Cannibal (Book One of A Bloodline's Saga)

Your Life Is Changing

We spend our lives trying to survive 

We spend our days wasting away 

We can't take this any longer 

What doesn't kill you doesn't make you stronger 

Black Tongue 

"Now you are to act like friends here looking for a night out, otherwise no one will want to hang out with a couple. Now go and enjoy yourself considering these will be the only times you can." Ashley states with a sickening smile, my mind raging at the fact that I can't even let lose let alone leave without the threat of being chased down and shot. 

Releasing a sigh, I hold back the tears as we're kicked out and told to mingle with the others. Apparently we have an hour until it's time to start reeling the people in. So with Luke instructing me to follow his lead, I can't help but feel sick at how natural he looks, like he's done this countless times before. 

Buying drinks for us at the bar, he then takes us out onto the dance floor and lets my hand go with a look I don't understand.

"What are you doing?" I shout over the music, not really caring what Ashley or Alistair have to say. 

"We have to part ways. We'll meet out at the car park in an hour. Go and find someone, I will be back as well. Besides, you look beautiful tonight, I doubt someone won't come home with you." and he's gone without even a kiss. 

I get we have to act as if we aren't together, but it still hurts me that he's even doing what his father wants. I want to stand here and actually reject every look and touch that comes my way, but I know for a fact that won't happen considering Alistair and Ashley will know about it instantly.

Swallowing the tears as well as bile, I begin drinking my beverage down so quick I don't even get to taste it until I'm done. 

So he got me vodka and raspberry I think, a small smile forming on my face when it takes me back to the time at Molly's place and how Luke and I were that night, though a small tear forms when I realise that it will never be the same again. 

Molly and the other friends of Luke's I met are most probably cannibals as well, something I now see but still hope isn't true. It does have me wondering though if I will see them throughout my journey under Alistair's care; see if they agree on Luke's choice in starting his life over again and leaving the cannibals behind. Hopefully they too see the benefits of leaving that life behind and follow suit.

I wish this night was on a different occasion and I am actually here to have fun instead of hunt people down for Alistair and Ashley, my mind once again landing on Molly and her friends and how nice they were towards Lucy and I. 

Brushing it from my head when I sense a bump from behind, I turn around to someone apologising to me, his features striking me as attractive only I think of Luke automatically and put up my guard. 

"No I'm sorry, I was too busy standing in the way." I half-smile with my brain and feet taking me away, though I'm stopped by the guy with his hand wrapped around my wrist.

"Have a drink with me." he suggests as his dark cognac stare won't break away and runs a hand through his dark tan hair styled neatly, yet looking like he didn't give a f**k at the same time. 

He has a fair few tattoos on his olive skin and clad in a white wife beater with some writing on the front I cannot make out in the dark, ink black skinny jeans and matching Van sneakers. 

"Okay." I squeak once I'm done scanning him over, my mind thinking of Alistair and Ashley and how they're listening in to everything that is going on as we speak.

"Come." he smiles before leading me over to a spot where we're able to rest our drinks and hear each other at the same time. 

"So what's your name?" he asks with my mind racing when I think of what will Alistair and Ashley do if I use my real name? They never told us not to, only I have a gut feeling informing it would be for the better. 

"Ah Lucy, and you?" I shoot before I can even stop my mouth, mentally slapping myself in the face when it dawns on me that I could get into the same trouble by using my sister's name. 

"Kyle." he smiles while his hand extends towards me, then shaking it when it comes in contact with mine. 

"Nice to meet you." I smile yet I want to scream at him that Luke and I are being held captive, and that if we try and run we're going to be killed. I want to tell him if he comes back with me he is going to f*****g die, and that he needs to help get me and Luke away from them. 

Finishing my drink when he commences talking about himself and other things I couldn't care less about, I order a few more drinks while enduring the same painful conversation as he begins getting touchy feely. 

"Wanna get out of here?" I ask and pretty intoxicated at this point, my mind too chaotic to even register that I'm too drunk myself, only I'm on pure adrenaline and that seems to be sobering my actions up a lot. 

"f**k yeah where do you wanna go?" he grins after glancing at the time on his phone and realising that I have two minutes to get out of the club, and get to the meeting point where Luke is probably right now. 

