Chapter 156

The Unwanted Bride Of Atticus Fawn Chapter 156 Book 2 Chapter 79 ~CLARISSA~

My eyes widen at his threat. I knew Damon would never willingly let me go. I couldn’t stand back and let them harm him because of me. He’s already in a lot of trouble with everyone else. Some of his bruises hadn’t even completely healed from his fight with Dante. What the hell did these people want? And how did they know about Anya?

How long have they been watching us? How long have they been planning all of this? They chose to attack us when it was just the two of us. It means that they have been waiting for this opportunity to strike.

“I think you have the wrong person,” I say. I’m trying to stall them. I knew Autumn would be on her way with help as long as she’d seen my message. It wouldn’t take long for her to be here. “There’s nothing that I can do for you. So please, if you want, I can help you find who you’re truly looking for. I’ll help, but you must promise not to hurt Damon. He has nothing to do with any of this, so please leave him alone.”

“We will leave him alone when he lets go of you, Clarissa,” Skyler assured me. “That’s all he has to do. Let go of you. His future depends solely on him.”

They weren’t listening to me. They seemed to be convinced that they had the right person. And they would undoubtedly hurt Damon unless he let go of me. How did I convince him to let me go? I would do anything to save him.

But something still bothered me. What if these people were telling the truth? I didn’t know anything about my life before the Fawns entered it. What if this wasn’t a lie?

Who was I, exactly? Who was my real family?

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~AUTUMN~

“We’re almost there,” Atticus tells me as he holds my hand to keep me calm. I’d just gotten a message from Clarissa. It was just one word, but it sent chills down my spine.

“She wouldn’t send that unless she were in serious trouble,” I tell him. “I’m scared, Atticus. I’m scared that something horrible is happening.”

My hands were shaking, and Atticus could tell by the way he kept glancing at me, trying to see if I was okay.

I didn’t understand what could have happened within a few hours of them leaving home. I thought they would be safe at the beach house. I thought that everything would be okay once we got to them and told them that they could return home. However, we never got the chance to do it before this damn message was sent to my phone. We were too late.

“Call Dante,” Atticus says as his phone quickly obeys.

“What’s wrong?” Dante asks after answering. “I hope it has nothing to do with Damon. I don’t want to speak to him. If I see him, I’ll only want to punch his face again.”

Atticus looks at me before saying, “Clarissa just sent a text asking for help. Something has happened to them. They’re at the beach house where we spent those two days recently. I’m almost there. I need you to tell the others and join us there as soon as possible. I don’t know what we’re against, but we should prepare ourselves for the worst. This could have something to do with that fire surrounding Clarissa in the forest. Maybe those people finally got the opportunity to strike again. Just be on the lookout for an ambush and warn the others!”

Just as he ends the call, we pull up to the driveway. Atticus reaches over and removes my seatbelt for me. Just as I open the door, the sound of Clarissa’s screams sends a cold shiver down my spine.

“Clarissa!” I scream in response. I rush out of the vehicle and run toward the horrifying sounds.

Atticus grabs my hand and pulls me along with him as we move in the same direction.

Before we could move forward, we were both f****d to stop. We couldn’t move an inch. There was something in front of us preventing us from reaching our destination.

Fire.

There was fire everywhere. So much fire that it made it hard for me to see anything.

“Where the hell did this fire come from?” Atticus shouts above the flames. It wasn’t there a second ago.

Was this why she called us? Because of a fire? Just like the one that had trapped her in the forest. Was it another ambush?

Another attack on our family?

“Clarissa!” I shout. “Where are you?”

I gasped when someone grabbed me by my waist and pulled me along. I look back in time to see two men dragging Atticus; he is unconscious. How could he be unconscious? He was speaking to me a few seconds ago!

What the hell did they do to him?

“Atticus!” I scream.

The man still holding me covers my mouth, and I bite down on his hand hard.

He chuckles against my ear, “Still so feisty.”

I freeze.

I knew that voice. I quickly look up, and horror settles in my stomach.

Skyler.

He was back for me.

Did he force Clarissa to send me that message? Or did he use her to lure me here tonight?

“You didn’t think I would forget about you, did you?” He asks with a bright smile.

“Where is Clarissa?” I demand. “What did you do to her?”

He sighs, “I’ve been trying to speak to her nicely, but yet she was the one that tried to kill me with this fire. She is just as aggressive as you are.”

“She tried to kill you with this fire?” I repeat his words.

He nods, “Look ahead and see for yourself.”

I follow his gaze, and my body turns to stone at what I see next. Clarissa was in front of me, protecting a bleeding Damon on the ground beside her. But that’s not what terrified me.

The dark symbol. It was true. And it was staring me straight in the eye.

I can’t breathe.

Clarissa.

It couldn’t be true.

I look up to Skyler for confirmation, and he grins at me. “Say hello to your sister, Autumn. I know how much you wanted to meet her.”