Dear reader: I know you'll love this story. It starts in the present time, with Vincent and Catherine in their usual roles, but you'll have to wait for three chapters to enjoy one of the best love stories through the centuries. When did everything start? Not now, it was centuries ago, when a young Vincent couldn't stand losing the woman he loved. And from then onwards a curse has been following him through time and place. Please, be patient, don't judge before reading and know that your patience will be rewarded very soon. If you don't like the story, I'll understand, there's no need to be rude or impolite. Stop reading, that's all. Thanks for reading.

THROUGH THE CENTURIES.

CHAPTER 1

Cat couldn't stop thinking that all of this was a mess as they were inside the car. After Vincent was with Tori, everything was lost between he and Cat. More than two months had passed since then and she hadn't forgotten him yet, moreover, she was never going to do it. She warned him: "This goes far beyond what I can stand. What we had is over". She knew she was to blame too, if you take into account every single factor that took Vincent to Tori's arms. She wanted him not to be with her anymore, she had promised her father: "If you don't hurt him, if you leave him alone, I promise I'll never be with him again. I'll leave him". Her father knew that this didn't mean anything. He was sure there was nothing he could do to keep them apart. Cat, as if reading his thoughts, said: "I know what I have to do, he will never want to be with me anymore." This way she conceived the stupid idea of coming too close to Gabe one day at the office, making him invite her to have dinner out and then taking him to her house at the exact time she had asked Vincent to come to visit her. Gabe was really surprised at the pace with which one thing was leading to another, and he simply wasn't able to think when he saw himself in her bedroom. He didn't mind how he had got there or what would happen later, even Cat was too drunk to remember this the following morning. Gabe just wanted to know what it felt like caressing her dark hair, her beautiful body…kissing her wanting lips…They were standing by the bed while Cat was trying to get rid of his shirt and kissing him passionately. Gabe was opposite Cat with his back to the window. She had to know when to stop, she didn't want to go too far, just enough for Vincent to watch them together and think they were going to really make love. In spite of being a bit drunk, she was still worried that Vincent didn't react as she expected and instead of going away feeling betrayed and with his heart broken, he came into the bedroom changed into his beast and beat Gave to death…or even her. He didn't managed his feeling properly when he felt furious. Thinking about that she could evade her mind as she caressed Gabe's body. He was a very attractive man but she had never felt anything for him.

When she listened to the near church's bells stroking midnight, the time she had told Vincent to come round to spend some time together and "get memories back", as he used to call their intense sex sessions, she saw his shadow coming towards the window, then his body … and she felt a terrible punch in her stomach that almost stopped her from breathing. "You have to do it, Cat – she repeated to herself – It's the only way he would be able to survive". This was the only way she could stand his incredulous look, his yellowish eyes because of the jealousy, the fear that invaded her about his coming into the bedroom and doing something she hadn't foreseen. Then, no. It didn't happen. Vincent just left a tear fall down his cheeks and then jumped down the window. That was all. He had already seen what she wanted him to. She had to give Gabe an explanation. He was completely unaware of what was happening around and was now trying to get rid of her blouse too. She stepped back, his eyes filled with questions:

-Cat…what…?

-I'm so sorry, Gabe, so sorry… - she said as she started crying. – I didn't want to go that far but I couldn't help it…I just couldn't. Come here, sit down.

Both sat on the bed and she explained everything to him. She knew she had hurt Gabe's feelings for her. She thought he would go away angry and even insulting her…what she didn't expect was what he did instead. He just put his shirt on and sat down by her side telling her:

-Can we have a drink or two just to digest all this stuff?

He hold her into his arms to help her stop crying. They finally ended on the sofa in Cat's dining-room, watching one of these old TV shows and drinking some whiskies that helped her fall asleep after doing the most hurtful thing she had had to do in her life.

In the meantime, Vince had arrived home where Tori was waiting for him just to make sure he was safe. No one knew where he was, no one could ever know. He entered and after hanging his jacket, sat on the sofa completely shocked. Cat had been almost harassing him since the moment they met, trying to make him remember everything her dad had erased from his mind to prevent his feelings from spoiling his missions. She had gone to bed with him just to try and awake any memories in him…but he didn't remember her. He couldn't remember any of the moments they had spent together before he was taken, some flashes but only about conversations or moments when he had saved her life, but nothing personal or intimate. May be she had lied to him, may be everything was just a strategy to reach a goal he didn't know about. How could he trust her? She was a stranger for him, someone who had made love with him God knows what for, and who manipulated his feelings with a single glance. What if she was only one of the beasts he had to kill?

He was lost in these ideas when Tori appeared in the stairs looking at him intently and curling her red hair with her fingers. She came down next to him and sat by his side crossing her legs under her pearly mini robe. She was very young and very, very beautiful. Although Vincent was not paying attention to her now.

-Hi, sailor – she said in a joking tone – A bad day?

Vincent tried to smile but he could only show a strange mixture of pain and deception.

-I've got a remedy for your pain. You just have to ask – she said

-It's not a good moment, Tori…not a good…

She simply closed his lips with her index finger to stop him from speaking:

-I just need your body – she said while she rose his face with her finger on his chin till their eyes met – Your body, Vincent, your hands, your mouth…

Vincent didn't move as he didn't know how to react to this unexpected move by Tori. He was furious remembering what he had seen before in Cat's house:

-Not your mind, not your heart… - Tori kept whispering to his ear as she bit it and messed his hair with her hands, moving her right hand down slowly till she got his manhood that was already showing the effects of her hands on him – Your body … - she whispered again as she invaded his mouth with her wet and hot tongue till he threw himself onto her.