Taken By A Vampire Playboy

Chapter Seventeen :

*Royce's POV*

It's jobs like these that make my line of work extremely difficult.

What was, only moments ago, a very beautiful young woman, now lay in a bloodied heap in the corner of the room.

"Absolutely disgusting, I got her blood on me," Daphne made a fake gagging noise, "I think I may need to bleach myself now."

She flicked droplets of the girl's blood off of her perfectly manicured nails and headed for the door.

"Well, my work here is done. If she isn't dead by tomorrow, finish her off for me. Would ya?" She flashed us an overly sugary smile and flipper her hair over her shoulder.

Neither me nor my brother answered her, causing her to frown and slam the door as she left.

I listened closely until I could no longer hear her footsteps and immediately went to tend to the girl.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you. We were paid to assist in killing her, not help her."

I met Malik's eyes, a strong sense of determination to help the poor girl burning through me like a wildfire.

"To be honest, I don't care. What I just witnessed was the most repulsive and all-around fucked up thing I've ever seen, and that's saying something," Malik rolled his eyes at me, "She had no choice given her situation. I'm going to help her."

Very quietly, I approached the girl.

Her once fair and delicate features were now bruised and mangled, and blood seemed to pour from the large wounds Daphne left on her.

Gently, I rolled her off of her side and picked her up. A small whimper escaped her.

"You're going to regret doing this Royce. You know damn well what's going to happen when Daphne finds out what you're doing."

"And again, I DON'T care. I'll gladly take whatever I have coming to me as long as I can save this girl from that witch."

Malik growled at me from his seat in the corned and I growled right back.

I began to walk towards the door, the broken girl cradled in my arms.

"Don't do this Royce."

I turned back to look at my brother, "Oh, I'm going to do this, and you're either with me or against me," I shrugged, "Either way I'm doing what I want."

I patiently waited for a response from him, but got none, "So be it."

Shifting the girl in my arms, I reached for the doorknob.

I turned back to look at Malik.

He sighed, "I'll help you."

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Yes, yes, I knowwwwww. It's been 5ever since I last updated. Sorry to keep you all waiting so long. .-. I've had A LOT of family & medical issues within the last few months, so updating & writing was kinda put on the back burner. But have no fear! I should be able to update a bit more frequently now! :D & we're almost at 200K reads! Thank you ALL so much! Whallleeeee, you know the drill! Hope you've enjoyed reading so far! Comment & vote & such! Toodles! (:

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