I reach to touch my lips and retreated straightaway from doing so, it's unscrupulous. I do hate Cassuis a lot and just this couldn't change a thing especially not how I feel about him, he betrayed my trust and I could never overlook that. I only felt something for a second and because it was natural at the given situation and I was sure it was same with him. He has been claiming loathing me for centuries and this happened only because vampire's emotions are heightened especially while feeding, that was it. I let his handkerchief fall out of my grip and walked back to the bed cleaning the corner of my mouth with my thumb, I was truly exhausted and still in throbbing pain but I wasn't hallucinating or out of control.
Jake and Hunter were at stake and a bunch more, I couldn't dare think of losing them to Cassuis or his royal Lord. I could march over their corpses to get to them out of captivity if that's what it would take, war or not whichever Lord Orpheus chooses but not even that sheer determination and worry could keep me awake and away from the repeated nightmare of feeding from Cassuis; even wilder than it actually happened. It was either morning or I was tired of the repeated nightmare. I blinked opened with a really sharp headache, muscle strain and feeling of a hangover. I sat up slowly meeting my gaze was a neatly dressed middle aged looking slender woman, hands crossed over her stomach.
She had her hazel hair in a professional bun corresponding to her formal wear; a woman tux and knee skirt. I could have though she was an accountant or secretary
"I'm here to get you ready dinning with his royal highness"
"Ok, but" I said while standing up
"Follow me," she immediately turned to the next door in the room opening up the door for me and holding it with the most straight face I had never seen. She must be the first person not to hold grudges against me or put the blame of their current hiding existence on me or she must be really good at hiding her emotions.
Her face was blank of emotion, or perceived anything from her stance but just the sense of responsibility I get from her to get me fixed for the show. I entered before her into a walked in closet, array of clothes put in hangers' one side of male and the other of female. It must have arose from the confusion of which gender I belonged in, I followed into another door astonished of the sections of assorted fancy clothing that I would never wear and heightened shoes or different styles, straps, and height that I will surely pop my knees and ankles with and then the door patiently waiting for me at the end of the walk path, I entered was a neatly kept bathroom with a bath tub just for one and the sink from aside it and a toilet seat far ahead
"You are required to freshen up first," she pointed
"Of course," I nodded. The bathroom had everything I would need for my bath so I started right ahead as she exists. I stripped out of my stinking clothing and into the filling tub sitting in with a sigh of delight. I washed my hair and body to my heart's content scrubbing at every inch of me until I was red, I wrapped myself in a towel covering just most of my private parts, I brushed my teeth with the newly laid toothbrush and exited finding the formally dressed woman in the closet picking out many outfits
"Forgive me my lady. The name is Christina, let's put you in something" she said all avoiding eye contact. I remembered Christine my only friend, well was my friend. They must have gave up on looking for me by now
"You know who I'm supposed to be right?" I just had to ask, it felt weird that she doesn't just want to pull out my heart that instant.
"Yes I have heard stories about the king of war and his lost child. Supposedly she's you but I don't bare any enmity towards you. It's my fiftieth year being this form my lady"
"You can just address me as Gia, how did this happen? How did you become a vampire?" I asked while we both exit the closet and there standing at front with both hands behind the back yet again in a formal wear. I don't know what's up with the vampires and formal wear but it was getting under my skin, Christina wasted no time in leaving us after carefully placing down the outfits on the bed. Being less of a human every day I wasn't as conscious about appearing at the presence of over a millennium old man especially that I was almost close to being naked and that he had a glint in his eyes that was so unpleasant.
"You positively look better and less angry too" he commented
"What do you want now?" In one quick motion he closed the distance between us reaching his hand to my wet cheek caressing it before slowly bringing it down to my lower lip tracing over the outline of my lip with his thumb, I didn't break my eye contact either just watching him intently.
"Before I hated your father I loved his free sense of nature, style, fearless and witty alas," he took his hand away and turned around"I heard of a dinning thing. I just hope it wouldn't be disappointing like your trusted kindred hosted" with a deep chuckle he turned around and simply walked towards me again. He pulled me by the waist pressing me against him lightly
"I promise your utmost entertainment just be there in time," he assured disappearing Oh how I hated him too, I don't care whether or not he enjoyed my father because I equally hated the man. I was just holding back because I still haven't figured out where exactly my friends are and this castle isn't like the one I was kept in before. This was enormous
Christina got right in after helped me select some clothes because they were all waiting and ready for their guest of honor. Apparently Lord Orpheus had already chosen a suitable hair style to show case my godly mark
"You are not putting me in that right?" I cringed at a purely red low backless dress of many cutouts that Christina was holding up my face. I wouldn't mind wearing it if I were to go for a date with some cute guy but not to a vampire meeting specifically that I still don't know the agenda of.
"It wouldn't hurt to try your highness" I protested like a child while she handed it overI dropped the towel right there not really minding that somebody was in the room with me neither did she mind, I got myself into the dress and Christina helped me zip up.
"That looks absolutely astonishing" her jaw was nearly dropping while still fixed to my direction
"Me or the dress?" I asked
"Look in the mirror" So I misjudged the dress while laid on the bed. I was speechless for a while just staring down my new found body curves that I never knew I had in my jeans and shirt. With my hair already done swept to one side in a large curl to the end resting on one shoulder, hair pins keeping it in perfection and my face in a light make up, plum lipstick and a light shadowed eyes, ears adorned in a pearl chandelier ear rings. Against my pale skin the red dress popped showing its beauty especially with the side cuts, my breasts showing from the slightly deep V-cut and a high slit exposing my skinny legs giving me a little bit of height was the black strapped sandals about 10mm high, no any accessory was needed around my neck apart from my dad's gift. I loved it but overall it was too much mainly for a possible blood bath run
"No, I'm changing this,"
"I'm afraid there is no time for that," Cassuis remarked standing by the door