Unlike last time, she wouldn't be able to deliver this plea to the King herself. She would have to go through Lady Laura as she normally would. In fact, the only reason she had been able to deliver her Mistress's message directly to the King before, was because he had been strolling along the hallway at the exact moment she had stepped out of Lady Zezi's room, he had also beckoned her to tell him about Lady Zezi and how she was faring.This time around, the King wasn't strolling the through the hallway this time around, so to Lady Laura's door she ran.Her hand rouse to Lady Laura's door but before she even had the chance to knock, it flung right open."Gwen," she declared with surprise. "What are you doing here? You are supposed to be feeding." Her eye lids came together in a slant and she said pointedly. "This is your break.""I have something of utmost importance to be delivered to his Majesty, Lady Laura."She held up the scroll and Lady Laura took it, moving it a little closer to

He should feel her heart pumping in his hand, beating weakly as it struggled to hang on, blood dripping from in between his fingers, it's stain on his body, the smell thick in the air and filling his lungs. His daughter should be on the floor with an open blood spilling chest, her eyes filled with horror, panic and lack of understanding that although this felt like betrayal, it was the best way to go in this circumstance. He felt none of that though, saw none of that too, but he could smell blood. His blood. His sight was turning red with pain, his eyes bulging, his wolf struggling, blood running down his nose, a stiffled howl burning his throat, as he hit the ground with a thud, raising up dust with force. Turned. Curled. Stretched. Grunts. Groans. Stiffled howls. He dragged his claws against the ground in jagged lines, trying to stand before the invisible forced knocked him right back down. Pain. So much pain. Too much pain. It folded him and twisted him in bone crushin

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

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

"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