Vampire King's Pet

Chapter Fifteen: Are You Gonna Count?

Avery's POV

I bit down on my bottom lip when Alexei moved away from my body. I pressed my head to the table and tried to get my arms free of Yuri's harsh hold. He was holding me so roughly that I knew there would be bruised all up my arms.

I heard the swish of air shortly after, halting me in my struggle. The leather of Alexei's belt landed on my thighs in a searing hot pain. I held back from screaming out or saying anything. I most definitely wasn't counting for this bastard either.

I pressed my forehead against the wooden table and willed my tears to stop forming. "Avery!" Alexei grunted.

"Screw you" I flinched as he touched the burning part on my thighs he hit with his belt. "Have it your way then. You just doubled your punishment." he chuckled and I heard it again. The swift air as his belt ripped through it and then finally landed on my upper ass cheeks. I bit my lip so hard then I felt like I bit it right off.

It wasn't until he hit me ten times that he finally stopped and said something that made my body suffer. And not in a good way. "Bring me the cane." he ordered. I refused to show my fear, but if his belt hurt the way it did with his forceful hits, then that cane would be even more brutal.

My ass cheeks stung and felt heated from his belt hitting me continuously. It wasn't like the fever blazing through my body, a fever he's ignoring by the way, but it was a heated pain that I knew would last for days. I was extremely embarrassed by the treatment he is giving me while his people stand by and do nothing to help.

It only fueled my hatred for them. Anyone who can stand by and watch a young sixteen-year-old girl be punished for being sick, is...well it hurts more than anything. But it tells me who honestly doesn't care.

And what makes it all worse is I've been bonded to him. Genevieve shouldn't have ever done that. It's against the law to bond someone to another without permission. But I suppose being the Vampire Kings personal witch has its perks and won't get her in trouble with the magical counsel.

"Thank you Yuri-" Alexei paused. "Would you like to help me punish my pet?" he asked his friend. Unknowingly I tensed up at the thought of someone other and Alexei would hit me. I don't know why I felt that way, but I did. And I hated that feeling.

"Uhh, net, Vashe Velichestvo." I had no clue as to what he said, but from how his tone dipped lower I felt he had declined the offer. Turning to look at him I noticed him staring at me, he gave me a small, a very small smile then went back over to the door and stood guard. Only I noticed he and the others had turned away from us.

That surprised me, but I didn't think too much about it when I felt Alexei's hand run over my sore ass cheeks and thighs. I missed softly so he wouldn't hear it, unfortunately I believe that he had heard it due to his enhanced hearing.

Alexei chuckled and leaned down close to my ear. "You were quiet during the first half and refused to count for me. And because you didn't count, we're gonna start over with something a bit more...crude." He caressed my cheek and I jerked my face away as best i could. He chuckled once again and leaned back up.

I felt like crying. I didn't do anything wrong but want to sleep this fever off. Hell I have been dizzy the entire walk here. Or should I say I was carried in here by Max, but he was too busy stuffing his face to notice that.

I took a deep breath in and held it just as I heard the cane swish through the air. When it landed I bit down on my bottom lip so hard I tased blood. "Are you gonna count, Avery?" he asked angrily.

It took me a full minute to catch my bearings before I looked back at him and glared. "No! I'm not. And you aren't my father nor my lover. So you don't get to tell me what to do." I glared at the cane in his hads. "So do your worst, King Alexei." I used his title to remind him that I think of him as less than what he is. I hated him and he knew it.

"Why not? Why do you keep defying me and my orders?" he asked harshly as he brought the cane back up preparing to hit me again with it.

"I groaned and just laid my head down on the surface of the table. The wood felt so amazing against my skin, it was cool and made me feel less hot. That is until I felt another hard hit on the back of my thighs. I flinched at that one because he hit that specific spot several times with his belt, so it was already tender.

He didn't even wait to see if I would count which in retrospect, I wasn't planning on it. He hit me again, harder than the last and I swear he hit me so hard my skin tore. I pressed my forehead against the table and closed my eyes tightly, waiting for it all to end.

