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Here is Chapter 4, sorry for the wait. Life has been busy and I needed to figure out where I wanted the story to go.
"Why did you want me here?" He asked, not showing any emotion one way or the other.
"I figured we needed to talk."
"About what? Your new boyfriend?" Vincent asked, thinking back to when he saw her kissing Patrick.
"And that would be?" Catherine asked forgetting he most likely assumed it was Patrick. After a minute she spoke again. "You are talking about Patrick, aren't you?"
"Whoever's throat you were shoving your tongue down." Vincent said as though he didn't care, but Catherine could still hear the slight jealousy in his tone.
"If I didn't know any better, I would swear you were jealous." Catherine said, almost trying to provoke him. "But you have Tori, so why i'm not sure why you would be."
"What is your problem with Tori? She never did anything to you. Incase you forgot, she doesn't know how to handle being a beast." Vincent snapped.
"She may never have found out if you hadn't killed her father by ripping his heart out of his chest."
"Are you seriously going to give me another lecture about my humanity? If you are, I am just going to leave because I really do not want to listen to that again."
"I know you are not going to listen, so I am not even going to bother. I only brought Tori up for one reason. It is that I am fucking tired of you getting pissed off at me if I even dare to say anything that you could manipulate into being negative about her, while you can say whatever the fuck you want if, god forbid, I so much as give another guy a passing glance and I can't get pissed about it." Catherine could tell that Vincent was getting pissed at her and at the way she was treating him, and the worst part was she couldn't care less.
"You know what..." Vincent started to ask, before Catherine cut him off.
"No I don't, and frankly, I don't give a damn Vincent." Catherine said and Vincent could hear the venom lacing her voice. "I know that you won't remember this and you probably couldn't give half a shit, but I am done. I will not be your second choice who waits around, just incase Tori does not want you somewhere down the road. I did that once because I was stupid enough to believe that what we has was enough to ensure me that you would choose me, and the only reason you chose me was that your ex-fiancée was terrified of you."
"And how should I know if you are telling the truth or if you are just making this up?"
"Believe me, or not. If you haven't noticed, I couldn't care less if you do or if you choose to stick to your fantasy world you are living in."
"What, you want me to choose, you or Tori?" VIncent snapped.
"You know what? Yes, as a matter of fact I do." She snapped back. "That way, if you do choose her I can move on with my life. I have spent so much time and effort protecting your fucking ass and I just cannot do it anymore, not if you are going to disregard everything that I do in favor of Tori. It's me or her and if you choose her, know that I will walk away and I can't guarantee that I will be there if you need me to save your ass again and again."
"You save my ass? Bull." Vincent scoffed.
"Time and time again. We don't all need to be genetically mutated beasts to save someone." Catherine said, purposely bringing the beast issue back into the conversation, before pausing. "Let's see, how have I saved your ass..." Catherine asked before fading out in thought. For a few moments she didn't speak. "There was the time you were with Alex and you got caught by the cops for breaking and entering into a skating rink and you almost breasted out, the time that you went away to her cabin for a romantic weekend on her part before you were going to take off to Nigeria or somewhere similar for a fantasy life, the time that Gabe almost killed you and you had given up your beast abilities to give me a normal life and I got them back before you got killed, there was the time Tess shot and almost killed you for breasting out, the time you helped me on a case where a woman was hiding her sisters who were illegally in the county and they were sick so you came and helped them and almost got caught by my precinct. There are probably others too, but you won't believe me. Why not ask Jt if anything I said was true? You trust him so..." Catherine said the last word with more of a bite then a bark, emphasising that Vincent clearly didn't trust her.
"Did you ever think that maybe I was protecting you?" Vincent snapped. "Your new 'friend'? He is a fucking criminal Catherine. Or were you just kissing the first guy you found in a shitty bar?" Him saying he was protecting her pushed her to, and past, the edge.
"I told you I was on a case. His brother was the guy I was tailing...and maybe I kissed him because I knew you were there and I wanted you to feel the same way I did whenever I saw Tori hanging off of you. I don't know anymore, Vincent. I am just sick of sitting around thinking you might feel anything for me anymore. I almost wish that Jt and Gabe has not worked so hard to find you for me. Ever since you came back, I have been tricking myself into believing that there was still an us, and that you still cared for me, but I was obviously wrong..." Catherine took a slight pause and Vincent was not sure if he should talk, but chose not to. "I think, maybe, you should go. I am exhausted." Catherine said getting up and starting to walk toward her room, before stopping. "See you around Vincent. If I don't hear from you again, I will assume that you chose Tori." She said in a dejected tone before disappearing into her room and closing the door behind her, leaving Vincent unsure of what had just happened. All he knew was that the talk he was supposed to have had with her had left him in a new position, for what he could remember. He was left with this sense of guilt for the obvious pain Catherine was in over him, no less. He decided to take her advice and go to Jt and see what his thoughts were, even though Vincent was pretty sure that his friend would be pro-Catherine.
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