"My place let's go." I smile though it falls as soon as my back is turned to him.

Finally pushing our way through the crowd with Kyle's sweaty hand in mine, I want to rip away yet I don't in favour of keeping character. 

I want to laugh considering I don't think I said anything tonight. Kyle did most of the talking and I never knew how easy it was to find someone once I put a dress and some makeup, on. Like not to call myself the hottest cunt in here, but I never got a guy this quick considering it took me ages to find Jake and the ones prior to him, yet here I am. 

Scanning the area and finding Luke nowhere in sight, I start freaking out when I don't know where to walk, only my sister's name is called and I begin looking around as if it is her. Though it isn't her it's me and it is Luke calling. 

How the f**k does he know? Did his Dad tell him, but how? Unless he went into the club himself and told Luke that I almost f****d the mission I guess you could say, by using my sister's name and that I should have given my real name.

"Yeah?" I shout back with Luke looking a little concerned, though wipes it off in favour of resuming his character. 

"I borrowed my Dad's car when I saw you walking here, want a lift back to yours?" he offers as his eyes inform me something yet I don't know what it is, so I trust my instincts and tell him what my brain is screaming at me.

"How about we all chill at yours? I mean I totally forgot that my parents are asleep at home considering they have work early tomorrow." I lie quickly with a fake annoyed expression while Kyle sets his gaze on me, the word "parents" almost hitching in my throat when I think of Mum and Cam and how they wouldn't be sleeping right now, but using every waking moment to try and find me.

I assume that's why Luke was looking at me weirdly, I mean was I meant to say "Thank you" and "Yes I would love for him to take me home" or was I supposed to say "Yes I will come back with you"? Either way Kyle and the girl Luke managed to grab will be passed out and in restraints soon enough. So whatever I did say right or wrong, it will surely be brought up by Ashley and Alistair. 

"Sure, sounds like a plan." he states only a girl I assume the one Luke found, starts calling out his name and gains our attention as my stare takes in the thin milky skinned girl with ginger locks, freckles painting across her tattooless skin and an emerald green swing dress matching her equally emerald eyes. 

The top of her dress is shaped similar to mine though with thicker straps, the bottom flowing out at the hips as well as simple matching open toed heels and clutch to go with it. 

"There you are I was waiting for you, I said I would be outside." he chuckles when she attempts to demand his whereabouts. 

I want to punch the ginger out of her when she begins rubbing up against him, his eyes not looking at me once as he puts all of his attention onto this girl. 

Not bothering to stomp Luke's head in, I begin walking with Kyle to the car when his hand slips into mine, anger building up quickly inside of me while a million ways to kill this b***h flows freely through my mind.

I get he's getting into character, but I've been doing quite well in avoiding s**t like that! Like I haven't even let Kyle get to that f*****g extent! Maybe Luke will understand how it feels when I break my guard and let Kyle do what, this b***h is doing to him, to me if not a little more extreme because two can play at that game. 

Calming myself down as we get in the car and instantly replace it with fear when I see it's Alistair and Ashley in the car, the lights off the music pumping similar from the club, continues all the way to Luke's supposed place. 

With Ashley and Alistair trying their best to keep their faces hidden and pass themselves off as young, they then pass the girl I finally catch her name as Vanessa, and Kyle a pill of some description before they take it without a care in the world, Luke and I wondering what it is and for the first time we're finally able to look at each other.

"So what's this?" Vanessa shouts over the music. 

"Drugs you guys are into that s**t yeah?" Ashley questions while Vanessa seems a little scared considering she strikes me as someone who's never done them before. 

"Don't worry we'll do it together." Luke smiles and observes her not even think about it twice as she pops it in, and drinks it down with a can of alcohol that was provided when we got in the car. 

Staring at Kyle he seems to have already taken it and his smile telling me he's done pills in his life, though I'm not exactly sure what pill it is he just took considering I didn't get a chance to look at it. 

Taking ages to get home, I glance over to witness Kyle and Vanessa are beginning to nod off, the music turning down and observing when they finally pass out cold. 

"What the f**k happened in there Emily? I had to risk being discovered to tell Luke that you had changed your name!" Alistair hisses just in case they wake up again. 

