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He looks down at Xenia and whispers something in her ear, she whimpers and nods her head before he smiles and his fangs elongate. I look down when he gives her the bite because of how intimate it looks, but then my eyes shoot up when her heartbeat stops abruptly.
“What-!”
“Relax, the venom stopped her heart and should be working its way into her system. The Green Thread is faint, but it’s there,” he chastises and looks at his hand before handing her back to me and sighing. “Now, tell me what the fuck is going on here.”
GABRIEL
Ican’t blame Church for not telling me about Matthew Décès before I tended to Xenia; he only wanted to save his Fated. But this might leave me without mine and while running into the mansion, I pray to fucking Gods that I’m not too late.
I strain my hearing to listen out for her, but all I hear are muffled voices. There’s no scent of blood either, and I have no idea if this is a good thing or not. Following the voices, I barge into the room that used to be Katherine’s…
Only to find Matthew sitting on the bed with her, holding her hands gently in his.
Her head whips up towards me and her eyes widen; that heartbeat I’ve missed so much picks up its pace and she gets to her feet.
“Gabe!” she exclaims, her hand going to her chest as she takes a tentative step toward me. She’s wearing a pair of black silk shorts and a tank top to match, but it still makes her look like the most beautiful woman in the world.
My eyes flicker to Matthew, who stands up and crosses his arms, grinning as he looks between Katherine and me. She looks at me, then at Matthew, and a frown creases her brow. “Is there something I need to know?”
Matthew chuckles. “Yeah, Gabriel, is there?”
That frown deepens when he says my name and I reach for her hand to pull her behind me. “What do you want with her? What’s your business here?”
He laughs again, placing his hands in the pockets of his doctor’s coat just as Katherine steps out from behind me. “Gabe, what’s going on? How do you know Michael?”
“Michael? Is that what you call yourself now?” I scoff and shake my head, then turn to her. “Valentine found an interesting rumor going around the hunter underground; Alexander Décès had an heir other than you, one thought to be long dead.”
Katherine’s heart skips a beat, and her gaze goes from me to her brother. “What do you mean ‘thought long dead?’ Who are you supposed to be?” she asks, but I can tell from the way she’s swallowing hard that she doesn’t really want to know the answer to that question.
“I’m sure you can answer that yourself,” he says with a smirk.
She inhales sharply and remains quiet for a while before she speaks. “No… how? It can’t be true!” she exclaims, looking at me for an answer, but I have none that will soothe her. “Tell me it’s not true.”
Keeping the truth from her is the reason she ran from me in the first place, so I am not about to make the same mistake again. Even if the truth hurts her, I have to tell her.
I touch her chin with my thumb and shake my head. “I can’t do that, little lamb,” I say, watching as her entire world crumbles in front of her.
Her scent is laced with uncertainty as if she does not want to believe what’s right in front of her. I can believe this, since she thought her little brother had been dead this entire time. She swore vengeance in their name, and for what, exactly?
Turning her gaze back to him, she chews her bottom lip and I watch as she mentally comes to a conclusion. “So you helped me all this time so you could get close to me? You want me dead?”
Crossing his arms, he sighs as if her question is already boring him to death. “When I heard you had left Priest’s side, I had to follow you to see what you were up to, especially since you were the one who made Father walk into the sun after he was turned.” He spits out, his eyes not leaving hers.
So our revenge reached the hunters’ ears then, did it? Good, especially since Katherine was the one who gave him the Dawn. He wanted his only daughter dead and was turned into the thing he hated the most.
“Father trained you himself?” she asks
He nods. “Since I was well enough to walk again. He put a gun in my hand and pointed me at the enemy; somehow, deep down, he knew you would fail him.”
I almost take a step forward to defend my woman when I see her moving towards him and smiling. “So the same man who killed our mother and blamed it on vampires trained you?
This question seems to knock him off guard, and he narrows his eyes at her. “Any hunter who gets involved with the supernatural deserves to die, even if they are blood relatives.” He says, and I notice his left hand twitching. “Anything else you want to know before we wrap up this touching reunion?”
“Is Xenia okay?”
Matthew laughs. “Probably not; she should have bled out by now since I stabbed her with a weapon laced with baobab,” he boasts.
Worried, my gaze flickers to Katherine, expecting to see her hurt, only to see that ever-present smile on her face. I’ve seen that smile before, many times before, as I watched her hunt down my kind. This was her predatory smile, this was her ‘you’re dead and you don’t know it yet’ smile.
