All Chapters of BOUND BY BLOOD : THE VAMPIRES POSSESSION : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Violet POVThe pounding began before sunrise.It rattled the iron gates hard enough to shake me awake. I sat upright in bed, my heart racing as another loud bang echoed across the estate."Open the gate!""We want our money!""You can't hide forever!"The voices blended into one furious roar. I threw on my cardigan and hurried to the window. A crowd had gathered outside the mansion, their faces twisted with anger. Some held placards. Others gripped the bars of the gate, shaking them with enough force to make the metal groan.I recognized many of them. Mr. Collins from the warehouse. Mrs. Turner from accounting. The security guards who used to greet my father every morning. People who had worked for the Ashworth family for years."What is happening?" I whispered.A car pulled up beside the crowd, but instead of calming the situation, it made everything worse. The moment Helena stepped out, the shouting intensified."You promised we'd be paid last month!""My children haven't eaten pro

Violet POV I woke to the smell of oil and rust, and for a moment I thought I was still dreaming, still trapped in one of those endless corridors from my nightmares. Then the vehicle hit a pothole and my skull cracked against something hard, and the pain told me this was real. My wrists were bound behind my back, the rope biting deeper than the one Helena had used. A strip of fabric pressed against my lips, tied tight enough to keep my jaw locked. I tried to scream anyway. It came out as nothing, a useless vibration trapped behind cloth. The floor beneath me vibrated with the rhythm of tires on gravel. I was lying on my side in what felt like the trunk of a car, my knees pulled to my chest, every jolt sending fresh pain through bruised ribs. Voices murmured somewhere beyond the metal separating me from the front seat. I recognized none of them. Not Helena's voice. Not Victor's. Strangers were driving me somewhere, and my own family had put me here. I don't know how long the drive

Violet's POV"Please...!" I cried, stumbling as Lord Blackthorne dragged me across the rough stone corridor without slowing his pace. "Please, you're hurting me!"My fingers clawed helplessly at the hand gripping my arm, but it was like trying to pry apart iron.The cold stone scraped against my bare feet. Every time I lost my balance, my knees slammed against the floor before he dragged me forward again.Sharp pain shot through my body as the rough ground tore at my skin, leaving burning scratches across my legs. My palms stung where I'd tried to catch myself, small stones biting into the torn skin."I wasn't trying to run," I sobbed, struggling to keep up with his long strides. "I swear I wasn't. She told me to find your chambers myself. I got lost."He didn't answer.His broad shoulders remained stiff as he continued walking, his black coat billowing behind him. The torches along the walls blurred past, one after another, until I lost count of how many corridors we'd crossed."Plea

Violet's POVI woke up to sunlight pressing warm against my eyelids, and something felt wrong before I even opened them.There was no throb in my knees when I shifted under the blanket. No pull at my throat when I turned my head.I sat up and pulled back the blanket, staring down at my legs in the morning light. The skin where the stone had torn me open the day before was pale and whole, not even the faint pink line a healing wound usually left behind. I pressed two fingers against the spot where the deepest scrape had been. Yet I got nothing, like my body had simply erased what happened.My hand went to my throat next, fingers searching along my collarbone for the edge of a bandage and it wasn't there. My skin was smooth and unharmed.I sat frozen for a moment, running my fingers over and over the place where his teeth had been, unable to make sense of what I wasn't feeling.A knock startled me out of it."You're awake." Rhoswen leaned in the doorway when I opened it, one shoulder

Violet's POV“What,” he said, his voice suddenly quieter than it had been all night, “are you?”"I don't know." My voice came out smaller than I meant it to. "I don't know what I am."Lucian's eyes stayed fixed on mine, the black in them still cracked open just enough to let something through that looked almost like him."When you touched the chain." He forced the sentence out slowly, each word visibly costing him something. "What did you do to me?""Nothing." I hadn't let go yet, my fingers still wrapped around the iron, still slick with his blood. "I didn't do anything, I swear.""Something happened when you touched it." His jaw was tight, his whole body still straining against the restraints even as he held himself together to speak. "I felt it move through me."Vex slid closer along the wall, his head lifted toward us, watching without moving any nearer to the blood pool."I felt something too." I looked down at my own hand, half expecting to see it glowing or marked somehow. It l