?
Vlad wanted with all of his being to say that he
wouldn't have needed her help but a beheading...She'd prevented that? But at
what cost to her?
?
"I wouldn't have wanted you to go through all that.
I could've died and would have to prevent you having to deal with demons and
become..."
?
He stopped speaking, not wanting her to take that
as him seeing her as one of them because that wasn't the way he'd intended it to
come out. Mina tended to misconstrue his intentions of late, and he didn't need
two women he loved?angry at him at the same time.
?
?
The thought caused his gaze to move to his wife who
was staring at him. Peering hard as if trying to see through something, her
hands down from her face and one reaching to lie lightly on his
arm.
?
"You're talking like the real Vlad," she said half
to herself.
"No impostor would know that."
?
Her tone was quietly insistent as if trying to
assure herself and for that and for the Turks had done to her, to him, to his
sister, he could finish a thousand wars ending them all right now. His blood
boiling, he still had to remain still as he merely nodded to her.
?
"You promised never to leave me again, Mina. I need
you to remember that," he said tightly.
"I need you to hold it together."
?
He referred to Ilona's death and the way it had
twisted him up inside. She'd promised to be careful and never to leave him again
but if she was taken away mentally...
"Okay. I'm trying," she murmured with a small
shudder as she nodded back.
?
?
Turning back to his sister, Vlad asked, "How does
one fix this shattered mind spell thing? I have a mind to kill every single Turk
and I bet that would probably work," he growled, though he was open to his
sister's suggestions for a faster result.
?
"The witches who are not fans of vampires, they are
not Gypsies, then," Vlad asked, beginning to understand.
?
Reaching for Mina's purse he dug out the phone and
texted Franceska. //I need for you to be extremely careful. I believe we are
under attack. This is serious.//
?
He didn't need the dream police as it were after
him if anything happened to the girl and Renfield but oddly enough he would be
disturbed on a deeper level as well. As he'd once told Mina she reminded him a
bit of Bogden, the only real friend he'd ever had. It would displease him were
she to die.
?
?
"These descendants of Helsing, if they live they
can be handled," he added to his sister, distractedly.
?
"For now you remain with us."
?
One more person to keep safe, but he wasn't he owed
her that much and more. Something he would have to digest later. Mina would
surely have soothing words onthe matter when she was herself again. His gaze
returned to her and he suddenly felt lost and hated it.
?
?
?
I'm friends with the monster that's under my
bed.
I get along with the voices inside of my
head.
Hugin