Gypsy

Chapter Thirty Four

"We are having a party tomorrow little Nymph." I glanced over at Malfoy, currently sitting at the dining table like a king. My lip curled and I shuffled the food around on my plate again, some weird gelatine blob wiggled when I hit it with my fork. I had come straight to the dining room after the 'cupboard' incident, and did my best not to smack Malfoy across the face for daring to sell Rosie to that disgusting Nott humanoid.

He frowned when I didn't respond, inwardly I smirked. "Don't you want to know what the party is for?"

I took a bite of my jelly thing, gagged and spat it out on the plate, a disgusted noise left Malfoy. "Purification Ball." Short answers are best, don't get angry.

"She saw the request for funding for the ball." Riddle sat across from me, red eyes trained on my downcast ones.

Malfoy 'humfed', "eat your food." I scoffed and looked at the plate, this wasn't food, this was 'look at how fancy I am' balls of mush.

"I'm not hungry." I took a sip of the wine, spat that back in too. Nasty stuff.

A fork slammed down on a plate, I glanced up at Riddle. How do I piss him off when I'm not even trying to. "We will be debuting you to society tomorrow, I expect you to eat your food and drink your wine like a human, not the animal you are."

I looked at him bored, control, and nodded before placing my fork down. The room was silent, "may I be excused?"

"No." Twin voices answered, I sighed and sunk further into my chair. Already sick of behaving, I looked around the room we were in. It was large and cold, like much of the Manor. There was a buffet style table at the front of the room, all covered in icky looking food. Bangers and mash would be nice right now.

"I will be handing off my collection of creatures." Stated Malfoy, "I understand you have become close to Vanessa, you had best say your goodbyes."

"Not in the mood to keep you harem then?" Fucking mouth, I bit my tongue.

Eyes narrowed, Malfoy looked at me. "Do you want me to keep them?"

"Yes." My lips twitched in a smile when he swore and slammed his cutlery down.

"You are the most impossible woman."

I chuckled and winked at him. "Not a women remember," I held up my brand, "call me Creatur--"

"Enough!" Malfoy and I both jumped, Riddle rarely yelled. He took a breath and waved his hand at the door, it opened and two people in black robes and masks walked in. Between them was Vanessa, I sucked in a breath at the sight of her. She was beaten, badly. Two swollen eyes met mine and I flinched, he knew.

"Did you really think you could keep a secret from me Mudblood." Riddle spoke to me, I flinched and looked at him. "Malfoy, you really need to tame your pets better. Imagine my surprise when one of my servants came to me, speaking about some crazy Nymph who was going to blow us all up and the Veela who was helping her."

Vanessa let out a chuckled from between the robed men, she was barely able to stand, but she still managed to spit a glob of blood and Riddle. It missed. One of the men spun her around and backhanded her across the face, she cried out and fell to the ground at their feet. Furious I stood, my chair scraped backwards across the floor.

"Sit...down." The dark voice was deathly calm, my hands shook a little in fear but I stood my ground.

"Get...fucked." This time I spat, and it actually managed to hit Riddle's robes. The masked men made to come towards me, the fury in their eyes visible through the tiny slits in the masks.