want me dead, and I know that I am supposed to kill you, but here’s the thing, I’m not ready for this yet.“
Vincent crinkled his forehead in slight confusion.
“What are you talking about child?” he asked curiously. She was going to die anyway, so he might as well indulge his curiosity.
“I’m not ready,” she repeated.
“To die?” He laughed sadistically. “Most people aren’t.”
She looked at him, unable to believe that someone could actually be that cold, and took an involuntary step back from the creature that repulsed her to the very core.
“To be honest you are starting to bore me, Ally.” He casually examined his fingernails and adopted an unnatural pose. Her instincts were on high alert, and she felt the end was just around the corner. All she could do was stare death in the face and show no fear.
“What about James? What do you think he will do once he discovers you have killed ‘the prophecy girl’ and his soul mate?” She bit her lip waiting for his reaction.
Vincent stared at her dumbfounded for a moment, before replying with an edge to his voice that proved she had unnerved him. “So you’re his soul mate as well…” Vincent appeared to be weighing up the options in front of him, in light of this new information. “Because you are his soul mate, as well as the prophecy girl, I have decided it will make this victory all the sweeter. Besides, he doesn’t even know where you are.”
Defiantly, she stuck her chin in the air, calling his bluff. “Yes, he does.”
Coco was still at her side, loyal as ever, and she heard the low growl emitting from her. Ally silently willed her to be quiet. She couldn’t bear it if he hurt her beloved dog. She had to distract him again, or she was going to die.
She could tell he was seriously displeased. This was not how she planned this playing out. But she was still breathing, so maybe she was doing something right.
A cruel glint crept into his eye and sent a shiver of unease running through her.
“Well then, where is he?” Vincent was called her bluff.
She didn’t answer quickly enough, and convinced him of what he already knew. James did not know where she was. His casual pretence dropped in an instant as he took a step towards her, and she was drawn into his arms before she could even blink.
His voice had taken on a rasping quality that she likened to the sound of damned souls trying to claw their way out of hell.
“This was fun, dear.” He leaned in closer, “But now it’s time for you to die.”
Oh dear…
Ally was powerless to stop him. Her neck was exposed to him, she knew this was the end for her. She felt his stinky hot breath a mere centimeter away from her neck, when he paused.
She heard a strange sound and felt an energy that seemed to be vibrating all around them.
“So he has come then,” Vincent said absently as he let her go. She stumbled and fell to the ground. Relief poured through her, but she had no idea what had happened to make him drop her.
Then she heard it in her mind. A voice like smooth whiskey that seemed to flow through her soul and warm her insides as the drink itself would.
“I’m coming Alessandra.”
It was intensely familiar to her, but she couldn’t immediately place it. Suddenly, she knew who it belonged to. James Carlisle, the man who had haunted her dreams for five years. Ally was sure she had made him up. Come to think of it maybe she was dying and this was all some illusion her brain had created so she didn’t have to face the knowledge that her demise was imminent. Nothing tonight had seemed real perhaps it was all a nightmare.
James appeared out of nowhere, and was standing between her and Vincent, before she could even blink an eye. His eyes were fixated on his opponent. Ally was struck again by his magnificence and the energy that seemed to radiate from within him. He didn’t appear human at that moment.
She looked him over from head to toe, taking in the fine cut of his jeans and the tight fitting pale blue shirt. This man before her could have just stepped off a vogue cover shoot.
Ally looked for Coco to make sure she was all right having almost fallen on her. Coco was next to her watching the two males in front of