The Vampires Pet

Chapter 3: Dark thoughts

When we reached the café, the little bell above the door dinged and made me jump so hard I stumbled back against Amdis’ chest.

He gently nudged me forward and murmured, “you are safe with me.”

His words were surprisingly comforting, and I found I could breathe a little easier.

I saw Michelle sitting at a table at the back and went over to join her.

“Rochelle!” She smiled, she didn’t jump up and try to hug me, and I was so grateful for that, I had told her everything, so she must have known I wouldn’t be ready for physical touch yet.

I wasn’t feeling up to wearing makeup or anything, so I probably didn’t look great, but I was clean and presentable at least.

Michelle looked up at Amdis standing beside me and her eyes turned dreamy as she stared.

“Amdis?” She asked.

He bowed politely to her and answered, “yes.”

She giggled when he bowed and for some reason I didn’t like it, why was I bothered? I tried to shake the feeling away.

Her giggling was clearly something he liked because he smiled for the first time, and it was a beautiful and seductive smile all at the same time. He took her hand and kissed the back of it lightly.

“Oh, I like you,” she flirted.

“Likewise madam,” he smiled. I had noticed he was very good at hiding his fangs, it wasn’t until that smile that I had really seen them and just how sharp they were, I remembered the awful pain I had felt when Zedric and his vampires had fed on me and I tried to push it to the back of my mind, I bet Amdis wasn’t so cruel, I bet he made it pleasurable, especially if he had willing donors.

Donors were humans who willingly offered their blood to vampires, but more often than not, they would offer it to a particular vampire they liked, so a lot of vampires found it the highest compliment when a donor chose them.

Vampires could be cruel and ruthless and dangerous, but they also respected respect, manners, and they didn’t just demand it be shown to them, they would also be respectful and polite in turn.

Michelle patted the chair beside her and said, “sit with us.”

He slid in to the chair beside her as graceful as a cat. I think he was one of the first vampires I had seen that was muscular, if I hadn’t seen his fangs I might have mistaken him for a werewolf instead, they were usually the ones known for being well built, I think I might have seen one or two vampires well built but it was so rare.

He took his trench coat off, and we were left with his perfect display of muscular arms, they rippled with muscle whenever he moved.

Me and Michelle spoke about normal things, I asked how her family was doing and what I had missed and carefully stayed away from the topic of what had happened to me, especially with Amdis here, I didn’t want anyone else knowing my shame.

It had been three years since I had been outside, and I think things got a little too much, being around so many people was making it hard for me to breathe, and I blurted out, “I’m safe now, so why does Amdis have to stay with me?” I didn’t mean to sound so rude.

Amdis didn’t look offended, he didn’t look like anything, he was a strange vampire, he spoke so politely, yet he looked so cold and indifferent, I couldn’t tell if he liked me, wasn’t bothered about me or wanted to tear me to pieces, I absolutely could not read him.

He was the one to answer with his matching cold yet seductively deep voice, “I was paid enough money to be hired for a year and I will honour that payment. Some of your kidnappers managed to escape so you are not completely safe yet.”

Fear so intense hit me that I almost saw stars and thought I would faint, I tried to keep my face calm, but I could do nothing to still my erratically racing heart, and he could hear it. He looked at me and said, “while I am by your side I swear to you that no harm will befall you, you have my word.”

“How can you promise something like that?” I barely managed to whisper.

“Because I am the best at what I do.”

He didn’t sound arrogant when he said that, he simply sounded matter of fact.

It was clear I wasn’t ready to be out and about hanging out with Michelle again, and after a while the silence grew awkward. We started getting ready to leave and say goodbye, and then she asked Amdis, “are you single?”

She was certainly not shy, I would have been blushing furiously asking such a question to such a beauty. He replied in that same matter of fact tone, “I am.”

“Would it be too forward of me to ask you out on a date?”

Oh my God, I think I was blushing for her.

