Incipient A Dark Paranormal Romance - Bianca Scardoni Page 0,8
when, but she was going to get what was coming to her and I was going to be the one to hand-deliver it.
I unlocked my door and climbed into the driver seat before taking a deep breath to calm myself down. The more I thought about Dominic and Pricilla, the more I could feel the angry waters churning under my skin, the waves crashing onto the shore in search of revenge. I hated feeling this way. Angry. Lost. Out of control.
Under normal circumstances, Dominic was my go-to guy for relinquishing any and all ill feelings, but unfortunately for me, I no longer had that option. I couldn’t help but wonder if I’d ever have that option again.
I realized in that moment that I had no idea how any of this worked. What exactly was the extent of the Sire bond and could it ever be severed? What if it couldn’t? Would Dominic ever feel for me again or had I lost him forever?
Without even deciding it, I turned out of the parking lot and made my way to the edge of town—straight to the only person who might have the answers I needed.
Gabriel opened the door before I even finished knocking, which either meant he knew I was coming or he was just standing by the door, waiting for someone to visit. For his sake, I was hoping it was the former.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” he asked as he stepped back to give me room to enter his apartment.
“Like what?” I answered and walked inside, making my way to the futon. “Were you on your way out or something?” I asked, turning back to look at him.
“No. Why do you ask?” He bolted the door and then came to join me in the living room slash main area of his very quaint apartment.
“No reason.” I shrugged like it was no big deal. “I mean, you answered the door pretty fast. Like, I didn’t even have time to finish knocking,” I added, apparently not willing to let it go.
He faltered for a moment and then said, “I sensed you were here.”
I flinched back as though his words has just bopped me in the head. “Woah. You sensed I was here?” I was fairly certain that had never happened before. “Is this like a new skill you have?”
He didn’t look amused. “No. It’s a consequence of our bloodsharing.” The way he said it, he might as well have accused me of holding him down and stealing his blood without his permission.
“Well, don’t act like I killed your puppy,” I said, sounding a tad defensive now. “Desperate times called for desperate measures. Besides, I thought it took a while to create a bloodbond?”
“It does,” he said and sat down on the armchair on the other side of the coffee table. Far away from me. “But the connection—the building blocks of that bloodbond—begin almost instantly.”
Well, damn. Feeling defeated, I sank back in my seat a little. Mostly because I knew asking him for another hit today would be totally out of the question.
“So, what happened last night?” he asked, pressing his forearms against his knees as he leaned forward.
I went on to tell him everything that had happened with The Four Horseman, with Nikki and the baby, and all about the lies Pricilla had spewed that got us into this mess in the first place.
“She’s going to pay for what she did. For lying to me, for Dominic, for showing her face in this town in the first place.” I let out a frustrated breath. “I just have to figure out how I’m going to get close enough to her to do it.”
“I should have seen this coming,” said Gabriel, taking on the burden as per usual.
“How could you have? How could any of us have anticipated this? She twisted everything around.” I shook my head at myself because if anyone should feel the blame for this, it was me. “She played me from minute one.”
“Yes, well, that is what Pricilla always does. Which is why I should’ve known better.”
“There’s no use in crying over what we should’ve done. Besides, this is in the Council’s hands, not ours,” I said, feeling a sense of relief that I wasn’t going to have to shoulder this one alone again. “At the end of the day, we’re nothing more than foot soldiers with orders.”
“Well, some of us more so than others.” He pushed back into the armchair and crossed his leg over his