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After I ate a late-night dinner, I retired to my bedroom. Not too shortly after I walked into the room, Kai also entered, but he only came in to tell me he was going out hunting. After that, he was going to check in on Sharlene and Eva while he was out since the sisters were leaving with Rose, Leah, and Mia.
Since Eva walked out on Finn, her husband because of what Savannah did, she and their offspring have been staying in Mr. Collin's mansion. So Kai had taken in Eva and her offspring under his clan until Evan could get things worked out between the couple since Mr. Collin denied them a divorce because Finn had done nothing wrong ever since they got married. Finn is one of Evan's advisors, so he has been staying with him, but he visits his offspring here daily.
Before this situation, I didn't know much about Finn or Eva because Evan doesn't come around here too often. It was only recently that I became more acquainted with Evan and most of Kai's other cousins. For the most part, his cousins and their offspring live elsewhere from Mr. Collin's mansion.
I briefly thought this as I was running the water to the shower. After I was done with my shower and got dressed in my silky black nightie, my vision blacked out once I opened the bathroom door.
Not again! I panicked in my head when my time-gap gift triggered itself for no apparent reason that I could think of.
"Help me! Aaaaah! Help!" One of the first things I heard was a horrifying screech before my eyes came into focus.
The moment my eyesight did, I wished they hadn't. Before my sight, a young woman with blonde hair got her face slashed and clawed out by a vampire who only wore an inky blue-colored Egyptian Shendyt kilt-like skirt that covered his knees, and a golden belt was wrapped neatly around his perfectly etched waist. She wailed helplessly on the dried dirt as several deep slice wounds bled along her entire face. By what he did to her facial features, now her face was mutilated beyond recognition. People in these early ages would only view her as a grotesque outcast in their societies. As the vampire straightened his spine and stooped over her frail body, my eyes gaped in horror once I saw who he was.
"KAI!"
He looked my way once he heard me scream his name loud and clear. I recently learned we could communicate with each other from his past. Kai couldn't physically see me, but because we were destined mates, he could hear me and feel the ghostly presence of my body if he touched me. No one else from the past, including his friends or his family, could ever hear me or see me.
"Kai, no!" I shouted again when he roughly snatched the young woman's hair from the top of her head.
"Kai, please let her go!"
"You want me to let her go, my love, then I'll gladly do that." Kai replied to me as he glanced back.
Wrath darkened his red-colored eyes as he dragged her along the cliff. To my horror, he did the unspeakable when he tossed her off the edge of it. In a haunting shrill, she screeched the whole way down. Long after she died, her terrifying voice echoed from the distance until I no longer heard her.
"How could you do that to her?" I uttered as he retraced his frenetic steps towards me.
"She dared to have your face!" Kai hissed merely three inches away from my invisible face.
I remained speechless because I didn't know what to say. The veins on the sides of his temples were protruding from how badly they were pulsing the blood through them. Insanity overruled his mind and his ability to think logically. Moreover, this Kai from the past was a deranged lunatic in his head and unstable far worse than the Kai from my present time. Lately, Kai's irascible temperament has been less volatile ever since I found out the truth about Orlando, so I have been able to heal and get over the love I had for him.
Tonight, my time-gap took me to a place in time where Kai was in his darkest days from not finding me because I wasn't born yet. Judging by his ancient garment, he still had a long time to wait for my existence to come into the world.
As my mouth parted to speak, fiendish laughter resonated from the light current of wind that swept in.
To our left at the cliffside, Orlando placed the soles of his heels into his figure as he came out of the breeze. He wore the same kilt-like skirt as Kai, only his was a rustic red color, and the belt around his waist was blue. Because Orlando's eyes showed his natural ocean-blue eye color, I knew it was positively him and not his identical twin brother Alejandro because he has sea-green color eyes. Unless their eyes display their natural eye color, then I can recall from the first night I found out the truth that they were vampires that I cannot tell them apart whenever their eyes are red.
At first, he whistled as he peered below the high cliff. "Another girl who shares similar features with your future mate, I see. You splattered her to nothing because she's a reminder that you can't have your mate just yet." Orlando evidently harassed him, and Kai growled at him for it.
"I don't expect a mateless philanderer like you to understand how I feel!" Kai disdained him as he turned away from me.
"Was that supposed to hurt my feelings?" Orlando roared in laughter as he held his firm stomach abs.
"Get out of here and leave me alone before I tear you apart!" Kai perilously hissed.
Orlando chuckled. "You're not stable enough to defeat me," he mocked him with his blatant remark.
Kai stormed to his face as he hissed.
"Kai, stop! He's only taunting you to get under your skin!" I hollered as I stepped forward, but the gravity pull in my time gap hurt my head too badly to get any closer to him.
"If you want to duel me, then I'll gladly take you without a forfeit," Kai challenged, snorting in Orlando's face.
"Kai, stop it!" I yelled louder, and it felt like I wasn't being heard by him.
Invisible or not, Kai could at least hear me over Orlando, yet now, he purposely ignored me.
Orlando growled as he forcefully shoved Kai out of his face. He gritted his fangs, and I knew he wanted to harm Kai, but yet, something held Orlando back from attacking him.
"Yeah, you won't because we share the same second gift," Kai aggressively snarled his bottom lip, no differently than a growling wolf.