The Realm of Truth (Book 1) [In the process of editing]

Chapter 16: Under Control

"Please, trust me." Damien said, with hopeful eyes. I looked at him, and then looked around the dead bodies around me. He let out his forearm to me in an offer to taste him, his own blood. The blood I wanted two years ago when I first met him. It was super hard to ignore when I tried to stay away from him as best as possible in the cabin. I pouted at him, and he smiled. His smile was always warm to me, and kind. Damien's been my best friend since day one, and I hated feeling like this. Vulnerable. Weak. I really did need to be strong to stop Sophie from wreaking more havoc in this town.

I cursed under my breath. "Are you sure?" I asked him, and Sophie impatiently tapped her foot across the room from us. "I-I don't know if I can stop once I drink your blood..." I wanted to blush right then in embarrassment, but as a vampire, there was no such thing as that.

Damien shrugged. He couldn't care less, he was all for it, wanting me to taste him all this time. I mentally shook my head from the romantic thought of it. I was never really in for falling in love for the past hundred years, but I just didn't think I'd be able to control myself around him.

I felt myself giving into him, becoming the predator I never wanted to be. The surprised look on his face gave away the fact that my green eyes were glowing. "I want you to drink my blood." Damien pushed again. I saw a little bit of pink in his cheeks, but he kept quiet after that.

Sophie was watching from afar and she was...smiling.

She didn't do anything else after that, but watch me lift up Damien's forearm close to my lips. I stared again at his blood trickling down, and noticed the veins pulsing. My throat burned, quite a lot, actually.

A hundred years, huh?

I sank my teeth into Damien's wound, and he grimaced. I pulled him down with me and with the strength I had, caught him off guard. I fed off of Damien for, in reality - was a few minutes, but a long time for me.

"Okay," Damien murmured. "Okay, Odette. You have to stop now, or you'll really kill me."

But I couldn't stop, I wanted more of it. I didn't want the fire in my throat to stay, and the only thing to extinguish that was his blood. I couldn't quite hear him anyways, as I was too focused on becoming a killer. That predator inside me was dormant for so long, I don't know what's going to happen afterwards.

"Odette." His soothing voice called out to me once more. "Let go." Damien winced and I looked up at him and then I quickly let go from his wound. I was growling and I knew already something felt wrong. "You're messy, you know that?" He chuckled softly and then cleaned up my mouth with his sleeve, but my instincts told me to back away from him. "How do you feel?"

I couldn't answer him. Instead, I looked at Sophie who stood there silently. She looked like she was ready to fight back until I was there within milliseconds. I removed her amulet from her neck by yanking it off completely. I crushed it in the palm of my hands and it crumbled to the floor.

Sophie screamed at me and wanted to claw at my face. When she reached for me, I saw her skin getting caught in the afternoon sunlight. It wasn't a very pretty sight, watching her get what looks like third degree burns.

I leaped over Sophie and took her down with me and snapped her head off. Once I had her head in my hands, I stared at it. I was disgusted by the way it looked exactly like me and I couldn't believe that it was me who I was dealing with this entire time.

I threw the head away. Damien and I were watching as her body turned into ashes and it disappeared.

"Odette?" I heard his voice. My head whipped to him and saw him standing so close to me. If you could see my eyes right now, it would be glowing in a darker, emerald color.

I heard the sirens going off and I turned my head back around to the window. I found my throat filling with fire again and the policemen and other families out there were my prey.

"We have to go." Damien said. I looked back at him, and then saw the policemen hurrying towards the church.

I grabbed Damien by the wrist and pulled him right over my back. I took the exit where I made the giant hole in the window in the back left side and we fled the area.

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"There she is!" One of the officers yelled, pulling out a taser. "And she's got another one!"

I turned to look behind my back a bit to see maybe three or four officers running after us and a couple more cars coming. I cursed underneath my breath. Damien didn't say a word and I just adjusted him so he wouldn't fall off me.

I tried to dodge between trees left and right. It was so incredible at this speed that I felt like I could beat a formula 1 race car. Maybe even faster like that... It wasn't like this before. I knew I was slow. I couldn't wait to test out my strength and my other powers, either.

Finally, we were so far gone, that I couldn't hear the officers distinctively from anything else. "You can let me down now." Damien said, suddenly. I did just that. We were near the log cabin now, thirty minutes away from the church, no one would find us here.

Damien went inside and started to settle down from the commotion. Once he placed his head on the back of the couch, I left him there by himself.

I felt too dangerous in there to be with him.