Chapter 245: Grave mistake (3)
Phillip ignored Cassandra and focused on the vampire she had injured. She was as foolish as Bryce said she had become, and when he received word she wanted to kill Gabriel, the church knew if this got out, their plans would be ruined.
The priests needed to silence Cassandra before she said too much.
"I hope you don’t mind that I was unable to attend the wedding. Things got a little busy at home. I had hoped Cassandra was being a good wife to make up for my absence," Phillip said, finally peering down at Cassandra.
Cassandra gulped, more willing to test her luck with Gabriel than to go with Phillip.
Phillip smiled when he looked at Cassandra, but Cassandra had been around him long enough to know he only smiled when he was angry. She had messed up plenty of times in the past to know it.
Cassandra looked down at the floor. She had messed up, but the church did need this to finally move ahead with their plans. She could only hope they would forgive her and understand why she did this.
"Who are you?" Gabriel questioned, angry his guards and servants let a stranger get this far.
What confused Gabriel even more was what the stranger wore. It reminded him of the priests in the churches wore, but he had never seen a uniform with the cross pendant, and all the priests wore white. The man before him wore black.
"I’m the one who raised your wife. I found her at the side of the road, barely alive after her parents were killed by vampires. I took her in and gave her food and a place to rest. I did what I could to keep her alive, and in the end, this is how she repaid me," Phillip said, disappointed.
Phillip had done so much for Cassandra, yet she couldn’t have stayed by Gabriel’s side quietly until it was time for her to kill him.
"You," Gabriel said, not believing his eyes. This didn’t look like the man he saw when Cassandra left her old home to come here. "You don’t look the same."