Gabe jumped as the door to their apartment slammed. Adrian was pacing in front of it, fury filled his white eyes. His breathing was heavy and his fists were clenched tight. Before asking, Gabe knew that Alice must've been somewhere nearby. Nobody else had ever had such extreme effects on Adrian before.
"Sit down; you're making me dizzy walking back and forth like that."
"Fine." Adrian dropped himself into a chair at the kitchen table. His chest rose and fell quickly under his blue shirt. He leaned forward, trying to steady his voice before speaking. "I'm going to put an end to this, Gabe. Tonight. I'm done with this."
"Done with what?" Gabe lifted his eyes from the computer screen and found himself face to face with a sight he'd never seen on his friend before.
"The Cullens" Adrian spat. "I'm done with them."
"Geez, your hands are shaking like crazy. Calm down."
"Gabe, I'm going to kill them, all of them." Adrian breathed. "Carlisle cornered me at the clinic. He said Alice sent him. Then, when I was walking home there was a silver car parked on the curb. I didn't think anything of it until my coin heated him. It was warmer than it's ever been before. I look over at the car. There were three of them in there. A big guy with dark hair, a smaller guy with reddish looking hair, and a blonde female. They just watched me walk by. When I got to the apartments, Alice was standing there waiting for me. She brought her boyfriend. He wants to kill me, I can tell, his eyes were pitch black."
Gabe watched Adrian as he tried to calm himself down. He knew this was going to be a fight Adrian would want to go at alone. But how was he going to let that happen? Even the most skilled of slayers could take on that many vampires at once and Gabe had a feeling that they would be up for a one on one battle. A close coven like that never fights fair.
"I'll go with you and we'll call Brady and Jett." Gabe pulled out his phone. "Four of us should be enough to take them all out quickly."
"No, this is my fight, Gabe." Adrian shook his head. He wouldn't allow that many slayers around Alice. He planned to keep her alive. "You stay here. If I'm not back by sunrise, then you can take care of the ones I didn't manage to kill."
"Not going to happen, Adrian." Gabe rolled his eyes at his friend's foolishness. "We're a team. You know that."
"That's why you need to stay." Adrian's eyes finally faded back to their stunning blue as he considered what would happen if he let clumsy Gabe fight alongside him. "You'll distract me too much and then we'll both get killed. I'm not letting the last of my family die for me."