Queen of Darkness

Chapter 14 - Control

Chapter 14 - Control

I woke In Robert's bed once again, Bandaged up. I was alone in the room which I found rather odd because Robert has never left my side when I got injured before.

I got up and made my way to my room, I needed to get clothed before I could do anything else. Luckily Helen was coming up the stairs just as I reached my room. She quickly arranged for the bathers to come and for food to be sent up to my room.

As soon as I was bathed, fed and dressed The General was at my door to accompany me downstairs. He didn't speak a word until we were alone walking through the gardens. Apparently I needed fresh air after being unconscious for two days.

The General: "Are you still you or are you really Vamparic"

Me: "How would I be able to know how to answer such a question?"

The General: "If you could ask me but one question, at this moment, what would it be?"

I answered without even thinking "Where is Robert, why was he not with me when I woke?"

The General: "Than it's true, you're Vamparic...Trophy won, on to the next conquest... Now you will only see Robert when he has use for you... And I've lost you forever"

I could have told him that I was still me.... to some extent, the reason I asked about Robert was more out of curiosity not because I longed for him. I felt bad hurting The Generals feelings but if this was what I needed to do to get away from Robert than call me Vamparic, but it did somewhat hurt my feelings that he referred to me as a conquest, a trophy that has been won and now not worth much. For once in my miserable life I felt wanted and important, guess I was wrong.

The days that followed I fell back into a routine of sorts. Wake up, wash up, get dress, eat breakfast, spent time in the library or time practicing Magick, lunch, and attend meetings with Robert, dinner, bath, sleep. Once a week I would spend a day at Abigail, practicing Magick and Every so often Robert would request me to sleep in his room where he would feed off me and make love to me, I would be all loving and happy to be with him so he never bothered to look into my memories. I was the perfect Vamparic.

I didn't see much of the General anymore either, he kept his distance except when he had to accompany me somewhere away from the Châteaux.

Sometimes I was requested to attend or host parties or some get-together alongside Robert and had to act like the jealous woman by his side while he flirted with others, thing was It did upset me to see him flirting with them, I hated it when he used his seduction on other woman and they were all over him.

He especially loved to torture me by making me watch while he bit them and made love to some of them, but luckily he spared me from watching him with other men, I doubt I would be able to keep up with appearances if I had to endure that.

The routine quickly turned to months, and I was starting to get annoyed with keeping up the charade, I needed to start thinking of another plan.

It was only my days spend with Abigail that I could be myself. No vampires around so I didn't have to keep up the act.

Me: "How long have you been friends with Robert?"

Abigail: "My whole life. Robert knew my mother, and when my mother got ill he promised her he would take care of me."

Me: "Take care of you?... So why are you not living at his Châteaux, and why are you not Vamparic"

Abigail smiled uncomfortably, were good friends too and she knew she could be open with me. "Well, my mother was a witch for Robert, part of his security. He took care of my family financially, in exchange for protection and an alliance with the witches. Vampires and Witches don't mix, they don't even get along and we stay clear of vampires and vampires stay clear of witches.