*Ch 254: Drama with Kai and Orlando

Hereafter their argument, Kai dragged me far away by my elbow. He pulled me to a thick pillar and glared at me viciously. The fact that too many vampires and vampiresses glanced over at us didn't seem to phase him. I, however, felt ashamed and embarrassed. Before he could speak, he gritted his teeth and squeezed his eyes shut. He was livid. I figured he was about to show his wrath, but then the unexpected took place. He inhaled a calming mindset before his eyes peeled apart.

Sure, Kai's stance was solid and tense, but his expression became seethed. However, there was a warned sulk that he inwardly held. I acknowledged that he was controlling his fury the best he could.

"Is it honestly that hard for you to stay away from him?" Kai coldly asked, trying to compress his vexation toward me.

"I'm sorry..." I pressed my fist on my chest before assembling my words. "I don't know why it's so hard to get over–"

"You can't get over Orlando because you still love him, but not me," Kai's voice hardened when he completed my explanation. His wording came out so callous toward me. My mouth hung loose to speak, but nothing came out as if this enchantment robbed me of my voice.

Kai's eyesight glazed over into frost. Right there, before my eyes, he withered into a masculine-smelling breeze that blew into my body.

A hot iron sword speared through my beating heart. Surreal pain crushed my heart into fine powdery grains, yet somehow it still beats.

Nothing helped when I saw many disdained smirks watching me. Kai's enemies devour every morsel of our dismay. Broken mates will cause this endless suffering until they share the same love. Me not loving Kai was an eternal affliction for him, with no promise of demise to end his misery.

Upset, I pressed my eyes tight and envisioned baby Kai. Those innocent agate eyes whispered to my soul. A zap feeling of determination spoke to my battered heart. I must fix this with Kai and get over Orlando. Before I had any chance to step one heel forward, my nose got distracted by a rich feminine perfume.

"Perhaps telling you to kill yourself was a mistake. I'm more entertained to watch you torture your mate to a suffering degree," a whispering female voice passed my ear.

The greedy vampiress that blocked me on the roadway struts onward, showing me her back as she giggled. Without giving me one glance, she disappeared with her friends in the dressy crowds.

"Ignore her." Sharlene came from my right. "She's just a cruel conniving vampiress. She was against our Kind from marrying different species together."

"What's her name?" I asked, staring off in the direction that stuck-up vampiress went.

"Athena. She's a wicked predatory vampiress. It's best to keep your distance from her," Sharlene advised.

"I plan on it," I uttered, getting spaced out in watching everyone else socialize.

"Are you ok?" Sharlene frowned, asking me.

"I feel foolish," I grimace, holding myself from crying painfully.

Sharlene gave a genuine smile. "Don't be so hard on yourself. Kai doesn't understand human emotions, but he is trying."

"I know, but I need to go find him," I told her, and she nodded with a small smile to understand what I am saying.

Thereafter, I sprint in search of Kai, but I could not find him. Anywhere I looked, he wasn't any place to be found. In my last resort, I head to the area of that architectural column-structured room, where the vampire artwork is airbrushed on the ceiling.

"I've warned you multiple times! Take these last warnings seriously, and back off before things only get worse for her!" Orlando's masculine voice resounded as I neared the room.

I entered the arched entry as Kai's voice roared, "Don't you dare threaten me! If you do anything to her, you know I'll be sure you regret it!"

Behind one column, I sneak over to hide. I find Kai, his allies, and his friends in the center of the architectural column-structured. Orlando and his buddies faced my direction, where I had snuck up behind Kai and his friends.

"I'd never do anything to Victoria!" Orlando's voice bounced off the walls. "Only to you!"

"Are you really going to keep up this act!" Kai clamored.

"I'm not acting!" Orlando yelled before his eyes captured my full gaze. "I love her." He lovingly expressed with a gentler tone directed at me.

Kai's body stiffened before he veered slowly to discover me standing aside from this column. All eyes came upon me, and I suddenly became the spotlight.

I swallowed roughly to step toward them and spoke with a loud plea. "Please, stop doing this to each other!"

Kai narrowed his eyes at me. "You cannot be falling for his lies again!"

Before I could speak, Orlando defended his feelings. "I haven't lied once with how my heart feels. I love her, Kai, and she loves me. Your the one who can't handle that!"

"Everything you say is nothing but lies," Kai gnashes! "You've slept with how many different women?"

"That is not true!" Orlando defended.

"Stop your lying games!" Kai bellowed before he crossed one glance at me. "As I said Victoria, he has no regard for you."

"That's absurd!" Alejandro backs up his identical twin brother.

My eyes swerve back and forth between them arguing.

Orlando softened his voice toward me. "Victoria, you know nothing Kai says is true, baby." Those ocean-blue eyes pout at me.

"Orlando..." I was tongue-tied speechless.

"You are such a liar!" Kai encountered more aggressively than a bull.

"Stop this!" I pulled Kai's forearm, but he rotated it free from my grasp.

"You can't be seriously believing any of this?" Kai questioned me head-on.

"Please..." my voice faltered as my flesh heated like it was boiling.

This was too much for me. I could barely take it. Being pregnant, I shouldn't have to take it. But here I am, bearing the brunt that Kai and Orlando put on my shoulders.

Kai gave me a disdainful look before he threw an insult. "As always Victoria, you're nothing but a brainless girl to believe him."

His words cut me deep. Deeper than I imagined could ever hurt me. Dreary Darkness misted over my watery eyes. Heat pressed on the back of my skull. My vision cut out to only notice Kai, glowering an unpleasant sight at me.

"How dare you say that!" Orlando raged.

Painful tears rolled down my cheekbones as I stared into Kai's hardened black heart. Nothing but emptiness filled the pupils in his raging agate eyes.

"Victoria!" Orlando addressed, but my spirit was long gone to acknowledge anyone. Before I knew it, my legs carried me out the arched doorway.