Walking with the Vampire |COMPLETE|

52. Jeffery Tells all

Five minutes had casually ticked on by and still Jeffery hasn't uttered a single word to her.
Danielle intentionally glanced at her watch and when she wasn't checking the time, she was looking at every corner and nook of the tent except directly at him.

'You won't even look at me?' Jeffery's hurt voice didn't bother her in the least. She only felt a coldness all over.

'Lets get this over with Jeffery.'

He remained silent for a few more heartbeats.
'I'm sorry. For lying to you, for manipulating you, for everything. I just needed you to know that.'

'I know you killed Mystique.' There was no use for her to keep the fact that she knew a secret.
She wasn't fishing for excuses from him, just letting him know that she wouldn't be forgiving him or becoming his friend anytime in this lifetime.

'That wasn't me. It was Baron.'

'Still you blamed Osei and then you tried to make me into an accomplice in murder.'

'Being with him made you an accomplice for all his murders.' Jeffery was getting too excited so he brought it all the way down, he was scared his throbbing neck might open again.
'I'm sorry.'

His apology was a little redundant right now. It meant nothing to her because unlike her, he wasn't oblivious to the truth. He had willfully used her.
'If you're finished...'

' I couldn't let you be with a monster.'
Oh God, was that how she had sounded that fateful day when she'd lost Osei?
She was ashamed.

'And What are you Jeffery? Tell me?'

'I lost my way. I can't say anything to justify my sins against you . But I'll still hope that someday I can make it all up to you.'

'Start now by telling Osei everything.'

'I will.' He paused prolonging the silence.

'Why did you do all this Jeffery? Osei never hurt you.' Since he was talking he might as well tell her and ease the burning curiosity she'd had to suffer all those months alone.

'You forget the night of the wolves.' He said in an attempt of a joke.
'You're right. He never hurt me but everything I did was for you, Dani.'
He smiled .
'I loved you, I was in love with you. Still do, still am.'
His confession would have caused her to care and feel very awkward once upon a time.

'I'm sorry Jeffery. I love and I'm in love with Osei.'

'He has a new mate.' He reminded her as if she didn't wake up to that fact everyday. He had a new mate who he was starting a new family with.

'I can respect that because I don't think I deserved to be with him then.' Now was a different matter. However, She wasn't going to take what wasn't hers Like Semi had. She regretted thinking about Semi that way but that was the truth. She'd evaluated the fairness of her accusations when she got over the hurt of what Semi had done to her.

Danielle in all honesty was hurt by Jeffery's betrayal as well because he really was her friend.
'You really were my friend Jeffery. And truth is I don't think I can ever trust you. But I'll have to try. We're going to help him out however we can, you and me. We're going to make this right, even if it's the last thing we do.'
The conviction in his nod made her hope he was being true.

Jeffery would help her, he needed to right every wrong. And he'd regret a good many things in his lifetime, except that one thing. That one thing.

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Osei was getting anxious.
He stood on the porch listening closely to his wolves chatter.
Nicholae ... not Nicholae....
Harris... Harris! Harris the demon!
It still didn't make a lick of sense to Osei, none of this did and it was driving him up the walls.