Page 32 of Marked for Sin

Chastity dismounted and so did I. She wasn’t getting away from me that easily. “What did she steal?”

Envy growled and got off her bike too.

“She was stealing our security cameras. We hit her with several tranquilizer darts which finally brought her down. She has been imprisoned since then. We fed her animal blood to keep her alive. It's nearly impossible to speak to her because she thinks she's so much smarter than everyone but how dumb do you have to be to steal security cameras? Didn't she know we could see her?”

Envy took a step toward her angrily, showing her fangs when I placed my hand over her chest. Tensions were high so I had to defuse the situation

“Look, Chastity, can you please stay here while Envy and I go and check out the bike, then we expect an explanation. Does it still run?”

Chastity snapped back angrily while she scowled at Envy who hissed back in response. “You two please chill out for a moment. This is just about our sister. Shit, it's sad when I'm the voice of reason.”

“It should still run, no one has touched it since we rolled it over there. It's not like I rode it,” she admitted before she crossed her arms and rolled her eyes at Envy.

“Isn't this family getting along great?” I joked.

“She will never be one of us, Lust, ever!” Envy snapped.

Chastity ignored her as I grabbed Envy’s hand and led her down the hill to Greed’s bike. We made our descent into the small gully. They had it well hidden, it was covered in dust and you could tell it hadn't been moved for awhile. I climbed on top of it and turned the key to the on position and pressed the starter button awakening the sleeping bike from its slumber. Envy climbed on behind me and wrapped her arms around me when I held down the clutch and put it in first gear before putting it in first and rolling it slowly through the path. It took quite a while to navigate the hidden trails before we finally made our way back to the top of the hill where an angry Chastity was still waiting.

“Greed is going to be pissed at the condition of her bike. She will slaughter everyone of those humans. No one will be safe. I love her rage. Honestly, when she's pissed, she is kind of like Wrath.”

“I could see that, sis, but I'm sure Chastity will release her so we won't have to slaughter anyone.” I really hoped she did, if she cared about any of the humans back in her compound.

“But why? An entire place of cattle just ready for the slaughter.” Envy was already hungry for blood. So was I.

“Hey vampire, my people are not the cattle you think they are. We will fight back and if you attack us our forces are formidable,” Chastity snapped back showing her pure defiance.

It was what I loved about her; she was completely unafraid of Envy, but she should be. She should be afraid of me too, right now. Envy could be a bitch but when provoked nearly unable to calm down. Chastity needed to calm down or it would be Envy and I fighting for her survival. I was torn with the moment, torn between family and love.

“So now that we know your people have our sister Chastity we need you to let her go.” I leaned against Greed's bike as I gazed deep into Chastity’s eyes. Her eyes quickly turned away from me, perhaps from guilt. Good, she should feel guilty. I trusted her.

I snapped my finger attempting to get her attention when she finally looked at me with fire in her eyes. I sighed. This wasn’t going in our favor if we kept this up. We needed to find middle ground and get our sister back in one piece.

“Chastity, I promise. She will go without any incident and I promise you no repercussions will happen if you just release our sister. I have shown you no reason to not trust me so please let her go so all of this can be over.”

But my sister beside me was still brimming in anger. “Or we will burn your little home to the ground. He may not have told you about our clan but I promise there will be nothing left. We are only giving you this chance because Lust likes you otherwise you would be slaughtered already.”

Envy brought herself toe to toe with Chastity. Neither one of them blinked.

All of a sudden, Chastity covered her mouth and chuckled. “Is this supposed to scare me? You don't. I have nothing left to live for so if you think threatening me with death will scare me you are sorely mistaken.” She clenched her fist while looking eye to eye with Envy before turning her face away to stare at me “I will talk to the council and request for your sister to be released. But if your sister ever crosses me again wewillfight.”

“We can do that now, human!” Envy growled and I was once again caught in the middle.

The tension in the air was getting thick. Chastity didn’t realize that she would be the one to lose against my sister. I had to save her from herself.

“Envy, go home and tell Pride what happened, I will wait here to see what they say. Hopefully, Greed and I will be home soon,” I explained calmly.

Envy darted her gaze at me, then back at Chastity. My face was serious and didn’t waver when she looked at me again right before she reluctantly mounted her bike and headed home.

She shifted her bike violently before taking off, kicking up dirt. We remained in silence as the shrill of her bike became fainter and further away until we could no longer hear her bike.

“So, what the fuck is with the interrogation, huh Lust? If you had something you wanted to know you could've just asked me.”

That was rich of her. “If that's the case why didn't you tell me you had my sister?”

“Forgive the fuck outta me that I didn’t know all vampires are related! That dumb skank was stealing security cameras. Did she think we couldn't see her dumb ass?”

I walked toward her after taking a deep breath and pointed my finger at her face. “Don't talk about my sister that way. She is who the fuck she is but she is still my sister.”

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