Surreptitious Alliance: Marked by My Alien Slave

Rain pov.

"We have to leave." Morgan announces when we step through the back door of my house. The place looks different, and it takes me a few seconds to realize the Fairie must have used magic to expand the inside of the house. Fitting in a bigger table for everyone to fit and even some couches.

"Leave, why?" Benjamin asks, rising from his chair, ever the graceful bloodsucker he is. Something about him rubs me the wrong way and I don't know if it's just because he took my memories that wasn't his to take or because I know he knows a lot more than he's letting on. No one can be that old and ancient and be this much of a fool. As dangerous as Ragna is by just being in proximity to him, Benjamin is far more so.

"Ragna found us." I mutter, walking over to River who looks like she doesn't know if she should be angry or confused. "Pack your things." I tell her and she shakes her head, eyes blazing. Guess she's landed on anger. "You can't just come in here and take me away. I have school. I have exams and I have my friends." She rants and I can't find it in me to scold her.

"None of which is going to matter if you die." Morgan tells her, not an ounce of sympathy coming from her. "And you're going to die River. If you stay here and continue acting like a five-year-old, who I bet has more common sense than you do, you're going to die. Your school is going to become a war zone, no one is going to care about exams and your friends are going to die along side of you and it's not going to matter to anyone until after the war is over and then it'll be too late for regrets. So, for the time being you will do as your brother tells you and if you don't, I will cut you lose and I won't care what happens you, no matter how much I care about Rain. I don't like you and your attitude is working on my last damn nerve so either you go pack your things or you be stupid and stay. I don't care." Tears form in my sister's eyes, but she gets up from the couch she's curled up on and heads into her room.

"That was harsh." Luca mutters and Morgan glares at the Fairie.

"You're talking about harsh? You?" He doesn't answer her, instead looks out the window like she didn't just speak to him causing her to scoff. "Little one." Benjamin sighs and Morgan glares at him too. "You're angry but it's not going to help anyone." He tries and she shakes her head.

"No, I'm not angry. I've just realized some things on my way back from talking to a seven feet hybrid who might be more important than we realize. You knew this was happening." She looks directly at Benjamin. "You all had an idea of something stirring and no one thought to clue me in about who the fuck I am because it suited you better to use me as some type of pawn. So, we've established we're going to war and that's great. It's fine but what I will not allow is to be left out of anything anymore. You're going to take us somewhere we can be protected so I can focus and find as much information as I can on Sinclair. I want to be safe. I want as much time as you can possibly give me and I swear on my mother's grave, if anything happens to Rain during any of this you won't have to worry about Sinclair being your worst nightmare.” She stalks out of the room, following my sister and we all just stare at each other.

"Rain, I need to talk to you, pup." Benjamin says and I shake my head.

"Not if you're going to call me that." It irks me deep in my soul when he calls me that and Remi isn't too happy about it either.

"You're well suited." He muses and I raise an eyebrow. "Fine, outside if you please." I watch him go and then follow a few seconds later. I figure we'd stop in the garden, but he doesn't stop there, he walks into the woods and only stops until we're a good distance away from the house. This can only mean he's about to tell me not to tell Morgan this and my stomach already twists at the thought.

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"I'm telling her. Whatever it is you don't want her to know. I'm not keeping her in the dark." I tell him the moment he turns around to look at me.

"This isn't about Morgan. This is about you." He looks worried, a deep frown settling between his eyebrows. "What about me?" The hairs on the back of my neck rises and I know I'm not going to like this one bit.

"What do you remember about the death of your parents?" I frown and shrug my shoulders.Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

"I don't know. I was young. They left us in the castle and went to fight. They told us they died on the front lines or something like that." I couldn't exactly fall apart after my parents died. I had River to take care of. Benjamin doesn't answer me, and I stare at him for a while until I realize he's messed with my memories before. "That is what happened, right?" Remi rises within me, and I don't even bother pushing him back because we have the very same idea. Whatever he tells me now, whatever twisted thing they've done now he's going to lose his life today and I won't regret it.

"They left you in the castle, yes, not because there was a war going on but because that was your home." He rubs his nose with his thumb and pointer finger, looking like a heavy weight is rested on his shoulders.

"No, the cottage is our home." It's small but it's where we've lived all my life.

"You're royal blood Rain. You were born in the castle. You grew up in the castle." I give him a blank stare.

"Is this what you came to tell me?" He shakes his head, and I feel my hackles rising, Remi on the very surface of my skin, ready to pounce at his next words.

"No, I came to tell you that I had to alter your memories to protect you. Yours, River's and your wolves." He admits.

"Why?" I growl, sick of this running around the bush nonsense.

"Because your parents are alive Rain, but..." I don't give him a chance to finish his sentence. Blind rage overwhelms me, and I give Remi control of everything, not caring what he does and to who he does it to. Pain slices through my chest, leaving me unable to breathe as I sink into the back of my mind. Completely and utterly defeated as another part of my world crumbles and I have no control over any of it.