Maddie’s POV:
The dance lessons held for a few more days but this was the last.
‘I hope you enjoyed your lessons’, my instructor asked as he packed up.
I still loathe at the fact that I was at bondage in the home of a vampire but the past few days had really been good. I learnt to dance and the lessons helped me clear my head and sometimes I even forgot about the shitty situation I was in.
‘Yeah. yeah I did’, I finally answered his question.
‘Oh good. Please be kind to tell Lord Darren that’, he said then laughed.
I laughed back, ‘Sure’.
‘Tell me what?’, Darren said behind me?
I gasped a little because I had no idea where he came from.
‘Soooo, what is it?’, he asked again, still behind me. Like really close behind me.
Recently I had been… feeling things for Darren. I didn’t feel good about it and I wasn’t sure what exact feeling, but ever since that dance I just felt different whenever he was around. And I knew it was dumb and stupid and I shouldn’t even think about it, I mean he was a vampire and I’m his pet. That was probably all I was to him, a pet he was going to use and finally suck dry someday.
‘I was telling Maddie to put in some good words about me’, the instructor said then chuckled.
‘Oh, you’re my go-to dancer Martinez so Maddie doesn’t need to put in any good words. You’re always clear’, Darren said back then laughed and Martinez packed back.
‘Thank you my Lord’. Martinez finally finished packing. ‘Lord Darren’, he said as he bowed to Darren. ‘Maddie’, he said to me too and then he left.
‘Sooo… ’, Darren said. I looked at him and wondered what he wanted to say.
He stretched his hands to me. ‘May I have this dance?’, he asked, he looked at me with a smile that almost made me melt. It was as if everything was in slow motion, and all I could focus on were those perfectly chiseled jaw that housed his pink lips.
I finally snapped myself from my day dream. ‘Uhmm, I’m really sweaty and tired from all the dancing so I really need to go and shower’, I said as I grabbed my bag and raced upstairs.
I slammed the door and sat on the floor with my back laid on the door. What was that? Am I beginning to like Darren.
He’s a vampire Maddie.
He would kill you.
He sees you as nothing than a pet.
He f*****g bought you.
He picks out your clothes, he doesn’t even see you as a person.
I kept telling myself more reason why I should hate that blood sucking monster but my heart wasn’t listening to my brain. The feeling was still there. Gosh!
I undressed and I got into the shower and went to take my bath. I didn’t know what was going on but one day or another I had to get over it.
I finished bathing, I put on my towel and then I went out of the bathroom but Darren was in the room.
‘Hey!’, I screamed as I made a failed attempt to cover all the parts of my body that was exposed.
‘What?’, Darren asked as he kept searching for what he was looking for. The whole room was upside down. I wondered what he could possibly be looking for.
I finally got a hold of myself, ‘I’m half naked, that’s what’, I said sharply.
‘And?’, he asked.
Well, he was still the same douchebag he had always been though.
‘I’m looking for something. I’ll be out once I’m done’, he said still searching for whatever it is he was looking for. ‘Damn it’, he let out. He hissed then he proceeded to leave the room. Seems he couldn’t find whatever he was searching for.
‘What are you searching for?’, I finally asked before he got out the door.
‘It really doesn’t concern you’, he said as he left the room.
What was his deal? I shrugged off the feeling then I went to dress up. I put on one of my pretty princess dress again. I was really getting tired of that s**t. But hey, I didn’t have a say. As I did my routine of making my hair, putting my make up and the rest, they helped me remember why I hated him. I couldn’t say the feelings were gone but at least I didn’t feel all lovey dovey about him anymore. Eww, I felt disgusted that I ever did.
I was finally done. With the make up, my hair and all the other s**t I needed to do.
Now I just sat pretty, doing literally nothing. That was why I really loved my dance lessons, at least I had something doing. But now I was back to just sitting here all day and waiting for the next day.
After about an hour of doing nothing, It was time to go and eat. Finally. I was starving. I jumped off the bed and rushed downstairs. But for the first time, the tables were empty. What?! Had the world gone mad. There was no food on the table. Why?
