Chapter 11 - Bonding And Confessions

David's POV:

I’m relaxed as always in his presence and the air between us is like we’re brothers since forever. I like him a lot and care about him. He noticed I’m real with him and responsible now with his sister, so he chats with me about her. He can read people very well as I can see. I’m not on bad things with his sister. Well, not on bad things as in real bad things…. I do have bad things in mind with my wife, now more than ever…. But that’s a normal thing between husband and wife….

My little vampire is naughty only in the exterior…. Hmm…. Very interesting…. I can’t wait to have you, baby….

“What happened to her? Why blame herself? I’m sure she has nothing to do with that.” I’m concerned for real in attitude and stare at him for this. He sighs and continues.

“Look. If the marriage contract weren’t per life, I wouldn’t tell you anything. But things are like this and sooner or later you’ll learn about it or you’ll have a hard time. I better tell you now and deal with all this. I don’t want you to misunderstand some things. But before that….”

He takes a serious and killing grimace, attitude and stance at me. I keep my cool.

“If you’ll ever hurt her in any way or do something that I won’t consider right as her husband, I’ll kill you. Don’t look at me that I’m smaller and younger. For my sister, I’m able to even kill. She’s all I’ve got in this world. I love her with all I have, and I’ll always be there for her as she’s always been and is for me.”

I smirk at him. I know little guy. I’m proud of you and of your all killer attitude. Two little vampires…. He, he, he….

“I’m serious.”

I know. I can see that.

I nod at him.

“Okay. She’s a top secret agent. That’s why the companies weren’t under her close watch. She thought mom and dad would take care of things as they always did and she didn’t get involved much. She has legal rights and a position in the company but dealt more with her other job. All this I’m telling you right now must remain a secret between us. You don’t know it from me. I would want her to stop, but she has her personal agenda. She’ll never listen to me. About the investment contract from your dad? She only found out two weeks ago from me, on the day our parents died. She went all hysterical and couldn’t believe a word, saying it’s not fucking legal as she didn’t consent to it, being an adult. She then ignored it and it came back to her this morning when we came at the lawyer’s office for our parents’ will and met you guys. She’s very crazy and never getting things which don’t concern or interest her. You and your dad and the loan? Definitely not among her concerns or interests. To return the money back, yes, the marriage part and all, never. Four years ago was when I found out about her other side. She was still living with us at home. It was about three in the morning. I woke up as someone was silently moaning in pain on the hallway, going to her room.”

I have a serious stare at him now and this is getting to me, to all that I hear. I’m chewing from my inner cheek and attentive to what he says.

“I was 14. I went out from my room as hers is two rooms away from mine and you need to get past mine to get to hers. When I saw her, she was holding herself on the wall and crawling, walking to her room, keeping her left hand on her front. I panicked and called her name. She told me to hush. I helped her to go inside her bedroom and when she was on the bed, I saw it. She was hurt with blood on her, on her abdomen. She was in pains. I freaked out and went to call my parents, but she stopped me saying it was alright and she’d be fine. I helped her change her bandages and….” He stops as he’s recalling hurting moments for him emotionally. He’s looking over the window.

“It’s okay. Take your time. It wasn’t easy for you at that young age to see all that. You were afraid for her wellbeing.”

Top secret agent…. Deadly wife…. I’ve said it before…. That’s why Principal is afraid of her. She’s no less important. She can fuck people who upset her. At that level, she has a lot of connections. The higher her level, the higher her connections. My little vampire…. You’re a deadly little vampire…. And you were badly hurt…. My heart has just taken a hit. Why? I’ve never felt like this before….

“Yeah…. She didn’t want me to help her. She was just sending me back to my room, faking a smile and that it was nothing, when I saw the horror before my eyes. She was shot. I took the aid kit she had hidden in her wardrobe per her directions and she did all the hard part. I only assisted her. She contained her screams and pains to not hurt me emotionally, but I could see all that and how she tried to keep herself in control in front of me. She then told me what she does and to never tell my parents or anyone else for our protection. She said that Marianne, her best friend, died and she tried to help her, getting shot herself, but she couldn’t save her as she took more bullets before she could put herself between her friend and the one who did all that. It was an ambush she said. She was already sweating and hallucinating as she would stop at times, closing her eyes and screaming Marianne’s name, and some other things which, back then, I couldn’t comprehend. Before she passed out, she told me she was sorry to tell me all that and see her like that and sorry for everything and to keep my mouth shut. She even told me that she would pass out and to leave her aid kit on her nightstand for when she would wake up, she would have some more shots with some serums to recover. And not long after, she passed out. I stayed with her until sunset and checked her out every five minutes. It wasn’t a school day, it was weekend. All the time she would speak in her sleep, crying and cringing and shaking and I was changing wet towels and cleaning her sweat. I don’t know…. She’s very strong…. To be shot and not go to hospital….” He’s shaking his head in disbelief.

“After she woke up and took her shots as she said….” He sighs.

“She stood up like nothing happened, kissed my forehead, went to shower and three hours later moved from home into this apartment. Never came back home to sleep over…. She’s tired as she goes into missions all the time. She goes to foreign countries if it’s needed. We sometimes talk about this. When she feels going crazy, she calls me, and we speak, and I get more into her and she breaks into pieces of info from which I understand what she did or does. When she realizes I get all that, she says she has something to do and ends the call. So, I don’t know how you feel right now, but don’t provoke her, ever. She’s one that sleeps with her gun under her pillow. As long as you keep your distance, you only get her crazy attitude. If not, you get the crazy in action one. I would want her to stop, but she gets paid from there. She has never taken money from the company or salary. I get that all she affords comes from there. Her car, her apartment, her everything that lives from, is from there. You’ll not be able to change her. You have to accept her like she is. Not even mom and dad could change her. And since Marianne’s death? She’s all down. Nothing matters to her anymore. She loved that one like sisters. And mom and dad’s deaths hit her more.”

He’s looking at me with pleading eyes and reliving all that, honest in everything he says.

That is so…. Man! So fucked up. My little vampire has a lot of suffering…. That’s why her eyes give that much suffering. My sweet little vampire…. Don’t worry, kid. I’ll make her stop. Eventually…. She’s got me now. And you, too.

I release a sigh and cup his left shoulder.

“Don’t worry. I won’t tell her you told me, and all this is a secret between us. Thank you for your trust and that you understood I’m not a bad guy. All that I said this morning wasn’t because of you guys, but because I was angry on dad and on all the forced situation. I’m like your sister. I don’t react well to being forced. But I’m starting to know her and you, and I’ve changed my stand over all this. You can always rely on me on anything. Consider me as your real brother, and I promise you that I’ll take good care of your sister and you. You’ve lost your parents, but you have a new family. Me and my dad. Two people are gone, two others came in. Alright?”

I send him my sincerity through my stare, attitude and grimace. He nods with watery eyes but holds in the crying.

You’re a man now. Little brother….

“Why isn’t Viv coming down?” He looks at his watch. I look at mine, too.

Yeah, it’s more than twenty minutes…. What’s she doing?