Dangerous.
1749 Words
“If it’s a palace, the food must be good then?”, this was my first question after learning where I am.
“Of course”, replied Darcian. “We have premium quality food.”
“Good, I am hungry. I can’t believe I slept without dinner.”, I prefer food over sleep, so, giving sleep some priority over food doesn’t stand right with me. Maybe a rare case, also due to Darcian’s spell.
As I was busy in my thoughts, a shrill form broke my concentration.
Stella was awake.
One additional burden over my shoulder.
I saw Stella running on the second floor and coming downstairs with the same momentum.
She looked at me before hiding behind my back.
“Are you selling me?”, she asked.
My eyes rolled at her query. Seriously? That’s what you thought!
“Why would I do that?”, I asked.
“I don’t know.”, she replied.
“We’re kidnapped.”, I told her.
“We or just me?”, she repeated the same question sprinkling some creativity.
“Girl, you are not worthy to be sold, even a pig butcher won’t buy you.”, as I ranted at Stella, Darcian seemed to have taken some imaginary popcorn and savoured every bit of it with great delight.
Whereas Stella glared at me with her big doe eyes. Ah, girl, I am telling the truth.
“If I am not worthy of being sold, how the hell am I kidn*pped?”, she questioned with great concern.
“How would I know, ask that guy over there.”, I replied to her as I proceeded to cross my arm across my chest.
Stella glanced at Darcian before both of us got a call from the tummy to feed the mice living there.
Stella glanced at me before I did the same.
I gave her a beautiful fake smile before she replied to me with one.
“I guess you guys need food, I should have prepared it beforehand, excuse me girls, you both can talk.”, Darcian excused himself.
After Darcian left, both I and Stella sat on the couch as if it was a home we owned.
“I thought we were kidnapped.”, Stella said.
I faced her before replying, “We’re really kidn*pped, dahling!”, I said. This girl might be in lalala land thinking I am pranking her. “No dream-girl, we’re really kidnapped.”
“A kidnapper preparing food for his victim and letting them stay in their house, nah, I ain’t going to believe your shit.”
“And even carrying one of them.”, I added. “He princess carry you, Stella.”, I took out my phone to show her the picture. Seeing the picture, her face shrieked like a banana skin, after being kept abandoned for 2 weeks. I laughed at her reaction, soon to realise, that shouldn’t be our most significant concern.
“Listen, Stella,”, I said bringing a serious tone in my voice, “We’re really kidn*pped and you, me and other eight girls.”
Listening to me, Stella’s eyes widened and she said, “Where are the other girls?”
“I don’t know, all I know is they are going to use us as a sacrifice.”
“Sacrifice!?”
“Yes.”
Stella remained silent before saying, “Then where are the other 8 girls.”
“They are abducted in the palace maybe.”
“Palace?”
“Yeah! This place is vampire’s palace.”, Stella widened her already amplified eyes. But she let out a series of fake laughs afterwards.
“I was correct, you prankster.”, Stella abruptly jumped on top of me without any notice and grabbed my collar, “Tell me where the hell I am. And who’s that guy?”
“Don’t tell me you are thinking that I am setting you up on a blind date with that guy?”, Stella blinked her eyes with embarrassment.
GOSH!! THIS GIRL!
Fine, I won’t try to convince her. Believe whatever you want.
“You can date a bloodsucker, I won’t mind.”, I said hinting at Darcian being a vampire. But will this girl give her ear to my words? And nevertheless, her not believing me was justifiable. Nobody would believe that vampire exists.
“Haven’t you bathed yet?”, questioned Stella.
“No, I haven’t.”, After fighting with an invisible ghost in the forest, I was all sweaty, but now I realised, I needed to take a bath. On the contrary, I don’t have any clothes. I sighed and at the same Darcian returned to the room.
“Food is ready...”, Darcian stopped midway as he saw our position.
I was at the bottom, while Stella was on top of me holding my collar.
‘Darcian, I know you’re listening to my thoughts. Don’t misunderstand, I am not a lesbian.’
