It hurt me to think of Scott. I was so stupid, so naive. He was the main reason why I couldn't come home sooner, the reason I had to stay with Kiah's family until I was 18.
I had met him in Paris, near the Eiffel Tower. I hadn't been out of the house for so long. I chose to roam around Paris because I loved the architecture, and I loved to watch love blossom there. I was 16 and very naive, and fell hard for this light-skinned man with dark auburn hair, who had bright glowing green eyes. There was something about him, almost as if I had known him my whole life. Something compelled me to him. Had I been smart, I would have stayed away.
For the next two weeks after the first night, we had met. It was routine for me to sneak out while Kiah was distracted by his Alpha training with his father. I knew I was putting myself in danger because I was always safe inside the Duchane's walls.
We had walked everywhere we could think of around Paris, talking and getting to know each other. After those two weeks, I still couldn't figure out what it was that had me so compelled to think I was safe with him. Until the last night he was in town, he told me something that he should have kept to himself.
In front of the Eiffel Tower, he stopped and looked at me. "There's something I need to tell you, Yelena, something you're not going to like," I remember his voice feeling like honey running down my skin. Sweet but awfully sticky. I couldn't shake it off, it felt so wrong.
I looked into his eyes, shivering. "What is it?" I replied, trying to keep my voice controlled.
He grabbed my hands in his, and in a very shameful voice, "I'm a vampire Yelena, I was sent here to charm you." He looked at me, his eyes sparkling. "But it seems that it has been me that has been charmed." His eyes started changing from green to red. "I was sent to find you, to kill you, Clive wishes you and your family dead." A deadly smile spread across his face as if he enjoyed putting the fear of death into my mind.
He kept going, "We're not alone here Yelena, I do not wish to kill you, I have to scare you enough for them to believe that I'm going to kill you." He moved closer into my body, slowly leaning down to whisper in my ear. "Your father paid me off, more money than Clive gave me to kill you; your father gave me this."
He was talking so fast I didn't realize that he actually had something in his hand. He handed me a syringe, a small vial, and a letter, on the front was my father's handwriting. I backed away, looking at him, confused and scared.
He continued towards me with his deadly smile still plastered on his face. "I am sorry about this, Yelena, but I think I might have to kill you, no matter how much money I was paid on either end, just because I don't want to die." He said to me, as I watched his fangs elongate.
I realized at that moment that he meant every word. He was going to kill me. He licked his fangs and continued, "You see, I am a very selfish person, when I know my own life is in danger, I will sacrifice anyone in my way."
My eyes were wide with fear, but I finally got the courage enough to continue backing away from him. As scared and nieve I was, I decided that he wouldn't hurt me.
As I walked away from him, two other vampires moved in front of me to stop me. He grabbed my shoulder and turned me around. All I felt was knuckles hitting my jaw, and I was on the ground. He kicked me while on the ground. The next thing I knew, Kiah was by my side.
His voice was like a waking call, smooth and friendly. "Yelena," he said quietly next to my ear, "you're safe now." I felt like I had woken from a nightmare, he was right. I was safe in the protection of his arms.