Page 71 of Even Vampires Bleed (Even Ever After #2)

Léandre

I don’t find Cassiopé the next day.

At the very least, she doesn’t come out of her room, because I’m pretty sure she’s in there.

But if she came back in her bat form, maybe she was on yet another mission for the humans. Elis seems to have disappeared since our common mission; they had to change the team and maybe she had to do more. So, maybe she’s exhausted?

Because she must be exhausted since she hasn’t left the room.

She could have been sulking or just ignoring me—and believe me, I thought about that—but she didn’t try to get up and other than sheets moving, I haven’t heard a single sound in there.

Oh, because yes, I’ve been stalking her room.

But can it be called stalking when I’m just sitting next to her door, patiently waiting for her to wake up?

I have not gone in. Not even to double check that it is indeed she who is inside the room.

I might be dumb, but I trust Elhyor to recognize a girl he saw growing up, and I respect Cassiopé too much to just sneak in and impose my presence on her.

After all, she still might very well not want to give me a chance.

But I’m still sitting at her door, waiting for her.

Angelique took pity on me when she realized the growling coming from upstairs wasn’t a rabid animal, but my stomach, and she fed me—twice already.

At least, I’m not missing any watch duty.

Elhyor lowered the team’s rotations back to normal when he realized that no one was coming for Notre Dame.

It might stay this way for all we know.

At least until Gabrielle wakes up from her coma.

Raphael has been going on a rampage since the attack, but since no one saw anything and the only witness is still between life and death, he can’t rally all the birds against someone specifically.

I retrieved my holo from my room, and I’ve been scrolling through the information Mercure Media is uploading every hour or so.

It seems like someone tried to butcher the archangels and afterward, Raphael imposed a curfew.

It has not been taken well.

Which led to people rebelling—more than usual for French people—and starting fires.

The only reason the fight calmed down is because Raphael made the soldiers use blasted bombs, so everyone ended up thrown to the ground. The bird-shifters, too.

Raphael is not used to leading in a war and it shows, because those blasted bombs are basically a shock wave, and as much as it’s efficient in knocking everyone out—it has a large radius of use and blasts on a large scale. It knocks everyone out—on the ground and in the sky

So it probably caused more damage amongst the birds than the humans.

So now half of the hospitals in Paris are full, so no one is trying to fight back openly.

I would bet my ass that Libération has never had so many new recruits.

I guess I’ll have to ask Cassiopé when she wakes up.