“Why, if it isn’t the Erebus brothers. I must admit, I expected you, Victor but not Talon, a happy surprise indeed,” she practically purred, making Tal scoff, before raising his glass and acknowledging her with a curt,
“Carmilla.”
She grinned, tipping her own glass his way. But then her untrustworthy gaze flittered to me before she asked,
“And who do we have here? Aren’t you going to introduce me to your new squeeze?”
I gritted my teeth at this, and I felt them both tense either side of me. So, before they could say anything, I decided to showthem that I could stick up for myself. Especially when facing a stuck-up bitch like this.
“New squeeze? I like that considering how well the three of us squeeze together.” I then purposely ran the backs of my fingers down Victor’s cheek and squeezed Tal’s hand on the table. I also winked at her, making Tal nearly choke on his champagne, whereas Victor coughed back a laugh. As for the bitch, Carmilla, she gave me a sly and fake smile before saying,
“Ah yes, good one.” To which I then felt Victor’s hand come to my thigh and grip it, gaining my attention so he could wink at me while Tal picked up my hand and kissed the back of it, each of them showing their own affection for me.
Something she didn’t miss.
“Tell me, Victor, wherever did you meet such a pretty little thing?” she asked, making me laugh at her back-handed insult. However, Victor answered after he first gave her a scathing look in return. One she had the good sense to flinch back from.
“Really, Carmilla, I would have thought you would have recognized when one of us meets our Moirai Theía, seeing as word on the hell vine is that your own father recently just found his… damn, but I bet your mother didn’t take that well.”
She narrowed her eyes at him, the slither of a growl making its way up her throat, telling me instantly that she was another Vampire. A fact well hidden from everyone else taking their place at the table.
“Yes, well lucky for my brother and I, it meant us both finding her at the same time. And now we get to come to places like this with the most beautiful woman on our arms and show her off, eh brother?” Tal added, making me blush crimson.
“Lucky indeed… oh look, there is your father now, perhaps you should go to your own table,” Victor said, after picking up the name holder in front of her and flicking it her way. To which she gritted her teeth and stood from the table. Her long paintedred nails digging into the cloth in a way that tore lines in the material.
“Of course, enjoy your evening and…whatever it may hold,”she added with evil intent in her tone before she walked away.
“God, I hate that bitch,”Tal grumbled before downing the rest of his drink.
“You hate most of them, Tal, it’s why you don’t come to these things, you have no patience for it,” Victor commented, making me turn in surprise toward him.
“You don’t?”
“Like he said, I don’t have the patience for the bullshit like Vic does,” he admitted, making me frown.
“Then why come to this one?” I asked, making his hard gaze soften. Then he ran the back of his fingers down my cheek before telling me,
“Because I have all the patience in the world for you, and you make nights like this enjoyable, even if it’s just by getting to look at you in a pretty dress.”
I melted, leaning into him and braving kissing his cheek in return.
“That was really sweet, thank you,” I said, making Victor laugh and finally get his own back as he teased,
“Ha, now look who’s blushing.”
To which Tal sneered at him over my head, and warned,
“Remember, brother, we grew up together.”
“And?” Victor pushed.
“And I know all your embarrassing stories.”
“Oh please, like you don’t have enough of your own,” Victor replied with a roll of his eyes, making me laugh and clap my hands.
“Oh, please oh please, tell me one, because at this point, I can’t imagine either of you doing anything embarrassing,” I admitted, making them scoff, and it was a very twin thing as itsounded exactly the same. Tal opened his mouth ready to tell me something, but Victor saw him, and he narrowed his eyes and warned,
“Don’t you dare.”Something that made Tal throw his head back and laugh.
