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It became our nightly routine. We’d lock eyes and when our vampires were busy, we’d mouth those words to each other. I think that may have been the only thing that kept me alive, kept me going. Especially once I could no longer hear Alessia. I felt so alone until that moment.
“Guardian.” Prince Keenan purrs in his vulgar way. “I require more blood tonight, take off your top.” While the prince did not ever rape me, and he did not let any of the other vampires touch me, he did find repulsive ways to make his feeding sexual. Tonight would be no different. He had an insatiable appetite, some nights taking three or more humans, usually killing all of them as he fed.
I do as he asks, removing the ridiculous excuse of a top. It barely covers me and is see through. When I take it off, he grabs me, pulling me to him, sinking his fangs into my breast so that his foul tongue can lick my nipple while he feeds. He grabs another female and forces himself inside her mouth. I know how this will go. I saw it the first night I was here. And it’s something he seems to get off on.. Strangling a woman by suffocating her during his orgasm. When his eyes close in his lust, I look for my friend, my only lifeline in this hellhol
I find her, her eyes had already found me. We mouth our words back and forth to each other. Our eyes locked on each other, our only sanity.
Just as the prince is about to finish, there is a loud bang at the front of the castle. The doors fly open and gas canisters are thrown into the room.
The vampires are immediately up and running to counteract the intrusion. Wooden darts and bullets go flying across the room. Vampires start dropping, aging and turning to dust in front of my face. I’m too shocked to move. I stay where I am waiting for death to come. I’m surprised when someone throws a jacket over my shoulders. “You’re okay now. We’re here to rescue you. You can come with me. You’re safe.”
The man says this even though there is still screaming all around the room. I see others gathering up the humans and helping to get them out, the vampires running, trying to escape the bullets that are still whizzing around the room.
I’m taken outside and it’s the first time I’ve been outside in all the years I’ve been here. I was able to open the window in my room, but it had silver bars and I wasn’t able to escape. Tears well up in my eyes, as I realize that I’ve been released from my hellish prison. The man that has escorted me out of the building helps me into a truck. I’m given some oxygen and laid on a stretcher.” The medics will be here to check on you in a minute. Just stay here, you are safe now.”
“Wait.” I say, wanting to know who these people are that have saved me. “Who are you?”
He smiles kindly at me. “We’re from a guild of hunters. We hunt the supernatural and kill them. You don’t have to worry, we’re very good at what we do.” He pats my hand before stepping out of the truck.
Hunters? I’ve gone from one hell to another. If they find out what I am, they will kill me, or worse, imprison me and keep me as their lab rat. I need to get out of here.
I go to stand and see another person on a stretcher next to me. She reaches out her hand and clasps mine. She pulls her oxygen mask away from her face. It’s my friend. “Go, I don’t know what you are, but I know you’re not human. I’ll cover for you. Go.”
“What’s your name?” I ask her.
“Sarah. Now go, your secret is safe with me, Guardian.” She stresses the word. Guardian is the only thing that anyone called me here, so that is what she knows me as.
I thank her before checking to see if anyone is around. It’s chaos and everyone is running, either hunting vampires or bringing people out to the trucks. I hop out. of the truck and skirt around several others, keeping to the shadows until I get to a forest line. Once I hit the forest, I run.
I’ve been running for days. I’ve found water easily, rinsing off the smell of the vampires and the left over blood from my last night with the vampires. Food, however, has been impossible for me to find. Without Alessia to hunt for me, and in my weakened state, I haven’t been able to catch anything. I’ve found some berries and some other plants that I can eat to keep me alive, but nothing substantial enough to keep up the pace that I need in order to get far away from my past.
At night, I find caves or trees to climb trying to keep myself safe from large predators or vampires that may be out running from the hunters as well.
Based on the direction of the sun rising and setting, I’m heading south. I remember all those years ago, that my family had been heading north and that is what brought us into vampire territory. I don’t know where the coven was in relation to where we were found, but south seemed as good an option as any, and I’ve kept to that direction. Eventually, I’ll get to the ocean, if I survive that long.
I’ve been walking today. It’s been a day since I had water and too many days to count since I’ve had a real meal. I’m ready to sit down and rest when I hear the sound that I haven’t heard in years. The howl of a wolf. It’s not just any howl, it’s the sound of a wolf on the hunt.
I don’t know if it is hunting me, or if I’m just in the vicinity of where it is hunting, but when I hear others taking up the hunt, I begin to run. I know I can’t outrun them, but maybe, maybe if I can find a lake or river, I can swim to safety.
