Still with his hand on my scruff, my heart was scrunched up in pain as it was palpitating, for a second I forgot Cassuis was the one that brought me into this and actually trusted his word over Jake's. This is my entire fault, Cassuis played me
"Thank you my lord"
"What have you done?" I requested my voice laced in so much pain and anger
"I made allies with the winning side, your cause was weak and not to mention the hatred I have had towards you for centuries. I couldn't just let go off that to help you against my master, you are even more foolish than I thought"
"So the pretend bite was actually a poison in your system, it will render you useless because you cannot use your powers for a while"
"You will regret this Cassuis," I threatened as I tried to lunge at Cassuis or at least foil Lord Orpheus and tear them both apart. Since being subdued by the foolish weaponry Cassuis acquired I couldn't do much damage to lord Orpheus after I was bitten
"No," Lord Orpheus interrupted in his deep voice ringing in the empty space but louder in my head
"No but you will do as I demand if you want your friend's heads on their bodies or what is the best way to grand a werewolf a really painful death. I know quite a few" Lord said in a really soft and calm tone which rather made it even more evil reaching my ears. The effects of the poison was starting to wear off or it was pure rage that drove me out of his grip easier than I thought
"I'm saying this for the last time; if you touch a hair on him or anyone else I will end you in the most dreadful way possible" I was still barely keeping on two feet staring at both of them murderously
"I have heard you can be really dangerous. Let's get to the matter at hand, shall we?" he pointed towards the door Jake and the others were taken out of
"First you need to get comfortable"After a brief walk down the hall came a spiral stairs lord Orpheus took first then me and Cassuis getting up the first five wasn't really hard until I got on the sixth I thought the stairs were changing seeing that I was in a fairy tale world like in the movie Harry potter but it was actually me swaying and slowly falling backwards, if it weren't for Cassuis whom was closely behind I would have fallen off which I would prefer. Both his hands were clasped to my shoulders
"I think the poison is at the peak of its work. It's going effortless from here" he pointed out delightfully in my ears, I could also feel his smile accompanied by a chuckle
"If it was indeed true that I survived such a height while just few minutes olds baby, I shouldn't have a worry for this" a throat full cough escaped my mouth right after
"Oh Cassuis, don't get too handy with her" Lord Orpheus turned around looking both of us with a plain smile
"I beg your pardon my lord, her highness will have to skip the imperative meeting now that is if you want her alive by sunrise"
Still in his grip of support as I could clearly not be able to walk from the dizziness and staggering pain in every inch of my body; I breathe heavily for ease, I wasn't going to present weak. He deliberated for a short while before answering
"I need her with no support tomorrow. Get her to the allotted accommodation"
"I need to get this over with,"
Before I could finish I was off my feet into Cassuis's arms locking me against his chest, it instantly felt familiar. That night in his castle at the early stage of reversing the suppressant, I fell down the stairs and I was saved and fed blood by someone. All this while I was under the impression that it was Damien but it was him−Cassuis
He walked pass lord Orpheus whom slid aside so we can walk through and simply didn't follow after; I guess he trusts Cassuis more than he should actually do. The second floor hall was longer he didn't even halt until we reached the end of it and there in the corner was a double door staying still awaiting my arrivalAll the while not keeping eyes contact with me he slowly looked down with a face of morning or was it guilt or anger I can't really be sure
"You might want to help with the door" it was like the world around my head muted because I hardly heard he said if I weren't looking in his face. My hand very shaky reached out to the long, golden unique door handle design and pushed inside but it didn't open so I tried pullingThe air in the room was thin, cold and smell was good, of all my life I had never seen such a magnificent room décor. The room was set in a while, golden and a shade of brown collage probably to my honor because I cannot think vampires without red or black representing their thirst and lack of soul. The bed was five times the one I have been imprisoned before or maybe it was the effects of the poison but it was huge and opposite to it was a dresser and few feet from the adjacent to the door was another door and this time there is a really huge window.
