Carnal

Chapter Four - Who Are You?

When no one else cracked a smile, Daniel's smile fell.

"Oh my God... How did that even happen?"

Jai looked warily at Cain.

It was the question both he and Cain had been asking themselves since they'd met her.

"I don't know," Cain said.

"But you're not supposed to have a mate. There's no way this should have hap-"

Cain's glare cut Daniel off.

They stood for a long moment in awkward silence before Jai spoke.

"You're a Vampire and a Lycanthrope. How long do you think you're going to be able to keep that to yourself?" Jai asked Cain.

Even Cain himself wasn't sure of the answer to that.

"Seriously," Daniel added, "you're taking her to a place full of people like us. She's going to be the only human there. It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out something was out of the ordinary."

"And that's assuming she hasn't already figured it out after dimwit over here decided to point out she was a human to her face," Jai chimed in, crossing his arms and shooting a glare at Daniel.

Daniel raised his hands defensively.

"I apologize for not having a filter," he said.

"You better get one," Cain said pointedly. "I can't have her figuring any of this out any time soon."

The last thing I want is to scare her away, he thought.

Daniel and Jai nodded before they turned to leave.

Cain opened the door to the next room and stopped.

"You think she figured it out?" Daniel asked sarcastically, noticing, as Cain had, the empty space where Ella had been sitting.

"Shit," Jai said under his breath.

The three of them stepped into the room, looking around with sharp eyes.

"Split up," Cain said. "She's still on the train."

He didn't need to look out the window to know that the train was moving quickly at this point. There was no way Ella was stupid enough to jump.

Jai and Daniel turned around and went down the hallway while Cain walked further down the room to the next car.

Cain came to the door at the other end of the car and, before he could touch the door handle, the door swung open.

- - -

Ella's P.O.V.

I jumped as I came face to face with Cain.

"What are you doing?" He asked, pulling me out of the hallway and into the car.

I felt my heart stop when his hand touched my upper arm.