The Bewitching Countess of the Villa Ersandmyne

Pg. 22

As they could, and at the same time knew that he would hear, Valentina walked out onto the balcony with her sister, and holding hands she whispered into the air, 'Until tomorrow, Magnus Xander.' As she did the morning breeze carried her words to Magnus who was resting but was still able to 'hear' those words which he had been waiting eons to hear. On his face, a smile shone and was noticed by the guardian of the Illuminated Divine Moon Temple which was on watch at their Alter of Somnului, the place of daily rest of the council.

Magnus now knew he didn't need to ask Justiniano if the girls had accepted or not. They had answered, and he knew he would see his granddaughters soon enough, now the day needed to go by fast and he needed to get some rest. He never knew he could be this excited again. And he loved the way Valentina let him know of yet another ability they had cultivated.

Isabella was hoping that Valentina wasn't serious about giving this man a meal since he was a full-fledged vampire and she didn't feel like catching a warm blood body and holding him captive just so he could enjoy dinner. They didn't do it for themselves, why should they do it for anyone else?

All of a sudden, she hears Valentina laughing and then she remembers that in Spain for some reason Valentina can hear her thoughts clearer. And she says "No Isabella, we will not be serving full-course meals, he will get finger food, i.e. crickets, bugs....and human wine. I saw a blood bank; we will make him a special bottle of wine for him. Seeing as it has been years, and he hasn't seen us, we will play nice this time." And she winked at Isabella.

After they cleaned up, they went to the vampire supermarket or fast-food restaurant, whichever way you want to look at it. The blood bank because as Isabella had 'said' they were not going out of their way for Magnus, they would entertain but not go to the extremes.

No finding vessels for him tonight. The only reasons they were going to be so hospitable was because they wanted their questions answered and they knew they weren't going to get any from Magnus by being mean, after all, he was the elder of the council, and although they didn't give a fuck what the hell, he was, to them he was the sphere that held all the answers they not only needed but wanted.

After 'shopping' at the blood bank they went to their home and noticed that it had been cleaned and the furniture was in its place as they remembered when they were young. Although this was not their childhood home it had a similar look on the inside and a sense of deja vu disarrayed the emotions of Isabella in such a way that it brought tears to eyes and she had to walk outside.

She wasn't looking where she was going and bumped into Gabrio who was going to say bye, "Ms. Isabella, is everything alright? May I help you with anything?" Isabella looked up since he was taller than her. Looking astonished she said, "No, I'm fine thank you Gabrio and you may call me just plain Isabella you don't have to add the Ms." Smiling, "Thank you Isabella, and may I ask, how did you and Ms. Valentina, like the way the furniture was organized in the rooms?"

"You all did a beautiful job I think we will be calling you every time we need to change the rooms around since everything looks great." By then Valentina had come out looking for Isabella and saw them talking and she wanted to thank Gabrio, so she walked to them.

"Gabrio, how are you?" "Well Ms. Valentina and yourself?" She laughed, "Gabrio, please, too much formality just Valentina will do, I'm doing well and it is too hot out here, come inside, we just finished making some Iced tea, would you like some? Yes, I would like some, thank you. I also would like to thank you for the well that the furniture was placed. All of you did a wonderful job, please pass along our praises to your workers."

"Thank you both for noticing." "It's hard not to notice," answered Isabella, "everything is in its place, books in order by alphabet, what needed to be put away was and what needed to not be touched wasn't." Valentina was coming from the kitchen with tall glasses and Gabrio could see how the drops of water were sliding down the sides of the glass and the ice glistened as the shine caught it as she passed the window. 

After some chit-chat about some other things, they needed to have done on the house Gabrio said his good-byes, Valentina and Isabella knew he was going to rest up for the night and that was found because soon they also would be getting ready to be hostesses the time was near.