The Kings Blood Calling

Palace grounds

Angelo's pov. 

Seeing the palace within my sights was glorious but actually walking through the main doors and knowing we were home and safe was beyond words. 

"Angelo!" Katherine screamed and immediately ran and jumped in my arms and I squeezed her tightly glad to be back.

"I'm so glad your back." She spoke excitedly.

"Me too," I spoke in relief.

She jumped down smiling widely which I return with a happy smile of my own. She turns to a young maiden stretching her hand out beckoning.

"Come show our prince his daughter Katie." She demands. The moment she's within my reach I grab her from the arms of the maiden and cradle her close to me smiling like a maniac. 

"Annarose quickly look at my daughter." I turn to present her for admiring.

"She's beautiful." She says solemnly. I look back into Katherine's eyes who is still smiling widely with happiness.

"You did well wife," I tell her earnestly. She nods basking in my praise. 

"If you don't mind excusing me, I want to wash up and get some rest I'm quite tired after our travels," Annarose asks like the gentle wife she is so understanding in the moment. I look into her eyes lovingly.

"Of course, You should rest I will come check on you in a bit," I tell her softly leaning in kissing her cheek.

"You're with child?" Katherine suddenly questions a bit of worry and a touch of sadness evident in her tone.

"Yes, I will deliver in three days," Annarose says softly to Katherine.

"Oh, I didn't know. " Annarose nods and then with a bow of courtesy she gives me one last little smile before taking the stairs to her chambers and I can't help but watch until she is no longer in my sights already missing her presence near me. A lot will change now and I know I will secretly miss the time we had for just ourselves.

"Will we just stand here." Katherine snaps me back. I clear my throat feeling like an ass. 

"No. We should also go to your chambers and speak." I tell her gently. She nods and beckons for the maiden again.

"No, I will hold my daughter a bit longer." I dismiss them both and take the stairs carefully not to wake her. She sleeps without a care in the world. So tiny. 

Katherine follows along behind me once at her door I open it for her to go before me and I shut it quietly not looking up from my daughter. I can't believe I'm finally a father. I gently pick up her little hand amazed by how small and fragile it looks compared to mine.

"Angelo where have you been?" Katherine questions me a bit on the louder side her anger evident in her tone of voice. I squint my eyes.

"Don't wake her," I say low a bit of anger of my own because of her tone.

"So you don't think I should be informed of where you've been all these months? You didn't think I might have wanted to come with you? You didn't even tell me you would be leaving!" I angrily walk to the door opening it with a calm I'm not feeling. Especially since I asked her not to wake the child and she continued to speak in such a tone.

"Where are you going? You can't just take my child somewhere without me knowing!" She yells out behind me waking the child. Her cries painful to my ears. Making me wince. I beckon the maiden and she quickly takes her from my hold. 

Turning back Katherines standing at the door breathing heavily. My eyes bore into hers fuming. I shove her back into the room and gently shut the door not to startle anyone that could be near. 

"I asked you not to wake the child. I believe your title needs informing since you seem not to have been raised in how to properly speak to your husband." A look of shock run mock over her face.

"Sit down and don't speak until you've had my explicit permission to do so," I speak low through my clenched teeth and ticking jaw my eyes bulged in anger. She takes a seat on her bed still giving me a rebellious look. I take a seat at the tea-table looking at her sternly.

"Centuries ago there was something called a blood calling. Over time and laws, it vanished no long obtainable for our kind. A blood calling is when your fangs call for the blood of another and their blood calls for that of your fangs. I had never heard of such a thing until the day of our wedding. My fangs elongated in the presence of Annarose shocking me with the pain that came along with the torcher of wanting her blood." Katherine's face pales even more than it already is listening to my honest words.

"I asked my father if he experienced the same effect when she was near and he was shocked telling me to no longer speak of it aloud and keep it to myself. With her departure was also the departure of my pain. I had only known minutes before our wedding she would become my second wife I did try to prolong it but my father would hear nothing of such an idea." Katherine shifts sitting back on the headboard of her bed.

"So of course after realizing she was the one who would become my second wife and was human I pressed even harder not to marry her for I didn't know if I would break the law and wind up killing her to obtain the blood my fangs so desperately needed. He joked it off and refused me again. Said he had plans for all our futures. So I married my blood caller and on the night I was told I had to complete the consummation of our marriage I wound up bitting a human the first human to be bitten in centuries."

"You broke our laws" Katherine looks at me horrified.

"I said don't speak. I'm explaining why I did what I did and what took place." I say a tad harshly still mad at her earlier attitude. She should be the last to speak of braking laws!

"My father said I must come with him so I did so, taking Annarose with me for at the time I felt he betrayed me. If she were to die I also die and If I'm to die she will follow as well we are of the same blood and we can't live without the blood of our caller." Katherine gasps. 

"That's not all." I flip my hand over letting a flame ignite by a spark of my flint holding it for her viewing. Her eyes about pop from her skull.

"Once we have found our blood calling and completed it we can tap into our true powers. History spoke of these great warriors in the past that had all these powers but not of how they obtained them or why we suddenly lost them over time its amazing isn't it."  I let the flame die still starting into her surprised eyes.

"I had to go into hiding. In six days we will go to war with the council. My father will become the king of the council and I will take the throne here in his place as King Angelo of the eastern royal kingdom and you as my Queen so it's time you learn to behave as such." I see she slowly relaxes under my statement and secretly I'm not happy Annarose should be my Queen but she is not my first wife and my wishes aren't the way things are done in a world of vampires.

