RULERS OF THE UNDEAD (sequel to SLAYERS OF THE UNDEAD)

Chapter 15

NIKKI'S (P.O.V)

We set out, unfortunately with the guys around me I could feel the testosterone in the air. We traveled to Florida together in a car. We did stop to sleep and shower in the hotels we stopped at. I got a room to myself every time because I wasn't about to share a room with any of them who knows what things they would try to do and of course I don't want them to fight each other. It was soo awkward. I wish I could dump them off somewhere and get things done by myself.

The stupid mate bond was making things even worse. I could feel my body fighting itself to go to either one of my mates but I was being reasonable and controlling myself well. It sucked that the spells I tried out only lasted for a while and then they would wear off. Eventually I gave up because it was taking a toll on me. The guys of course actually came to terms to giving me some space I know that they were hurt but I really need to just worry about myself and trying to find more help and see was John's stinky ass is up to. I tried not to touch either one of my mates or let one of them near me. Things were just more torturing. So to try and distract myself every morning I went for a run and worked out.

That's actually what I'm doing right now. I had left the guys at the hotel. They knew better than to try and follow, especially right now. They both could feel my torn feelings and I hated that. I wish I could just suffer with them alone but they felt the resonating hollowness that seemed to fill up my being. I felt empty but I smiled and was determined to do the jobs I assigned myself to do. There were times that I just wanted to give up but mostly I just really wanted to scream and cry because trust me the pain has been unbareable. The distance and the walls I've built around myself so my mates wouldn't fight over me were really and I mean literally starting to kill me already. I knew that the prophecy would come true if I didn't choose but how could I choose if it meant hurting one of them in the process. I'd rather die than choose. I liked both of them but I didn't want love to start to come into life so thats why i've just pushed them away instead.

I kept my head up high as I ran. In the woods of course. The smell of the different barks of trees filled my nose,the sweet scent of sap and flowers and grass also filled my nose. It smells wonderful.

I could hear a stream not to far away on my left. I could hear the animals in the woods scampering about, some running away as they heard my feet hit the hard ground of the forest. Scared, at least some of them were scared of me, others were curious, I knew some of them could feel my vampire side by the way that I could smell some fear in them. They knew the threat of part of what I am. They were the prey and I the predator, but I wasn't hunting them. I wasn't hunting at all even though I knew that I needed a Little bit of blood in my system but I wasn't about to kill one of them just to quench my hunger. Besides their blood just wouldn't be enough to calm the fires in the pit of my stomach. I needed to run more than I needed to eat.

I loved the way the air hit my face as I ran cooling me off a bit but I knew I was sweating a little. I had already been running for thirty minutes without stoping. I didn't need to take out my phone to confirm this all I did was look at the sun and I knew how much time had passed. I could read nature as easily as a text message. I knew the animals that had passed on the trail I was running on. I could see the marks of a fight on nearby bushes and even a couple of trees.

I heard a noise. This noise wasn't something normal. It didn't seem to fit into the noise of the Woods but somehow it did at the same time. I heard the fast footfalls of another runner in front of me coming my way. I slowed down and finally stopped curious as to who was coming. Strangely the person's scent wasn't someone's that I knew. The scent that I picked up was of the woods so I knew this person spent most of the time in the woods but I smelled it's own scent as well. This person smelled like vanilla and oranges.