An Immortal in London: Corruption by Bethanie Hardie

away.  
                  “Every night I see him,” I whispered.
                  He looked across to me, taking his eyes from the road.
                  “I see his eyes as we were leaving the ball room.” I sighed, “If I could go back I would have danced to my death.”
                  Neither of us spoke another word until we stopped outside of Gabriel’s home.
                  “I wouldn’t have killed you,” he said.
                  I rested my hand onto the door of his car and closed my eyes. “I can’t keep doing this, Levi.”
                  “I know,” he whispered.
                  I got out of the car and stopped walking as I heard him following me. I turned to him and he pulled me into his arms. For the first time since my immortal life began the man that I held in my arms felt right . I rested my head against his chest and my tears flowed freely, liberating my soul from its evergreen pain. Levi was my guardian as he had always been, we had both lost something of ourselves when we lost Katelyn and together we were the only ones who could piece ourselves back.
                  “Clarence will be waiting for me,” he uttered, as Gabriel opened the door and stepped out. He released me and wiped away the last of my tears.
                  “Victoria, you’ve got a visitor,” Gabriel called from the door. I tore my eyes from Levi’s car and made my way into the reception room, resolving my composure.
                  Jesse was sat holding onto a mug of coffee, his briefcase sat on the floor beside him. He stood as I entered the room, “Victoria, Oliver has news.”
                  I sat down and poured myself a cup of tea, “That was fast, tell me everything.”
                  Gabriel had moved upstairs, he understood the importance of his ignorance, the more that he knew the more danger he would be in.
                  “He has been trying to find a name for you, but it seems as the leader isn’t only one man. In many cases a woman has been referred to, we, Mr Wright, believes that there are several at the top.”
                  I ran my hands through my hair and bit my lower lip, “Do we have any idea who she is?”
                  “No, but get this, Oliver thinks that she’s alive.”
                  “Alive, as in mortal or…”
                  “Like yourself.”
                  “Oh,” I uttered, “where is Oliver now?”
     
    I found him within the hour. He was sat on a river bank which over looked a darling canal. I handed him a pair of gloves as I put on my own pair. He looked up to me and smiled as he put them on, “how’d you find me?”
                  “I remember telling you about this place,” I said, as I sat down a few paces away from him, “I can’t believe that you remember.”
                  “How could I forget a minute of the time we spent together?”
                  I met his eyes and smiled softly, “I’m sorry.”
                  “I was the one at fault. I married Cassandra and well, here we are,” he said, motioning around us.
                  “I did love you Oliver, but Sedric he was different, he was…”
                  “The one?”
                  I laughed, “Yes.”
                  “Do you miss him?”
                  “Everyday day,” I said with a sigh.
                  “You have to let go of the past so that you can have a future,” he said smiling up to the stars. “It’s beautiful isn’t it?”
                  I laughed in a breath and looked up too. “I don’t know how,” I whispered.
                  Oliver put a gloved hand onto mine and squeezed it gently,