How I Survived

Part 55

I groaned the light from wherever I was too bright

Why the fuck am I not dead

I was cleaned up, my rings were on which means Alexander could track me and my hair was plaited neatly

The room was an all white medical room and I was attached to a heart monitor, this couldn't have been Xavier Salvatore's doing could it?

Just thinking about him made me want to kill someone so I focused on my current situation instead

I checked my injuries and realised I had a graze on my head, probably from hitting my head in the steering wheel or something and that was it.

How did I not get hurt worse?

My best guess was that whoever helped me either knew me, was against the Salvatore's or knew Hazel.

So I walked out after disconnecting myself from the monitor and was welcomed to the sight of an empty corridor

"What the fuck sort of horror movie shit is this" I whispered approaching the room at the end of the corridor which seemed to be my way out

Well that was until a voice spoke from behind me "haven't you heard it's rude to sneak"

He was old that's for sure, definitely in his 50s and the Monteverde's symbol on his neck along with the scars and tattoos gave me a confident impression that this was in fact Christopher Monteverde , my other grandfather

"Haven't you heard it's rude to sneak up on a lady" I shrugged sarcastically, I honestly just wanted to hug Nik right now, bitch slap Astraea and shoot Xavier

He stayed silent, as though assessing me and walked into the room I was about to enter taking a seat on one side of a desk gesturing for me to take the other

I followed his lead silently as he spoke "this is the girl I've heard so much about"

"And I'm guessing none of it was good" i leaned back in my seat realising he wasn't a current threat to me

"And what makes you think that" his eyes were so intent, they were hazel much like my own and it was clear we came from the same bloodline

"People tend to not like me" I shrugged unbothered "I don't leave the best impressions but let's push that aside we have more important matters do we not"

He smirked for a second, seemingly surprised as he grabbed a bottle of vodka and poured it into two glasses handing me one "we do"

It was silent as I drank the vodka, "I wouldn't let my grandchild be killed so to answer one of the questions running in that genius mind of yours I did save you, myself actually"

I smiled slightly "your not half as scary as they make you out to be but cheers for the life saving" I raised my glass taking a sip

"Being scary runs in this family Phoenix if you didn't know that-"

I cut him off chuckling "relax old man I was kidding"

And so our conversation continued and I realised how similar we were. He was more fatherly in half an hour then Lucien was my whole life. He told me about Hazel and how Aleksander wouldn't be able to track me since he has a signal blockers

"So you didn't know about me when I was born" I asked crossing my legs in my seat

"No" he shook his head "there were some rumours of a child being born with Monteverde blood but then again there's always rumours, Diana told me a while ago about you and I was waiting for the perfect moment to meet you"