*Ch 273: The Mental Call

"My friends miss understood me." I loudly exhaled in stress.

Heart eyes me intensely while speaking. "There was another incident at a fundraiser. Many eyewitnesses saw Kai get physical with you. He could've killed you from what we gathered. You were knocked out for days from having severe head trauma."

"That was an accident," I refute, yet my small voice came out crackly from distress. What have my friends done? Kai is going to kill them! After they promised me they wouldn't press charges. "No more questions!" I exclaimed firmly. "Who hired you to investigate my husband?"

Heart raised his voice. "The families who lost their daughters!"

"I'm done!" I curtly retorted.

Now I knew my friends only gave their testimonies for this investigation. There was nothing else to say. Since I know the families are the ones who hired these detectives. Of course, I felt awful for the families, but I know Kai won't hesitate to end their lives if they refuse to drop these cases.

Detective Clark sighed as he slouched his elbows forward to his knees. "Victoria, we are here to offer our help. With your cooperation, we can have your husband locked up for kidnapping, abuse, and for these murders, we know he committed. You and the families can have justice. I'll make sure Kai stays locked up, and away from you and your unborn child. Just move your hands or give us any signal, and we will help you," his voice trailed gently into my ears.

My mouth opened to talk, but nothing came out. All anyone could hear was my shaky breath. Both men stared at me in silence. They each searched for any sign to imply I'll cooperate by turning my husband in. Yet I dare not move a muscle or twitch one finger to suggest anything of the sort that I'll work with them. They have no idea what they're up against.

Kai will pour the blood from their veins into a wine glass to drink it. Better reality, he'll rive his fatal fangs right into their throats. By the time he'll be done drinking them dry, they'll look like a wolf had severed into their flesh.

There was only one thing I could do. So I gave up and mentally cried out to Kai. Today I read how vampires mentally communicate a frequency with each other like an echolocation or telepathically. Perhaps, I won't hear him, but maybe by a long shot, he'll hear me since we are mates.

"Kai, get here!" I mentally called for him in my head as I stared at the men without moving my lips.

They sigh, seemingly losing whatever patience they had for me to give an outward response or gesture. Time was ticking away by the minute and down to the last second. That antique grandfather clock against the wall, was resounding every tick and talk within the large office. My heart was pounding away as I was losing my minutes. Finally, the door flew open, and my rescuer came in like the atrocious creature I needed him to be.

"Enough of this!" Kai sternly retorted. "First, you will close these cases. Tell the families their daughters died from falling into a street drain because of their own drunkenness. Nothing will ever be said about this again. You will never question my wife or anyone else about me ever in your life. All these statements about me are false, and that is what you say."

"We are sorry for the intrusion." Heart apologized before he stood up like a zombie with his partner. Their eyes were glossy with this emotionless gaze. I realized I had seen this look before with that toddler Kai had kidnapped. Even that pregnant Egyptian woman had this exact glaze in my time-gap before Kai drank her blood. Part of their brain was shut off from thinking for themselves while their motor skills were still functional. They left out the door, and Kai took a seat with me.

"Shhhh, it's ok." he brought me into his arms, cooing. "I heard you."

"You did?"

Tears threatened to fall, but I held myself together as I grasped his shoulders more tightly. Anymore I am tired of crying since life has lifted me upside down and spun me into several circles and different loops, all I've done is cry. There's a certain reaching point where you mentally shut down. In my case, I was nearing that point.

"Yes, one day you'll hear me too." Kai shared, and his voice snapped me out of this tunnel vision while I felt his lips kissing the hair on my temple.

"How did you get them to leave?" I uttered, exhaling into his ear.

"I used my first gift to control their minds," Kai admitted. "They don't realize it."

"You killed those ladies," that's all I could stammer as I wrenched to get out of his smothering arms.

"Yes," he confessed as he released me. "I fed on them."

"Are you going to kill the detectives?" I eyed him with a glum emotion.

"Likely, I will," Kai conceded without any remorse. It's that simple for him to do such an unthinkable act.

"You can't!" I retorted, "They're only doing their jobs! Honestly, you should be in jail for what you've done!"

Mr. Collin, his advisors, Rome, Glenn, Ivan, Ace, and Jack stepped into the office. Surely I knew they heard me raise my voice.

"You know I am a predator!" Kai snarled. "That will never change."

"You feed on innocent people whenever there are bad ones that deserve death!" I yelled as I stood from the couch.

"This isn't the time to be upset." Kai tried reasoning, but I wasn't in the mood.

When he stood to hug me, I slapped his hands away. "Just stop!" I retorted. "I can't do this right now."

I left the room. This is the reality of our rocky relationship. One minute things are fine between us. The next minute, I remember he is known for being a notorious killer. He's a heartless vampire with an unpredictable edge. Mercy doesn't register in his conscience not to be flagitious. Personality-wise, he is always inimical towards humans that aren't in his Coven. He disdained human beings. That's why their lives are meaningless to him. I mean, Mr. Collin can't even manage to handle his unruly behavior. I must be out of my mind to think I could even get him to change from being such an antagonistic monster toward humanity.