**** Content Warning ****
Please be aware there are themes of emotional and physical abuse in the following chapters. Read at your own discretion.
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Esme relaxed back into the sofa, feeling well fed and slurping on the last of her smoothie. Gabriel sat next to her, one ankle crossed over his knee, his hand holding a book that appeared to be written in Latin, and his other hand rested on the back of the sofa, occasionally brushing her shoulder or playing with her hair. Esme asked while eating what the book was about and was fascinated when he explained it was on historical findings of demons. But Gabriel shrugged it off as superstition; he had read the book many times but still found it fascinating how the author wrote such bizarre descriptions. He told her the 'demons' were vampires and werewolves.