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Chapter 36:

"Oh, you do look mighty fine in that bikini Evie," Kol said, carrying two drinks mixed with blood.

I opened an eye and rolled over to lie on my back, feeling the warm sunrays on my body. It was on sunny days like these I wished that I was still human.

No matter how long I laid in the sun I wouldn't get a proper tan or even get sunburnt, but I guessed that I should be thankful for the latter.

Taking my drink from Kol's hand, I took a well-needed sip and noticed that Kol was watching me with a smirk on his lips.

"What?" I asked curiously.

"Nothing," he answered, shrugging nonchalantly. "I just like seeing you like this… like a savage and dangerous ripper. You've been keeping control on yourself for way too long."

"I agree. Thank you for being an asshole and forcing me to come with you," I said with a sickly sweet smile. "We should invite Rebekah. Don't you think?"

Kol snorted. "No way. I am not seeing my little sister in a bikini. I'd rather look at you and have my wicked way with you."

I rolled my eyes of his comment and took another sip of my drink, noticing someone familiar watching me from the parking lot.

"I'm in the mood for something cold," I said and stood up, brushing the sand off my backside. "Want an ice cream?"

Kol shook his head and went back to watching some women playing volleyball out in the water. I felt the urge to spill my drink on him, but decided to approach the ice cream stand instead, signaling the person I'd spotted to meet me there.

"You've turned off your emotions, haven't you?" Katherine asked, standing behind me in the long queue of hungry people.

"You can say that," I answered discreetly. "I thought you were long gone, but I see I was wrong."

"Well, rumors travel fast. I heard that Klaus was dead and yet you're still here – very much alive. How is that?"

I shrugged, not caring nor remembering who this Klaus was. "I don't know what you're talking about, Kat."

"I'm talking about this." Katherine grabbed my wrist and held up my left hand, nodding at the ring on my finger.

"That looks an awful lot like a wedding ring."

I narrowed my eyes at her and pulled my hand back, stepping forward as the person in front of me finally got his huge ice cream cone.

"Um… I'd like one with strawberry and mix some of your blood in the chocolate sauce before you cover my ice with it." I said while my pupils dilated.

The man nodded and immediately began working on my ice cream, but when I turned to tell Katherine to stop asking me questions, I noticed that she was gone… and Kol was heading towards me, looking a little pissed off.

I just barely managed to grab my ice cream before I was dragged away from the ice cream stand and taken back to his car.

"What the hell Kol?!" I hissed angrily.

"We're leaving, love!" he snapped and threw my ice cream away before pushing me into his car.

"Jeez, relax! Why are we leaving already?"

He didn't answer me but got into the car as well and sped off without as much as checking any cars were headed our way, just barely avoiding being struck by another car that was moving towards us.

Kol drove out in silence for about 15 minutes before he finally turned to me and broke the tense silence between us.

"Have you ever heard the story about The Five?" he asked me.

"The Five? No. Who are they?" I answered worriedly.

"Who they are, doesn't matter. It's what they are that does. They were a group of vampire hunters that were enchanted by a dying witch around 900 years ago."

"Enchanted? In what way?"

Kol glanced around to check if we were being followed and then parked the car. "Their strength is enhanced and they have this uncanny passion to kill vampires."

"Oh… and they just want to kill us?"

"Yes, well, they have another assignment that goes with the job. They're guarding some legendary weapon that can put an end to all vampires. Only Rebekah got close enough to figure out what the weapon is, but she refuses to talk about it."

"Let me guess. You saw one of the hunters at the beach."

Kol nodded. "He'd filled his water gun with vervain and splashed people to check if they were vampires. Guess who he got."

I decided not to answer that question, because it was obvious that Kol was in no mood for this and neither was I.

"What do we do now then? Run? Hide?"

Kol leaned across the car and caught me off-guard, kissing me fiercely and passionately, nearly making me forget what we were discussing.

"I think that we should go to Italy, find a proper beach and get some more sun. Last time I visited Italy, they had plenty of delicious humans," he said.

It sounded very tempting just to go, but a part inside me wanted to stay here despite not having anyone besides Philippe here.

"C'mon, Evie. Haven't you always wanted to go to Italy?"

I actually had never been to Italy, because Katherine never went anywhere she'd been more than three times.

She didn't want to risk getting caught by… I frowned as I struggled to remember the name of the man, who'd been chasing her for centuries.

"Okay, let's go to Italy." I said after a while.

Kol smirked and drove straight to the nearest airport where he compelled our way into getting a seat in first-class.

I couldn't help but wonder if Kol was up to something since he suddenly wanted to go to Italy and especially after having told me the story about the Five.

