Trinity - Defying Destiny

by Kylie Price

  Trinity

  Defying Destiny

  Kylie Price

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  Printed in the Australia

  Printed 2015

  Ebook Edition

  ASIN: B00SIPBRTW

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The author accepts no responsibility for any thoughts you may form after reading her works.

  This book is written in Australian English. If you have any inquiries about the different slang and spelling, please go to the back of the book where you can find the means to contact Kylie Price who will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

  Dedicated to… Ana Rodriguez, Sally Steele and Robin Carter. You ladies mean the world to me. You have been with me through my writing journey from almost the beginning. Strangers from across the big blue pond, to a friendship I hold close and dear. Without your help my books would be a mess and unable to be enjoyed as much. You help turn my ideas into perfection, XOX, Love you and all you have done for me.

  Acknowledgements

  I would like to say a big I LOVE YOU to my three babies, Seth, Heath and Shelby. You are all my world I love you too much for mere words. Thank you for understanding what I do and being patient with me. I love you bigger than the whole sky. <3

  Special love for my soul sisters Denai Sonter, Nicole Poor and Julie Pratt! Love you girls to the moon and back XOX!

  BIG shout out to my awesome friends that have stayed by my side and believed in me when others wouldn’t. Your support means the world to me. Thank you for helping be my motivation and backbone. You all know who you are <3!

  I would like to also thank all my online friends that some have become very close and dear to me. Too many to name names. But, again, you know who you are and you know how much I care and treasure our friendship.

  A special Thank you to my PA Toni Lewis. You rock girl and I love you just being there and having a chat with me when I am procrastinating on edits or promotion stuff. <3

  AND a BIG Thank you to all my readers and fans. You guys are all so fantastic and keep me inspired to follow my dreams even when I feel I just don’t have what it takes. Hearing how much you love my stories and pushing me to write more is an amazing drive. Much love to you all <3 XOX <3!!!!

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  Thank you so much for all of your hard work and dedication to me and my work. Without you all I wouldn’t be where I am today. Even with my learning disorder you all laugh with me at my funny errors and help guide me in others. Your patience and understanding mean so much to me and you make me feel that I can still be a writer even with my setbacks. You help me step forward. XOX

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  Trinity – Defying Destiny

  Trinity series book two

  #1 Trinity – The Prophecy

  Kylie Price

  From The Book of Prophecies

  Three lives will be shaped. This will happen three times, in three different stages. We are bound by the rules of three, it is the sign of the Trinity. A time for change is ahead as the enemies will be brought out of the shadows and made to stand as one for the survival of them all. The shadows will no longer cloak them; the night will no longer shelter them. What we once fought to protect will in turn become the very thing we will fear.

  Chapter One

  I was still kneeling beside Nikkee’s body. I felt the blood from my lips slowly sliding down my chin. My eyes moved up to Jason’s; he looked both mad and disappointed. It was written all over his face. My eyebrows lifted, as I was seeing a lot of people standing behind him that I had not noticed before. They were vampires and werewolves and even a few witches in the crowd. I was not sure how, but I could distinguish between them with such ease. It was a knowledge I hadn’t realized I possessed before.

  I hung my head down looking at her lifeless body.

  Warm hands that felt familiar to me, grabbed me by the upper arm and stood me up. He turned me around into his chest and held me tight. All my fears and regrets came sweeping over. It was Garth that held me close. I wasn’t sure why, but I welcomed his warmth with open arms as I felt myself crumble.

  “She has lost a lot of blood, but she is still with us,” I heard Vex say.

  A sigh of relief escaped my lips. I turned my head out of Garth’s chest, looked towards her, and saw Jason and Vex both lift her up.

  “We need to get her out of here,” Jason said as Vex helped him position Nikkee in his arms. I was sure he didn’t need the help, but it was given to him anyways.

  He turned around and started heading back the way we had all come. I stood frozen as I watched him leave. I felt a pang in my chest that he did not even look my way, but I understood that he had more important things on his mind at that moment.

  Others turned and followed behind as he left my sight. I looked over to where Marie’s body was still lying, with her eyes wide open and glazed over, looking up at the stars that poked through the clearing of trees above. The fog had started rolling through and was slowly creeping over her body.

  “Do we leave her?” I asked in a quiet voice.

  “It will be taken care of Trinity, as will the rest. Come, let’s get you back home,” Garth said in his strong deep voice.

  “I don’t think I have a home anymore,” I whispered.

  “You will always have a home if you know where to go,” he told me.

