Two weeks later:Thanks to my human friends I made, I finally got to bathe and shower regularly. They had taken me down to where their rooms were, they had three bathrooms just on their floor and told me I could use them any time I wanted to shower in peace. So, every night after I did all that Lyra tasked me with, I’d take a fresh fluffy towel that they insisted I use, and take a long hot bath in solitude. It was all I looked forward to after each long day of cleaning their room, polishing her shoes, fetching her food, collecting all her clean clothes and putting them away and basically waiting on her hand and foot. Whatever she wanted and when she wanted it, I had to fetch it, do it quickly and just the way she liked it.In general, I wouldn’t have minded doing all those things… apart from the fact that my fingers were stiff, and I could hardly feel them now. Everything I did, at least made the time pass by quickly, rather than just sitting in my cupboard alone willing the time to s
Kyan’s Pov:4 days previous. I loved this hotel, I loved the island, all the homes belonged to ones that had spent years helping this place to become the safe and remote haven it is, away from everyone else that wasn’t our kind. The couple that ran everything here was actually once human, but at the age of thirteen, after spending years of being beaten to a pulp by his alcoholic father, Donny found himself wandering the streets alone, when he finally left his home. He happened to stumble across a young girl, Marina, who didn’t look much older than him. They became the best of friends and when he learned that she was in fact a vampire and so were her parents who had taken him into their home and cared for him, he pleaded with them to turn him.They waited until he was twenty-one, turned him and he married and lived his life with Marina, his best friend. But over the years, Donny wanted to get as far away from humans as possible, so both he and Marina left and found this incredible isl
Ellie’s Pov:Nine days later.I managed to avoid Kyan at all costs. There were times when I’d hear him talking in the kitchen with Melanie and the others. Those mornings were the worst because I always got the shit end of Lyra’s attitude when I took longer than usual to get her food. It always resulted in having things thrown at me. This morning it was the cup of blood that she tipped all over my head. Luckily, I was fortunate to have the fun four looking out for me and when I went back down to the kitchen, they looked at me in horror like I had been part of a massacre. Melanie rushed me into the bathroom, while Faye promised to get a start on cleaning their room until I could take over.It took both me and Melanie to wash and scrub all of the red out of my hair. The water still wasn’t completely clear when I gave up and wanted to clean their room. The whole time Faye was in their room, I kept panicking that Lyra would come back to find her there instead of me. She’d be fuming to know
I woke up the next morning and stretched out across the warm, cosy bed, forgetting at first where I was. I quickly stopped and bolted upright, listening for anything outside my door. It was quiet, nothing but the chirping of birds outside my big bay window and no Lyra bashing into my room.I got up and tiptoed to the door and quietly twisted the handle, opening the door with a quiet squeak and poking my head around to see if anyone was out there. Then I saw Lord Talon sitting in his chair already looking at me and I froze.“Good morning. Did you sleep well?” He asked with a softness in his voice.I cleared my throat and opened the door a bit wider as I stood in front of it, willing myself to appear less afraid, but my rapid heartbeat was telling me different. “Yes,” I answered simply.“I had food brought up”. He said as he pointed to the
Two days later: Since I’d been staying in Talon’s quarters, things were much quieter and Lyra hadn’t once been by. Luckily, Kyan had only stopped by once since the last time and I was already in bed when I heard him speaking to Talon, but the hushed conversation was too quiet for me to know what they were speaking about and I didn’t want to take my chances of hovering by the door, being nosey, seeing as he was once again curious about who I was.I had started to relax more around Lord Talon. He didn’t speak a lot, apart from the usual morning small talk, he spent most of his time writing in big brown heavy books or signing things and reading. He would do his rounds of the castle to keep a watch over everything, but he was never gone for too long and I’d spend my time just pottering in and out of my room. The time would slowly tick by, but as bored as I s
I sat comfortably in a soft black velvet armchair with a blanket draped over my knees as Talon was writing in one of his hefty books. He had put on some quiet classical music on his turntable as I delved into Emma’s journal. I had wanted to read it the moment he gave it to me, but he insisted on showing me more of the castle. I had seen so little in my time here, I had no idea how many floors, corridors and little tucked away allies were here.He had taken me down to where the humans stayed. They had their own fancy dining area and large bedrooms. I had seen their bathrooms before when Michelle took me there, but I didn’t see just how much space in the castle they had all to themselves, it was practically a whole other wing! Then he took me up the staircase opposite the one I always used to show me all the rooms of the other vampires that lived here or passed by. We didn’t go in them, of course, but I could see that there were still so many other places just on their side of the castl
Kyan’s pov:I stepped through the trees, trying to keep my footing light and my eyes on anything that seemed like an unnatural snap of a branch, footsteps in the mud or a scent to pick up on, as Zekan and twelve others did the same. I’ve been doing this tracking every day since I got here, some even twice a day, and now it was starting to piss me off. I was starting to really believe we were tracking nothing, just paranoia that someone or something was lurking out here and it just coming down to a new family of foxes or badgers… something as ridiculous as that!I just wanted an answer! Something meaningless and stupid, so I could report it back to my father and be on my way back to Shelter Island! That human girl from Bluebay was constantly bugging me, the image of her face trying to pop its way into my head and her scent was fucking everywhere! It didn’t help that the new girl my father was babysitting used soaps that reminded me of the scent. Every day I’m out searching the forests
Ellie's POV:“You’re definitely not consuming as much food as you first did!” Talon noticed as he smirked, while we ate our lunch together in his quarters.I swallowed my mouthful of cheese and biscuit before I could answer. “I think I ate more than I ever have in my life!” I grinned.“Well, you look far healthier than you did when I saw you sitting all alone on the floor!” His smile grew as he cut off a slice of beef for himself.“All alone?” I chuckled. “Course I was. I don’t think anyone would have wanted to join me, sitting on a hard cold floor!”. “At least now, you have your very own chair to sit in, is it comfy enough?” He asked as he nodded over to the black velvet chair I'd come to spend most of my day in.&ldq