Chapter 27

I could imagine Jen smiling at the man hung in front of the castle with pride. She had caused this destruction and off to the side of her would be Kyle yelling, "Part two complete."

When Trent and I first arrived back at the castle all Kally did was cry. The man she loved was hung by his head that was no longer attached to his body. That's how to get rid of a regular vampire; cut off their head. But hearing about it was different than seeing it, and for the first time I felt saddened for a vampire death. Kally couldn't look out the window anymore and had to ask guards to nicely remove the body from the ground and the head from the stake, they would bury the body later.

It wasn't just the body that was on the ground, but there was a sign that lay directly next to his hand. In dark black ink it read, "Saving Humans Cause."

"I want anyone who has information on who was part of the riot to come directly to me," Kally said, as she made her way to the kitchen where the dining room table sat. We were all going to have a long discussion on what has been happening.

Something I wasn't looking forward to.

Trent scooted the chair out for me to sit, and then pushed it in when my butt hit the cushion. He sat directly next to me as more guards started to fill in the room, not everyone could sit, so they stood with their backs against the wall. Not everyone was here either, because some had to still do patrols.

"They came and left once the kill happened. Does anyone know why that happened?" Kally's voice sounded deadly as she examined everyone around the room.

A guard closest to the door spoke up. "They wanted to prove some kind of point. They clearly are trying to get rid of high up people. No guards were seriously injured. They also seemed to know that the prince wasn't here, even before the footage at the blood bank was on TV."

Kally nodded her head. "Someone must be working on the inside." Another guard came up to her and whispered something in her ear before he left. He was quiet enough to not allow me to hear him, although he was just standing across from me.

"Who would go against us?" Trent asked.

"I'm not sure, maybe whoever knows what 'Saving Humans Cause' is, could tell us." She gave another beaded look around the room.

I was debating with myself if I should tell her or not, but thought this would be a good time to come clean. I wasn't trying to kill the prince anymore, I wasn't trying to protect the hideout for the cause, and I was no longer going to hide Jen. Everything was laid out on the table. Jen made her move; it was time to make mine.

"It means it's a way to take down the vampires, to save humans."

She gave me a strange look. "How do you know this?"

Think fast. "I know this because when I was kidnapped I overheard people talking about it." Why was I lying again?

"Did you hear anything else?" She didn't believe me.

I wouldn't believe myself either, I sounded like a scared girl facing her bullies.

"They were planning to get rid of the prince; I don't know why they would do that though." I was starting to sound like Greg. I was such a bad liar, but I was only keeping out the bad stuff. I didn't want them to turn against me. I'm trying to help.

Kally stood up fast from her chair. "Why didn't you tell us that before? This could have been prevented! Were you even kidnapped? Are you the one who has been working on the inside?" Too many questions at once.

"I didn't want to give you false information if it wasn't true, and..." I looked over at Trent with the same pleading eyes he showed me. "I wouldn't hurt you."

The doors barged open as the guard that left before showed up with a small boy hanging over his shoulder. "We killed all the other people we captured, except this boy. He said he has information you will want to know."

He threw the boy on the floor, not trying to be gentle at all, and just when I thought the boy wasn't going to get up, he did. And as he looked around the room with shaky legs he made sure to make eye contact with everyone, but longer on me. That's when I recognized him, and wished he never got up.

He was the messenger boy.

He was the boy who delivered the news to Jen that Trent was getting more aggressive, that told her I needed to go back to the castle earlier then I hoped. He should have been the "bad news boy," because I already knew whatever he was going to say wasn't good.

"He's a vampire? How was he a part of the riot?" Trent asked.

He didn't understand that vampires and humans were both working together to take him down. It was unheard of, it was a cause to save humans, but yet vampires were helping. They were helping for a different reason though, they have been alive too long, and they just wanted revenge on the person that started the process of turning immortal.

I could clearly see that in Kyle.

"I'll inform you later, now let the boy speak." She moved her gaze from Trent's to the boys. "Don't just stand there, speak!" Kally was past the calm stage.

"Of, course." He coughed before starting, "Jen thought it would be a good day to show you what it's like for someone close to you to die, so I went along with it knowing it's a bad idea. I didn't come here to kill anyone, I came here to help you find her, and because I don't agree with anything she is doing anymore."