  I turned and looked into his face. He still had a scary demeanour with a scar that ran down his right cheek under his eye, and his hair was a mess. His eyes, however, had a gentle look to them, letting me know that I could trust him and that his words were truthful and sincere.

  “I want to go where Nikkee will be. I need to know she will be ok,” I told him.

  “Then that is where we will go,” he said and started walking the same direction Jason had just headed.

  I forced myself to take a step after him, then another, and another until I reached the spot where Sky was standing with a few of the vampires, werewolves and witches that were waiting for us to leave.

  As I reached her, another tear silently rolled down my cheek. I reached my hand up to my neck where I cupped Old Mother’s Tears as they sat warm on my collarbone. Sky gave me a hug and squeezed me tight, but I really didn’t want to be comforted yet, though I returned her gesture, more for her than myself.

  We separated and started following G
arth. I knew we had a long dreadful walk ahead of us and I was scared about one part in particular. I did not want to walk past the Site of Bones. I didn’t want to have to see the other life I had taken.

  “Why is everyone else with us?” I asked trying to distract my thoughts from feelings I didn’t want to face.

  “We were all fighting and then just like that,” Sky clicked her fingers, “it was like the other side just snapped out of a dream and woke up. It must have been when you killed Marie. The ones that were not under her spell and who were there of their own free will just ran. The others looked really confused,” Sky told me.

  “Trinity.”

  I stopped and turned around to see Lachlan walking up to me. I must not have seen him disappear in the crowd.

  “Hey,” I said with a small smile.

  As he caught up to me, I turned to start walking again.

  “I owe you an apology,” he said.

  “What for?” I asked.

  “You were right. You didn’t need to pick a side.”

  I looked down at my hands; I saw my nails had grown out into sharp points and I could still feel my canines pricking the bottom of my lip.

  “I am all three,” I said as if I knew it all along.

  “You said once that you just wanted to be on your side, Trinity’s side. I think you chose well before tonight, but it was tonight, this night, that you accepted your destiny,” he said with a proud grin.

  I simply gave him a small nod of acknowledgement. He was right and I knew he was right; in the moment that I decided to accept who I was, and used that power to save my best friend, I knew the only choice I had to make was accepting that I was never going to be ordinary. I was never going to be just Trinity. I looked to Old Mother’s Tears for guidance, feeling the knowledge that I needed seep through my body. On the day of my 18th birthday, I was already going to be all three and that was what I had to choose. Choose to accept what I could not stop, choose to accept what was coming.

  “The Prophecy said I would be their undoing and bring them out of hiding?” I said in the way of questioning him.

  “You kind of did. You exposed them for who they were,” he told me.

  “But it seems so petty,” I pointed out.

  “It is.”

  I let the subject drop walking with my head down, Sky and Lachlan on either side of me, and Garth up front leading us to where we were going. Behind us walked those who could be our new allies. They were quietly talking among themselves. I wasn’t sure what the problems were with the vampires and werewolves, but I felt that after tonight, it would bring a few of them together. None of them were safe; we needed to look out for one another if we were going to survive.

  The Site of Bones came into view, and the hushed talking went silent as we walked by the bodies that lay there. I focused my attention on Garth’s back. I didn’t want to look, but it got the better of me. I turned my head and made a quick count of the bodies.

  I saw eight bodies lying lifeless, including the girl I killed. A pang started in my chest again. I was a killer.

  “You did what you had to do, to survive,” Lachlan said and put his arm around me.

  I just let it drop. I would think about it another time, perhaps when I had my feelings to myself. I walked ahead, letting Lachlan’s arm fall from my shoulders.

  I reached Garth and asked, “Since you are Jason’s maker can you sense his feelings?”

  He looked down at me, “Yes, I can.”

  “Can you sense whether he is… can you know if Nikkee…” I couldn't finish my question as the words kept choking me.

  “Yes, I can and so far everything seems to be ok,” he said, reassuring me that Nikkee was still alive.

  “How come Jason can’t sense me, yet Lachlan can? If Jason is, in fact, my, master as well, shouldn’t he be able to have some sort of connection with my feelings and emotions too?” I asked.

  “He can and always has been, more so than Lachlan,” Garth said.

  A frown came on my face.

  “He never told me he could,” I replied more to myself.

  “Perhaps he didn’t want you to know.”

  “Perhaps I would like to know who can feel me and who can’t. It’s like an invasion of privacy,” I mentioned with a little anger.

  “Don’t be too hard on him. Maybe he just didn’t want you to know so you didn’t change the way you felt,” Garth said in Jason’s defence.

