Chapter 34 - I need to get out of here!

I froze.

I inspected the picture again, and I felt the familiarity become surreal. I looked just like the woman in the photograph.

The old man, Michel, stepped forward and extended his arm.

“Give me the gun. There’s no need for that anymore.”

I almost gave it to him, but I suddenly remembered how I was brought here like a criminal or an unstable person who needed to be sedated and strapped down to not hurt others or themselves.

I lifted the weapon and looked the man straight in the eyes.

“Then why all the secrecy and team of men to drag me here? Wouldn’t it have been easier to just tell me the truth first? Didn’t I deserve that?”

Michel scoffed.

“Did my daughter deserve to be snatched from her family and forced to serve a vampire? To become his pet and…” Michel swallowed hard, forcing his bile down. “Mate with him? Of course not, but it happened anyway.”

He closed his eyes as though he was in agony, and when he opened them, his emotions disappeared, and a blank expression surfaced on