Escaping a Lord

Chapter 10 First Escape Attempt

Kyra's pov

It had been three months now that I had been here.
Other than learning that my master was called lord Radu, I hadn't really found out much else.
Master Ludwigg found it pointless to tell me anything, Sarah just refers to the lord.
Blondy, lord Radu's right hand and secretary, was always busy so I never really had the chance to ask him, plus he likes to tease me so he probably won't tell me the truth anyway.
And the one time I tried to ask lord Radu, he just gave me a look that stopped me from even finishing my question.
I could now speak Thracian well enough to have a normal conversation, I could speak it almost fluently.

By now my broken hand had healed up, but thanks to master Ludwigg's teaching methods, I had bruises all over my arms and back from his damned pointer stick.
He is ruthless, one time he had to get a new pointer stick because he broke his old one on the table.
He was aiming for my hand because I had dared to talk back at him.
I was so happy I had pulled away my hand just at the right time.
It would have been broken if I hadn't, although my back probably would have disagreed with that action.
He had hit my back five times with his new pointer stick for that little stunt. The red stripes were only now starting to fade.

My lessons for today were over and Sarah came to pick me up.
I was tired, sore and hungry.
I just wanted to eat something and take a nice long hot shower to ease my muscles and sleep.
We walked the hallways back to the kitchen when another maid stopped Sarah to tell her lord Radu had requested her presence.
Sarah gave the leash to the maid and told her to get me dinner and then bring me back to my room.
The girl pulled me along to the kitchen.
She gave me a piece of dry bread, and then wanted to pull me back to my room.
I looked at the bread and then at the maid.

"Is this all? I thought Sarah told you to get me dinner?"

The maid smacked my face while glaring at me.

"You dare talk back at me, you lowly human?"

I could taste a hint of blood in my mouth, what a bitch!
Surely this was not what Sarah had meant by getting me dinner.
I didn't budge and challenged her by glaring right back at her.
She seemed short tempered, maybe I can use that to my advantage.

"What are you?"

I boldly asked after noticing her eyes were turning red.

"A vampire of course you stupid human. Now act like you know your place!"

So I'm not seeing things?
Strange as it sounded it made a lot of sense, although because I was a little upset about how she treated me, the meaning of it hadn't really sunk in yet.
She pulled hard on the leash, it made me lose my balance and I fell on the floor.
I had dropped the bread on the floor and it had rolled towards her feet.
She kicked it back to me.

"Pick it up if you want to eat anything tonight! Now get up!"

She took me back to my room, pushing me inside harshly and started looking around.

"Pfff, no wonder your attitude is horrible. A room as comfortable as this is obviously gonna give you the wrong idea about your place. I'll fix that!"

She walked over to my bed and pulled off the sheets and mattress, she threw them down the stairs, leaving only the frame for me.
She left the room grumbling about the nerve I had and closed the door.
I was too surprised at her action to react, it seemed childish to me.
But I noticed she didn't lock the door.
I tried to make sense of everything she said.
Vampires... sure... that would explain the abnormal strength they have.
How fast they move and... that... must... mean the wine is not wine!

I gulped and suddenly got a bit scared.
It gave Lord Valentine's comment of me looking delicious a whole different meaning.
But wait... how could they be vampires?
I mean Lord Radu, Blondy and even Sarah and that nasty maid didn't seem to be bothered by sunlight.
So that part didn't add up.
No wait, I shook my head, that's not something I need to figure out now.
The door is unlocked and she is long gone, that means I have a shot at escaping.
If I get out then there is no need for me to find out.