Marcus's POV
Saturday, I think to myself, the day I go on me and my mates first date. The happiness inside of me is overwhelming. I can't wait to see her beautiful face and happy smile when I pick her up.
"Sire you have two vampires that want to cross, what time should I scheduled that?" Caden asks stepping into my office as I sit looking out the window
"Cancel everything I have for today" I tell him
"Why?"
"Because tonight is the date" I tell him proudly
"Oh I see, you're gona' get some tonight" he teases
"No she's not like that" I chuckle at his comment
He smiles and shakes his head "anyways when can I meet the lucky girl?" He asks
"We'll figure out a time, and no you can not creep on our date" I warn
"Oh please I have better things to do than look at mates being all lovey dovey to each other" he says scrunching up his nose
"You're just jealous" I say smirking
"I won't deny that" he shrugs, ruffling his blonde curls "but when I find mine she will be smokin hot and we're going to-" he says but I cut him off
"I have a feeling I don't want to hear the last part of that sentence" I say and a smirk grows on his face as he leaves the room.
The majority of my day is spent grading papers, going over lesson plans and worrying, one about this date and two about Caine. He hasn't contacted me, not that I want to hear from him but what he said is getting to me. When four o'clock rolls around I start to get ready, I take a shower but with Rose in mind it was hard to stay calm. I get out and begin to get dressed in a grey button up and a pair of blue jeans. My phone begins to vibrate and I look at unknown number questionably, I press the answer button hesitantly.
"Hello?"
"Brother! How are you?" Caine's voice booms through the phone
"Caine what do you want?" I ask through gritted teeth
"I want a lot of things, but that's for a different day" he chuckles
"Ok well then you know how much I love talking to you but I'm busy so goodbye" I say easy to end this call
"Yes, yes I heard about your date tonight with what is it?...Roxy? No that's not it...hold on it will come to me...ahh its Rose isn't it?"
Astonished, I'm speechless, no words are able to form in my mouth "how did you find out about her" I ask angrily and confused while my jaw clicks
"Word gets around when the leader of half the country finds his mate, especially when she's you student and your her teacher, I didn't know you could be so naughty Marcus." his sly tone makes my blood boil
"I don't have time for this" I snap at him, ready to end the call of this pointless conversation
"Stay on the phone or I will slit her throat while you watch her bleed out, life draining from her young beautiful body" he says in all seriousness with a tone so viscous I can't help but believe him, my anger rages at his threat and the way he talks about my mate in such an inappropriate way "wait I might have a little fun with her first, I heard she was quite a beautiful young piece of ass, wouldn't mind doing some naughty things with her..."
"I swear to god if you even think about coming near her I will kill you!" I yell anger ripping through me as I clench to my desk, hearing it crack from my pressured hold
"Kill your own brother, well that's not very nice" he says
"Don't even pretend like you can get across the border, the spell is to powerful" I tell him
"We'll see..." he says making me question everything "listen here brother you will not go on this date with Rose do you understand? or I will kill her I promise you that, I will fuck her over and over until I break her, I will slit her wrists and suck them till she is almost faint then I will torture her and only when she begs me for mercy will I finally drain her dry so no life will be left in those pink cheeks of hers."
"How dare you threaten my mate!" I scream my heart braking at the thought of him touching her, hurting her, killing her, I walk from my desk and over to the door, hoping Caden is still here "I will kill you if you ever say anything like that again!" My hands wrap around the door frame tightly and I hear small cracking noises but I'm to pissed to care. I practically feel my blood boiling and steam pouring off my body.
"I'll do it, you know I will, so take the risk and go out with her tonight, have a good time then see her being killed and raped the very next day...your choice" he says
I know he would do it...he has done it before, he's crazy, evil, a demon. I can't let that happen. I can't even fathom what I would do without her, I love her, she's my fucking soul mate, we were made for each other. It would kill me to see that and if she died...I don't even know. I love her with ever fiber of my nonexistent soul, I can't take the risk even if I have complete faith in Lucia's magic I just can't.
"Why are you doing this" I ask trying to keep myself composed
"It's kinda fun making your life hell" he says "now I finally have something on you"
"What the hell did I ever do to you!" I scream
"You know what you did, I gave you an opportunity and you refused, then you create a border so I can never see you, we could be kings together" he says sharply and savagely
"I would never think to rule with you, you are a cruel bloodsucker" I spit with vermin
"Hurtful words to say to a man who threatened to kill your beloved, so for her sake I hope you have decided not to go on this date"
I let out an angry frustrated sigh, knowing this is what he wants but...what else can I do "I won't"
"Won't what?"
