Lovely • The Originals [4]

SEVENTEEN

|17.| SO CLOSE, YET SO FAR

INSIDE OF THE PENTHOUSE was calm, dead silent. Even with all of the vampires scattered on the floor, they were all quiet and breathing as lightly as possible. However, the silence was interrupted with a load bang from the double doors being opened by the Original hybrid.

"Rise and shine, Nightwalker Nation," Klaus shouts in the penthouse and watching as the vampires stir awake. "If it was your aim to get my attention, then I must say you've been wildly successful. I am now singularly focused on your impending suffering."

"And to whomever sent this coin and took my children's mother." Klaus pulls out the coin he received with a swastika on one side. "It's time to show your face."

He flips the coin into the air and speeds towards some vampires who managed to stay up. Klaus takes a broken piece of wood to his liking and stabs a man in the chest with it while using his venomous teeth to bite the others. He uses the piece of wood to stab it into a vampire's face while another tries to escape, but with his luck, Marcel stopped him from running.

"Man, don't look to me for help," Marcel scoffs at the vampire who looks at him desperately. "Y'all lost your chance to trade loyalty for protection."

Klaus strides towards the helpless vampire and lifts him up by his neck, speeding towards the window. He drops him onto the ground, staring down at him with a death glare.

"This would mark your very last opportunity to confess," Klaus grits his teeth as he grows impatient.

"Look, I don't know anything," the vampire replies desperately.

"Well, that's a pity for you, then."

The hybrid picks him up off the ground again by his jacket and rips off the curtains to expose him to sunlight. He screams out in agony as his skin blisters then instantly he catches on fire. Klaus drops the corpse onto the ground and turns around to see Greta picking up the coin.

"It's me you're looking for," Greta confesses. Klaus and Marcel share a look. "Perhaps we should talk."

The culprit who exposed herself to the hybrid of the damage she has done, so with no hesitation Klaus takes the vampire hostage, draining her of blood.

"You know, for someone who organized this little summit, you're woefully short on details." Klaus spoke with his back turned towards her, then spins on his heel. "So I'm going to ask you one last time. Where are you keeping Cora?"

Greta stares at the hybrid with sweat dripping from her forehead and in a slight daze from all the blood that has left her system. The hybrid grows impatient, so he sits her up on the stone block and grabs a large nail, slamming it into her hand and she groans in pain, her hand trembling.