The Kings Blood Calling

Awakened

(Strongly suggested that before you read this chapter to go back after reading chapter four and reread chapter1. Blood, again for they are connected.)

Angelo's pov.

Three days...

Three days I've watched as every bruise faded and healed quickly from my wife's delicate flesh. The puncher wounds inflicted by my fangs no longer visible. Her pale face now with a touch of color. She still hasn't awakened. Slightly frustrated doesn't come close to what I feel. No one has bitten a human in centuries and I haven't a clue when she will wake or what she will be like. I know she won't be as weak as she once was or as fragile. My other half created from me is what she is. Not living. Not dead. 

I have no earthy idea what I've created. I was born from an ancient vampire bloodline. She was bitten. I sigh in frustration and pace the cottage. I need to gather more wood for the stove but I fear she will wake while I'm out and be terrified not knowing how she got here or if she was abandoned here.

My fangs only tingle when close to her now but no sting or throbbing pain. I won't need her blood I've calculated for another two days. My father made sure everything was available but blood. It can't really be stored here. Plus we are meant to drink from one another for survival is what I've come to realize. I'm just not certain she won't try to kill me once she remembers what I've done. I can't blame her honestly if she did. My objective though is to keep us alive by any means necessary. 

I quickly go out fetching a pale of water bringing it in to start cleaning this small area up. I've never had to clean or much of anything I can remember. I was a General trained for battle. I was to become the next great King! I don't see how any of that is possible now. My father has betrayed me and cast me to a life of hiding. The loneliness seeping in has me almost ready to turn myself over and end my misery.

The strangled gasp for air has me dashing before my wife in anxiousness. She's awakened. She gives me a look of horror and in a flash has backed her body to the corner of the bed and wall clutching her chest looking around frightened. 

"It fine...your here with me. Your husband remember?" I speak softly as to not frighten her further. She coughs in the fist of her hand.

"Do you feel like you need something to drink right now?" I question her knowing she surely does after losing so much blood and being out for days. Every time she swallows she makes a pained face further answering my own question. She nods slowly rubbing her throat with the palm of her hand.

"Sweetheart, something terrible happened. I unintentionally bit you and now you are a vampire-like me." I tell her slowly and as gently as possible. She shakes her head in disbelief. This will be harder than I originally thought. She doesn't even know vampires exist. I tell myself to remain calm don't get frustrated or she will no doubt believe it's with her when it's truly with myself. 

"I need water," She whispers lips trembling eyes bulging in fear at me.

"I can give you water but it won't rid that burn scorching your throat my love...only my blood will fix that." She again shakes her head in denial refusing to believe what I have said. I can see her visually start to panic. I flash to the end of the bed startling her with my sudden movements. I grab a rope I placed there just for this reason alone. I really hate to have to do this but we must survive and she must come to reality quickly if we are to do so.

As quickly as I grab the rope I quickly flash before her grabbing her hands and tieing them in front of her body and to the headboard of our bed. It was all so quickly she's stunned looking frightened into my eyes trying to free her wrist from their bondage. I straddle her leaning in close adoring her beautiful features. I let knuckles graze her beautiful cheekbone staring adoringly into her eyes. Her breathing labored.

"What are doing?" She whispers in a frightened manner frozen now in anticipation.

"I'm going to feed you, love," I tell her in a low soft voice. She starts thrashing her head no longer wanting to hear my words. I grab her face and halt her movements between the two palms of my hands giving her a stern stare to stop her childish actions. I'm done talking or trying to explain things I hardly know the manner of myself. I let my fangs elongate as she watches in pure horror. Quickly, I pry her jaw and steady her head in one hand all while ripping a gaping hole in my wrist with my fangs and bringing it to flow in her mouth. 

As I expected her vampire instincts soon take over her fangs extending and I release her pried jaw as she sucks the blood from my wrist willingly of her own no more fight left in her. It's a magnificent feeling that flows through me as she takes her fill from what only I can sustain her with. My c**k screaming for the pleasure she's inflicting among me. I tune it out nows not the time to play with my wife. I let her drink till she has her fill. Watching as her eyes suddenly come back to their original color and she releases my wrist from her suckling mouth and turns her head with tears clouding her eyes. 

I don't say a word, letting whatever it is sink in as it may. Words won't fix what we are to one another now. The sooner she comes to terms with it the better. I untie the rope from the headboard and tie it to my wrist that's already healed from the gashing hole I created. Until I know how she will behave it's better this way.

