Vampire's Hostage, Chapter 7

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*Jace*

I don’t love her.

I don’t love her.

I don’t love her.

I don’t love her.

I chanted this to myself over and over. I can’t love her. It’s not right.

Yes. Veronica’s voice hissed furiously at me from the recesses of my mind. You do. And I hate you for it Jace. I hate you for loving someone else. While you love a human I’m dead. But I’ll always be alive in your mind.

No. I shook my head, desperate to get her voice out of my head but knowing it wasn’t possible.  I don’t love her. You’ll always be the only one Veronica.

DON’T LIE TO ME! You love that filthy mutt of a girl and I’ll always loathe you for it.

As much as I told myself the voice wasn’t real, I’d never know.  Veronica had powers. Each of us do, Kyliee’s power is prophesy, my father’s power is leadership, my mother’s power was council. Veronica’s power was the power of conscience, that little voice that fills your head and tells you what to do.

It took me a long time to realize that veronica was not exactly a good seed. She was evil, and her power was a direct extension of that. She could take her ideas and put them in your head and if you didn’t listen she could drive you insane day and night and you wouldn’t even know it was her.

I still loved her.

I didn’t know she was using me. 

When she died there was one voice in my head.

One sentence.

I will live on.

Now I hear her in my head every day.  I don’t know if it’s actually her of if I’m just slowly going crazy.

You’re not crazy, trust me, I’m really here.

I was going insane. I knew it and I couldn’t stop it.

She messed with me all the time.

When I was with Holly, she made me feel guilty.

I needed to talk to somebody.

I needed to talk to Holly.

I needed to talk to Kyliee,

You need to talk to me. She hissed. You need me, you’d die without me. You can’t be with that stupid wench.

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