chapter 7
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Chapter 7
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My mind raced as Xander, peter, Arnaldo, and I made our way down the halls in search of Arnaldo and Xander's s parents.
They were royalty?
I was about to meet the king and queen of the vampire world?
My mind felt like it was going to explode.
Never in my life would I have guessed that vampires had royalty.
And yet here I was, going to meet the queen and king…
Dizziness swept over me and I staggered slightly, my vision blurring.
I knew immediately that it wasn’t due to my anxiety of meeting more vampires, but due to my anemia.
How much blood had I lost last night?
Was it last night that I’d been… drunk from?
As nausea continued to sweep over me I fought to keep myself up right.
That battle was lost when I suddenly lost my balance and fell to the side.
A pair of hard hands caught me and set me up straight.
I looked over my shoulder to see two Arnaldos peering at me with worried expressions. After a moment of focusing I managed to get Arnaldo back into one person. He furrowed his eyebrows, waving a hand in front of my face.
“Are you okay?” he asked.
“No,” I told him honestly, too dizzy to swat his hands away.
“My anemia…”
“Oh shoot, that’s right!” peter responded with realization.
“xander, how much—”
“Call me Xander one more time and I swear—”
“How much blood did you drink?” Arnaldo inquired, cutting of Xander.
“Can you give me an estimate?”
Xander scowled at his brother for a moment, and then shrugged.
“I don’t know. A pint and a half probably.”
My eyes flew open.
“A pint and a half?”
Xander shrugged.
“I usually drink two quarts.”
“xander, a quart is a lot to an anemic person,” peter commented in a worried tone.
“How the hell was I supposed to know she was anemic? It’s not like there was a flashing sign above her head saying, ‘Look! I’m anemic!’”
Peter grinned.
“Very true.”
“sophia, what’s your blood type?” Arnaldo asked after sending a disapproving look at Xander and Peter.
“Why do you want to know?” I asked suspiciously.
“In order to help you.”
“Why do you want to help me?”
“Because we can’t let you die, stupid,” Xander snapped.
“Stop asking stupid questions.”
I narrowed my eyes at him.
“Stupid questions? I was kidn*pped here against my will, and now I’m being told you want to help me? If you want to help, let me go home! I can eat my disgusting dried fruit and everything will be fine!”
“We’ll have to do a blood transfusion later,” Arnaldo commented, keeping a hand on my back.
“I can tell just by looking at her she lost too much blood last night.”
“Are you even listening to me?” I demanded angrily.
“I was!” peter told me with a grin.
“I wasn’t talking to you!”
“Shut up. We’ll deal with your anemia later. Right now, we’re going to tell my parents about you,” Xander told me shortly.
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“Way to take charge, Xander” peter cheered, elbowing his friend in the shoulder.
Xander jammed his elbow back at Peter with enough force to make him have to stagger back a few steps back.
I figured that if Xander had one that to a human, every bone close to the hit point would be broken.
The thought scared me.
What would happen to me if one of the vampires got violent?
“Can you walk by yourself?” Arnaldo asked and I felt him remove his hand from me.
“I know you don’t like us touching you.”
I blinked in surprise.
I totally forgot Arnaldo was touching me this whole time!
How did I manage that?
Finally his question processed in my mind and I nodded my head vigorously, making the room spin momentarily again.
“I can walk by myself.”
“Then let’s go,” Xander growled and started walking down the hallway again.
“I want to get this over and done with.”
“I believe they are in the lounge,” Arnaldo told Xander.
“At least that’s where they were the last time I saw them.”
Xander didn’t respond, but took a sudden right turn.
I felt like I was being herded like cattle.
Peter was behind me, and Xander and Arnaldo were on either side of me, making sure I kept up with them.
Not that I was planning to runaway.
Who knew who and what were in this house?
I didn’t want to take any chances and end up killed by running amuck.
As much as I hated to admit it, I actually felt safe having Arnaldo around.
When we arrived at what I assumed to be the lounge Xander glanced at Arnaldo, who nodded, before opening the door.
Xander went in first, followed by peter.
Finally, Arnaldo urged me in with a light push to my back.
I flinched away from his touch and stumbled into the room, looking up and coming face-to-butt with xander.
Immediately I erected myself, blushing slightly. But as soon as I was straight again, Peter pushed me into a deep bow, and then bowed deeply himself.
“Good evening, your majesty,” he greeted before letting me stand straight again.
I couldn’t see anything besides Xander’s back.
“xander,” a woman’s voice started, sounding very surprised.
“What—”
“I have a problem,” I heard Xander tell the woman who had spoke first.
Curious, I poked my head around Xander and my eyes landed on a stunningly beautiful woman.
She had long, curly brunette hair and the same piercing sapphire eyes as Xander. Her face was heart-shaped and she had pale, flawless skin. Her beauty almost took the breath away from me.
I thought it was only in cheesy vampire novels that vampires were so beautiful.
“This wouldn’t happen to be your problem, would it?” the beautiful woman asked, her eyes flickering to me for a moment.
“It would.”
“Do I want to know…?”
“No,” Xander responded honestly.
“But she’s causing quite a problem,” Arnaldo interjected, frowning at the woman.
“I’ll let Xander explain.”
“xander?”
Xander sighed in irritation, grabbing my arm and pulling me in front of him.
“I drank from this human last night and when I tried to erase her memory, it didn’t work. Peter and Arnaldo tried as well, and yet she still has her memory.”
"Doesn't she have a name?" The woman stared at me for a while.
"My name is Sophia and you are?" I chirped in,earning a glare from Xander.
The woman smiled at me,
"I'm Selena, Xander mother."
Tbc
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