He gave her a small smile and answered, “not at all, I would be happy to go on a date with you, but I do have rules.”

“Such as?” She asked.

“I am not looking to settle down, and there is the fact I am a vampire, I need to feed on others.”

She looked confused and said, “what’s wrong with that? I know you are a vampire.”

Smiling at her as if she were a child, he explained, “it usually involves s**x and not many females I date like that.”

“Are you dating any of the females you feed on?”

“Two currently, sometimes there will be more I am dating while the others are simply for a night.”

“Would you feed from me if we date?

“Only if you gave me permission to do so.”

She thought about it and said, “can you control yourself with s**x or will it make you want to feed on me?”

“I assure you my lady, in my training I have been taught to have iron tight control over myself and the urge to feed or bite someone, I can have s**x without losing control and biting you.”

She handed him her phone number and smiled, “then in that case, I’ll see you this Saturday?”

“As long as I deem Rochelle safe to leave alone for a few hours, yes.” He bowed to her, and she waved goodbye to me then left.

I felt strange as we walked back to my place, I felt this sinking feeling in my stomach, I didn’t want them to go on a date and I didn’t like hearing that he dated multiple women. Was I jealous? I tried to push that thought away but the more I thought on it the more I knew I was. I still had my fear of vampires, but he seemed different, and he was also my saviour, I couldn’t help but look up to him and see him as my hero.

As we were walking along, I got lost in my dark thoughts, Zedric had made me a s.exual toy for his females to play with while he watched, but he had not allowed any male to touch me, I was ugly in his eyes and he told me that every day, but he had found out I was a virgin, and he wanted to be the one to take it from me, he had been biding his time, I wasn’t sure why, perhaps he got off on the idea of me being terrified that it was coming and not knowing when, he enjoyed psychological t.orture as much as physical.

When I had said I was his pet, I meant it literally, vampires could have pets, they usually treated them much better than Zedric had treated me though.

The closest I could describe it was like a witch having a familiar, as a vampires pet you had a bond with them, you were linked and marked as theirs, you were there to help them in any way you could, whether that was to feed on you, for you to clean for them or whatever else they deemed from you, sometimes they simply liked to have a human to cuddle and stroke like a real pet, other times it could turn romantic and the vampire and their pet could have s*x, date even get married, it was similar to werewolves having a true mate but more complicated.

As a vampires pet you weren’t their true mate but it still created a bond, you would still feel things for one another, lust, love, care, all those warm feelings, it was considered an honour to be chosen as a vampires pet.

They chose who they wanted, in rare cases they would have more than one pet but most respected loyalty and were fiercely loyal to their pets, that didn’t necessarily mean they wouldn’t still have s**x with other people or supernaturals, unless they chose to become romantically involved with their pet, but it meant their pet was the only pet they had, they were the vampire’s favourite person, got all the attention and affections that no one else got, treated special I suppose, it was all very complicated.

Pet sounded like you were their slave, but it wasn’t quite like that either, the human always had a choice when a vampire offered for them to become the vampire’s pet, a lot of people chose to.

In my case, I had been given no choice, Zedric didn’t care about me at all and never treated me how he was supposed to treat his pet, there was no love or warmth from him, and he had shut me out mentally too, there was a way to keep the bond physically but close it mentally, and he had done that, I was thankful he had because the thought made me shiver to think of me having any feelings of want or lust or craving him in any way. The only reason he had made a bond was so if I ever escaped he could still find me, the link between us meant he could find me, no matter where I hid.

It was a very painful experience to cut the emotional side of the bond, when Zedric had done that, I had felt piercing pain in my head like someone was stabbing me in the brain with a thousand daggers, it had gone on for hours and I screamed until my throat was sore, I passed out so many times from the pain, it was almost unheard of for any vampire to willingly hurt their pet in such a way but Zedric was evil and almost unhinged, in my eyes he wasn’t a vampire, he was a monster.