Chapter sixteen
Vincent's P.O.V.
Tessa was banging on the door of her hotel room, the hotel room she got with Alec. Barf.
She has been at this for longer than ten seconds. If you ask me, this was a very long time to be knocking on the door. And Alec was a vampire. He had no excuse.
I was slouched up against the wall, waiting. I was fuming. Alec was one thousand, eight hundred years older than me. You think he would know how to respect someone. Even I knew how to do that.
"Why don't we just leave? Hmm?" I asked, with some hope. Even though I knew she would never do that.
"Nuh uh." She scowled at me.
"I'm just saying, that if he's such a jerk to leave us standing here...we should just leave." I shrugged.
"And all I'm saying is, we're not leaving." She glared at me. She continued on knocking. After about another thirty seconds of this, she got pissed off.
"Okay that's it." She frowned at the door. She backed away a couple of feet. She looked at me, "Step back, you don't want me to hurt you again." I did as I was told. I know the damage she can accomplish.
In one swift motion, she kicked the door, it immediately went flying backwards into the room. Tessa smiled, satisified.
We were in the room in a second, looking around for Alec. It took us all of 2 seconds to realize that he wasn't here.
"What. The. Hell." Tessa put her hands on her hips, and frowned at all the ran sacking of the room we had done.
I glanced at her, trying to hold back my 'I told you he's a jerk' grin. "Uh, maybe he...stepped out?" Again, I was trying to hold back the grin. She would murder me.
Tessa flopped down onto the messy bed. "Damn it." She muttered. Suddenly, her face lit up, and she sat up straight. She reached into her jeans front pocket, and pulled out a cellphone. She began furiously typing into it.
I watched her anxiously wait for him to pick it up. "He has a cellphone?"
She nodded.
Huh. I never would have thought that an oldie vampire would be so... 'with it' with the technologies.
"Hello?" She suddenly said into the phone. "Alec?" She asked. She waited a few beats, and then spoke again. "Sorry, miss. Wrong number." Her voice was chipper and upbeat as she spoke to the woman on the other end.
As soon as she hung up, the happiness was gone. She sat down quietly on the floor. She crossed her legs. She looked like she was shielding herself. From everything around her.
I KNEW that that jerk coming back, would be bad. Look at what its gotten us! he left her, and now Tessa was in this emotional slump. I don't know how I would ever cure her of this. She looked doomed.
"Tessa?" I whispered. I was afraid to do anything to set her off.
She looked up at me with sadness all over her face. "he left me again." She said. There was no emotion in her voice, only on her face. It was like she was stating a fact.
I touched her shoulder gently. I wished I could tell her that he didn't, that he loved her and would never in a million years leave her.
But I couldn't promise her that. Because I had no idea if Alec was telling the truth in ANY of his stories. For all I knew, he doesn't even have to be the one who turned Tessa. He could be lying to her.
"he left me." She repeated. She was trying to force herself to find error in her words. So it wouldn't be true.
"Now, you know that's not possible." I said, trying to console her.
