CHAPTER 4

Xavier.

      "Dark Emperor, how can you be so sure that This Woman is your Mate? Remember she was declared dead." A council member said.

"Yes Emperor. If she is truly your Mate why make an appearance now and not years ago." Another member chipped in.

A strange feeling filled me up and I immediately knew something was wrong.

 

Xavier...

Maeve's distressed voice filled my head. I abruptly got up from My chair forgetting that I was in a meeting. I smoke myself out of the room and ended up in Maeve's room.

My eyes land on both Anessa and Meryl who both looked worried. Xander comes in after me.

"Why did you leave the meeting?" He quarries but my eyes are now fixed on Maeve who is lying on the bed unconsciously.

"What happened here?" I spat.

Anessa speaks up. "I was only trying to help her unlock her list memories but now I can't bring her back. She's is stopping me from getting to her." She rants.

I was so pissed that Anessa put Maeve's life in danger but right now wasn't the time to scold her. Now all I cared about was getting Maeve back.

"How long has she been in there?" Xander asked.

"About Twenty minutes or so." Meryl replies.

I run my hand through my thick black hair.

"She said you'd come." Meryl adds getting me to look at her.

"What?" I asked in confusion.

"Maeve said you would save her. She seemed confident about it. She said at the end of her dreams you saved her. Is that a new power or something? Can you teleport into her head?" Anessa bombards me with questions and I just wished she'd shut up.

  Maybe Maeve is in another dream state. I'd have to wake her up from the inside of her mind. Maybe it was like our dreams. I'd save her and Then we would.....

I shake my head getting rid of the thought. "Can you get me inside her head?" I asked Anessa. She shook her head.

"I can but I cannot bring you out. It's Maeve's dream so if she doesnt wake on her own then you'd both die in there." Anessa explains.

I cannot die. That's part of my deal with the Devil. My years of suffering in hell. Each time I died after torture I'd always resurrect.

  Once I made the deal with the devil. He'd bring me back and I'd be his Angel of death. Doing his bidding on earth.

So basically nothing can kill me which gave me an idea.

  Whenever I die it takes me few minutes to come back to life. Somehow I'm going to convince Maeve to come back and if that doesn't work then I'd have to bond my life with hers. We die together and come back together.

I look up at Xander. "Kill me." I say flatly.

Anessa immediately chips in. "What? No!"

I stare pointedly at Xander. "Do it. I know how to get her out. It's-"

Before I could finish my sentence he super sped to me snapping my neck so hard that I just had to die.

   Somehow I managed to get to her. She looked confused. Her Silver white hair wasn't white anymore. It was Blood red. She was in tears sitting on the void floor. Her memories surrounded her and it kept changing. She gripped her hair.

"Maeve." I mutter and she abruptly turns to me.

"Xavier!" She exclaimed and surprised me by coming to hug me. I slowly bring my arms around her hugging her back.

"My hair. I don't know what I did to it. Everything is all wrong. Grandma killed them. All of them. Because of a prophecy."

She kept ranting and I held her tight.

"Come back to me Maeve. I don't have much time." I tell her.

"What? You're going to leave me too?" She starts to pull away from me but I don't let her.

"You're the one leaving me. Come back to me. Please Meave." I plead. I can't bare the thought of losing her for real this time.

She shakes her head. "Nobody wants me alive. They don't-

"That's not true. I want you Maeve. I need you." I stared into her beautiful gray eyes. I felt myself being pulled back to reality and I gripped her hand in mine.

"I need you." Is what I tell her before I wake up.

  I curse loudly feeling the pain in my neck. Xander just had to be so rough.

I get on my feets hoping to see Maeve awake but she isn't. I squeeze my eyes shut.

  I need her. I need her to come back to me.

As if on cue, she jerked awake. Once she registered that she was back to reality she burst into tears. Anessa and Meryl moved to console her as she sobbed ranting about how her Grandmother killed her family and how she bound her Vampire side with Black magic. Which explains why she reeked of it.

  Her eyes finally land on me. I couldn't help but let myself drown in those gray beauty.

  She made me feel alot of things. Alot of strange feelings that I'm not used to.

  Knowing I'd lose her if she couldn't find her way made me realise that she meant alot to me.

It scared me alot to think she had alot of power over me.

