Ellie's POV: Two weeks later. I had found myself wandering around on my own a lot in the last several days. Most of the vampires were either training or searching the forest and guarding the castle. Talon, Kyan and Zekan were constantly dealing with the hunter who was still imprisoned here. Melanie, Duncan, Faye and Stuart were even busier now preparing extra meals to keep up the vampires strength' now that they couldn’t hunt in the forest. They were either cooking or cleaning in the kitchen. I had helped them a couple of times, but I felt like I would just get under their feet with so many of us in one kitchen. I did go for a walk in the gardens yesterday, though, with Del, when he saw me staring out the window in the main hall, he had definitely took pity on me and skipped one of his meals to keep me company. While we were out, I noticed how many more of them were guarding along the rooftops and around the edges of the garden. Del had told me that so far their hunter had
“You’re not eating much this morning!” Talon observed as he watched me pick at my toast and bacon. “Just not very hungry today”. I said in a mumble, feeling a bit weary. “Something on your mind?” “I don’t know”. I replied with a quick shrug. “Are you missing your home?” “I guess…” “Well, if your not hungry, how about we go for a little wander, but everyone is pretty busy today with guarding duty, so we’ll have to settle for a walk indoors, I’m afraid”. “That sounds nice actually”. I nodded, feeling a little more positive that I would have his company today. He stood from his seat and, as always, held his arm out for me to take as we left the room. As we strolled around the castle, I noticed I hadn’t seen some of the corridors he was taking me through, some of them lined with portraits of their ancestry and others of Kyan and Zekan when they were just small boys. “I always thought that vampires stopped aging when they reached adulthood”. I told him as
My eyes flashed open, startled from the sudden bang outside my room, I bolted upright and as I tried to blink the sleepiness away, I could hear raised voices in the distance. I quickly leapt out of bed and opened my bedroom door to see Talon chucking his cloak over his shoulders and flash out of the doors, leaving them wide open. Within seconds I ran, curious to know what made him dash off so quickly in the middle of the night. I peeped around the door to see him standing down the hallway looking over the balcony down to the hall below. I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to clear them from their fogginess, when the smell of smoke hit me and I realised it wasn’t my eyes that were foggy, but the air. I darted over to him and looked down to see the main castle doors were in flames as Kyan, Zekan, Del and others were rushing to put the blazed fire out. I stood in shock as I watched the commotion, looking from them to Talon, his face with a stern and furious expression. “How did all
I felt so much more refreshed after the shower and I quickly braided my wet hair and put on a clean pair of jeans and a top, then went to wait in the main chamber room. I looked at the old wooden grandfather clock to see it was already gone five in the evening and Talon still wasn’t back. I sat at the table as Kyan then walked in. “Are they back yet?” I asked. “No, no sign of them yet”. He shook his head as he took a seat to my left at the table. “Don’t worry Ellie, they’ll be ok”. “I hope so”. I replied as I realised I was bouncing my leg in worry. “I have to admit, I’m really surprised you were so worried to see my father go. I mean he’s a vampire, aren’t you supposed to be glad?” “Really?” I shot back with irritation. “He’s been so good to me and….. I trust him completely. I’ll be honest though, I am surprised myself!”. “Yea?” He asked with a smile. “Yes!” I chuckled. “I just never expected to care so much, but I do, rather a lot actually”. “Well, I can s
Kyan's POV: I sat at the table in father’s quarters as I waited for him to come out of his study. I kept glancing at Ellie, sitting in her chair. I could see the book she was reading wasn’t distracting her enough from whatever was on her mind. She never looked at the book for long and kept staring out the window. I couldn’t tell if she was looking for an answer or an escape. She was particularly quiet today, no smile, no joy in her voice when she said ‘good morning’ to me today. Can’t say I blame her… she spent all day yesterday worrying about my father, only to be woken up in the middle of the night to be accused of something she had no control over. I hated the fact that I did trust Ellie! Zekan was right in his thinking, we knew from experience the majority of humans couldn’t be trusted and only a few months ago I would have voiced the same shit Zekan did last night. It was fucking crazy how much I could just feel that she was trustworthy. When he questioned her, it didn’t
Ellie's POV: I waited with anticipation in the main hall with Talon, Kyan, Zekan and Lyra, for Mayor Jackson to arrive. Even with Lyra’s constant bitching about him coming here, I couldn’t wait to see a friendly face from town, a reminder that life outside this castle still exists. “How do we know he won’t betray us?” Lyra remarked for the tenth time as she clicked clacked in her heels across the floor and sat down in a huff at the table. “He’s a fucking mayor with a town full of people to keep safe! He knows he’d be a fool if he went against his word”. Talon snapped back at her. “Well, the whole town could be in on it for all we know… every single person!” She stretched out the last part as an attempt to dig at me. “Are we including the toddlers that can barely talk let alone hold a weapon!” I commented back. “No, just the ones roughly eighteen and above… remind me little weakling how old are you?” She replied with a sour grin. “Twenty actually!” I said with a ca
Kyan's POV: Over the last week since the mayor's visit, it feels as if we’ve all been on house arrest. The only air and daylight we see is when we’re doing guard duty on the towers. In some ways I can’t complain because of the extra hours me and Zekan were now putting in, it kept me away from Ellie, not that it stopped me thinking of her though. But, of course, today, father decided to throw another spanner in my aim to keep my distance by including me in his surprise for her. We never really bothered to celebrate it before, but now she’s here he wanted to make an effort. I couldn’t blame him, she’s tried hard to help out with bringing us all refreshments and extra food with Constance and Bianca, to lessen their workload and keep up our strength. Only the other night, when Melanie, Stuart, Faye and Duncan had retired for the day and were sleeping, Ellie took it upon herself to fix us all something to eat at two in the morning so we wouldn’t go to bed hungry. Kiko’s also been
Ellie's POV: I sat at the table in Talon’s suite eating apple spiced turnovers that Melanie and Stuart made me for breakfast, when I mentioned yesterday it was a traditional dessert my mum had always made. I was pretty full after the first one, but I greedily bit into another as Talon went into his study to answer a call. “Good morning”. I greeted Kyan and Zekan as they both came into the room. “Good morning”. Kyan smiled momentarily as it vanished as quickly as it came. “Good morning Ellie”. Zekan replied in a softer tone than usual. I must have looked at him in shock, when I heard him not only acknowledge me but refer to me by my name rather than as ‘human girl’! My face must have made it obvious what I was thinking, cause with that Zekan chuckled as they both joined me at the table. “Don’t be too surprised Ellie, I did say I’d get off your back”. “Well, I appreciate it and it’s nice to see you have other facial expressions than just a frown!”. I humoured, which ea