"Now for other matters you threatened my second wife's life and that of our children. You even put your hands on her and choked her unconscious. What have you to say for this?" Anger in my words aren't even enough to explain the fury for what she had done her title doesn't give her the rights to terminate one of my wives and especially not of my children with them. This also states her lack of raising to become a king's wife. I feel we were tricked and I don't like being fooled.

She can't seem to form words for her actions against my second wife making me fume all the more.

"You have nothing to say for yourself?" She looks down swallowing hard in her embarrassment.

"Were you raised to comment treason against your king and that of your husband?" fuming I stand striding towards her slowly making her even more nervous. By the time I'm upon her, her whole body is shaking hard in fear. We've never spoken unkindly to one another but she crossed the line and has to know her station.

"I didn't know it was committing treason. It won't happen again I swear." Her nervousness evident in her shaky words. She looks into my eyes with a plead for mercy and understanding. 

"That's right it won't happen again. To make sure it won't, I must have you punished. I can't live in peace not being able to trust you." I state in a more gentler voice but not kind. I grab her chin with a stern expression in my eyes.

"You will take your punishment obediently and never overstep your title again. You will take this punishment in hopes I will forgive you for what you have done. Understand?" She nods slowly tears pricking her eyes. I release her chin giving no indication they touch me whatsoever. Truly I hate to punish her and can't believe she would act so foolishly but she did and there are consequences for saying and doing such things. If she were not my wife this will be treason and death would be her sentence. I'm not cruel if I were I'd just end her life and take Annarose as my true queen like I truly want but not at the cost of a life. Katherine has been loyal and has even born me a child. Heartless I've never been.

"Go down to the dungeons and wait for me." She looks at me with horror, I only stare back sternly not responding. She still doesn't move angering me.

"You'd rather not have my forgiveness?" I ask in a low dangerous voice. It's her decision.

She gets up and slowly leaves from the room not sparing me another glance.   

I quickly decide to check in on Annarose like I told her I would. My father already has a guard stationed at her door. I can only think it's because she will birth a son and from my mother's words many sons.

Peeking in her room is shrouded in darkness. I can see she sleeps peacefully. I quickly kiss her head and take in her sent letting it soothe me that no one will ever hurt her again not if I have any say. I silently leave quietly as possible shutting her door and listening to make sure she didn't wake. 

When I'm sure I also make my way to the dungeon slowly giving anticipation for my arrival. Katherine waits for me at the door not yet going in as I told her. 

"Go in," I demand. She gulps. and opens the door going in. I look to the guard of the dungeon.

"I want twenty lashes to her bare bottom and lower thighs. I will watch." He has a look of shock in his eyes I ignore heading in and approaching my wife grabbing her hand pulling her to a table. I bend her over latching her wrists in the metal restraints tightly. These were made for vampires and humans alike. Her tears run heavily but if I stop my pursuit of punishment it would make me a liar and not a very good teacher of discipline. I can't condone her actions.

Once the guard stands behind her with the bullwhip I inform him sternly.

"If you don't administer them properly I'll have you lashed as well." He nods swallowing hard his hand holding the whip shaking. I lean over my wife's backside grabbing her hair at the nape of her scalp a tad ruffly a whisper in her ear.

"You will take twenty-five lashes for your foolery. Don't make me ever have to hurt you again. I don't take pleasure in hurting what's mine. It only angers me more." Pulling her dress up and tieing it in a big not above her hips her crying getting louder with her impending doom. I smack her bottom with one hard slap as she yelps out with the contact.

I step to the side of the table where she can stare into my unfazed eyes my no emotion face. It's not that it doesn't bother me it does but I can't have this happening again. I want her to have to look at me after each lash with her embarrassment and pain and never want to overstep again! Lifting a hand I signal the guard never leaving eye contact with Katherine.

"Begin," 

He rains each blow to her flesh with seconds in between the next and the next her screams and cries echoing through the room every thrash her body tensing and straining for release all piercing my heart with each strike. She begs and pleas for my mercy and I remain unemotional like a heartless monster with no care at all to her pain and suffering.

It's all a show for her cause deep down I'm angered with the guard who punishes her at my demand I want to end it but have no choice but to endure watching because she deserved nothing less than this. When her lashes finally come to an end, I move from her sight still not speaking a word afraid to give my true feelings away.

"Leave," I state bitterly. 

I stand there watching as her whole backside thighs and bottom completely heal before my eyes as she still cries from the memory of her punishment.

Going over I lean over her grabbing the back of her neck and speak in her ear in a low voice letting my thumb rub soothingly on her throat.

"I'm not done with you." She cries some more. I'm still angry though and want to punish her myself. I have to produce a son with this woman and she gave me a daughter so I'm already pissed I have to be intimate with her until she births me a son. Now seems like a good time too, even if I'm not attracted to her. Inflicting pain for hurting my other half excites me enough to do the deed.

I kick her ankles apart not hearing anything she says any longer my mind being fueled by anger. I pull my c**k out and slam into her hard I hear nothing scent nothing only feel. I only feel anger consuming me as I ravage her with it. 

When I finally eject my seed deep in her I unlatch her wrists and pull my c**k out putting it away and throwing her over my shoulder. I take her back to her chambers to put her in a bath.