"If you need to pee inform me." She ignores me. I'm not upset in the slightest. I've had my whole life to know who I am and it's all-natural to me. She's had a total of minutes not ever knowing her whole life we even existed. One thing I know from being a General is to let her truly know my deepest regrets only have the potential of backfiring. I'd like nothing more for her to believe I had no intentions of her becoming like me but If she is truly upset about it later infuriated I don't want to be blindsided and killed.

I deserve nothing but death after the crime I committed, and it already eats away inside me, but I have to live if I ever plan to know the depths of my father's betrayal. I take a seat on the bed looking at the old wooden floor under my feet.

"From what I know vampires haven't bitten humans in centuries. Nor have they ever had a want for human blood. Once upon a time vampires found their true partners by what they named a blood calling. This blood calling when the call was completed unlocked their true powers. Over centuries it was thought to have even vanished among our kind us becoming more civilized living among humans undisguised being one of the sole purposes." I tell her slowly with a low voice so she may comprehend somewhat of our situation. I turn towards her and she's looking at me almost tiredly processing information.

"I never once heard or was told of a blood calling, didn't know it existed until the day you introduced yourself at my wedding to Katherine. All nineteen years of my life Annarose I had never had my fangs elongate for the blood of another. That's when I asked my father if he also felt the same in your presence. The following morning he told me of the blood calling. That my fangs called for your blood and your blood called for my fangs. Not only once the call is answered do we unlock our full powers potential but...you can only survive on the blood in my veins as I can only survive on that of yours." I watch her sit up in what I think may be some sort of shock but I can't be certain. It was a lot of information at one given time. 

"So I have powers?" She asks with a low voice.

"That's something I don't quite know myself. Truly vampires and humans aren't much different. We have added strengths that humans don't, and tend to be more beautiful or handsome than most humans but clearly, not all because the moment I saw you I had never seen such beauty in all my days you are breathtaking, my love." I stopped there as she flushed before my eyes making me smirk as she looked away. 

"I mean it," I say wholeheartedly as soft as possible with my deep voice. She fiddles with the rope and it eats at my very mind, but I can't trust she won't run from me and I can't afford to ever lose her. 

"What powers did you inhabit? If you don't mind me asking sir." She says in that small mesmerizing voice that sings to my ears. She will be the death of me in more ways than one on many levels.

"Please call me Angelo or husband, sir is required between us. ...I honestly don't have the slightest idea. As soon as I went into a frenzy and bit you when I came back to my senses my father ushered us out the palace, and to remain here in hiding until he gives word otherwise. I know in my gut he's planning something big but it felt a whole lot like betrayal. They should have executed me. It's against our laws to bite or aware humans of our existence. The only reason I even let him usher us abroad was because my death equals that of yours and you didn't deserve death, only I was deserving of such." I wait not knowing if she understands everything or if I'm rushing her. She finally looks up into my eyes curiously.

"So if you die I also die?" At least she's listening. I send a sympathetic look her way.

"My death equals that of yours and yours that of mine. We are blood bound to another now your very life is that of mine and mine of yours." This is all just so overwhelming even for me and I've been a vampire for nineteen years.

"How long do vampires typically live?" Her questions are always short and never more than one I like that about her it makes me smirk and her flush at my smirk which I also like very much.

"Vampires are immortal. Not that we can't die or be killed but we typically live for centuries if we don't run into complications. At around the age of thirty-five to forty we pass down our titles and travel among the world or live on remote islands with others of our kind ran by those of our kind since we don't age in appearances." I inform her honestly she will have to live this long life by my side.

"What about Katherine?" This I'm also worried about. I let out the frustrated sigh that travels up my tightened throat.

"My father said she will be fine in the dark not knowing for now. I can only hope that's true she is my first wife and my responsibility, I shouldn't have left her there alone." It's weird telling my second wife these things but I'm not a liar and to answer her question these are my heart-felt words for some reason it pains me to tell her these words though.

"Is Katherine also a vampire?" I should have seen this question coming although I didn't. I just nod yes to it. 

"So if were blood bound for the rest of our lives that means we could never divorce?" This is the question that literally blows my mind. I physically recoil from the slight bitterness I can hear in her words. Divorce never crossed my mind with either of my wives it's not something I would ever do.

"Why would you say that Annarose and please look me in the eye when you answer my question. You want to divorce already?" I inquire a bit forcibly unintentional but was taken back by this completely.

"It was just a question." She says so low almost a whisper. There's obviously something she's holding back I will let it slide for now. We have plenty of time on our hands to figure that one out but whether she likes it or not we are bound for eternity together.