Grave Sight | A Reverse Harem Romance

ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕊𝕚𝕩𝕥𝕪 𝕊𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕟

I almost snapped back at the female vampire, but decided it would be better to remain silent and not acknowledge her. Kind of like a bee. Don't acknowledge it, don't react, and hopefully it would go away.

With that image in my head, I pretended like she didn't exist and solely focused on Alaric and Vincenzo.

"You do belong to someone," Vincenzo said, nodding towards Alaric. "You belong to your father."

I looked at Alaric and furrowed my eyebrows. "I don't have a father."

Apparently the freeze reaction made me stupid.

Thankfully, he didn't seem phased by my comment at all. I doubted when he was running around fucking three different women, he thought that he'd get an heir of some sort. He was probably letting off whatever steam he experienced from his change. I was just happy my mother was the one he didn't drain.

Though maybe if he scared her at all during that time, she wouldn't be attracted to vampires.

I caught my thoughts and tamped them down. What I learned in my time with Kieran was not all vampires were like my father had been.

"Not on paper, I assume." Vincenzo continued to watch me. His eyes raised to the two men behind me. "You two can go get Jason's body. She'll be needing it."

I narrowed my eyes. It almost seemed too easy. He couldn't honestly just be giving me Jason's body and not expecting anything else. After what he said about changing me to see if I'd lose my necromancer powers, I didn't think he'd just let me go. 

I would have looked to see how much time had passed, but I left my phone in my car just in case someone decided it would be a good idea to take it and see that I was sharing my location with someone. I still didn't get the chance to look at the text I got, because I was too busy pretending to believe Jason wouldn't set me up.

Wait until Lucian found out. It wasn't like he would do anything to Jason - since he was dead and all - but I hoped he would give him a stern talking to before his soul moved on.

Then again, Jason said it was for Selene. Maybe he actually liked Selene and was doing it so they wouldn't kill her. It didn't excuse the fact that he set me up, but it would make my anger a little less potent. He didn't know me, but if he had any sort of feelings for Selene, it would make sense as to why he'd throw someone he didn't know under the bus. Though if he knew who I was to Lucian, he might not have been so quick to put me in harm's way.

Maybe.

I wasn't sure how much time had passed, but the more the silence drew on, the more I became uncomfortable and increasingly nervous. The house was large, but it wasn't large enough to take as long as it had to get a body. And the way Vincenzo continued to stare down at me made me want to turn and leave. There was no one behind me anymore. Nothing stopping me from turning, grabbing the door handle, and leaving.

"I wouldn't." Alaric yawned.

My eyes flicked to meet his.

He pointed to his head. "Though the bond we share is pretty weak, since we haven't spent much time together, we still have one. I can hear your thoughts."

I shut my thoughts down so quickly that it was probably like whiplash for him. I wasn't sure how I did it, I wasn't even sure how I knew what to do. But I blocked his mind from my own and immediately went on the defensive.

What had I thought about? Did I give anything away that would force him to be suspicious?

"You learned something," Vincenzo murmured. "Where'd you learn to block?"

I forced myself to remain standing in my spot. I didn't back up. I didn't falter.

Things were slowly piecing themselves together.

Since Vincenzo was Alaric's master, that meant Vincenzo could hear my thoughts as well.

Vincenzo smiled. "I'm so proud of you, figuring that out all on your own."

Could he still hear my thoughts?

His reaction told me that he couldn't. He must have just seen the realization dawn on my face. If I was connected to Alaric, that meant in some way, I was also connected to Vincenzo. I didn't like that idea. I didn't like the fact that I was connected to Alaric, even in some small way. Knowing I was connected to this other man...

Time continued to slowly move, and the air around me seemed to become thick. I was usually relatively good at hiding my emotions, but I was starting to become scared.
No one brought a body upstairs. I didn't see the twins, and sometime during the past five minutes, the female vampire had left me alone with Alaric and Vincenzo.

My heart began beating faster, and I knew they could hear it. It seemed like I couldn't get enough air into my lungs, like I had just ran a mile in under five minutes. It had been a while since I had been that afraid.

"Being a full vampire isn't that bad." Vincenzo's ash-colored eyes slid down my body, then back up. "And if I'm being honest, I'd like you to join my clan. You can get to know your father. Though outwardly he only looks a couple years older than you, he does have a wealth of knowledge that he can share with you. And if he doesn't know the answers, you'll have a master that would be more than willing to teach you anything you need to know."

I didn't like the way he said the last sentence. Like I was some sort of dog to be trained by him.

"I'd like you to say yes," he continued, then smiled. "But I don't need a yes from you."

"That sounds rapey," I muttered.

He shrugged. "It can sound however you want it to sound."

If he didn't give me the creeps before, he definitely did now. He didn't care whether I was okay with becoming a full vampire? What gave him the right to just decide for someone whether they'd become his or not?

"Don't," Jason said.

I eyed him. I'd have a little chat with him later once I got out of this.

If I got out of this.

The anger from Vincenzo's previous comment faded back into fear as he began laughing. The laughter caused me to take a step back, and he stepped forward, slammed his hand against the door behind me, and grinned down at me.

His teeth were on my throat within a matter of seconds, his fangs digging painfully into my flesh. It was nothing like how it felt being bitten by Kieran. A white hot pain coursed through my body and made my mouth open on a scream that somehow couldn't escape my lips. I felt my blood being drained - sucked into Vincenzo's mouth with a speed I never imagined possible.

My body was going cold. Shivers wracked my entire body and I reached up and dug my nails into his arms so hard that I could feel his skin break. Yet he continued to drain me, sucking my blood like he hadn't had anything to drink in years.

The pain was almost unbearable. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I wondered if this was the pain Naomi felt when I bit her for the first time. If it was, I would have to apologize again. No one, not even my worst enemy, should be subjected to that amount of pain.

I was screaming something, but I couldn't understand my words. I know I was trying to scream stop, or help, or something along those lines, but all I could hear was my blood being drained.

Vincenzo stuck his fingers down my throat, muffling my screams. It took me a moment to realize he had also cut his fingers and was forcing me to ingest his blood.

I started fighting. I punched him, kicked him, moved my body as much as I could without fearing that he'd tear my jugular out. I didn't want to be a full vampire, but I didn't want to die either.

He pulled his fingers from my throat, then covered my mouth with his hand. I felt my body moving slower as it grew colder. My eyes found Alaric, and if I had anything left in me to feel, I would have been pissed at the fact that he just stood there, watching Vincenzo kill me. He lived his life without me, and I lived mine without him, but to know he had absolutely no fatherly instincts towards me enraged me.

I felt my eyes roll back into my head as a cold sort of numbness took over my body.