The Hunter's Vampire {Re-writing}

Chapter 50 Stay for Dessert

!Warning, sensitive content!

Strong themes of violence, sexual abuse, trauma, and rape.

Please if this makes you uncomfortable then please practice caution and skip where the chapter begins to focus on Valo.

You have been warned.

After you cry by The Anxiety

Kate had split up with Valo at the end of the hallway once they had guided him back to the staircase from where he came down... but not before speaking with him once more. "I need to change my blouse, you can wait here for me, or go on and follow that corridor," she pointed to the far left, "then make the first right to the dining area." Their eyes met and he sighed, a smile ghosting on his lips as he nodded once.

"Is waiting on you an option or just a loose notion?" he asked reaching forward to tug the top of their blouse together, covering their chest and the binding cloth that peeked out. His blue eyes lifted to her eye and he gasped, he cupped her cheek without thinking twice and lifted her face upwards, moving in closer to her. "Your eye... it's blue and so striking..." he muttered.

Valo's cheeks deepened. "Uh, yeah, they change with my mood." They said touching the wrist of the hand that Kate had on their cheek.

"They? They both do?" his eyes going towards the one eye that she didn't show. Valo nodded. "What color does blue mean?"

Valo stuttered and tripped over their own words "Umm, uh, let—let's hurry." They cleared their throat and moved out of reach of Kate's hand, holding their blouse closed with one hand to their chest as they folded their arm under the other. When they spoke again their voice had regained its strict composure but was also now lower, making Kate focus more on her. "We shouldn't be late for dinner, Ezor, Bisca, Taka and the twins worked really hard to make it—I think they went overboard with the amount of food that they prepared," she murmured, "but I'm in no place to bite the hands that feed me."

He smiled, his eyes catching theirs once more. "You're right. We should get going, we don't want to keep them waiting."

Valo nodded again, hating how hard their heart began to race at the look that he had just thrown their way. "I'll be right back. You stay put." They glared at him and he rose his hands in defeat, chuckling as they turned on their heels and strode off in a hurry. Kate took that minute to observe their strong strides and the way their small waist moved as they walked off down the further right hallway and then disappeared around the corner. So much ferocity in such a small figure, he hummed and licked his lips remembering the way they had clung onto him and how soft their lips felt against his, like the softest pillows... and their moans, urgh, he ran his fingers back through his dark hair and swore underneath his breath. Fucking hell, he had nearly gotten aroused at the very feel of her body pressed against his own. She... they felt so supple and tender. Was it wrong that he had wanted to bring them to complete ruins against the wall? He let his hands drop, folding them over his chest as he leaned back to the wall near the lamp that illuminated the end of the staircase.

Damn, he hadn't thought that he would ever be put in such a situation where he lusted after one very cold woman... person, and to have fallen for another that he barely even knew. "Shit." He looked down at his trousers and his eyes drooped, being here in this manor would surely prove to be difficult, how was he to face Yoli again, especially after he displeased her earlier and how was he to act around Valo after how they fell into each other's arms so recklessly. Fuck it! He would have done so many unsightly things to them if he had not had the proper sense to control himself. He was too good a man to have such roguish thoughts.