The Vampire Princess

Chapter 33

Days later I'm still perplexed by is reaction. I learnt yet one more thing, vampires have wings. Only royal vampires can make their wings come out on their own accord.

I asked them would I ever be able to do it and they said that they didn't know. When the time is right they will come out.

I walked the castle by myself like a ghost throughout the daytime. At night time I lay in my bed staring at the ceiling and pondering what happened at the cliff. Each waking hour he is in my thought and it's driving me distracted.

I feel guilty. I do have feelings for him, but marriage is to big of a commitment right now. I have plenty of time for that, I'm not ready to accept the responsibility of running a kingdom.

It seems like a lot of pressure when you have everyone depending on you. I'm not ready to accept that responsibility. I wonder did my mother ever feel that pain.

I wish she was here with me. She could guide me through this and give me advice on how to navigate this new life.

Everything is changing and I'm being sucked into the vaccum of it. I'm no longer referred to as Myla, but princess Myla. People bow to me every time they see me. It's evident in my face that I wasn't born into this life style and was close to saying some high words the other day.

The only other person who's not entirely threatened by my presence is the little maid. She follows me around the castle like a ghost. I can smell her and it's intoxicating, but I want her to trust me.

She seems hesitant to call me just Myla, until I demanded she do it at least when we're alone.

"Orla I haven't seen Prince Romeo and Princess Alissa in four days, is everything okay?"

She stares at me with a questioning look, "you haven't heard?"

"Heard what."

She twirls the end of her apron in her fingers. "Princess Alissa has taken a mortal for a lover. Neither the king or Queen are pleased. Alissa's lover was fired and Alissa banned from seeing him again."

"That's awful," I said sadly. She nods her head in agreement. "Why should they care that her lovers a Human? Let her love who she wants to love."

She nearly drops the basket she's carrying and she shifts it higher on her hips. "Miss you can not mean that. It's illegal and rightfully so."

I stare at her and look ahead of my in disgust. Even the vampire world has prejudice and I thought the king said he wasn't prejudice.

"What does it matter if she loves a human. Love is love," I said stoutly. The whole thing makes me sick. This explains why she's been absent. The maid opens and closes her mouth.

"Who told on her?" I say coldly.

The moment I hear her heart speed up, I feel that I'm frightened her. I know in this moment it was her.

  She shifts the basket nervously to the other hip and avoids making eye contact. "I did my job Princess Myla, this is treason."

  My nostril flares and my claws extract involuntarily, I press them into my palm, but not before she sees them.

  She glances multiple times at my hand and then my mouth and then back again at her feet. At the moment I'm to pissed to try and be polite  with her.

"Get out of my site," I said flatly turning away. I start to walk away and I'm stopped by her footsteps behind me. "Did you not hear what I said?"

  I turn and find her breathing heavily and I can practically see her heart beating out her chest. Good, serves her right. "The Prince told me to stay by your side. He said you might need me."

  The next words that fall out of my mouth I wish I could take them back. "Your a pathetic helper, what can you do for that I can't do for myself. The prince is not here, leave my presence before you become my dinner."

  She cast me a horrified look and immediately runs away. Actually runs and doesn't look back. I stare after her and after a long minute I start back on my venture.

 

    I knock softly on the heavy door, for a moment I think she won't here me. But I know she does.  I knock again and tap my foot impatiently. "Go away Myla."

  The door is thrown open immediately and the next thing I know she has me pinned against the opposite wall. The crimson in her eyes swirls and it's dangerous unsettling.

There is no sign of the happy princess I know. "Alissa what are you doing? Let go."

  I'm not sure if I can be strangled the death, but the sensation hurts the same. I don't want to fight her, but I have to get out her grasp.

   I pull back my knee and drive it into her stomach she doubles over and I pin her down. She overpowers me immediately and I know that she would kill me without hesitation.

  "Why would you? You promised not to tell a soul! I trusted you!" Each word sounds like they pains her to say and it pains me to hear.

  "It wasn't me Alissa, it was a maid. Get off of me," I grit my teeth and try to remain sane.

  She gets up off of me, but her body language doesn't change. Her arms remained crossed and the red of her eyes still swirls. She doesn't even wear no makeup and her hair is messy. She is a woman going through heart break and I feel her pain.

  "What maid told," she says. I notice how her fangs extract and she look ready to blow.

"You're not mentally stable, until you get your emotions under control I'm not telling you anything."

  She takes a few deep breaths but the red color remains. She runs a hand through her hair, "You don't understand, he was my one love. He was all I have."

  No tears come, but her shoulders still shake and she takes deep breaths. She slides down the wall and tucks her head between her knees. "Why does the vampire law have to be so strict, it's not fair. I want to love who I want to. Even if I wanted a vampire, I couldn't just marry anyone."

    I sit down beside her and pull her into a hug. She's to wrapped up in her feelings and I can think of no words to fix it. What could I do anyway?

  "You're not all the way alone, you have me, Asher and you're parents."

  "You're to wrapped up in yourself and Asher is to wrapped up with you and whatever my father has for him. Mother and father is to involve with politics and running the castle to pay attention to me."

I lean my head back and close my eyes. She should have told someone this. "You don't want to marry Prince Alexander?"

  She shakes her head, "I don't have a choice. Royalty must marry royalty. Royal blood is very powerful. Switzerland has a lot of control and if we get into alliance we get some of that."

I'm still not getting it and she sense's that. She goes in hastily, "there has been political unrest within the vampiric government. Their might be a threat of war soon and my father wants to have the strongest on each side of us. We're a powerful family, but not as powerful as Switzerland."

  She nods her head and let's out a bitter laugh, "Me and him we're going to run away together. But I knew that would never work. My parents would hunt us down and kill him."

  I'm silent and I nod. "Where did they send him?"

  She looks down at her fingers and I notice a smile silver band on her fingers. "They sent him to a neighboring village."

   She seems to wrapped up in herself and so we sit in silence. I watch her from time to time and I hesitate before I ask her my next question.

"I haven't seen Prince Romeo in a few days, is everything okay?" I realize I never call him Prince Romeo, my body to heat up.

  She seems to notice this and smirks only for a minute. Then her mood darkens. "He left for something important. My parents said it involved you that's it."

  I can sense that there's more that she's not telling me, but I let it go momentarily. She's to much of a damsel in distress to be much help anyway.

  I give her another hug and I go off in the direction of the kings study,