Soul Bound

Chapter 31

DPOV

I woke up with quite the headache. It wasn't due to my alcohol consumption, but I suspect it was related to the large wound I could feel throbbing on the back of my head. I tried to reach it, but couldn't, because my hands were tight up, in chains, suspended from the ceiling. I could barely touch the ground with my feet. Great. Because my life wasn't enough of a shit show.

I was in a small room. It had a bed and desk. Not that I was enjoying any of these luxuries as we speak, but I assumed they were here for a reason. There weren't any windows, so I didn't know how long I had been out. Was it still night? The same day, the same week?

I thought back to the last thing I remember. Rose. I was watching Rose, and Rose was watching me. Was she here? Is she responsible? I suspect this was the work of Strigoi. I recognized the nausea now. Rose experienced it, and I was hitting myself for not figuring it out sooner, but then again, I had only been shadow-kissed a few days. But if it was Strigoi, why were they keeping me alive? I was a dangerous person to keep just for food.

The door opened and I got my answer.

"Oh look at what they did to you? Poor thing. I guess they really do fear you. But I know I don't have anything to fear from you. Do I, comrade?"

I would have given everything to hear her call me that one more time, but not like this. Her voice sounded cold. It was nothing like it used to be.

She walked over to me with a key in her hand. She was twirling it between her fingers.

"Although I must admit I enjoy seeing you like this. I can already imagine so many things I could do to you. You remember how wild my imagination could get?"

I remember. Although I was the sexually more experienced of us two, Rose was definitely the more adventurous. I didn't mind at all. As long as I could make her mine that was all I would ever need.

She ripped the shirt off of my chest and ran her fingers down my abdomen. I shivered. I wanted to say it was from the cold or from fear, but I knew that was a lie. Although I realized this wasn't my Roza, nobody had informed my body. It was still responding to her touch the way it had before.

She smiled. She enjoyed my reaction. She stepped a little closer and she pressed her body against mine. She stood on her tippy toes to reach me. Her face inches from mine. She slowly brushed her lips over my lips. I groaned. It had been too long since I kissed her. She deepened the kiss and I didn't stop her. I should have, but I didn't. When she pulled away I immediately felt the loss. She placed her forehead against mine.

"I missed you, comrade."

I wondered if there was any truth in her words. But when she pulled back to look at me, I could see that there was. There was something warm in them that I had not expected. Maybe I was reading too much into this. I wanted to believe there was still a piece of Rose in there, but I knew enough about Strigoi to know that wasn't true.

There was a knock on the door and the warmness in her eyes made way for a cold calculating glare. Like the light in them was just turned off. It was almost like the red in her eyes became brighter. Another Strigoi came in and Rose immediately left my side and launched at the Strigoi, lifting him off his feet and pinning him against the wall. The speed at which she did it had me startled, but it was the violence that really had me shaking. She intentionally tried to hurt him. Just because she could.

"I thought I told you I didn't want to be disturbed." She hissed at the man. It was a display of dominance. Her voice didn't sound like her voice. It made my skin crawl.

The other Strigoi was actually afraid. He couldn't be much younger than Rose in Strigoi age, seeing as she was only a few months old, but he was actually afraid of her. What had she been doing in those months since she had been turned?