~~~Gia's POV~~~
I needed some air and it was immediate, I walked out of the hall quickly using my speed I ended the hall and stopped at the other where it was empty. I was breathing quite heavily for a moment before I started crying like the child I was, I pinned my back to the wall shaking frantically as I slid down against the wall sitting on my heels. I buried my face in my palms as I wept bitterly not really worried about having my makeup mess all over my face.
"You can weep like a baby or face them. Take a chance to save your friends not like I failed to save mine" Lucinda was standing in front of me looking down at me with her eyes in sympathy
"I don't want to be like my father" I said as she helped me up
"Nobody said you should be like him but again not all can be saved" I sniveled regaining my composure cleaning my face with the napkin she handed to me
"You mean we should go to war?" my heart skipped a beat as I said that out loud
"Some decisions have to be made with a compromise Gia" she smiled lightly before leaving me there, I really felt trapped now. Not being imprisoned in an unknown place but being clueless. I cannot compromise my friends because of what he wants but neither could I break Jake's heart to mother a vampire lord's child. I needed to think of something more beneficial to him than this, I have had enough of this already.
"Everyone is anticipating your return to the hall with an answer" Cassuis said coming right in front of me
"So this is what you planned all along? That's why you decided not to kill me? What's this going to benefit you or your coterie?" I inched towards him while his face in a fragment of time looked confused before he looked up into my eye again
"You can always propose a plan" I spiked and I couldn't hold it any longer, I seized him by the collar and connected his back with the wall behind me making it crack and break all the way to the top of it. I felt intense heat evolve inside of me as I held him there with my hand wrapped lightly around his neck and the other on his chest, that heat was a warning for me to stop tapping into my power. Since after he poisoned me I had to strain so much to heal the human male that left earlier. My skin felt like it would sizzle and crisp off of me, and my gaze swam every three second interval as I was now trying so hard to cast out the poison in him; the weapon he holds against me—to keep me on his leash.
Even with that at stake, I could only get a little of my power active for if I go any further I wouldn't be able to stand on my feet. His eyes grew wider as I kept him there, he groaned in pain while trying to mask it he reached to be his demonic self again blood, suddenly started creeping to the corner of his mouth as he coughed really loud as he attained his vampire looks. I decided to go fully—to the max of my ability at the unfortunate situation of my lowered ability, I couldn't be able to keep him in place if I didn't. I let myself crash inside him seeking for anything that was out of place while he kept bleeding from the corner of his mouth making him roar, indefinitely his knees weakened and he griped my wrist as he slowly started going down. I could equally feel that oppressive pressure against my chests again but I didn't stop
Right there as my focus wasn't really sharp at the moment and neither was my strength, a body crashed into me. Freeing Cassuis from my grip, as soon as I stopped tapping into my power I couldn't have it anymore to stand, like i sucked out of my body so I fell limp in his body. It was Damien again holding me off against him, my head rested on his chest while he simply looked down at me before I heard Lord Orpheus talk furiously
"Get her out of here immediately!" he ordered
"Right away" Damien answered as he lifts me off my feet completely I lost consciousness
I jerked awake; waking up like a frightening call was made with my name. I pushed the lot of my hair back before I realized I was put out of my party dress and was in pair of lingerie. I slowly lay myself back in the bed with a deep sigh running fingers through my hair as I was up yet again with a splitting headache while I contended over the event that got me to lose consciousness.
'I hope I completely got the poison out of him'
"How are you feeling now your majesty?" I didn't hear her come in the room but as I rose to sit in the bed I found that Christina was standing by the foot of my bed again. I slumped back into the bed pulling the sheet over my form before turning on my side
"I need some more if you don't mind it" I said yawning, I really felt exhausted but I wasn't in any sort of pain or had any hallucinations. Did I feed on him again?
"But you need to have some breakfast"
"You can keep it aside, thank you Christina" I heard her step to my bedside and kept it there
"Did Cassuis−was I fed blood last night?" I asked quietly but instead of an answer it was all to quiet in the room. I looked over my shoulder and right at my gaze was now fixed on Lord Orpheus, hands locked behind him, stern gaze and for the first time seeing him in something not official; pants suit and a casual dress. I slowly sat up holding against my body the sheet I covered myself in, the silence was awkward especially the manner he was looking at me
"About yesterday, I know I might have caused some troubles but" I shut up with a gasp as he was just right there sitting beside me, it still makes me feel jumpy when that happens
"Using your powers at this stage can and will prove disadvantageous to you" he stated simply bringing his hand forward, I didn't flinch away but simply looked as he did. I suddenly took note of a presence inside not just to my body but it dragged across my spirit. My eyes widen as I took note of his deepen eye color. As soon as he took his hand away I asked almost impatiently
"What was that?"
"Pure bloods have abilities of their own but it's so shallow compared to your kinds" he stood to his feet afterwards and I followed suit dragging off the first sheet as I did, wrapping some of it around me
"What do you need me for?" although I have heard of the plan last night I wanted to understand more about 'Bonding ceremony' was it what I was thinking?
"My years of fertility are gone but you are fruitful and can bear my child. My bloodline will be the most powerful in history" I felt staggered at first came it came easily to him that I would agree to such a thing, it's not that I would be getting wedded to a vampire lord that was thousands of years older than me or that I was doing this for the sake of peace it was because I couldn't dare bent my heart towards someone else other than Jake at the moment.
"Why do you think I will agree to that while all you ever wanted was not to have another kind of me working the planet?" it only seem that factual at the moment I didn't want to have an issue where I would have to give my child a future like mine
"No one will dare to look in the direction of my progeny, I can assure that and this will be like a treaty with you and my kind. You will be free"
"Is that really what you want with me?"
"All I want is more power, I don't have to rule over all creatures with you here. After my progeny, again no one will follow after you. You will have my protection as the mother of my child" His face brightened to his words
I blinked twice the tip of my tongue working against the inside of my chin nervously. His eyes didn't show any duplicity and neither did his gaze shook off me; it sounded promising but yet again there was this tinged with their race. Furthermore if anything goes south, they would be still at the deceiving end; because seeing my current position I might be more favorable to werewolves than to them that is when I decided the legacy of my father's was what I would follow suite, don't they think of the terminal risks they were taking by granting me freedom to rule over them or live at all? No I have to think about this deal well.
After indulging in my thoughts, almost getting lost he spoke once more
"Ofcourse, you are welcomed to think it through" He darted across the room to me, gently he pressed his lips over my forehead and then leaned back.
"I need to see them!" It's been two days and I don't know the condition of Hunter, Jake or his pack and it's important I get them out or grant their freedom back just like I promised before.
"Yes of course. They are yours too" he smirked before leaving shutting the door behind him. I dropped back in the bed burying my face in my palms
'What have I gotten myself into?' I remembered when Jake and ruby pressed I think it over but at the moment I thought I had control that I could be able to risk it but now I could only feel fear all the time. I heard the door open and the clap of a flat heel notified me that Christina was back in the room. I sighed deeply before looking up at her clicking my tongue
"Nothing but jeans and a top"