Page 54 of Night Wedding
“It’s hard not to do so when your boyfriend, no, fiancé for all of about five minutes, has been cursed and coerced by his evil ex.”
“Then you must refocus,” she said. “All you need to do is think of the next step. Don’t dwell on everything that can go wrong.”
“That’s easy for you to say. So many thingscango wrong.”
“Like what?” She motioned to her chest. “Spill them all out on me.”
“I’ll further damage his mind. I’ll mess something up and make it permanent.” In a smaller voice, I added, “I’ll accidentally kill him.”
Gianna leaned forward and placed her hands on her knees. “Okay, do you feel better getting them out?”
Although they were all so catastrophic and too awful to consider, my chest felt lighter without all of those worries weighing on them. “In a way.” I gave a half-shrug.
After a few seconds, she asked, “What are you leaning toward?”
I tapped my fingers along my side while considering the options. “Ultimately, I want to do what’s right for Diego. What he would choose for himself.”
Gianna motioned with an open hand. “And what do you think that would be?”
Thoughts tumbled into words. “Not to be manipulated and cursed to be with someone who hurt him.”
She clapped her hands together. “There you go.”
Was it as simple as that? Maybe. It was what I knew deep down, but it helped to have her around so I could sound out my fears.
“Being without free will could be worse than not existing at all,” I said.
“Does that mean you’re going to give it a go?” She asked with a hopeful expression.
I raised my chin. “I am.”
She grinned with approval. “Give it your best and do your damnedest to save him.”
I joked, “I hope this goes better than my failed attempts at sexcapades.”
“It all turned out well in the end.” She gave me a confident nod. “We’ll take that wicked bitch down together.”
Ifwe stood a chance at pulling this off. I forced the dark uncertainties out of my mind and focused on Gianna’s pep talk instead.
My lips curled into a smile. “Let’s do our damnedest.”
Her phone buzzed. “It’s Sebastian.” She answered the phone. “What’s up?” He said something, and she said okay. She pressed a button and said, “Okay, you’re on speaker phone.
“You got the location I sent, right?”
“Right. Lucas is flying in. Zoe is driving over,” I replied.
“They’re about to go into a building where they can feed on humans.”
My heart thumped. The only one Diego fed from anymore was me. The fact that he was about to enter what I envisioned as a vampiric orgy sliced me so deep, it slashed like an emotional stake to my heart. “Can you stop them from entering?”
He snorted. “Prevent two hungry vampires from feeding while they’re already pissed off at me? Not likely.”
“They should be there soon,” Gianna said. “You need to stall them. The potion is almost finished.”
“You need to hurry,” Sebastian urged. “If she convinces him to leave Salem, we may have lost him forever.”
Chapter 16