The wallpaper was of a floral design of big and small sizes of mostly gold white and brown adjourned with painting. Cassuis proceeded towards the bed putting me down propping my head on a warm soft pillow As soon as I was laid I felt a lot more worst, it was like I was slowly sinking into the really soft bed and my head was being compressed so making it hard to focus my gaze but all that couldn't keep me away from asking
"It was you. The night, the stairs, you could have easily let me die"
"I know," he said still in the electronic comic voice I kept hearing. He sat himself by me propping his suit jacket and then slowly leaning into my face.
"I could have easily ended you, even now," he said letting his eyes fall below my face and then back on my gaze before continuing
"Even now but miscellaneous plans have been made for you, your lordship"
"Don't call me that" I exclaimed in a voice I hardly even recognize myself, his face crept in a sneer but I was in so much pain to mind his behavior towards me
"What is happening to my voice?" I asked right after I felt a snarling pain across my chest. He stood before answering in his usual tone
"Not just your voice your majesty, I wish to watch your inside turn out but then again," he paused pulling at the sleeve of his jacket and biting into his wrist and I could almost instantly recognize the smell of his blood
"I am not taking your blood," although in this staggering pain I was also surprised at how adamant and how talkative I had been, each time I do it was like ripping my throat out
"Oh rather you must take my blood your majesty, that is if you wish to save your dear friends" he clucked with a crooked smile, I was too adamant and that I just turned my head away from him, I heard him make a sound behind his throat before muttering 'pride'
"My blood is the end to your miserable state; I will just keep it here. If you happen to change your mind"
"But you don't have a lot of time to think, that ability will soon seize for you and you will be in a far mush misery worse than your dying father had"
There I wanted to say a lot but I couldn't open my mouth I heard his footsteps before the door closed. He had left me and I could finally scream out in pain and so I did. My whole form was shivering frantically even to make the bed shake not any that have happened before, I might have been convulsing too. My vision was clouding up as something keep running out of my eyes and then she came. Elisabeth came for me as she had always known my pain and dealt with it.
"Mom" I called out in between moans. She sat on the bed with a smile I know so well and placed a hand on my forehead.
"You will get through this too. You are stronger than I could ever be" her voice was very soft, angelic if I must say
"Please don't leave me alone again" Out Lenora popped in my vision standing in the same clothing I first saw her in and then I saw the glint of the gun she was holding, nozzle depressed.
"No,"
"Mom behind you" I said gulping in pain while Elisabeth was still calm with the smile on her face patting my head lightly so I could go to sleep while my heart was breaking out of my chest. Lenora's hand holding the gun rose to the side of my mother's head pressing it against her, she must have felt that but she wasn't reacting
"NO, no, no, no…"
"Mom" I yelled as Lenora pulled the trigger blowing Elisabeth's head open, blood and brain matter flew in the air to my face and body. I was immediately in tears screaming my pain of losing her for the second time to the same murderous plot. I was still unable to move due to the pain in my body but mostly because I couldn't, I could still see Lenora standing there in content looking down at my mother's still body. I felt the rage all over again tightening my muscles with my heavy chest and struggled breathing
"I will pull out all of the bones in your body before your wrenched heart" I screamed with a surge of power then they are all gone and I was alone again in the middle of the high way in my clothes from that night but the accident wasn't there, just me and the ever dark skies.
