Kimberley POV
The confession threw me majorly off balance but before I could ask him more about it, the doorbell to our suite rang twice and then twice more after a short interval. Whoever was on the other side sounded really pissed.
Kaleb strode through the doors to his room and with a glance behind his shoulders, told me to stay where I was as he made his way to the door. However, ignoring his orders, I followed behind and stood behind him as Kaleb opened the door revealing a smirking Trevina and Denlian who had a mixed look of anger and betrayal on his face.
“Dan?” Kaleb asked sounding just as surprised to see Dan.
Dan didn’t talk at all, he simply looked at Kaleb with that look of betrayal, meanwhile Trevina looked at brothers with unhidden glee, her hands folded right under her chest so that her breasts were about popping out of the dress she wore. On anyone else, it would have looked slutty but on Trevina’s body it looked graceful and sensual.
“Such a nice reunion, isn’t it Dan?” Trevina finally broke the silence.
As if trapped out of a trance Dan looked at Trevina as if noticing her for the first time, and in that look I saw something odd. Affection, perhaps? It was the briefest moment but then it was replaced by anger, the emotions changing soon.
“It’s Prince Denlian, Melinda. Be sure to remember that”. Kaleb voice held so much venom, we all looked at him startled including Trevina who Kaleb had just called Melinda.
It was the same voice he had used on those women back at the office, and just like that day the temperature in the room dropped several degrees within a second. I would have taught Trevina was not scared of anything but seeing the look on her face, she was damn ready to faint. Or was she scared of something else? Then I remembered that Kaleb was not only an Incubus, he was their Prince. Of course, she would be scared.
When I looked at kaleb’s eyes there were red, that means he was very mad. But what was the connection between Denlian and Trevina? I’d felt it before as well when Kaleb told me to get Trevina before Bluebird does. I thought it was just business rivalry, but obviously it was more than what the eyes meet.
“Melinda, leave us!” Denlian said in a voice just as cold, and I had to blink several times to believe that the person standing before me was Denlian Eustis. I’ve never heard him use that voice. Never.
Melinda seemed to unfreeze from her spot and with a final glance at the brothers she turned away from the door and walked away.
“Kim” Kaleb called “I’ll need you to stay in your room for now. Dan and I need to talk”.
I nodded in understanding but just as I was about taking my leave, Denlian’s voice stopped me “she can stay. It’s best if she knows what we’re dealing with here”.
I stopped looking at the both of them, feeling like an intruder but my curiosity got the better part of me and I decided to stay. Finally Kaleb nodded his head giving me permission to stay.
“Trevina real name is Melinda Valentino. She belongs to the Valentino nobel clan.” Kaleb said in a stiff voice. “And she was Denlian’s fiancee”.
“Wait… fiancee!” My eyes widened as I realized what Kaleb was saying. She left Denlian for Kaleb.
“If you’re thinking I stole her from Denlian, no that not what had actually happened. She decided to end her engagement so she could marry the future King but she didn’t get engaged to me, she simply decided to keep the relationship normal and not get into any formalities”.
“But I had been young and stupidly in love with her” Denlian said right after Kaleb had finished his statement. “I wanted back what was mine….. what I thought Kaleb had stolen from me. So I decided to pursue her to get back together with her”.
I was shocked by that admission. Denlian always seem to be the perfect gentleman. Love I thought, wasn’t always rational.
“Melinda did something to you, didn’t she?”
“She did” kaleb answered folding his arms across his chest “she had someone drain two women to death, two women Dan had previously feed on and blamed it on him”
“It’s one of our most absolute laws”. Dan said. “Never harm a donor. It’s why we try not to feed from the same woman more than twice. We try not to harm them. The two victims were drained completely of life energy and only my essence was found in them”.
“Wait, essence? Like a DNA test?”
Kaleb nodded. “But you have to remember that we’re talking about na century ago. Incubi have the ability to understand when a person has been fed on. The stronger the incubi, the stronger their power of pinpointing the feeder. In this case, the experiment was carried out by my father, the King himself.”
“So there was no way to get him wrong” I concluded.
Dan nodded. “My title of Prince was taken away from me. The nobility, my people even my parents…. the all started to hate me for breaking the code of conduct. And worst of all, several Incubus broke the code and we’re sentenced to death. People questioned the king as to why I was still alive. And the king was forced to exile me from the kingdom.”
“But thankfully,” Kaleb cut in. “I was able to able to find one witness that had seen the donor alive after Dan had left her house and it was proof enough that Denlian’s exile was cancelled. Over the time our people were able to forgive him and forget about the incident”.
“And yet”. Dan said in a hard tone. “Here she is, back in our lives even after all the damage she caused.”
But then Kaleb smiled mischievously “Oh don’t worry about her. Melinda will pay for everything she had done….. with interest”.
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