Stephen

He's Back 40

Stephen erased all traces of Kane, from Danielle's and Tony's minds. And after a month of the store reopening, we still hadn't seen nor heard a peep out of Kane, almost like he had completely disappeared off the face of the earth.
I wasn't naive, to think that Kane would just pack up his belongings and leave town without a fight. I knew him better than that, down deep in my gut we'd have to face him again sooner or later,( hopefully, it would be the latter.)

The business had boomed, the spring and summer months flew by quickly and Stephen finally had the opportunity to meet my parents this summer when we invited them up to stay with us for a week at the estate.
When we told my parents that we had gotten married over Christmas my Mom was ecstatic about the news, but Dad well, I thought he was going to go heart-attacks right there in front of me.
After the shock wore off, my Dad pulled Stephen to the side, and gave the famous 'Dad talk,' you know the one, were you better not hurt my daughter or I'll kill you speech, but Stephen was a complete gentleman through the whole thing.

He just stood there and listen to my dad's man spill, and nodded every now and then, like he understood what my Dad was saying to him, after about an hour of this integration, Dad shook his hand, patted him on the back and welcomed him into the family.

My mom and I, couldn't help but giggle as we watched my Dad give Stephen the sermon. Sicily a course now works at the store as my new secretary, replacing Danielle upfront, freeing Danielle to take on more clients. Now that it's September, I needed all the extra help I could find, with the up and coming holiday season around corner and appointments being booked now for fittings for the Gala.

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Sydney came into the store dragging her feet across the floor like a zombie, she walks on past me, toward the front counter, then sits down on the chair, and lays her head on the counter before she starts to wines." Grace, this is freaking killing me, having to be here at six in the  morning."

"Stop being so dramatic Sydney."

"Said the vampire that doesn't even need to sleep."Shielding her eyes from the light in the store with her arms as she speaks."I've decided Grace, I'm moving into the store, so I don't have to get up so damn early anymore.

I crock my eyebrow up at her, ' that wasn't such a bad idea, I'll have to ponder on this for a bit' I thought. "Sydney, would you like me to order you a fancy coffee this morning?"

"Yes, and make it an extra, extra large please." She said back, half asleep. That whole day just felt a little off to me, and for the life of me I couldn't quite put my finger on it, why did I feel so off-center for? The business has been busy today, clients were happy, so why do I feel so uneasy right now?

Sydney came into my office and must have seen the perplexed look on my face."Grace what's wrong?"She asks, walking closer toward the desk.

"I don't know. I've just felt off today Sydney."

"Like how Grace?"

"Sydney, if I knew that, then I could tell you, now couldn't I?" With menace lace in my voice.

Sydney started to back away from the desk."Grace, how long has it been since you fed?

"Two days," I whispered.

"Oh Shit-balls Grace, you're cranky as hell today, I think you need to feed, like right now before you go all physio vampire on me. I'll keep everyone out here, while you take care of...Ya know," waving her arms over toward the small frig in the corner of the closet, walking back over to the doorway opening it," Yell at me Grace, when you're finished then we can talk." She poked her head out the door and looks out before she leaves the office shutting the door behind her.

'Maybe Sydney's right, and I just needed to feed,' getting up from my chair I walk over to the frig and opened it, taking one of the blood bags from it, I quickly tore open the bag and began to drink down the sweet liquid. 

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Stephen picked up the office calling  Grace."Hello Mr. James."Her voice came across the earpiece of the phone.

"Good evening Mrs. James, I'll be there in about twenty minutes to ravish your body."Deepening his voice into the phone.

"I'm looking forward to that Stephen, I love you."

"Love you too." Then hung up the phone.

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Stephen chunks his briefcase over into the passenger seat of his car before he felt a rapture of pain hit him between his shoulder blades. He heard the musicales shift around, taring as the foreign object passed its way through his chest cavity. He feels another forceful blow to his back, and roars out, as he sees the object penetrating further through his chest plate."Hahaha!!!"
Stephen's knees collapse out from underneath him, as his hands reach up to the metal tier-ion sticking out of his chest.

"My boy...It's a damn dirty shame it had to come down to this." Gabbing a handful of Stephen's hair,  jerking his head back, as he looked down at Stephen's eyes."You and I both know you can't defeat me, Grace belongs to ME!!"

Stephen spits the blood in his mouth onto Kane's face, "Fuck You, Asshole! You can't even fight me like a man you chicken Shit!"

Kane wipes the blood away from his face, kneeling down on one knee next to Stephen and smiles at him, "Let me tell you a little secret my boy, I'm more of a man then you'll ever be.  I plan on fucking Grace...and seeing her body quiver underneath me, as I pleasure her...every signal night until she can't even remember who you are, screaming out my name as she cums...Stephen.
"Don't you Touch Her!" Stephen begins to pull out the metal bar from his chest.

I think our conversation here is Done! Kane's hands came up to Stephen's head and snapped his neck like a twig"I've always loved that fighting spirit in you, Stephen, "Admiring him for a moment before stands up whistling a tune as he walked away.

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I looked over at the clock, I've been waiting here for Stephen for almost an hour, this isn't like him, he always calls me if he running behind. Sydney walks into my office as I look over at the time again."Grace, maybe he stuck in traffic."

"Sydney he would have called. I felt like something has been off all day, and right now, I have a really bad. Kane better not have hurt me or I'll." As I spoke to Sydney, her face turned to stone and her eyes began to glaze over like she was on another planet."Sicily," She mumbles. 

Then a deep throaty voice fills my office, "You'll what Grace?" 

Sydney turns around and faces Kane, throwing her magic out towards him, ruthlessly knocking his body up again the office wall like a rag-doll whispering incantation underneath her breath pausing just long enough to yell out to me, "Run!" The began to mumble again.

Running out the door, my feet stop when I see Sicily's body lying motionless on the payment, shit! She's alive still but there's a substantial gash on her neck and I can smell the fresh blood coursing through her body, I lean down and cradle her body next to mine and turn my head away from the gash on her neck cursing as I run to the car trying to keep my thoughts from the fresh blood.

I practically throw Sicily's body in the backseat of the car and jump into the driver's seat, I pull up to the front of the store when I see Sydney run out," Sydney, get your ass in the Car Now!" She ran like hell toward the car and flung open the door, practically flew herself inside.

She barely shut the car door beside her, when Kane rammed his shoulder into the passenger-side window, slinging his fiery spit everywhere onto the side glass, as he yelled at Sydney."You Bitch!  You're mine!"

I floor the gas to the car, like an F-1 driver driving like a bad out of hell down the street, watching Kane's body roll down the paved road. Sydney crawls into the back with Sicily and starts to cry as she checks out the wound on her neck," Grace...take me to moms..."

'Stephen please be okay' I whisper under my breath...

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