Ch 175: Slap a Vampire

Neither too hard nor gentle, Kai pushed me into the wall alongside my closed walk-in closet and Sapphire's tree bed.

His face was so close that I could feel his breath on my flesh. "Don't hurt me!" I screeched.

"Hush up and listen!" He hushed me vastly. "Since you know the truth about my existence. It's very important that you keep that secret or else I'll have to kill that person before the Vampire Covenant does the job anyway. Therefore if you don't want me to kill your lover Orlando, Alejandro, Zach, Crystal, and whoever else you care about. Then you best refrain from telling anybody else the truth about me and my family!"

I shook my head petrified of him with acknowledgment of what he threatened. "Good, girl, Victoria," Kai shimmered his red eyes at me. "Now behave yourself, my love."

He stepped away and picked up a laptop from the table stand by the couch. I realized then that it was my laptop he had. He opened it up and then snapped it in half like a toothpick. Utter brokenness compressed my heart to know everything I had on it was gone.

"That is your punishment for running away to that Mill family," he said quite angrily at me.

Then he put the pieces of my laptop back on the table. He strides over and pinned my back against the wall. Deeply, he sniffed my hair before his nose traveled to my neck. I felt my pulse throbbing painfully in my neck when his lips brushed up against it to taunt me. Then his face lines up with mine as his eyes shine hotly. His bottom lip wiped across mine when his lips touched me.

Then he trails his breath to my right ear and hauntingly whispers. "If I caught you associating with those Mills I will punish you." He inhaled, smelling me again and I pinched my eyes closed, shaking. "If I never see you kissing Orlando or even touching him again like I had to watch during the meteor showers. You will regret it."

My eyes gaped open, shocked to hear he was spying on me. "You were there..." I gasped when he faced me with these ferocious red eyes.

"Yes, I watched you both making out. Up until you puked at the tree, I hid by. Until I backed up deeper into the darkness." His finger touched my lips and then trailed down to my breasts. "You let him kiss around your cleavage." Rage flared his eyes much worse as he touched the button on my black dress pants. "And I know you let him between your legs!"

"I never slept with him! I never meant for that to happen." I shakingly said as frightened tears rolled from my cheeks.

"Yes, I know you aren't a complete slut!" He spat nastily in my face.

Slap! Without holding back my anger, I smacked him across the face. A nice handprint shone ripe red on his left cheek. I was shocked at what I did. Panic hit me just as hard to realize he isn't human. I just smacked a vampire in the face and he let me!

Kai looked at me like he wanted to rip me in half but instead, he backed up slightly. "Get a shower! I want Orlando's scent off you! You are mine now and forever!" He growled murderously and ripped the golden heart locket off my neck.

Right before my eyes, he crushed it in his palm and it popped like bubble wrap. By the time he was done crushing it. Both memorable photos of Orlando and I were all but destroyed. Right afterward, he vanished from my sight. All I saw was the balcony's glass doors open before they shut tight. Yet I never once saw him.

My back slid down the wall and I curled my knees up to my chest and cried the hardest I've ever cried. Every bone in my body shook and shivered.

"Sapphire!" I called and wiped these tears. I realized I left her here with a monster.

"Meow!" I went to crawl on all fours to search when I heard this kitten cry from underneath my side of the bed. I was awed and relieved to see her come stretching out with a yawn. Once she shook more awake and saw me, she came running over. I cuddled her up and felt she has grown. Either Kai or somebody made sure she was well-fed. She purred in my arms while I cried non-stop. I couldn't believe anything that had happened. Kai's a vampire! It's unfathomable and unreal. It can't be real but he proved it to me.

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Nighttime came around in a blink of an eye. After a long shower, I snuggled with Sapphire on the couch. The tv stayed on but I kept peeking around every dark corner. At times, I swear to hear something large yet quietly scurrying about on the walls. Yet I saw nothing and then the creepy noise would stop. Until something else in the room would creak and crack. For the first time, the bedroom felt like it was haunted.

I laid my head back on the pillow and my eyes blink sleepily. Till I saw a shadowy mist in the corner that had red glowing eyes. I sat straight up and shined my flashlight but found nothing there. If Kai was seriously trying to freak me out, it was certainly working. Either that or I've lost my mind.

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"Somebody open up!" I screamed when pounding my fists on the door. Two days! For two days, Kai's kept me locked away in the bedroom. Other than the fact that I could enjoy the balcony. I could only stay in the room. Then maids would come in to feed me and offer me anything else I wanted. Aside from leaving the room wasn't an option. Otherwise, nobody else said a word to me. And Kai hasn't once come in to see me.

"Let me out, Kai!" I yelled continuously to the point my throat felt raw from all the screaming and shouting.

"What do you need, Princess?" Finally, I heard Rome's voice on the opposite side of the door.

"I want out!" I holler still smacking the door with my palms.

"I'm sorry, Princess," Rome said sympathetically. "Kai forbids it right now."

"He can't keep me locked up forever!" I yelled but heard no response. "Rome!" It was all but silent from the other side.