**Ch 335: Metamorphosis

After he was done laughing, he tapped his palm on the mattress as he said more seriously. "Come have a seat. I need you to be honest with me about something."

At first, I swallowed down the overbuilt-up saliva into my throat before I sat beside him.

He faced me, taking my hands into his. "Did you go into your time-gap?" he asked, as quiet as a mouse and calm like a gentle sea. Though his voice was tranquil, my skin still sheered into a pale white ghost, and I felt a sudden nauseousness crawl into my stomach.

"Yes," I mumbled. "How could you tell?"

Kai lowered his brows into a straight line across his forehead. "I'm a vampire. Naturally, I smelled the bloody tissues inside the bathroom's trash can."

"Right, I should've remembered that one," I muttered innocently.

"I've told you, you need to be careful," Kai warned gently. "It's dangerous."

"You've told me this beforehand, but you failed to tell me we could communicate with each other during your present at the time." I sneered at him before he got all temperamental on me. I figured he'd outburst at any given second with his brash temper, but to anyone's shocking discovery, he didn't.

He remained quiet until he exhaled his breath lightly through his whisper. "I was wondering when that might happen. I suspected time would have caught up with itself tonight."

"You remember what we talked about?" I questioned him, and he shook his head to confirm that he did.

Dismay uttered from his heart as he looked away from me. "That was the first time you told me you loved me. Imagine my heartache when I found out you loved my worst enemy after I woke up."

"My heart is confused right now, but I meant what I said," I earnestly shared as I turned his face towards me, keeping my palm on his cheek.

"If you meant what you said, perhaps the younger me was easier to love," Kai concluded, sulking his lip, and I didn't know what to say as I dropped my hand.

"Give me more time. I only found out about Orlando." I truthfully shared how I felt.

"You still love him, don't you?" Kai's heart was disheartened when he asked me.

"I love the man that never existed," I clarified, hoping not to hurt him too badly.

Kai growled beneath his chest as he warned. "I hope you've finally learned to stay away from him. He's dangerous. He may not kill you, but he will hurt you."

I smiled heartedly at him and clasped his palm into mine since I understood he wasn't being aggressive with me. Vampires communicate or express themselves with the sounds they rumble beneath their chests.

With a hardened expression, I scolded myself. "After all that's happened, I never wish to see any of them again. I don't wish to love the man he pretended to be. I feel foolish."

"You aren't foolish. I'm truly sorry for what he did to you, but I am glad to hear you finally acknowledged the danger now," Kai responded, squeezing my hand lightly.

"I'm surprised you haven't defeated him," I uttered beneath my breath.

"Trust me. I would've, but we are equally powerful, which makes it harder to defeat him." Kai growled more than truculent to duel Orlando, though he wasn't being belligerent towards me.

"You never had a chance to explain to me how the Mills became your enemies in my time-gap," I mentioned since I was pulled out of my time gap too soon. Too bad Glenn interrupted us in my time gap, or else I would've known.

"There is a lot I need to explain, but it's not something that can be told. It's something that needs to be shown." Kai riddled me, and I was lost at what he meant.

"Could you clarify that a little more clearly, as to where, it makes better sense?" I gave him a dumbfounded expression, and he chuckled.

"We'll need to use your time-gap," Kai simply implied what he meant, and I was surprised.

"I thought you said it was dangerous?" I pointed out.

"It is, but I'll be with you. This way, it will be safer." Kai explained. "But first, you have to know how vampires came into existence."

Before I could emit another word from my voice, he vanished from the bed, and all I saw was the bedroom door open and then it closed.

Minutes later, he returned with a book in his hand as he instructed. "Read Chapter 189 while I go hunt."

"Wait—"

And that fast, he left through the balcony glass doors. Nevertheless, I read the chapter. By the time I had finished the chapter, I found myself puking in the toilet from what I had read.

"I guess you read it." Kai seemed to tease me just as I was flushing the toilet.

"You better have a good point to all this, especially after making me read that chapter!" I snapped at his reflection in the bathroom mirror before I brushed my teeth.

I found out, that at any time during the millennium of the Brightest Blue Moon is to arise, the Headmasters go through a metamorphosis stage that occurs from a dead body that got buried in the ground. To this day, they don't know what compounds or conditions it takes to catalyst it, but what they do know is this; eight Headmaster vampires from every species metamorphosis like a butterfly in every world before the Brightest Blue Moon arises. As if that wasn't baffling enough, I read that the Brightest Blue Moon emerges at the exact same time in all these hidden dimensional worlds.

"I do have a good reason, but for now, I want you to rest because we are going on a journey," Kai concluded.

I stared at him like he had gone bonkers. "A journey to where?"

"To where it all began," Kai unveiled his words. "The place where we were born."

"We?"

Kai smirked. "The very planet from which my Headmaster and Orlando's Headmaster arose. It is the same planet our mothers birthed us at."

"You aren't from Earth?" I gawked at him.

"The Mills and my Coven migrated to Earth because of the war that was carried out three days after my birth," Kai shared. "Though I always felt the Mill Coven followed us for their amusement to pester us before we officially became enemies. Nevertheless, other Covens, including theirs and ours, still fought over territories."

I griped, getting frustrated at him and his riddles. "How does this all come together with you ending up being enemies? Honestly, why would I first need to know how the Headmasters came into existence? You could stop the riddles and tell me!"

Kai laughed before he wrapped his arms around my waist. "After you rest, everything will come together." He smiled, kissing my lips, which currently distracted that anger out of me.