I gasped as I shook my head. "Astral projection." Mom sighed. "Where were you?"
"I was standing behind Loran." I said after a few moments.
"I see so your connection to Loran must be pretty strong if that was the first place you ended up astral projecting to." Mother said as she looked up at me.
"Yeah yeah, Loran is the closest thing to a sister I've ever had at least to my knowledge."
"Yeah, you don't have a sister. Do you have a little brother who I am getting a little worried about?"
"Do I just need to break the guy's neck?" I asked her talking about my stepfather.
"You cannot murder your stepfather Diana. You can however scare the living fuck out of him. Like you did when you slammed his head into a table."
"He should be lucky I didn't do something worse to him.
"Dare I ask what he did to make you slammed his head into a table?" Logan asked me.
"He went to hit Xavier for no reason."
"Okay okay yeah, I think we'd all slammed his head into the table." Dad said with a grin.
What I was not expecting was my wolf to reappear with Xavier. "Whoa whoa whoa what just happened." I said getting up and moving over to Xavier who is bleeding. My wolf growled at me and his defensive mode. "This was not a good place to bring him." Shadows wrapped around him again and drive both him and the Wolf away. "Father where did you take him?"
"Your room. Take your mother and go. I'll keep everybody here." I was up and was dragged by my mother out of the room as I just about ran to my bedroom.
"The hell happened?" She asked me
"How would I know I told my wolf to protect? I didn't tell him to bring him here but he's bleeding and from what I was able to see it looks like a stab wound. I will guard the door."
I let Mom into the room and then close the door behind her taking up a guard position to keep anyone else out.
What's a heavy sigh and growl I kept myself into control as the scent of blood hits me pretty hard but not for a hunger type feeling more for a rip destroy kill whoever hurt my family.
Father appeared before me and I growled at him. He raised an eyebrow at me "Sorry sorry I don't know why but I'm going to kill whoever did that to him. And it's not just a mental want is more of an instinctual want."
"That happened sweetheart it happened when I found you. I wanted to destroy whoever hurt you. It's part of the family bond. You are not alone in wanting to tear whoever hurt that little one. and well this is definitely an odd situation you were my daughter he is your brother that makes him my son. What happens when someone hurts my kid?"
"The last time somebody hurt me they ended up hanging up in the and entryway halfway beaten to death. You were about ready to kill him if it hadn't been for Logan."
"You're right I almost said kill him and Logan ended up sending the idiot to the southern border and stripped him of his Noble title."
"I still don't understand why that happened."
"Think about what you know now and put it into the situation then."
"Oh oh oh oh. Clicked on him back then?"
"Sweetheart, you had just spent what 50 years as his Squire? you two were close you're even closer now."
"Point taken." I said I rub my arm.
My door cracked open. "Diana I need your help."
"What's going on?" I said stepping into the room and closing the door behind me.
" I need you to keep him still while I use my magic to sew the wound shut. I don't have anything to sedate him and he's more than likely going to scream and pass out."
"Yeah I can, I can do that." I said getting up behind him on the bed and wrapping myself around him to keep him still grabbing the blanket and putting part of it into his mouth we could scream into the blanket. He did end up screaming when she started to show him up. But thankfully he did end up passing out.
"Oh dear God, what happened here?"
"I don't know if I knew that I would gladly tell you." I tell her.
"Can you find out from your wolf?"
"Dad can we can ask him. It's probably not going to be pretty tough when Dad finds out. Because in a roundabout way Xavier is also Dad's son and anyone who hurts dad's kids end up strung up by their toes."
"Please tell me that is a metaphor."
"No no he literally hung up somebody by the toes when they tried to hurt me and then Logan sent them to the south side of the Border and that is the one place we do not recommend going if you want any part of a life."
"I see." She said as we leave the room. Dad had the wolf in front of him as he glared at the wall.
"Who are we stringing up?" I asked
"His father did that to him." He said as he slams his fist into the wall.
"Well we have him in he's safe now I'm going to need you to calm down dad."
"You and I both know that's not happening until I get my hands on that son of a bitch.
"I know you are going to calm down." I tell him. "Or do you want to scare Xavier?"
The look on his face made me almost laugh. "Fine."
"Thank you."
"He is thankfully out like a light." Mother said to him. "This is not something I am going to tolerate."
"Well, I would hope not." I said turning to Mom. "I'm honestly surprised you have a bond with that man."
" I don't. It was an arranged marriage because of my bloodline and you were missing and your dad was dead show the council decided to take matters into their own hands."
I looked at her to Dad then I shivered. "Uncle your hands are cold." I said as he laughed and fully came out of the shadows with another male.
"Hello, my niece." He said.
"Nic." The male said.
"Regulus," Dad said, pulling him to him. I smiled at them.
"How sickly sweet." Uncle said as he pretended to gage.
"Behave yourself, Uncle." I said as I opened the door and looked at Xavier who was sitting up.
"Diana!" He said running to me.
"Xavier you should still be asleep." I said kneeling as he hugs me.
"I'm sorry." He said as tears filled his eyes.
"Whatever are you sorry for? You were hurt you did as I told you to do." I said brushing the tears off his face. "Oh and we found your sister." I said softly.
"Really?" He asked me to look up at me with wide eyes.
"Yea you're looking at her." I said picking him up.
"Really?" He asked me.
"Really really." I said walking out of the room.
"How did you?" Mom asked me.
"His heart rate." I said.
"Oh." She nods.
"So Xavier this is my Dad Nicodemus. His Mate Regulus, and my crazy uncle King Varance."
"Diana!" I hear as Loran slides into the hall.
"And that is my sister of heart Loran. Why are you yelling my name?" I asked her.
"Oh, who is this little one?" She asked me as she moved behind me.
"This is Xavier, he's my son." Mom said.
"Oh, so that makes him Diana's little brother." Loran said, ruffling his hair.
"Yes, can you do me a favor and get him some clean clothes from one of the pages since he has blood on him." I said.
"On it!" She said before she took off!
"Why do I put up with her?" I asked Dad. He laughed at that.
"Because she's your sister."
I rolled my eyes. Not two minutes later. "I'm back!" She said as she slid back to us.
"Great." I said as she handed him the clothes and I put him down to let him get changed. "Now what did you want?" I asked her.
"Oh right." She said.
"You are an airhead." I sighed.
"I was going to say thank you for the only reason her father didn't outright tell me no was because you're my heart sister." She said looking down.
"Okay listen to me." I tell her. "You're annoying but you're one of the best knights of the northern clan." I remind her.
"I know I know but it was because I was turned." She glares past me.
"Then the man's an idiot." Dad said.
"Really I bet you ten Paolos Renee will kick his ass when she finds out."
"No shit." Loran said. "She is always overprotective of me."
"I'm done!"