Secret Fire

~Chapter 19~

Addy Pov.

I let out a sigh as I get up, rubbing my head and blinking several times as I glance around. I realize I am on a bed, Ingressus's bed. I feel myself blush for a moment before I look around to find no one else in the room with me, I get up and walk towards the door, opening it and walking down the hall before I hear voices and glance over. I turn and walk towards the voices peeking through the hallway to see Ingressus standing there with a lot of Voltaris around him. I blink a few times before I feel a hand on my shoulder and whip around to see Sonde standing behind me.

"What do you want?" I hiss and lash my tail, hitting her in the leg. She shakes her head slightly then pulls me away into a larger room, a family room like place. I glance around before she sighs.

"I have no intention to drink your blood, I need to show you something." She says.

"Oh ReAlLy?" I demand sarcastically. "I'm SO interested."

She shakes her head again then reaches for her wrists before pausing.

"I'm just like you." She says and pulls something away from her wrists, the color of her skin, revealing silver clamps on her wrists. I widen my eyes slightly as she reaches for her tail and pulls another skin-colored wrapping away, revealing a silver clamp on her tail as well.

"W-what?" I stammer, eyes wide. I don't know what to say to this, does this mean she's a slave to?

"I'm not Tygren's mate... I'm his slave." She sighs. 

"But wouldn't you be with the rest of the slaves, wouldn't the other Voltaris look down on you?" I ask and she shakes her head.

"No one else knows but a few Voltaris." She says.

"Who?" I ask and raise my eyebrows as she folds her arms and looks away.

"Ingressus, Lucidious, another Voltaris I forgot the name of but she's a friend of Tygren's." She says.

"So why does Ingressus always act disgusted whenever you two cuddle each other?" I ask and she shrugs.

"I don't really know, maybe it's because Tygren forced me into a marriage with him." She says and I widen my eyes more.

"He did?" I gasp, concerned for her. Well at least it assures me that Ingressus won't force me to marry him.

"Yeah, and..." She says and reaches up to her mouth, grabbing onto her fangs and pulling them off. I see duller fangs underneath, not as long as the vampire's fangs, probably not even sharp enough to bite deep into someone's flesh. "These are fake, I bought the slaves for Tygren not me."

"Were you caught as well?" I ask and she nods.

"Yes, when I was around this age, maybe a few years younger. My mother raised me for a bit and taught me not to drink blood, she said it was bad and I should never do it, and once she left feeling that she needed to go back to her mate and her children my father took over that duty of teaching me not to drink blood like other Voltaris. He didn't want me to have to suffer through what happens to the vampires when they're hungry, I hear it's miserable. Ingressus got it a lot before he bought you." She says.

"Oh, what is it that they talk about?" I ask and tilt my head slightly.

"I think their throats start to burn." She says. "Like really bad, like sufferable bad." 

"Oh..." I say and shake my head a bit before thinking.

"Wait, you told me that only Voltaris can open the clamps and you're Voltaris so why don't you just get out?" I ask and she shakes her head before grabbing her tail.