Somewhere in a forest's entrance, a black car drove in and parked. Eder and Freya walked out of it.
"what are we doing here?" she asked with a frown.
"how many times do you have the chance to roam freely in nature?" he asked walking over to her "when did you let your vampiric self out? You have been too human for how long?" a smile slowly made its way to Freya's lips.
"its been a while indeed" she said "I have been stuck with humans until I am becoming like them" then she started to run and jumped on a high tree. She let out a pleased cry. When she looked back to where Eder was standing, she found him with his hands on his waist smiling at her. She smiled back and then leaped away. Eder let her get a little bit a ahead before following her.
Then jumped and leaped on the trees until the day was slowly falling. They then stopped at a clearing and sat down.
"how does that feel?" Eder asked when he they sat on the ground.
"it is so good to be a vampire" she replied. She was truly feeling good. They sat and chatted for a while until they heard rustling sound coming from afar.
Eder's playful self was immediately replaced by a cold and authoritative Eder.
"what is going on?" Freya asked.
"stay quiet. We are not alone" he said. Freya started to look around feeling danger looming.
All of a sudden, their was a mad vampire who surged out of the trees and attacked them. Eder quickly took care of him but then their was a second, third, fourth, fifth… until Freya and Eder were overwhelmed. Freya also had to fight. It was easy for Eder to defeat all of them. He was mostly surprised by Freya's fighting skills. This girl was surely pampered buy her sister but she was also well trained. He couldn't believe how easily she could could get them down. Soon their were no more rogues and they decided to leave.
"I think we better leave" Freya said and Eder agreed. Then they left and went to his car. They quickly climbed the car and they drove away.
"what was this?" Freya asked.
"I don't know yet. But I will find out" Eder replied grimly.
***
When Freya reached home, she didn't find her sister in the parlor and went straight to her room only to find Dahlia in her room with a glass of wine.
"didn't I tell you not to hang out with Eder Galann?" she asked without looking at her sister. All her attention was focused on the wine that was twirling in the glass.
"Dahlia I can explain" Freya started
"don't worry" Dahlia said and stood up. Then she looked at her sister. " I understand you needed to naturalize after being between humans for so long" Dahlia said simply and walked away. She turned the door knob when Freya spoke.
"how do you know?" Freya asked but instead of answering, Dahlia just left.
The next day, Eder was seating in his office waiting for Matt. It was evening time already and he have been waiting for him since morning. He was looking so very serious as his gaze was fixated on a paper folder. A knock brought him out of his deep thoughts. It was Kyrah his secretary. He had called her.
"excuse me sir,"
"What is this?" he asked coldly
"it is the report from the meeting with the board yesterday at the oil company"she handed a folder to him. Eer creased his brows
"what meeting? why was I not informed?" he asked taking the folder from her hand.
"their was a mail that came from the oil company. It informed about a meeting with the board directors. you were not around and I couldn't get you on phone but the message was sent to your private email" she explained, Eder narrowed his eyes at her.
"when did you receive it?" he asked
"yesterday, sir" she replied.
"you can leave" he dismissed her and she left immediately. Eder opened the folder and read it. When he was done, he looked pensive. Why did he have the bad feeling of being caught in a trap? He hated it. He kept checking through the report before his eyes.
A little while later Matt arrived with a serious expression. Eder immediately understood that it was no good news.
"the rogues were sent purposely. By a man who worked for a man who work for a woman" Eder pressed his lips into a thin line.
"Dahlia Quinn" he said with narrowed eyes. Was this her putting her threat to execution?
"yes"
" I can't believe she orchestrated all this. What is her goal? Hurting her sister? That would be absurd. Scaring me? Also absurd" Eder mumbled to himself. Then his eyes fell on the folder in front of him. Everything became clear to him. While he was busy with Freya she was doing this meeting. What for? Surely to plot something against him.
Eder chuckled lightly. Matt frowned at him. What was so funny suddenly? Was his friend not realizing the gravity of things?
***
When Eder reached Dahlia's headquarters, he walked straight to her office. Siara met him on the way and told him that she was not here but he didn't listen until he saw for himself that her office was empty. Then he went to Siara,
"where is she?" he asked casually.
"at the oil company." Siara replied with a bored tone.
A short while later, he reached the oil company. The night had fallen by then. He went straight to Dahlia's office but once again, she was not their. Where was she? Her secretary said she was their. Her scent was here. He found Patricia. He approached her and asked.
"where is she?" Patricia just pointed out at the office where she just came out from. Eder narrowed his eyes and walked into his office, just to freeze.
Dahlia was seating on his chair with her slender flawless legs crossed on his desk with a glass of wine in her hand. She was wearing a black knee-length straight long sleeved dress with black ankle boots. The office's lights were off but he did not mind it since he could see in the dark and their was faint light from the city outside through the window.
"what took you so long, partner?" she asked twirling the wine in her glass. When Eder did not reply,she looked up at him. "lost your tongue?" she asked. Her lips did not move but it seem to Eder that she was smirking, mocking him. He was shocked. It means that he was right. She was really waiting for him meaning she had planned all this and she knew he would come to her.
"what are you doing?" he finally asked.
"sipping wine" she said casually.
"I am not talking about that."he dismissed "You made decisions without my consent" he spoke calmly and lightly as if it was not a big deal at all.
"I did?" she tilted her head, wondering why he was so calm. She had expected him to be angry but he was not. "you missed the meeting but you were sent a mail with my intentions"
"I never received any mail" he said.
"only you knows what you were busy with" she said meaningfully. "you can check your mails if you want to" she prompted. Eder smiled at her but didn't pull out his phone. He knew for sure that the mail will be there, if she said so then it must be. She had planned this meticulously. This was a well made trap he had fallen into.