Dark Night

by Stefany Rattles

  When I went for her, this time Robert wasn’t fast enough to stop me, I still had the knife in my hand and when I had thought I could get her, the guard caught my hand and twisted my wrist. I screamed in pain, my parents started yelling my name as the guard threw me back, and I crashed into Robert. He caught me, gently put me down and was going towards the guard that had thrown me, when the other guard got him from behind and they started fighting, Robert pulled out a gun and shot them both so fast that Sophie couldn’t believe it.

  “No!” She yelled. She too, took out the gun that Genevieve had, the Colt 45 and pointed it at Genevieve, who was still wearing the vest which surprisingly Sophie didn’t notice and then Sophie was standing a foot away from me pointing the gun to my heart, she pulled the trigger.

  CHAPTER 27

  ROBERT

  After killing the guards, I was calling backup. That was when I heard the gunshot, I spun around and there she was lying on the floor with a bullet in her heart. Sophie still held the gun, this time pointed back at Genevieve, who was screaming in terror and with wide eyes. The king and queen were trying desperately to get out of the chain but it was no use, the guards had done a good job, without the key they couldn’t get it off. Except I had the key, and Sophie didn’t know that. Anna was breaking free, but I shot her a look that stopped her. “Sophia Albaros, put the gun down, you don’t want to do this. Killing innocent people will not get you what you want.”

  She stared at me. “But I already have what I want don’t you see, and don’t worry about me killing any one. I know Mia was wearing a bullet proof vest. She will come around in a little while I just hate it when they don’t keep their mouths shut. But you… you’re different, you I like Robert and if you’re good I won’t hurt anyone else, understand?” She winked at me, and I bowed in return. Not giving anything away, I had the key in my left hand and the gun I shot the guards with in the other.

  I glanced at Genevieve who looked like she was in shock. She had been right about me and Mia. I did fall for the wrong girl, and maybe that had pushed her away, but I still had morals and now looking at Gene made me sick, Mia on the other hand needed me but I couldn’t get to her without setting Sophie off.

  A plan set in place. “Sophia, what do you say you and I leave together? At least until things calm down a bit,” I could see she liked the idea a little too much. But I continued. “I need a real woman none of these little girls.. And you need a male mate at your side for a king?” She was buying it, I could see that much. I got closer to her and she put the gun down low enough to not cause a problem. Then, before I did the only thing I could do I had to ask. “Did you kill Mereily Jolie?” She grinned, but shook her head.

  “Didn’t have too, she was already dead when I saw her. Now we’ll see if her sacrifice was worth it.” She took my gun, and I didn’t fight her because I had another one behind me.

  “What do you mean sacrifice?”

  “All on its time, honey all on its time.” She pulled me closer to her, and I bent down to kiss her, unfortunately. That was a sacrifice, then when she put her arms around my neck holding both guns. I quickly reached back and shot her twice aiming for her heart, which I missed but it was close enough. “Son of a Bitch!” She went to her knees trying to pull the shots of anesthesia (V3) out but it was too late, her eyes were dilating.

  Quickly I gave Anna the key.

  Anna ripped the rope that Genevieve was tied with, with her own hands and gave her the key. She ran to her parents and quickly started to unlock the chains. Mia looked too pale. I turned her face up and took the vest off, she was breathing slowly. The bullet did go through her skin, but from what I could tell, not quite to the heart. With a little sharp knife I pulled on the bullet and then with my finger I dug it out. Her tank top was half gone now. I had to rip it to get to the bullet. I could see her lacy bra, shook my head and cut my own wrist. As I opened her mouth I let the blood drip inside, slowly she drank it then with a fast motion she took my wrist and started sucking more blood out. That feeling was like ecstasy, even though she was not a full vampire yet I felt the electricity of the blood bond, just like I knew she did. Then she opened her eyes and let go.

  MIA

  “Breathe,” Robert was saying, but it was hard I wanted to tell him but I couldn’t there was a sharp pain in my chest and it hurt. I started breathing in and out, in and out…. For a while until I could actually breathe without thinking about it. I had taken Roberts blood, I realized. Oh My God. Robert was whispering something to my ear but I couldn’t hear him right, yet. There was something else going, and I wanted to know. “You will be okay I promise I will not let you out of my sight from now on. Sleep now.” He held me, I knew.

  There was no way in hell I could sleep not now instead I tried to talk, “W-what-t ha-app-en-ed?” I sounded horrible, and I was cold and felt stiff. I looked up at Robert and he tried to smile, but failed.

  “Nothing you should worry about right now, but I’ll tell you this: I shot Sophie with V3, I thought she might have passed out because I shot her twice. But it only made her sleepy, dizzy and madder. Your parents are looking for her right now, Genevieve is trying to wake everybody up, Anna had gone chasing Jordan.. and I’m taking you to your room, if it’s safe.”

  “She g-ot away?” I tried getting out of his arms but couldn’t, he tighten his grip a little.