"I won't go on the date with Rose" I say...the thought of telling Rose this breaks my heart
"So she lives another day" he says in hurrah
"I hate you" I tell him
"Well then you're going to hate me more for this, you have to tell her you don't love her, tell her you care more about your job, and it's more important, tell her how she is worth nothing to you, and it would be disgusting to be together" he demands
"Are you crazy I could never hurt her like that, she is my mate I love her!" I scream baffled by his illegitimate demand
"Do it or she dies" he says
"Fuck! fine! I don't know why the hell this is so enjoyable for you but if I ever see your face near me or her I will kill you! The only reason I'm doing this is because I know you're fucking crazy so don't contact me again- ever!" I yell into the phone gripping it tightly, I hear it breaking under my constricted grasp
"Goodbye brother talk to you soon" he says casually
"No you wo-" I begin to say before he hangs up on me
"Shit!" I scream throwing my phone as hard as I can against the wall shattering it. I use my ability and make the metal table I have across my office now in to nothing more than a disformed piece of metal, it consumed only a fraction of my anger but I had a feeling if I didn't stop, every piece of metal in this room would be squished.
Caden comes rushing in with a worried expression while I pace back and forth through my office. "what the hell Marcus?!"
"It's Caine, he called me and said if I didn't break up with Rose he would fucking drain her, torture her! He wants to ruin my life for something that happened 300 something years ago! He already destroyed my past life now he wants to kill my mate! We have to do something, we have to go over there and kill him now!" I ramble angrily walking towards the door when Caden wipes me around to face him
"No! We can't do that, that's what he wants, he wants you to go over on his land, it's probably a trap so he can capture you, he can't get over on your land Lucia's Magic is powerful, Rose is fine"
"He's planning something, he might have figured out a way through her spell, he sounded so sure! How dare he talk about my mate like that! I need to kill him, if he threatens her life he deserves to die" I say through my teeth
"Maybe he does but we need to be more prepared, don't do it out of pure hate right now, he has threatened Rose but she is safe and ok" he nods his blonde curls bouncing at the motion as he try's to calm me, staring at me with icy blue eyes
"God it's going break her heart" I say dreading the conversation, I run my hands over my face dreading what is soon to come
"What is?"
"I have to tell her I don't love her and her being my student is wrong and whole bunch of other awful bullshit" my hand reaches up and runs through my dark hair
"She'll forgive you, you're protecting her just think about it like that... if that helps"
"Do me a favor I need a new phone I broke my other one, just have all my information and contacts sent to the new one, make it fast" I say looking at my watch it's already 4:50, I should be almost ready and sitting around for an hour freaking out, not asking for a new phone so I can call the girl I love to break her heart.
"Of course" he says and I can tell he doesn't want me to do this either but he's right, I'm protecting her and her safety is all that matters, even if I have to sacrifice both our happinesses
Caden is back with in thirty minutes and hands me over the phone hesitantly "you can do this, it's going to hurt like hell but you can" he encourages me his blue eyes filled with sympathy
I nod and look down at an exact replica of my old destroyed phone. I scroll through the contacts and look intently at Roses number, the only thing that makes me press that button is knowing I am keeping her safe by doing this.
I press the call button with a pained expression on my face as I put the phone up to my ear slowly. Ring....ring... ring over and over anticipating her sweet melodic voice "Hi" I let out a sigh as her happy tone comes through the phone
"Hi Rose" I say, God I hate him for making me do this
"Are you ok? What's up?" She asks
I'm silent for a moment, fuck me "We can't do this" my heart breaks at the words I say to her, I can't do this I can't she's in pain I'm hurting her. Caden sees my struggle and motions for me to go on.
"Wh-what do yo-you mean" She stumbles, I can tell she's in shock
"I mean...I can't... I don't want to go out with you." My voice harder than intended but not at Rose just the thought of Caine forcing me to hurt her
"Oh...um do you want to reschedule or something?" She asks hopefully, God why did she have to make this so hard, why is she so hopeful when I'm just going to crush her
I take a deep breath, not ready to give a huge blow of pain to her. This will hurt her but I have to make sure she knows we can't be together because if we are she'll die, I can't risk it. I know Caine and I know what he's capable of...I won't let him kill someone I love...not again "No we can't do this I'm your teacher and you are my student, it's illegal and just wrong, so we must stop whatever this is" the words I'm saying don't even register in my brain, it's like Caine is talking through me...making me sound evil like him
I want to scream it's not true, I want to tell her I love her so much and tell her I would never hurt her. But I can't, I have to keep going even if it feels like my heart is being torn off piece by piece for hurting her an hearing her broken voice.
"Oh...um" she says her voice strained like she's about to cry, I fight the urge to breaks something as she speaks again "why did you ask me out then...or...kiss me?" She asks, again I want to tell her because I love her but I have to script bullshit.
