Authors Note: I have had a few emails and a comment about how It Was Fate has a lot of differences from its original Fate. Yet, Fate was kind of my trainer story. It was simple and the characters were not well developed. So, with this new... more like restart of Fate I'm trying to find my voice as a writer. I write on here for the readers and basically as practice. Your guy's comments have made me from the author I was in Fate Ch. 01 to It Was Fate Ch. 04. Thanks to anyone who has written me a comment or an email no matter how mean. I hope to continue to improve.
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Annabeth needed to get out of here and most of all away from this gorgeous grumpy man. She wasn't an ounce frightened of him, that reason she didn't know why, but she hadn't said a word to him since what she had screamed through the door.
He seemed to be in an impossible bad mood, yet that didn't translate to the way he was gripping her wrist as he pulled her down the hallway. It was gentle, probably too gentle. No matter how angry he was he seemed to treat her like a china doll, fragile and delicate.
She just wanted to know why she was even with him if she made him so miserable. And they say girls are complicated.
Coming to a stop he pulled a key card out of his pocket and quickly swiped it and replaced it. Opening the door he pulled her through it and then shut it softly. When she turned from watching him close the door she nearly gasped in surprise. She expected another hotel room, but this room was an entire floor! There were rows of desks placed around the gigantic room and even what looked like actual offices in the corner. Then all the desks were stationed with a single gorgeous vampire.
Yet, sitting a few feet from where they were standing was a desk that was sitting more front and center than the rest and the keeper of that desk was most definitely not a vampire. He looked to be just a gawky teenage boy.
"Collin!" The boy smiled showing his multicolored braces as he shifted some papers into a neater stack.
"Hey Leo," Collin greeted him with a small grin. Leo stood out like a sore thumb in this place with his reddish brown curly hair and goofy grin. "Can I see Pack X's file?" Collin asked his expression serious again.
"Hold on..." Leo trailed off reaching for the wireless mouse over in the corner of his desk and smacking it on the bottom a few times."Damn thing." He cursed nearly silently. Setting it back on his desk he squinted as he stared at the thin computer monitor perched in the same corner of his desk. Clicking furiously he jumped up from his chair toward the wall of file cabinets. Taking long quick strides he slide his pointer finger down the many cabinets, reaching the fifth one he opened a drawer and retrieved the file and handed it over to Collin.
Scanning the thick manila folder he dropped it with a thud onto Leo's desk. Humming he flicked open the file and fingered through the stack of paper until he found the page he was looking for.
Smiling he flashed his fangs wickedly. "It's time to give Gustavo a ring."
Annabeth shivered at the sound of his name. How could Collin have known? Yet, she was just going to keep her questions to herself at the moment, which was very unlike her.
"Come on." Collin told her gripping her wrist and the file in the other hand. Pulling her down a row of desks she couldn't help but look down all the vampires looked up as if in awe that Collin was touching her. At least it didn't take long for him to pull her into a corner office and shut the door behind them. "Sit down." He commanded her.
Biting her lip she fought the urge to tell him to shut up and sat down quietly on the dark leather coach. Watching him, Collin reached for the phone that sat in the cradle on his desk and quickly punched in the number written on the paper he folded the corner of. Thanks to the fact her senses were sharper than a normal human she could hear the series of rings begin, but she was beginning to feel it to be a curse; she so did not want to hear his voice, nor was she ready to.
Yet, she had no chose.
"Ah, Mr. Sangue," Gustavo's deep voice greeted him.
Collin could feel the way Annabeth tensed when he picked up. It was strange because she was across the room.
"Hello." Collin replied coldly.
"I hear you have broken one of our rules." He began sounding amused.
"I know you have." Collin replied.
He laughed. "You think my men were trying to kill Annabeth. If you think she is a human you are sorely mistaken."
"She would have died if I hadn't saved her." Collin growled his back to Annabeth.
"Whoa big boy," He warned obviously amused. "All I know is that you personally killed one of my men and that violates our little contract."
"I'm not sure you want to completely oust that contract just yet. You know far too well what happens when you underestimate me." Collin pointed out.
"I'm not suggesting we go all out war. I'm just saying you should return Annabeth to me...soon."
"Why is she so important to you?" He growled.
"She's my mate in training." He laughed. "Now bring her to me tonight, 12 AM, far corner of my territory." At that Gustavo hung up as Collin slammed the phone into the cradle.
Annabeth couldn't even fathom going back to him. Bowing her head she rested it in her hands taking deep breaths to control her emotion. She couldn't go back to him! Just couldn't. Yet, a small part of her simply didn't want to leave Collin.
