Run.

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"Alessio Ruggier." Cassia said my name in such a way that it held importance. I was just walking back into the kitchen with Melanie and Chuck flanking me when she called out to me.

"This is so weird," I heard Chuck mutter softly, clearly not to me. "I can't decide whose hotter, Alexis or Cassia."

"Me." I looked as Mel said it and she was smirking triumphantly.

"Yeah but you basically only have eyes for Lexi." Chuck scoffed and effectively allowed me to tune out of the conversation.

I looked to the striking girl standing in front of me, she had chosen to switch her dark, thigh length dress today for a pair of light jeans and a black blouse, matching her eyes and hair. She looked more dangerous in that attire than she did in her first. Her hair was down in loose curls that framed her face, giving her a dark angelic look.

Overall, she was breathtakingly beautiful and that was dangerous.

"Sit with me?" She asked sweetly and I wondered for a moment where her brothers were.

I did as I was asked and heard Melanie and Chuck retreat to another room.

"You have many questions."

"Countless." I replied.

"Begin." She moulded her hands and placed them on her lap. She seemed to own the couch she was sitting on, her presence was everywhere in the room. You could feel her power. It was disheartening. I felt threatened.

"What are you?" I asked the most obvious question.

"There are two reasons why I can't disclose that information. One, my brothers have not consented it. It would be very disloyal of me to reveal something they do not wish to be revealed." She looked a little disappointed as she said it. "And two, we can barely explain it ourselves, we just are. So perhaps it's not a no on revealing our identities, but more of a when."

"Okay," It made me nervous that she wouldn't tell me. I have been dying to know since I had found out about them. "How old are you?"

"Now that I will reveal." She smirked as she said it, her eyes taking on a dark glint. "We have been around since before the birth of Christ."

That brought with it a new bout of fear. They were old, almost timeless. That meant they were strong, no other creature I had ever come across had been that old. What were they?

"Overwhelming?" She chuckled.

"Very much so." I nodded, sitting back in my seat briefly. "You have searched for me? Why?"

"You are the first creature we have known to possess more than half of our abilities, we simply had to find you." She locked eyes with me and I was trapped. "Actually, I had to find you. See, infatuation is a very obscure thing, you don't know when it starts and why, but it's there. And I was so intrigued by your very existence, by the stories that were told of you, I had to know if you were real." She tilted her head in curiosity, like she had done the day before. "I'm severely underwhelmed if I may say so."

"I'm sorry to disappoint." I scoffed.

"No," She put her hands up. "I am certainly not disappointed, it takes a certain...civility to be able to contain our animalistic side. Emilia yelled at you last night, you argued, by nature you should've hurt her, but you...refrained." She lifted her hand as if she wanted to physically examine me again. "I envy your restraint. I have always stifled that side of me, but it doesn't come naturally. You've been nothing but...hospitable to my brothers and I."

"Believe me when I say it's based purely on curiosity, had I thought you were nothing but common vampires or werewolves, I would have handed you to the hunters gift-wrapped."