They found me.
It was the first thought that crossed my mind as soon as I regained consciousness.
I struggled to force my eyes open as the van I was being driven in halted in front of a gigantic mansion.
My abductors smelt and looked gravely pale even through my blurry vision.
"Hey, get the boy, Laura. The rest of you should take care of getting the others inside. The governors will have a blast today."
The boy? The others?
I couldn't ponder over my thoughts, because Laura was on me the next second, a chuckle leaving her red lips as she pushed me to the cold floors.
For the second time that night.
It hurt like a bitch being tossed around like a piece of meat.
This pain was excruciating, more than I could bear, more than I could wish on anybody.
.
"Hey, move it. Don't be such a girl and attempt to die on me before I've had the privilege of showing them the present I have okay?"Laura chuckled and moved towards me with that superhuman speed, her stilettos digging into my butt.
Fuck, I was sweating and shivering of cold and mentally cursing more than I've done all my life.
"Giddy up, boy. Move it."
I forced myself upwards, gritting my teeth as my eyes made the mistake of turning towards the van beside ours.
They were dragging bodies through the cold floors, laughing as they dragged them by the arm, effortlessly pushing their injured bodies into an open door.
"What the fuck you're looking at? Want me to drag you that way? Get your tushy moving or I drain you."
I didn't understand Laura's statement, nor was I stupid enough to stop once I heard that venomous tone in her voice.
Cold slammed harshly into my chest as soon as I stepped into those dark gigantic doors which shimmered like the footprints of blood on the floors.
There was music so loud it was vibrating through my head and increasing my migraine, but that was nothing compared to the image of the most creepy party.The interior design of the mansion was built with floor to ceiling glass windows and curtains which were currently stained with blood.
They held and sipped at glasses of fresh blood, and some of them were divided into groups, their clothes discarded as they engaged in orgies.
As they fucked those sweaty bodies and swung them around like a pair of ragdoll, their teeth were buried on different parts of their bodies, latching on them.
Straws of long fangs and razor-sharp finger nails used in tearing bodies apart.
I was disgusted and repulsed as I realised so late, what exactly was going on here and who these people were...
Fucking bloody vampires.
Hell, they were drinking from those who had been taken like me.
What would happen to me?
"Fuck, if you weren't a special treat for the king, I would have taken you now. Your pure virgin blood fucking turns me on."Laura said behind me.
A trail of wetness accompanied her words as she swiped her tongue against my neck.
Everything in me hated her and something beastly which I hadn't felt since the time I watched my mother die, wanted to rip her apart.
I wanted to snap, something was building inside me and threatening to break free.
A few steps later filled with the disturbing sounds of moans and grunts, I was away from the party.
Security officers with pale skin and similar hunky features stood on each end of the hall, hissing hungrily as I walked slowly past them.
Somehow I understood fear more with each step I took towards the deathly silent hall.
Fear...
Terror...
A chilling aura enveloped me.
It was more, stronger than all the feelings I had whenever I thought of my mother's death.
By the time we were two steps away from the expansive doors in regal black and red, my feet had chosen to stop moving.
I was shivering beyond control and my heartbeat was so high even Laura gasped beside me.
Without attempting to say a word to me, the bitch swiped her card and as soon as the doors slid open, I was picked up and flung against the wall of the dark room.
Fuck...
Fuck...
I wanted to die.
The pain I experienced wasn't bearable, especially as my head went flying first, the sound of my bone kissing the wall so violently obvious to my own ears.
"You do know how to make an entrance in a way that pleases me, Laura."
Efortless brutality and authority dripped from words spoken without any attempt to intimidate.
That raspy quality of wicked allure had me crumbling into a ball, my limbs painful and lungs destroyed by the impact of that hit.
Laura stepped in with those high stilettos she had dug into my ass, her leather pants hugging slender thighs and expansive hips. "I only aim to please, your highness."
The dimness of the light made me see mere silhouettes of fast moving people.
There had been other people in the room apart from the king before we came in, females who smelt of warmth and were very much alive.
It didn't take time to realise that they were humans, completely nude.
They hadn't also expressed any surprise when I was thrown against the wall, but had chuckled.
How fucked up could this night get exactly?
Laura ran her fingers through the King's, seductively.
"We brought you a little surprise. The doctor was gone by the time we got there so we took all the neighbours, but guess what we didn't expect to see? A piece of meat he had been conversing with over the years. Seems they were planning to run away tonight or something; the boy had his bag packed and all. The doctor must have been keeping a son secret from the rest of his little family."
Oh fuck. I...I wasn't his son but a whimper could only leave my lips when I wanted to speak.
I was grateful that he had managed to run but now I was caught in the middle of this and...
"Interesting. Get out, all of you Go service my governors at the party and get good information for me. Lights!"
Within minutes, the lights came on fully and the girls gathered torn garter belts and pantyhose, their small tits swaying as their hurriedly wore heels, the doors shutting as they left us alone.
Thick wetness rolled down my face, covering a part of my eye, and I realised when my palm touched it, that it was my own blood.
And hell, the two vampires smelt it immediately, their burning stares making me turn away from them as I struggled to keep something from breaking free inside of me.
Snarls, hisses sounded as I found myself against the wall again in the space of a few minutes, rough capable fingers wrapping around my throat.
I was going to die, drained of all blood and discarded somewhere and no one was going to look for me.
Yet my senses could only take in the aroma of pure masculinity, and my delicate throat groped with such strength could only wish for his touch.
To be choked into submission.It was the first physical contact that hadn't repulsed me in years and my eyes opened, struck by the gripping attractive pull I was having towards him.
