Blaze POV.
Zacky guided me to an armchair in the main living room of the house and gestured for me to take a seat. I quietly sat down, surveying my surroundings. Zacky stood next to my chair and glared at Matt.
“Care to explain the guards now Shadows?” Synyster wandered into the room, sipping a beer.
“I’d like to know as well. It’s risking our cover here.”
“Forget that! We agreed to break it to her gently and to let me do it! Accidentally running into …” Zacky paused and glanced quickly at me. “Y’know … isn’t gently! Or letting me do it!
“Risking our cover is not something to be shrugged off Zacky. If anyone even thought that they saw …” he glanced at me, like Zacky had before. “Y’know. We’d have to relocate. And you know how …” Another glance at me. “Y’know, would react.” Now I was certain that they were keeping something big from me. And I was starting to panic about what it was.
“What would have happened if she’d run into one of them?”
“Can you imagine his reaction to us having to relocate?!”
“She could have been seriously injured.” I tensed at that.
“We’d continuously have to look over our shoulders!”
“We could have lost her!”
“He’d move against us!”
“Our job would be made ten times harder!”
“There’s no way could we deal with a full scale attack!”
“What if he had taken her? Months’ worth of our hard work and planning would have gone down the shitter!” By now both men were on their feet yelling. Matt looked totally relaxed. He sank onto one of the sofa’s, leaning back and surveying both of the guys.
“Are you two quite done overreacting? Can I explain myself now?” Authority oozed out of every one of his words.

Almost simultaneously both Synyster and Zacky sat down. “Thank you. Danger had another vision.” Zacky instantly shot back to his feet. “Everything’s fine Vengeance, chill out.”
“What was it?” Asked Synyster, taking a sip of his beer as Zacky sat back down again, his arm resting on the back of the chair behind me.
“An ambush, set in place for when we got back. So I ordered a two guard watch to be stationed until further notice.” Matt’s eyes flicked to me. “Now you’ve raised more questions, and dawn is coming.” Next to me, Zacky sighed. While I began to fill with a deeper and deeper sense of dread. I was being dragged into something, not only strange, but dangerous. I struggled not to panic. I don’t do dangerous. I can’t do dangerous. I did studying and exams, not dangerous to anything. The only thing I knew about fighting was self-defence. And that was only limited to men. And where to kick. Matt’s deep, calm voice interrupted my inner panic. “Get her to her room tonight. Explain the essentials. Leave the rest till tomorrow night.” Zacky nodded and stood.
“Come on Blair, let’s get you settled in.” He grabbed the duffel bag that was full of my stuff and began to walk further into the house. I had no choice but to follow.

As I left the room I heard the muted whispers of the four men left behind as they obviously began to discuss in detail what they were hiding from me. I followed Zacky up a flight of stairs and along a couple of corridors, yup, I was gunna get totally lost in this place. I was surprised to run into a short, blonde haired woman half way along the second corridor.
“You’re back!” She exclaimed, smiling. Zacky grinned easily back.
“Hey Val, the journey took less time than we thought. Some storms helped too though, to be honest.” She glanced curiously at me.
“Is this…” Zacky nodded.
“Yeah, Matt’s in the main living room, trying to chill out one of Syn’s overreactions, if you want him.” She grinned again.
“Cheers Zack.” She smiled at me. “I’ll see you around Blair.” With a small wave she headed off the way that we had just come. I frowned after her, wondering how she knew who I was.

Zacky had already gone on down the corridor. I hurried to catch up to him. Eventually he pushed open a door and gestured me inside. I stepped in cautiously. I found myself in a huge bedroom painted in various shades of blue. It was at least twice the size of my bedroom back home and I suspected that one of the two doors led to a bathroom. I stood and stared at it for a while. Zacky set the duffel bag on the bed and walked over to me.
“You like it then?” I nodded wordlessly. “Good because it’s yours.” I turned and stared at him, open-mouthed.
“Seriously?” He nodded. I turned back to survey the room again, the implication of his words not really sinking in. “How did you know that blue is my favourite colour?” His smile grew.
“I didn’t.” Suddenly the meaning of his words sunk in through my fatigued brain.
“What am I doing here? What do you want with me? What were you all talking about? What’s going to happen to me?”

The smile fell off Zacky’s face. He sighed.
“You’re gunna want to be sat down.” He warned. I moved backwards until the backs of my legs hit the bed, where I sat down. I was filled with fear. Fear for my life. Fear for my mother. Zacky ran a hand across his eyes. “I don’t have very long to tell you this Blair.” He started, glancing at the window, where the night’s sky was beginning to lighten as dawn approached. He paced the room for a few minutes until he finally sighed and sank down next to me. “What I’m about to say is going to sound crazy, but promise me that you’ll hear me out?” I nodded wordlessly. All of the scenarios that were running through my head didn’t prepare me for the words that came out of his mouth. “You’re not Human Blair. You never have been. You’re a Dhampire.”