Bloodsucker

Chapter 1: Run Away

I shook my head as I watched my father cross the room angrily.

Today was my twentieth birthday and as a present, my father was trying to get me engaged to a man I had just met this morning.

"I'm not marrying him" I looking away from him not wanting to look him in his eyes.

There was an awkward silence so then I turned back to him.

I looked at him and I could see his face was filled with anger.

"I do not plan to marry him or anyone at the moment. There will be no engagement" I continued nervously backing away.

"This is your chance to be Queen, take it" he growled at me with his Spanish accent.

Father was really trying hard to pressure me into an engagement I did not want.

"I don't wish to marry him" I stood there helplessly not knowing what other response to give him.

I have never disappointed my father, I have always done what he would asked me to do. This was the first I have ever defied him.

"You don't have a choice" he said sweetly.

This only made me furious. I then looked into his dark red eyes and I said, "No" gritting my teeth.

If he thought I was going to marry that stupid guy, he was going to have to kill me if he wanted to.

"Prince Andrew is smart, rich, and he is a ve-" he started again attempting to convince me with a sharper tone.

"I don't love him! I don't even like him!" I screamed at him causing him to jump.

"Mari, I just want what is best for you, I want you t-" he started with a nicer tone.

"Be happy? Or is it more like make you happy? That's all I ever do! Obey your every command, father ask me to do something else, but just this one time I can't do it because I get to choose who I want to marry, not you! I know you hate me father, why would you want me to be Queen anyway, you wish that instead of Henry passing, you wish it was me don't you, But Henry is gone, so now you want to make a man that you like and trust so much king! This isn't really about me! I'm not marry-" he didn't allow me to finish.

"Shut up!" My father grabbed my arm and pulled me to the side and I felt a sharp pain on my left cheek.

He then shoved me back and I put my hand over my face to protect myself from another swing.

He had slapped me, and it was aching. I was furious at this point.

My father was acting like a child. I looked at him and he looked at me with bloodthirsty red eyes.

"I hope that puts you in your place Maria, you know your place so be a darling an-"

Just the start of those words hurt me deep inside and I felt the tears stream down my face.

I grabbed the vase that was on the table and smash it to the ground.

"Maria! Have some self discipline! I have given you everything you ever wanted! Clothes, dresses, shoes, makeup, an education! Anything a girl would dream of! I've given you whatever you wanted" he screamed at me again.

"All I ever wanted was a father, All I wanted was to be loved like Henry!" I sobbed pointing at a picture of Henry.

Henry is my brother. He had straight black hair like mine, and he had the sweetest bright red eyes.

He was such a charming young man, making girls fall for him wherever he went.

I loved my brother, but his body was found after he was murdered in the woods when he went horse riding.