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David had hurt Kalon, and until I made it right, the pain in my chest was going to keep wrecking me. It wasn’t going to subside until I took revenge, no matter that Kalon was quickly healing already.
Staring at David, I worked off instinct, and like an honest-to-God animated cartoon, I threw my hands out towards David, and he was immediately engulfed in a ball of fire. Before anyone could say or do anything, I was on his back, my hands twisting his head right off his body.
Before his lifeless torso even hit the ground, Thomas and Christopher were both going up in flames, and I had Thomas’ head in my hands, ripping it from his neck, while Kalon had torn Christopher to pieces.
As soon as all three vampires were discarded pieces on the ground, the flames vanished, and my fingers were back to looking like a normal human being’s simple fingers. Everything went back to looking normal, but things were far from normal.
“Baby?” Kalon’s voice sounded soft and worrisome, but I didn’t care about that. All I cared about was that he was okay.
“You were hurt,” I stated evenly, excusing what I’d done. “You were hurt.”
Kalon placed his hands on my shoulders. “It was just a scratch, Mora,” he lied. “It’s already healed, baby.”
I started shaking my head. “It was more than that,” I argued. “Ithadto be, Kalon. I felt it.”
He immediately pulled up his shirt, so that I could see the slash across his ribs, the wound already healing. “David had a knife on him, though I have no idea why,” he said. “It might have been blessed with the way it burned, but I can’t be sure.” His grey eyes searched mine. “But it’s healing, baby. I’m okay. It’s okay, Mora. Everything’s okay.”
“Nothing’s okay,” I shot back. “Kalon…I…what I can…can do…it’s…”
“Baby, breathe,” he instructed as he put his hands back on my shoulders. “I need you to just breathe and take a moment.”
I looked back at the bodies. “Why are they charred like that?” I asked with a touch of hysteria in my voice. “I…I thought vampires couldn’t die by fire. I thought…the books say that-”
“Fire can hurt us, but only the sun can kill us,” Kalon said, interrupting my trip towards hysteria. “I’m going to have to assume that whatever power you have, it’s driven from the sun. That’s why you can walk in the daylight, and that’s why the fire didn’t hurt you.”
I shook my head. “This is…it’s all too much, Kalon. I can’t…vampires don’t have superpowers, for God’s sakes.”
“Apparently, they do,” he drawled out.
“I…I don’t know what to do,” I confessed. “I feel…I don’t know what to do, Kalon.”
“Mora,” he whispered, and my entire body felt like an explosion of light when I saw Kalon begin to kneel before me.
The vision.
I stared at the top of his head, not knowing what was going on. “What are you doing?’
“Begging you to take fucking mercy on me,” he smirked. “Jesus Christ, baby.”
“Meaning?”
Kalon looked up at me, and I could see my entire future in his eyes. “Even though it’s not anything that we need in our world, for the rest of the world’s sake, I need you to marry me, Mora,” he said, and I had no idea why his proposal mattered so damn much. We were bound to each other, for Christ’s sakes. A piece of paper was nothing compared to the prophecy. “I need you to marry me and be with me in every way conceivable. Every cent that I have, every piece of property that I own, everything that exists in my life needs to have your name on it, too. You’re mine physically, spiritually, mentally, and emotionally, but I need you tied to me legally, too. I need it all, Mora.”
“Kalon, that’s not nec-”
“Mora, I’m over three-hundred years old,” he said, cutting me off. “I wasn’t raised during a time when men weren’t needed. For the same reason that I walked out of the cabin first, I need you to marry me. I need to own the fuck out of you, baby. I need to know that…I need you to have my last name. I need it all because you don’t need me one goddamn bit.”
It was easy to forget that Kalon was so old. Sometimes, his age peeked out when he spoke, but looking at him, he appeared the modern man. Kalon fit into this world perfectly, but I supposed three-hundred years of adapting made it seem easy. Plus, there was no way that I could ignore how he was putting his insecurities out there for me to see. There was something extremely special about a man that wasn’t afraid to speak his truth, no matter how it might make him look.
I knelt down next to him, and when I did, Kalon gave me a lazy grin, knowing what I was doing. If we were two halves of a whole, then we were equally important to this stupid prophecy, and we were going to have to find a way to balance what we knew with what we still had to learn about what we were to each other. No matter what I was capable of, none of it was possible without Kalon, so that made him just as powerful as I was. At least, that was how I saw things.
“Even though it’s completely unnecessary, I’ll marry you,” I told him. “I’ll marry you as soon as we get back home.” I glanced over at the three dead bodies in the yard. “However, right now, I think we have more pressing matters, don’t you think?”
Kalon stood up, reached his hand out to me, then helped me stand with him. “I love you,” he said. “I know you don’t love me, and I know that you might never. This isn’t about getting you to say it back to me. Even though Ifeelthat you do, this isn’t about forcing you to admit something that you might not be ready to admit. I just want you to know that I’ll be saying it to you regularly, but I’ll also be saying it with no strings attached, Mora.”
I didn’t know what to say to that. I knew what I felt for Kalon was real, but it also felt manufactured. I needed a better understanding of the prophecy before I said those three words back to him. Even though I knew all of this was very real, Iwantedto love him; I didn’t want tohaveto.
Kalon eyed me knowingly as he pulled out his phone. I knew that he was calling Brander, and when Brander picked up, Kalon said, “I need you to call an emergency meeting witheveryone. Every member of Noctis, Diluculum, and Tenebris. We’ll be there in an hour.”
