Chapter Forty-Five
1155 Words
Donna
The pain was blinding. I could feel myself sink to the floor, I could feel that monster’s blood coursing through my veins, taunting me, burning me. It was as if my insides were being torn apart by tiny, multiple murderous insects. I screamed.
“What did you did you do you bastard?”
Pete? Was that Pete?
“Make it stop Pete…please make it stop!”
I writhed and squirmed, twisted and turned, anything to reduce the pain. Anything to trick my body into believing that it could handle the vampire killer’s blood.
“Now you listen to me, you better cure her right this instant or else-"
Maria, that was Maria’s voice. Wait, were those choking sounds? I turned to the side violently as scorching tears filled my eyes. I clutched my stomach as my body began quaking.
“Let…go…or…he…dies.”
He? Was that sorry excuse of a human being referring to me as a man?
Wrong thing to get mad about now Donna.
Better than focusing on this ridiculous amount of pain. Why didn’t you stop me again?
Are you kidding me? I warned you!
I sat up halfway once I felt the burning liquid enter my stomach. I let out a gut-wrenching scream and brought my quivering hands to my face. Once they were right in front of my eyes, I began clawing at my face.
“Grab her hands before she peels her skin off!”
I felt a gentle touch on my arm but the gentleness swiftly turned into a sudden sturdiness. Soon my arms were pinned to my side and I was forced to lie on the ground. I tried to protest, but the pain, the pain was simply too much.
“Make it stop…make it stop…”
I felt a wetness on my cheek, on my face, between the edge of my nose and my upper lip. At that moment I imagined the vampires who died in the sun, the ones I had seen died instantly, their skin terribly burned, the smell pungent. Surely that was a better death than this.
“Ummmh Lory?”
I gnashed my teeth and banged the back of my head on the floor. Anything to distract me from the pain. I ground my teeth and threw my head to the side. These little tricks worked but only for a few seconds. The blood was like a tiny, long river of burning metal. It annihilated everything on its way, subjected my insides to unimaginable torture.
“Lory?”
That was Maria’s voice. She sounded panicked, shocked. Was she afraid for me?
“Maria can’t you see that I am-"
Lory, Lory sounded agitated, confused, in anguish.
“Lory, I think you have to see this.”
Pete, Pete sounded angry.
You really think reading emotions through people’s voices is going to distract you from the pain, Donna?
I ignored my subconscious and willed every ounce of strength that I had in me to focus on whatever was currently unfolding. Everyone had suddenly gone quiet.
“Now that I have everyone’s attention. My feet and hands hurt, could you untie me sister dearest?”
“You would not harm your own son.”
“Yet I almost killed you. Have you forgotten what father used to say? As long as they are not you, kill them.”
“You f*****g monster!”
I let out a scream. I did not even know I was holding it in. It just came out, shrill and loud, filled with my agony.
A burst of boisterous laughter filled the air.
“Funny how these creatures think they are superior isn’t it? I mean, do they not know that control is everything? You see, us humans, we can control our instincts. There was this guy from somewhere in the North and it is said that he fasted for sixty days-"
“Shut up! Just shut up and tell your little goon to put the weapon down.”
Weapon? Had I heard Pete right? A scream threatened to escape my throat but I clenched my teeth and twisted my body to the side. I had to listen, I had to find out who was in danger.
A cold sweat trickled down my spine as a thought formed in my mind. Maria, Lory, and Pete were on this side of the room. Meaning that Jimmy and Seth were on the other side of the room. Pete had mentioned a weapon, Jimmy was that monster’s son. Had he been on his father’s side all this time?
The scream escaped my mouth.
“Shshshsh…It’s okay Mistress…it’s okay…”
“M-maria…what’s g-going on…why-"
“Save your breath okay?” Everything is going to be okay…”
“Well now that drama queen is finally quiet can we get rid of these? Like I told you earlier, I have places to be.”
“Tell him to put the gun down.”
“Free me first.”
“You do realize that you don’t have the upper hand here right brother?”
“Really? Shall we evaluate that? Let’s see, I am the only one here who knows how to get that stuff out of her system, and at the same time, I am the only one who can save James’ life. The way I see it, if I tell all of you to jump, you should be ready to levitate. Now, for the last time sister dearest, untie me.”
What? No, no they could not let him go. He was dangerous, he was going to destroy my entire race. I struggled to vocalize my thoughts but each time I opened my mouth, a moan or a scream escaped.
“Shshshshsh…I am so sorry Mistress, I have failed you so many times…”
Maria was crying, no, she was sobbing. I tried to stretch my arm and place a hand on her face but my arms felt like heavy rods, for the life of me, I could not lift them. So I did the only thing I could do at the moment, listen in to the conversation around me.
I had to know, I had to know whether Jimmy was my enemy.
I see you have your priorities straight, Donna.
“If I untie you-"
“Me and my goon, as you call him, will leave quietly and peacefully.”
“I don’t believe you.”
“You don’t really have a choice sister dearest. But let me ease your conscious. Do you really think I am going to try to fight the three of you? Look at me, I am weak and haggard, and the redhead over there can kill me with just a tiny squeeze of her hand. Gun or not, we can’t take you on. Now I am getting weary of this, free me, or else I will tell Seth to put a hole through James’ skull.”
Wait, what?
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