Hunting Aurora

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

I just got off the plane. Finally back home, if you could even call it a home, to tell the truth I haven't felt like I had a home or that I belonged anywhere since my family was murdered. This was just a small apartment to rest and work from when I didn't want to be surrounded by the other hunters.

It's been over ten years since I lost everything, I lost my family, my home, my sanity....And in some way I think I lost myself. Some days it feels like only yesterday, when that dreadful day replays over and over in my head... My own personal hell, from which I can't escape. Forced to feel the painful memories, torturing myself with the What if's. What if I was faster and stronger, What if I insisted we don't stay home that evening, What if I never became a hunter...all things that may have changed the outcome of what happened that night.

Other days... Everything feels so long ago, almost as if it was not even a part of my life, it feels more like a distant memory from a previous life. Or remembering a bad nightmare you had years ago and after all the time that had passed, the dream had faded. I hate feeling like that, it leaves me feeling guilty that I don't remember their features in detail or I can't recall the sound of their voices or laughter. Blaming myself that I was forgetting things of such importance.

As I walk into my small apartment which feels so empty, cold but also stuffy and claustrophobic after it's being locked up for over a month, I can't help but think of her.

The more I thought about her the more furious I became, subconsciously touching the bite mark in my neck, which was still painful.

I can't believe she did that, what the hell was she thinking. I was angry that she bit me, I was angry that she broke rules leaving me with no choice but to kill her... It didn't matter that there was a contract out on her, it was the principle thereof. I believed her when she said she wasn't like the others, and then she bit me... She's no different.

I was angry with myself for falling for her, for opening up to her, for letting her close... Not only close to my deepest secrets but close to my heart and then she betrayed me by biting me, fucking up whatever it was I was naive enough to think was developing between us.

I was angry that she got me all lustful and with her bite rendered me immobilized, I was unable to think straight, unable to function, unable to move or react. This is the last place a hunter should be and I walked into the situation willingly. I was angry that in that moment, I didn't care... I would let her do whatever she wanted to me.

My phone was switched off during the flight, switching it on now I received a voice message from an unknown number. When I retrieve the message I immediately recognized Robert's voice.

Robert: "You better not make a habit out of not answering when I phone you Boy.

The plan was set in to motion. Keep your ear close to the ground, I'm expecting her to surface very soon... You better be ready"

Stupid idiot... He is so full of himself he didn't even realize that I've been away... If he did a bit of homework he would have known I don't need his plan, I found her already and she should consider herself lucky that I didn't kill her, but my priorities changed... I was going after Mikhail, he was my number one priority. Killing Aurora could wait till after I got my revenge. Robert could wait, he was starting to piss me off anyway.

Three days later and I still weren't any closer to locating Mikhail, Robert or Abigail. Every lead was a dead end. I suspected Aurora was right about Abigail using concealment spells. The only one that would able to get past such a spell was another witch and I've already approached every witch I knew, with no luck in convincing any of them to help me, as soon as they heard Robert's name the refuse to help.