"I didn't know you never told me to keep my name or change it!" I virtually shout while Ashley shoots me a deadly look to shut the f**k up. 

Rolling my eyes and folding my arms the car trip falls silent for once which is good, I don't think I could handle hearing their voices right now without trying to kill them and all of us in the process. 

Eventually making it home Ashley and Alistair end up making us stay in the house for a minute considering they've changed plans, and will be dragging us to another pub s***h nightclub they must've found when scoping out the area. 

"We have fake I.Ds for the both of you so you won't have a problem getting in." Ashley explains while Alistair and Luke commence the dragging of the bodies and down to what sounds like a basement. 

Moments later Alistair and Luke join us once again before we're escorted back to the car, my stomach churning as the alcohol starts becoming too much for me, as well as the guilt knowing that Vanessa and Kyle could die tonight. 

Even though moments ago I wanted to kill Vanessa, I refrain from doing that because it's not her fault. She doesn't know about Luke or I and has no knowledge of me carrying Luke's child, so there's no point wasting my anger on someone who doesn't deserve it when there's two people right in front of me, who do. 

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Waking up in my cell with flashbacks of last night accompanying, my stomach drops when it dawns on me that the people Luke and I lured in last night, are still as a matter of fact here and will or already have figured out they aren't leaving any time soon.

"Emily! Get up and start stripping and cleaning the bodies, Luke is going to help you." Alistair charges while my feet commence on taking me to where Luke and Alistair dragged the bodies to, before we're handed a bag of clothes with Luke joining me at my side. 

"Now I'm going to leave Luke in charge, but if I smell anything out of order or wrong, I will take this privilege of freedom away and you will find yourselves living in worse conditions." he warns while the door is unlocked once we're shoved down the stairs, my feet losing their footing along the way and causing me to drop to my knees. 

Luke's nice enough to catch me from further falling, only I rip myself away from him and make my way down the stairs, not caring if he knows I'm angry at him or not. He should know the reason why I'm so pissed and I dare say he'd ask now. 

"Why are you angry at me, what the f**k did I do?" he demands when it's just the two of us making our way down the stairs and into the oddly quiet basement. "What do you think Luke; you seemed to be enjoying yourself with all of those girls touching you." I growl as his eyes roll and mumble something along the lines of how he knew this would come up.

"I shouldn't have to explain myself to you when you know what our task was. Besides you didn't mind that Josh or whatever his name was, grope at your ass." he snaps while my eyebrows rise in disbelief with a snort comes out. 

"Maybe because you weren't hesitating to also let ginger f**k over here practically rub your d**k in my f*****g face!" I explode and not even caring if Alistair or Ashley hear us, at this point.

"It's not like I had a f*****g hard on anyway!" he rounds back with obviously him not caring either, yet the fight is broken up by Ashley coming down the stairs demanding what the f**k is going on. 

"Nothing it's just intense around here." Luke grunts then goes over to a guy named Parker I supposedly lured in, and stripping him of his clothes though he's stopped. 

Giving the straw-coloured haired and sea green eyed male a quick glance lying half naked on the ground, his slight bangs and side fringe that used to cover his eyebrows now sweaty and stuck to his forehead and left side of his face. 

He's an average height guy, his build not as stocky as Luke's yet he does have a bit of muscle, only he seems to be painted in tattoos and finding it hard for his tannish skin to come through.

"Leave him like that; continue on with your job of undressing and redressing them in different clothes." Alistair orders when the still unconscious bodies are layed out all over the basement floor, Alistair making his way over to Parker instantly and dropping to his knees. 

"Don't look." Luke warns me while I begin undressing a blonde girl named Claire, her crystal blue eyes closed off behind her faintly eyeshadow painted eyelids, and dirt marked peachy skin due to the place they're in right now being filthy as f**k. 

Her once clean cherry red pair of mini shorts now grubby with slight rips all through them, her white tank top an equal soiled colour with as many tears as the shorts, and a pair of stockings with Docs to go with them, hugs her flat yet curvy body.  

"What do you mea-" though I look away from what Alistair's doing to a half-unconscious Parker, my stomach churning as he begins making disgusting noises and Parker groaning in pain in his sleep.

