Either E Or S Class: I Will Kill All Vampires.-Chapter 38: Ch : The Gala [6].

A smug smile curled on his lips— he turned to Zack.

"And that’s why you have a crew."

Levi and Zack cautiously stepped out of the archive room, deliberately watching out for flashlights pointed in their directions.

Before they made it back to the main floor just in time for the power to be restored.

Levi and Zack settled round a high-top table— eyes still nervously darting the room in case someone found them, it was never too late to get caught.

His eyes shifted from left to right back to left until—

Mr Manhattan, walking up to him calm but with a curious look in his eye.

He stopped right before Levi.

"Where have you been Kane?"

Levi felt his throat turn into sandpaper instantly, his lips dry but he hid it all behind his usual calm and composed demeanour.

Shooting Mr Manhattan a smile, sliding his hands into his pockets.

"What? Me? I was in the restroom."

Mr Manhattan narrowed his eyes, "For how long? And why do you look you’ve been put through the ringer?"

’shit. Shit. Shit. He’s onto me.’

He swallowed his thoughts with a hard gulp.

"Between us guys let’s just say, I had to do a little extra to get a donation from one of these sponsors."

Mr Manhattan’s face twisted into something that looked like a mix between disgust and curiosity. But mainly disgust so he wasn’t going to ask anymore questions.

"Just be careful Kane, not everyone’s as they seem."

And with that he turned and left them.

He wiped off the beads of sweat from his brows, feeling the pressure imposed on him lift by a fraction.

Zack tapped on his back.

"They’re here."

Levi shot his head up— Jace and Claire approached them, both looking significantly pissed.

They closed the distance between them in seconds, arms firmly placed on the table.

They all just glared at each other before Claire spoke.

"Why’s Zack here? What does he know? And what did you find out?"

Her and Jace did however seem to be on the same place as he did not oppose her questions.

Levi sighed.

"He’s just a weird scientist who wanted to know more about the unit he works for—"

"And you actually believe that?"

Claire cut him off.

"I have no reason to believe otherwise, until I do, he’s good with me."

Levi responded honestly.

Claire, not satisfied with Levi’s response turned to Jace and inadvertently making Levi turn to Jace to— their eyes both fixed on him as they awaited his response.

"Uh, do you two realise that the person we’re talking about is right here?"

Jace raised a finger towards Zack.

The Orchestra’s tone rose again throughout the room, the perfect distraction from their current problems.

Jace changed the topic, "What did you find?"

Levi lowered his tone, now speaking in hushed whispers, "There’s a computer in the archive room... That’s where it all was, the password was Nikolai Munroe—"

Claire raised a finger to cut him off.

"Why Nikolai Munroe? Why use the most hated vampire in the world as the password for all their secrets?"

"I don’t know either... But, in the computer we found numerous files each with a different ominous name—"

"Get to the part we want Kane"

Jace tapped on the table.

"There are five families in the file, I haven’t checked them all but when I tapped on the Kane file I saw—"

His remaining words died in his throat—

His eyes stretched through the gap between Jace and Claire towards a figure

Immaculate face, well defined cheek bones, hazel coloured eyes, bronde coloured hair and a shimmering red dress that looked absolutely stunning.

Levi raised a finger, "who’s that?"

They all glanced in the direction of the woman he pointed at before turning back to him, confused.

"Levi, focus and tell us what you saw"

Claire demanded.

Levi shook his head violently.

"No, you don’t get it, she wasn’t here when I left for the service door and I know because I scanned this floor several times—"

Jace chimed in, "why’s this important Levi?"

He slammed his fist onto the table startling them.

"Because I might not be fully in control of my abilities but I know that without a doubt— she’s a vampire."

They all froze for a minute.

Zack stuttered, "uhmm, don’t you guys think we should report this?"

"He’s right, we might not have our guns but this is a division building so there has to be something we can do."

Jace said.

They all nodded in agreement.

They marched straight for Mr Manhattan while swerving their collective heads to keep an eye on the strange lady.

Mr Manhattan’s figure finally came into view, just before— 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

"I wouldn’t do that if I were you Kane."

A smooth seductive whispered voice lingered in his ear.

He stopped dead in his tracks, a cold sweat building beneath his clothes.

The others walked a few steps ahead before noticing he wasn’t with them, they stopped too.

Levi stood there, gradually twisting his head back to the lady who stood in the corner of the room but had a glass of champagne over her lips so it was hard to tell.

Levi spoke back, "Who are you?"

She slowly brought down her glass, for him to clearly see it was her speaking.

"Morgwen Davies, and you— Levi Kane, have been very busy lately."

’How the hell is this even possible, she’s faraway from me and I didn’t activate my hearing myself.’

He thought but didn’t know what to say aloud anyone.

She continued.

"From hunting vampires all by yourself to joining the prestigious L.U.X, you’ve come a long way but let’s not forget you’re part of one of the original families themselves."

He clenched his fist by his side.

"Enough, what is this? How are you doing this?"

She rolled her eyes in the distance, "So much potential and yet there’s still so much you don’t know about anything...

We have the ability to communicate to each other even when we’re far apart, all I have to do is make it light enough a whisper and your ear will instinctively catch it, brilliant right?"

Levi cursed, "You have a lot of confidence coming here alone but you’ll be dead soon enough."

Just as he turned—

"Selene Foster."

Just hearing her name was enough for his blood to run cold.

Morgwen pressed on.

"So that’s where your line is, her? And yet you left her propped up on the couch like a discarded Barbie, what a shame."

Levi gritted his teeth.

"What do you want from me?"

"I honestly don’t know yet, just wanted you to know that I could kill you that easily if I wanted to, from Selene to Jace to Claire to Zack and just have enough time to slit everyone’s throat here in between. That’s just the difference between a C and a B-Class."