Too Human - Forbidden book 1

Chapter Thirty six - Jager

Jager

“Explain something to me,” Violet said. She sounded bored, but I knew whatever she wanted to know wasn't small.

“Anything,” I told her.

“How did she take those years from you?”

I sighed, I didn’t even know how exactly it worked. “Witch’s... there... well some of them can sense how long someone has left to live. Human, immortal, it doesn’t matter; no one can truly live forever, I can still be beheaded and any other immortal can be killed. The talent is unusual even among their own. But the talent comes with the power to swop life force. So cutting it short, she knows the amount of years I have left to live and how ever long that is she just took five hundred and fifty of them for herself.”

“What? Okay, say you have twenty years left, now that the witch took all those years what happens when those years are up?”

I shrugged.

“Do you shrug at me! Tell me right now what’s going to happen to you! I’m so confused!”

I loved it when she told me what to do. No one else ever dared. It was nice to have someone telling me what they thought and not what I wanted to hear. I think that’s why I fell in love with her in the first place.

“I suppose it means if my death date was – before Loretta took the years – in five hundred and seventy years, and say I was to die by... let’s say, being caught in a fire, then take five hundred and fifty years from that time and I suppose I just, I don’t know? Drop dead? Five hundred and fifty years early.”

“You know, that doesn’t really make sense.”

“Doesn’t matter anyway. Plus I have at least more than fifty years left since she was trying to bargain for more.”

“Doesn’t matter,” she scoffed, pointedly looking out the window. “You’re such an idiot.” She rolled her head to look at me. “But I still love you, baby,” she smiled.

I touched her cheek. “I love you, more than anything, you know that.”

***

Once I was though the gates at Dawn I felt a little better. Since Lidia broke in here last time I had my security tripled, she may have been able to break out because thats not what the security was designed for. I parked in the garage and Chasseur and Violet took off towards the kitchen so Violet could see everyone. Dustin was to slow so he came with me.

Everyone was in a frenzy, running around trying to clean up the house, there were holes in walls, furniture broken and blood spots here and there.

“Wow,” Dustin breathed. “What a mess!”

“This is what happens when a hungry vampire escapes the box with a bloody vengeance. Lisa came rushing up to me.

“Master! Lidia!”

“I know,” I told her.

She sighed, her shoulders sagging. “I don’t know what to do! I couldn’t get a hold of you. I didn’t know if you wanted me to send any one after her or –!”

“Lisa, calm down. I’ll handle it, just make sure security doubled, bring in security from Susan’s if we need it. How bad is the damage she caused?”

“House or us?”

“I don’t care about the house, Lisa.”

“She drained three Bleeders, put a kitchen girl in the infirmary. And...” Her face twisted, like if she spoke again she wouldn’t be able to hold back the tears. She took a deep breath. “And Philip.”