The shadows under the stars.

Chapter. 14, Victoria.

  I wake up in a bed, I'm unaware on how I wound up here until memories from what I believe was last night hit me. I notice any of the wounds I got are gone. I wish they would have stayed, I hate how my vampire blood heals them so fast. I look around the room I recognize it from when I was still living in the palace. I see my old wooden oak wardrobe where I kept my finest dresses and my bookshelf with all my favorite books on human history and old fea tales. I get out of bed and walk over to my window. My window seat is the exact way it was when I left. I look down at the floor my rug has changed into a royal seal.  I notice I'm not in my hunting clothes but a royal blue night gown.

   I walk over to the bed and upon it I see a midnight black dress with lace on top and a small cape attached to it. I suddenly hear a soft knock on my door. I don't answer. I hear the doors open revealing a human servant walking in, when she notices me she walks straight towards me.

 "Oh good you're finally up, its been two days. Havens sleep spell really worked on you." She smiles. "Good to have you back Victoria, your mother requests you have breakfast with her but change into the gown first." I glare at the servant girl. I cant remember her name and I feel bad but I'm to stubborn to really care at the moment. She leaves the room as fast as she came in. 

  I look over at the gown. I'm not changing into that not a fucking chance in hell. I search my room for my hunting clothes but am unsuccessful. I do my hair into a braid and tie it up in a fancy bun before heading out of the chamber doors. I'm still wearing my night gown.

  I notice the looks the guards and servants are giving me but I walk down the corridor with my head held high. The marble floors cold against my bare feet. The brick walls make the castle feel colder then it should. As I grow closer to the kitchen I smell human blood, I can feel my senses start to kick in but I try my hardest to control them. I turn down another corridor reaching the great hall.

  There are two guards positioned outside of the doors, as if the queen really needs them. I roll my eyes and enter. I can see her sitting in her grand chair, Her long brown hair hanging by her side. I can sense the tension in the room from my presence I see the king give the queen a stern look and the prince looks tense. I walk over the to table casually and give them all a smile. 

 "Always so dramatic." I hear the queen say to the king. She stands up and goes over to me. Her presence making me sick as she stands so close to me.  She grabs my face in her hands ad examines me.

 " I wish you would have stayed with the brown it really made you look more like us." She says 

   I move out of her way and take a seat at the table. 

"No curtsy, no high mother, nothing." She says. "You really are a bitch, I don't know why that human was trying to protect you. She was probably just using you." I can feel my eyes widen, Camille was trying to save me. I struggle to control my temper at her words. The queens gaze shift to the prince, then back to me.

 "And you have nothing to say to your brother?" She asks.

 "Actually I do, I have something to say to all of you." I pause dramatically. "Fuck you!" I say and stand up abruptly. "You fucking kidnapped and brought me to this shit hole." I'm shouting. "And that human wasn't using me, I was fucking using her." I turn away from the table and start walking out, giving them all a rude gesture. 

  I walk down the corridor trying to find my way out. The palace is a maze. I settle on an open window. I start to climb out when I feel a cold hand on my arm. Great. I'm thrown straigh to the ground. I look up to see who it is, its the prince. 

 "Mother brought you here, would you have rather she let you get killed by angry vampires? This is a blessing! Do you not understand, and you treat her with such disrespect." He says. 

 "You know I would have much rather the queen left me to die I can make my way on my own. This is no blessing its a fucking nightmare I'm stuck here with her." I say standing up.

 He slaps me in the face. "She is your mother."

 "Since when she was never there for any of us not you, not me. Where is Anabel?" 

 "Mother cares deeply for us, you just left for no reason. And who is Anabel?" 

 "Oh no she doesn't. You don't remember Anabel? Our fucking sister, our little sister? The one we raised? How do you not remember?"

  He looks at me as if I've gone mad. Then I sense someone behind us I turn to see the queen. Shit. Her hand is on my shoulder, she is squeezing it. I can see the prince turn to leave. 

 "This cant do. Who is Anabel?" She asks.

  Great I've gone fucking delusional. "My fucking sister you bitch."

  The queen lowers her head to my ear and whispers. "Anabel doesn't exist anymore child I got rid of her." 

 "Why doesn't he remember her though?" I ask.

 "Because I didn't want him to remember." 

  I look at her terrified. Then she presses behind my neck. I feel tired. I collapse to the ground the cold marble cold on my cheek as everything around me goes black.