Freid's POV

When the door shut behind us I stayed close to Giovanni behind him. Every meter, there was a stationed guard visibly standing in their posts. The short walk in the wide hall was silent as we neared an opening. When we reached it, bright lights illuminated the place from the gigantic chandelier hanging from the high ceilings. That chandelier alone could cost millions!

It was an open space with velvet lounge chairs around the middle section of the room. On the far side, you could see a door leading to God knows where and the walls were painted a monochrome black.

There was a man looking like in  his late twenties or early thirties, sitting on the center sofa with an air of nonchalance as he casually checked his phone and typed away on his laptop.

"Carlos" Giovanni said, breaking the silence.

Carlos looked up from what he was doing and finally acknowledged us. "Aah Giovanni, to what do I owe pleasure of gracing your presence?" He visibly scanned Giovanni for anything when his eyes landed on me. His eyes travelled my body from head to toe before he smiled faintly and motioned for us to sit.

Giovanni sat on the opposite sofa facing Carlos and I sat beside him.

"I know you have news on Gabriel."Giovanni started.

"Gabriel is a dead man Giovanni, you of all people should know that." Carlos said unblinking.

Giovanni went rigid beside me, so I placed my hand over his carefully. "Giovanni" I simply said. He seemed to calm down relatively.

"If you really want to know, Crow is not willing to negotiate" Carlos took his half filled glass from the table and drank its remains. "I tried Giovanni, believe me. But he just won't" Carlos finished with a sigh as he placed the glass back to its place.

"Then let me talk to him."

"You're like a brother to me Giovanni, and frankly I don't want your head mounted on Crow's wall. And believe me he will."

Giovanni looked to me as he silently begged me help him. I sighed and nodded.

"He won't" I said with a strength to my voice.

Carlos stared at me for a moment after and chuckled lightly "You have balls girl, but that won't change the truth."

I stood up faster then any human eye can catch and stopped in front of him. "He won't, because he can't." With a swift pull from under the hem of my dress, I managed to get my knife on Carlos' neck. I pressed it there but not enough to draw blood "Because I'm here"

Carlos' eyes visibly widened and his breath became stuck in his throat. I pressed the knife deeper. You could tell he was already debating whether to call security of not.

"She can protect me better than any men you have Carlos." Giovanni stated behind me. "And my brother is not dead, believe me."

Carlos looked from Giovanni to me, then back up to Giovanni. After a while he sighed and said "Fine, I shall believe you. It certainly proves easier when you have a knife against your throat"

"Freid" Giovanni said simply. I loosened my hold on the knife I was holding before I completely removed it from Carlos, backing away. Carlos breathed a sigh of release and massaged his neck.

"Crow is on the move" Carlos started "Last info I got off him was that he was in Russia. Now your brother, I believe is with him in Moscow, seeing as that is where Crow keeps his collection of captives. That is all I know"

Giovanni stood up just as Carlos did and talked to this little microphone on his suit jacket. "Let the visitors pass" he said.

"Thank you my friend" was all Giovanni said before walking back to the place where we entered.

"Giovanni!" Carlos said calling out to him.

"What?"

"Keep safe my friend"

Giovanni looked back and smiled dashingly at Carlos. "I won't oldman" he said and chuckled wholeheartedly.

Carlos just smiled and shook his head turning to me with an expression I couldn't fathom. It seemed like a mixture of longing and sadness. "May I" he said motioning to my hands. I just nodded. The peculiar man took my hands in his and said faintly "You look just like her."

"Who?" I pried softly, curious.

"A dear loved one. A spit fire as well" he sighed "a splitting image. How fascinating..." I looked to him questioningly and felt something within me. Was this sadness? But why? I don't know this man!

Carlos let go of my hand suddenly and I longed for the warmth once again. "I have kept you long, keep Giovanni safe and you"

With that I turned away without a word and started walking to the entrance. I can't help but feel as if I was missing something...

The halls were now empty making it harder for my thoughts to be cleared. Once we reached where we came from, we were surprised to see Frances guarding the door.

"Cara mia~ I have missed you!"

