Primal Desires

Chapter 34

"No!" Dimitri yelled, leaping up from where he sat on the sofa. Unable to control his anger, he made even Abe flinch from across the room. "Absolutely not!"

"Dimitri-"

"Don't even think about it Rose, I'm not risking your life like that!"

Running a hand through his hair, Dimitri began pacing the room, as Rose stood unsure what to do in front of him. Sparing a look to her father, who was just as confused at her actions, he simply shrugged, seemingly agreeing with Dimitri's reaction.

"But –" she began, recoiling when Dimitri cut her off again.

"No, Rose! Enough!"

Rose was beginning to get frustrated. She knew that this would be their best chance to finally take down the monster, and Dimitri was refusing to see that – instead focusing on the risks involved and treating her like a fragile china doll.

"Would you just let me speak?!" She yelled back, instantly halting Dimitri in his repetitive tracks. He furrowed his brows in irritation, but complied none the less and let her continue. "I'm just saying, that if we head outside the wards, to somewhere he's likely to be, surely he'd come for me?"

"Exactly! I'm not voluntarily putting you in the line of fire!"

Why couldn't Rose see just how dangerous this was? Dimitri couldn't understand why she would allow such a risk to her life, especially as it had taken so long for her to get to a point of normality again!

"Dimitri! Just calm down and let me finish!" She shouted, folding her arms defiantly. "If he knows I'm vulnerable then we'd be able to lure him out and finally take him down."

A deep sigh escaped Dimitri's lips and, knowing he was fighting a losing battle, he sunk back down onto the sofa and hung his head in his hands.

"And what happened in the caves? When we knew he'd be there? He got you, Rose," he stated, barely audibly.

"We're more prepared this time," Rose shrugged.

"She has a point there, Son," Abe agreed, moving to sit next to his daughter's boyfriend on the sofa.

Dimitri's head shot up, his glaring eyes boring into the man's next to him. He couldn't believe what he was hearing!

"You're agreeing with her?!"

"This might be our only chance," Abe responded, and Rose nodded in agreement, thankful her father was realising what she had.

"If we had our date in Harrisburg, he'd without a doubt find me, and that's our chance to take him down," she explained, taking a step closer to Dimitri and gently pushing his hair back from his face. Instinctively, he leant into her touch, taking a deep breath to calm his anger. "We keep him busy while we wait for back up, and then with all of us there he doesn't stand a chance."

Dimitri shook his head.

"It's too dangerous, Rose."

***

If he could, Dimitri would kick himself for not standing his ground further - this whole ordeal was too dangerous! Unfortunately, that would have been quite hard to do, considering he found himself groggily drifting in and out of consciousness in a moving vehicle.

Struggling to focus on anything in particular, one thing he knew for sure was that his head killed. A painful, dull ache encased his skull – the pain so intense he barely registered the discomfort around his wrists. As his mind was doing all it could to pull itself from the blackness of sleep, through blurry eyes he noticed the restraints on his wrists, tightly tying his hands close together, preventing him from any movement.