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Chapter 72 - CHAPTER 72

Jay smiled at us but his scar made it seem creepy . We tried smiling back , even though it was not necessary . We thought that he would finally start talking , but he didn't . Instead , he started looking into all of our eyes , trying to decode some kind of special meaning from us . Finally , he talked .

"You have Leah with you , right ?" He was supposed to explain himself to us ! Not the other way around ! I stood up from my seat in the next second and shouted at him . "If you try to delay explaining yourself to us once more , you'll regret it . It doesn't matter if we have a person named Leah in our house . The question that we need an answer to is why you were spying on us !"

He must've thought that we would simply be startled by his question because we had a Siren with us but he was wrong . He wouldn't be able to decode our characters just by observing us for one week . Dad spoke next when Jay didn't open his mouth . "Did you forget how to talk ? You made me trust you by acting all open minded and honest . I told you what I was without hesitating because I thought that you would understand me and keep the secret ! You have one minute to find the key reasons to what you did . If you don't tall after that , we're taking you with us . "

We sat down . Dad actually took his phone out and kept a one minute timer on . The timer was the kind to shout out each and every second . The voice seemed to irritate Jay so he said , "Would you please mute the voice ? I f you need an answer , I need calm and quiet ."

He dared to say that to us ! It was Kate's turn to take out her frustration from knowing what he was doing . "Look boy ! we aren't here to request an answer from you . We're ordering you to do it . You better find your reasons with the sound because if you don't , we're just going to have to make it much more harder for you." Seeing Jay gulp , was satisfying to watch . He always acted like he had the upper hand on us and now , he was helpless . It was HIS house , but I didn't care . He had stopped me from getting near him before so this time , I walked towards him .

He was taken aback but still had to think since there was only 10 seconds left and didn't try to create an argument . He looked so afraid and I was enjoying it . He wasn't human . He was a Happon too . "You don't have your carving , right ? It's okay... We don't bite humans ... Only people with evil minds !" I acted like a cheerful creep in front of him . The fact that he was following me and then denied it was boiling my blood . This was my way of bringing calmness to my mind . Ben was also relieved because he was staring to think that I was getting attracted to Jay , when in reality it wasn't even slightly true .

"TRING!!!" The stop watch made a noise when the time finished . I had gotten what I wanted so I proceeded to sit back in my chair .

"So? What do you have to say to us ?" Ben asked , he knew that we had the upper hand . It was also nice to see him act more mature than how he acted in front of my old high school friend in the cafe . If I had told him that he used to my high school crush before , he would've killed him that day .

"Well .... You know that I'm a Happon . Jaden knows that I work for the mafia . I-"

Dad cut him off saying , "So the part that you were working for the mafia WAS true ?"

Jay nodded his head as a yes . " It was my boss , Fredrick that told me to keep an eye on about 16 or 17 years ago . He had known about you Jaden , a long time ago . I guess he knew that many people started residing in your house before hand because he told me that I needed to stay for more than a week . Wanted me to find some kind of evidence that could result in one of you ending up in prison . He only knows that Jaden is a vampire , and Leah is a Siren . He doesn't know that I'm a Morkoth . My only possession , my carving , was taken away from me because I told them that it reminded me of my mother . He didn't want me to have a soft spot on so he took it away from me . I know about Berthims so I always kept people away from me , fearing that one of them might be a Berthim and find out what I actually was . I'm sorry but I have to do this if I need my carving to be taken care of . "

He wasn't dangerous after all . But Fredrick was playing a cruel trick on him . He was thinking wrong . He was probably taught that if his carving was destroyed , he would have to pay the price for it . He wasn't someone working against us with his own need , but he was doing it against his wish . It melted my heart . I wondered how he got the cut that made him look so scary when in reality he was a broken person . I stood up from my chair and went to him , patted his back , while he broke into tears.

Later , when he had calmed down , we had enough time to explain what would ACTUALLY happen if someone broke the carving . Memories of Luke being taken away by the demon stood clear above my head when I explained everything using Luke and I as an example . He was scared when I said that I had to perform magic for it to return back to it's carving . "So what if my demon goes out of my carving after it breaks and never comes back ? "

I smiled at him because that was a question I had in mind when I was researching about Happons .