Chapter 47Atreyu materialized in front of me in my kitchen where I was watching Roxy finish dishing up our lunch. “Are you hungry, Atreyu?” Roxy asked. “Oh no, thank you though I am just fine.” He said back to her. She set a plate in front of me, but I didn’t touch it right away. “I need to interrogate the Necromancer. I plan to spend quite a bit of time down there figuring out everything I possibly can. I will need you to stay with Roxy while I'm away. I don’t care what she wants to do or where she wants to go, I need you with her. Understood?” I snapped at Atreyu. “Yes sir.” He replied. “Once I finish my lunch, I will call for you. I plan to start the interrogation immediately.” I said. He nodded and then vanished. Roxy and I ate in silence. I was too busy brooding on what I was about to go do and I'm sure she was just as stressed. “You’re not going to hurt her, are you?” Roxy’s soft voice infiltrated my ears, snapping me from my thoughts of torture and violence. “Well, it depend
Chapter 48I returned to Jerome’s headquarters. “Do not let any harm come to her. I will be back tomorrow to continue my interrogation.” I said, then I turned and walked out. I walked through his coven ignoring everyone who stopped to stand at attention. My mind was elsewhere. How was I going to get the information needed from this woman without giving her what she wanted? These were the thoughts invading my mind. If I didn’t have Roxy, I would have given her what she wanted in an instant to get the information I needed. But things are different now. Me and Roxy aren’t together, but things are getting quite serious. I wouldn’t want to hurt her. I had to figure out a way to make this work.Once I got home, Atreyu said Roxy was in the bedroom. I thanked him and sent him on his way. As soon as I walked into my bedroom, I laid eyes on Roxy. She was sprawled out on my chaise lounge in an extremely sexy position. She got up from the chaise lounge at the foot of my bed and sauntered towards
Chapter 49 Once I woke up, I had hoped this was all a bad dream. I quickly realized it was as real as Raphael lying next to me. The first thing that happened when he woke up was I tried to tell him what happened, and what came out instead was. “Good morning.” With a warm smile. This was so fucking frustrating. It was like I wasn’t even me. Anytime I tried to talk about the man or what happened, my body did something completely different. After multiple times of trying to get any inkling of what happened last night out to Raphael throughout the morning, I realized that I would be taking these secrets straight to his grave. A thought that made my heart ache terribly. The pit in my stomach was growing by the minute. The longer I am here with him, the higher possibility that I would succeed in killing him. I had made up my mind… I was going to leave. Run far away from this place… As far as I possibly could. Anything to prevent this terrible future from unfolding. I honestly couldn’t im
Chapter 50(Raphael)Roxy seemed strange this morning, different than usual and a lot quieter. I chalked it off to our encounter last night. That was the first time we had done anything sexual really, and I wondered if maybe it had been a little too much for her... I mean, she definitely didn’t complain. But why would she? She said it was incredible. I did bite her though, without warning… Yea, that might have been a little much for a Human to comprehend. But I couldn’t help it… It just kind of happened. I wanted to ask her about it but decided against it. I knew she wasn’t able to talk freely from being Risen, and that could have been bothering her too. I was frustrated because I hadn’t gotten anywhere with the fucking Necromancer during our last interaction and I really had hoped that she would have given me something, anything. I needed to find the remaining Necromancers so I could find a way to cure Roxy. They had to know a way to reverse this shit. Turn Roxy back to Human. Wit
Chapter 51The look of shock on her face amused me. Then I materialized outside of her cell. “I will be back… As you know, I still need you. And… Let's just say, you better hope your intel pans out, little Necromancer.” I purred. Then I materialized to Jerome’s office. I instantly mind linked my men to let them know of my findings and to assemble troops to head that way. We definitely had ways to disrupt magic, and we were going to try them all. I then told Jerome and his men what I learned, and he mind linked his men as well. We were getting an army together to storm the west. “I want every last one of those filthy Necromancers dead. No questions asked.” I snarled. “Yes sir, and what of the prisoner?” Jerome asked. “Leave her, I still need her.” I replied. Then I turned and headed out the door. I decided not to go straight home, it was only midafternoon, and I needed to check on the security around my covens. Something told me that I wasn’t the only one the Necromancers were fuck
Chapter 52I sat there wallowing in my own misery for what seemed like hours before I noticed that the cut on her arm had healed up and was no longer there. I turned on my Vampire hearing but couldn’t detect a heartbeat. She was healing though, so that was a good sign. I felt relief wash over me when I realized she would in fact revive. It took so much longer than I had previously seen though, and it made me wonder if the further away from the Land of The Dead the longer the revival took? I probably should have taken her home first, but I didn’t want to startle her. I wanted her to wake up in the same place she died in. I had questions, and I needed answers. An hour later, which seemed like eternity, I heard a faint heartbeat, and I was able to breathe again. She was coming back. Slowly… But she was. “That’s it Roxy, come back to me, darling.” I said to her, knowing she couldn’t hear me anyways. It took about another hour before she regained the color in her face and her eyes flutte
Chapter 53Roxy would be safe here. I could trust Jerome. I locked eyes with her, and it was like she knew I was thinking of leaving her here and she didn’t want to stay. She kept quiet and I couldn’t tell if that was due to the magic or her own thought process. I took her beautiful face in my hand. “If I take you with me, you are going to see things that I'm sure you do not want to see. I’m sorry but I can’t leave them alive. Not even one of them. You understand this right?” I said to her softly. I could see the internal battle raging through her brown eyes. It was like she knew I was right, but her instincts said I was wrong. She was in the middle of a battle that she wasn’t going to win. Human life and rules were so much different than the life and rules of the underworld. I wish I had more time to explain this to her, I just hoped she would understand. “Ok, I understand.” She said, and she gripped my hand harder. Good girl. I thought. We then materialized to Atreyu who was with
Chapter 54I wasn’t sure what had her all worked up, but I had a feeling I was about to find out. “Why, Raphael? Why her?” Haven spat while pointing at Roxy. “Oh my god… Haven, we are not doing this again.” I spat back. This entire mess literally stemmed from her jealousy?? Come on! Get the fuck over it. My annoyed thoughts rang through my mind. “You just don’t understand apparently. And maybe you never will…” Haven trailed off while looking like she was lost in thought.I rolled my eyes, this is so fucking stupid. “Haven’t you ever felt that pull to someone? The pull that is so strong that no matter how much you fight it, you just can’t resist it? That pull that makes you weak in the knees when you see that person or hear their name? The pull that keeps you up at night dreaming of that person, and has you wishing more than anything in this world that you could just be with them? Have you ever truly felt that way, Raphael?” Haven asked.My mind went straight to Roxy. From that first n