He looked so unaffected by everything but what had she expected, he fed on chaos. Got high on it. Just like his father.Her heart soured with distaste, as she ignored every other feeling the mate bond was trying to make her sense.Zezi stepped forward to confront the King, but Gwen held her hand back with a kind of fear. "This is why I wanted to tell you," her whispery voice was trembling, "about the b-bloodoath.""What?" She asked, her gaze not shifting from the King.It was only wise to never look away from one's adversary."O-one of the con...ditions agreed to---""Make it snappy.""Immediately you open your eyes, Milady, you will lose the wolf's mark and bear the King's."She froze. So the King was here to... mark her?"Lady Zezi," a voice snapped her out of it and that was when she noticed Doctor Bruce standing next to the King. He stepped closer to her, taking her by the hand and leading her to the bed. "How are you feeling?""Terrified and miserable," she let out without a f
A bite that never came.The next thing she heard was the sound of the door swinging open and the King's boots against the floor as he walked away.No. That didn't seem right. He wasn't going to mark her?This was just torture.He was playing with her. Keeping his hold of a bloodoath on her while he tormented her with his power. He wanted her to actually beg still?She hated him.Seeing that the door was open and he hadn't rushed off like he used to, it meant that he wanted her to follow him. So, she did. He must be taking her to see her family.When they finally got to a door downstairs, and along the hallway, she discovered that she was right.She could smell her daughter and George. Their scent was sharper than it usually was and she could feel their presence more than she usually would.She reached for the doorknob but it swung open before her hand could grasp it."You are awake, Lady Zezi. That is great." Lady Delice said, her eyes twinkling with excitement, then her gaze shi
He pulled her out of his embrace, watching her face, cupping it, using his fingers to comb her hair down, while his eyes lightly passed over his mark on her neck, a smile crossing his lips."Mummy," Mira popped out in between them, "the BloodSuckers took us somewhere, did something to Daddy-- I'm tired."Mira was referring to the vampires as BloodSuckers now. The effect of staying around only George was starting to really show. Not that she disagreed with the term used.Her daughter fell into her open arms and she pulled her closer, sniffing her hair.She smelt clean, still a little sick but she was okay. Zezi checked her body for any bite marks or any marks at all that signified pain, but she found none."Aunty fixed him." Mira put her teddy forward and Zezi smiled, just plain happy that her family was indeed alright."Mira baby, can you please go and sit over there,? Daddy wants to talk to Mummy.""And we are going home after?" She asked, her eyes begging for a yes. "Yes, you are
"So you've now accepted it?" He walked away from her, suddenly needing the space. He wanted to sniff the air and see if her scent had been altered by his, but his weakness from yesterday's attack was a great set back and made his wolf weak. "Your fate with that monstrous blood sucking Ki---""I don't have a choice." She said quietly. She wouldn't want to call their daughter's attention to this. The fact that she wouldn't be able to give her a proper goodbye because she was scared to risk the state of her child's health still hurt. Asides from that, they both hated for Mira to see anything go wrong in their little family.She had to be protected from all of that and she was theirs to protect."This is the only way to save my family, I have accepted it.""We shouldn't give up---""I will not risk us again." She frowned, her voice determined. But he wasn't going to give up that easily. He needed to do something to make her see reason, to make her see what she would be missing if she le
"Open up or I'll break this door down." A bittered low, feminine, voice broke them apart. A voice that Zezi knew all too well. She stood up, opening the door with a swing. "Ah, she is alive." Laura said with a smirk, her eyebrows cocked at her. Then suddenly her face scrunched up in a sinister grimace. "My brother's blood mixed with yours doesn't feel right.""I agree." Zezi said, still standing in the doorway, trying to give George time to fix himself up. She didn't need any of these vampires seeing him vulnerable like that. They were enemies and to them they must appear strong at all times.She scoffed. "Pathetic. Anyways, it's time."But Zezi wasn't done, she still remembered the condition that Gwen had said the plead had been hand over in. Gwen hadn't explicitly said that she suspected Lady Laura to have tossed it intentionally into the fire, but who else would it had been?"You almost burnt my plead." She said, folding her arms, giving Laura a slow belittling look as her gaze
The day had not passed as quickly had Zezi had wished it to, neither did the night that followed. She had to entertain Gwen's food visit and act normal, otherwise Gwen might suspect not only that she was planning to do something but what exactly she was planning to do. As loyal as Gwen had seemed to prove herself to be, Zezi was certain that she wouldn't approve of her taking her own life. Gwen was obsessed with the idea of having a Queen, she always had been from the very start. Whatever would stand in the way of that not happening would definitely not earn her support.So, Zezi acted as normally as she could, thanking her for her participation in saving her family's life over and over again, while she asked questions about the Castle and the customs of Lavida. Disregarding the thought that her Lady might be moving on too quickly from the abrupt loss of her family, Gwen was more than delighted to enlighten the future Queen about all she needed to know moving forward.In fact, sh
Trigger warning. Slight gore. Like, really slight.____Motionless, she laid on the floor.The curtain flapping from the wind that was blowing inside, the moonlight glittering down her slit open throat that had blood still sipping out of it, flowing down her neck and dissolving further into her white gown, an inky red stain down her waist line of her dress.Some blood had dripped to the floor too, causing the red sticky liquid to stand out sharply against the grey tikes beneath.Everything was quiet, like a honourable minute of silence for the dead. Seconds passed and nothing changed. Not the frozen smile on her face, nor the look of utmost satisfaction in those lifeless, opened dazed eyes.A perfect departure.Then...A twitch of a pinky.Abrupt halt.Slowly, under the light of the moon, dark blood rushed to the surface of the opened throat, then the flesh at either sides of the slit pulled together, like a careful needlework, only that there was no needle, nor thread. Only blood.
Whatever she had expected as the consequences of her refusal, wasn't what had happened. What had happened?Well, nothing. It was surprising but that had been it. Knowing that she had practically given the totality of herself away in the bloodoath, which, regarding to what Gwen had said, had only worked because she really wanted at heart to save her family, also being caught in between knowing that his blood in her would really keep her from harming herself for an undisclosed amount of time and the thought that killing herself would bring more harm than good, Zezi was left with no only option than to wait her dilemma out.She still had the silver dagger with her though, although her purpose for it had now changed. She planned to quickly exhausted the blood's power in her veins, by always marking herself with it.The day it stings and heal very slowly, she would know that had finally gotten rid of the vile.She really hoped that would happen sooner than thought it would. The amount