Chapter 6

Alicia

My eyes went wide and I screamed as the horror from my dream was beginning to come true. I could hear my master chuckle behind me, as he lowered his head down to my neck. "No please," the sound of my voice hardly escaped my lips.

He was placing feather light kisses along the vain that were noticeable through my fair skin. It made me shiver. His breath was warm against me, but I felt frozen and now I was trembling.

Master Cain took a deep breath in, filling his nostrils and his chest tightened behind my outstretched body.

"Your blood smells even more enticing when you are afraid princess, " he whispered in a low and seductive voice. "It would be a waste to drain you all at ones." He continued while nuzzling my neck. "Be a good girl and don't move, the first bite always hurt."

Before I had the chance to react I felt his cold hard fangs get pressed down into my soft and sensitive skin sending sparks of pain throughout my body. I screamed once again and tried to trash away from him. He caught my hand in an iron grip and pulled them down to my waist.

He sucked for quite a while and the pain was constantly attendant.

After a while the throbbing in my neck was getting duller and instead I started to focus on the icing sensation that spread as he drained the blood out of me. I started to get a bit light headed, and was happy to be lying down. He drank greedily, sucking hard and sometimes biting further into my throat.

Then my vision started to blur and I felt stone cold, but I was actually feeling at peace. The fact that I was dying made me kind of pleased, soon I would be relived from this terrible excuse of a life.

I remember feeling his fangs getting pulled out from my wound, but then it all went dark, as I fell into unconsciousness.

Master Cain

Her blood really was insatiably. Even though I had already tasted it from her tongue, there was nothing as pleasing as biting into her flesh to access it. Her blood tasted like nothing I had ever tasted before and it made me greedy. I would have wanted more but as her pulse where slowing I realized I wanted more of her.

Now she was lying unconscious in the daybed in front of me, and I actually felt a bit affected by the blood. It was normal for vampires who drank to much blood, to get a bit drunk from it. But I was one of the original vampires and a single human had not affected me in a very long time. 'Her blood is strong, and I feel it inside of me.'

I shed a bit of my own blood and rubbed her wound, making it close leaving only four marks from my fangs. Then I let her body fall down and picked up the necklace and the bracelets of the floor. Then I closed them around her young and small body.

I left her on the daybed, ordering my other slave girls to take care of her. Then I caught the attention of the room and that of my sneaky brothers. Most of the room had feed, since it was custom to feed when one of the lords did.

"Well that was pleasing, let's leave the slaves to catch their breaths," I said and walked out of the salon. My brothers quickly caught up with me as we were heading to a room to speak privately. I had no idea why they had come, since I had not seen them in over 100 years. This was actually something that pleased me, my brothers and I had never really got along. We all kept a distance from each other, so this was not a social call. Something was going on.

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"It was a bold move, brother!" Adras said. "Invading a country, supposedly protected by the gods."

"Not to mentioning almost draining the princess dry," Yura continued.

I had heard this stories so many times before. 'I have lived for over 2 thousand years, nothing, not even some pretend gods could hurt me.'

"I grew sick of hearing the nonsense and prophesies about a blessed princess in a protected country, " I answered them angry. "We are the gods, we take everything we want, it is rightfully ours to take."

"By the way, hundreds of princesses has lived in this kingdom since the prophecy, none of them was the one, why should she be?" I asked in an aggravated voice not really wanting an answer from them.

Yura and Adras eyed me carefully before looking at each other. I turned around walking to the grand window in the room. What I had done, I did mostly out of boredom and a bit out of pride. I had never believed there was something more to life then what was on this earth. I had made it my mission to prove it to the world.

"The nobles thought as you," I started speaking absentmindedly. "That the gods would punish me for what I had done."

I turned towards my brothers once again.

"They spoke of a weapon that could defend me, once the gods attacked," I continued amused by their foolishness.

"What was it brother?" Yura asked with astonishment.

I walked closer to him and placing my hand on his shoulder. "Nonsense," I answered simply. "…and they paid for it with their lives." I smiled at the obvious desperation that showed in their faces when I would not listen. 'I even killed the guard, that brought me the news.'

My line of thoughts continued. 'Even though I almost drained the delicious blood out of the princess body, nothing happened. No punishment. I had proven my point.'

My brothers looked at me in awe and chock, I hoped that this would be the end of this endless arguments. But I knew I had many more to convince before my task was done.

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Alicia

The thunder was roaring outside and the rain smashed against the windows. It must have been late afternoon going on evening when I finally starting to come back to consciousness. I stirred and felt how heavy and tiered my body was. Actually I was exhausted even though I had slept a lot. My rhythm felt of, since I was just waking even though the night had started to settle.

"Alicia, are you awake?" I heard Elza ask me.

"Mhm," I answered lazily. 'Why had I been sleeping? Why am I so tired?' I open my eyes and looked into Elza's concerned face. She was hovering over my, gently stroking my face and my hair.

I felt confused, 'what had happened to me? Am I sick?' "What happened?" I asked, amazed by the fact that I could form words.

"You don't remember?" Elza asked and eyed me. "You have been asleep since yesterday." I narrowed my eyes trying to remember pulling myself up with the help from my arms. I feel the muscles in my neck hurting, so I absentmindedly cross my left arm over my right neck to ease the strain.

As I get in contact with my neck and the bite marks, the fog over my mind cleared. I started to hyperventilate and my pulse hit the roof. I scramble myself of the floor away from Elza's concerned face and right into Laura. We both scream in chock and fall to the floor.