"Mom," I called walking around in circles not the ones in my head maybe something will happen but I just saw Jake on his knees far much bloodied than I last saw him
"Oh my God,"
"Jake what happened?" I rushed to him reaching to touch him before he spoke making me halt
"You promised nothing would happen to me, you killed us"
"No Jake, what are you talking about?" I asked right before my eyes he faded into the air. My heart skipped a thousand beat and my chest tighten from the adrenaline rush
"Jake! Jake!" I ran as fast as I could but it seemed I had no powers, just my regular human body Hunter popped in from of me just few feet in between us looking at me hopelessly and also bloodied. With a lot of guilt suppressing my airway
"Hunter" as soon as I called out his name he vanished too
"No" I tried to get to his slowly fading body and then I was pulled out back into Lord Orpheus castle's room. I could barely see anything but I knew Cassuis blood was sitting on the bedside what I had to do was reach out and have some. With a lot of effort I managed to extend my arm to the cup but being frantically shaken from the effects of the poison I knocked the cup off the bedside instead onto the floor. Just like the air Cassuis was now standing there looking down at the probable pool of his blood that I spilled. He was now changed into a new tux and probably bathed too
"Quite some blood you spilled" "I need to save them" I said shaking under my breathe groaning painfully as It was a plead for I needed his blood right away. I initially plan to wait the effects out but after that nightmare I couldn't wait see Hunter's or Jake's head roll before I could be fine again.He simply too his black top jacket off rolled off his sleeve and unbuttoned his shirt, if I were anywhere near Elisabeth she would have rated this PG and close my eyes but there I had no any other option than to take from the person I come to hate so much. He sat by me his fangs erecting before biting into his inner wrist
"At your service," he crooked smiled again but that too couldn't mask the distaste for me in his tone The scent of his blood was a million times stronger this time maybe because I desperately wanted some of it or because it was so familiar that I was getting my decree clouded by its scent either way he placed his opened wrist on my lips. I immediately clasp both my fist on his arm so I could be in control letting my lips apart his blood instantly ran down my mouth, the rest of my unspontaneous reaction got enveloped in the hankering his blood made me feel. Being evolved now, I had slightly sharper and extended incisors more than an average human's and so they peers into his flesh quiet easily making him moan silently but louder than my painful moans.
Sucking at his skin as I continuously bite through his blood tasted just the same as the night in his castle but just a slight after taste that I took notice in, probably resulting from the added substance in his blood to do away with my misery. The goodness that followed after his blood was liberating, it was a sunset dive into the rivers of heavens or a walk in a scented garden with my parents. Feeling of unbeatable elation overshadowed whatever I have been feeling earlier but with all that a little bit of Gia was there promising to take only a handful of his blood to subside the effects of the poison alas I couldn't get my mouth away instead I switched position from his wrist to the neck in a swift motion getting on both my knees for better control.
He was equally staggered as I was judging from his surprised gasp to a deep moan after my lips touched his skin before my incisors penetrating his flesh. A very deep alluring sound escaped from me as I take in the blood directly from his primary vein, keeping in mind the beat of his heart like a mind-altering call that was now speeding up Feeding from a body I hate so much shouldn't be as amusing as I perceived, the principled Gia's voice didn't approve being it so superficial in my head, I only found myself holding on to the side of his neck. I was already regaining some of my energy now, his hands got up from the side of my body to the center of my back pushing me against his body completely. In the heat of the moment, Cassuis pulled me away from his neck using a handful of my hair and immediately I noticed his red glowing eyes and a hunger filled in ecstasy, he was breathing heavily his mouth slightly apart. In the splitting second I could see resistance trying to brew in his eyes however still he absent mindedly crashed his lips into my red coated ones. He grabbed on my lower lip first in a hungry manner and the hot stream of air from his nose flowed to my face, and an arousal bulge pushed against my lower stomach as he tried to dominate the situation although I was partly out of control myself in a second of realization of his soft lips against mine the feeling of desirable pleasure faded to disgust and anger, I was fast on pushing him off consequently pinning him against the wall.
With one hand on his bare chest trailed by thin line of blood resulting from his open neck and the other on the wall while his was on my lower back, he didn't take it away or try to move out of the lock although he was capable. I was still very weak as indicated from the shaking of my legs from the sudden movement. I looked at his face firmly although my vision was still like viewing into a fish bowl slightly to his blood coated neck; I force myself to agreeing I had enough of his tangy blood. So he kept him gaze unmoving from my form which made me feel a little unsettled
"Thank you for your kind service," I said out of breathe in a surprisingly less exhausted tone. His crimson eyes turned to their normal dark color in turn also regaining back his lost control. I saw the shock in his face for a moment as he removed his hand from my waist before as usual showing he's never vulnerable by putting on his smirking face again. I took my hand away from his chest not knowing it was serving as stamina, I swayed before tipping backwards but managed not to fall
"It seems you haven't had enough" Still breathing quite heavily while he gained almost all of his composure I still didn't move watching his bloodied shirt collar."If you don't mind, I need to hibernate" I looked away from his neck He pulled out a handkerchief from his pants pocket and hand it to me unfolded
"You've got a little something,"