  “Well, while I was trying to save your life Genevieve and Anna were untying your parents and that gave her enough time to escape. She will pass out sooner or later and then probably we will find her. But from what I hear she is off campus and her parents have people searching out there, she isn’t our problem anymore. I want you to rest your wound needs to heal.” He glanced at it, then away, as if he was shy. I barely touched where the bullet hit, and I realized that half my tank top was gone and bra was visible.

  “Oh.” I whispered and leaned on him.

  We were in my room when I opened my eyes. Robert was trying to take the rest of my tank top off. OH. I wasn't sure where this was going… so I tried to help him, but he pushed me down gently. “I’m sorry but you need to be still, I need you to put your right arm up and I can take care of the rest okay? I know this is embarrassing, trust me I would rather have another girl doing this, but there isn’t. I need to clean your wound, and give you more blood so you can heal, and you won’t get an infection.” That was very disappointing, and it hurt to hear him say that he would rather have someone else doing this. Asshole.

  I rolled my eyes and did as he said, as if he could read my thoughts he stiffened and then he was cleaning my wound. He wore gloves and used gauze to clean it carefully without him actually touching my skin. The wound was right above my left breast, and Robert was trying hard not to look, I could feel it. Then he taped gauze over it…

  “You could have waited for someone else to do this you know?” My voice was scratchy but I could talk better.

  “Why would I do that?” He asked as he took another tank top from my drawer and walked over to me, he paused when he saw the look in my face.

  I rolled my eyes again, or tried anyway and then winced in pain the hole in my chest was hurting more, and more. Robert quickly cut his wrist and put it to my mouth, I hesitated for a second. “Damn it Mia, drink.” And I did. It was delicious the taste melted in my tongue and I just wanted more, I had closed my eyes, but when I opened them Robert had his closed and made a sound that sounded like a moan in satisfaction. That frightened me a little but I felt, something strong pull me, the bond. I let him go. And he jumped to his feet, in disbelief. “Maybe, that wasn’t such a great idea…. But we’ll deal with this later.” He relaxed and then helped me get into the tank top. I was sitting up and a few inches away from kissing him, he looked into my eyes and sighed.

  Definitely giving up he then bent down and his lips met mine and they parted at exactly the same moment, it was a soft, passionate, slow kiss that we both had longed for. We stayed like that for a while, until the kiss intensified a li
ttle I could feel the bond between us join and then he was leaning over me, I was almost laying on my back when he pulled away. Our foreheads still touching, we hadn’t realized how hard we were breathing and one of his hands was on my hair the other pulling me close to him. He let me lay down slowly then when we opened our eyes it was like we saw each other for the first time. “Hi.” He said.

  “Hi.” I said back. Robert suddenly changed, he was about to stand up when I held his hand. “Don’t. Please don’t leave me.” I whispered feeling a little dizzy. He nodded and went around the bed to lie next to me.

  “Relax, go to sleep. We’ll talk tomorrow.” I heard him say as I drifted off to sleep.

  ...When I woke up the next day I assumed, it was seven pm. I had slept through the day. Robert was sitting next to me, reading a book. Huh. I felt ten times better than I had the night before. I didn’t even feel pain from the wound. “Where’s everybody?” I asked Robert, who put his book down.

  “They’re in a conference, your parents were worried they actually slept right on that couch, and I…” He trailed off.

  “And you stayed with me this whole time, didn’t you?” That made happy and my heart filled with hope.

  “Technically no, I had to take a shower, hope you don’t mind that I used your shower but I just couldn’t… bring myself to leave you,” He didn’t have to say it right now, and I knew he wouldn’t but he cared about me and that’s all that mattered. “How do you feel?” He asked me as I was sitting up.

  “A whole lot better.” I thought about what I was going to say. “Thank you for everything, saving my life, my parents and then staying with me, you’ve been an angel.” I whispered that last part.

  He nodded. “About last night….. We shouldn’t have. It was wrong for many reasons I don’t want to begin to explain. Just do me a favor and forget it ever happened, please. This is only going to get us into deeper trouble, and you know it, don’t you?” I knew what he was talking about, the stupid rules. Who needed rules?

  “What?” I heard myself say, “What are you saying, to go on and live like this? You know if you don’t care about me then why didn’t you just let me die___”

  “Because I couldn’t! Don’t make me do this… please It’ll only be worse for both of us!” He stood then, I knew I hurt him but I wanted him to feel what I was feeling, and we were both hurting each other. I knew I was about to cry, but I didn’t care. I threw the blanket off me and I stood up too, I walked over to him and got in his face. I realized that the pain that I had in my chest was completely gone.

  “I have the right to know what the reason is for you acting this way, Robert I need you to tell me if you don’t__”

  “Fine, your parents told me to back off for a while, it is for your own good. That is all I can tell you, now will you get back in bed before I make you myself?”

  I crossed my arms in a challenge, and I didn't care how childish I was being.

  This time he rolled his eyes. “Mia, don’t be difficult.” He took a step towards me.

