Always Been You

Chapter 3

Mateo's POV

"Okay Mateo. That's enough." Chase tried to take him away from her but he didn't let him.

"Mateo, I don't want to hurt you. Let the girl go!"

He had his eyes closed and continued to suck her blood.It was like he could not hear anything outside of his thirst being quenched. Nothing had felt this good in a while, her blood tasted so good. He saw her in the general crowd with her friend and her boyfriend maybe. She looked so out of place and he knew this was not her regular crowd.

She looked better than everyone else in the club, she was going to be the one. She was going to break his fast. He decided and told Chase to bring her to him. Now he was having her, he was drinking her blood and it tasted better than anything he had ever had.

" Please." She pleaded in a weak voice

He heard her,and he opened his eyes. He was still unaware of what he was doing so he didn't let her go, then he was yanked off her and thrown to the wall.

" What are you doing? You said you weren't going to suck her dry."

" I...I didn't mean to." He wiped her blood of his mouth.

" Jeez Mateo, now I have to clean up your mess."

" You don't have to. I'll do it."

" She's out of blood. She's gonna die."

" Then let her die, dump her on the streets or something."

"Have you lost your mind? You called me here to help you avoid killing. If she dies the society will definitely decide to have you killed."

" Then maybe I do want to die."

" You know I'm not going to allow that. Call Cole and I'll go make sure no one asks about her."

" Okay." He pulled his phone out of his back pocket. " Cole, I need your help. Yes. Her pulse?"

He held her hand and pressed two fingers over her wrist." It's there, very weak. Her heart is beating slowly and the pulse is almost undetectable. I couldn't hear it, I had to use my fingers to feel it. We'll be right there."

" You done? I handled her disappearance."

" Cole is organising blood bags for her already. You take her."

" Great! Just like old times you mess up and I clean up after you." He carried her bridal style and flashed out of the room.

Mateo went to the bathroom and cleaned the blood off his face and he looked himself in the mirror. Then he smiled, he could finally feel like himself again. Her blood really did something to him. He went back to the VIP section and drank. Then he picked up a girl and took her home.

He woke up right before 5 am and went sitting on his favorite tree. He overlooked the city from there and he could do some thinking. He was thinking about the new product that Wryes' had produced, it was not even close to what they had made so he didn't feel threatened so that wouldn't worry him. Then his thoughts lingered to that girl, the one he nearly killed. Did he have to worry about that? No, Chase was taking care of it so she was going to be okay, again that didn't qualify to be one of his worries.

He stayed like that for a while then he jumped down and went back to his room. He found the girl in his bed still asleep. So he went on and took a shower. He wore his white shirt and rolled it on its sleeves like he always did and paired it with semi causal black pants.

" Good morning."

" You have exactly 5 minutes to get out of my bed."

" What? Are you kidding?"

" Do I look like I'm kidding?"

" Why on earth would you..."

He looked at his watch, " That's a minute gone."

" Do you even have any idea who I am? I'm..."

" I don't care who you are, you can go now. I'm done with you."

" Right!" She wore her clothes in front of him.

" You'll find your way back to your place."

" Fuck You!" She took her bag and stormed out of his room.

" You had fun!"

" Don't!"

" Well aren't you going to ask me how she's doing?"

" You didn't ask me if you could bring her to my place but you did anyway so I know you are just going to tell me how she's doing, even though I didn't ask."

" She's fine. She's on a drip. And she actually was dehydrated so you aren't to blame."

" Okay. Does that mean she can go now?"

" No, not yet. Cole said she needs bed rest for 2 days."

" And how's that any of my concern?"

" Well first of all, she's too weak to be compelled so if I let her go uncompelled that spells trouble for us. Secondly, she's out of blood because of you."

" I thought you said she was already dehydrated."

" And you sucked her dry. If you didn't her life wouldn't be in danger."

" So take her to your place."

" I can't do that. I don't actually have a place to stay."

" 2 days Chase then I need her out."

" I promise. So can I go make us breakfast?"

" Go ahead!"

Aspen's POV

Chase was out already, he made a lot of noise which woke Aspen up. She saw the  drips attached to her and pulled them out. She was so scared, she tried looking for her phone and she couldn't find it. There was no one around so she tried to escape. Why would she not when the last thing she remember is being followed by a creepy guy to the bathroom.

She looked out the window, she contemplated her options. The fall would be too nasty. She was way high up. Maybe she would just go through the door. No, she decided she'd rather die from the fall other than be used for an illegal organ trade or whatever it is they were using her for.

She looked at the door and back at the window then she opened it wide, the slight breeze hit her face and she could feel her freedom just a few steps away. She closed her eyes and jumped. She was waiting for the impact but it never came.

" You should have went to the rooftop if you have a death wish."

That's what she heard before she passed out again.