Love, Hate and Desire.

CHAPTER NINE.

Nathan saw the sadness in selena's eyes when he said those words to her, but he couldn't afford to care or become emotionally attached to her, she was still his enemy's daughter regardless the passionate attraction. She was his plaything and nothing more, he tried to occupy his mind with his work, it didn't seem to be working.

"Trouble in paradise?" His brother asked as he entered his office.

Nathan glared at him, Henry and Ryan were fond of barging in on him anytime they like, and he doesn't like to use his dominance on either of them, they knew when not to cross the line.

"Where's Ryan?"

Henry frowned "Am i not enough?"

"Quit the pettiness, I need results on the blood samples."

Henry sighed as he went to pour himself a glass of whiskey. "You don't drink, yet you have a lot of liquor." he said and gulped.

"You don't need her blood. You don't care about her, why bother?" Nathan gazed at henry, if the d**khead wasn't his older brother, he would throw him out the building from his office, did he think he wouldn't feed on her?

"There's a small amount of vervain still left in her system, you can decide to make her bleed it out....."

Nathan growled softly, he didn't like the idea of making her suffer, but still, he needed to be able to control her.

"You could do it?" he said.

Henry was a little more hard-hearted than nathan, Ryan was the compassionate one since their childhood.

"Sure, i could go do it now."

"Why so eager?" nathan stared at him.

'The young lady is so beautiful, can you pass her over when you're done pla...."

Henry didn't have a chance of completing his thoughts, as nathan already grabbed him by the neck.

"That's my woman, my woman!" he gnashed his teeth.

"My Apologies." Henry raised his hands and said smiling, it did nothing to calm nathan, his eyes turned red with dark veins around it, his fangs had elongated ready to feed.

Ryan came in just time before nathan lost it, he sped across the room to get some blood from the refrigerator in the office, one could hardly tell because it was made to look like a built-in steel cabinet.

He handed it over to nathan; "Here you go Nathan."

Nathan let go off henry as he took the pack of blood and drank it hungrily, he disposed the empty pack which immediately caught fire as it went into the trash can. He shook his head twice before he slowly began to return to his senses.

"What happened?" Ryan asked henry in a whisper.

Henry had a simper smile on his face; "He cares for her." he said, eyes still on nathan who had his back to them but heard every word they said. Then henry walked out of the office, leaving the two men.

"What's going on with you man? It's been a long time i've seen you like this." Ryan said.

Nathan sighed, "How did the meeting go?"

"The ungrateful t***s still wants a discount after the cut down in price, but i didn't dissent."

Nathan turned around, his amber eyes searched the room, then he found his tablet on the sofa. Picking it up, he opened the surveillance video of the villa and checked on selena. He found her in the kitchen busy cooking, the main entrance door beeped, indicating that someone entered into the house.

"Bloody bastard." nathan cursed.

"What?" Ryan asked, then looked and saw henry in the kitchen with selena. "What is he doing there?"

"He's going to do it."

"Do what?" Nathan wanted to use his superspeed but Ryan intercepted. "It's broad daylight man, use the car." Groaning, nathan and ryan left the office.

***

"Nathan isn't home." Selena said.

Henry smiled as he slowly approached her, she stepped back. "I know, i came for you."

Selena found the look on his face strange, she stepped back as henry continued coming towards her. "Why?"

"To get you ready for my brother."

"What do you mean?"

"He needs to feed on the fresh blood of his mate, that should keep him sane since he seems to care about you. But that vervain in your blood will poison him." he stopped moving, then picked up a knife from table.

"What nonsense are you talking about? I don't understand, please leave."

Selena said, she took out her phone from her back pocket to call nathan.

"You don't have his number, do you?. Don't worry, you won't remember this when you wake up." Henry said and sped towards her, knocking her unconscious and slitting her wrist with the knife, he looked at the camera facing the kitchen and smiled.

"You're welcome brother."

When nathan arrived, henry was long gone, he saw selena lying on the floor and her blood spilled from her wrist. At the scent of her blood, his eyes turned red, holding himself back he turned around;

"Nate, it has to be you."

Nathan growled, trying to control himself. "I can't."

"Yes you can, you care for her as much as you hate her. Put your hate aside for a minute and take her up."

Nathan closed his eyes tight, when he was calm enough, he swiftly carried selena upstairs into her bathroom. Dropping her into the tub he turned on the water to fill it, he watched as the water slowly covered her up. In a few seconds, selena woke up gasping for air;

"He...he..henry..."

"Catch your breath selena." nathan said, not looking at her.

Selena took slowly and steady breaths until she could talk. "Henry was here."

Nathan held her face, peering into her eyes. "You never saw henry today, you fell and cut yourself." he said

She nodded slowly and he knew her blood was now clean.

"Sleep."

He could now easily hypnotize her, Arnold Moore fed vervain to his children to keep them from being compelled by vampires, now he couldn't save selena from him.