Fifty-Nine…

Fifty-Nine: Blood Ties

Contains language.

Shuffling came from behind.

Oh… shit.

“Oh, my God! What are you doing with my diary, you fucking bitch!”

Kat fled from the bedroom.

“Come back here!” Ash screamed.

Ash’s footfalls pounded as she chased after Kat.

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Kat flew past the den, where her parents sat cuddling.

“Give me back my diary!” Ash raged.

Kat could only imagine what her parents were thinking…

Ash chased her all the way outside.

And all the way to the dilapidated box cars. Then Kat paused and started reading the diary.

“Please,” Ash said.

Kat skimmed over the first few pages until she found some juicy info.

Info that would turn her tiny world inside Shadowvale upside down, inside out.

“Kat, I’ll do anything… just please don’t read it.”

Kat ignored her. She read the first interesting entry, puzzled with its potential meaning.

She turned another page, and gaped in shock.

“Hunter is your father?”

“Yeah.”

Silence. Kat continued reading.

One by one, each stunning discovery rang out like mini bombs going off.

“I’m not going to let you seduce my dad!” she cried. “He loves my mom! So just forget it, you low-life fucking SLUT!”

“I said I’ll do anything! Please, what do you want me to do?”

“Can you make your dad fall out of love with my mom? Can you make him fall in love with me?”

Silence.

“I didn’t think so,” Kat said.

“Please don’t tell anyone. I’ll freakin’ give you all A’s on your schoolwork, and you won’t even have to do anything. I’ll kiss your ass for the next two years!”

Hmm. Maybe she’s not the one to blackmail. Maybe it’s Hunter.

A couple hours before dawn, her parents still lingered in the den.

Kat skirted around the doorway. She was supposed to be in bed.

After one last peek, she sneaked over to the front doors and then slipped out.

Next stop: the friendly neighborhood clinic where a certain doctor worked.

She tapped on the office door. Hunter answered.

“I know everything,” she said. “I know Ashton’s your daughter. I know you sent her to live with us to break up my parents. I also know about the wolf thing.”

His lips parted, but no words emerged.

“All I ask is for you to give me a chance. Give us a chance to have a relationship. Then I won’t tell anyone.”

Hunter lunged at her.

He forced her into the room, pulling the door shut.

Thump thump thump went her heart.

But he wasn’t doing anything that she wanted him to do. Instead, he backed her to the wall… and bitched her out.

“It’s never going to happen, Kat. Never.”

“Okay. I get it.” Her heart split in two.

“No. You don’t get it. If you did, you’d stop fucking with me. Now you’re fucking with my family.”

And you’re fucking with MY family.

“This is what we’re going to do. I’m going to take you home, and I’m going to tell Vaclav and Aubrey everything. No more secrets, and no more possibility of blackmail.”

He grabbed her hand and yanked her into the hallway.

“No! Please don’t tell Mom and Dad!”

“Too bad, Kat! This ends right now!” Hunter wrenched her hand.

“Ouch!”

Minutes later, they sat in his sports car on their way to the Haas residence.

Rap music blasted from the stereo. He quickly switched it off.

“How did you find out about this?”

“There was a key hidden in the carousel. I used it to unlock her diary,” Kat said.

“Oh.” He looked pretty ticked off.

Thump thump thump. This time, instead of her heart thumping in desire, Kat was nervous about the imminent confrontation with her parents.

“Vaclav!” Hunter called. “Vaclav!”

“They’re probably asleep!” Kat said.

“No. They’re not.”

Her father entered the foyer.

First he looked at Hunter; then he glanced at Kat.

“What’s going on?” he finally said.

“I need to tell you and Aubrey some things.”

“You might want to step away from my daughter while you… tell me these things.”

“Ashton’s my daughter. I sent her to live with you to break up your marriage to Aubrey.”

“Aubrey! Please come here for a minute!”

“Tell Aubrey what you just told me,” Vaclav said.

Hunter did.

“I’m sorry, Aubrey. I’m sorry for trying to screw with your marriage. I’m sorry for never telling you about my daughter.”

She stared at him, then shook her head in disbelief.

“I never mentioned Ashton because it was war time, and all the Shadows were being killed. I sent Ashton and her mother out of state to go into hiding.”

“Ashton was six years old when I met you, Aubrey.”

Aubrey continued shaking her head.

Then Ash walked in.

“Don’t tell them about me,” Kat hissed.

“Kat also seems to have a crush on me, but no worries. I won’t take advantage.”

UGH! You asshole!

“Kat, get away from him.”

She didn’t have to. Hunter left her side and went over to Ashton.

“You couldn’t remember to take the spare keys out of the carousel before selling it?”

She rolled her eyes.

Before leaving with her father, Ash gazed at something past the stairs. Kat followed her line of vision.

She was looking at Reznik, who appeared around the corner.

That’s right. Ash’s pregnant! I wonder if Hunter knows yet?

The front doors slammed shut.

Then her father decided to take his anger out on her poor mother. Just friggin’ great.

“You had NO idea that woman was Hunter’s daughter? No idea at all?”

“Did you?” she replied.

“Do you know how much I’d love to kill Hunter at this moment?” he ranted. “But guess what? I can’t! I can’t kill him because he’s the only one who can keep Kat alive! SEE THE FUCKING IRONY IN THIS, AUBREY?”

She sobbed. “Leave me alone! It’s not my fault! I didn’t know!”

“If he wasn’t so much in love with you, this shit would never have happened! Fucker needs to leave my wife alone, and get a woman of his own!”

Okay. I really want to run away from this shit.

Freakin’ drama. Never ends.

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I uninstalled the update of IE 9, so now I can center the asterisks again. Of course that’s not the only reason why I uninstalled the update. I was having other issues with IE 9.

Anyhow, I’m really missing the romance in this story. It WILL come back, it’s just that Kat has to be a little older in order for it not to be perverse. She should be at least 17 before any romance begins (no matter whom she’s having the romance with). Within the next couple of chapters I’ll do another flash forward so the good stuff can start. 😀

TY for reading! ♥

And for your listening pleasure, here’s another cool song…  lol. No I didn’t make the video. BTW I tried to find the version of the song where a wolf howls in the background (totally awesome) but couldn’t. And I didn’t want to post the original video because it was just… silly. >_>

Personally, Nick Carter has always been my fave…

Oh, yeah. 😛  yeah, yeah, yeah ♪