Fate's Mistake

Chapter 16

The bitch had the nerve to walk up closer to Alex and sneer in her face, "Him, or any of you, pull a stunt like that again, you're out of here. Then, try to save your precious sister." Alex's face visibly contorts in hurt, while the bitch smugly stands back and motions us to follow her.

Alex gulps before she addresses me, "You okay?" I nod my head yes, still kind of bothered that the bitch had gotten so close.

As if hearing my thoughts, she called over her shoulder, "Don't cry too much, you'll need to save some tears when you hear the good news."

Licking my lips, and fisting my palms, I chose to ignore that low-blow.

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Alex POV

The Bitch, as Darren views her now, led us to a room in the back of the church. The floor of it was covered with a giant round carpet. Smoothly leaning down, and lifting the carpet up, the Bitch closes her eyes for a moment. Only when the area that was hidden with the carpet opens up to reveal a staircase, she opens her eyes, too. Motioning with her hand to let us go first, she turns around and speeds out of the room. If I wasn't already an expert at being a vampire, I wouldn't have caught her challenging grin before she left.

My hands automatically fisted at her disrespect, but I chose to ignore it. She wasn't worth it; I have a significantly bigger problem to focus on. Making my towards the staircase, I somehow managed to put one foot in front of the other without collapsing from anticipation. What did she mean when she said that we need to hear the 'good' news?

I could feel Samuel and Darren behind me as I lead the way down the creaking stairs. I hadn't noticed I had stopped walking until one of them nudged my back. Shaking out of my thoughts, I stepped forward again, and continued my undetermined journey.

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I knew that we had reached the headquarters as soon as I advanced from the last step. Before, Darren thought it might be a good idea to take the torch with us since it was the only thing giving us light. We marched forward, determined not to let the fear take control of our faces. As we headed forward, more lighting came into view. We also spotted some vampires hanging around. When we neared them, they either glared at us, or smirked. I could tell that they were very ancient. Their pale skins, and the beauty radiated vanity and confidence. I also saw some vampire couples who obviously couldn't keep their hands off of each other; and, appearantly, that was amusing to everyone else.

Ignoring them, my eyes took in the familiar blonde hair. I made my way towards her, already knowing that Samuel and Darren were following.

"Took you guys long enough," the Bitch said as soon as we reached her. She stood a little left of me, making her closer to Samuel and Darren. As if on cue, she looked at them before her eyes widened at Sam. Poor guy looked scared shitless. I wanted to assure him that we all felt that way.

The Bitch deliberately pushes Darren out of the way to get to Samuel. I looked at Darrem only to find a pissed off face.

Can you message Samuel and tell him to keep her busy?

Sure thing.

A second after, Samuel's surprised eyes pleaded with mine to not leave him alone with her. I shrugged my shoulders; it was better if she didn't come along with us to see the other Elders, so why not provide a perfect distraction for her?

Poor guy. Although, I did agree with Darren; poor Sam.

Darren and I exchanged looks, and we proceeded our way to the main courtroom.

Just before Samuel and the Bitch were out of ear-shot, we heard her flirtaciously declare to Sam, "Hello, I'm Harriet."

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I don't know how, but we managed to find the main courtroom. Shockingly, it was full of vampires. Darren and I shared a tired look before we made it to the middle of the room. The humongous room went silent, while the vamires around us parted like the red sea. After they hurried of the way, we could see five, pale men sitting on high chairs on a stage-like floor. They all shared amused glances before they reluctantly bowed their heads.

At least they had manners. I agreed with Darren; ever since we came here, Harriet had done nothing, but disrespect my place of throne, and it was unnerving.

When the Elders recovered from their show of courtesy, I began to exlplain why I came here, but they cut me off. I guess we spoke too soon about the well-mannered judgement.

"We know why you're here," one of the older looking Elders spoke up. At my indescisive stare, he continued, "We will help you find your sister... After all, she is considered royalty now." With one final smirk he motioned for the Elder on his right to continue on. Everyone could tell me and Darren were becoming impatient. We just want to find Juliet as soon as possible.

The Elder continued from where the other left off, "We will help you find her if you admit that you will be in debt for us."

Darren began to interrupt, but before he could ruin the playful mood the Elders seemed to carry, I agreed. Darren gave me an incredulous look, but nevertheless didn't object.

Seeming satisfied with my answer, he explained that one of their people was someone who could predict the future, and that we should go to him.

When he was done, I expressed my gratitude, which is very rare for a Royalty to do. a chorus of gasps swam through the crowd, but I ignored it. Fueled by a new wave of assurance and confidence, I grabbed Darren's hand and left the courtroom.

Time to find Juliet

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{ A/N i think this is the longest chapter *yay* anyway, when I was halfway through the chapter, I somehow managed to highlight everything I wrote and delete it without even doing it on purpose; I sat in my seat for about ten minutes just hyperventilating because I was pretty happy with what I had written (which is a rare thing), until I saw the 'undo' button on the WP thingy, I clicked on it and all my text came back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Bless Wattpad's 'undo' button* anyway, hope you liked the chappie, until next time, my little wattpadders :P }