  “Still, it would have been nice to know who is in my head and who isn’t,” I said.

  “Well, while we are on the subject, I can,” he simply told me.

  I stopped. He did the same turning around to face me.

  “What do you mean you can as well? How is that possible?” I half demanded.

  His head tilted to the side as he looked me over.

  I felt my temper rising as I realized all of my stupid girlie feelings have been on display for everyone to read.

  “How?” I demanded with more force.

  “Because I am the man that fathered you, Trinity.”

  Chapter Two

  “What?”

  I couldn’t help but show the denial and spite in my tone. Garth could not possibly be my father. He was a werewolf, an old werewolf. Could they even have children?

  “There is much to explain,” he said flatly.

  I took a step forward, feeling a hand hold me back.

  “Now is not the time. We need to leave… Now,” Lachlan told us with force.

  I turned and looked at him, but my eyes travelled up to the sky where the lights were shining around on the ground, where the main fight took place. The sound of helicopters came to my ears.

  “Crap! What about the bodies?” I asked.

  “We have no time. Run!” Lachlan yelled not just to me, but to everyone.

  I didn’t think. I just made my legs move and so they did, extremely fast. The trees all blurred together as I passed them. In no time, I was at the forest edge, running towards the car. I stopped at the edge of the road to look behind me.

  Everyone else was still running. I could see the helicopters circling around far within the forest we had just come from.

  “Get to the car Trinity!” Garth yelled.

  I turned to face my destination, only to find myself feeling conflicted.

  “What about everyone else? There is only one car!” I called back.

  “Scatter! Meet at ‘‘Mutual’’ tonight!” Garth yelled out to the others.

  Before I took in all he said, I saw the creatures behind him scatter in all different directions, away from the helicopters.

  Sky, Garth and Lachlan caught up to me. We all ran across the road jumping in the car. Lachlan started the engine, turned the car around, and started heading back the way we had come earlier.

  “Holy shit! What just happened?” Sky asked.

  “Someone must have tipped the police off,” Lachlan said in an angry tone.

  “One of the witches?” I pondered out loud.

  “No, they wouldn’t. It would expose them too, plus they just lost a source of their power. The bones were still there. They have been collecting them for thousands of years. No witch, light or dark, would allow them to be taken,” Garth answered.

  “Why didn’t we take them? We shouldn’t have left them for even the witches to take,” I said. I was angrier than I should be because it was Garth that answered.

  “They belonged to Sab and Marie. As descendant elders, it was their birthright. We could not take them from Sab after all the help he has given us. He would have gone back for them after helping Jason and Vex,” Garth said.

  “Why didn’t we just take them for him?” I asked.

  “We do not touch them Trinity. We never have. Only a Spirit Leader or a Witch with a lot of power can move them while keeping the magic of the ancestral spirits within the bones. If they are moved by someone like us the spirits magic will be lost,” Garth told me.

  I sat back in my seat. Looking over to Sk
y, I saw she was looking just as puzzled as I was.

  “So are you going to explain to me how you are my father? Not once did you ever introduce yourself to me, save me from my stupid foster monster, maybe even help guide me in what was the biggest, most confusing moments of my life?” I said crossing my arms over my chest.

  “I couldn’t Trinity. I wanted to, but I also wanted to save you from all of this,” he said in a sad voice.

  “I…”

  I couldn’t breathe; I felt like the life was being sucked right out of my lungs. I put my hands to my throat; I was suffocating. My eyes went wide with fear. I saw Sky’s face in front of mine, but I couldn’t focus on it. I felt the car swerve to a stop, voices yelling, sounding so far away, and then my eyes slowly closed.

  I dreamt of nothing, just my own thoughts swirling around in my head. Was I dead? Was I alive? Was Garth really my father? Did Jason want me as he did before? Was Sky still a true friend? Was Nikkee alive?

  At the thought of her name, I felt so much fear that it felt like my world had come crashing down on me. I wanted to hide more than I did when I found out what was going on in my life. I wanted to know why? What was happening? How did this come to be? Where is Trinity?

  My eyes opened fast as I was taking in a deep breath.

  “Shit, Trinity! You had me worried for a second. What happened?” Sky asked.

  I looked into each of their faces, trying to find an answer, when Garth spoke.

  “She is feeling Nikkee’s fear.”

  I shook my head slightly, trying to focus.

  “It’s confusing. I felt the same with my first,” Lachlan said as he got back in the car starting to drive again.

  “It’s like it was all mashed together. My fears, then hers, she needs me,” I said panicking.