I looked to the left and saw the guy from earlier had passed out beside the door. Now that I realized what actually happened, I faced Frances' smug face.

"I couldn't let them get hurt by you! Only I can be choked by your lovely hands" he said seriously "Dare those dirty humans filthy your hands I'll chop them to pieces"

By now, I'm not even sure if he's joking or serious. By the murderous look on his face, I'm guessing the latter. At the end I just sighed and said "Let's go, I had enough of tonight"

As we made our way down the staircase, the music seemed to slow just as the lights visibly dimmed. There it was, those mortal stares once again. You think by now I'd be used to the attention. As the music started to play a sensual tone, Frances suddenly took my hand and started leading me in a now spacious dance floor. "Dance with me cara mia" was all he said. I just let him lead me.

Once there, he placed his muscular arms around my back as I placed mine on his shoulders. "Live a little number one, we have forever to enjoy~"

"I know" after that I kept quiet and so did he. If I said more, I'm afraid I would be lying. He swayed us to the song and it was a while after the song ended that Giovanni suddenly cut in between us, tapping Frances' shoulder. Frances released me begrudgingly, not before kissing my hand and cheek. "I'll take my leave. I need to feed" He smiled and walked away to a dark portion of the bar before completely vanishing out of sight.

"Freid," Giovanni's voice tonight was so deep and smooth as he placed his arms around my slim waist, caging me in an embrace. I felt the energy within him flowing, so I placed my hand around his neck with my head on his chest, hearing his erratic heartbeats. This was beyond soothing.

Giovanni snuggled to my neck affectionately "You hear that Freid?" he whispered huskily, I nodded in his chest, "Only you Freid, only you"

I smiled. I don't even know what I'm feeling right now. What is this nephilim doing to me?

Whatever it was, it felt good and I was willing to find out more. Before anything else though, I wanted to feed. When I looked in Giovanni's eyes with my electric blue ones he seemed to get the idea. He took my hand and led us outside in the alleyway as I walked beside him to a dimly lit corner by the side of Wicked.

"You good?" I said coming closer.

Giovanni looked to me and nodded. I looked around and checked if anyone was with us, seeing no one.

"Okay" I said as I placed my hands softly around his cheek. His eyes closed and my face came closer to his but stopped near enough to feed from his mouth. I felt the energy inside of him and pulled on those invisible strings. Just like before, I could feel his energy getting stronger even as I started to gulp down in greed.

"Freid" Giovanni said panting. I continued to feed as I answered him with a "What?"

His eyes opened with a white light as he stared deep into my electric blue ones. Then his lips suddenly touched mine. "Mmhmm"

To say I was shocked would be an understatement. I was shaken. But the feeling of feeding and kissing Giovanni at the same time was so intense that I couldn't help but let out a moan. He grabbed the back of my head to deepen the kiss and I held on to his neck tighter.

I continued to feed from him. His tongue was asking for entrance so I gave him that. I nipped his lips lightly as he did mine, and we basically look like a messy ball of moaning teenagers in a dark alley.

How typical.

I didn't know what made us stop, but we surprisingly did. I opened my eyes to see Giovanni's light ones staring into mine. He rested his forehead against mine as we struggled to catch our breaths.

"That was....."

"Intense" Giovanni said, completing my thought. He kissed my forehead and the feeling of his heated touch on my forehead was soothing. He held my hand as we walked to his parked bughatti, seemingly content and happy with what happened.

"I was serious Freid" Giovanni said once we were inside his car. He inserted his key in the ignition as he started the engine but the car didn't move from our spot.

"I know." I said casually.

"And?" He stared at me quietly, waiting for me to elaborate more. I just shrugged.

"I'll tell you once we find Gabriel"  I answered teasingly. Giovanni frowned and started to back away from the parking lot.

Once on the road, he asked again."Why can't you tell me now?"

I stared out the window and focused on those moving buildings that passed by. I visibly sighed, suddenly losing the happy mood.

I bitterly smiled to myself, not looking Giovanni in the eye.

"Cause you might not like my answer."