Forever and Always

Chapter 19: The Room

"No!! Stop stop stop!!" I managed to gasp between fits of laughter as Devin dug his fingers into my sides.

"And why should I?" He asked. He was also laughing, but only because he thought tickling me was the funniest thing ever.

"Please?" I begged (not a very good beg, but still a beg).

"Alright, alright," he stopped and simply wrapped his arms around my waist. Well he gave in quickly..... Weird.

I managed to right myself in his lap so that I wasn't almost falling off and I could still look at him. "Why do you always tickle me?"

"Because I love the way you laugh and I love seeing you smile," grazing his thumb against my jaw, he smiled at me.

A blush brightened my features and I lowered my head in embarrassment, "yeah, whatever...."

He chuckled, "you are so cute," and the blush deepened as he kissed the top of my head.

Looking up at him, I crossed my arms, "I'm not cute!"

"Yes you are," and he kissed my nose.

I couldn't help the giggle that escaped my lips, "my nose."

He smiled, "my girl," capturing my lips with his, he tightened his grip around my waist. I moaned softly as his tongue ran across my bottom lip. Being the obedient little kitty I am, I separated my lips to allow his tongue to explore my mouth.

With much reluctance, we parted, both gasping for air and ginning from ear to ear. I wrapped my arms around his neck and placed my forehead on his. "I love you."

"I love you too," he gently placed a stray hair behind my ear. With a sigh, I laid my head on his shoulder just enjoying being in his arms.

He slowly ran his fingers through my hair as my eyes started to close. "Sleepy?" He asked and I just nodded my head slowly. Kissing my head, he picked me up and headed down the stairs. "I'm going to need to go into town for a little bit, so just sleep my sweet and I'll be back before you know it."

"Okay," I said quietly as he laid me on the bed and kissed my head. And I drifted off.

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"She's even prettier than I remember," the voice slipped into my consciousness like a nightmare you tried to forget but keeps coming back to haunt you.

"She isn't that pretty," a more resent nightmare said. I went to move but found that my hands were shackled above my head and my feet were bound apart. And it felt like I was hanging from the ceiling. What the hell is going on?

"Is she awake? I think she's awake!" He sounded like a child in a candy store. It made me sick. I opened my eyes and stared the one person I have tried to run from for years, in the eyes.

"Kyle," just the name left a fowl taste in my mouth.

"Hello Rebecca, or is it Kitty now?" I seriously wanted to punch that smirk off his face.

"How did you find me?" I had been running from this nut job for the past 70 years, and he's been trying to get me to not find my Mate for the last 78 years.

"This guy here came and found me. Isn't he fun? I would have had no idea you were here if he hadn't come and got me," he draped his arm around Dylan's shoulders.

"You did this?" I asked completely mortified. Either he has no idea what Kyle is capable of or he is just that evil.

"Yep," he seems so proud of himself.

I looked at Kyle, "well you're too late. All your hard work trying to keep me away from my Mate failed. And all you had was 13 years too. You can't take me away or I'll die genius."

"You right, I am a genius. Cause there is one loop whole in Mating, or have you forgotten?" My eyes went wide.

"You wouldn't, you can't!!" He was really insane.

"Oh, I would. What's one les Vampire anyway?" I pulled on my restraints, I wanted to strangle the bastard.

"What are you guys talking about, what are you going to do?" Dylan was looking at Kyle, but I'm the one who answered.

"He's going to try and kill Devin.." I couldn't keep my voice from breaking.

"What? Wait, that wasn't in the deal, you were just going to take Kitty and that was that. Nothing else," he sounded a little panicked. Maybe he does care, or maybe he just rather see Devin suffer than have him killed. The second one makes more sense.

"I can't just take her when she is already Mated. She'll die if she gets to far away from 'Devin'" he said his name like he was a disease, "she'll eventually die. I can't have that. But if I kill her Mate it's like she never found him. It's brilliant isn't it?" I was going to strangle him!!!

"No, it's not brilliant, it's insane. Do you really think that if you take my Mate away from me I would stay with you?! I'll run away like I did 60 years ago and every day since." I was yelling by this point.

"Ah, but I have already figured that out," he slip his fingertips down my cheek and I jerked away from his touch, "I will make you mine."

"No!!" I screamed. The thought of him touching me had tears dripping down my face.

"Wait, hold on a second. You are not killing my brother," Dylan finally managed to regain his composure and pushed Kyle back.

"I think I am," he pulled out a silver knife and held it to Dylan's throat. "You found me, you did this. Just because you were blinded my revenge and didn't know what u were getting into doesn't mean it's my problem. Now move." Kyle managed to get Dylan against the wall and secure him there with handcuffs that were bolted to the wall.

Getting my breathing under control I trusted my voice enough to ask, "where are we?" I expected Kyle to answer but it was Dylan who spoke up.

"We're in the basement."

"What basement?"

"The basement to the house stupid." He sounded quite annoyed.

"Wait, this is not the basement. I live in the basement," now I was confused.

"No, there's a basement under the basement. This is The Room."

"What room?"

"The Room. The one I told you about. The one that the door to it is in your room."

"Oh," that made sense I guess. So this was The Room. Looking around I saw chains and whips and handcuffs and other things that I don't know the name or the function of.

"Yes, you people have weird collections," Kyle pointed out looking around the room also. "But I guess a tourcher room is fun. You can do a lot of things to a disobedient little girl," he grabbed my chin making me look at him, "well? What do you think?"

"Go to Hell," he let his claws come out digging them into my skin, making me wince in pain.

"Only if I can take you with me."

Then upstairs door opened and you could hear footsteps coming down into the upper basement. "Kitty? Kitty where are you?" It was slightly muffled by the floor between us, but I would be able to recognize that voice anywhere. Dylan looked up as well, and was that pain in his eyes? No can't be.

"Well, let's start the fun shall we?" And Kyle turned away from me and started walking towards the steps.