To Save My Daughter

Part 2: Vampire?

As, I tried with all my might to bring down this predator, he just stood there. He didn’t move or try to pry me off him. It was like I was a fly on his back, just a small nuance, nothing more. He stood there and that is when I heard this deep husky chuckle break free, and then the world turned silent. Fear had overcome me. Slowly, I let go of his neck, and slid down his back, until my feet hit the ground. I knew I should have taken off running, but something kept me in place. It was like my feet were made of lead.  

I knew I was waiting for something, but what? Slowly, he turned around and lifted his head. He stood there with this smirk on his face, looking straight into my eyes. Those blue eyes looked cold as ice and deadly. I stared back, looking at him just as intensely as he was to me. I was not going to show him fear. I knew the minute I did, it would be over.

We stood there in silence for what seemed like forever. He tilted his head, looking at me. He narrowed his eyes and looked me up and down. I felt like a piece of meat. I didn’t know what was going to happen; I just knew it would not be good.

Finally, he broke the connection and took a few steps towards me, removing the shallow gap that was between us. He reached out and took my chin in his hand, and moved her face side to side. He hummed to himself, as he inspected me. He tilted my chin up towards him, looking into my eyes and said the most absurd and frightful thing I have ever heard.

“Hmmm, you’re not as young as I usually like, but you will do, otherwise I will find your daughter and rip her into shreds. Do you understand me?”

I was torn. I wasn’t as young as he usually likes. What the hell, he defiantly hit my vanity. I wasn’t an old maid. Sure I was 35, but now a day this is still considered young. Right? Also, I did have a rocking body. I worked out and took care of myself. Everyone I know thinks I’m still in my mid-twenties, and is shocked that I have a 13 year old daughter.  I never considered myself a MILF, but damn close. If it wasn’t for the last statement of declaring that he would hurt my daughter, I would have ripped into him.

I stood there, with my insides turning to ice; he repeated “Do you understand me”.

Finally, I found my voice. “Do I understand you? Do I understand you? Who the hell do you think you are? You come to my property, attack my child, and threaten to hurt her, plus insult me. What the Fuck are you, besides a bastard.” I screamed at him.

“Tisk, tisk love” he groaned, “such nasty language coming from such a beautiful mouth.”

He still had ahold of my chin, and it tilt is up towards his face. Oh, my, and what a face he had. If it was not for the fact that I wanted this bastard dead, I might have fallen in love with him at first sight. His haunting blue eyes, dark brown hair, and skin like porcelain were something only the gods could create. He looked to be around my age, but there was a presence about him, as if he was older than he looked. A deep knowing in his eyes. Damn those eyes, they defiantly could be my downfall, if I let them. They seemed to look right through me, and could remove my soul.  Still that body looked like it was chiseled out of marble. Even though I was no longer touching him at this moment, I knew that he had the body that could cause women to fall at his feet and worship the ground he walked on. I tried to shake it off, what the hell was I thinking. This thing, person, whatever tried to hurt my daughter, and now he has a hold of me.

Still, I knew I needed to do something to get my point across, and since he was still held my chin in his grasp, I did the lowest thing I could think of to piss him off, I spit in his face. The look of amusement left those once blue eyes, as they turned black. Veins popped out from around his eyes, his features became distorted, and as he snarled at me, I could see fangs appeared, when I swear there had been done before. All I could think was “oh shit, there are vampires!”  Before I knew what was happening, he grabbed my hair, turning my head and tilting my neck towards him. As he bent down as I assume to bite into me, I didn’t cry out in protest, I started laughing. I laughed a hysterical laugh. All I could think about was all those movies and books were true.

He stopped right before impact. He moved my hair off my neck and started to examine my neck. I wanted to scream, “If you’re going to do it, do it already”, but I kept silent. Slowly he brought my face towards him, and looked me straight in the eyes. He tilted his head side to side, just looking at me. That same blue gaze he gave me early. As if he was trying to read my mind. Finally, he stated, “You’re marked by the moon and the star.”

I put my hand to my neck, and remembered the stupid tattoo I got in my twenties, right behind my ear. It was of a blue moon and red star. “Yeah, my tattoo. What about it?” I said sarcastically.

He let go of me, and stepped away. Not far enough for me to run without him grabbing me before I could even turn around. So I stayed put.  I could not see is face, so I had no idea what it was thinking, but I knew the best thing for me to do was keep still and quiet. Oh how I hate silence at that very moment. 

Finally, he spoke; “You a marked by the moon and the star. You should count yourself lucky, because of this tattoo; you will be alive to see another day”. He stopped talking for a moment, pacing back and forth in front of me. Again he spoke. “It has been foretold, that the one that is marked by the moon and star will be my eternal mate. After all these years, the prophecy has come true.”

I kept replaying the word mate in my head. Animals mate, I wasn’t an animal. I was a human, a woman, a mother. What the hell. I stuttered, “Mate, I’m never going to mate with you.”

Rage filled him again, and he pushed me against the garage wall, holding me by my neck. “Do not ever disrespect me again, mark or no mark, I will rip your heart out and feed it to you. I give you dusk tomorrow to get your life in order. When I return, you and your daughter will be leaving with me, and the life that you have known will never exist again. Do not try to run or hide. I know your scent, and I will find you. Once I do, your daughter will be dead. Mark my word, I will slowly drain every drop of blood from her body, and leave her there to rot. The only way for you to keep her will be by following my will. Do you understand me, love?”

I nodded. For the first time I could feel the fear I felt bubbling inside me reach my face. He kissed me on the cheek, and then patted me on the head, and said “Now be a good girl love, and go back inside. You’ll need your rest for tomorrow.”

It was as if I didn’t have control over my own body. I turned around and walked back into the house. Once inside, I locked the door and windows. Found Grace hiding in my bathroom. I wrapped my arms around her and rocked her back and forth; telling her it will all be ok, as we sat on the floor of my shower stall. Deep down I knew the nightmare had just begun. It was my entire fault, if I wouldn’t have been so damn adamant that the trash had to be taken out tonight, this would never have happened. My only job now was to keep my daughter safe, and to do that I had to follow this thing. This monster. This dare I say, vampire.

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