Dark Desires

Chapter 12

Daven awakens in the basement of Antionette's shop chained to a steel chair. He looks puzzled as to why he's chained up. As he comes to, he sees Antoinette also chained up on a chair. He calls out her name and she awakens. He asks her how they got like this? She replies that some guy came into the shop looking for some sage and crystals and knocked her out when she went to help him. Daven wonders what kind of guy could have been able to overpower her so easily. 

Daven tries to break the chains apart but it seems like he's been weakened. Antionette also seems to not have her powers at the moment either. As Daven continues to struggle a man dressed in some type of street wear walks through the door. The guy is Johnathan. Amelia's best friend. My jaw drops. My mind can't even fathom how Johnathan discovered who or well what I am. Jonathan begins to talk. "I know you're probably wondering who I am and why you're down here". I answer and tell him I already know who he is. He looks puzzled. He asks how I know him. I told him I saw him on Amelia's social media. He smiles. He says "well you might know who I am but you don't know why you're here now do you?".

 I answer no I don't. He tells me that he knows what I am and that he won't allow me to hurt Amelia. My face looks puzzled. I ask him how he knows what I am. He doesn't verbally answer but his eyes turn Red and his fangs begin to protract. I can't believe this. How are his eyes red? He answers by saying he's been watching me ever since I came back to town. That he just needed to find the proper opportunity to confront me. 

I ask him how are his eyes red? He says because he's the Pharaoh. I give him a confused look. I ask what is the Pharaoh? He answers it's like the Alpha vampire. He then looks at me and asks me do I really not remember him? I'm puzzled. I ask him am I suppose too? He walks up to me and places his hand on my head and gets into my mind. He starts replaying the night I was turned again. As it reaches to the part where I'm about to get bit I finally get a closer look of the man who turned me. It was Johnathan. Johnathan was Boy. He releases me from my mind. I start to spazz out. How could this be? How could he be the man who turned me? Johnathan smirks and says now do you remember who I am? I ask him how could he have yellow eyes first then they now be red? He explains that Pharaohs can be born that way or they can become one by killing a Pharaoh. Antionettes eyes widen. 

She begins to talk. She says she thought Pharaohs couldn't be killed. Johnathan says she thought wrong. He knocks her out again. I ask him why did he turn me? He tells him that I need to figure that out on my own. I don't understand. He kidnapped me just to play mind games. He tells me that I need to stay away from Amelia before I hurt her. I ask him why is Amelia so important to him? He answers she's the love of his life and that he'll always protect her. I start to regain some strength after hearing that. My eyes start to glow. I try to fight out of the chains but he begins breaking my bones with his mind. I start to scream. I have not felt this level of pain in my life. I stop trying to resist. I beg him to stop. He tells me that the key to all his answers are in the family manor. He says I have until midnight to figure out the truth before Antionette loses her life. 

Before I can respond he knocks me out. I awake on my couch in my manor. I'm still in shock by how everything. How can Johnathan be Boy? How can he be the Alpha? Who did he have to kill to become the Alpha? I remember he said all the answers to my questions would be in the manor so I start searching. I literally tear my house apart but I still can't seem to find anything. I don't understand what could he possible be talking about? I start trying to think back to my childhood with Boy to see if something might click. I remember my father always yelling at me to stay out the slave quarters when I was younger. I use to always try and sneak down there to talk to them. Maybe there is a clue down there. I head down to the old slave quarters which I have now converted to a wine cellar. 

I start searching through old boxes but all that's there old clothings and jewelry. I crack open a bottle of a 64 Dubele and began to drink it. I sit there on the floor and think to think really hard on where I can possibly find the evidence. I start to get frustrated and I throw the bottle of Dubele at the brick wall. I threw the bottle so hard that the wall caved in. I get up to examine what I have done. I see that behind the wall there seems to be a secret compartment back there. I walk through the hole and find more boxes. I see a bunch of ripped up clothing and old food as well as documents all over the floor. I begin to search through the boxes and I find photos of Boy when he was a child. I find some clothes that maybe belonged to him. As I sort through the photos I see my mom holding Boy. Why would she be holding him? I start looking at the documents and see a certificate of birth for Boy. 

His birth name is Johnathan Howard. Howard? That's my mothers maiden name. Why would he have my mother's maiden name? I keep searching through the documents and see some slave purchase paperwork with his name on them and the owner being my father. I finally understand Johnathan is my brother. My mom had an affair with a slave and got pregnant. My father found out when Johnathan was born and made him work as a slave as punishment. Now I see why my father always treated him so much more poorly than the others. How couldn't I have noticed my own mother being pregnant? Why would she cheat on my father? Why would Johnathan turn me? As I begin to ponder the answers to all my questions I remember I needed to check up on Amelia. I text her.