WARNING: This chapter contains a suicide attempt in Brinley's POV if you want to skip the second part of Brinley's POV it will still make sense. If you are ever feeling like suicide is the only option know you are loved and there are people willing to help. You're not alone <3
Brinley's POV
When drew bite down into my neck I feared the pain I had felt the night of the ball but that wasn't the case. I felt electricity flow throughout my entire body. I felt tingly all over not to mention the heat radiating from below my waist. Everything about Drew feeding from me was polar opposite from when it happened before but the biggest difference was, I could feel everything he felt. His loneliness, anxiety, anger, yet fear was the strongest emotion. The fear of losing me to Skyler. It didn't make any sense. I couldn't get that far into his mind. "I hope we aren't interrupting something." a woman's voice carried out through the room. Immediately Drew withdrew his fangs and stood up. I looked over to see the woman from the 1920's portrait. It was her. It was Drew and Colton's mother. The queen of vampires. She was at least 5'11 tall and graceful but had a look that said she was just as lethal as she was beautiful. "Young lady may you see yourself in your room, my son, I have a lot to discuss." With a nod I got up and left without a word. She didn't seem to be one to talk back to.
Taking a hot shower always made me feel better when everything felt off here. It has become my coping mechanism. My mom always said having a good coping mechanism could save people's lives. I wish I could only tell her how right she was. Thinking about my family made me feel hollow inside. To such a low point I thought about the unimaginable. I thought taking my own life. Being here was a prison and I knew I would either die here of old age or at the hands of a vampire. My family probably already thought I was dead so I might as well be. I walked into the bathroom and opened the medicine cabinet grabbing the sleeping pills. I took a deep breathe. This would all be over soon.
Drew's POV.
"Mother what are you doing here?" I said rolling up my sleeves and wiping my mouth of Brinley's blood. "We're here because of your brother and Scarlett escaping." My mother said walking over to me wiping the blood I hadn't fully got off the corner of my mouth. My mother Savannah Starr was a kind and loving woman my whole life up until my brother went on a killing spree embarrassing our family. The other four royal families blamed my mother for the carnage Colton did almost exposing us to the humans. After my brother was contained, my mom became ice cold only showing glimpses of the mom I used to know. "Were looking for them mother but wherever there hiding out Bridget can't locate them." with a sigh my mom flipped her hair over her shoulder. "Tell the witch to meet us in the meeting room it's time we do a blood locator spell." I nodded and left the room to find Bridget making my mother wait wouldn't be good for any of us. I continued to the meeting room then stopped right in my tracks. Did my mom say we're? As in two people? Then it hit me my father was here. Both of my parents. I'd have to tell Brinley later to be on her best behavior.
Jade's POV
The Starr's rolling into town wasn't my favorite time of year. To be honest they weren't my favorite faces to see. The Starr's or more so Savannah Starr has been a bitch most of my immortal life. She and a couple others helped create some of the strictest rules for us as vampires to follow, the biggest being vampires aren't to date out of our species. There were no dating witches, werewolves, or humans. Which was absurd due to her previously being a human that the king turned out of true love. Double standard bitch. Skyler never really spoke out loud about how he felt about Savannah, but I knew with that law set he would soon grow to despise her and someone very close to us as well.
My brother and I met each other outside of the meeting room with a small smile before entering. Walking in we were greeted with a smile from Wheeler. The king of us. Wheeler Starr was the nicest man in the world or as nice as a king could be. Skyler and I's whole life he had been like a second father to us. Bringing us sweets and presents every time he'd come visit us in Romania as children, he was also our uncle on our mother's side. Our mother used to tell us all their crazy adventures as children in the forest of Wolfsburg when they would go out and hunt the biggest boars as competition. But those days seemed to be long gone. Our uncle looked tired and on edge due to our lovely cousin Colton who no one seemed to be able to find. "Bridget lets begin." Our uncle said snapping me out of my thoughts. Bridget had set out a map of the united states surrounded by black candles and a knife in hand. " Each of you will cut the palm of your hand and bleed into the center of the map, with yall being blood related it should locate Colton." they all nodded and took the knife into their hands one by one and slicing there palms open and bleeding into the center of the map together until they healed, allowing Bridget to start the spell.