How do I keep getting into these situations? First vampires, then hunters, now werewolves. I’m so tired, maybe it’s not worth the fight anymore. I could be with my parents again. There would be no more pain, no more suffering.I hear the pounding of paws closing in on me. I’m running as fast as I can, darting around tress and bushes until I run right into a clearing. I only get a couple of steps when three wolves come out of the woods from the other side. I stop dead in my tracks. I’m about to turn and run in a different direction when I hear another two come up behind me.
“Please.” I beg. I don’t even know what I’m begging for, I just know that I don’t want to be caught and imprisoned again. “Please, no.” I say before exhaustion takes over and the darkness sinks in.
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I carry my mate to the alpha floor. I’ve been the only person living on this floor since my mother died when I was 6 years old. My father wouldn’t set foot up here again after her death and moved into a dwelling away from the packhouse. He gave me the choice and I stayed here, preferring to live in familiar surroundings to living with my grieving father.
I’ve mind linked the pack doctor to meet me here and I make my way to the room across the hall from mine. I don’t know if she will recognize me as her mate, so I want her to have her own space until she is healed and we can talk.
I lay her down on the bed as Dr. Phillips knocks. “Alpha?”
“Dr. Phillips, come in.” She comes over to the bed and takes in the state of my mate. She immediately begins setting up her medical supplies. “Alpha, can you take off her jacket and any other clothes she’s wearing while I get set up?”
I see Dustin hovering in the doorway and I growl at him. “No males on this floor until I say so.”
He backs away and Dr. Phillips looks at me curiously.
I take off the jacket and see that she’s not wearing anything else underneath. A vicious snarl rips from my mouth when I see the state of her body. She is covered in bite marks. I hear the doctor gasp behind me and turn to her. “Are those…?” I ask.
She nods. “Vampire bites.” She walks slowly to the bed, taking in the multiple scars and punctures in various stages of healing. They are everywhere. “Oh this poor woman. Where did you find her?”
“She stumbled across our border and passed out.”
She looks at me. “Do we know of any active vampire covens in the area?” I shake my head. As she begins her initial exam, I mind link Dustin. “Find out everything you know about vampires in a hundred mile radius.”
“Yes Alpha.” I cut the mind link as the doctor looks at me. “Help me roll her over.”
I snarl again when I see that her back is no better than her front. Cyran is thrashing in my head that someone would do this to our mate.
Dr. Phillips puts an IV into her arm and begins giving her fluids. She takes blood and looks at me. “I need to test her blood and see if it can tell us anything. On examination, I can tell you she’s dehydrated, malnourished and I would guess anemic and low on blood platelets.”
She looks at my mate and then at me. “Dos know if she has a wolf?”
“Cyran said her wolf is dormant.” I answer her without taking my eyes off this frail girl. How can this small woman be my fated mate. She looks like she will break if I touch her.
“Is she…?” Dr. Phillips asks, wanting to know if she’s my mate. I nod my head before looking at her. “Yes, but only a few people know that, and I want to keep it that way.
“Yes, Alpha.” She says before packing up her things. “I’ll take her blood, test it and be back when I have results and will check her again then. Contact me if anything changes in the meantime.”
I nod and pull up a chair. I’ll be staying here tonight, keeping watch over my girl. As she leaves, Dr. Phillips turns to look at me. “Congratulations Alpha.”
“Let’s wait to congratulate me until we save her.” I tell the doctor. Looking at her, I’m not sure this woman will survive the night.
As I settle in to keep vigil over my fragile mate, Dustin mind links me. “Alpha.”
“What did you find out?” I ask, wanting to know how close the risk is to our pack. If she escaped a coven, they may be looking for her and I want to be ready. Vampires and werewolves don’t cross paths very often, but when we do, it usually ends in a bloody mess.
“There are some covens in a one-hundred-mile radius. I didn’t hear anything in particular about them searching for a missing girl.” I sigh, I was hoping for more. “However, I expanded the search and nearly 170 miles north of us, there was a coven that was raided by hunters about nine days ago. From what I hear, they were killing a lot of humans which put them on the hunter’s radar. From the little I have gotten so far, it sounds like the coven prince had a favorite blood bag.” He stops, I wait him out. “It sounds like this girl.”
“Do we know the status of the coven and if this prince escaped the hunters?” I ask.
“Not yet, I just wanted to let you know what I found. Are you still going into the city tonight?” He asks me. I look at my mate. I won’t be going into the city looking for someone to warm my bed ever again. I finally found her and no matter what I have to do, I’m going to make sure that she never leaves..