Queen of Darkness

Chapter 11 - Vamparic

Chapter 11 - Vamparic

Weeks had passed since the ball and everything was back to normal, well normal-ish other than Robert completely ignoring me.

He stopped giving me lessons, stopped inviting me to meetings with him and he even stopped having any communication with me.

If it wasn't for the fact that I saw him walking down the hall a few times, walking from one room to another, I would have thought he wasn't there at all.

I knew he was angry with me and at first I didn't really care because I was angry with him too. Yes I may have acted childish according to him but in my defense, the way I acted that night was after all his fault.

But as time passed and he continued giving me the silent treatment, I started feeling guilty. Maybe I did over react. Maybe I read to much into his total personality change. But finding out you've been living with a vampire was a lot to take in. The whole vampire situation was too much to process in such a short time, ofcause I was going to act out.

The more I thought about it the worse I felt. Even though he treated me so differently... so badly that one night... He had been good to me for months. Maybe he was just having a bad day too. The whole hosting a ball thing and having vampires and council members there, may have been a lot of pressure.

I started telling myself that I was the one at fault, I reacted wrong and improper and the way he treated me was my fault too. I was to blame for everything, except him kissing me that was all him and I still couldn't get over it.

I wanted to apologise. I felt I needed too but he refused to see me and that made me feel worse. For the first time since living there I felt unwelcome.

I decided the best thing to do was to stay out of his way until he was ready to engage in a conversation.

I was out walking, exploring the vast grounds one morning, which I did more often just to get out of the Châteaux, and now I had more time on my hands seeing I had no more lessons and meetings, when I came across an area which I haven't been before.

It must have been the original stables but it had been neglected, forgotten and partially demolished over time. There were signs that it may have burned down. It was mostly hidden amongst tall grass and shaded by large trees.

I decided that it would be my new favourite place to hang out during the day. It was the perfect place to just get away from it all. I used some of the fallen down roof trusses to make myself a little bench where I could sit and read. There was a perfect spot against one of the remaining walls where I could place some bales of hay and use as a targer for when I wanted to practice my archery skills. Archery was one of the few things I really enjoyed. There was a large apple tree that was overflowing with apples, providing me with food so I didn't have to worry about going hungry or returning anytime soon. I was pretty sure I could survive out there. The only thing that made me a little weary was its close proximity to the woods. The place I was warned about so many times, and learned to fear.

Unbeknownst to me that was the very day that Robert decided he did want to speak with me after all. After weeks of ignoring me, he had a meeting with another vampire named Rowan that morning. Their meeting didn't go very well and they ended up having a physical altercation which ended with Rowan stabbing Robert in his side with a dagger.

What made things worse was as Rowan fled Roberts office he threatened Robert that he would kill me, in a last attemp to get on Roberts nerves.

Rowan was for some reason under the impression that Robert had a fondness for me, thus I was seen as Robert's weakness. But as I later learned this was a general assumption by many of Roberts enemies and it just made my life even more of a struggle.