Chapter 4

Helen was mad as hell and Will realized he'd never seen her like this before. It was like one word would make her explode with anger. Nikola seemed just as angry too. They were both covered from head to foot in an awful smelling slime, looking as if they'd been dragged through the entire sewer of Baku.

"Don't even ask!" Helen said through clenched teeth.

Henry addressed the Serb, "Tesla?"

"Have you heard? Don't ask!" Nikola snarled.

Helen passed her hand over her hair impatiently and asked briefly, "Keys, have you got them?"

Kate, Will and Henry exchanged glances but Helen wasn't paying them any attention and missed it.

"Yeah, but Magnus…" Kate tried.

"Excellent, then go!"

"But Doc…" Henry began.

"Whatever it is, Henry, it can wait until I take a shower! Blame Nikola if it's more urgent," Helen replied, annoyed before glaring at Nikola who was standing not far from the rest of them. He heard her angry voice and curled his lips in response.

Taking the lift to the sixth floor, Helen reached out her hand and said, "My key!"

"Oh, now we're in for it…" Kate sighed.

"And?" Helen asked.

"It happens that we have only two room keys: we were mentioned as a group and the hotel manager proposed us to exchange our four rooms for two triple suites. There were no more available rooms because of the contest, besides how could we have refused?!" Kate said. "So we decided that we three," she pointed to Will and Henry, "would share one room, and you and Tesla would be in another one…"

"Though now we aren't so sure," Will added.

Helen slowly counted to ten in her head. God knew, she didn't intend to lose her temper at them, but this time she felt required to teach them a lesson and remind them who the boss was after all. Her eyes turned icy and narrowed evilly, remaining silent as she thought up what could be the best punishment for them all when Nikola jumped in.

"I wouldn't share a room with her," Nikola protested, "she would shoot me on the spot!"

"I could do it right now!" Helen's sinister reply followed.

"Calm down, Magnus, there are too many eyewitnesses here," Will put his hand on her shoulder. "Besides, we were assured that the rooms were big enough, so there is a possibility for you to live together even without meeting there," he noted.

"There is no alternative, plus it's just for a night, please Doc," Henry looked at her pleadingly. "And the concert starts in less than few hours…" he added faintly.

Helen closed her eyes and rubbed her temple with two fingers, trying to suppress the forthcoming migraine, and then she finally said, "My key!" took it, she went to the door.

"I wonder if there is one bedroom." Nikola mused.

Helen's eyes flashed with such a fire that the vampire decided perhaps he would drink wine in the bar; he even turned round in the direction of the elevator when he was stopped by Helen's loud yell, and he entered the suite.

Will was about to follow them but Kate said, "Don't do that!"

"But they will kill each other!" he replied, sounding confident.

"Magnus is a big girl, and Tesla if you remember is a vampire, so they will quarrel a little they'll get it out of their systems," she said reasonably and went to another room. The boys hesitated but did the same.

As soon as the door closed behind Nikola, ominous silence hung in the air. Helen was panting for breath. She paid no attention to the luxury of the suite, to her absolutely unpresentable appearance, stuck on the idea of killing Nikola right that very second. Nikola stopped in front of the large window and looked out at the night city. He realized that this time he might have crossed the line.

"How dare you talk to me like this in the presence of my team?" she hissed.

As he heard that, he rolled his eyes, "I didn't say anything, but today you're acting like a foolish 16-year-old girl."

"Oh, like a girl?" Helen was already choked with rage. "Remind me who was so sensitive that dropped the cage with the abnormal, and we had to catch it again?" she asked sarcastically.

"Not my fault that the damn creature licked my fingers," Nikola protested.

"I've always suspected you of being a milksop…" Helen retorted.

"Can I remind you who didn't catch it when it fell straight into their arms? Don't blame all this on me, Helen." He undid the buttons of his jacket, and wrinkled up his nose in disgust, adding, "and you owe me a new suit."

"Suit?" she asked, not believing her ears. "After the dangerous abnormal we were tracking today, you care only for your suit?" Helen was outraged by his words and came close to him.

"But nothing happened. No one got hurt," he sighed wearily.

"You don't give a damn about anything or anyone!"

Her words started to anger him and he barked, "Of course, because you're the only one who can be perfect. Helen Magnus is always right, Helen Magnus doesn't make mistakes, Helen Magnus always comes to the rescue."

"You're just an ungrateful moron!" she blurted out.

"And you're a fanatical perfectionist!" he shouted at her.

Helen was seized by indignation completely. She didn't even have time to think as she raised her hand against him to hit him, but he was faster and caught her wrist, then the other one. She tried to release herself from his grip, but he knew all her moves and her resistance led to falling on the floor with her arms pressed over her head. Helen tried to kick Nikola with her leg, hoping at least to hurt him, if not free herself but instantly she was pressed against the full length of his body, unable to move either legs or arms. But even in such desperate position, she went on with trying to escape.

"Let. Me. Go!" she cried.

"You'll be lying here until you calm down," he said, looking at her with his piercing blue-gray eyes.

