Her face even though I only saw it once was hard to forget. She was beautiful even right now with the murderous glare she was handing to me. A face like that was hard to forget. I was lost in her hateful emerald gaze, the others bowed in her presence and that alone was enough to tell me this woman was one of high standing.
"Hello human," she spit out the word like poison. All I did was look at her as it hit me. She killed Maria, and she wanted to kill me but why? I moved into a sitting position and stared at her in equal measures of wonder and hate. Talk about psycho b*tch. "What do you want from me?" I asked her, with all the courage and defiance I could muster. She seemed taken aback bit quickly recovered. "I remember you, from the carnival. So you're telling me you went through all this trouble to kill someone who simply stared at your boyfriend or whatever he is?"
She believed I was human where as I knew she was anything but. If she believed I was human then should have been nothing more than a misunderstanding and she didn't know my bloodline. Good. My train of thought was broken by her high pitched humorless laughter, the woman looked crazy in a scary way. "Boyfriend?" "Is that what you think this is about, me obsessing over a male?" Her face took on one of fury and her eyes flashed crimson. Oh no. This was bad, very very bad.
"Filthy little human, sure you're right in a sense but your assumption is wrong. I was there that day when you locked eyes with him and no supernatural being would be dumb enough not to know that look," she said dead serious. I gulped, if she knew who I was to that stranger then there was no denying it and the fact that she could know more. "I was enraged at the thought of my own son being mated to a race worse than those wild dogs."
She knelt down beside me and touched the side of my face. My heart was like a jackhammer in my chest, "even though you're decent looking for human filth I still couldn't allow it. Nothing other than my own kind can mate with him. I was going to have you killed until I had my men dig deeper and oh what a spectacle it was." Her hand dragged down my cheek cutting me and drawing blood, but I didn't hiss. instead I spat in her face.
"Shut up you blood sucking leech!" She punched me square in the jaw. "It was enough for me to assume you were human but being a mutt, that takes the cake," she said and grabbed my chin making me looking her in her now blood red eyes. "I could have reported this and had you killed. The Lycaon family actually having a hybrid child and hiding it among human? simply priceless." I thought about it, she was right. She could have reported my family the moment she found me and instead she took her sweet time in attempting to end me herself, why?
"You must be wondering why not just go to the council; well dog, I hate your family more than your entire species combined. I would rather end you myself, having my revenge and ridding my son of canine filth like you in one fell swoop." She laughed "That would be ideal yes but you know what would be better little wolf pup, Using you as bait to bring dear old daddy here and killing him right along with you, I killed his first wife, I killed your mother because they both laid down their lives for him and now the king of dogs would get what's coming to him."
My eyes grew wider than I could possibly imagine and fear raced through my veins along with my blood. She planned to use me to kill my father and if my father was coming there was a good chance Alec and Alexi would too. I wss going to lead my family to their deaths. My tough act crumbled, "please, you think they care?" "The only reason they haven't killed me is because my mother asked them to, they don't care and they won't come."
It was a dumb plan but better than nothing, if she believed they didn't care about me then maybe she'd just kill me only. Dear gods please. "Oh?" "Sweetie, I did a full background check on you and your family cares about you more than they care to admit so trying to play lamb for the slaughter won't help you."
She stood and took her leave, not before telling her lackeys to do as they please but keep me alive. It was my fault, because if I never stared at her son for so long she wouldn't have known. I already had Maria's blood and that of her comrades on my hands and now I would have the blood of my father and possibly brothers as well.
I fell apart retreating into my head like when I was a child. tears rolled down my cheeks as I thought about anything and everything but the storm looming over me. She mentioned my mother, no one ever did. All I knew was I looked just like her and that she was a witch. I didn't know she was dead until now and of course I mourned the mother I had never known.
I don't know how long I stayed out of touch with reality; it could have been hours or minutes, but I do know my luxury ended when I received a kick to the gut and it knocked the wind out of me. I hated vampires, they were ruthless, conniving, selfish, lying and reckless predators. The few times humanity has discovered us was their fault. I have and always will despise the dirty leeches. They were an abomination in my opinion created only for chaos. It's a miracle their kind even knew what love was.
"You must be proud of yourselves for attacking and murdering children, then again you're vampires; the scum of us all. heartless and soulless monsters, you can all go to hell!" I spat, I wasn't going to die being weak in front of these things. Never.
I was about to throw another comment at their leech faces when the quiet one picked me up and threw me over his shoulder, walking out with me. He was walking slower than the others, almost deliberately. when they turned at the corner he stopped walking completely and set me down. He looked at me with cold crimson eyes but they held no hostility like before. "I'm here on his royal highness' order to monitor his mother's actions; I haven't yet had a chance to contact him so he is unaware of everything that has happened until this point; but as soon as I am able to I will inform him of her plans and find a way to get you out of here alive but I cannot promise the same for whomever is coming to save you my lady."
I stared at him as he bowed slightly, a strange warm feeling blossomed in my chest and I'm sure this is what they called the mate bond but it was soon crushed. He was a vampire, a filthy leech like them all.
We heard footsteps and he proceeded to throw me over his shoulder again before the person turned the corner. The halls were deathly silent, making my thoughts louder than they needed to be. It had to be a few minutes before he stopped at a door and when we walked through, it wasn't much different from the previous one.
He threw me to the floor and even though it was all an act, I couldn't help but be pissed. Royally pissed. I stood up and was about to give him a piece of my mind when something in my peripheral vision caught my eye and I froze. That wasn't something, but someone...
"Dad?"