Red Haze

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Sixteen

It's been hours. Kelly tapped her fingers impatiently against the rubbish bin.

"Why isn't he here yet?" she snarled

"Shouldn't you be preparing your formal apologies to me and a very long and detailed report to the association?" she retorted, starting to feel her limbs again.

"Damn it, damn it! He should be here by now!" Kelly muttered under her breath but Amelia could detect the slight fear beneath the tough exterior of Kelly. Kelly paced up and down frantically. This could really mean the end of her career to betray her own people.

"Maybe a couple of slits won't do. Maybe the bond is too new or too weak," she muttered desperately as her pupils dilated and a whole new level of craziness clouded her judgment.

"Woah woah woah, chill lady. Let's not do something irreversible, shall we?" Amelia tried to use more force onto the knots. It was definitely loosening up but It wasn't enough for her to slip out of it.

"A broken bone or two. Don't worry, we all had it before," Amelia's heart hammered against her ribcage with every step Kelly took.

"THAT DOES NOT MEAN I'M FINE WITH THAT !" Amelia snapped as she kicked Kelly's knees.

"You biatch. Now you're getting more than a broken bone. Since I am already at this point, why the hell not," she cursed.

"Trust me, you have all the reasons in the world not to,"

Before Amelia could see or hear him, she already knew he was here. With that intense and pressuring aura, it can only be him. It is bone shivering but Amelia could finally let go of the breath that she was unconsciously holding. Lucian stood at the end of the alley with his darkened eyes and clenched jaw staring right into her.

As if he was asking, "Are you okay?".

Amelia simply nodded.

"So I was right! You are her mate. I knew it," she cackled like a crazy witch as she quickly wrapped her wrist around Amelia's neck with another dagger lying directly on her fragile neck. "Come and get me, bloodsucker," she taunted.

"Patience, witch," Lucian said calmly with his hands in his pockets as if he has already won the fight.

"Do you not care of your mate?" Kelly threatened, her dagger causing Amelia's blood to ooze out in its wake. Kelly was lost, unable to read his mind or what was about to happen.

"Never doubt the answer to that question, hunter. I have been to many wars, hunter and most wars end with a fool making a rash decision," Lucian said as his followers appeared and surrounded the entire alley.

Kelly looked around in panic. The trap she set will not withstand this amount of vampires. She was clearly outnumbered but if she was about to go down, she will take at least half of them. So she thought.

"Do you not have honour? Fight me fair and square," Kelly said, hoping to lure him to the trap. The very least she could do was to take down the lord.

"After you kidnapped my mate? Honour is the last thing on my mind," Lucian said, slowly walking to them.

"A little bit more. Two more steps. Come on, come on," Kelly thought frantically in her own mind.

Just as he was about to step into the invisible trap set by Kelly, he stopped In his tracks. "I can smell the faint smell of escare from the very beginning, you fool," he smirked.

Kelly's eyebrow furrowed in frustration. "I would prefer it to use my own skills to bring you down but if she dies, you die too," she said.

Kelly was about to slit Amelia's throat but her fingers just wouldn't move. She froze in her spot. None of her muscles would even move except her eyes. She stared in horror as Lucian stood centimetres away from her. Lucian carefully removed Kelly's dagger away from Amelia.

"Are you okay?" Lucian asked as he pulled her head close, kissing her forehead.

"Still .. trapped," Amelia croaked, pointing to Kelly's frozen wrist around her neck.

"Right. My apologies," Lucian said as clouds of darkness covered his eyes as he snapped each finger of Kelly. Kelly thought she screamed in pain but nothing came out off her mouth. She could only show the pain in her eyes as tears welled up in her eyes.

"Stop, Lucian!" Amelia said, wrapping her hands around his. "She is hurting!". His grip softened but she could still see his desire to torture Kelly in his eyes.

"She hurt you. She deserves it," he said matter-of-factly

"Let the association deal with this, alright?" she gently cooed.

"Fine," he finally blinked away that sadistic look of his as he engulfed her in a hug.

"Bring her away," Lucian commanded.

His followers silently carried out his commanded, shoving the very frozen Kelly into a black van.

Still the safety of his arms, Amelia was conflicted and torn. She felt so safe in his arms as if she was safely tucked away in the little burrow of hers with him but her head was spinning with the aftermath of what just happened.

Mate.

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