knowing he was going to say something that would set my temper off

He stood up and walked towards a kitchen that I could see across from the small lounge room. He had his back turned to me, his hands leaning forward on the wood bench as he managed his anger.

I pushed my legs off of the lounge and sat up, despite the pain I felt returning to my shoulder and the left side of my body

"So what are we supposed to do now?" I changed subject

I didn't want to fight with him, I didn't want to upset him anymore than I already had. I wanted to remain his friend, I wanted him to be a part of my life no matter what choices I made. I couldn't lose him. I'd already lost too much in my life to lose someone that made me happy the way he did.

Callum turned around, his eyes meeting mine, hurt washed over his expression, paining me more than he knew

"Nothing, we're going to stay here, keep you out of harms way until Gloria and the rest of the Angels catch Alex and Ty. It's way too risky for you to be out there"

"Nothing? We can't sit here and do nothing, and who's Ty?" I felt anger boil up.
I didn't even know if my fiancé was alive or not, did he really expect me to just sit around and wait for news of his demise?

"Ty is another Rogue Angel that Alex and Ollie managed to pull into their team" Callum explained, taking his spot back on the coffee table in front of me

"And what about Riley, Duke, Jaymi? Do you know anything about where they are or what happened to them?"

"As far as I know, Alex created the explosions to draw them away from you. They knew you'd be told to stay inside, then they blew up your place, hoping you'd be inside. Ollie knew you weren't, so he followed you, and, well, you know the rest. Alex and Ty enticed your friends towards the market where it was isolated. They fought and Ty and Alex, they seemed to have had the upper hand" He paused as I placed my hand over my mouth, imagining the worst