The Pentagram Child: Part 1 (Afterlife Saga Book 5) by Stephanie Hudson

already. X’
     
    I released a sigh and quickly texted back my reply,
     
    ‘Not cool but I forgive you, you big jerk hot head! ;)
    C ya soon x’
     
    I just couldn’t bring myself to say I missed him too, as right now I most certainly did not. The last twenty minutes had been some of the most difficult in my life and that was saying something considering all I had been through in my twenty four, soon to be twenty five years!
    “Argh, bloody men!” I growled walking closer to the edge rubbing my arms in the cool summer night.
    “Amen to that, sister!” I groaned out loud before turning round to face the smallest Draven.
    “Sophia.” I said her name as a warning making her laugh nervously and holding both her hands up in surrender.
    “I know what you’re thinking.”
    “Murder?” I asked sarcastically making her grin.
    “Well I didn’t think it went that bad.” At this I burst out laughing but wasn’t completely convinced it was in humour.
    “You were there at that table right?” I said dragging a hand through my hair and holding it at my neck in frustration. Even this action reminded me of the man I had tried so hard to forget.  
    “Keira…” She said my name softly making me wince.
    “No Sophia! I told you…I bloody told you! All this time… Jesus, I mean nearly a bloody year of not wanting even the tiniest bit of information about him, and you what…thought that actually meant I wanted to see him again!?” I was ranting I knew but I felt so betrayed and after last year then this was a massive issue with me.
    “I know you’re hurt sweetheart but just listen to me for a second…” I felt her hand curl around my wrist as she pulled me to face her. I couldn’t help but bite my lip when her eyes took note of the tears that were threatening to spill over.
    “Oh Kazzy, please don’t blame me, I didn’t know he was coming here…it happened before I could even warn you about it. He knew I was meeting you and up until the last minute he refused to come with us but then…”
    “Wait a minute… you tried to get him to come with you?!” I screeched out this new information making her blush for once.
    “Uh…ooops.” She made a cute as all Hell scrunched up face and shrugged her shoulders.
    “Ooops!?”
    “My bad?” She tried that one and sounded just like Pip!
    “Arrrrh! I take it back…bloody Dravens!”   I shouted knowing I was never going to trust any of them again!
    “Ok, ok…so I know I was in the wrong but Keira, you both can’t see what’s going on around you and you are both so damned stubborn! You needed to at least start seeing each other again or the Proph…”
    “Don’t! Just…just don’t Sophia. I can’t hear one more word about some damn Prophecy that is dead set on ruining my life…it did it once but not again…you hear?!” Now the tears were falling and I wiped them away angrily knowing I had spent far too many seconds of my life crying over what the fucking powers above had deemed to be my future. But not anymore!
    “Alright Keira, I understand but please…please just try to understand me. What would you do for a brother you love…? What lengths would you go to if it was Libby’s happiness at stake? I didn’t just do it for him.” I sucked in a jagged breath, widened my eyes to try to hold back the tears and once again bit my lip all in vain of trying to keep my emotions in the prison I had constructed from hurt.
    “Just come back inside and be with us…that’s all I’m asking…we miss you, Keira.” I turned to look at her and could no longer hold back. I ran the distance and threw myself into her body, wrapping my arms around her and holding her close while the dam broke. She was shocked for a few seconds but then I felt her arms go around me to hold me closer. She waited for my silent sobbing to calm, all the while stroking back my hair and saying soothing words in another language.
    I could feel my tears soak her beautiful dress that would