What choice did I have but to agree although I was not sure what my end of the deal would mean. The vampire agreed to meet me in one hour with other vampires. I would be well and truly outnumbered because I had no one but myself. It doesn’t matter, they become paralysed with fear when they see your true self ‘What do you mean?’ It’s why no one fights back, seeing us leaves them powerless and that is why it is rare anyone lives to tell the tale, but now you have made friends with a human that we hope will keep our secret ‘That’s what you are worried about, Not the deal we just made’ I feel her laugh which makes me think that I am missing something. Sitting down on the hard ground, I wait. I could move but there was no point me leaving and then coming back. I knew they were watching me long before they stepped into view, not only could I smell them but my level of hearing was beyond that of a normal wolf. Exactly one ho

“Would you like to look inside?” He was stood tall and proud with his hands behind his backHis question was broken by cries and screams in the distance. As I peer at Marco, he doesn’t move, completely unphased by the noise.“What is that?”“The humans”“Wait, are you holding humans hostage?”He flashes his red eyes at me “Where do you think our food source comes from?”“You’re draining them?”“No, nothing of the sort. We keep them alive so they produce a constant supply of blood. They really are quite delicious, would you like to try some?”I was disgusted “How could you keep them hostage?”“Oh it really is quite simple my Queen, would you like to see?”“Stop calling me that”His face remained expressionless “But you are a Queen yes?”He was trying to distra

 “No Tasha, no, just no, what are you even thinking?”She shrugs her shoulders, her eyes wide but there was something different, they were watery but not in the same way as when she had sobbed over her Dad, it was almost like she was reliving something.“I just want to help. At least it will actually look like you are feeding from me” she gives me a weak smile. She barely knew me and yet she was somehow trying to help. "won't they question it?"“Even if I wanted too, I am not sure I could control my hunger, the last time Christian literally had to peel me off the human, he was barely alive and besides, I have told them I want to keep you permanently at least then they shouldn't attack you”I watch her gulp, she tries to hide it but now with my ears and eyes getting stronger each day that passed it was impossible for me not to see it along with the sudden increase in her heart rate. She feared me.

The three of them watch me, the vampires smiling eerily whilst Calli looked lost. “I have no time for this, we need to get Christian” whatever they were thinking, it could wait.The men nod “Lets move” whilst Calli stays frozen to the spot, her eyes on every movement I make when she suddenly drops to her knees at my feet“My Queen, I apologise for everything”Pulling her up, I tell her not to call me Queen, why everyone was so set on calling me it, I do not know. “Calli, just call me Ashley”. I watch the men exchange glances but they say nothing “Or you can call me Rudina”Calli nods her head but doesn’t speak and follows us as we move. Breydon orders the other vampires to split up as we steadily move through the forest, sending them to different areas, they all knew what was expected of them.  Breydon informs me it was so that we could move forward in a circle that enclosed Daryl&rsqu

No, no, this can’t be happening, this cannot be happening. “Christian, you can’t die, I need you, you can’t leave me”.  I shake his body vigorously and yet nothing happens, his eyes remain closed and eventually I give up and rest my head against his blood soaked tshirt hoping and begging the Moon Goddess not to let him die. “He will not die my dear child” I spin around to the voice, to find someone that looked exactly like the woman in the portrait, my mother, her body transparent with a white glow around her. “What, what are you?” I stutter as her body becomes solid, her amber eyes, bright like my own. A smile spreads across her face, “Do you not recognise me dear child?” she reaches a hand out and cups my cheek, an odd sensation but as I go to grab it, my own hand falls right through. “I am your mother, the Moon Goddess sent me here as she knows you are in turmoil”. She drops her hand “He will survive Rudina, you have done all you can and now h