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"Pray tell, little assassin, who is it that is behind this?"

Cazzo!

I slowly turned around only to see the familiar bulky body standing in front of me with his arms crossed. I gulped.

"What do you mean?" I said, acting clueless.

"You know exactly what I mean, little assassin."

I glared at him at that, "What do you want to know, Enzo?"

"It seems like you know who is behind this all, right?"

I gave a reluctant nod at that.

"Who. Is. It. Tell me now." He said it in a don't-fuck-with-me tone.

I contemplated for a moment. Is it worth it? Should I do it?

Absolutely-fucking-no. My flame snarled.

But he knows that I know and if I don't tell him he cou- I tried to reason with it.

Fucking lie, Katherine!

I can't do that! I hissed. If he ever finds out I will be a dead man.

It didn't reply.

"Katherine." His lips were pulled back in a snarl.

"Ahmed Agrawal," I said finally.

Liar liar, pants on fire. My flame taunted me.

Shut up. I snapped back.

"What."

"You heard me."

"Ahmed Agrawal is behind this? Are you sure?"

"I'm fucking sure, Enzo. He's the leader of the coven."

"Didn't Ahmed Agrawal used to work for King Ambrosius Valente?"

"He indeed did but he also betrayed the king by not telling him what he was and that he was the leader of The Serpent Coven.

When the king found out he ordered for his execution but the day before his execution was held, he escaped. It has now been seven years since the king has been looking for him but to no avail."

"I see."

In an instant, I was shoved into a wall so hard that a grunt escaped my lips. Suddenly, he grabbed my neck.

"If you're lying to me, little assassin, remember that the consequences won't be pretty." He growled in my ear and added pressure to my neck.

"I'm not lying." He added more pressure until I started having difficulty breathing. A shiver ran up my spine. But it was not of fear.

Instead, it was of....excitement?

"I hope you're not."

He suddenly bit my earlobe harshly and my breathing hitched. My knees felt jelly, "Enzo..."

I instantly felt a tongue lick away the pain from my earlobe. He removed his hand from my throat but not before adding more pressure.

His head dipped down until I felt warm breath on the side of my neck. The feeling of cold lips on the sensitive skin of my neck made me gasp loudly.

Suddenly, his fangs grazed my Carotid Artery and a memory found its way in my head making me flinch away. As if I had been spellbound the whole time and the memory made me regain my senses. Made me break away from the spell.

My flame started whining.

I quickly, without thinking, punched him. Again.

"What the hell!" He said, clutching his nose in his hands.

This time I didn't run away nor did I scream. Instead, I straightened my back and stood still. I looked dead into his eyes and was met with burning fury. And that burning fury was directed at me.

"Touch me again without my permission and I won't be gentle next time. You may go now."

He looked into my eyes for what seemed like an eternity. His eyes seemed to intimidate me to break the contact. Every instinct in me made me want to lower my eyes. But I stood my ground and didn't let him see any signs of weakness and fear.

Finally, he looked away. I blinked. Once. Twice. The king of vampires broke the eye contact first? Dear God, this was indeed a strange day.

He slammed the door shut but not before looking into my eyes once again for a split second. It was enough time for me to see the promise in his eyes.

I ripped my clothes off and walked towards the bathroom. I made sure that the water temperature was scalding hot. I looked at myself in the mirror and my bones were now even more visible. I have never had an unattractive body; instead, it was described with words such as, 'sexy' and 'hot'.

I had DD breasts which I had gotten from my mother and I was pretty filled up from the backside too. My height was average. My 5'6 frame was neither too tall nor too short. Just average.

My features were beautiful. I had high cheekbones and a thin upturned nose which fitted my face well. My plump lips which also defined as, 'bedroom lips' the term which I absolutely hated, were always the first thing noticed by men aside from my fiery red hair.

My attention snapped back to the bathtub and I noticed that the tub had filled up. I put my one feet inside the tub and frowned. Not hot enough. I fully get inside the bathtub and sit at the bottom. The water reached till my neck.

I start thinking. I think about Anna, Alexander, Enzo and everything that has changed in my life and my blood starts boiling along with the water.

Katherine, stop. My flame whispered.

You wanted to get out, right? Go ahead do it. I ordered.

But lis-

Get out. Now.

I quickly cast a sound-spell around the bathroom because I knew what was about to come.

My power exploded.

Steam started rising up from the bathtub like flame erupting from a volcano. I didn't know when I started screaming.

I tried to stop it but couldn't. More steam started rising up. Soon the bathtub was filled with red water. I screamed much louder and started thrashing inside.

Stop.

No response.

Stop it. Enough.

Again no response.

STOP. I screamed.

Suddenly the sound of the water boiling stopped and I quickly slipped out of the bathtub only to fall on the floor.

My chest was heaving up and down. I crawled towards the toilet and grasped it with all the strength I had. I hauled myself up and started emptying all the contents into the toilet.

Finally, when I was done I grabbed the toilet and used it to haul myself on my feet. My knees buckled and almost gave out but I grabbed the sink in time.

I dared to look at my reflection and almost passed out by what I saw. My skin was covered in deep red marks, from many parts the skin was missing. But that was not what scared me. It was my eyes. My once green bright eyes looked so dull and empty at this moment. So vacant. All the light inside them seemed to be sucked out.

Involuntarily, a bastard of tear slipped out. Then another. But I wiped them quickly.

I am Katherine Giovanna and I'm not going to cry instead, I'm going to destroy the thing that has made my eyes water.

I walked back into the room, limping and grabbed the jar of salve from my nightstand. I started applying the salve all over my body and then started wrapping a white fabric all over my body.

I plopped down on my bed hissing at the pain that shot up in my body.

Slowly deep slumber started taking over my body until I heard a knock on the door. I jolted up and growled, "Come in."

The door opened and a pink head popped up, "Kath- Caroline."

"Lydia. Come in."

She closed the door behind her and smiled at me widely.

"What's up, Lydia?"

"The dinner is served downstairs..." After a small break, she said, reluctantly, "You should come."

"I'm not really hungry."

"But you didn't even eat breakfast." She protested with a frown.

"I know. I'm not hungry."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"Oh, okay, Goodnight."

Reluctantly, she left the room, smiling at me one last time.

I plopped my head back on the pillow groaning.

Suddenly I saw a bright light at the corner of my room. I immediately reached for the dagger hidden under my pillow.

Who needs sleep, anyway?

I squinted at the bright light until my vision became clear and what I saw made me gasp loudly.

There, standing in the corner of my room was none other than Anna herself.
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Author's note:
So, those who have been reading this book from the starting know that there have been rape warnings. I decided to just not write about the rape scenes because I realized that it might be triggering for many people, including myself. The rape thing had to do something with Katherine's part and whilst writing that part I started crying a lot and it was just difficult for me to write it.

So yeah there won't be any rape scenes in this book. Maybe in the future regarding some other character(s) but not regarding Katherine.

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