They walked into the shopping center.
Chapter 6
Faith turned to the girls. “We’re going to go talk to that man now so I need you girls to listen.”
They both nodded. Ava and Eve asked if they would like piggyback rides, which they enthusiastically accepted. Eight stores in was the bag store, and standing in front of it was a really tall man with dark skin. His clothes were baggy, and he had a hat on his head, hiding his features. He looked up and straight into Faith’s eyes, and she gasped when she saw that his eyes were black with a red tinge around the edge. As she got closer she could tell his skin also had a red tinge.
Kane swore. Faith couldn’t take her eyes off the stranger, there was something familiar about him.
“I don’t feel any danger, Kane. I actually get really positive vibes.”
The half-breed’s eyes never left Faith, and the odd thing was that they looked on her with love. When she was only a shop away, he smiled, revealing long, sharp teeth. Kane snarled, and the man stopped smiling, covering his teeth. Faith could feel the menace, anger, and curiosity coming off the werewolves as they reached the bag store. Kane stood in front of her.
“You don’t look at her. If you have something to say, say it to me.” Kane growled, flashing his sharp, lengthened teeth.
Faith knew Kane was being overprotective because they weren’t sure what this half-breed demon could do. Demons had the ability to control you as long as you kept your gaze on them and didn’t get distracted, and once they got their teeth into you and drained you of your blood, you became their zombie to command.
Faith carefully peered around Kane and noticed that the man looked a lot younger than she had originally thought. She didn’t even think he was a man, more like a young teenager.
“She said you would be beautiful, and it would shine from the inside out. You look exactly like her,” the half-breed said. He sounded like a teenager whose voice was just about to break.
A red tear fell from his eyes. He reached out to touch her, but quick as lightning, Kane grabbed his hand. “You don’t ever touch her. Don’t even look at her!”
The boy winced. “I would never hurt her, I love her. My mum said you werewolves would look after her.”
Faith looked around. She had been so involved in everything going on that she hadn’t realized they had been walking to the exit, surrounded by the werewolves.
The half-breed continued, “She said her princess would always be protected. She knew they were coming for her, they wanted you. Mum said it was fate helping that that woman had a stillborn child.” He looked at Faith and whispered, “They never knew. Mum bespelled you.”
Kane growled and moved in front of Faith again. “Half-breed, I won’t tell you again, don’t look at her.”
Faith frowned. “What are you talking about?”
She glanced around to see they were in the far end of the car park where there were only one or two cars.
“I’m half-breed to everyone, but Mum called me Ben, her big Bengie. Mum tried to come with me, but they killed her. She died so I could get here on time. Mum said to tell you she loved you with all her heart. She said when you touch me you would know all she said and you would love me just like she did.” Red tears were rolling from his eyes. “I like the daylight, as you can see. I’m different from the demons. I ran here to you in the sun. I even like water. Mum said she couldn’t see what would happen, but she knew I needed to be here and you would be here with your wolves, but the visions didn’t show her how many there would be. She said it would be hard, but once you touched me you would know I’m your brother. My mum was your mum.”
Rane and Blake grabbed Ben and started pulling him to a van.
“Please, just touch me and you’ll know.”
Faith knew she shouldn’t do it, but she was the only paranormal psychic in her family, and she had always felt like the odd duck. She didn’t look like either of her parents or their family, and she couldn’t shake the feeling he was telling her the truth. Without thinking, she ran around Kane and touched Ben’s hand. She heard Kane’s roar of “noooo” as he grabbed her around the waist as the vision started.
A very pregnant woman who looked exactly like Faith waddled into the hospital. As she entered she yelled, “Please, my baby’s coming. Please hurry, we don’t have much time.”
Nurses ran to the woman, grabbing her just before she fell to the floor. They rushed her up in the elevator then along a corridor and into a room. The woman yelled, chanting some words that Faith didn’t know. She screamed, moaned, and a baby girl came out squealing.