[Completed] Riley Hayes | A Vampire Novel - Book I

Chapter 25 - Seductive huntress

I have been here for three days now, attending Ricky's classes and going out with him in the evenings. I had learned a lot about him, such as he was working hard the whole day researching. When he had a few glasses of wine he would slip about his research.

I know there are holding cells on the lowest level so I was positive that Amalia was down there. If she was still alive that is.

I also discovered Ricky is a family man but hasn't had much luck with the research ladies and God, that man is desperate for female attention. Or at least he makes it very easy for me.

I wouldn't actually go to bed with him, I couldn't bear thinking about Leuca's reaction when he would find out. I hadn't even had sex with Leuca. The thought alone made me flush red!

Right now I was lunching with Ricky again to get to know him. He also had dared to ask if I was single and if I wanted to have kids and such. He was looking at me like a possible partner which made it easier for me to play him. He had drunk a few wines and we were laughing about some ridiculous questions students had asked him in the past. "So this boy asks me if they are weak to the sun for he had read it in some vampire novel from a hundred years ago!" He laughed and I laughed with him.

If only, that would've made everything much easier. Their only weakness is silver, a blade directly into their heart or if it somehow enters their bloodstream and ends up in their heart.  Beheading would work too, but that was much harder to do.

I had to start making a move now and test how much Ricky was starting to trust me. "Ah well it is funny but I understand. We never have seen a vampire so there are so many questions to be answered! I would do anything just to see one!" I leaned forward and grabbed a hold of Ricky's hand, "wouldn't you?"

He looked sideways and then back at me. I felt him squeeze my hand slightly, almost reassuringly. "I have seen plenty... actually..."

"You have?" I acted excitedly and then leaned forward more to whisper, "were they scary?"

He shook his head, "wanna see one?" He chuckled and waved his key pass in front of me.

Bingo.

"I can?" I whispered back.

He nodded and explained we had to be careful and I shouldn't talk to anyone. Not interfere with anything that was happening, I should just follow him quietly.

I nodded along with everything I said and after he paid, we slowly walked towards the elevator I had seen him come out when we first met. Until now, everything was going quite smoothly.

He swiped his card and it flashed green before the doors opened. He pushed the lowest button which said RC. "What is RC?" I asked.

"Research center." He replied. "Just know that whatever you see, they're all bound and sedated so you are completely safe okay?" He wrapped an arm around me and I leaned into him.

"Okay..." I also wrapped my arm around him and we walked like that through a long hallway until we reached the first holding cells.

Mostly white surrounded us and the area looked spot clean. I saw rows and rows of holding cells God, I didn't know it was this many... "Can I ask how many there are?" I whispered.

"We have 95 holding cells but only around half of that is occupied at the moment." He explained and walked past the first few which were indeed empty.

It was a simple room behind glass and silver bars, the room was about five to five and even in the empty rooms, I saw spots of blood and iron shackles hanging from the ceiling, the ground, and even on the walls.