Page 8 of My Perfect One
“This is my wife, Sakura. Her twin, Haruki, and their parents, Satoshi and Hanako Minamoto. This is Seraphina, Oliver and Archer…”
“Crawford.” Seraphina smiles at them.
“I’d like you all to tell each other what’s happened to you. I think that it’s the same group of people that is at the head of both situations.”
Seraphina tells them what they’ve told us so far and each of the Minamotos tell their stories. Each of them had a different experience. Haruki and Sakura were separated from each other and their parents for eleven years.
“Two days ago, we lost our parents and baby siblings. We never saw any other shifters. I could smell other shifters, but I couldn’t tell you what they were or how many there were in the building,” Oliver tells us.
“Did you know other shifter families growing up?” Enea asks.
“We knew a few of them, mostly snake shifters. But snake families are solitary. We would have dinner with a few of them once in a while. But none of our families lived together or even near each other. So when we were taken, they wouldn’t have wondered about us. Maybe after a longer time, they might have.”
“Did they tell you what they needed from you?” Satoshi asked.
“Not really. The only thing that I heard was that they were trying to synthesize our venom. But like we were telling the others, we have two different venoms. And we can choose which to use. Even if they stress us out, which they did often, we can still choose. So none of us ever gave them the toxic venom.”
“I know this is going to be hard. But we need you to tell us about the day that you lost your family,” my baba says to them.
“Oliver, Archer and I were taken first. It was just like every other day. Then they took Colby and Isla, they’re our twin siblings, they had just turned fourteen. As soon as they came back, they took our parents. That was our routine everyday,” Seraphina says as she sniffles.
I wrap my arms around her and hold her. I’m going to kill whoever did this to her and her family.
“We didn’t have a way to know what time it was. There were no clocks in our apartment. And no windows either. So when we say we were in there for two months, we only figured thatout after we escaped. After they brought our parents back, we all sat around and watched the TV. It only showed us movies. We couldn’t choose anything else. Isla was the first to get sick. She started throwing up, none of us had ever had any weird reactions to anything. Then, one by one, Colby and our parents started throwing up too,” Oliver says softly.
“We lost Colby first. We tried CPR and everything we could think of. No one came to help us, even though we were screaming into the intercom. They finally came when we told them everyone was gone. But before they got to our room, we made a plan,” Archer adds.
“How did you escape?” I ask.
“We shifted and waited in the bathrooms. Hoping that we were right and there were no cameras in there. There were six of them that came in. We waited until they were near the bathrooms and we attacked. We each took two of them down. Then we headed to the door that Oliver saw, it lead to the loading dock. That’s how we escaped. Our parents had a secret stash in case anything ever happened. So we knew where we were headed. The worst part is that we don’t know what they did with our family’s bodies. And that’s killing me. I hate that we left them there,” Seraphina says as her tears fall.
“We knew that our parents planned to come here, to Lake Renegade. They wanted to try and talk to you about the rumors we were hearing. About the shifter that was experimenting on other shifters. But we were taken before we could get here,” Oliver says as he holds Seraphina’s hand.
The bond I see between Seraphina and her brothers reminds me of mine with my siblings. I’m going to make sure we help them get revenge. Especially if Paul’s involved in this, he’s going to fucking die.
CHAPTER FIVE
Apollo
“I know I speak for everyone here, I’m so very sorry you’ve had to go through that. But you’re safe now and we’ll help you find out who did this to your family. And after we do, you have a home here with us if you want it,” my baba says to the three of them.
“Thank you for that. We were worried there was a chance that you wouldn’t or couldn’t help us.”
“We need more information from all of you, but we can talk more about this later. Do you need to shift? We have areas that you can use.”
“That would be great, do you all shift and run around the property? Doesn’t anyone see you?”
“Yes, we use the campgrounds to run around and the campers do see us. But anyone that uses our campgrounds has to sign a disclaimer, and they know that there are wild animals around. They understand they shouldn’t bother them.”
“Are all the wild animals in the campgrounds shifters?”
“No, we have normal wild animals too.”
“What kind of shifters are you?”
Eros chuckles and Baba squints at him.
“What? They’re fated mates. That’s kind of important to know.” He shrugs and continues to snicker.