I saw him in the light for the first time; cruel beauty and sculpted bronze features highlighted by chiselled jaw and silver eyes.
His beauty was evil and the coldness of his heart so chilling it washed my skin in the rays of goosebumps.
Then he parted his arresting sensual lips and bared his fangs in fury...
For the first time in my life, I experienced sexual attraction and it was so potent I shivered for another reason in his arms.
I couldn't understand what was happening to me; the need to bury my face in his cold chest and seek warmth in a heart dead as a grave.
Nor did I understand the words he spoke next through gritted teeth that reeked of fury.
"This is no boy, nor a fucking ward of the doctor."
"Wha... Your highness?"
My lips parted as my eyes widened immediately, my body rendered numb the moment he let go of me and in the next second, yanked the top of my hoodie and pulled it apart.
Then he muttered the next words, chilling me to death.
"You fucking brought me a werewolf! A damn she-wolf!"
Of all the most arrogant and infuriating bastards... How dared he startle me by using his vampiric abilities to swiftly stand behind me? And in the name of all that was the very most unholy, his breath was tickling my ears, his potent strength and cologne making to destroy my resolve. But because I had a mission against this man, and had the awareness that he had done this to get a reaction from me, I forced a smile, taking a step away from him. "Yes, your highness." It was his turn to express surprise, and I held my chin as I gauged his reaction, my blood boiling with adrenaline, heart pounding, and wolf leaping. Sometimes I wished to put my wolf to a long sleep so she wouldn't ruin my plan. And finally, Xavier cocked his infuriating magnificent head to the side, "Well, come in then." But added as soon as Beta William made to follow me, his guards suddenly putting a distance between me and my beta. "No, only she goes in." I saw fury flash through the beta's eyes and shook m
"But grandfather...""It does not matter whether you were infuriated by his words, you went through royal school for four years to learn how to control your emotions! You think I don't want to rip the bastard's head off his body and feed him to our rogues in jail? You should have controlled your emotions better! That's why you're not some commoner, Artemis. But a lycan!"I stood before my grandfather, everything capable of having feelings in me inducing emotions of anger and resentment.I wanted to kill the fucking bastard.I sucked in a deep breath, palms clasped together as I stood with my noble chin raised upwards. It wasn't enough to console me, but at least my grandfather had waited till evening after his office hours before calling me to his courtroom. "He is a royal guest, Artemis, and as much as even I hate to have him, the laws dictate that based on how he penetrated his way into our territory, we are to be hospitable towards him. Besides, I do not need any war with vampire
Goddess, I was almost ready to give it up had he not spoken again, this time, amusement clouding his features."Now if I had seen this palm before, I wouldn't have mistaken you for the stable help. This is the hand of a princess who doesn't know anything about survival of course. Privileged pampered, princess"My eyes widened and narrowed of their volition. I hadn't expected him to bring that up in front of... Everyone.Nor had I expected such vile accusations from him.Now he saw me as an over privileged princess who knew nothing about the suffering of the common wolves?He had no fucking idea.My grandfather cleared his throat and I blinked, regaining myself and slowly releasing my palm from his hold although I just wanted to smack it against his cheeks.It was becoming overused even to me, but how dared he? Did he know half of what I had been through before spewing that shit from his lips?I took a deep breath of my own and forced myself to genuflect before going to take my seat be
What the fuck? My lips hung open, my eyes blinking like a pair of blinding lights had been flashed into them. But goddess knew that was exactly how I felt. I swallowed hard, hating that smirk in the corner of his lips as he walked past me and...laid his hand on the horse I'd nurtured for years like my own child. The proud selective horse who had thrown every other person off its back except me. But was currently neighing in a somewhat excited manner when he fucking mounted her. How many of what belonged to me did this bastard want to take? Then he turned to me and motioned towards the doors. "Open the door and take good care of this babe for me while I'm here, and perhaps I could pitch in a word to your King. Say, you can work at the castle then." And the idiot who had taken me for a stable girl fucking winked, and motioned for the door with a crook of his finger as though I were his slave. What the hell? Why was I standing there in the middle of the stall seething in si
I didn't calculate properly, how difficult it would be to stay in the same roof with your mate who had once declared your death and in fact believed that he had killed you. But no amount of calculation or pep talk could ever prepare me for the kind of pain that hit me sometime in the night after I tried many times but failed to fall asleep. It gripped me so fucking hard I popped painkillers and gulped down glasses of water, massaging my chest and mourning my inability to reach into my heart and simply rip it out. Because dying was better than that pain. It hurt like a bitch and I hated that I recognised its source so much and now knew properly, what it meant. Xavier, my mate, was fucking someone else. I couldn't stop imagining one of those human girls he had brought with him, nor could I stop myself from conjuring images of him drinking from them while they blew him off or went as deep as having his dick in their holes. Those cheap disgusting bitches. I hated them all and
"Holy shit! He's so hot it's difficult to hate him." I almost felt my heart jump out of my body, colour flooding my cheeks in embarrassment at being caught drooling over the vampire King. But apparently I wasn't the only one who found him attractive since Leila who had just whispered in my ears and even Jane were unable to keep their eyes off him. The thought of their eyes feasting on him had emotions of anger crawling inside me. Only we had the right to gush over him that way. I curtailed myself and tilted my head more upward than required, returning Leila's words with a whisper of my own. "You've found your mate, young lady." And the good princess cousin of mine winked at me. "Which is the only reason I'm not pouncing on him right now." Now that didn't seat well by us. Well, luckily my grandfather whose pride was being wounded by Xavier for the umpeetenth time stepped in at that moment, halting the shenanigans of drooling over the vampire whom I just noticed was surroun