3. The invitation

What! Does he mean it? Am I really his first wife, why don't I believe him. Why didn't he marry someone before me?

"Why me? And why now." He stares at me, pushing his plate aside.

"I was too busy. And now because you were the first woman I wanted to be as my wife. From the first glimpse I saw from you, I had to have you," He said proudly. Proud that he had taken me as his possession.

When I'm done eating, I step out of the room. I don't want to be with him right now anymore. But if I thought, he wouldn't follow me. I was stupidly wrong, and I feel his arm taking my arm.

"Accept it or not. You are mine now, And I want you to apologize to leave the table before I said so." Is He is crazy? I'm not going to apologize to him.

"No," he dragged me to a room on the first floor, where he pushes me in. In this room with all the gray-toned art and a wall that is painted almost the shade of black. Pushing me to the wall, where he held me captive against the wall with each of his hands beside my head.

"You are going to obey, or you will feel my anger," he is so serious, but am I really this brave to dare him? I look strong to him. But inside, I am dying of fear.

"No Xandros, If you want me to listen you have to kill me." Never I had dared to speak like this to my husband, He unleashes the bad side in me. I can hardly believe I had really said this to him, but when I see his eyes, I know I really did.

His eyes are glowing when I suddenly feel his fangs going into my neck, first I scream and yell, but then a minute later it let me feel so good. Feeling like he is the man I want if he is the only man on the planet! I push my body closer to his and let a moan out of my mouth. He was not prepared for this reaction and immediately stops drinking from my neck. I was not prepared for this feeling that came to me. Why does it feel so good? Why can't it feel horrible? Is this some kind of enchantment he put on me?

He cursed and walk away from me, slamming the door behind him. I don't know why he acts like this, but it just happened. Does he have these feelings also and is it normal? Happy he is gone, I let my body flow to the ground with my hand against my neck.

After a couple of minutes, I step back into my room and decide to go sit down on the couch. Breathing hard like I had been running for hours. I hate what he did to me. Why could I not push him away or just be gross-out about it?

Later, when I go downstairs, I already see him at the diner table. He had waited for me before he takes his fork and took a little piece of meat into his mouth. I keep on eating in silence, not to dare him again. I'm still not recovered from the feeling he had given me this morning.

Then there is coming his vampire pet that gives him some kind of letter. Yes, I call the grey-toned creepy vampire his pet. Because he is always by his side like a little puppy.

I hear Xandros jump up in anger with the letter slamming on the table, "damn! They have already sent me these stupid invitations. Could they not even wait till she is fully ready to participate in this kind of party," hearing him say this with a strong voice to his pet.

I am wondering what for parties this could be? What do I have to do where I have to be ready for? It's so frustrating how little information I can get from them. If I want to know where they are talking about, it sounds horrible and terrifying.

"You have to sir. It's from your brother," his pet is telling him. He starts again with cursing.

Definitely, at the emotions of the conversation, I can hear that there are also problems in his family too. My father and mother also had a favorite child Ferry that they always loved and cared for the most, they must be happy I am taken. Because they never wanted me.

No, that's not true my father will know he is the one that always invites me to their Christmas party, if he didn't my mother would forget.

"Ok, I will go! Fix me some kind of woman I can take to this party," Xandros is commanding this to his pet. I'm so happy he takes someone else and not me to this party. I don't want to go with him anywhere. I just want to be left alone.

"But sire, Your wife has invited too, he will know you take another woman. He had seen her at your wedding," The pet is spoiling this for me. Now I have to go. First I feel the fear creeping up, but I got myself back on track after he looked at me.

Xandros stood up and is going to the living room. I'm still eating when I hear him calling me to come to him. When I'm standing before him, his pet had just left the room.

"What?" I said annoyed and not interested in what he had to say. Again I am rude to him, I don't want to be my friend, I just want to escape. I don't know how I do it or how I can hide what I really am feeling, but he may never know, how scared I really am.

"Manners Cara, you don't want me to bite you again?" He even smiled at me. Not a smile of humor, but an evil smile, he is up to something. Scared, I look away, but again I straighten my back and stood there like a lion who can attack her zebra anytime.

"Tell me, sir?" I try to provoke him by laying it thicker than needed.

