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Everything comes to an end tonight.
“You don’t have to say anything, just be back before sunrise,” she says before I can even spin a lie and somehow it makes me feel a thousand times worse.
Sighing, I walk towards her and get on my haunches next to her side of the bed, but she doesn’t look at me. Instead, she looks pissed off. I guess this is understandable since I said no work and yet now I’m about to run off to so-called work.
“I won’t be long, I promise,” I say apologetically, stroking her hair and moving it behind her ear. “I’ll make it up to you when you get back.”
She shakes her head, then looks at me. “You don’t need to. Just hurry back, okay?”
I get up and kiss the side of her head. “I will. I love you,”
“I love you too,” she murmurs.
I have to make this up to her when I return, and as much as I hate lying to her, this will probably save her life. There is no way I will allow Kazimir to use her as a means to get to me. He tried that when he touched her, but I won’t allow it to happen again. This is how Kazimir killed my sister, Lucienne, in front of my father and I’ll be damned if there’s a repeat of it.
Getting dressed, I grab my phone and walk out of the hotel while calling the others and letting them know to meet me at our appointed spot. Gustav will be bringing the eldest Vasile along too, someone who I am dying to meet.
A sliver of excitement shoots through me when I get on my Harley and floor it out of the underground parking lot, throwing the DA facade away and slipping back into my Devil’s Void role.
If I’m going to take Kazimir down, I’ll do it on my terms, not his.
* * *
Gabriel thinks he’s the only one who can catch someone out on a lie, but I know him well enough to see when he’s doing the same to me. I knew it the second he brought up going away for a while, because why would he want to take me out of town when the council was informed of his so-called traitorous ways?
I gave him these two days to come clean, but he hasn’t, so now I’m taking things into my own hands.
The moment I hear his Harley driving off, I get up from the bed, head to the shower, and afterward throw on a pair of jeans, combat boots I snuck into my luggage, and a t-shirt with a leather jacket. This is my so-called hunting uniform and I have a feeling I will need it.
With a thudding heart, I pick up my phone, hoping Xenia hasn’t gone to sleep yet when I pressed the call option and thankfully she answers on the third ring.
“Kat? Aren’t you supposed to be getting loved up right now?” she asks while trying to stifle a yawn.
“You wouldn’t lie to me, right Xen?” I come straight out with what I want to say. There’s no use beating around the bush when it comes to my best friend, anyway.
“No? Why what’s up?”
I sigh. “Has something been off at the estate? By that I mean, has Valentine or Church been acting shifty?”
She keeps quiet for a little while before she answers. “Now that you mention it, yeah. Church is ignoring me more than usual, and Valentine always seems to be out with that Fae. Why do you ask? Has Gabe been acting weird as well?”
“Yeah and I think he’s heading back to the estate right now. He just got off the phone with someone and it sounded like Church,” I say. Sometimes I think Gabriel forgets that I’m a vampire now and that I can hear exceptionally well. “Church spoke in Romanian too; a dead giveaway that there’s something they’re not telling us.”
“Ah, that would explain the way he looked earlier when we spoke; he had just got off the phone about fifteen to twenty minutes ago.” She answers, sliding the puzzle piece into place.
So it was Church, and Gabriel is heading over to the estate as we speak. We aren’t too far from the border, and knowing how Gabriel drives on that Harley, he’ll probably be there in no time at all.
“I’ll be there in a few hours; meet me at WNC to gear up. I have a feeling we’re going to need to slip into who we used to be,” I say, asking her to meet me at the Washington National Cathedral knowing we have ammunition there.
“Okay, but why? Do you think something is about to go down here?” she asks, and I can hear her shuffling through her closet.
“Yeah. I think Kazimir is on his way,”
“Oh, fuck.”
“Oh, fuck is right and Gabriel has me holed up here away from everything. I know he doesn’t want me there when something happens, thinking he’s keeping me safe, but this is just pissing me off more.” I grumble, grabbing the SUV keys and heading to the door.
“Yip, and a pissed-off Kat is so much deadlier than this placid lamb I’ve seen in the last few days. Fuck, I’m excited now; see you soon.”
