Regrets

Chapter Thirty-Six: Hidden Sociopath

I was bored out of my mind. I was still confined to bed. Although I was back to a regular eating pattern, Adrian was rather happy about that, I wasn't fully healthy quite yet. Apparently. It was bugging me like nothing else could. I needed to be active, move around and do stuff. This doing nothing thing was driving me out of my mind. People rarely visited me because I was being a little temperamental and I snapped at everyone. But I did finally get one overzealous and very unwelcome visitor along with my vampire husband that I wanted desperately to despise. Alex cleared his throat and tentatively, afraid to invoke my wrath, sat down in the chair by my bed. He gave me a smile and waved Mr. Smith down to take a seat next to him. I tried my absolute best to keep my eyes on Alex but I failed. Mr. Smith was still achingly handsome and I still wanted him like crazy. What a bummer. He didn't even try to keep his eyes off my sickly form. He looked like a puppy and I wanted to pet him and shower him with attention. Alex cleared his throat, bringing my eyes back to him.

“I just thought you should get to know my best friend a little better. I know that you recognize him, correct me if I'm wrong but he was your math teacher right?” he paused for a minute to see my nod before continuing, “But he is my best friend, has been for decades and I want you to know him better since he is so important to me. So, I want you to formerly meet him since his name is certainly not Smith. Darling, I want you to meet David Padelecki” he said with a smile. Instantly I tensed up. My whole body was screaming in protest but I slowly raised myself to my knees. I saw nothing but red and that smug bastard's face. I wanted to rip him to pieces. So he was the king's bestie, huh? How ironic that he should kill my own. The king shot me a puzzled look.

“Are you okay? You look like you're ready to kill” he said softly, slowly getting out of his chair and standing in front of Mr. Smith, or should I say, David. The horse's ass who killed Selena. I hissed at him, feeling my vampire rise up as well, her own fury echoing my own. My fangs were out and hungering for this man's blood. I wanted to rip him apart and bathe in his blood. It was a a simple desire.

“Move” I growled at Alex, in no mood to deal with him right now. I just wanted to get to David.

“I think you should calm down” he said soothingly. It only served to piss me off even more. I could see him mentally asking the castle for help with his psycho wife.

“Move now” I demanded again, getting off the damn bed. David was going to pay. That was certain. Alex didn't move a muscle so I simply lifted him and threw him against a wall, trying to knock him out. It only stunned him, I think. But it was enough. Before I could fully understand what I was doing, I had my hands squeezing David's throat. I put all my superior strength into it, wanting to snap it but that'd be too quick. A sadistic smile played with my lips as I watched him try to free himself, his eyes going glassy.

My goal was simple. Make him suffer and then I'd snap his neck like a twig. He choked out something, trying to talk, but I tightened my hold on him again, not wanting to hear one thing from his filthy mouth. Why did he deserve to live when Selena had died for no good cause? Disgusting mutt. I would make sure he would never take another breath.

“Stop!” a panicked voice shouted but I paid it no heed. I was almost done. He was starting to pass out and I wouldn't get any satisfaction with that so I'd kill him.

“Goddamn, stop it!!” hands forcefully ripped me off David, holding me still while I struggled for all I was worth. I shrieked, bloodthirst not satisfied and left wanting.

Someone held David while he tried to recover, his body rapidly healing him. I struggled harder, kicking and biting but it was no use. The hands would not let me go. Later, when I would regain some sense and was no longer all homicidal thirst, I'd have Max to thank for my thwarted revenge. But all I saw was red. All I wanted was to see the unnatural life fade from David's eyes. Talk about one track mind.

*****

My head was pounding. I tried to hold it, cradle it to relief some of the pain but I couldn't move my arms. My bleary mind woke up in a second once I realized this. I looked around to see myself in some foreign room. I tried to free myself but it only hurt me, my wrists were slowly gaining burns. I stopped and sniffed the cuffs encasing my wrists. It was silver. I wrinkled my nose and held it away from me. Silver spelled bad news for vampires. Or so Alex said. And now I know that to be true. When I stopped struggling, it still burned, but much slower and I healed so quick that I barely classed it as anything but a minor annoyance. One thing was for sure. I wasn't getting out of these.

“Feeling any better?” a gentle voice asked. I looked over to see Alex coming through a door. I glowered at him and said nothing.

“That was a very mean thing you did. David never did anything to you and I expect you to apologize to him very soon” he continued, sitting next to me. I snorted. As if. That prick had killed one of the only people I cared about in my life. One of the only people who had never done anything but help me and heal me. Who had never once let me down. Who had never lied to me. Tears gathered up thickly and I struggled to keep them hidden. Now was not the time for them. Later, when I was alone, I would lose myself in Memory Lane.

“I called him down here so that you can clear any bad air. I love you and he is very important to me so I want you to get along. I need you to get along. Okay?” he barely stopped talking before David came in. Alex smiled at him and got up.

“I'll come back in a minute. I'm getting the feeder” he said, leaving the room. David sat down in the seat Alex vacated and cleared his throat awkwardly.

“So I guess you know, huh?” he said sheepishly. I felt that familiar anger rise up in me and I hissed at him.

“Yeah, kinda” I snapped. I couldn't seem to stop moving, couldn't seem to stop wanting to escape so I could smash his stupid skull.

“I needed to do it” he said, a determined tilt to his chin. I struggled with the silver more.

“How was her death necessary?!” I growled, starting to smell the scent of burning flesh. It was my own, I could feel it but I didn't care.

“I needed you to disappear from the human world so that you could settle comfortably in this one. I needed you to disappear because I don't plan on letting you go. Don't you understand? I freed you from them so that we could be together!” his crazed eyes stopped my struggling. I raised an eyebrow at him.

“How are we together now? Huh? I'm married to the king” I said. Understanding had dawned on me. David was absolutely insane.

“I'm going to steal you away. We'll go somewhere romantic where it'll be only the two of us. That way, no one will look for us except the king”

“That's a big plan flaw” I muttered, planning on boiling him alive instead of smashing his skull. Smashing took too much effort and was messy.

“I'll just have to cut off his head” David said cheerfully. I looked at him in disbelief. He would do that? Kill his friend for his crazy plan? Suddenly it wasn't such a stretch to have killed Selena.

“You can't do that. He's the king. And your friend” I said, trying to reason with him. Why? I don't know. I think it has something to do with the fact that I'm tied up and at the mercy of an insane moron.

“But you're my soulmate” he said tenderly, “I'll do anything to be with you, Annabelle. And I'm going to succeed. You just wait” he shot me a brilliant smile just as Alex came in with Adrian. They both looked to be in relatively good spirits while my mind whirled away at the new information and how I could use it.

Question: Do any of you want the king and Annabelle to hook up? I know one person does so I'm leaning toward making a scene where they do it. I don't know. Tell me what you think.

I know I disappeared from the face of the earth. Sorry, I really am but I had writer's block and it sucked. I forced myself to write nonstop for ten minutes and it helped a little so I wrote this. It's short but short is better than nothing right? I was going to wait and upload this when I had more to add but it's my birthday today and I felt bad for leaving you guys hanging. Hope you liked it! :)