Take Me Once, I'll Bleed You Twice novel Chapter 134

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RIAGHAIRE

The only reason Riaghaire returned to Kaleidoscope instead of immediately hurting down fre damned heart was dow to the der Travelling while it was p would force him to use more blood than necessary blood he would need to free his gréine.

As it was currently early afternoon the bar was closed, meaning the only ones present were in employees except for Beatrice, of course Rugbare wasn’t sure how to wrap his head around the fact they’d come to his aid. Without being asked. It felt… weird. Mice, hut definitely weird. What had prompted them to do such a thing? And for a vampire at that.

Much like the previous time he’d been in a fight, Riaghaire was told to clean up and offered fresh clothing once finished.

It was difficult to fight the growing urge to leave when no-one was looking, regardless of the sun. The sooner he dean with the beasts, the sooner le and his gréine would be reunited. The less time her mate had to potential force her to complete the hate bond, the better.

Would she still be able to deny it now that it’d grown stronger, he wondered. Thinking about it made him nervous. He knew

nothing to do with the beast but the mate bond was a powerful thing. Could she fight against the feelings it forced upon her? How long could the held up?

she wanted And… what if she didn’t? Couldn’t?

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Killing the beast was no longer an option, not if what Gaml had warned them of was true if Hendricks’ died, then so would she.

There was no time to sit around and wait for the sun to set. Riaghaire needed to find clothes that full covered him while still allowing freedom of

movement.

“Riaghaire,” Gregory called out as the vampire left the employee bathroom. “In my office, please.”

Riaghaire frowned, unhappy. Being ordered around by a glorified house pet felt/insulting, yet it was this very feline who’d found him beneath the rubble. Who’d saved him from the need to dig himself out.

Ah, shit. He just realized he owed them all a debt for coming to his rescue. It wasn’t as big as what he owed his gréine but a debt was a debt. Something told him Claire was going to be insufferable about it, too.

Holding back a sigh, the vampire did as Gregory requested, entering the wampus cat’s office to stand just inside the door.

A magical pressure pulsed behind him, causing Riaghaire to look over his shoulder in time to see Gaml walk in and close the door. “Good to see you well, Riaghaire,” the being greeted him with a smile. This time they wore a muumuu with an underwater print of brightly coloured fish

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Catching what the vampire was looking at, Gaml’s smile widened as they threw open their arms and twisted their body back and forth, causing the hem to billow to and fro. “Lovely, is it not? I just love how much freedom it gives. And the air flow? Simply divine.”

Riaghaire didn’t want to hazard a guess at what airflow they were speaking of, nor where it was going for them to refer to it as ‘simply divine”. No amount of

blood could force him to ask. None.

When Riaghaire didn’t respond, Gaml let out a laugh before breezing by to sit in one of the chairs. Gregory sat atop his desk waiting for everyone to settle down. The vampire looked from one to the other, wondering what they wished to discuss with him.

Gregory’s tail twitched. “So, Riaghaire, I need to know why you no call, no showed.”

Riaghaire stared at the wampus cat for a long moment. Why ask that when they already knew the answer? He did sense there was something hidden within the question, something he couldn’t quite put his finger on, and decided to do as he did with his gréine, go along with what was being asked and see what

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Chapter 134

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*** We went summoned by Master Edyth.”

“Mmmhnen… That doesn’t explain why you couldn’t make it in, Gregory pured, tail swishing back and forth. A simple meeting shoután have taken all night.”

Cocking his head to one side, Riaghaire frowned. “She came to the conclusion that my… that Beatrice must die. She also wished to bind me to her once Beatrice was dealt with.” He didn’t speak of how the Master had accused him of being an imposter-that, to her, he wasn’t The Riaghaire, woll executioner In his mind that fact was irrelevant, as he was Riaghaire. It was the name he’d been gives by another long, long ago. “We fought. The wolves turned on us. More wolves and vampires showed up. And my… Beatrie… she…”

“She was mesmered,” Gregory supplied.

That explained why she’d been so compliant, not fighting back as that beast took her away, Riaghaire closed his eyes for a moment, secretly relieved. Though he didn’t doubt how she felt for him, the fact she hadn’t fought when she’d been taken had been worrisome. To learn it was due to a mesmer and not because she’d wanted to leave… that little part of his mind could now rest easy.

“The building eventually collapsed, trapping me.” There were plenty of details he deigned unimportant to share, such as the fact he had no memory of how. or when the building collapsed, or if he’d managed to kill the Master vampire.

“Understood. Thank you for letting me know,” Gregory nodded as he stood and stretched. He then jumped off the desk and padded over to the door. Without a single backwards glance, he pushed through the cat door that’d been installed, disappearing from view.

That left Riaghaire alone with Gaml, a being he still couldn’t quite comprehend or trust.

“You are an anomaly among your kind,” they stated after a minute of silence, dark eyes locked on Riaghaire.

“I have been told as much.”

“Have you always been this way?”

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