Blood Lust

Chapter 1

Blood, I can feel it move through my veins. I can feel it move in other people's veins. I've been locked away from other people for my entire life. What's the matter with me? Why can't I be normal like everyone else? I can control the blood in people's veins. While it's still pumping to your heart. When people started finding out about my 'gift' my parents locked me away for a long time. To be honest, I think it's been at least 200 years since I have been outside, seen the light of day, and felt the ground between my toes. I've been shown books and that's what I've dealt with for the past 200 years. Rereading all the beautiful stories given to me. I mostly have Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. My favorite by each author is Tale of Two Cities and Pride and Prejudice. Today I'm going to be let out. The day I am going to see the light of day again. Maybe I'll find myself my own prince charming like Lucie or Elizabeth. They fell in love and that's all I've ever wanted. I am curled up in the corner of my dark room that I've gotten used to over the years. Then someone walks in.

"Hello little one, I'm Adam." The man in front of me said. He was the most beautiful man I had ever seen. But then again, I have barely met any men because I was locked away by the time I turned 18 years old. He had black hair that seemed messy but still looked like it was styled. His brown eyes stared back at me as if he thought I was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. But I had a funny feeling that wasn't true. That it was a lie. I was hoping it was true because I desperately wanted him. But the funny thing about him is I couldn't feel his blood. I can't control it. It makes me feel weak and irritated.

"Hello Adam, My name's Ayuna," I answered the question he asked with his eyes. He nodded and held out his hand. My tattered dress was in shreds and he noticed that as I took his hand. I let go of his hand and went looking for my books knowing he was the one that was going to get me out of there.

"What are you doing, love?" He asked, his brown eyes filled with curiosity. I didn't answer him. I grabbed my books and walked towards the always-blocked-off door. I point towards the door and he walks over. He grabbed my hand and brought it up to his shoulder. Suddenly I felt something sharp poke my neck. I looked up at him and silently asked him what that was. He just cooed me while my vision slowly darkened.

"Come on, sweetheart, I need you asleep so I can bring you home," he said softly to me while whispering sweet nothings to me. I don't know why, but I felt this undying want to please him. Even if it meant dying.

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In the darkness where I slumbered I felt the blood pumping through my veins, the thumping of blood pumping to my heart. It was a nightmare, it was like I couldn't control the one thing I spent years learning to control. Suddenly I wanted to use my power for my death. To make all the pain and suffering stop. But I didn't do a single thing. I thought it would be best if I left the pain alone.

Maybe it will go away eventually. I told myself. I felt my auburn brown hair flip in the cold wind in this darkness. This is why I don't normally sleep. It causes my bloodlust to grow. The need to use my power when I have had years to say no. I tried to move in this darkness but I couldn't. It was like some powerful force was keeping me from moving. From using my own body. The only thing I could use is my affinity. The 'gift' deep within me. The one I've feared my entire life from the minute I was born.

My white skin looked pasty in the darkness I've learned to call my nightmare. The pendant my mom gave me when I turned 18 right before she locked me away was floating in the air. The pendant was a sword she said if I ever needed it, call out for her. I didn't know what that meant at the time and still don't. I was waiting there for hours on end. I felt like I was going to die there. I hoped for that. That mercy was going to come soon.

The dress that I was wearing was glittery silver in the moonlight but it had dirt and blood on the bottoms of it. The fabric was torn and it made me look like a homeless person. Probably because I was. I lived in a cave for fuck's sake. I called out for help but nothing came out. I was stuck in this neverending void. I was about as useful as a pencil with no lead. An eraser that can't erase properly. The only thing I could do was control blood. Make sure that I could die instantly. Or everybody else. My blue eyes glowed in the darkness but no light came from it. Nothing. I had gotten used to the dark but I couldn't get used to it. It was pitch black and I couldn't see anything. Nothing. That void was my own personal hell. One that I couldn't escape from. But suddenly I woke up.

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My eyes were dreary and the lights were too bright but I adjusted to them fast knowing I was in an unfamiliar place and needed to get the fuck out of there. I leaped up out of the bed I was lying in and got to my feet to find a window right near the bed. I opened the window to find I was on the second story of the building. It wasn't that high up. Maybe 10 to 15 feet off the ground. So I jumped. I jumped out of the window and ran. I ran as fast as I could to get out of there. As soon as I started running I felt someone close on my tail trying to catch me. Trying to get me to stop. Something kept telling me to stop but I never did. When I finally got to the exit I opened up the gate and continued running. I tried feeling his blood but it was like he never had blood in the first place. I couldn't feel his lifeline. I continued running. I didn't get the time to notice I was barefoot and I could feel the grass and dirt between my toes. It was my first time experiencing it in 200 years and I couldn't enjoy it. Suddenly I got pulled. I had been caught. I was hoisted up and being held bridal style. I looked up to see my kidnapper, only to see Adam. I screamed. I screamed as loud as I could, hoping someone could hear me. Adam looked down and put me down and then I started running again. Hoping I could get away from him. But I couldn't, he caught me again and this time when he caught me he said this.

"Don't scream like that again." He threatened but I didn't back down. Instead, I screamed louder. He looked down at me again and raised his eyebrows. Almost challenging me to do it again. But this time I kept my mouth shut.

"Good." He said. I let myself be carried by him back to the building that I came from. Once we got inside he sat me down on the couch and sat next to me.

"Ayuna, I need to tell you something. You gotta promise that you're going to listen to me very closely, okay, darling?" He asked me, staring deeply into my blue eyes.

"I'm the king of death, and I'm your soulmate. I've been searching for you for 300 years." He said strongly, clearing his voice before saying it. I look down to the ground. It did explain the undying attraction for him but I just couldn't believe it. He was looking for me of all people. The person who got locked away for her blood affinity.

"That can't be possible. Who would want me? The girl who could destroy the world just by her will!" I yell, getting angrier and angrier by the minute. He touched my arm and even though it took like 5 minutes I eventually calmed down. I don't know how but I did. I got up and walked away.

"Hey, come back Ayuna! Right now!" He yelled back at me. But I was too busy in my mind to pay any attention to what he had to say. He then came up to me and grabbed me. He threw me over his shoulder and threw me onto the bed.

"I swear if you try to leave me ever again, I'll destroy everything, including you." He said angrily, I was petrified, to say the least. I didn't know what this guy wanted. I wanted to please him but I also just didn't feel any attraction towards him. Absolutely no love and it felt like he didn't love me either. Just lust.

"You won't ever be able to leave me, not ever." He kept me in his arms almost like he was afraid of letting me go. I struggled to get out of his arms but he had his arms wrapped around me tight.

"You're mine." He told me almost afraid he was going to lose me.