He takes my arm and pulls on it, that I have to look into his eyes. I see him looking into mine, trying to see what I am thinking. "You have luck, I just ate. Go change, we have to go to this party." He let me go and stepped out of the room. I go upstairs to my room and open the closet.

As I open the closet, It's full of fancy clothes and shoes. Never had I seen so many shoes and dresses. I look and immediately fall to my eye on a sunny yellow dress that I took from the clothing wearer. I go to the mirror and look at myself in the mirror standing with my long brown hair. My amber eyes even pop more because of the color of the dress I hold before me. Last, I take some white pumps off the rack and walk out of the room down the stairs, where Xandros is already waiting for me at the door. We step to the limousine where I had been when he took me here for the first time. Freaking out inside myself why I had put this nice dress on and tried to fit in, as I know I can't and won't. All I want is to survive and be back with my husband and not this vampire creature.

In the car, he takes my head in his hands and lets me look at his face. "I want you to take this seriously for once, Ok? These parties are not regular parties, but blood-sucking parties." What does he mean by that? Bloodsucking parties, what would I do? But before I can start panicking, he shakes my head back at his. "Don't forget to stay with me. If you go away, I can't protect you."I nod when he let my face loose and looked out of the window from his left.

When we arrive at the location, I see a vampire open the doors of the limousines that are standing in the front of the door. First, is Xandros stepping out of the limousine, then he sticks his hand out to me for me to take it. We walk together to the main door. When I am looking at his appearance, He is wearing a black suit with a blue necktie. What does this suit look great to him, just like a leader? Did he not say he is king? I hope I can find a way to flee and never come back.

When we are in the middle of the party, it is all fully going. I see a lot of humans and vampires going together to some kind of hallway that is closed with a red curtain.

"What's there? Why are they all going inside?" Looking at Xandros, who is standing next to me, tensed up.

"That are the bitting rooms," he explained, looking at the place where I am still looking at.

What rooms? Why are all these humans following them, are they not afraid to go? Xandros looked a last time to the place and then back to me.

"Why are the humans just following them to these rooms?" Still questioning Xandros about it. There are a lot of people that walk in and out of the rooms.

Then I hear a voice next to us. What made my body covered in goosebumps. He sounded so fiercely and cruel like I thought every vampire talked. Except for Xandros who sounded more harmonic and strongly than as a bloodsucking kind.

"Do you want to join? I like to taste my brothers' wife." It gives me the creeps of how he is asking for my blood.

"Firius, I'm not sharing. She is my possession, and you know how possessive I can be," Xandros told his brother to back off. I'm so happy he doesn't share me with that awful brother of him. He had even still had blood in his mouth corners from bloodsucking the person who is next to him and looked very pale.

He looks like Xandros, but his hair was all shaved off, and he had been in many battles to look at the scars on his face and arms.

"Then I see you two in the Red rooms later." What does he mean? Does he mean, the bite rooms? Why would he think I am up to that? If I had really a chance. Cause as Xandros pulled me to the rooms, I couldn't do anything about it with all these vampires crowed up in this room.

Xandros is fucked up because of his brother and takes me to a corner where are fewer people are around us. Where I feel again this feeling of him with that pierced eyes into mine. A feeling he doesn't want to harm me, but I keep my guard up to protect me from his cruelty that can pull up in an instant.

"He dares me to bite you. He knows I'm not as barbarian as him and he dares me all the time to be different. I don't want you on these parties because sometimes there are vampires that lose themselves and suck humans dry." This doesn't make me feel better, why does he say that. I like honesty but I just want to go to that castle and think about a plan to go away from all these vampires back to my house.

He is again talking to the other vampires as we return to the middle of the crowd. He is sure an important vampire in this community. You see him talking to all the vampires in the room, even there are coming woman vampires at us, asking him for his approval. I don't get it why do they ask him for approval? For what even? Do the vampires bite each other too? And if I am not wrong I had heard him say he was important like a king or he is the king. What made me, even more, question him and his intentions.

All these questions in my head are driving me insane. I still stood quietly next to him almost dreaming away into my thought till he takes me with him. With fear I look at the place with the red contains covered at the entrance.