Being Azrael meant I stripped myself off Affection. I distanced myself away from everyone else. All this while I thought My mate was dead and now that I know she's alive I Simply cannot lose her Again.

So then why was I walking away? Knowing I had to keep her close why did I make this decision. I went to her and took of the collar. Now that she had her powers back she can leave. She can leave Cressida; the land of Vampires and Demons.

She could leave and never come back but I did not want her to leave me. I should have chained her to my bedside if I had to but then I was giving her a choice. Me or Them.

 

   I left the room before she could say or do anything. Xander followed me out.

"She could leave now. If she wants and you know that right?" He asked and I nod.

"I'm only giving her a Choice. Were you not the one who preach about freedom to me earlier?" I question turning the corner leading to my Bedroom.

"Yes but it's not like you listen to anything I say." He counters.

"That is true." The door automatically opens at my presence and I turn to Xander.

"Two girls for my night." I simply say making him frown.

"And Maeve?" He asked like it was something to be bothered about. Before Maeve I had other willing girls pleasure me and though she's back. It doesn't change anything.

"What about her?" I question dipping my hands in my pocket.

He nods. "Janne?"

I shake my head. "No. She's getting too attached." I say and he nods. I enter my dark room and the door closes behind me.

  I bet by the morning Meave will be gone.

  

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    I woke up Naked between two Naked girls. My mind immediately goes to Maeve and as I start to get out of bed. My door opens and in comes Anessa.

"Jesus! Clothes please." She exclaimed covering her eyes.

"You're the one who barged in without knocking." I say lazily peeling the naked girls off me and pulling on my pajamas pants and shrugging into my robe.

"While you were here....." She eyes the naked women on the bed before meeting my eyes.

"Slutting around. Maeve already left."

"Ok. How did she leave?" I ask nonchalantly.

"Through the border. Duh." She retorts placing her hand on her hip.

"I know that but if her Vampire powers are bound, then she cannot see the bother so How did she cross?" I question again not really liking to repeat myself.

"I crossed her." She admits quietly.

"Then why are you here? You helped her leave then why are you here lecturing me?" I walk over to my liquor cabinet pulling out a bottle of scotch. Sure Vampires do not get drunk but I like to feel the burn.

"Because it's your fault. She told me that somehow the connection you two shared had become stronger." Anessa starts to say and I pour myself a glass.

"I dragged her to your door eager to get you two together. Then we saw this." She gestured towards the bed with a wave of her hand. I turn to the bed to find that the girls were awake. Normally before I wake up I like to find that they're gone but here they still her. One deadly look and the girls knew to leave.

"You know, I don't get it. You have your Mate so what else do you want?"

"I was better off knowing she was dead." I spat bitterly.

"No. That's not it." Anessa is smart. I give her that but I do not want her preying in my business.

  I flinch when I feel her hand on my arm.

She gives me a horrified look.

"What did they do to you?" She's Telepathic. With one touch she can get into ones head.

"Talk to me Xavier. I'm your Sister." She pleads.

I sigh staring into space.

"Why did you come back?" She questioned.

"I made a deal with the devil for immortality. Nothing on earth can kill me. Not even if you rip my heart out. Which for by the way, doesn't beat.

  In exchange I had to be his Angel of Death. Do you know what that means?" I question rhetorically.

"It means I hear the screams and plea of all the souls suffering in hell. You can imagine how that feels.

  And when someone dies a symbol is magical carved on my flesh. It's only visible After dark."

She looked horrified to think her brother went through all that.

"But why did you come back?" She was really adamant on knowing my true intentions.

"I felt how scared she was. I somehow manage to visit her subconscious. I knew she was alive and I..." I trailed off.

"Why did you come back?" She asked again. She knows why I came back but she wants to hear me say it.

"I thought she would go rogue because I was gone so I came back for her turns out she doesn't need me."

I poured myself another shot.

I hate that I sound like a love sick wimp. I'm so done with Affections.

"If you're done interrogating me Anessa, Use the door." I pointed towards the door and the door opens.

"I'm going to get Maeve back." She decides.

"You will do no such thing. If I hear you left Cressida..." I start to say giving her a dangerous look. "I don't want to have to punish you Anessa."

  She glares at me and storms out of my room. Soon after Xavier teleports into my room to inform me the Council was here to complete the meeting.