Chapter four

Love is a Strange Thing

Van Helsing sat there, staring after her and thinking about what she had said, the words "It wouldn't be broken if you had been under her enchantment" kept swirling around in his mind, over and over again, the horrid feeling of being wrong and having made a great and stupid mistake hung over him and he went to bed thinking about it, he was to keyed up too sleep and lay gazing at the sealing instead.

He knew he must he fallen asleep eventually because he found a cup of coffee on the bedside table, he had completely forgotten the events of the previous evening until he saw the cup of coffee, Misha always brought him a cup of coffee in bed in the morning and usually she was there waiting for him when he awoke, but not today.

He took the coffee and drunk it, it was its usual delicious self, hot and fragrant, warming every inch of his tired body, bringing the life back to him.

Oh, to hell with you pride man, he thought to himself. Go tell her your sorry and that you love her and always will, because its true.

He jumped lightly out of bed, dressed and ran down stairs to find, Misha, Aleera, Verona, Anna and Marishka eating breakfast, or rather Misha and Anna eating breakfast and the others drinking it in the form of cups of blood.

"Misha" he said quietly. "Can I talk to you alone for a minute?"

"Sure" said Misha.

She laid down her knife and fork and got up, he led her to a small breakfast room and they went in.

"Misha" he began. "I'm so very sorry for acting so rashly last night and I hope it isn't to late to apologize for my behavior and to say that if you still want too marry me, I still want to marry you"

"Oh Gabriel" said Misha. "Of course I still want too marry you, I love you so much, life isn't worth living without you"

She kissed him passionately and stood up.

"Come on Gabriel, lets go and tell the others" said Misha. "Oh I'm so happy"

"Okay" he said and they walked out hand in hand.

Van Helsing had never felt so happy, it was like he was a boy again and his mother was saying that he would do great things one day, this was one of the few things he could remember about his past, he had asked he what they would be and she had said that she didn't know, but he would when he did them, she had taught him so much, his father had been cruel, heartless and cold, but she had taught a boy old beyond his time to love and be loved and had payed for this with her life, his father had murdered her and he had been forced to flee for his life.

He walked with Misha into the dining room and the others looked up and smiled to see them holding hands, or rather the brides smiled and Anna looked daggers at the couple.

"So Gabriel" she said venomously. "You would rather love a vampire than me, FINE!"

With that she stood up and pranced out of the room, he nose in the air.

"So" said Verona. "You took my words to heart did you?"

"Yes" said Van Helsing. "Yes I did, Verona"