Descendant Of The Red Moon

Chapter 5

I’ve been awake for a few days now and the doctors told me that I could leave the hospital today. The past days have been, well confusing to say the least. Amélie, the girl that had packed my bags at my house, was literally the only person that had been visiting me throughout the days. I was pretty grateful that she visited me as she made me feel a lot better and we even grew quite close. I learnt she’s actually the sister of the French prick, aka Alexander. They did look pretty similar, both were well build and had strong features on their faces. She also had darker blond hair that came slightly past her shoulders but her eyes were a little darker than her brother’s.

Except for her and the nurses, I didn’t see anybody. That’s not counting the two f*****g bodyguards standing at my door, who I got to meet when I attempted my second escape. I’m pretty sure they were placed there by Alexander, who by the way didn’t even visit once. What a great guy right? Dragging me from my home to ‘protect’ me, getting me in a car accident and not even bothering to see if I was okay. Protecting my ass… So yeah, I’m pretty mad about that. The worst part is, I even kind of miss his presence which annoys me even more.

To top that, neither Amélie nor the nurses gave me any answers when I asked something about the accident or why I was even there but they told me it was not their place to tell me. So in the end, Alexander is probably the only one who’ll give me answer but if he could just tell me and stop with the ‘in time’ s**t , that would be just f*****g great.

“Hey Tori, on-y va?” Amélie interrupts my thinking.

“English please?” I say, giving her a bored look. She sometimes spoke to me in French but my French vocabulary doesn’t go much further than ‘oui’, ‘bonjour’ or ‘merci’.

“Let’s go?” she asked again as she handed me a jacket. I just nodded in understanding and put on the jacket.

As we made our way out of the small hospital, I took in my surroundings. It looked like some weird kind of community in the middle of a dense forest. We stood next to a long gravel road, the left leading further in the forest and the right to a mansion that seemed huge, even though it was probably around a mile away. On the rest of the road there were little sideroads and cozy cabins in all different sizes. Where the hell am I?

I opened my mouth to ask Amélie but closed it as she probably will hit me again with the ‘not my place to tell’s**t.

I quickly followed her again as she was already a little ahead of me and we made our way to a fancy black car. Leaning against the car was a big muscular guy I remember from back at my house. Amélie made her way over to him and gave him a hug.

“Salut chérie, comment ça va?” So this dude speaks French too, nice…

“Tout va bien, merci”, she said to him with a big smile and pulled my hand to bring me forward.

“So Logan, this is Victoria but that’s Tori for the friends”, she added, mocking me for when I told her to call me Tori earlier.

“Well it’s nice to meet you Victoria”, Logan said and held his hand out. I just smiled back at him and shook his hand.

“Now ladies, let’s get going. Alexander is waiting at the house”, he said after releasing my hand and I immediately huffed in response. As we got into the car, I saw their sudden sad expression.

Driving down the gravel path, neither of them said anything and Amélie kept looking down at her hands. After a few minutes the car came to a stop and Logan got out. Amélie let out a sigh and finally looked up at me.

“Tori, can I ask you something?” she almost whispered.

“Of course”, I immediately said.

“Do you hate my brother?”, she asked, looking down again

I looked down and sighed, not really knowing how I feel about him anyway. Do I hate him?

“I don’t hate him. It’s just that he has been doing stuff that doesn’t really make me like him either”, I answered.

“I know he can be an annoying pain in the ass and it might seem like he’s a really possessive and mean guy who’s got everything under control but believe me when I say he’s having a hard time as well. I’m not asking you to give in to him but…” she stopped and looked at me with pleading eyes.

“All I’m asking is to give him a chance”

“Okay”, I answer after a while, to which she smiled at me.

“Let’s go inside, shall we? Your stuff is already there”, she says, making me realise we’re at the house I’m supposed to call home for god knows how long.

As I leave the car, my eyes almost fall out their sockets. We’re at the mansion at the end of the road and forget the huge. This place is massive. The house has legit four floors. Who needs four f*****g floors? Maybe this won’t be that bad, at least there is enough space to avoid Alexander…

“Don’t start drooling now”, Amélie mocks and takes my hand to lead me inside. She led my through the house to the fourth floor, constantly pulling me by my arm as the inside of the house was just as majestic as the outside, if not more.  

We arrived at a door and she pushed it open, pulling me inside with her.

“This is your new bedroom”, she said, smiling at me.

Wow… this place is like four times my old living room. The room was generally colored in different types of grey. Not really like my pink and girly room at home but in combination with the freaking chandelier hanging from the ceiling , the room looked gorgeous.

“You like it?”

“Hell yeah”, I answered and started exploring. After the bedroom I went in the bathroom to see not just a bath and shower but a jacuzzi. This is insane…

“I’ve gotta go for now okay? See you later, Tori”, she said as I excitingly made my way to the last door in the bedroom. It was a freaking walk-in closet with rows and rows with all types of clothing.

Dresses, tops, sweaters, skirts, tuxedo’s, ties… Hold up. Why is there men’s clothing here?

“Wait Amélie, who’s room is this?”, I half yelled.

“It’s ours”, I heard, being pretty damn sure of who it was.

As I make my way back to the bedroom, I see mister Alexander leaning against the doorway with his hands in his pockets.

Damn, he looks hot.

NO

Nope

For f***s sake Tori, you’re angry remember.

“You can’t be serious”

“I am serious, Victoria”, he said calmly.

“I’m not sleeping here with you. You could be a r****t or a killer for all I know”, I say, pointing my finger accusingly at him.

“Sweetheart, trust me, I would ne-“

“Well that’s the problem, I don’t trust you”. He stays quiet as my words have seemed to hurt him, so I continue.

