Bloodlines - Book One - COMPLETE

Chapter 18

I know the chapter is super short but things are happeninggggggg!!!!

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Haley asked a lot of questions but Desmond refused to answer any of them. Told her he will explain when everyone else gets here. But I think after my 'display' she didn't push it. She just nodded and gave me a head rub and skipped to her room.

Desmond slowly sat in the chair and huffed looking at me. He didn't say anything. Just stared at me.

It wasn't his usual stares. Where he watches me as a predator. Waiting to attack me any second.

But right now… he seemed worried and watched with me… hunger. I could see his eyes darken, more crimson in color.

"Would you," i start looking away nervously. "Like me to leave, master?"

He snarls and points to the chair across from him. "No, we must discuss some things, and discuss what the hell just happened."

Nervously I sit across from him looking at my hands. 

Several minutes went by and Desmond took a deep breath and sat up. "The night you...the night you first remember." He says calmly. "I have reasons to believe it's you because there was someone there who survived, and confirmed it was you that night just recently."

I look at him tears filling my eyes. I go to protest but he help up his hand.

"My informant doesn't want the royals to know it was you just yet. All they know is they saw you walk out and left with a hunter. They would like some more concrete information."

"I have told them that due to your story of memory lost, we will have to wait for my royal, Esmeralda, to come to see if this is a true story. And if it is, to find out what you did or what happened that night."

"So...whatever they find, decides my fate…" I say and look at my hands and clench them. "And if I didn't? If I didn't kill those people you mentioned."

"That's up to me to decide and for them to approve of it. Having you anything more than a pet I need their approval."

"You don't want me as a pet?"

"Not really. I find the idea of pets barbaric. My kind just uses them as sex objects and blood banks. Sure the need to have them here to feed is nice. But-" he scoffs and folds his arms.

"Is that why…" I felt my face turn red. "You dress me in your clothing? Lorna thought it was cause you find me unattractive…"

Desmond let out a growl. And I looked up at him. His fingers dug into the arms of the chair and his facial features all twisted.

"I.."

"I cloth you like any other person. You will not walk my halls anything shy of wearing what makes you comfortable." He growls and then a look of shock came across his face and he immediately he went stoic again. "I want to go over some things with you."

Hesitantly I nod.

"Haley has brought to my attention that you were gone. And by the look on your face when she mentioned that, it's not the first. Is that true?"

I nodded.

"Where? How often does this happen?"

"Where? I… well the first time. I was in someone's body at a hospital. And then I was in a room with you. And then in front of that house that was burning." Taking in a deep breath I felt odd talking about this. It felt personal… "I watched myself walk out and walk toward Me. I was talking but I couldn't understand. Then I began screaming and I woke up in your arms."

He nods at me. "And today?"

"I… I woke up in a field of flowers and this little girl called me, or the body I was in, Lis. And-"

He sat up and paused. His face went from blank to a twist over the course of a few seconds and started to pace.

"Des...master what's wrong?"

"This little girl you saw, whats her name? What did she look like?"

"She had.. Bright red hair, lots of freckles, blue eyes...and…" I put my fingers on my jaw, where her Mark started. "She had the same marks I do on her jaw."

He started fuming. 

I got up and reacted. Grabbing his hand he looked down at me angrily. "What's wrong? Who is she?"

"She, that little girl is my Royal. Esmeralda Maria Dragomir. And Lia, is her twin sister that died in that fire."