I don't know when I began crying, or when he stopped his punishment. But I winced when someone pulled my bottoms up over my tender flesh. My head was spinning and I felt nauseated. But once I heard someone tell my senses began returning. "Chto, chert voz'mi, s toboy ne tak, a?" I heard an older woman yell, she had an accent but I knew I'd never heard her voice before now.

Someone placed their hand on my face and I flinched away from it, thinking it was Alexei. "Alexei!" the woman whispered, in a disappointed tone as she touched my face again. I opened my tears filled eyes and she gave me a soft smile. Her eyes were as brown as Alexei's and but her hair was a dark brown, whereas his hair is a dirty blonde color.

"Mom, she's fine. I'm teaching her a lesson in respect." Alexei defended himself. So this was his mother. The former Queen of the Vampire Kingdom. She was beautiful and barely looked a day over forty. Vampires and their youthful features made me jealous. I mean us witches can use glamors and charms to help us look younger, but never this beautiful. As much pain I was in and how sick I felt, I was in awe of this woman.

She scowled when her hand left my face. "She's burning up."

"Well she refuses to take her medication that Remy prescribed just last night when she broke her wrist trying to get out of the cuffs. So that's on her!" Alexei snarled, I shivered because I knew he was looking at me. I could feel how angry he was without even looking at him.

"I asked him if I could draw on the earth last night, he refuses to allow my witch blood to heal. My body craves the elemental power that earth provides. It's not my fault he stole my gift that automatically gave me that calm." I whispered on a sob. The bruises on my arms from the handcuffs he placed me in last night were visible when the sleeves to my shirt came up, and his mother scowled at him when she saw them.

"Alexei Petrov Nikolson!" His mother gasped, I trembled at her rage shortly there afterwards. "Have I raised a cruel boy? How dare you deny this child what she cannot help. She was born this way, just as if you were to be denied your craving for blood! What if you are being punished for things you can't help but need? How would you feel after not getting your daily substance that keeps you breathing!" The older Vampire scolded her son harshly. She was so appalled, by her son's treatment of me that even I felt as if I was being reprimanded by my own mother.

"Marcus, go bring me a blanket and help me bring this child to her room to wash! Then we will take her outside so she can heal!" She ordered one of the guards, and with a snap of her fingers the man hastily left the room. I hadn't even realized the sweet looking man that guards my room was in here. How embarrassing.

"No! Mom, I am King, you cannot tell me how to punish my own pets. I gave her an order to be here at a specific time and she didn't listen. You have many pets that you have at your beck and call. What would you do if one of your pets didn't obey one of your orders?" He tried turning it back around on her. But the older vampire was smarter than that and just raised her brow and her child.

"First, I have my pets trust. They know I am not a cruel Mistress, I treat my human pets with the same respect as I do my servants. If your pet does not want to listen or believes she can't trust you, that's because that's all she's known since you forced her in this Castle." Alexei tried to speak but she raised her hand at him. "My word is finale Alex! I am taking this young woman to get herself cleaned up, then I'm allowing weekly days outside in the gardens three to days a week, for two hours. If she can't trust you how do you expect her to listen to you? I raised you better. And I will be telling your father about this, he is going to be so disappointed in how you've abused your privilege as a Ruler!"

Max walked back in just as she finished her speech. My shorts were pulled gently up my legs, and even gentler touch over my thighs and butt. Even though the person was being as gentle as possible, I couldn't help the cry that slipped out of my mouth. It hurt, and the skin in those two areas were extremely tender. Even my underwear and shorts covering the sore flesh, made it sting. "I'm sorry dear." She apologized softly, then brushed a strand of hair that came out of my braid behind my ear and smiled at me. Her warm brown eyes sparkled in the sunlight that flickered through the drapes.

How could someone as sweet and graceful as her, given birth to suck a mean and harsh man as her son? It was a different contrast between the mother/son duo.