Aria Claire (The Originals) Book 2

City Beneath The Sea

(The Mikaelson Compound)

Aria's POV.

As I start to come to, I look around to see I am laying on stone cold ground in what seems to be a cave/ tunnel basement, and I have a desperate hunger for blood like I haven't been eating in months.

"Aria." I hear Marcel's voice, and I sit up to see him standing a few feet away from me, and I look down to my wrists to see magic-preventing shackles.

"What are these? Who snapped my neck? Why am I so hungry?" I ask him confused as I feel almost a cramp building up inside my stomach.

"I didn't want it to come to this." He almost mutters, but I hear him clearly due to my vamp hearing.

"What? What didn't you want it come to?" I ask him confused as my hunger builds, and I rise to my feet.

"I wish I could've helped you." He tells me, and I confusingly walk towards him, but I'm stopped by an invisible barrier.

"What is this? What is happening?!" I bang my shackled fists on the invisible barrier.

"Klaus compelled you to control your bloodlust, and now we daggered him the compulsion has wore off." He explains, but I shake my head frantically.

"No, No! He wouldn't-" I cut myself off as I begin to recall the night I was ambushed by werewolves in Rousseau's, and Klaus came by my apartment to give me some of his blood, but then remember he ended up making me control my bloodlust, stop having nightmares about his child and forget about him compelling me that night"I remember." I barely whisper in shock.

"I'm sorry, you should eat." He tells me, and he throws five blood bags beside me, and I can't help but let my vampire face show "I'm really sorry." He apologises before he rushes out.

I suddenly can't help but begin to drink all the blood bags, one by one as tears escape from my eyes. He compelled me, he got inside my head. I hate what I am...