The Vampire Prince

Chapter One

Azalea's POV- Edited

I realease a breath of air that looked like steam in front of me. I was walking to my job, I worked at a diner a couple blocks down from my house.

I lived in a town where vampires roamed the streets at night and humans stayed tucked away in there houses until sunrise. There are about four times as many vampires than there are humans. We all lived in the shadows of the Belladona Castle, where the King, Queen, Prince and Princess Vampires lived.

They were- from what I had heard- fair, civilized people. I mean vampires that were okay with humans living in the town they ruled. They had made laws that vampires couldn't capture humans and drink their blood unless given permission or if they were their mates. Even if they were so called mates, the vampire must still have the okay to bite their other half.

The owners of the diner I worked at were actually vampires and had basically taken me in and watched out for me. My dad dropped me off with them when I was ten because he hadn't gotten over my mother's death and found out that I, at some point, would be mated to a vampire.

Yeah I know shocker for a human to be mated to vampire, right? It actually happened every now and then and if you've ever read any vampire-romances you would see that it is said to be surprising but I'm telling you it isn't.

I wasn't sad about being the other half to someone, but I wasn't hyped about it either. I felt about one tenth of nervousness about my mate rejecting me. I know I say that now but I'll proabbly never be able to cope with my self if that were to really happen- well, that's what Anna tells me.

Oh, Anna is who watches over me. Raymond, her husband and mate also keeps an eye on me.They raised me from when I was 10 'till I was 18. I'm 20 now, just waiting for my partner to come find me and sweep me off my feet and love me forever and always and yadadadada.

I make it to the diner about ten minutes before I'm supposed to and give Anna a hug.

"How are you honey?"

"I'm good, how about you?"

"I'm fine, now I have some news for you."

"Shoot away."

"The royal family is coming to the diner tonight!" she claps her hands together and gives and me a huge smile.

I stand there shocked.What if I drop coffee on them or get there order wrong? What if they don't like me?!!

"Lea... Lea... LEA!" I'm literally shaken from my thoughts by Raymond.

Oh yeah my names Azalea but Raymond and Anna call me Lea, as well as my decieced sister- well at least she used to. My sister died when I was 9 from something unknown. We never found her body.

"Yes?"

"I know you're probably worried about messing up in front of them but you'll be fine."

"How do you know?"

"Cause I know okay? Now go get you're apron you have table 5, 6, and 1 when the royals get here."

"Okay."

I walk to the break room and grab my apron that says 'Lea' on it in big blue block letters. I grab a clip and put my hair up in a messy bun. I walk out to table 5 and take orders from a family of 3. They were, of course, vampires, not that I minded.

After serving table 6, a family of four comes in and I see Anna set them at table one. They were dressed like any other regular family of vampires which at first made me unable to recognize them as the royals.

I walk over to Anna to ask her a quick question.

"Am I supposed to bow to them or what?" I whisper. I hear Raymond let out a small chuckle behind me.

"No honey, just act like they're any other family okay?"

"Okay but one more question."

"Hmm?"

"Why can't you guys take care of this table!" I whisper yell.

"Just go." she says, shaking her head.

I walk over to the table with a small smile.

"Hi, I'm Lea what can I get you guys to drink?"

The King responds first.

"I'll have a water."

"I'll have a water too, but with lemon please."The queen and Princess respond.

I look over at the prince who I find already gaping at me. I look into his eyes and feel this pull to wrap my arms around him and snuggle into his chest. I look down realizing he's my mate.

"What can I get for you?" I say still looking down.

"A iced tea please." He had an incredibly sexy deep voice that sent a shiver down my spine.

"I'll be right back with that."

I turn on my heel, feeling the prince's gaze on the back of my head.

"Lea!" Anna calls me over with a worried look on her face.

"Why is the prince starring daggers into your head?"

I look down once again at the stone floor.

"He's my mate." I whisper. I hear Anna gasp and Raymond drop his notepad.

While sighing I walk over to a pitcher of water and pour water in three glasses then add lemon to two of them. I then get another glass and pour iced tea in it.

I take the drinks over to the royals and set them down on the table.

"So what can I get you to eat?"

They ordered their food in the same order they ordered their drinks, first the king, then queen, then princess, then prince. When my mate ordered I felt shivers down my spine again.

I go over to Anna and tell her what they ordered then go to the break room. I plop myself down in a spinny chair and start spinning myself around. How could I be mated to a royal? A prince. I'm not good enough for him. I'm not proper, I'm not pretty, and I don't know the first thing about pleasing/keeping a vampire tamed.

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