Sinful Mates 1-3

　　Waking to sound of whispers, I am laying on a bed in a room I have never seen before. Heavy red patterned drapes hang from the windows. I could feel the soft breeze coming in, sweeping over my skin lightly. The ceiling is high too high for anyone to reach without a ladder. What a bastard it would be to change the lightbulbs on the lights fixture hanging from the ceiling. Looking down, I am covered with grey duvet tucked tightly around me, making me feel claustrophobic. I wriggle my arms out. I feel like someone made the bed not realising I was under the blankets. Sitting up, I look around the room, it is huge. The bed is four poster bed with a canopy on top that matches the thick curtains. A huge bear skin rug is on the floor of the room, and it has a huge fireplace bigger than I am. A brown curved lounge sits in front of it. The stone walls fit perfectly with the mahogany and red cedar furniture. The room looks like something more fitting of a castle than a house. I look to the door which is slightly ajar and where the fast whispers of voices can be heard.

　　I strain my ears to listen. I could tell it was the same feminine voice of the woman from the office. She sounded angry and was arguing with a man who’s voice I couldn’t recognise.

　　“I will give you month, Tobias, Theo. Fix it, or I will. Whatever it is you have going on with that girl needs to end. Why you would you even think of doing this is beyond me.”

　　“She is our Mate, what did you expect us to do? Ignore her?” Tobias whisper yelled back, his voice rising.

　　“Precisely, you should have left her alone to go about her life and forgot about her. You know the consequences for bringing a human into our world. You have condemned that girl now to a fate she has no idea about.”

　　“If you really loved her like your mate, you wouldn’t have allowed this to happen. I thought you would have known better than to put her life at risk, Tobias.” I could hear the anger in the strange man’s voice.

　　“One month like your father said. One month either you convince her, or we will have no choice but to kill her. We can’t risk being exposed. The council will have your heads if they find out you broke the most sacred law we have.”

　　“And if she says no?” asks Theo.

a human, running around knowing all our secrets. It’s too

allow it,” Tobias screamed. His voice breaking, hurting

you choose for her, Tobias. I won’t risk our family. If you don’t fix this, I will kill

fear consuming me. They are going to

waking.” The man’s voice grew softer. I heard the door creak. I quickly laid back down pretending to be asleep. The door closed again, and I looked up. I needed to get the fuck out of here. As quietly as possible, I walk to the open window and peer outside. I am about three floors up but there are vines wrapping around the

best I could, I tried to climb down the vine, but the skirt I had on was making it extremely difficult. I tried to get a better grip and slipped, falling the couple of metres onto the rooftop below with a loud crash as

easier to run. Looking up at the window, the woman stuck her head out, noticing me on the roof. I panicked and looked around I had no choice but to jump,

to, l jumped, my ankle rolling on impact and shooting pain running up my legs. I stood on shaky legs and began running, but I had no idea where I was. The entire property was surrounded by trees. Looking back at the house, trying to figure out which way to run, I see the house is a huge stone farmhouse. It had three levels of windows

the paddock surrounding the house, only to come to a fence. Lifting the wire, I step through and start running again. My ankle screaming for me to stop. When I finally make it to the line of trees, I keep running refusing to slow my pace no matter how much body hates me for it. The branches and twigs dig into my feet, making hiss in pain. Tears start streaming down my face as I realise the words, of them monsters, the intention behind them. They wanted me dead, and now I was running from what? I had no idea but something, I know is sinister and dark. When the light disappeared, I could feel myself starting to panic, anxiety over every noise I heard. One thing I did find weird though no matter how far I have run, I haven’t seen one animal, not even a bird. The place was eerily silent, the only noise was my feet breaking twigs while I ran and the sound

to catch my breath, but the fear to keep moving has me standing up again after only a few minutes. Knowing if I stop, they might find me. But where do I go? The bush is thicker than

know how much further I had to go before I came to a road, let alone which direction to go in. Hearing a noise rush past me, I spin around. I know I am not alone out here anymore. The wind rushes past behind me again and I spin around trying to catch sight of whatever keeps running past me. My body breaking out in a cold sweat as my heart rate increases, my eyes wide trying to see anything in the darkness

tree. I try to scramble further back trying to get to my feet when my hands suddenly touch bare feet. I look up and

Imogen,” Tobias voice cuts through

　　“No, stay back,” I tell him