Marked by Destiny (17 page)

“Do you believe Bentos is still alive?” I
couldn’t bring myself to ask what he thought of Bentos possibly
being my father.

“I do. For years I wanted to kill him myself.
He disappeared about fifteen years ago; just up and vanished. Now
I’m starting to wonder if it was because of you.”

Robert opened the door, tossed a knapsack on
the seat beside me and clicked himself in. “Let’s go. Tony, in the
shop, said the pack is looking for me. We need to get out of
here.”

Michael pulled into a parking spot.

“I said—”

Michael turned on him, his eyes starting to
glow blue. The mood in the Jeep reached all new levels of
tenseness. “I know what you said, but get this; I’m not your pack.
You’re not my leader. You don’t boss me around. You’re in this
vehicle because you saved Rouge, because she wants you here. The
moment she says otherwise, you’re gone.”

“Robert nodded his understanding, his face
set in stone, eyes fixed on Michael’s but not glowing Grollic
yellow. Not yet. “Trust is earned. It’s a two way street. I’m not
here for you. If I had the choice, you’d be lying beside Marcus.
You’re here because of Rouge.”

“Can we just get out of this hell hole?” I
interrupted them. The last thing we needed was a male showdown in
the Jeep with a whole pack of Grollics on their way to rip us to
shreds.

Neither spoke, but Michael pulled out of the
parking space and headed back to the highway. It was quiet for a
long time.

Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore. “Rob,
you said only one person can kill Bentos. Do you know who it
is?”

He nodded. “You really don’t know anything,
do you?” He sighed. “I’m Bento’s sixth child. It was believed that
only the male’s carried the Grollic gene. I don’t know if evolution
changed it, our environment or if it’s been different all along and
nobody knew, but you’re Bento’s daughter. His seventh child. The
Seventh Mark.” He pulled his shirt collar down, revealing his
birthmark. It was darker than any of the others I had ever seen.
“Only you can kill Bentos – and he wants you dead.

Impossible. Right? “Why?” I whispered.

“He controls
the Grollics. Now you control the Grollics. Mom pretended you died
in childbirth. When Bentos finally believed her, he left. She went
and got you and named you Jamie. Benjamin is the name that’s
supposed to stop the curse from happening. Bentos means Benjamin,
so Mom named you Jamie to try and stop the curse. It obviously
didn’t work.”

“Why’d she get
rid of me if she wanted to keep me?”

“Bentos came
back. He would have killed you if he knew you were alive. She gave
you away to protect you. When I heard about the incident on the
west coast, I figured it was you.” He turned in his seat, the
highway lights flashing against his amber eyes, making them look
yellow. “I knew you’d come back here. What I don’t know is how you
learned to compel the Grollics.”

I reached for
my purse and pulled out the Wolf Book. “I found this.” I tossed it
in his lap.

Robert lurched
away from it, as if the leather burned him. He pushed it away.
“Where the hell did you find it?”

“At a used book
store.”

Michael spoke,
his eyes still on the dark highway in front of him. “It found its
way to her. Do you know what it is?”

“I remember
Bentos used to carry it around with him. He freaked and tore the
town apart when he lost it. I always thought my Mom had stolen it
and that was what got her killed.”

I leaned over
the seat and picked it up. “It’s mine now.”

“You know the
cover’s made out of Grollic skin, right?” Robert shuddered.

I didn’t
flinch. The fact didn’t even phase me for some strange reason.

“Can you read
it?” Michael asked.

“Hell, no!”
Robert shook his head. “Do you know what’s inside it?”

“It’s Bento’s
journal.”

“That’s no
journal! That’s a spell book!
His
spell book. Nobody but
Bentos can read it!”

“Not exactly,”
I said.

My eyes met
Michael’s in the rear view mirror.

The book
slipped from my hands and fell on the seat beside me as my brain
finally started to absorb all the information I’d gained in the
last hour.

I had a mother
who hid me to protect me? A brother I’d just compelled to stop
being a Grollic? My father was alive and wanted me dead?

I was part
Grollic and now a witch?

Everything had
just become a lot more complicated.

~The End~

Compelled

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