AMBROSE POV:
"I don't have all day." Played in my ears and I couldn't help but laugh at her wit. Even in the face of the unknown and fear, she's casually making jokes. Like she doesn't value her life.
Her spirit set something inside me a blaze.
Her smell. Ambrose. It's different. I want to devour her.
Well yeah, onyx, she's a vampire.
Hmph.
What's your deal? You're losing your nerve.
I don't know, this is your human form, I don't run this ship.
You really piss me off sometimes, you know that?
Same.
They passed cells that were filled with other criminals.
When they spotted the fair skinned white-haired beauty, they started hooting and hollering at her.
"Well, aren't you a pretty little thing."
One prisoner whistled and then licked his lips, "I bet that pussy looks as good as your face."
Before I could respond, Odette had moved silently and quickly to the cell gate, appearing instantly in front of him, she reached through the bars grabbing the prisoner by his neck. She flashed her small but extremely sharp fangs and hissed.
The guards went to restrain her, but I waved his hand signaling them to stop as I watched intensely. I noted her movement, her speed and the strength in her grip. Thoroughly impressed with her quick action.
She growled gripping his throat, the color in her skin coming back, losing that ashy look she's had when she first stepped from the cell. Her lips… her lips were turning a pale pink.
One could almost say beautiful.
"Didn't your mother teach you how to talk to a lady?" She growled deep.
The man stuttered the color drained from his face slowly, his eyes getting heavy. Me and the guards watched as she squeezed the life from his throat, until his eyes completely closed, and he went limp in her grasp.
She released him and turned to me and his guards and flashed her fangs. Her eyes glowed a deep shade of red.
What did she do to him?
Did she just feast on his energy? What a sly little fox. Having her own lunch before theirs is even served.
The man collapsed unconscious on the ground at her feet, breathing lightly. I noticed the other prisoners had grown silent, I could smell their fear, and… urine? Looking around, the man she chocked nearly to death laid on the floor in a puddle of his own piss.
Pathetic.
"Are you finished? Can we continue, now, or do you need more of my prisoners to devour?" I smirked.
"I'm satisfied. Thanks" She spoke with indifference.
We walk in silence down a staircase and enter into the main building. The place was massive. It had been so long since she'd seen light, it was blinding for her, covering her eyes with her arm to shield them from the pain.
Onlookers stared and whispered as they all walked by. Walking back up more stairs until they reach the "East Wing"
Stopping in front of a large room with double doors. The guards open the doors and bow to their King.
"Dismissed." I waved my guards away. They immediately took their leave, closing the doors behind them.
Leaving just Odette and myself.
I watched her as she observed my room.
I take a seat in a chair next to a black round wooden table. It was delicately designed with gold ivy engravings. My whole room was black, red, and gold. The bed had black sheets and red curtains with gold trimmings. The tile was a type of black and white marble. I had pillars in four corners of his room, paintings on the wall of classic art from the Renaissance era. My room was dark masterpiece.
I watched her look at around my room before settling back on me. I stood up and clapped, breaking her train of thought. "Let's get you cleaned up for lunch, shall we?"
Odette frowned at me. But nodded. She fed on energy, but she still needed real food. I could still hear her stomach growling.
I lead her to my private restroom. Servants had already placed a towel in the bathroom for her, like he asked.
I started the shower and then looked to her and ordered her "Take off your clothes."
She almost snapped her neck with how quickly she turned her head to face me. "Excuse me?"
"You heard me, Take. Off. Your. Clothes. Princess."
She looked at me dumbfounded, she couldn't believe I was asking her to do this. The sheer audacity of me.
She's rich. Ha.
"No, absolutely not." She narrowed her eyes at me and lifted her lip a little, showing part of her fang. It was a warning glare.
"I'm not a patient man. Strip or I will strip you of your clothes." As I spoke those words, a sense of thrill shot through me. I've seen plenty of women naked. But my enemy's daughter. Stripping her of her dignity, forcing her to humiliate herself. That's a new one for me.
My wolf purred inside.
"I will not." Odette stood firm in her stance.
"I will only tolerate so much disobedience." I growled at her, I moved quickly, closing the distance between us in an instance.
I grabbed her sleeve and tore it off her. She jerked back covering her arm with her hand. I moved closer to her. Ripping off another shred of her dress.
She screamed "Stop it. Don't touch me. Dog." She napped.
I snarled "Call me a dog one more time princess and see how I punish you."
"D.O.G. DOG" She said firm and slow.
That was the last straw for me. I shoved her into the bathroom mirror, cracking the glass. Odette winced and moaned from the pain. But refused to break.
I grabbed the front of her dress and ripped it off her body. Exposing her soft, flawless, milky white flesh. She scrambled trying to cover herself and limit the exposure of her undergarments. But there weren't enough hands to cover her curves.
"You're a bastard." Odette bit out at him.
"I'm not actually, I am the Alpha King, the strongest and most powerful Alpha there's ever been." I was getting tired of the disrespect.
Her eyes widened in surprise, but then she hissed back. "Keep feeding that ego of yours, maybe one day it'll be a reality."
I grabbed her by the throat and lifted her off the ground. She thrashed and squirmed in my grip. But I held firm.
Getting in close I whisper in her ear "Watch your little whore mouth. Before I shove something in it to keep it busy."
She shuddered. With one hand holding her, I used my free hand to rip the bra off her chest. Exposing her breasts.
Odette fights back, grabbing hold of my arm she started drawing out my emotions, draining me. She smiled while I choked her.
I pulled her off the wall and slammed her into it again. She winced and her smile collapsed.
"Fuck You." She hisses through her teeth.
Slamming her again with every word I say "I. Will. Break. You."
A deep red liquid started sliding down her neck and on to her back.
I could smell the iron rising in the air.
Blood.
Her blood, it smells so delicious. Lick it Ambrose, I need to know how it tastes.
The hell? Onyx what are you a vampire now? That's disgusting. Get a hold of yourself.
I need to taste it, drink it.
No, what is wrong with you lately?
I'm perfectly fine.
Then stop acting like a creep, drink blood? That's insane. We only drink our mates blood. And she's a vampire, she doesn't have an animal in her.
She may not be our mate, but she's mine I want her.
That doesn't sound like fine to me, Onyx, you sound deranged.
My wolf growled at me and then turned to go lay down in the back of mind ignoring me.
I smelled the air, and indeed her blood smelled amazing. I scoffed at my wolf who just chuckled in the back of my mind.
His smug chuckle was all the confirmation he needed to give me about him being right.
I hate him sometimes. Especially when he was right about something like this.
Her blood smelled of fresh strawberries. The sweetest reddest strawberries. It was intoxicating.
She must have seen me lose myself for a moment and taken advantage of that because the next thing I know is I feel a sharp gnawing pain between my legs, forcing me to let go of her neck.
Choking she says between gasps "E.. Enough… Okay… Shit…" catching her breath she finish's "What do you want actually?"
"I want you." I felt my wolf growl taking over me for a moment.
The hell was that Onyx?
Silence. I'm met with Silence.
"I want to break you." I added to cover up my wolf's mistake.
Are you seriously going to just ignore me and throw a fit?
Yep.
I rolled my eyes at my wolf. I stood up dusting myself off and narrowed my eyes at her.
"Your father took from me something, and so I intend to do the same." I smiled down at her, moving a fallen strand of her moonlight-colored hair behind her ears.
"Your father is a monster. And you, dear princess, are the daughter of a monster."