"Calm down Alicia," she tries to comfort me.

"No," I scream and the tears are falling from my eyes. "He bit me." I continued into the bathroom and looked at the bite marks on my neck.

"Aaaa," I let out a heart strident scream that vibrated through the air. I grabbed the full body mirror and crashed it down on the floor. The fragments of glass spread over the floor and I could feel them making cuts on my legs. I fall down on my knees with my hands covering my face and soft cries still flows from me.

Laura, Elza and Caroline all are hovering at the door looking chocked by the events they just witnessed. My body is shaking from the amount of adrenaline that had taken over in my system.

"What is this?" A load roar comes from the door and two guards, one of them being Matheius rushes inside the bathroom. They knocked all of the girls out of the way and are observing the scene in front of them.

"She got confused sir, she didn´t know what she was doing," Caroline says in my defense as she reappear in the doorway. The guards were narrowing their eyes at the small girl trying to see through the lie.

"I knew exactly what I was doing!" I raised my head looking straight at them. "That damn vampire almost bleed me dry, I am so angry I could kill him right now," I continued. 'As if I did not want to kill him before, but now it was way stronger.'

They looked at me dumbstruck "I am not his slave and no matter what he or anyone else does to me or forces me to do. I will always fight it!" I scream even higher trying to break their sensitive hearing in half.

I see Matheius narrowing his eyes first, but then breaks of in a smirk. "Is that a challenge, Alicia? " He asks amused walking over the glass towards me.

"It is the truth," I answer harshly. Looking right at him.

"A beautiful and …" he says and bends down grabbing my leg licking the blood away from it.".. Delicious girl like you could live a good life among vampires."

It makes me sick of him touching me, nonetheless licking my leg and I try to pull my leg out of his grasp.

He gets up from the floor, letting his hand follow the back of my leg upwards over my buttocks and land on the small of my back. He pushes me close, "If only you could learn to please and obey us." His voice is low and seductive and his breath is at my ear.

I bend towards him and grab his waist sensually; he looks at me a bit suspiciously but also surprised. I put my mouth to his ear and pulled him towards me as I shove my right knee right up his groin "Never" I say with disgust. Then as I am planning on running away I feel two strong guards gripping me and pulling me out of the room.

"That was a mistake you will regret, princess." Matheius screams are echoing down the hallway.

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I pulled and tried to get away from the two vampires tight hold on me, but nothing was working. "Let me go, " I screamed.

They had forced me down to my knees with my arms up behind me. My hair was pulled, so that my head was forced upwards. We were in the grand hall right in front of the steps to the throne. I could feel me blood boiling out of anger, it was a feeling that prickled my skin from the inside out. 'I need to get out of here, this is not what my life was meant to be like.'

I see him walking towards me, my master. His steps are more determined, but not really angry more like he is in a hurry. He shakes his head and rolls his eyes as he gives out an aggravated sigh.

"Clash." The sound of his open hand slap on my face and then he grabs my chin pulling it pack towards him.

" Did you not learn you lesson Alicia?" He looks into my eyes seeking for an answer.

"I have nothing to learn from you!" I spit back at him.

"Oh feisty today, are we?" he asks amused. Letting my chin go and strokes his hand down to my neck. "How is your neck feeling?" His question is not sincere and he is smiling evilly at me as I try to pull back.

"You know I am almost getting addicted to your blood" I turn my face away and the memories of helplessness I felt when he drank my blood are coming back. "From just one drink…" he focuses on my neck bends down and gives the marks a light peck. I shudder from the contact of his lips on my skin.

"Don't worry Alicia, " he says and turns my head towards him again. "There will be plenty of times that I will feed from you." He stops before he continues, "and that's a promise!"

I draw in a shaky breath of air, and all my courage has gone out of the window from the thought of him feeding from me. The pain I remember so clearly, makes my head fogy and I can barely concentrate at one coherent thought.

He stands up looking down at me.

"Now I need to decide how you should be punished for your…" he consider his choice of words "…display towards Matheius."

"Tell me Alicia, why is being submissive and compliant so difficult for you?" he asks and walk up to the throne sitting down. I open my mouth to speak "I have…"

"Oh wait don´t answer that, I already know" he cuts me of. "Once upon a time you were a princess…" he is mocking me. I narrow my eyes at him, wishing that looks could kill. "Then you were always treated with respect and could do what you wanted to…" he looks at me and continues his line of thought out loud.

"But a slave is never respected, her only mission is to serve and please her master. She does what he wants her to do!"

I feel repulsed by the way he is reasoning and I look out towards the window. The rain is still pouring outside and the sky is dark gray. I drift away in my thoughts of a different time, when I did not worry about surviving or serving anyone.

What interrupted me was a statement I could not grasp. "I have decided that for your punishment I am going to take away your will!"

"What?" I screamed loudly.

He smirked at me closing the distance between us yet again. "For two weeks I will put you under the debt. Meaning that you will do whatever I tell you to without questioning it. You will not be given any privacy and be treated as a real slave." I could not get a single word out and my mouth had dropped to the floor. 'No, he can´t. Can he?'

"The life you have known under my reign this far, will seem like heaven when the month is up." He states and smiles at my dumbstruck appearance.

"Take her to the real slaves," he barks out and turns on his heal walking out of the grand hall.