you.”
I nodded as he took a fake breath. He ran his hand through his hair.
“No one truly escapes Hell,” Hunter said as he glanced at Vanessa.
“This is true,” she said at the end of the table.
“Well I did and so did Dorin.”
“So tell me, why was he there?” Hunter turned his red eyes to Gunner.
“He offered to go,” Gunner said with an even tone to his voice.
Hunter laughed and it echoed in the room. He started to pace again.
“You had to know that his survival would be next to impossible alone and yet you allowed him to go.”
Gunner stood up and stared at him. “I could not go and he offered. He had a history with Lucifer and felt as if it may give him leverage.”
Hunter stopped and looked at Vanessa as he clapped his hands once. It echoed in the room and I remained calm as he turned his gaze back on me.
“What is it about you that he found so appealing Halo? I mean Dorin is….” He paused and touched his mouth and then continued on. “Was, a powerful vampire, a killer of the King of vampires and he was cunning. The best I had ever known and yet he freely went to Hell to retrieve you?”
I said nothing, I could not. If I said the truth then how would Gunner feel? I had already birthed a son with Lucifer and if I said that Dorin loved me, then what? Would Gunner assume that I am a whore and seducer of every man who crosses my path?
“He loved you,” Vanessa said as she fingered at her glass. My eyes went to hers but not for long. Gunner turned his gaze on me and I looked at my glass.
“No, I mean he loved me as a friend.”
Hunter walked up to the table across from us and tossed the chairs out of the way as if they were toys. They flew across the room, hitting the walls on either side and he slammed his fists on the table as he stared me down. I picked up my drink and took a sip of the blood, allowing it to calm me as he stood there and stared a hole through me.
“Halo,” Gunner said and I set my glass down and looked up at Hunter.
“He was my friend.”
“A vampire does not truly have friends. We have lovers and enemies. You may not feel this completely since your blood is diluted with Hellhound first and human, but a vampire’s lust can make us insane.”
Vanessa laughed out loud and held up her glass as Hunter looked down the long table at her. “Vanessa has tortured me for years because she loves me, this I know.”
“Oh fuck off,” Vanessa said as she drank from her glass. I fingered at mine and then Hunter decided to continue on with me.
“He made you, he was your master. So tell me, how did you kill him?” Hunter asked as I spilled my glass and the blood ran red across the table, pooling into the shape of a moon and the omen rattled me as it should.
Gunner stood up and looked him over.
“Dorin asked to be killed. It was not her fault. I did it.”
Hunter looked at him and lunged across the table, knocking Gunner to the ground as I cried out and knocked my chair back. Vanessa was on me and had me held in place while I growled and struggled. Hunter had Gunner pinned to the ground and he leaned into his face and spoke almost as if Lucifer was channeling through him with a slight hiss.
“I will eat you slowly, bit by bit and just when you think you will find mercy and a final release into Hell, I will save you, to only begin again.”
Just then a huge crash sounded out as Ari and Finna made their way into the room, fighting off three vampires a piece. Finna swung her axe and beheaded two of them in one swing as she cried out and then the rest froze in place as Vanessa opened her mouth and a sound came out that relaxed even me. It sounded like a song to my ears, but Gunner flinched as did Ari and Finna and they dropped their weapons and tightly covered their ears. She stopped and I rolled my eyes as the last bit of her siren song rolled through my body. I had no idea she had this power, but it seemed to be the greatest weapon