Alicia laid there as silence reigned in the dim room. Her eyes were staring at his back, at his shiny, raven-black hair.
Questions filled her head, but she could only shut her lips tight. He did not even reply to her earlier question yet and she had feeling that he would ignore it and not say anything.
Still, she waited for a little longer, unwilling to fill the silence between them. She wanted to see how long was it that he could keep silent.
A sudden strong urge to know everything about him bloomed within her heart right at that moment. She badly wanted to know the answer to her question. But it was not just that… she wanted to discover more about this ever so enigmatic man. Even from before, she had always been curious about him and his poker face that never seemed to be able to be broken.
She wanted to tear all his walls down and see what really lies deep within him.
But she could even go as far as to say that it most probably be close to impossible for that to happen. Perhaps, no one in this world might ever bring those impenetrable walls down.
He rose. For a while, the calmness around him seemed to have been disrupted. He pulled slightly irritably at his black tie and hurled it to the side table when something vibrated. A phone inside is pocket was the source of that disturbance.
When he answered it, Alicia pulled herself up into a sitting position.
"What is it." he asked in an emotionless tone.
Alicia could not hear what the other person on the other side of the phone was saying because Ezekiel had used a Bluetooth earpiece to speak to the caller. However, she could tell that whatever that was reported to him must have been some kind of bad news just judging by the air that had changed around him. The temperature inside the room seemed to plummet into the negatives. Even she shivered at the sudden drop.
His grip on her tightened a little. Then without a word, he pressed the red button and ended the call.
No word came out from his lips anymore even as he pulled Alicia up from the bed. Alicia could not speak now as she felt that disconcerting dark power began to seep out from his body. He bit on the tip of his gloved finger and pulled his black glove off.
The black glove fell to the floor as he stretched out his bare hand forward. She watched as a wisp of dark smoke appeared inches away from his palm, swirling and turning as it grew bigger until a vortex appeared before them.
No words were needed for Alicia to tell that something serious had just happened. The fact that this man was using his demonic magic to teleport was enough to say a lot without telling her a thing. Because she knew Ezekiel had never used this means of teleportation for hundreds of years now. He had been hiding his demonic powers and acting like a pure blooded vampire all these times. At least until now.
Thus, whatever prompted this man to use this power of his at this moment… Alicia could not help but feel a strong unease filling her.
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