"When I get out, you'll be dead!" she barked. "Unbearable, incorrigible, stupid ..." She continued to abuse him, still resisting, and he crushed his lips to hers in a fierce kiss. He didn't even know how it happened, he just wanted her to be quiet, but when he touched her soft, warm lips his anger vanished, leaving his blood boiling with desire.

She tried to scream, but only a vague sound was, came out instead. She still tried to evade, to avoid contact with his lips, but he held her tightly. She wanted to hit him, but the kiss was so daunting, demanding, absolutely thundering. She never expected that she could feel like this under him, in his arms, because of his kiss. It cut the ground from under her feet. And she unconsciously responded to him.

As soon as her lips moved under his, his kiss as if by magic became gentle, tempting as if he was asking for forgiveness. Helen's head spun, she had even forgotten how to breathe. An instant and this tenderness vanished, being defeated in battle with burning passion. Helen desperately wanted to bury her fingers in his hair, but he continued to hold her hands. She moved them and Nikola pulled away from her lips and looked straight into her eyes. His eyes were blazing with a breathtaking fire, and that sent shivers down her spine. Without thinking too long, she arched her back and caught his lips again in a kiss, even more passionate one than was before. He let go of her hands, and she immediately embraced him, burrowed her fingers into his silky tousled hair. His hand slid down her body and grabbed her leg below the knee, pressed her even tighter to him. Helen moaned. She pulled off his jacket, enjoying the flexing of his muscles under the fine cloth of his shirt. It didn't matter neither the place, nor the fact that they literally almost killed each other, nor that they both were smeared with a sticky slime. None of them were ready for such a fierce desire, but they just couldn't stop.

Meanwhile, in the room next door, Will was beside himself with anxiety, at last he stood up, "I'll check how Magnus is going ..." he said, standing and heading towards the other room. Approaching the door, he heard indistinct sounds and decided that the time to step in had come.

"Oh God, the last thing we need is for them to kill each other!" he said quietly, "with those two you never know what can happen." And with that, he knocked on the door. "What are you doing here, Henry?" he asked, as he saw his friend near.

Henry smiled, "I'm just checking how the Doc is holding up with the vampire!"

"Magnus, are you all right?" Will's voice came through the door as both men approached.

For a moment Helen didn't realize that someone was calling her. Nikola's violent kisses made her heart beat loudly, she was feeling dizzy, and had a buzzing in her ears. She tried to pull away, but he didn't allow it, raising her at a new level of insanity when his hot lips lost contact with hers and slid down her throat. He twitched her blouse and some buttons flew about the room. He held his breath, shaken by the view he had exposed, but for Helen the desire to feel him as close as was possible became overwhelming and she bent forward to him and his hand, passing caressingly over the silky skin of her bust and her black satin bra. He bowed his head and started to kiss each inch with his hot lips and tongue, leaving wet traces on her and Helen gasped with sensuality of his actions and moaned, unable to control herself.

There was louder knock at the door and Nikola tore himself away from her, growled, "I'll kill you protégé in the cruelest way I can manage!" His voice was hoarse because of passion and the vampiric notes broke through, provoking a fresh attach of butterflies in Helen's stomach. The knock sounded again.

"Doc!"

This time it was Henry.

"Don't even think to move!" Nikola said and kissed her. In a split second he was in front of the door and opened it.

"What happened, Junior?" he growled and looked at them with black eyes.

Guys even recoiled from him, "We would like to see Magnus!"

"It's impossible, I threw her out of the window!" he said and Henry's face fell.

"I'm all right!" Helen replied and looked over the shoulder of the vampire. "Nikola!" she added with a metallic note in her voice, and he looked at her with his blue eyes, and smirked at once, seeing she'd zipped her leather jacket to the chin, "Why aren't you getting ready for the concert?" she asked Henry and Will.

"We just worried about you, but now we see ..."

"Yes, everything is fine!" Nikola said, jumping in.

"Magnus, are you ok?" Will asked.

"Yes, of course! And now you can go! Thanks!" she smiled and closed the door. Nikola just growled irritated. "They were worried about me and it's very nice of them, Nikola," Helen replied.

"They should have worried about me instead; they don't know how fierce you are indeed!" he said with a sly smile and stepped closer. But Helen put her hand on his chest and blocked the kiss. The first ardour was over and she wasn't sure about whether what had just happened was right. Nikola's eyes flashed with some feeling, but it was only for a moment and a carefree smile was playing again on his face.

"We need to freshen up ourselves," she said. "I'm going to take a hot shower... and I advise you to do the same."

"I could rub your back, besides it's much more fun to do it together," he joked. But she just smiled.

"The advantage of these apartments is two bathrooms, so yours waits for you, as mine does." She took her things and disappeared in the bathroom.

No, he'll definitely find a way to quarter her protégé! The thought flashed in Nikola's head, and he went into the other bathroom, taking along a couple of bottles with wine.


Didn't you think that things were going to be so easy between these two, did you?)))