Chapter 45
In the morning, Anthony woke up by someone's mind linking him, as he looked down at his side him see Kathy still asleep with a smile on his face. He answered via mind-link. Anthony didn't want to answer, but he had no choice.
“Anthony, I want you and Kathy I want you two to come into the pack house for breakfast.”
Why must we visit the pack house after your special child saw my mate naked in our home?
"I will talk to Noah after breakfast. I have a surprise for you both," Samuel said with a grin.
“Once Kathy wakes, I'll ask if she's feeling well enough to join us,”
"I'll be seeing you both at breakfast,"
Anthony ended the mind-link as Kathy draped her leg over him and he gently rubbed her cheek, attempting to wake her, but instead, she snuggled closer.
"Kathy, the sunlight is streaming in, we need to get up,"
“Just give me five more minutes,” Kathy pleaded.
"Father's called a breakfast meeting at the pack house, Are you ready for it?” Anthony said.
“We don’t have no choices, but to go to this breakfast,”
“I know my little mermaid, come on let's get ready,”
While Kathy and Anthony prepared for breakfast, Anthony mind-linked Miles and Sarah, requesting a meeting at the packhouse, wary of his father. As they walked toward the packhouse, Anthony held the umbrella, the smell of wet earth mixing with the sound of falling rain. Kathy braced herself for the cold water, knowing that once submerged, her legs would meld into a tail, a secret revealed to the world. Anthony's arm went around her waist, pulling her close under the umbrella, shielding her from the rain. Anthony froze, his eyes widening in disbelief as he saw a figure in the window, but Kathy, looking at the same window, saw nothing.
“Anthony are you okay?”
“Yes, I thought I saw someone in the window, let get you out of the rain,”
Kathy sees Sarah and Miles under their umbrellas to protect themselves from the rain as everyone walking upstairs the rain came even harder. Kathy is almost slipping lucky Anthony catches her by the leg before she hurts herself. The servant opens the door for them and they closed their umbrella before walking inside of the packhouse. Anthony walks inside the dining room where his mother Evelyn, Samuel and Noah sitting down then a young woman who has a purple hair, her eyes are hazel, with beautiful freckles on her cheek and her pink lips. Anthony looks at the woman and squeeze Kathy hand really tight therefore this make Kathy rub his arms because he is hurting her hand.
“Maria what you are doing here?” asked Anthony
“I invited her, to come over. She says she was sorry for casting that nasty spell to make you blind. The reason I told to come here she knows how to remove that all the sliver and that land is going to be mine to owned,”
Now there is whole a lot tension in the room Kathy looks back at this woman who named Maria, the witch Anthony’s ex-lover. Samuel grins even bigger because he knows what he is doing, he is trying to get Kathy out of the picture and have Maria back with Anthony. However, Kathy knows what Samuel is doing.
“You two much be hungry, have some breakfast,” said Samuel
“I don’t know what you are doing, father we are leaving,” Anthony angry
“Go ahead, I can have Maria to break your mating bonding. Try me,” said Samuel
“Father, you can’t bother with matting bond and you know that,” said Anthony
Anthony stated that it was the truth, as if a formidable witch could casually sever a mating bond, a feat akin to brazenly defying the Moon Goddess. Kathy and Anthony listened as his father settled down in the chair while the omega brought the breakfast plate. Until Maria saw Kathy eating her food, a puzzle she never put together before, nobody spoke; what was this strange aura surrounding Kathy? Noah, looking at Kathy, stayed put to rub his feet on her leg, and Kathy, feeling a surge of anger, kicked him hard enough to shake the table a bit, drawing everyone's gaze.
"Noah, you want me to chop off your leg, correct?"
Miles and Sarah felt the tension, a suffocating pressure that made them wish they could escape, but they were stuck with Anthony and Kathy. Maria was curious about Kathy's quietness, so she chose to cast a water spell on her. Above Kathy's head, a water bubble burst, drenching her, and she quickly jumped up from her chair, racing to the nearby bathroom where she slammed the door and locked it. A sparkling mermaid tail replaced Kathy's legs, and she thought Maria's water spell was the culprit, leaving her soaked and shivering. Anthony was sprinting to follow Kathy, but his father's sudden yell froze him in place.
“Anthony, you stay. Let Miles and Sarah check on Kathy,”
Miles, rooted to the spot, sent Sarah to check on Kathy, unaware that Kathy was a mermaid, a secret that Sarah was about to discover. Sarah knocked on the bathroom door, her knuckles rapping sharply against the wood, hoping Kathy would answer.
“Kathy opens the door. Are you okay?”
"Um, I'm okay," she said, forcing a smile.
Kathy, lying on the tiled floor, scanned the bathroom, hoping to find a towel to reverse the transformation, while Sarah anxiously watched from the doorway. Desperate to escape, she dragged herself to the door, attempting to unlock it, yet Sarah managed to slip inside.
"Come in, Sarah," she offered, his voice barely a whisper.
The moment Sarah entered, she quickly shut the door to hide Kathy's half-human, half-fish body from view on the floor. Kathy's eyes rolled as she kept silent, hoping that Sarah would fill the air with sound, because she couldn't say anything.
“Sarah are you still here?”
Sarah shook her head, walked over to Kathy, and sat on the floor, still reeling; she reached out to touch it, needing to confirm its reality.
“Sarah, it’s real. You making seem that you never see a mermaid before,”
“I’ve never seen a mermaid on land before; they usually stay in the ocean with their kind,” Sarah said.
“Would you mind grabbing some towels, along with a change of clothes?”
"Are you feeling okay, all alone in this echoing bathroom?"
“Yes, go,”
Having gotten up from the floor, Sarah exited the bathroom to retrieve towels and fresh clothes for Kathy, who was still soaked. Currently, she fears Anthony is with his former lover, a woman she's unfamiliar with. Anthony confided in Kathy about Maria, a witch he once loved, and how their split ignited a fury that led to her hexing him with blindness. On the floor, Kathy's mind churned with plans to finally get rid of Maria.