Page 87 of Blood Bonds

I hoped this wish was enough to keep them in place and to give me the head start I would need. Well, I couldn’t go back now, so I got up, gathered up my clothes, and after finding a bathroom to use, I got dressed.

The problem with this was that I was gone from them for long enough that the moment I walked back inside, they started to wake.

“Not exactly what we had in mind for morning foreplay, Peaches,” Tal said, while Victor gritted his teeth because he knew exactly what this was. The both of them were now sitting up, and very alert to what was happening.

“It was a good plan, but these won’t hold us,” Victor warned, making me say,

“I’m sorry.”

It was enough to have him frowning when he then started to tug on the restraints, amazed to find the chains holding. Tal looked shocked and quickly did the same, the sounds of the chains thrashing made me wince with my eyes closed. Because I gathered that they had wanted to make a show of getting free once I was back in the room.

But they hadn’t expected to stay shackled.

“What have you done…is this magic?”Victor demanded, his voice hard and sharp as a knife’s edge.

“I don’t know. I just know it works,” I admitted in a strained voice, one full of deep regret.

“So, this is how you have been escaping us? You simply wish for something to open, and it does?”

I nodded, telling Victor yes. Tal looked to his brother, the disbelieving look easy to see, all trace of humor long gone.

“And now, what is your plan? Because you know if you run you will only find us again, so what is the point?” Tal asked, making me release a deep sigh before telling them both,

“That won’t happen again, not after today.”

Both of them narrowed their eyes at me, but it was Victor who was the first to ask,

“What do you mean by that?”

I couldn’t cope any longer as the first of my tears escaped.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean for any of it to happen. You have to know that.”

“Didn’t mean for what to happen?” Tal asked, his voice now as hard and strained as his brother’s.

“I know you won’t remember any of this, but you have to know… it was…it was real for me,”I told them, wiping at my cheeks, trying to take away the pain with them but it was pointless. No amount of washing away my tears would save me from this agony.

“What was real for you?” Victor asked, making me admit my biggest fear come true because now there was no point in hiding anymore. Besides, I would always regret not telling them how I felt, even if I was the only one who would ever remember it.

“The way I fell in love with you both,”I said though a fresh wave of tears. The sounds of the chains being tugged violently made me jump.

“Release us!” Victor demanded, even more desperate to get to me once I had made my confession.

“I’m sorry, I can’t. I hope that you can forgive me, even if soon you won’t need to.”

“What does that mean? Why do you keep saying we won’t remember?” Tal asked, and that furious pulse was back in Victor’s jaw as he guessed it.

“You made a deal with a witch.”

I let out a little sob before covering my mouth with my hands, trying to hold the in next one.

“A deal… what deal?” Tal asked, now looking just as furious.

“She wishes to be rid of us, Brother,” Victor said bitterly, making me take a step closer to the bed as I cried out,

“No! No, I don’t, and I won’t, not ever. I couldn’t, not even if I wanted to.”

Victor narrowed his eyes at that before he started laughing, an evil, dark sound that was void of all humor.

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