“You expect me to trust you, yet you let me wake up in the hospital alone and not knowing where or with who I am. And to top that, you didn’t even come to see if I was okay”, I half yelled at him.

“I thought you didn’t want to see me, since it’s my fault you got hurt”, he answered me, looking down like sad little puppy.

“I’m not blaming you for the accident. It just hurt to think you would protect me to then be abandoned”

“I didn’t abandon you, I just couldn’t face you afterwards and I thought you wanted space from me” he said quietly.

“I can’t handle you hating me, Victoria”, he added when I didn’t say anything. He sounded so broken and I immediately thought back at what Amélie had told me. I slowly headed over to him and but my hand on his cheek to which he immediately looked at me.

I don’t know why I’m doing this but seeing him like this just breaks my heart, while my head keeps telling me it shouldn’t.

“I don’t hate you”, I whispered. He instantly pulled me towards him, laying his head on my shoulder and his arms tightly around me. I soothingly rubbed my hand up and down his back trying to make him feel better, that’s all that’s on my mind right now.

“You smell good”, he says as his warm breath tingles my neck.

“I smell like hospital”, I say since the hospital smell is still invading my nose.

“You smell like cinnamon and honey”, he mutters, slightly chuckling.  

“Okay, if you say so. I just wanna get rid of these clothes, to me they reek of hospital”, I state and detangle myself from him only to see him looking very deeply in my eyes. If it were possible, I would even say his eyes turned blackish.

“What are y-“, I stopped as he leaned me against the wall and closed the little distance between us.

“I can help you with the clothes”, he whispered, his voice low.

My lips pressed together as he ran the tips of his fingers down my bare arm.

As he starts pressing kisses on my shoulder and neck, my breath starts to quicken and my hands unintentionally finds their way into his hair. My head is screaming to push away but it’s like my body has got a will of it’s own.

“Alexander”, I mutter quietly. His head instantly snapped back and he looked in my eyes. I gasped as all the white from his eyes was gone. How it that even possible. But that didn’t seem to be on our priority list as my eyes slightly started flickering towards his lips. As if on cue, he immediately pressed his lips against mine as his hands continued their exploring, sending sparks all over me. I started feeling hotter and hotter as one of his hands came under my top and rested on my bare back. I lowly moaned which seemed to send him in overdrive as he pushed himself even more against me, making me wrap my legs around his waist.

I’m in complete trance, like this is what I’ve been waiting for my entire life. My mind is just completely blank, until I feel his friend pressed against me. That’s when I realise I’m kissing him back. I’m f*****g kissing him back and I’m even making myself quite comfortable while I’m at it.

God dammit Tori, snap out of it.

I harshly pushed him back not thinking about the fact I just hit his shoulder with my cast.

“I’m so sorry”, I say as I even felt the impact through the cast.

“It’s okay Victoria. It’s better anyway before I lost control”, he tells me and I see the green in his eyes slightly coming back. What’s up with that? Eyes don’t change color or am I being dumb?

“I see you for dinner”, he blurts out and quickly leaves me alone in the room.

Euhm, yeah…

So that happened.

As I look at the clock, I see that I’ve been standing in the same spot, overthinking for forty minutes.

Let’s not think to much about it, maybe exploring the house will calm my mind a bit.

Walking around the fourth floor I was just shocked. Except for a few doors being locked there was a game room, a cinema, two bars, a library, a lot of offices, a gym and much more. Let’s not forget the multiple bedrooms.

So why am I being forced in his room again? Ugh, whatever…

The third floor consisted mostly of bedrooms, offices and a few lounges. The fourth floor was way more luxurious than the third. But still, who needs this many rooms? It’s like the building is made to house the whole town by the amounts of bedrooms there are.

“Wow, there”, I hear after I accidently bumped into someone.

“Sorry”. I look up and see Logan genuinely smiling down at me.

It’s actually quite funny how misleading looks are. He might look tough and scary but he’s been nothing than an absolute sweetheart. Plus he’s a fellow ginger so I like him already. He kind of reminds me of Archie Andrews from Riverdale, basically just a hot and muscular ginger.

“You should be careful Victoria. We don’t want the other hand in a cast as well, now do we?” he joked and patted my head.

“Rather not, no”

“What were you doing anyway, shortie”, he asked me, grinning after the last part.

“I was doing some exploring. And I prefer Tori, thank you”

“So that means we’re friends now?” he asked getting all excited.

This guy…

“Well, why not. So what about a walk outside friend, I could really use some fresh air”, I said as I saw the clear blue sky through the window.

“Sure, let’s go”

So we’ve been walking and talking for a while now and this place is really from another world. Normally walking with a guy you just met in a forest would be a no go for me but the forest was literally packed with people. Some kids were playing, some kids my age were talking and enjoying the sun and some elders were having a walk together.

“So what’s yours?” Logan asked. Right, I had asked what he’s most afraid of and the little romantic said ‘losing his soulmate’.

“Well, no soulmate but I do have a pretty drastic fear of those nasty big spiders” Just the thoughts alone…

“I should have known”, he laughed, shaking his head.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” I hit his shoulder, and yes the one with the cast, and look forward as I see we’re nearing a clearing with a lot of people.

“Euh, Tori. I think we should head back” Logan suddenly stops walking.

“No, wait I wanna see”, I whine and see him kind off zone out. He doesn’t say anything so I just shrug and make my way towards the field.

“Victoria, we have to go back” He catches up with me as I stood at the edge of the clearing to see people working out.

“Why, they’re just training”, I say as I turn my back to the field, only to see his panicked expression. Suddenly his eyes widen as he focuses on something behind me.

I slowly turn around and freeze in my spot.

There are f*****g wolfs walking on the field. Freaking huge ass wolves.