Bound To The Dark Royal Vampire {Book 2: The Dark Royal Vampire Series} | ✔️

20~ I'm Here To Save You

Oliver's POV:

Candice.

Candice.

Candice.

She was the only one on my mind. She was the only thing keeping me sane as I walked confusingly through this maze of a mansion. Every corner I turned, I asked myself if I had just passed that wall a couple of seconds ago. There were so many stairs, and so many doors, I was starting to lose count of how many floors were in this building. Even my men were no longer with me, since I had thought it was a better choice to split up to find Candice faster. It seemed I was going to get to nowhere at this pace.

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Candice's POV:

"It's okay, I won't bite this time. You can lay down next to me, if you like" I proposed as I tugged on his hand. His expression was pure innocent and gloomy. I was starting to fight the hole in my heart that wanted to form.

Poor Damien. I had no idea he was such a troubled soul when he was little.

"You sure? I don't want to get on your bad side again" he let out a forced chuckle.

I nodded, motioning for him to inch closer to my side and to lay next to me on the mattress.

I knew how it felt like to be hated and neglected by your own family. My own uncle, whom I've never knew I had before, wanted to kill me since I was born. My own parent's didn't even want me neither, for fear of getting me killed. I grew up with people who I really didn't know. To say the least, they grew me up how they believed was right.

As he laid beside me, I caught his hazel eyes, studying them for a long time. The golden flecks in his eyes had formed to look like a maple leaf in the middle of his eye, while the blue part looked like the water the leaf could have been swimming on. The silence was the good kind of silence. The one where everything stopped for a moment, and each of you savored the moment as you stared into eachother's eyes.

His hand was suddenly cupping my cheek in solicitous, wishful way. He finally broke the silence, "You know, I wish you really were with me when I was younger. You could've been my savior"

I laughed, trying to lighten the mood. "I don't think I could've done anything. Maybe just pep talk you" I playfully argued.

"Anything could've helped really. Everyone around me didn't understand that. They didn't understand I needed someone there to talk to me. To make me forget all the negative doubts I had about myself"

"What about now? Do you still have negative doubts about yourself?" I asked.

"Yeah. Sometimes, I do"

"What are they about?"

"Most of my thought's are about you"

I gave him a funny look, "What about me? Am I too crazy for you?"

"No," he chuckled, "On the contrary I like you crazy and aggressive. I think it makes you sexy. But it's mostly about how hard it is to only dream about the one girl you always wanted. Only to wake up and find out that girl is taken by your soulless twin brother"

I sat up in bed, replaying the words he was speaking. "You mean used by your soulless twin brother" I clarified, agreeing that Darren did infact sound like the bad guy here.

In fact, he most definately was the bad guy here.

He had used me. Used my status to marry me and claim his throne. Used me to fulfill his sexual desires, which I didn't understand if he could've had any girl (like his ex Tori). He manipulated my brain and feelings into seeing the mask he wore that made him seem powerful and flawless. He was a monster and I hated him for abusing my feelings and abandoning me. Much like he did to Damien.