Destiny Redeemed (35 page)

In
a second, her hands were back on his arm and squeezing. “Please let me help. I
want to see the person who did this brought to justice.”

Justice?
Vasilije smiled at the idea of justice, sure she would be appalled by what he
intended to do to Teagan’s killer. Humans were always more squeamish than he
thought they should be, considering their own history.

“How
long were you and Teagan together?”

“Why?”

Vasilije
noticed her defensiveness immediately. Her body language screamed she was
hiding something.

“You
just seem very attached. That’s all.”

Sasa
shifted her weight between her feet. “I was. I mean, we were. Attached. And
even though we had problems, we were trying to work things out.”

“Problems?”

A
sheepish look came over her face. “I forgave him and we’d have worked things
out...”

Sasa’s
lip quivered for just a second, and Vasilije was afraid she’d begin crying
again. Teagan hadn’t changed in his new home, it seemed. A notorious ladies’
man, his wandering eye had been the reason he’d moved three thousand miles away
from the only place he’d ever called home. Obviously, that relationship hadn’t
survived since Sasa stood next to him all dewy eyed over his death.

“I
see.”

“It’s
not like that. It doesn’t matter what you think anyway. I just owe it to him to
find out who did this.”

Vasilije
smiled at Sasa’s words. She was probably completely unaware that the one she’d
caught her boyfriend with was likely one of many. Such blind devotion.

“Love,
I don’t think you understand what’s going to happen when I find the guy who did
this. My idea of justice and yours aren’t the same, I guarantee you.”

Sasa’s
eyes grew wide. “Why? Is there some kind of ritual you plan to perform when you
punish him?”

Vasilije’s
fangs snapped into position and he grinned to show her the weapons he’d use to
punish the motherfucker who killed one of his own.

“No
ritual. Just these and all the blood I can handle.”

The
shock at his words was written all over her face. “You plan to drain them?”

“My
kind of justice, love. So if you plan to stick around, you know what to
expect.”

Sure
he’d frightened her enough to change her mind, he began walking toward the
nearest main road. Before he could begin searching for Teagan’s killer, he had
to find something to eat. Then he’d use Teagan’s house while he was here since
it would be set up for someone like him and work out of there.

“Will
you bite me?”

Vasilije
turned to look at her standing there staring at him, the fear gone from her
eyes, replaced by something he couldn’t quite put his finger on.

Curiosity?
Desire?

“Only
if you want me to, love.”

As
if she’d expected him to say yes and when she heard a different answer her mind
instantly moved on to something else, Sasa marched past him, waving him on to
follow her.

“Follow
me. I’ll take you where you can get something to eat and I can get a drink.”

Vasilije
grimaced at the idea that this stray woman was now giving him orders. He should
have gone with his first instinct and left her. Maybe Teagan had cared for her,
though, and would want her to help him. He owed him at least that much.
© 2011 Gabrielle Bisset

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