Unworthy trust

Lost in my thoughts, I was until a knock on the door caught me out off guard. The smell, the heartbeat, even his footsteps - it all says that it's Elijah, and I was a few seconds from facing him for the first time since I discovered what he was planning …

.........…

"Come in!" I said to him, Then he pulls the door open, his appearance screams danger. I never thought that I might say something like this … but for the first time, Elijah's presence was not something pleasing for me.

The silence got broken by him uttering his first words "The hell is wrong with you?"

I tried my best to keep myself calm, "Me….? Nothing"

"What were you thinking about by drinking Lorena's blood? Are you out of your mind?" he shouts, and as I was about to answer- I told myself that he's a liar, and I have to explain myself to any liar like him. Besides he's the one who always chose to ignore me and was ignoring me, I don't owe him anything.

"I've asked a question ?? none of us is leaving this room until I get an answer!" He threatened me. Yet, I still quite, not uttering a word.

"Okay ... Fine! If you don't want to talk, then don't. I just want you to know that I convinced Lorena to do not talk about what happened between you too."

Silence ran over the room when I refused to talk, but again Elijah brooked that Silence.

"I know you probably don't know, but drinking a vampire's blood is a huge crime. Its punishment can go as far as death. In your case, you won't lose your life, but you're going to lose your royal identity. You may also get banished … Lucky for you that I've convinced Lorena to keep her mouth shut."

If he was telling the truth, then I would've being in deep shit without his help.

"Why? … Why are you helping me right now … Why would you care if I was in trouble or not?" I asked, while not moving my eyes a bit away from him.

"You really don't know?" He answered my question using another question – typical Elijah.

"No! I don't" was all I told him.

Well, I would be a damn liar if I told you I didn't expect his answer. "It's because I care about you that I am helping you! You do really mean to me Elizabeth."

"If you care about me, then why lie to me? Why can't you tell me what there is in the envelope" I shout at him.

"I never lied to you." He explained, "It's just I am not telling you everything I know!"

"You're not telling me the truth about something related to me … That's even worse. If you really care about me as you're calming, you would tell me what I want to know."

Well, I expected him to ignore me or even stump out of the room. What I didn't expect is to get an answer to my question.

"Only if you promise that you won't hate on me, then I'll be able to tell you what you want to know."

I agreed and promised to try while believing that he would come up with a new lie … again I was surprised by hearing the truth.

"Do you remember the time when we were in Hobart? At the exact time, I asked from Lorena to take some pictures for us … After she took those pictures she sent them right away to him."

Without blinking an eye, I asked him "Why? Why would you do a such a thing?"

" I just wanted him to know that you were not alone anymore, I wanted him to let go of you," he explained, but I wasn't convinced.

": No! That's not the reason you sent him those pictures." I said to him "You send those pictures because you were seeking for revenge, and you used me for that. You're just like him – all of you are the same. I hate you …"

Sadness finds her way to his face, while his expression was showing regret "I hate myself too for doing that to you … You're absolutely right, at first all I wanted was revenge. Unexpectedly, I started liking you. I started thinking about your day after day until I was totally hooked up by you. Everything about you screamed perfectly: the way you look, your soul, your smile. After Diana's death used to be killing me day after day, but you brought me back to life … Unlike that useful mate of yours, I won't give up on you, I'll always do whatever it takes to win you back."

He then started moving toward me, without waiting for him to get close I screamed "Stop! Don't you ever dare to get close to me."

I used my super-speed to leave the mansion, I kept on running until I found myself in the middle of the city. I stopped still where I was standing, a weird feeling found its way into my heart while watching people moving on, laughing, speaking, and doing whatever they were doing.

From the crowd, a voice called my name, a familiar one – Logan's voice.

I turn to face my brother, a wave of pleasant and unpleasant feelings ran toward me. I whispered to my brother calling his name.

Logan's point of view:

Since the last vampire attack, Liam Albert, and I moved from Russia to Italy. The coronation ceremony has been canceled so far.

Since everyone knows right now that Selena is not Liam's real mate, there's a huge chance that they won't be mated to each other.

Though Liam's like a brother to me, Elisabeth is my actual sister. And she's our rightful queen. Seeing that Selena was stealing from her - her rightful place wasn't something pleasing for me. The worst part was that I wasn't able to do a thing about it. I was forced to sit still only to watch what would happen next.

But my sister on the other hand wasn't like me. She was strong enough to ignore the mate's pull and stand in front of Liam and rejected him.

As expected from Liam, he refuses her rejection. He's too coward to let her go, yet more coward than to fight for her.

On the other hand, the rumor says that the queen Sophia is not king Edmund's mate, and the real mate has an older son than Liam –Is getting stronger lately, everyone starts believing in it the moment Elizabeth shows up.

Now that another prince is in the image, the rebellious have more reason to eliminate Liam. The palace location was changed. Yet, the three of us were a bit away from the palace, until things settled off, we can't help but keep in here with Liam in Italy.

Annoyed by everything around me, I decided to go out in hope of changing my mood.

While roaming in Rome, a beautiful familiar smell hit on my nose. I followed the smell until I finally saw her. My beautiful young sister.

Something about her was not right, she was standing in the middle of the road watching humans who were passing with a sad face. It seemed as if she was crying in no time.

I called her name, and she turned around to face me, '' Logan" she whispered before she ran away.

Not waiting for her till she gets too far, I followed her. She is fast, but I am not letting her go without speaking to her.

When she was in a free closed street she stopped, and I stopped after her.

"Elisabeth!" I called her again, she did not run this time. Surprisingly she throws herself on me then started crying.

After crying for what seemed to be an eternity for me - You don't know how it feels to see your youngest sibling suffering, and not to be able to do anything about it.

She stopped crying and then spoke to me "Why does it always have to be me? Why, whenever I trust someone I end up hurt?"

I looked at my brooking baby sister, not knowing what exactly happened. But I know what I shall say, the truth, and only the truth.

" In this world, most of the people have two faces. One is a poker face, they used it often - while the other hidden one is the real face. To be disappointed by close people is something you'll get used to with time. Especially that you are immortal now, I believe you'll have all the time you need to learn how to survive in this awful world. You'll also be able to learn how to avoid being in such as pain – You'll have to learn to only trust yourself. And for the ones you're talking about, I guess they're just too unlucky because they can't see how beautiful inside and outside you are."

While talking, a strong aura followed by a terrifying growl that got us both out of guard - Liam was here …