Pisces: Book 1 in a Young Adult Paranormal Romance Series (The Zodiac Twin Flame Series) by Rachel Medhurst Read Free Book Online Page B

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    ‘Where have you been?’ Sagi asked.
    I smiled at her. She was small with curly red hair. Her stature was nothing compared to her quiet but deadly personality.
    ‘I’ve been with Father.’
    They gasped in unison and started to talk all at once. Aries stepped forward and whistled.
    ‘Firstly, let the girl breathe.’
    They shuffled to a seat and sat around the table. I loved it when Aries took control. He was the one who always knew what to do.
    ‘Go ahead,’ he said as he joined us.
    My throat contracted as I swallowed. Being centre of attention made me nervous. Luckily, it rarely happened. I tried to stay invisible, which was quite easy in a household of twelve twenty-year- olds.
    ‘I was taken to a house outside of London. In Surrey, I think. Father was there. He told me that I was about to start my mission.’
    Cancer was sitting beside me. She grabbed my hand and squealed. ‘That’s so exciting. You’re going to meet your twin flame!’
    Nodding, I pulled away, surprised that she wasn’t jealous. She always had lots of men around her. She was a brilliant flirt and I admired how easy she found it.
    ‘I’m going to stay with Father. He doesn’t want to kill us, he wants to protect us. I don’t know why Mother told us that he wanted to do us harm. There are people out there who want to stop the union, they are the ones that want to hurt us.’
    Aries growled. ‘The Dysfunctionals. I don’t like it. We shouldn’t be separated at a time like this.’
    A part of me wished they would understand and accept me. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to be around them, I just needed space. My new bedroom was an improvement but even that wasn’t quite enough. The boys woke me at night when they came in late from a night out in the city. Cancer was always letting herself in and borrowing my clothes. Sometimes I just wanted to be alone.
    ‘I need to be with Father. He’s our guardian now,’ I replied.
    ‘What about Mother?’ Sagi said. Her light green eyes met mine and I had to look away. She was quiet for a fire sign but she spoke up when called for.
    ‘I want to be with Father right now.’ What else could I say? I couldn’t tell them that Father had always been my favourite. For some reason I trusted him more than Mother, especially after Mother told us that Father was a threat when all he wanted to do was protect us.
    I loved them both equally but Mother was trying to control us. My intuition told me that something wasn’t right with her, however, I didn’t know what was wrong. Hopefully Father’s absence hadn’t made him want to control us, too. I hadn’t had the opportunity to ask him where he had been for the last five years. I needed to find out.
    ‘We all miss him but he abandoned us.’ Sagi stated the obvious.
    ‘He left initially because Mother wouldn’t let us have a life. We know that, we saw that.’
    We had lived in the same house our whole lives. We’d watched our parents’ marriage break down because of us. There was a point when we’d plotted to leave so they could have a chance to rekindle their love but we didn’t have anywhere else to go.
    ‘But he had you kidnapped?’ Scorpio asked.
    Aries’ knuckles turned white as he grabbed the wooden table surface. ‘That’s not right.’
    ‘I had the opportunity to get away but I was curious. He said that he knew none of us would listen if he just turned up.’
    Aries let go of the table and thumped it with his fist. ‘He still did wrong.’
    ‘You can talk, Mr Lover Man,’ Leo said.
    I glanced at my brother and he winked. Leo was the clown of the group and could always be counted on to try and lighten the mood.
    ‘Shut it.’ Aries glared at his best friend.
    We had bonded into two groups. Scorpio, Leo, Aries, Cancer, Sagi and I made up the first group. The opposite fire and water elements made things interesting. Virgo, Taurus, Gemini, Capricorn, Libra and Aquarius stuck together as the second group, although we all got on