Page 26 of My Perfect One
“All I really want to know is why they took us. And what they wanted our venom for.” Stellan Crawford says.
“Do you want to ask her?”
“Sure. Although from what everyone has said, she’s not going to tell me what I want to know.”
“She probably won’t. But you can still ask.”
The twins stay in the living room while Seraphina and her brothers follow us downstairs. As we’re going down, the screaming turns into screeching. We see Ares stepping out of one of the rooms.
“I’m pretty sure I’m fucking deaf and Paul is still a cowardly fucktard. You’re not going to get anything out of him. I think this is how he thinks he’s going to get out of this situation again. Shift and scream. It’s what he did last time.”
“Yeah, but this time he’s not leaving the cleaners compound. No matter what he does.” I say.
“I’ve called my cleaner family, they’ll be here soon. I do remember that when he was at the compound, he spent a lot of time doing this. Then one day he stopped and started talking. That’s why we thought he was doing better. Well, they thought he was better. I told them from the start that none of them were worth giving a second chance to.” Hanako says as Paul screams even louder.
“So he’s not in pain, or really crazy, he’s just acting like he is?” Heather asks.
“Yes. This I all an act.”
“That’s insane and manipulative.”
Eros opens the door to one of the rooms and we can see Matilda sitting at the table. She’s chained to it and she doesn’t look happy.
“We just have a few questions for you.” My baba says to her.
Instead of answering, she’s just staring at us.
“First of all, you’re a shifter. Why would you experiment on us?”
“You’re lowly shifters. We’re working on making a superior race and then we’ll take all of you out.”
“Ho-ly fuck. What is wrong with you? Do you really believe that?” I growl out at her.
Matilda smirks at me. “You look like that shithead I shot. Did he die? I hope he died.”
Before I can get to her, my baba steps in front of me.
“You’ll have to leave if you can’t control yourself.” He says as he looks at me, then looks down at my hand.
I didn’t even realize I had shifted my hand, all I was thinking about was slapping that smirk off her fucking face. I take a deep breath and nod at my baba. I take a step back and watch Matilda. Seraphina takes my hand and I fell my body relaxing more.
“Oh how cute. You’re will the slimy snake shifter. I knew I should’ve had them try the serum on all of you.”
“Unfortunately, I don’t think we’re going to get any real answers from her. Mostly because I think she’s just a puppet in all of this. I used to think your mother was the head of OmniBioCorp. But now I know she’s not. Because if she was? You wouldn’t have been out in the open. You would’ve been hidden away, calling the shots from behind the scenes. Like the ones that are really running this scam show.” Enea says to her.
“You don’t know anything. You’re just a fucking human. You know nothing about what’s going on.”
Matilda shifts and we all step back. The shackles on her hands and legs are designed to tighten or loosen when whatever is in it changes shape. I don’t think we’re going to get any more out of her.
“Well fuck.” Ares says as he joins us. “Oh and the cleaners are here.”
Hanako leaves to go and get the cleaners. We all step out of the room and head upstairs.
“So that’s it? We just have to pretend that everything’s okay?” Seraphina frowns.
“I wanted closure, but I realized that I wasn’t going to get it. You’re not alone, you have all of us. My family knows what you’ve been through. So we’re here if any of you need anything.” Sakura says to her.
“We appreciate that. I did have a question, I want to keep looking for who’s behind OmniBioCorp.” Stellan says to Enea.