Bridget tried for over an hour to find Colton but kept coming up with the same thing. Another witch was hiding him from any magic. What a Smart asshole I thought as I played with my chipping nail polish. "You need to try harder!" Savannah yelled at Bridget not even making her flinch. "I'm doing my best but without a coven breaking a cloaking spell is more complex and will take me some time." Bridget said is a cold but calm voice. Uncle Wheeler put and hand on Bridget's shoulder with a smile. "Take the time you need to gather the ingredients for the spell but please do hurry, all of our lives are at danger." with that our uncle walked with Savannah out of the room.
Skyler and I followed Drew stopped us. "Jade, do you mind going and getting Brinley I wanted to talk to her in my room about something." I nodded and said yes, I needed to talk to Brinley anyway I wanted her to know I wasn't like the rest of my kind and never would be. As I got to Brinley's door something felt off. I could normally hear Brinley's heart going at a thousand beats per hour but this time I could barely hear it. Without a second thought I ran to the trying to open the door, but it was locked. With that I knew what Brinley I had done broke the door down and ran to her bedside to see the note laying on the pillow next to her.
To whoever finds me I'm sorry you had to find me like this I couldn't live like this. My last request is to please take my body back to my family.
I screamed and picked her up running at full speed to the infirmary. Nurses ran over seeing Brinley's almost lifeless body in my arms they took her and immediately started working on her. Within seconds Skyler and Drew were by my side. I had just witnessed the most horrific thing in my life. Even with all the death I've seen I've never witnessed someone so close to me try to take their life. My brother held me in his arms as I cried all I could think about was if I was a second later Brinley would have been gone completely and even right now it could be too late for her. "She will make it through this Jade and when she does, she will be severely punished." Drew said with anger in his voice. How could he be so cold and cruel the girl just tried to take her life and he was thinking about punishing her? As an immediate reacting I knocked the shit out of Drew knocking him through the door. I continued throwing punches at Drew connecting every time. Finally, Skyler threw me off of him and held me back from lunging at him again. "How can you be so heartless!" I yelled and threw tears streaming down my face. Drew stood up looking at me in the eyes Stoney face and it was sickening. He really didn't care about her. Coming around the corner came our uncle with a sympathetic look on his face. "When the girl makes it through, she will go home with you and Skyler, son in the meeting room now." he said turning around and out of sight. Drew followed behind without a word. I hoped uncle would show him as little mercy as he showed care for Brinley. "She will pull through Jade I promise, even if I have to turn her myself."
Drew's POV
When the door to the meeting room shut my father back handed me into it. "That girl trying to commit suicide because of you is unacceptable, treating her terribly is the reason she is fighting for her life right now!" My father roared standing over me. I spit and wipe the blood from my mouth. I never meant for her to want to kill herself. I knew I was hard on her but I never thought it would lead her to that. I was falling for her, and the law would have killed us both if I acted on it. "Son you know I can read your mind and emotions, so tell me why would you treat the girl you love so coldly." When those words came out of my fathers mouth I had to sit there and think. Did I really love Brinley? Have I been denying it all along? " The law is to be followed not broken father." I said standing up. My father shook his head and sighed "when I met your mother she was human and I a vampire it was looked down Apon to be with a human in our kind of sort of like a law that just wasn't written down but I fell in love with her and turned her for love and dealt with the consequences later, what I'm saying in a way is love is stronger than any law and if you love her the law shouldn't stop you." he said making me have to question everything I've done to Brinley. I had to fix this. I didn't know how but I knew I needed to start with Jade. Brinley would be going home with Skyler and Jade which gave me time to figure something out. She would be turning 18 soon maybe I could give her the one thing she's been missing the most. Even if it was only for a few hours in secret.