Mated To The Four Hybrids

**WARNING: Aside from the steamy scene, this chapter that you're about to read mentions/reference suicide in a very light manner - like when Rose decided to jump off the back of Titanic - if scenes like this trigger you, please read with care. **

Her name was *Jenny Duff* and her parents and twin brother, Jacob, died six months ago. They were driving Jacob home from a party when the car swerved off Black Hollow Bridge, dumping them into the pitch-black water.

She was in her room when her Aunt Silva and Uncle Benjie woke her up some hours later. Aunt Silva was weeping and describing what had happened to her parents and twin brother, telling her that she was suddenly alone.

*That couldn’t be right. Why or how was I alive, but my parents and Jacob weren’t?*, she thought and cried for hours after that.

After that, all Jenny wanted to do a month after they buried her parents and brother was follow them into the afterlife. She was not convinced that the afterlife was real at the time, but after losing them, all she wanted was for it to be true. Then courage surged through her veins once she reached the age of 16. So, one night, when Aunt Silva and Uncle Benjie were too exhausted to check on her after nearly an hour of loud and rough sex, she slipped out of their house and drove off to Black Hollow Bridge.

As she arrived at the bridge, the storm was already underway. And in a matter of seconds, she was completely soaked. When she got to the railing, she tried to wipe away the tears off her eyes, but it didn’t make much of a difference because she was already drenched from the rain.

Jenny’s heart thudded inside her chest after lightning flashed through the sky, followed by a loud crack. She was terrified, but she was even more terrified of living without her family – the only world she’d ever known was them.

Then she jumped.

The horror and pain of water flooding her lungs, as well as the trauma her body experienced that night, were still fresh in her mind. She felt she'd actually be able to find peace again. But she was mistaken for it was just the beginning...

Her heart raced in her chest as she allowed her mind to succumb to her death. Then the nothingness transformed into a dream. This was the first of the many visions she’d have about *them*.

Darkness started to curl around Jenny until she found herself in a place she had no memory of ever visiting before. A dreamy, dark crescent moon shone and lay peacefully in the beds of fluffy cotton candies in the distance, while eerie clouds drifted past her and a star swung just out of her reach.

Everything was dim and dreamy.

As she struggled to understand what was going on, the darkness around her pulsed and pulsed, and she suddenly dropped to the cold earth. She twisted and turned, trying to find a comfortable place. She was gasping for air. She yelled, and everything came to an abrupt halt.  She took a look around and discovered herself in an ancient, massive home. A mansion, most likely.

*Is that it? Am I dead?* She closed my eyes, and when she opened them again, she was already running, her vision blurred by hot tears of terror.

*What is going on?*

She turned around to look behind her, but as soon as her gaze fell on a pair of sharp amber eyes in the shadows, she quickly turned around and pushed herself to run a little faster. She swallowed a whimper and rubbed the back of her hand over her eyes.