“You gotta be kidding me right! What the hell, I can’t go to their house now I need blood!” I said to Lottie.
“But darling, Valentina said they’re not exactly human and we have to represent the family for her.”
“Yeah Lottie, but if they are human it’s gonna make it very hard for me not to kill them on the spot and then what?” I half roared at her in concern.
“Ssssussh now Bastien, its practice dearheart and we’ll go Dugo hunting straight after I promise.” She said hugging me tightly.
“But what if I fail, what if you all can’t stop me. We’ll have to leave here forever.”
“We can do that, it would be nice to hunt humans whenever it suited us and not to follow the rules” she said using her fingers like inverted commas” she had a glint in her eyes too.
“I feel like I’ve lost total control Lottie” I said feeling in my head like it’s all I can think about just to drain a human. I can actually taste the hot viscous blood dripping in the back of my throat. I don’t care anymore that it’ll make me an outcast in the family. I just gotta have blood. Maybe we can go hunt some humans before we go if we actually do go.”
“Bastien honey, we have to go to the party. We’ll catch a veggie meal on the way but it’ll have to do till later. I promise I’ll take you to the first bloody Mary straight after, Bastien please do this for Me.” she begged me. I looked into her eyes, I was losing myself there, I can never refuse her anything, and I love her too much.
“Ok” I said with a big sigh. Vera came over and said
“Daddy, it’ll be tough for all of us, but I’m gonna be there too and I’ll mind you.” I ruffled her hair and picked her up, placed a kiss on her nose and forced myself to smile at her.
“Ok baby, thanks.” I whispered into her ear which caused her to pull her shoulders up to her ears. She peeled out some giggles and said
“That tickles daddy.”
“Oh really,” I said filling with giggles myself and I whispered more nonsense in her ears, making her shriek with giggles.
“I love you baby” I said hugging her close, “thanks I needed that.” The thirst was still there, burning my throat, but my sole mental aim had shifted slightly and I felt that maybe I could get through this. I felt cosy then, protected with my girls beside me. I know that Lottie had her barrier up around us. But I wondered if it would be enough. God I hope they aren’t human or it’ll be over before it even starts. The damn dinner and their lives, that is.
“C’mon hun, we gotta go!” Lottie said to me as she kissed me lightly.
“We gotta change first mommy” piped up Vera. She was very excited to be wearing a new dress. I took a deep breath and said okay and dashed upstairs to get dressed. Lottie had laid out a suit for me to wear. I looked at her and smirked.
“Really! A suit! For me! What! Are we going to the opera or something?” She gave me a look that made me go weak at the knees…dammit now I wanted her and not to have to go to the dam party….Vera bedtime! I thought giggling. I started to walk towards her but she put her hands up and pointed to the suit again. And then mouthed “later” with a smirk and in a flash had locked herself into the bathroom.
“Sigh!” I got dressed and admitted to myself in the mirror that I looked pretty damned good. But when Lottie emerged she blew me away……..now I really didn’t want to go anywhere except take her to bed. Dam parties I thought and smiled at her. Vera came running in just then disrupting my thoughts.
