Desires

Chapter Three: She Completely Lost Her Mind

We went into the kitchen where I could hear just faint whispers of a conversation. I was deeply suspicious. What was going on here? Momma was nothing if not loud and proud.

Every face registered shock when we burst through. The hushed whispered stopped and I looked at every face in turn. They were all grim.

It didn't matter how long I lived, I would never forget that look of utter joy and relief at our appearance.

“You're back” Mani breathed, jumping up on Adrian.

And then she did something that surprised us all.

She kissed Adrian. ON THE MOUTH.

I saw red and I saw it seeping from her torn throat when I ripped it open. My claws came out, eagerly awaiting the wash of her blood.

No one was allowed to kiss Adrian. He was mine, goddammit! Mine!

He looked alarmed, like he could read my emotion in the air. So he pried Mani off before I could kill her, tearing open her flesh like tissue paper.

I was still gonna go for her, though. How did he expect me to let her go after that? Especially since her eyes held nothing but stark challenge.

I hissed at her, ready to pounce.

Lynn was telling Mani something in a harsh whisper (“You know better than to move on a bonded feeder!”) but Mani didn't look away from me.

Adrian quickly tackled me to the ground before I did damage.

I kept my eyes trained on that smug look on her filthy human face. I wanted to rip it open like you wouldn't believe. But Adrian's entire weight was on me and I didn't want to hurt him by throwing him off. He took full advantage of that, the bastard.

“Don't do anything, she doesn't mean anything to me and she never will. I belong only to you” he murmured in my ear.

It was the only thing that he could have said to calm me down.

Gradually, my tense body relaxed enough to satisfy him. Momma looked anxiously on the spectacle we made on the floor, holding Mani and Lynn close by the oven, as far from us as she could get while inside the kitchen.

When my gums started to pinch and itch, warning me that my fangs retracted, Adrian thought that it was finally okay to let me go and so he took his weight off me slowly.

I thought it was sweet that he honestly thought that his weight was keeping me down.

Finally, he rolled off and offered me a hand. I was up on my feet before he could even bend down enough to offer it.

I kept a wary glare on Mani.

Adrian was mine. There simply was no other way to look at it.

And I didn't share.

Momma barely gave me a minute to brace myself before she threw herself in my arms, crying uncontrollably. I awkwardly pat her back as she let it out.

I'm guessing Jezebel's stint on the throne wasn't too popular. At least, not here.

“Fill me in” I told her simply. She immediately started to tell me everything that Jez had done while in my absence. Her tears got steadily worst but her voice was strong. She wanted Jez' head on a pike for what she was trying to do.

With every word, I tensed anew, ready to rip that bitch's heart out.

She was getting ready to declare open war on humans. She wanted to enslave them and hunt them like wild animals. Just like Ilty had suggested we do at the meeting we had with all of Alex's advisers. It seems that Jez is all for it and gave Ilty full permission to completely stop the Feeder Program ( the Feeder Program is/was the criteria for feeders and the vamps who retrieved humans who met the standards).