My phone buzzes in my hand and I cast a quick glance. Blocked number. Oh, geez.
“I need to take this,” I say to Devon. “I’ll meet you at Roulette.”
“That’s where I’ll be,” he says, and he too saunters off.
“Cade. I thought I had a few more hours,” I say, answering the phone once alone.
“You do. I just wanted to check in, make sure you were thinking about me.”
“About you?”
“About my proposal,” he amends.
“Indeed. I don’t need until tomorrow. I agree. Although, I have conditions.”
“Of course, you do,” he replies.
“All of my own stay unharmed, you don’t even look at them funny and you tell me everything. Everything,” I reiterate.
“Done,” he says. “Just make sure I know exactly who ‘yours’ are. You know… just in case.”
“Cade,” I warn him.
“What? I don’t know, do I? Seems I am quite in the dark when it comes to you. You are bewitching.”
Bewitching?
“Everyone who is here with me is one of mine, and my husband of course.”
“He doesn’t need protecting from me. Is that all? I wouldn’t want to accidentally happen upon someone.”
He still doesn’t know about Cole? This is just bizarre.
“Well, we are a tight-knit group. It’s us and that is all.”
“So, the rest are fair game?”
“No! I didn’t say that.”
“I know, I’m just messing with you. You are so easily riled, it amuses me.”
“Humph.”
“I will do what I said I would do. I will protect you from those that wish you harm.”
“I’m still curious as to why you would do this? It goes against everything you were taught,” I say. Not one to poke the bear or anything….
“I know when to choose a side. Your rise to Power has shifted everything. And yet, I still get to do what I was born to do,” he corrects.
“Kill Vampires?”
“Yes.”
“Let’s just be clear on so
mething, Mr. Sinclair. You will not harm any Vampire, any being, unless they pose a threat. Do you understand that?”
“Yes, Mrs. O’Dell. I am quite clear on that. But you should be aware that there are those out there who oppose you.”