Chapter 14

• Cassia •

Kevin.” I called, entering the house and closing the door behind me. I was panicking, I didn’t even pay attention to how long it took me to get home. All I could focus on was getting far away from Hann. I had gone too far. I wasn’t supposed to take any action. I groaned moving towards the living room. 

“Yes?” He answered, looking at me. He was sitting down with his laptop, probably doing some research. I sat across from him and sighed. 

“I think I messed up.” I started and he raised an eyebrow at me. Searching my face and checking me all over. That’s what he always did when ever I seemed troubled. His first instinct was to make sure I was fine physically. 

“What do you mean?” He questioned, putting the laptop down on the cafe table and giving me his full attention. God, I loved it when he did that. 

“I stabbed Hann.” Kevin looked at me shocked and got up. He himself knew I messed up. It could jeopardize our mission. I could’ve blown our cover. 

“What happened?” He questioned again as he started pacing the room. His reaction honestly made me feel worse. It took us a while to finally find a way to come here and we both needed to be careful. I sighed and looked down at my hands. Maybe after I explained what happened he would’ve understood. 

“He trapped me in an empty class room, he kept on asking why I wasn’t afraid of him and he vamped out. I panicked and stabbed him in the eye with a pencil.” I explained, biting my lip nervously and he stopped, looking at me. 

“Are you okay?” He asked moving towards me and pulling me up to stand in front of him. He grabbed my face and turned it side to side, checking me up and down. He was checking if I was hurt. Was he not mad? I almost blew our cover. 

“Yes, I’m okay. I ran out after it happened, but what do I do?” I whined, backing away from his touch and walking towards the kitchen, him following behind. I wasn’t afraid of Hann, I was more afraid of him finding out. I was also putting Kevin in danger. We still didn’t have all of the information we needed. We didn’t know how to kill the Choi family.  

”You’re not gonna do anything. You’re gonna go to school tomorrow and If he asks you anything. Tell him you were scared and ran.” I turned around to look at him and gasped not realizing how close he was behind me. Why was he so close? If he moved any closer our lips would’ve connected. I ignored him and focused on our conversation.

“What if he tries to kill me.” I asked, taking a step back. He remained standing there and just continued looking at me. Did he not realize how close he was to me? Did he do it on purpose? 

“He won’t.” He assured, but I didn’t believe that. It was Hann. People were afraid of him for a reason. He was ruthless and he definitely would try to seek revenge on me for stabbing him. I had to be prepared myself for when it happens. 

“We need to find out more about them.” I said looking up at him. I heard my phone ringing and I quickly pulled it out of my pocket. It was Haruna. Why was she calling me? I’m sure she wasn’t happy with what I did to her brother. Was she calling to threaten me? 

“Yes?” I answered, looking at Kevin who was intensely staring at me. He was just as nervous as I was. I could tell by his expression. 

“I heard about what happened between you and my brother. Cassia, I’m so sorry.” Haruna said, surprising me. Why would she be calling me to apologize? I expected her to be mad at me. I stabbed her brother. And if she wasn’t mad, why was she apologizing? It wasn’t her fault. It was his. Her apologies meant nothing to me. 

”You’re not the one who should be apologizing.” I told her as I watched Kevin inch closer to listen to our conversation. I stared at him and moved back. He made me slightly nervous being so close to me. 

”He’s my brother and I know him better than anyone and trust me when I say he’s not going to apologize.” She stated and I scoffed. Of course he wouldn’t. I knew he wouldn’t. That’s the last thing he would do. He’d kill me first before he even thinks about apologizing. 

“He’s going to kill me tomorrow when he sees me.” I told her, moving back again. Kevin was trying to listen in on the conversation. But I prevented him from doing so. 

”That’s actually why I called you. I wanted to make a deal with you.” She said and I looked at Kevin, he raised an eyebrow. Moving towards me again. I put the phone on the table and pressed speaker. 

“What’s the deal?” I asked, curious on what she had to offer and why she had decided on making a deal with me. 

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“Who’s that?” I questioned, seeing Haruna drooling over a kid who seemed older than her by maybe two or three years. She quickly faced me and looked around weirdly. Pretending that she wasn’t staring at anyone. 

“Who’s who?” Ohhhh, I see what was happening here. I had to meet up with Haruna earlier today in order to look like she had compelled me to forget yesterday’s incident which was part of our deal. Only thing was that I couldn’t be compelled, she wasn’t aware of that so I decided to go along with it. 

She lies to Hann and tells him that she compelled me to forget what had happened yesterday and in return I sit at lunch with her. Which wasn’t a bad deal considering my cover wouldn’t be blown. I just had to deal with Hann and his stupid girlfriend. I could ignore them but it was hard. The other guys were fine. I have no issue with them. Scarlet and her brother were completely different. He was so much nicer and gentle. It was hard to believe that they were related. She had also explained to me that due to being an original vampire, she was able to compel lower rank vampires which is why the lie would be believable. Would Hann believe it? I wasn’t sure but I hoped so. 

“Does someone have a crush?” I asked, focusing back on her and her face turned bright red, making me smirk. She did have a crush. That’s so cute, maybe I could use him to destroy her. I stared at him and then back at her. He was breath taking for sure. But not as breath taking as Hann. Hann had this look to him that just made him look like a God to me. Physically he was perfect, no flaws to his beautiful face and body. No one looked as good as him.  

“Don’t say anything, please.” I looked at the guy for a while and then back at her. Why? Did she not want Hann to know that she liked someone? Was he protective? I wouldn’t doubt it if he was, he did seem like the type to be protective over her. 

“I’ll think about it.” I teased and her face was soon replaced with worry making me laugh. Wow, an actual laugh. I stopped, not liking it one bit. I needed to focus. I needed to remember that she was a monster and not my friend. I was here to destroy them. I couldn’t allow myself to get distracted. 

“I was just kidding, plus who could I possibly tell?“ I asked while she shrugged saying Hann. I scoffed, looking around. He wasn’t here yet. 

“Why the hell would I tell Hann?” I questioned, looking at her as if she was insane. After yesterday, I didn’t even wanna be near him, so why would I even consider speaking to him? 

“I don’t know. But Hann doesn’t really let me date anyone. He’s to protective of me.” She explained and I hummed looking at the guy again. I knew he would’ve been. I was right, but that’s sad. She was scared to date someone because of Hann. Did he kill the guys she liked or something? 

“How long have you liked him?” I questioned and she sighed, looking away with a frown. By her expression, I’m assuming it’s been awhile. 

“Freshman year.” She answered, making me gasp. Freshman year and she didn’t even try to approach him. Not even to be friends. She must’ve really been scared of Hann finding out because that’s quite awhile. 

“Does he know that you like him?” I asked and she shook her head no. Of course he wouldn’t. She never approach him so how would he know. He was probably afraid to approach her because of Hann too. 

“What’s his name?” I asked, turning to look at him again. He was walking inside the building. The longer I stared at him the more curious I started to get. I wanted to find out more about him and see why she liked him. I’m sure it was more than just his looks. I needed to know if she liked him enough that I could use him against her. 

“Christian Woo. He’s a senior.” She informed and I looked back at her. So he was older than her. Just like Nina, he seemed different. Maybe that also why I was getting curious. 

“You like them older huh?” She rolled her eyes and smiled. But didn’t say anything. I’ll take her smile as a yes. I’m sure she was older than him since she was an original but physically he was older. 

“I’ll see you at lunch.” I told her hearing the bell going off. We were still outside so I had to hurry up in order to not be late. I was hoping I wouldn’t see Hann today. I really didn’t want to deal with him.