I don’t know why, but it felt necessary to tell him. He while shook his head and proceeded, “Follow me to the dining hall.”
“Wait,”, Stella spoke. Loud and clear.
“Are we kidn*pped?”, she asked.
Darcian, being confused, looked at me.
‘She is thinking that I am pranking her.’
“No.”, said Darcian. “Here you are enjoying your vacation. And you are having a good time here, understand.”
“Yes,” Stella replied with a smile.
‘Did you just compelled her!?’, I asked Darcian through my thoughts.
I couldn’t hear Darcian’s thought but certainly, his smile replied for me. I closed my eyes in frustration as the one who remained in a sense just me. I wonder why he hasn’t compelled me yet.
“Let’s have our lunch?”, Darcian repeated and Stella followed him.
“I need to brush my teeth and have a shower before I have lunch.”, I spoke. “Darcian, can you lead me.”
“Sure,” he replied. “But right after I serve this lady.”
He and Stella left for the dining room whereas I stayed in the living room.
I was there for more than five minutes but Darcian hasn’t returned yet.
“What took you so long?”, I questioned as he returned.
“My house is quite big. It takes time to move from one room to another.”, Darcian indirectly flexed about his house.
“You could have teleported her.”, I replied as we headed towards the bathroom. Now we were ascending the stairs.
“I don’t have the power to teleport.”, he said.
I instantly looked at him, catching him lying in front of me. Darcian looked at me too. He interpreted what I mean.
“I borrowed the power to teleport from Azel.”
“Vampire can borrow power?”, I asked.
“Yes.”
At his reply, the illuminated bulb in my brain got luminate.
“Whose power did you borrow to kidnap me?”
“What do you mean?”, he asked as if he was unaware of what he was doing.
I stopped my pace before interpreting what I meant, “You borrowed power from some powerful vampire to catch me. Therefore I wondered why you smell so different from that detention room. I got the answer today. That was not your smell but some other.
“And when you said you kidn*pped me coincidently, you lied! Or else why would you prepare so much? And this also explains why you aren’t compelling me because you can’t!”
The smile fell from Darcian’s face. “I borrowed my brother’s power.”
That was the only thing he said.
“Why are you so much eager to awake him? My advice would be, don’t. Don’t awake him. He has the power to destroy the world.”, I said with concern.
“Can you imagine your pack running peacefully without your father?”, Darcian asked me.
“No, it can’t.....
“How do you know my father is the leader of our pack?”, I asked.
He might have known from my thought but my instinct said he knew earlier.
I had known Darcian for less than 24 hours but I am feeling kind of nostalgia. Weird.
“Firstly, you should take a bath, secondly have your lunch and thirdly, we can talk.”, Darcian said. I agree too. I am here for the next eight days anyway, more than enough time to talk.
“And what about my clothes?”, I asked Darcian.
“Follow me.”
“I have been doing that since yesterday night.”, I pout as I stated.
Darcian shook his head and laughed.
I followed behind Darcian and he led me to the guest room. He held the knobs of the door and opened it. The room had a king-size bed, blue curtains over the windows, a closet and...
The room felt like home. Yeah, a home.
Blue is my favourite colour, even the shirt I am wearing is the colour of the night sky and my pant is sky blue.
“Your clothes are in the closet.”, he said and I looked at him astonished. He even prepared clothes for me!?
“Are you a stalker?”, I asked.
“Why do you ask?”
“The answer is obvious, you know about my family, you know about me, what do you expect me to think of you?”
“Think of me as your highly regarded lover.”
“We wolf got mate, and I am 101 per cent sure, you aren’t my mate.”
“Surely, I ain’t because I am a lucky bastard.”, said Darcian with a smile of victory. “I wonder the unlucky person who’s going to be your mate.”
“He’s going to be luckier than you.”, I replied with the same victory smile.
“How do you know your mate is going to be ‘he’”?, Darcian said teasingly.
I lifted my leg to kick before he ran away laughing.
I still can’t believe that we have known each other for less than 24 hours. He feels more than a friend, he feels like a family.
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