I went to the kitchen and there was no one there. Where was everyone? I walked around to look for them. Was I dreaming?
After walking for a while, I finally saw the a maid.
‘What’s going on? Where is everyone?’, I asked.
‘I’m so sorry Miss Maddie’, the maid said. Which didn’t exactly answer any of the questions I asked. ‘We’re all busy searching for something. Apparently Lord Darren’s ring is nowhere to be found’, she said.
Wait, wait, wait. What? Did I just hear right. The reason everyone left their line of duty was because of a ring? I knew he was a bad person but I didn’t think he could be this selfish. He just spent thousands of dollars on jewelry a few days ago so it really shouldn’t be hard to replace the ring.
‘So everyone left what they were doing just to find a ring?’, I asked sharply. The maid looked at me, it was obvious she wanted to leave so she could keep looking for the ring. ‘Why is this ring so special?’, I asked again. But again, no response.
‘And how is that of any concern to you’, Darren asked behind me. The maid quickly took off as she heard Darren’s voice so she could continue looking for the ring.
I looked back at Darren. ‘Well because everyone’s bursting their asses out for a ring you could probably buy a thousand times’, I said.
‘Shut up’, Darren said to me. He looked pissed, really pissed.
‘What?’, I asked. I was actually quite surprised.
‘I don’t have time for this’, he said as he shoved me away and walked past me. What the hell? Yes he was a blood sucking vampire and sometimes he got angry and lost his temper, but this was the first time I saw him act so rudely. I turned back to look at him as he just walked away.
Why was that ring so important? I mean he’s a millionaire if not a billionaire so why’s he bothered by just a ring when he could by probably buy another.
My stomach growled and as I held it, it reminded me that I was hungry before I found out about the whole ring drama.
I went to the kitchen to find anything I could eat. I saw some crackers and I ate it. I also saw fruits and then I ate it too. I jumped on the kitchen counter as I ate fruits.
I jumped back to the ground and looked outside the kitchen, there was no one in sight . And that was when it hit me, that would be the best time to escape. I put off my heels and walked slowly to the living room then I headed to the front door.
I was really close to the front door, it was within my reach, was that it? I was finally going to be out of this hell hole. I grabbed the door handle.
‘Is there a problem Miss Maddie?’, the old maid in charge of me asked.
I turned back to look at her with guilt written over my face. ‘Oh no, no problem at all’, I lied. I was sure the coast was clear. Where did she come from?
‘Oh okay Miss Maddie’, she said as she turned back. Was she going to continue looking for the ring? Yes!
Just when I had raised my hopes so high. ‘Come with me’, she said.
‘Nooooo!’, I screamed just without actually saying anything. I was so close, so close.
‘Alright’, I said as I went to meet her.
We walked up the stairs until Darren shouted from downstairs, ‘Lady Berta!’.
‘Coming master Darren’, she said as she went back down, leaving me alone.
I went back down the stairs but stopped midway to first see the situation of things. It didn’t seem like they had found the ring, but now there were people in the living room. My only shot of escaping had been blown. I squealed.
I went back upstairs, headed for my room, then I noticed Darren’s study room was open so I took a quick branch to it. The study room was like any regular study room just that it wasn’t. It was like the size of a library. It had shelves filled with books. I looked around it then finally went to his table. He had some pieces of file. I looked through the files and then I saw a file with the header: Human Pet Auction House; it was the filthy auction house where he bought me. I opened it and it was my file, it had all my details, not all were true though because I don’t remember having an experience in ‘entertaining men’.
Disgust and anger coarsed through my body but then I noticed another file from the auction house on the table. Did they give him two files on me?
I dropped mine and picked the other one up. I opened it, but it wasn’t a file about me. It was for a different girl, ‘ Theresa Rose ’.
What?
I didn’t notice when the file dropped from my hand. I was confused, my head went blank and I almost fell, I tried holding his table to regain my balance but then I accidentally knocked over his pen holder.
I was breathing heavily, I bent down to pick the pen holder and the pens, I looked by my side and under one of the shelves there was something there; a ring.