He has changed? He seemed so loyal to Jen.

"Jen was the reason for this?" Trent didn't seem shocked by the news, and the boy just nodded his head to the question.

"Do you know who has been working on the inside?" Kally asked, she didn't seem to care about Jen. She already had her mind set on the one that betrayed her. She was more interested now in what the boy had to say.

He quickly pointed to two guys, and then made a thinking face. "I can't remember who else, except one more person."

"And that would be?"

His eyes darted to me, and I swear I saw a smile. He pointed directly at me, "Chloe."

Trent's head spun to look at me. "Is that true?"

"He is lying! I wouldn't do that." I looked over at the other two men that the boy pointed at; they were already being escorted out. I watched as the same guard from before whispered something into Kally's ear.

"The other two people the boy pointed out are imposters; they are not even registered with us. They don't have the right color tag on the uniform; they are being taken to get their heads cut off right now. So why would they both be imposters and you not be?"

They were turning against me.

If there was a part three of Jen's plan this would be it. She sent a boy to the castle to give away two imposters and one innocent. Was this her plan? To finally kill me and then the prince?

"He is setting me up!" I pointed at the boy. "This is just a trap!" two men came up and pulled me back from my chair and held one arm in both arms.

"Jen told me that you were going to kill the prince all by yourself. Gain his trust than a stab him in the back." The boy caught me off guard, and I hesitated just enough for me no longer to be believable. "I can take you to Jen now if you would like?"

Why would he do that? Something wasn't right.

I kept struggling.

"Yes, please lead the way." Kally walked to the exit.

Everyone was starting to leave the room, I tried pulling my arms out of the men's secure grips, but I just couldn't.

Trent was the last one to get up from his seat.

He didn't look at me and instead talked to one of the men standing next to me. "Don't kill her; just put her in the cell." He turned his back and started walking away.

"Trent you have to believe me! It's a trap!" He only stopped in his steps then continued in his path to the door.

I didn't pick up my legs as the men dragged me down to the basement. I would heal anyways. This was another one of those steps in Jen's long list of plans, making me feel helpless again. No one believed me, not even my beloved.

I felt myself be plopped on the bottom of the steps. Than like rapid fire being punched and kicked everywhere, my arms and legs couldn't move fast enough to protect myself, and the final touch, being spit in the face. Through a blurry eye I could see one man's mouth open, "Imposter."

They walked their way up the stairs when they were done with me. Someone else would put me in the cell. The two men had to go help with the search for the people part of the riot.

Now I just had to wait for someone to drag me to the cell. There was no one here to help me.

"Chloe, it nice to see you again." I knew that voice.

I hesitantly looked up to see the familiar lip ring. It was the man who visited me in the cell the first time, how could I have forgot about him? He was an imposter too, how did he not get caught?

"Trying to look at the tag of my coat?" He pulled it off to show me the dark red tag. That was a true guard's coat. How did he get that? "Confused are we? Well, the truth is it is easy to get one of these coats, and it's hard to make a fake one." He said it so casually like a normal conversation about work.

"You purposely gave the men fake coats? Did they know about the plan?"

"It's easy to get confused with what coat is whose, and it's very easy to delete someone's name from the guard list and replace it with someone else's, especially when you know the person who does the work on the computers." He gestured to himself. "So...nope, they didn't know about it, but they were part of it. Sound familiar?"

The same thing happened to me. I wasn't the only innocent person, the other two men were too, but I get a cell and they get their head cut off.

He picked me from my waist, making me cringe in pain. "You shouldn't have made Jen mad, but thanks for the help." He opened the cell door with ease and threw me in.

"I didn't help you!" I barely coughed out the words.

"Think again, without you who would have led the prince right where we want him to, to the blood bank and directly to the pit of the saving humans cause. He will for sure get a surprise when everyone will be there waiting for him. So yes, you did help us. I'll make sure to tell Jen to thank you for your great work." He gave me a wink as he slammed the door shut.

I curled myself into a ball. I thought I was stuck in the cell all by myself, but this time I wasn't alone.

There sat, at the corner of my eye, another body.

Finn was an arm length away.

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