Beloved

The First Strike

Ever since the party I've been dodging all males of all sorts. I couldn't risk their murder so I stayed away from them all. Jake seemed happy but I was secretly suffering. He makes life difficult, whatever he doesn't like I have to avoid. Whoever He doesn't like I have to avoid. He makes me live a limited life to stroke his easily bruised ego. He's even started to limit Talyn's visits as well because he heard her say that Adam looked good that night. I just want to go home...

"You should really eat more, gotta get some meat on those fragile bones haha." Of course he was playing but I took that joke as an insult. "Oh yeah, maybe you should lay off on food for for awhile there tubby." I said with an acid-laced tone while roughly stabbing my steak. He sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose before flipping the table over me. Fear immediately took root in me and I froze while he yelled at me.

"What the fuck do I have to do to make you talk normally with me?! You're always bitchy and mean to me even after how nice I've been to you! What the actual fuck is your problem?!" The courage to speak suddenly came and emboldened me.

"You literally kidnapped me! Why would I talk casually with you??? You've stopped me from talking to friends! From working! How did you expect me to react?!" My reaction came as a surprise to me as well as him. I was actually sitting here yelling at a monster to his face, was I crazy?

"That's because your my Beloved! I shouldn't have to share you with other men! And I only have you here to keep you safe from my enemies!"

"There you go, you said it! Your enemies! Why am I even involved, you don't even love me, you just want to control me like a play thing!"

Our voices kept getting louder and louder. But Jake's voice was imposing in every way.

"I do fucking love you!!! You don't let me show it to you!!! I like to go out and have dates too but whenever I ask you're always too tired to leave. And if I wanted to make you do something I could have easily. Also, they want to get to me and the only way to do that is with you!" He was turning red, he was really upset. Maybe I should stop... but I can't.

"Fuck your enemies! And fuck you!!! I'm not dealing with this shit anymore, there's no way to make me do whatever you want anymore cause I'll always fight you over it!" I said, not prepared for what happened next. His eyes glowed red and he yelled at me.

"Sit the hell down!"

After those words left his mouth, I had an overwhelming urge to sit that I couldn't even stop myself. My body immediately turned and sat back down. After the feeling left, horror washed over me.

"You can literally make me do what we you want... the coercion thing." I whispered and he tossed the other table before sighing and sitting down near me as I stared into space thinking about the horrifying things that he could make me do.

"Look uh, I've only ever used it on you once. The first night I brought you here, to make you sleep and calm down after the attack. This would make the second time in about six months. I don't like to use it on you and I'll definitely never use it to get what I want with you, I want to earn my place in your heart, not place myself there. I just want you to see that even though I am a creature of the night that I still love and want to be loved." His speech made me feel a bit better but I was still not trusting him.

In the next moment, a gunshot went off and glass broke. I turned my head to the right to see Jake's hand there. He opened it and there sat a bullet on his palm. He flashed over to the window and slung his arm towards the building across the park a few hundred feet away. Soon after, an explosion rocked that building and I gasped before stepping back. I bumped into some type of leather and turned to face a big bald man. I raised my arm to block the punch that he threw but it shattered. I fumbled back with a shriek and Jake cut off his arms before kicking his head through the walls. I ran to the room but slid onto the floor as an attempt at stopping myself from running into the woman with daggers in her hands. I rolled backwards over my broken arm as I dodged her blades. Jake spun over me and punched her. The force of the impact blew me back across the hall and onto a section of the couch. He stood through the dust and loosened his tie. His eyes were a blazing red in the moonlight and his breath showed in the frosty air. Another few people jumped through the windows but he defeated them just as fast as they came. I felt a presence behind me, turned, and caught a hand that dropped into my lap. Jake was there holding the man by his throat and had apparently cut off the man's hand as he reached out for me. I screamed and threw it before cowering behind Jake. He crushed the man's throat and he went limp for a second before burning into a dust just as the others before him. Jake turned to me and picked me up and whispering 'sorry' before running and jumping out of the window. I clutched hard to him as he ran down the building and steadied myself for the landing we were in for. As we neared the ground, a helicopter opened fire at us and he jumped away from the building. He ran around the helicopter, threw me into the air above it, and crashed into the helicopter himself. I went into a slow time stream and fell in slow motion. Jake wrestles with the people inside and killed them before flying to me and landing to continue escaping on foot. A few blurs trailed us before becoming visible like him. Vampires were baring their fangs and hounding us.

"Heads up!" Jake jumped and another figure crashed into the first vampire. It was Lily!!! "Move bitches!" That second voice threw me for a loop as another feminine figure crashed into a few more Vampires. She stopped and looked for me with the same blazing eyes as everyone else here. "Oh great you're ok!" She was relieved but I was distraught.

"Talyn?!"