Master

Chapter Nine

I woke up in the morning in my own room. There was a dull throbbing pain at the bite mark. I went into the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror. The mark looked worse than I thought it would. It was a deep bite that was surrounded by dry blood and bruises.

I called Sage into the bathroom, and when she saw the mark, she stopped dead in her tracks. She ran her thumb along the indentations, causing me to wince in pain. When she pulled her hand away, there was a blood on it.

"He marked you," was all she said, the disbelief prevalent in her voice.

"What?" I asked, not understanding what she was talking about.

"When a vampire," she thought about what to say for a moment. "Gets close, for lack of a better word, to a slave, they give them a mark. It's kinda their way of showing everyone that the slave is their's."

"Why would he do this all the sudden?"

Sage looked at me with pity in her eyes. "Inell, it's an unofficial way of making you his... personal slave."

My eyes widened at this realization, and Master Baekhyun telling me that I was his favorite suddenly made sense.

"What?" I asked in horror. "Don't they need official papers for that and not just a bite mark?"

"They do," she answered. "But it's just their way of telling others to back off."

"What am I suppose to do?" I asked as my heart raced.

"I don't know," she replied. "Just do me a favor. Don't tell him that you found this out through me, okay." I assured her that I wouldn't.

We did our regular chores, though it was rather painful for me due to the mark. Throughout the day, I thought about what I needed to do, and I came to one conclusion: I needed to escape. I couldn't spend my whole life with Master Baekhyun. This was the only option. I decided not to tell Sage about my plan in hopes that she would not be punished if everything fell through.

Evening came, and Master Baekhyun arrived home. At one point, he took a look at the mark, and a faint smile flashed across his face. He was proud of what he'd done.

After dinner, he called Sage up to his room and sent me to bed. It was my chance. I quietly walked through the house, opened the door, and walked out.

I ran. I ran as fast as I could away from that place. The cold tundra breeze nipped at my skin, but in the heat of the moment, I was able to ignore it. I had no idea what I was going to do or where I was going. I was legally a slave, and nothing more. No one would help me. No one cared about me. No one but Master Baekhyun would notice if I was dead.

I eventually came to a place I recognized: the small brick bridge. All the flowers around it had withered and died, making the place look drear. I had been running for awhile, so I took a break at the bridge. My breath was visible in the cold.

"Why are you out here all alone?" a voice from behind asked. I jumped and turned around. The person was dressed in all black with a hood pulled over their head, hiding their features. They began walking towards me, but I was frozen in place, paralyzed with fear.

"You know," the person began. "I was just out for a stroll when I smelt the scent of human blood, but this wasn't just any blood. I knew I'd smelt it before, even tasted it, and that's when I realized that it was you all along."

I could see who it was now: Sir Sehun, his eyes red and thirsty for blood. He had a smirk plastered across his face. Before I could react, he was holding me from behind. I could barely breath.

"I was waiting for the day," Sir Sehun began. "When I could have you, and there would be no one to save you. And due to your own stupidity, you're mine now."

I sunk his fangs into my flesh, and he wasn't gentle about it either. He drank blood relentlessly. I screamed, but I knew no one could hear me.

In one last desperate attempt to get away from him, I dug my fingernails into his arm. His blood was black, and when it touched my skin, it felt like acid was being poured on me. I finally realized what Master Baekhyun had done to me on the night that he tortured me: he had dripped his blood onto me.

I couldn't take it anymore. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't stay awake. I couldn't escape this monster that had me within its arms. The world went black.

I awoke very briefly to two people standing over me. One was Master Baekhyun, but I didn't recognize the other. I couldn't really understand what they were saying, but what I did hear seemed so far away.

"She's almost completely dry," the one guy said. "You have to change her."

"No," Master growled back.

"She'll die-"

"Then let her die!" Master yelled back.

I next thing I knew, Master was gone and it was just me with this complete stranger as I was about to die. He gave me a sympathetic look.

He brought his wrist up to his mouth and bit it, black liquid filling his mouth. He then grabbed my wrist and bit down on it. A sharp pain shot through my body before darkness engulfed me once more.