  “I’m not. That’s not enough reason, I guess what I’m saying is…” He didn’t let me finish, because he closed the distance between us and pinned me to the wall.

  He tried the whole scene back in the plane, trying to intimidate me… with his eyes changing but I just laughed. That got a reaction out of him “This isn’t a game! You need to stop being so stubborn and get to bed.” He loosened his grip a little and I took one of my hands out and touched his face. It was soft and he closed his eyes and tried to pull away but I turned him towards me. “Please… we can’t,” He tried, failing miserably. I pulled him closer and this time he kissed me urgently, like he was hungry for me, and I kissed him back the same way. I felt hot, too hot. He had one of my hands pinned against the wall and with the other he ran his hand down my body from my side down to my thigh and then he pulled me to him all the way, I had my hands around his neck and my legs around his waist and I didn’t want to let go, only he was stronger, he laid me flat on my back on the bed, with his own body on top of mine. The kiss went on for a very long time but then abruptly he broke it with a kiss to my neck. Suddenly, he bit me and I moaned. A sound escaped from his throat too and his hand traveled up my mouth then I bit hard and started drinking from him too.

  We were exchanging blood… that went against all the rules. We both knew it.

  Robert pulled away just as quickly as it had begun, before it could go any further. We were both breathing very hard and I just wanted to keep going but Robert stiffened and pushed off the bed, kissing me lightly on my cheek. “That is why we cannot be together, ever.” He said and walked out of my room.

  I was dumbfounded, literally.

  When I was left alone in my room after Robert left, I laid on the bed thinking about the last fifteen minutes. It was impossible to think that what had just happened was real, and yet it made a hole in my stomach to think about the way he had just walked out. Though, I knew he was right this was getting too dangerous for the both of us, I just couldn’t bring myself to regret any of it I just couldn’t. It was difficult even breathing, after the way he had me. God I wished I could talk about it.

  Then I felt very stupid as the memory of what I had been through came running back to me, it was as if someone had dumped a bucket of cold water over my head. I sat on the bed thinking about how Sophie, a person that was supposed to be a friend had come to be so deceiving, and everything she had done was for selfish reasons. I knew she had something to do with Mereily’s death, thinking about her brought tears to my eyes. There were things I had to take care of, so I slowly took a hot shower, put on a black shirt, pants, jacket and I was blow drying my hair when I heard a knock on the door. I stood a few feet away from it afraid to open it and find something unpleasant, but it wasn’t.

  “Mia! Let us in, we need to see you’re okay.” That was Bonnie, always caring and full of drama. I let them in.

  “Oh my god! I thought something bad had happened to you…” She hugged me before I could even say a word.

  “I’m fine really. You shouldn’t worry about me, it was nothing. How are you? Did you get hurt?” I looked Bonnie over, then Anna, Delilah, and….Cole. He looked beat up, and older, he wore wrinkled clothes and had messy hair.

  I was too stunned to say anything, but then what would I say. I hadn’t spoken to my ex since I slapped him after he cheated on me. That brought back bad memories. Anna broke the silence.

  “Awkward. Ok-ay maybe we should leave you two alone___”

  “No. You guys stay, he needs to go.” I said firmly, careful not to meet his eyes directly. But he wasn’t moving, and I raised my eyebrows at him and crossed my arms.

  “Please, I want to talk to you. Could you at least give me the benefit of the doubt?” Silence, I wasn’t giving in to his games, “Fine then, I just wanted to know if you were okay, I was worried and___”

  “I’m sorry to worry you but that’s not your concern what so ever. And quit trying to apologize for something that doesn’t even matter anymore, that was the past, and this is now and now I’m in a different place. It hardly matters what you and Jewel did, I simply don’t care. Just know that you and I will not talk about this again. Cole, because if you bother me I swear to god ____”

  “You don’t have to threaten me, I get it. There’s someone else isn’t there?” That I didn’t expect him to think, but of course he would say that.

  “No but if there was? What’s it to you?” I glanced at Bonnie, Delilah, and Anna. They had preoccupied themselves with silly chores, Bonnie was folding a blanket that was on the couch. Delilah was making the bed with Anna. Silly, but I knew they were trying hard to mind their own business which didn’t matter really, it be better if everyone knew the scumbag that Cole was.

  “Uh no, it’s not like that. Look, I was just going to apologize that’s it, I have moved on Mia, okay? Jewel and I, we’re happy. I just wish you the best, you deserve the best.” Cole waved good bye and closed the door behind h
im. I was frozen in place.

  “What just happened?” Bonnie asked as confused as I was.

  But I immediately dismissed it with a shrug, “I think now, it’s all over.”

  At the time I didn’t know how wrong I was.

  TO BE CONTINUED…

  If you liked Dark Night, then stay tuned for more with Dark Night: Bloodthirst, the possible conclusion to Mia and Robert’s story, coming soon…

  Dedication: I dedicate this book to my family, Simon my supporting husband and my lovely kids Julian and Brody, for being so patient with mommy!

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