Chapter Nineteen
Kate drove back to their nest, their lair, home sweet home. It was a long drive from Wyoming back to this sleepy desolate dying town, just her type of place. These were the types of towns she'd been brought up in, dragged around by her dead beat Dad. He'd been a missionary, attempting to bring god and decency to these out of the way towns. Preaching goodness and light, honour and morality while all the time using his daughter for his own pleasure.
Until she'd run away.
Lived in alleys, fed off the garbage and learned to protect herself, to live on the streets and take on anyone who threatened her freedom. It may have been disgusting to those lucky enough to have a home to go to, but to her it was her whole world. Her whole free world.
Until Jack Murphy had come along.
He'd watched her, observed this feisty young woman, had wanted her for his own family.
At first the promise of a shower and meal had been enough enticed her, then the promise of a roof over her head. She'd slowly trusted this man, trusted he didn't want to cage her like a bird, he wanted to set her free to spread her wings and fly away with him.
Fly away with a blood lust like nothing she had ever experienced. Even in her darkest days, hiding from the outside world, hiding from Daddy, starving, hungry and wet, even then she had never felt a need like the one she experienced once she had been turned, been infected.
That need burned bright still.
Once Luther had died, instead of being extinguished it had become as resolute and unwavering as the need of humans for oxygen. Fuelled by a revenge stronger than her love had ever been. A need so unknown there was no way to fight it, no way to be free of it.
And why would she want to?
Luther.
Luther who had saved her from Murphy as he had begun to see her the way her father had, who had begun to use her, holding his gift of new life over her head as bait for the game. Luther had saved her from that. Taught her that not all men were there to take what they wanted only to discard the remains. He taught her a love she never knew existed, a loyalty borne within she hardly expected her body to produce.
She felt pregnant with her need to please , to follow, to love him.
Until that gun shot.
Until the soul, the soul within the body she loved and worshipped, had been wrenched from his being and cast upon the shadows of the stars so high and unreachable that his spirit wouldn't even linger to remind her he ever had a presence.
He was to be avenged.
Kate had gone back to the Wyoming town where he had seen her, saved her. A town they visited each year, for hundreds of years, an anniversary of sorts, of the moment they met and set each other free of the bounds of their masters.
Then Steph had called. They had one of them. The others scent also on the wind.
Revenge, such a small word for such a big emotion.
He was to die, she knew that, but first he would suffer, he would scream, he would beg forgiveness and take back the actions that had taken her lover from her, only then, when he was broken inside and out would she end his suffering.
Kate pulled up outside the warehouse, her senses on alert as her keen eyes spied no movement in the early night. Cars were outside, where were her family? Carefully picked and maintained over the past months, a pale imitation of the one Luther had grown, but her family nonetheless.
Walking toward the open entrance , the doors ajar in a snide leering gape, mouth open to receive it's undead inhabitant , the blood on the air alerting Kate that something was wrong.
Very, very wrong.
As she stepped in, stepping across the bodies of her brothers and sisters, her children, her followers, she fell to her knees and released a scream of anguish enough to raise the crows from their perches in the trees overlooking the lair.
They took to the sky, calling back their own sad song.
There were many souls to collect tonight.
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