"I picked your clothes for you already. Do you need blood? Must you stand like that?" Selene asked, averting her eyes from Xavier’s direction when he stood up without warning. ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
"You can offer yourself to me for an entire day, yet you cannot look at me when I am naked? It is strange how your mind works, but I enjoy it," Xavier said, covering himself so Selene would look at him again.
"I am covered."
Selene waited for a moment before she faced him again. "I don’t like to stare. You would never let me forget it."
"I wouldn’t," Xavier confessed.
It was always too hard to let a chance to tease Selene slip by.
"Cassandra is dead. She was among the humans attacking, and to my surprise, she had a demon attached to her. There is no doubt that she was coming here for you. Either that or she thought Gabriel was here," said Xavier.
Selene was only surprised by the news of Cassandra having a demon attached to her. "I knew I heard her voice. Why did they think it was a good idea to come here with so few humans? I am glad that they didn’t prepare well because the estate is still in good standing."
"If the man I killed was the one leading them, then it makes perfect sense why they foolishly attacked us. He wasn’t in his right mind, and they were blindly following him. They were doomed to fail the second he worked with a demon," Xavier said.
Xavier left Selene’s side to get dressed in the clothes Selene prepared.
"There has been so much happening around the town long before this. I am a little interested in why demons have only appeared now. What were the priests doing?" Selene wondered.
"They killed their kind and vampires who never troubled humans. The man I have in the dungeon has confessed that he is the one who killed Lucinda. He thought I would free him of his guilt by killing him, but I will keep him alive a little longer," said Xavier.
Selene frowned, put off by this. The man who knew and worked with Cassandra in the church was the one who killed Lucinda?
Never had it crossed her mind that Cassandra and anyone close to her could pull off killing Lucinda.
"Gabriel was so certain that it was me, while all along, the person was so close to him. A tiny part of me wishes he were still alive to know he brought his mother’s killer into his home. I am certain Cassandra played a big role in Lucinda’s death," Selene said, once again relieved she got far away from Cassandra and Gabriel.
Perhaps giving in to what Xavier wanted for a day wasn’t so bad since he had saved her from potentially being harmed by Cassandra and the priests she knew.
"For a woman who looked away when I stood up, you are staring quite intently now. What is it? Are you hurt?" Xavier asked, taking notice of where her hand was placed.
Xavier knew well that Selene wasn’t pregnant since he didn’t sense anything. Then again, it was too early for them to know.
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