"Oh my f*****g God he's a f*****g psycho." I whisper while tears blur my vision, my quaking hands putting the new outfits on the victims as Parker's screams add to the already intense atmosphere when he stirs awake, Ashley quickly tying up the others then she's ordered to leave with me and Luke. 

Running up the basement stairs and slamming the door behind us to attempt to drown out the screaming of Parker being f*****g raped by Luke's Dad, I automatically break down and drop to the floor with Luke trying to pick me up only I don't listen to him. 

"We are going to f*****g die and there's nothing we are going to do to change that." I sob hysterically as more screams come from the basement and summoning more tears, though it's not Parker anymore.

"No we will get out of here I promise you. We just need to get our hands on those pills they gave to the others in the basement, and somehow slip it into their drink. That is when we get the car and get the f**k out of here; I mean it will be easier because there're more people to help us now. More ideas to give us and new ways of getting out of here." he explains in a gentle voice when the screams and shouts stop in favour of hearing Alistair and Ashley go at it this time, my body cringing considering this man was practically in every victim downstairs and she is happily letting him inside her. 

Picking up a little bit of the shouting match afterwards, I can tell she's pissed that he f****d a few of the victims considering she thought he was over doing that. 

"Let's go before we get in s**t for being together." he whispers as we catch footsteps stomping up the basement stairs. 

Splitting up and heading to our rooms, I'm summoned seconds later by Ashley and Alistair along with Luke who finally joins me. 

Standing at attention Alistair and Ashley collapse on the couch while cracking open a can of alcohol each, then sitting back and making themselves comfortable though their stare never wavers from Luke and I. 

"We'll be having an extra pair of hands join us seeing as how the people we are gathering are growing quite quickly in numbers. We already have four people down there and plan on getting more. So you understand why it is necessary to have these extra hands come and help." Alistair informs us as tears well in my eyes and grasp at the fact that, there are officially no plans of escape now considering more than two people will have to be knocked out if we want to leave. 

Will these new people be from the same community Alistair's from, because if so I don't think I could handle hearing multiple rapes going on without snapping and killing everyone! Even if I die in the process, there's no way I'm standing back and to watch this happen, I have to do something and Luke has to help me! Will these people beat on me like Alistair and Ashley, would they allow it knowing what's growing inside of me? Or are they also here to get a piece of what I'm creating? Either way time will tell what these people are like and if they agree with Alistair's f****d up ways, or not. I just hope that the raping died in that basement and not rear its f*****g head again. 

"Meaning you won't be hostages, but slaves now. You will be doing everything I say and when I jump, you ask how high, got it?" Ashley declares casually over the rim of her can. 

"So what will you have us do then?" I ask with my mind ticking away that there maybe is hope in getting out of here, meaning using the others to gain their freedom as well as mine and Luke's in the process. 

"You will tend to the guests that come and go through here as well as make sure the people are rounded up when it is time to leave. You will also make sure they are bathed, clothed and locked away until further instructions. Well Emily will up until she has to give birth, then you will be using your recovery time to continue on with your duties." Alistair clarifies while a smile forms on his face when Ashley sighs at the sight of my growing lump. 

"Have you thought of names as to what you will call the baby?" Ashley asks then takes another sip of her can.  

"No, I haven't really had time to think." I murmur out with my eyes dropping to the floor to avoid eye contact with these people. 

"Of course you haven't, well you'll be able to now. Anyway that's all we have wanted to tell you, oh and clean the place up a bit as well. We haven't been able to considering we've been a bit busy making room for our new guests." Alistair smiles and stands up then slamming his can on the coffee table in front of him.

"And thanks to these new guests, we will now have new places to hide out as well as better warning of when people are looking for us." Ashley beams while Alistair gives her a look to shut her up. 

"What, it's not like they're going to tell anyone? We will now have people watching them when they go out gathering more people to bring back and make sure they don't alert anyone." she argues as Alistair flicks his wrist a dismissively to begin our chores set out for us. 

Feeling at home in a way I feel the task actually euphoric, fun if I'll be honest considering it's more than reading and fearing for my life. I'm actually able to do something that takes me back to when Lucy and I were at home cleaning the house before Mum and Cam got home from work, only this time I have Luke to help me.