Desire by Blood | Desire Series ~ 1

Chapter 30

"This is terrible," Alice gasps when she enters the room as her husband tries to comfort her.

As Michael takes care of his wife, Nikolas and I hurry to slowly and carefully take the woman down. She's currently unconscious, but I believe it's better this way. She will be in less pain and she suffered way too much already. We both find a method to lean the cross down. It's so heavy and still so slippery from the victim's blood that I nearly dropped her head first. Thankfully, my mate was fast enough to intervene. Gradually, we put her down.

Now, we only have to take the nails out. It will be easy, yeah right... Both my mate and I start to look around Matthias' office for anything that could help us. It's an office, though. I doubt my mate's brother would keep anything like that here. But when I turn around, I see Matthias grasps one of the nails before roughly pulling it out. That can work too. I hurry to his side to extract the other one in his hand as Nikolas takes the ones in her feet out.

Suddenly, the young woman shouts in pain before curling into a ball while imploring us to stop torturing her.

"P-please... S-s-stop..."

Matthias kneels in front of her before taking his jacket down to conceal her exposed body. "It's okay dear. We are here to help," he gently says as the young woman peeks up from her blood sullied hair concealing her face.

"S-sir!" he gasped before cowering down even further. "P-please forgive me," she starts to sob as I look at her confusedly. Why is she apologizing?

"It's alright, calm down," he tries to soothe her down, but without success. Instead, she starts to bawl ever louder than before making him sigh before shouting angrily, "Enough, stop crying!"

"Matthias, don't you see you aren't helping?" Katie angrily shouts back at her brother before pushing him aside, so she can kneel in front of the crying woman.

"We don't have time for this! As she cries, they may be attacking another of my coven!" the man argues back with a growl.

"And your method clearly works," she scoffs while rolling her eyes.

"Enough, both of you!" their mother intervenes as they both finally shut the hell up. "Nikolas and Micah, you both help the poor girl as for you two, come with me."

"Yes ma'am," they both answer before following their parents out of the room leaving us three alone.

I sigh before looking at the battered woman on the floor. Well, it's not what I am used to, but I have to use my irresistible charms on her. I am pretty confident since no woman ever said no to me. I could say that they were throwing themselves at my feet. Joke aside, her state of mind is really messed up. She's frightened from what happened to her. Her instincts took control, and what can possibly calm her down?

"Hey, are you alright?" I try to ask her while using the gentlest tone I have, but I get nothing from her. "It's alright, the enforcers are gone. No one will harm you here."

"N-no, it's a lie! They promised they would come back for me! They will come and kill me after they kill them," she stutters while sobbing in fear.

"After they kill who?" I ask quickly. I can't have her being unable to speak after throwing us a clue like this.

"They will be back, they will be back! For me... For me!" she shouts as she suddenly pushes me away before trying to stand up and make a run for it.

"Oh no, you don't," Nikolas growls before using his inhuman speed to catch her. "I will go inside her mind to see what she knows. I won't be able to do anything during this time. So, protect me?" he explains with a wink before grabbing the woman's chin, so they were looking at each other in the eyes.