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Church is standing there looking down at the two of us with a frown on his face. Then his eyes widen and he says something before turning on his heel and running out of the room.
I felt the blade of the knife enter my side too late to do anything about it.
* * *
I hear voices down by the pool and get out of bed, stretching and yawning after waking up from the best sleep I’ve had in years. Yesterday’s revelations seem to have soothed my soul, that and cuddling with Xenia before bedtime.
It’s dusk now; the sun is setting low over the dunes and planes. Pres should arrive today, then we can put this all behind us and move on. I think all of us deserve a fucking happy ending after the last few months.
I hear Xenia laughing out back and walking to the window, only to be surprised to see her sitting at the poolside with a guy. He looks somewhat familiar and when his eyes shoot up to look at me and when he grins, a conversation from a few weeks ago sneaks into my mind.
“She can’t know about it until I’m confident she’s ready. I knew Alexander would have a failsafe for when something happens to him, but I never fucking expected this.” Pres said when Valentine revealed what he had found out.
I still responded with “The element of surprise is a fucking bitch,” and right now, those words can’t be any more true. Xenia looks up when I move closer to the window and I see the fucker pulling a knife from his boot.
“Xenia! Watch out!” I call out, even while knowing that she won’t be able to hear me through this fucking window; I can hear out, but she can’t hear in.
I rush downstairs as fast as I could, hoping the fucker hasn’t done anything, but when the scent of her blood hits me, I know that I’m too late.
He chuckles and throws her into the pool, but I quickly dive in after her, pulling her out. My eyes move to the wound at her side and I pull off my t-shirt, hoping it will stop the blood before I can feed her mine to heal her.
“Don’t bother trying to use your blood, Church; the baobab mixture does not allow for healing,” he taunts me just as I’m about to bite into my wrist. There’s a droning in my ears as anger competes with desperation to save her life.
Narrowing my eyes at him, I hold the shirt against her side and hope to fucking Goddess that it stops her bleeding. “Why the fuck did you do this?!” I growl, glaring at him while he merely smirks as if it's nothing.
As if I’m not about to fucking lose my Fated.
“Because Xenia was the first one to betray us, I think it’s only fair that she dies before my sister,” he says, sliding the fucking last puzzle piece into place.
“Matthew fucking Décès; your father should have made sure you stayed dead,” I spit out, looking at Kat’s younger brother.
Valentine found out that Alexander had saved the life of her younger brother and groomed him to hate vampires even more than what Kat used to. He’s taken over Death’s Temple, well, whatever is left of it.
Xenia’s eyes shoot open and she looks at the fucker, her face pale and her lips trembling. “M-Matthew? But… you died…”
He laughs. “On the contrary; I was reborn and now I’ll do what everyone else has failed to do. Kill my sister, then kill Gabriel Priest,” he says, then turns on his heel and walks away.
That droning gets louder and louder. The fucker knew what he was doing when he stabbed Xenia. He knew I’d feel torn between saving my Fated and going after him….and Pres will hate me for this, but I’m going to be selfish for once. I have to choose her.
I bite into my wrist and hold it against her mouth. “Drink, baby; it will help,” I say, knowing that the baobab will slow the healing or have an adverse effect, but I have to try.
She looks up at me with tears streaming down her face, growing pale and her lips turning blue. Then she places her lips on my wrist and drinks from me.
I should feel the Bond growing stronger since she’s tasting my blood and we’re essentially Entwining, but there’s nothing. The baobab stops the Entwining from taking place, similar to when Kat had it in her system when Pres fed her his blood the first time.
If I had a heart, it would be shattering into tiny little pieces right now at the sound of her heartbeat growing fainter. I’m going to lose her to a fucking hunter with a chip on his shoulder. I’m going to lose her because of someone who should have fucking stayed dead.
That droning seems to envelop my senses when I realize with a fucking snap that it’s not a droning sound in my head, that’s the sound of a fucking Harley Davidson.
I pick Xenia up and run with her in my arms towards the front of the mansion just in fucking time to see Pres approaching on his fucking Harley like a bat out of hell.
Running towards him while still listening to her heart, I hope to fucking Goddess that he can do what I cannot.
Pres stops the Harley just outside the entrance and throws his helmet to the ground, his eyes widening when he sees Xenia’s blood. “What the fuck happened?”
“Please, Pres… you need to save her! The bite will still work with baobab in her system, right? It will save her, won’t it?!”
Placing a hand on my shoulder, he shuts me up with a look. “Calm down, Nikolas. Give her to me,” he says in a low voice right over my panicked one and I hand over my entire life to him.
