Chapter 4

Have you ever woken up with a blaring headache? So loud, your ears felt numb. My vision was blurry and my throat was dry. I blinked furiously trying to clear my vision.

The room that I was in was dark. I furrowed my brow as I raised my upper body to glance around. I was laying on a soft bed with what felt like silk sheets.

"The hell," I said, feeling a nauseating feeling come over me as I spoke and the dark room began spinning.

I groaned and closed my eyes. I felt as if I had been hit by a truck. I wrapped my hand around my torso and sighed. What had happened? Oh, gosh, don't tell me that I was hungover and where on God's green earth was I?

I opened my eyes. They struggled to adjust properly to my dark environment because my supernatural juju was too busy fixing my body up. Though, I didn't stop trying to look around the room.

It was when the blurriness subsided did I see it. The quick movement of a shadow. I instinctively leaned forward watching it closely.

"Is someone there," I whispered like the idiot in every horror movie.

I gulped and shuffled to the edge of the bed. It was then I noticed a bedside lamp. I quickly turned it on and found myself blinded once more.

"Uh, menace," I cursed, blinking furiously as I stood to my feet.

I turned towards where I last saw the shadow moved but that part of the room was still shrouded in darkness. I stepped away from the bed, so that the lamp light wouldn't be hidden by my body and reach further. The light didn't illuminate much but there was indeed an armchair there. There were clothes on it and cushions.

I inhaled sharply. They couldn't move and I knew that I saw something. Someone was in here with me and I don't think that they were friendly.

Suddenly something warm blew against my neck and my heart jolted in my chest.

"Boo!"

I screamed, running to the other side of the room, to press my back against what I assumed to be the vanity. My heart was pounding in my chest when I turned around and noticed the person that I was trapped in a room with.

"Hi," he said casually as if he didn't just nearly give me a heart attack.

With the light at his back giving him an almost angelic glow yet the darkness clung to him, refusing to let him go; I saw Gideon Demetrius in a different light. It was dangerous how the light and the darkness complimented his dark features. It was downright, evil.

"Are you crazy? You nearly gave me a heart attack! What kind of creep lurked in the corner and scares defenseless girls," I proceeded to scream at him, forgetting who he was for a minute.

Oh, no. He did not hesitate to remind me. Suddenly I felt an overwhelming sense of fear fall over me, so much so I was tucked in a little ball on the floor hugging myself. Afraid to look, to speak. I hated this feeling but I was too wuss to do anything about it.

After 10 seconds it stopped.

"Get comfortable," he said as he walked by me. A few seconds later a door was slammed shut.

All I could think was that I was kidnapped but why? I was a nobody with friends in high places. Ugh, why did I have to make friends?

I cried and groaned until my courage finally came back to me. I was a badass, a bad ass warrior. I could do this. I did some breathing exercises and stretches. I then marched towards the door and banged on it.

"You can't keep me here against my will. I am not an object! I am a person!" I yelled, while beating down the door.

Suddenly the door opened and a wide brown eyed girl appeared in the doorway. I froze mid knock and furrowed my brow in confusion.

"The door was open," she said, blinking at me as if I was an idiot. Well, I didn't disagree but it was rude.

I cleared my throat and straightened the pajamas that didn't belong to me but still I was wearing them with no memory of how I got in them.

"I knew that," I said in a small voice. "Where is Gideon?"

"Oh, Mr. Demetrius is the study," she said in a chirpy voice and a bright smile.

I returned her smile hesitantly, stepping out of the room and passing her. I picked a direction and began speed walking that way.

"It is the other direction," she called out to me when I was halfway down the hall.

I bit my tongue and pursed my lips to keep from cursing. I quickly turned and began heading in the other direction.

"Thank you," I told her with a fake smile. I did not want to have another encounter with the bogeyman, I wanted to run away from him. Ugh, why couldn't I have one good day in this wretched town.

Somehow I found the study. Well, it was hard to miss. It was a large room with low lighting and a lot of books. Oh, there was a pretty neat fireplace.

I cleared my throat as I entered the room.

"What am I doing here," I said, staying close to the door.

"Someone tried to kill you," he immediately answered.

That was unlikely. In this town, no one cared much for the halfbreed or the nerdy tomboy.

"That doesn't explain why I am here," I said nervously, rocking back and forth on my heels.

Gideon finally glanced in my direction. He stared at me long and hard much to my displeasure because I was terrified of him.

When he finally spoke, he said something truly terrifying but by some miracle I was kind of intrigued.

"I need you."

Oh, what girl didn't want to hear that from a hot guy. Well, me because that guy could kill me before I blinked so this was not a good thing.