Chapter 24That night I didn’t sleep much. I could hear Amethyst's slow and steady heartbeat in the room to my left, and Ambrosias erratic heartbeat in the room to my right. Amethyst never had nightmares, she slept easily and without issue. Ambrosia, on the other hand, still seemed to suffer. I offered for her to sleep in my room with me, but she insisted that she sleep in her own room. I was lying in my bed thinking about everything Amethyst had said about The Others and the Ringmaster, Claude, that it wasn’t like I was asleep anyways. I knew Ambrosia didn’t get much sleep after she woke up from a nightmare, because I had watched her night after night with the same style of routine. None of it involved going back to sleep right away. Her heartbeat was quickly getting more erratic and I decided to try something, just to see what would happen. I materialized into her room, next to her bed. I slowly climbed into bed with her, careful not to wake her. She was mumbling something in he
Chapter 25Amethyst was going to hate me for it, but I already had a way to get him to talk. Katrina and I finished eating and decided to walk around the city for a bit, which may have been the worst idea I had today. With nothing else to really discuss but our burning desire for each other due to the fucking mark, it made for an awkward afternoon. Katrina didn’t say much either, I think she was just happy to be around me at all. Though the mark had finally started to fade just a little, that didn’t make its pull any less strong. God, I'm such an idiot. My emotions would surely be the death of me someday. There were so many times that I cursed agreeing to hang out with her. It would be so much easier just to let her be. The further from each other we were, the less mark affected me. For her, she would still struggle and unfortunately, there was nothing I could do about that… But I could ignore it at least. The only time in my life that I have ever hated this fucking mark, was righ
Chapter 26(Amethyst)Nico’s home was a lot different than Rowen’s. It was more of a standard looking place, but it was still huge. Three levels and multiple rooms throughout. His home wasn’t really decorated but he did have black and Silver accents throughout on his furniture and rugs. I noticed that the entire home was a nice shade of gray with black accent painting and then the dusting of silver that matched his eyes… When they weren’t red, of course. Nico was taller than me, by at least a foot. He had a muscular build that I think all Reaver’s shared. His skin was a beautiful porcelain color, which accented his pitch black hair and brought out the silver in his eyes. His jawline was sharp and he had short trimmed facial hair. It came down from his sideburns and connected under his chin. To say he was easy on the eyes was a complete understatement. I knew he just liked me because I could give him those extra Vampire powers that he loved, along with the blood rush… But I wasn’t co
Chapter 27(Rowen) The next couple of days went by without a hitch. No sign of The Others, no attempts on the amulet, nothing weird. Even my security detail was bored. I thought Ambrosia would be upset that Amethyst was gone but she seemed fine. She was bustling around, decorating the house with the new things she purchased a few days ago, and Rosa was busy preparing lunch. It was Saturday and the Blood Ball was tonight. I already had a plan to get Claude to talk, we just had to get there and find him first. I was just hoping that he would give me the answers I wanted. I guess that depended on if the threat was big enough for him to talk. I just hoped he really wanted Amethyst as much as she made him out to. That’s the only way this would work. I mind linked my brother, Ramses. “You still on for tonight?” I said. “Oh brother, I wouldn’t miss it for the world. You should see the dress i’m putting on Jade, its fucking magnificent. We will be there in an hour and
Chapter 28After we ate, the girls hung out and Nico arrived early with Amethyst. We showed him the dresses and he said it was fine to dress her in the silver one as he had no idea what she was going to wear anyways. So it ended up working out to our liking. We had gotten everyone ready, including ourselves, and we were just waiting for the girls to come down from hair and makeup. They all came down at the same time and I couldn’t take my eyes off Ambrosia. She was absolutely stunning. In fact, all three of them were. The fact that I had to collar Ambrosia was annoying, to say the least. But if I didn’t know any better I would say Ambrosia would outshine 90% of the Vampires who will be at the Blood Ball tonight. In fact, all three of them will. I looked over at Nico and I think he was about to pass out, which made me snicker. Judging by the redness in Amethyst's face, there was more going on there than they led on. Just another reason for me to try and find a way to legally turn th
Chapter 29I tried to keep my composure in front of Ambrosia, but Lucian always got under my skin. “Insufferable prick.” I mumbled under my breath, and I heard Ambrosia laugh a tiny bit at my comment. She sat back down as everyone else joined us. “What was that about?” Nico asked. He knew Lucian was the Vampire King. “Oh he just wanted to know who my pet was… Yet he’s already met her. He was just using Ambrosia as an excuse to get under my skin. You know how he is. He also reminded me of the pet rules.” I said, rolling my eyes. “He’s insufferable.” Nico replied, causing Ambrosia to laugh because that’s exactly what I just said. “And who is this asshole?” Ramses said. “Oh, he’s the Vampire King.” I said. “Ooohh, ok.” Ramses said, with a snicker. We all had a thing for defying the rules, really. Though we were leaders, too. “Ok so I need you to be on the lookout for Claude, and once you see him tell Nico. Mind link me, and I will come switch you pets for a moment while we corner Clau
Chapter 30That’s when I decided to grab her, snapping to produce a knife and holding it to her throat. She was screaming and Claude stopped dead in his tracks. “Dude, p-please don’t hurt her.” He begged. “I won’t, as long as you give me the information that I want.” I said. Amethyst's heart was beating out of her chest. Claude definitely believed that she was in danger, even though she wasn’t. Not really. I couldn’t tell her the plan or she wouldn’t have been afraid. I needed actual fear, and I got it. I had to fight the urge to sink my fangs into her right now with all this fear running around. She was going to kill me after this and I would have to make it up to her, somehow. “Ok, ok, man, what do you want to know?” Claude said. “The Others, what were they meeting in secret about at your pet store?” I said. His eyes went wide, and I heard him whisper ‘Fuck’ under his breath. “I can literally tell you anything else, anything else but that.” He said. “That’s too bad, she’s so pre
Chapter 31(Amethyst)Rowen had put Claude in charge of us, and he was panicking. I could tell. Although he looked calm and collected on the outside, I knew him and I knew him well. I could tell that Rowen knew we had more than just a fling. I thought I was going to be with him for as long as I was alive, at least, but it didn’t seem to happen that way. Once you sell a pet they have an expiration date. Not that they don’t anyways, but it's different. His way to avoid that was just to keep me hidden in his store. That way he could keep me around and not have to worry about all the pet duties and things that came with having a pet. Little did he realize that after so long of not being sold they moved you to another pet store. It’s rare for a pet not to be sold rather quickly. Especially with how fast they go through pets. They came without warning and took me, and there was nothing he could do about it. I spent quite a bit of time in Madame Vienna's shop before I was placed for sale