However, I had nothing else to do besides travelling, killing and partying with him, so I followed him all the way to Italy and just waited for the moment he'd tell me the entire truth.

Once we'd arrived in Italy, he took me to a small village out in the middle of nowhere, promising me that this village had the best beach ever.

I remained skeptic and suspicious of his intentions, wondering why he'd even bother looking for someone or something in Italy when we could do whatever we wanted to.

"Why do I get the feeling that you're hiding something from me?" I asked as we were walking through the streets of the village.

"Perhaps because I am. I'm an Original. We have many secrets," he answered nonchalantly and suddenly stopped walking abruptly, turning to me. "I have an idea. Why don't you go ahead and kill a few people. I'll catch up with you eventually."

He said this as his pupils were dilating and as soon as he was done speaking, I felt a strange urge to go to the beach without him.

"Okay. Don't take too long." I turned to walk ahead, but he pulled me into his embrace and surprised me with a passionate kiss that awakened the ripper inside me.

Unfortunately, he pulled away before the kiss intensified and smacked my behind, urging me to go ahead and I reluctantly did.

I then continued walking on my own and searched the beautiful and idyllic village for the beach Kol had told me about during the flight.

"Evie?" someone said, making me stop dead in my tracks.

I frowned and turned around, seeing a young man with dark blond hair whom I didn't recognize, but he seemed to recognize me for some reason.

In a flash, he suddenly stood in front of me, a look of pure relief and amazement on his face. I instinctively took a step back when he went to touch me, feeling an urge to go to Kol.

"Evie? What's wrong? It's me, Klaus. Don't you remember me?" he asked, trying again to touch me but I backed away from him.

"Don't touch me. I don't know how you know me, but I don't know you." I answered.

"What are you– wait, where's your wedding ring?" I frowned and noticed that he was wearing a wedding ring while I wasn't.

"What wedding ring? I don't know what you're talking about, but if you as much as touch me, I will break your fingers!" I hissed, baring my fangs at him.

Klaus growled and suddenly pinned me to a wall, gazing into my eyes. "Who compelled you? Was it Kol?"

I gulped nervously when I saw his eyes turn dark yellow and nodded, knowing that Kol would become furious when he heard about this.

I tried fighting his iron-like grip, but he was much stronger than Kol and apparently, not entirely a vampire.

"I should've known. I'll save a dagger for him when he returns, but you're coming with me now!" he ordered more than said.

"The fuck I'm not! Let me go, you perv!" I screamed, trying to make a scene.

Klaus rolled his eyes and said something in Italian fluently that made people continue walking. "Oh, you are coming with me. Now stop fighting me. I'm your husband, not your enemy!"

I gasped and tried kneeing him between his legs, but he quickly moved us into an alley where no one would see us together.

"Sorry to break it to you, but I am not the marrying kind and I certainly wouldn't marry a douchebag like you!" I bit his wrist, but he just laughed of me.

"Give up! You can't fight an Original, love. You know that…" He smirked when I finally gave up… for now. "Are you done now?"

I nodded and pouted sourly, following him calmly out to his hybrid minions that looked just as shocked about seeing me.

What the fuck was going on today?

"I'm so going to kick your ass when I get the chance!" I threatened when he pulled me to a nearby burial site.

"Sure, you will, love. Sure." Klaus said, ignoring my attempts to pull myself out of his grip.

"I don't know who you are, but consider yourself on my death list!"

Klaus raised a brow. "You have a death list?"

"Of course! I'm a badass ripper, if you haven't noticed."

"Badass ripper? Hmm, yes getting compelled by my brother into forgetting about your own husband and then getting trapped by your own husband again is very badass…"

Oh, hell no! Was he mocking me? Yes, I was pretty sure he was!

"Even if I am your wife, then you're so not getting laid for a whole month." I retorted and kicked his shin.

One of his hybrids accidentally snickered of the sight, wiping the smug smirk off Klaus' face and making him growl at him.

"Your brothers told me that they'd received a note from you," Klaus said, calming the burning rage inside me. "I've been trying to find you, but you kept disappearing."

That would be Kol's fault and now I understood that it wasn't boredom that led him to travelling from one town to another after only a few days of fun.

"So he really compelled me into forgetting about my own husband?" I asked.

Klaus nodded without hesitating and loosened his tight grip on my arm. I could easily break free and run away, but something else made me want to stay.

"Even if that is all true, then I'm not the same anymore. I've turned my emotions off."

He sighed heavily and pulled me close to him, the closeness of his body making my skin and core grow warm of lust.

"I know, but I promised to be there for you through better or worse and I'll keep my promise."

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