Chained Lovers

Chapter Eight

Alice was laying on the bed with Sabin, she didn't know how long she was there she couldn't exactly remember, but then she saw it on the sleeping figure before her a bruised area where she had once punctured for some blood. She then quickly got up looking her body over for any marks on her body that he may have left on her, "if you are worried I left a hickey on your body you don't need to worry I didn't do anything to you" Sabin said as he got up to a seated position on his bed looking at the time on his phone, "it's only three in the morning come back to bed Alice I was even kind enough to share the bed with you after you decided to nearly drain me of all my blood and then proceeded to fall asleep..."

"I'd rather sleep in a guest room if that's okay Sabin..." Alice responded looking away from the other male who she now saw didn't have a shirt on at all, "Alice it's okay you can sleep in this bed with me... Believe me it will be way more comfortable for you if you do... plus you can drink blood from me whenever you need to..."

"Alright fine I will stay in this damn room with you... Damn beggar..."

"I didn't beg I was just stating facts that were true..." she heard him retort to her with a smirk, the amber eyed male's words struck a chord with Alice and she shook her head before she looked at him once more trying to keep her composure, "just let me do something really fast and I will be back to bed I promise." The vampire female said downcasting her dual colored eyes before darting out of the room. She was knowing she left Sabin in confusion but she really needed to do this thing, and that was to get rid of this mark on her wrist that was meaningless to her now, and she needed to prove it.

Sabin was laying on the bed and he sighed softly as he watched Alice walk out of his room, he was actually wondering if she was actually going to return, or if she didn't really change, and she was giving away their position to Galen right now. He was thinking but then shook his head, "there's no way that she is doing that... I saw how fumed she was at Galen for doing the things that he did there's is no reasonable explanation why she would do that. Sabin slowly got out of bed because his own worries were getting the best of him and he needed to leave the room to make sure it wasn't what he was thinking. He was then stopped by Torin who looked at Sabin with serious green eyes, "you better keep an eye on her. We don't need to be compromised, she is still a hunter, and I can't trust her yet, and neither can the others... I don't know what you were thinking by willingly letting her stay here, but Sabin she needs to be constantly watched..." Sabin gave a soft growl at Torin and stared at him in his eyes, "don't think I don't know that why do you think I got up in the first place?"

"You should have left right after her, not sit for three minutes before following her." Torin shot back before he turned around and went back into his room, "she is your priority... Annilise is in the care of Kane... At least your underling is better at keeping an eye on strangers he guides..."

"Torin, you take that back you son of a bitch!"

"I will when you go find Alice and put her ba---" Torin's words were cut short when he and Sabin heard a pain filled scream of what sounded like a female, and the both of them bolted towards the sound, this clearly woke everyone else in the castle, and they came running too, including Annilise, who was mortified when she saw what had happened. Sabin looked at Alice who was hunched over in pain over the stove and he quickly ran to her pulling her away from the stove's gas flame, which got turned off by Paris, which led Promiscuity to yell, "what the hell was that about?! You woke everyone in the house!" Sabin shot daggers at his friend before he looked at Alice's wrist it was still bleeding from what looked like her cutting her wrist open and trying to cauterize the wound, "Alice, what the hell did you do to yourself...?!" Alice only looked up her forehead was covered in sweat which caused some of her multi colored bangs to stick to her, "I was making sure that they could never find me ever again... I cut open my wrist because they stuck a device in my wrist to keep me at bay... and they could easily control me if I went out of line.... it could double as a tracking device if Galen wanted... I then wanted to get rid of all evidence I was ever a hunter... I wanted to kill that part of me... So I was burning my wrist as a symbol of my rebirth..." Alice finished and Sabin looked at the vampire in shock and he looked at her bleeding wrist grabbing a lighter he finished the job causing Alice to wince in pain, "I know it hurts Alice... everything will be okay..." Once Sabin was finished he asked Aeron to grab the first aid, so he could bandage Alice's wrist.

Once Sabin was finished he stood up and looked at Alice, "now that, that is over and you woke everyone up... It's time for you to go back to bed you hear me?" This earned a begrudging nod of Alice's head, he could tell she hated being told what to do, but she did it anyway. Once Alice was walking towards the stairs Sabin looked down and picked up the device she was talking about giving it to Torin, "since you don't sleep anyway how about you look at this device and give me a report about it when I wake up okay?"

"Again you could say please you know...? There is no need to be rude Sabin..." Torin joked as he grabbed the bloodied device from Sabin and headed up the stairs. Sabin then looked at Aeron, "I'll clean this mess up for you, even though you are the maid... But I'll cut you a break... Everyone else go upstairs and go to bed..." Lucien looked at Sabin, and the scarred male sighed shaking his head, "you know we are co-leaders right...? But you're still my underling, no need to boss me around..."

"I get that, I'm sorry. I just wanted to protect Alice from the prying eyes to her vulnerability... You should see her true colors... She is quite the child on the inside..."

"I could tell the moment I saw her enter the castle... But she is still on alert to watch out for understand that Sabin?"

"Of course I do... You don't think I know the consequences of my choice if she ends up being a backstabber... However, her and I are on a truce, she won't hurt me, if I don't hurt her.." Sabin said as he was cleaning up the blood on the floor.