Predetermined

Chapter 13 - Ring

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Erin felt faint, she felt sick and she felt dizzy. They were entitled to do this by breather law as well; she could be married with parental consent before eighteen.

Vlad could object to it if he was eighteen when the wedding was taking place, that's why they'd deliberately set it for the day before. They'd fixed it to make sure she didn't have a choice.

Erin looked at Andrew, he would never touch her.

In the blink of an eye she turned on the spot and ran as fast as she could in the opposite direction.

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Erin wished she'd thought this through as she raced through the trees. She could feel them close behind her.

She wasn't exactly wearing something that would help her blend in with the trees and in the middle of the day they'd see exactly where she was going.

The twigs snapped under her foot and the branches of the bushed tugged and tore at her clothes as she ran.

Something grabbed Erin around the waist, knocking her to the ground. She let out a startled cry as her shoulder impacted with the solid ground a moment before stars swam across her vision as her head hit the ground.

She looked up to see Andrew looking at her a smug grin on his face. She lifted her knee up and kneed him in the most painful place the man had.

She felt a smirk coming as his face paled as the pain kicked in and he froze over her. His hands immediately went to his groin. She shoved him and he rolled off her. He tried to grab her but failed. Erin scrambled to her feet, slipping and sliding on the leaves before running again.

She stumbled and tripped this time, the adrenalin having to pump through her veins once more. She felt winded but she had to keep running.

She paused her hand against the rough bark, bracing herself trying to get some breath back in her lungs. Her legs were burning no, she wished she had Vlad's powers.

Erin felt something hit her shoulder and she lost control of her legs. They immediately became numb. They crumbled underneath her like jelly. She didn't know what they'd used on her but it had stopped her in her tracks.

Erin reached up towards the tranquilliser dart and yanked it out of her shoulder tossing it away from her.

Within seconds her parents were upon her, George and Andrew next to them although Andrew didn't come to close.

George grabbed Erin's left hand and pulled something out of his pocket.

Erin cried out as the engagement ring was forced onto her finger. It was far too tight but she knew that it was intentional. She looked down at it, the ring was hideous.

It was just a cluster of diamonds; it was (in every definition of the word) a knuckle-duster.

The sight of it put some of Ingrid's rings to shame. It was much larger than Vlad's signet ring.

Immediately she hated the sight of it, she'd get out of this if it was the last thing she did.

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Tom watched as his daughter paced around her bedroom having her little 'hissy fit'.

Erin's room hadn't changed, the wallpaper was still blue and so were the rest of the bedclothes. Although her bookshelves had changed they were full of slayer manuals and autobiographies. They'd go out of the window the moment she was alone – that was assuming they actually fit through the bars that had been installed to stop her from escaping.