Stolen (ON HOLD UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE)

Chapter 4

Recap

      "You look....Wow. What happened to eating first?" He teases.

"I needed a shower. I can't be clean around my host?" I responded in an innocent tone. Damian chuckles and smiles at me.

"Are you hungry?" He asks me. Right after he finishes his sentence, my stomach growls loudly. I feel my face heat up and know my cheeks are red. I walk over to an empty seat at the table. He removes the cover off of the plate he carried in. There is half a steak and a broccoli and bacon salad on the plate and a glass of water on the tray that the plate is sitting on. I grimace at the food. "What's wrong?" Damian asks, concerned.

"The food looks delicious, but I'm a vegetarian," I chuckle nervously.

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Alexi POV

       Ricky's eyes go wide and his mouth slack when I finish my sentence. The room is filled with an uncomfortable silence for what feels like hours, but I'm sure is only a few minutes. "Um.. Are you okay?" I ask him. I haven't felt safe in silence since what happened when I was little.

----Flashback

        I'm 8 years old and I don't know where I am. I was walking home with Katy when the big, scary men had asked me to help them find their puppy. When I refused to get in the car and help, they had pulled me in and sped off while Katy screamed for her mom. The driver turned a sharp right and I was sent flying into one of the men next to me that had bright red hair and dead green eyes. "Well hello little girl. How old are you?" He asked me with a creepy smile. I just stared at him terrified. "I said, how old are you!" He yelled, smacking my cheek hard. I let out a short screech.

        "I'm turning 9 next month!" I cried, my face stinging while tears poured out of my eyes. I was still crying in that car an hour later. "Please let me go, please," I kept whispering. The red haired man pulled me onto his lap and I stop crying and go completely still. His hands start rubbing my arm and thigh and I feel his hot breath on my neck. His hand gets higher up my leg and I start whimpering.

        "What is wrong, baby? Doesn't that feel good?" He asks me as if he wasn't violating me. As a child, my mom would tell me about the ways people would try to touch me bad. She always told me that I needed to know because I was very pretty and weak-looking, so people would try to take advantage of me. I later found out that my father had raped her at 15 and gotten her pregnant, so she was terrified the same thing would happen to me.

        "Don't touch me!" I screamed at the man, clawing at his face and scrambling off his lap.

----End Flashback

        "Yes, I'm fine. Just surprised," Damian finally responds, yanking me back to reality.

        "Oh. Why? Shouldn't have you tasted the difference in my blood? I haven't eaten meat since I was 3 years old. You call yourself a Vampire?" I question, teasing.

        "You're right. I should have tasted the difference... Anyway, would you care to accompany me to the kitchen, so you can tell me what you do eat?" Damian says, changing the subject effortlessly. He offers me his arm and I slip my hand through and grasp his elbow, placing my other hand on top of the one touching him.

        He is wearing tight, gray denim jeans and a short sleeved, fitted, blue shirt that revealed his tight abs, pecks, and biceps and makes his silver eyes sparkle. I am holding his elbow and our skin is touching. It feels as if an electric current is running over my skin where we touch. I wonder if he feels it too. We walk down the hallway and I hear a little girl giggle and running footsteps. Damian starts moving faster down the hall and pulls me into the first door he sees. Well, at least I thought it was the first door he saw. Behind the door is a wonderful kitchen with new appliances and granite countertops. In the middle of the room was a beauriful oak table with four black leather seats around it. "This is amazing," I say with awe.

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