"I..I wasn't thinking, I apologize for leading you on it was my fault please think nothing of it, forget anytime I showed inappropriate actions towards you I should not have done that as your teacher" my voice was strained now for the final blow, this will surely break her heart taking mine with her "It meant nothing to me" I was trying not to break down from the pain I was causing her and It hurt, it hurt like hell
Moments of unbearable silence rings in my ears "Rose?" I call out her name needing to comfort her even though I know it won't work, she's mad and I'm glad she is, I deserve her hate.
"I'm sorry for my inconvenience to your time and for wasting so much of it" she says in a cold unpleasant tone
I have to end this call, I have to end it now or I am bound to break, then she'll know somethings up "Ok...goodbye Rose" I says quickly
"Goodbye" she whispers, just before the call ends I hear her break down and start hysterically crying and then nothing, silence I look down at my phone I see the screen beeping knowing she hung up.
Caden looks at me a sadden look on his face "is she ok?" He asks
"No" I say through gritted teeth
God I hate him, I hate Caine, he broke my mates heart. Something I never wished to do and now look at her, broken heart and soul and it's all his fault. I crush my phone out of anger for the second time today.
"You might want to leave the room Caden" I say hotly, knowing I'm about to do some crazy shit
"Yeah I'll just go get you another phone" he suggest and walks out of the room shutting the door behind him.
I stand there for a moment shaking in anger. Then I let it out, I scream at the top of my lungs wishing my brother dead where he stands. I can't believe I hurt her so much, by now she has most likely fallen in love with me, I'm surprised it took her so long but now I might have lost her.
So I do what I must do to make sure I don't go out and cross the border to kill my brother, I break and crush ever piece of metal in my office, the sound fills my ears as thing break from under me. The table in the corner is now a ball of copper along with thirty different other scraps of metal.
"Caine!!" I scream staring up at the ceiling hoping he feels my anger even though he would probably enjoy it.
I keep breaking everything I see, I can't help it I need to break something, everything. I throw my lamp at the wall, throw my computer and all my papers I had grades are scattered on the floor. After hours of my rampage I am to exhausted to move, I slump over in my chair, her pained voice keeps ringing in my ears over and over all I hear is the hurt laced in her tone. Tears spring to my eyes and they leave to flow down my cheeks. I wipe them away, not letting my brother to have the satisfactory of me in pain.
I hurriedly walk over to my liquor cabinet not that I drink much but I can't help it, alcohol even works on vampires we have to consume more than typical humans but it still works. I want to drown out the pain as much as I can.
I start to chug the dark liquor, it burn as it travels down my throat but I take the pain, not caring anymore. With each bottle I finish I drop them on the floor shattering glass all over the ground.
*
Sitting in my chair, drunk as a dog one thing pops into my head. I have to see her. I have to see if she's ok. I stand up a little dizzy so I lean against the chair until I can stand properly.
I pass my mirror that I surprising didn't break, I look like pure shit, my hair is messy from me pulling on it, my eyes are rimmed red and blood shot, and my eyebrows are pulled tightly together in anger. I walk outside and start to run as fast as I can. Thankfully I remembered Rose's address before I crushed both my phones and I head off to see her. I let the wind blow past me as I speed through the forest. When I finally arrive I slow down, I walk to her address to see a very tiny house, hardly big enough to have two people living in it.
Shit I still have to pay that debt, how could I forget that? I'll tell Caden when I get back to transfer the $20,000 to her mothers account to automatically pay off any over due bills. I walk around the small house looking in....now I sound like a creeper but it's true. When I come around to her bedroom I pull myself up to the window, I look around the small room and my eyes fall on her, I see a big frown placed on her beautiful face, I instantly miss her bright sweet smile.
She's sitting on her big bed staring at the white decorated wall blankly, her hair messily thrown to one side of her body, cascading down her chest. A tear slips down her cheek slowly and she bites her lip as it quivers making a pain in my heart spread. My brain was already pounding against my skull from the many bottles of liquor I drank, which I really regret now. It helped for a little while but honestly seeing her, even in this pained state, makes a small smile appear on my lips.
I don't know how, but she is still so beautiful even with puffy red eyes and flushed cheeks, but this is all because of me. With that thought I have to look away, my back pressed hard against the cold wood, she looks so sad, pain rips through me all over again.
I hear her mother call her name and I look in the window quickly to see her snapping out of her little daze and wiping her cheeks. She walks over to the mirror and takes some makeup, applying it on her cheeks making them pale again, then she walks out. Leaving me to stare into her empty bedroom.
I should leave now or I'm going to want to go in there, comfort her, and kiss her senseless. She doesn't deserve this, because of my brother she has to be miserable. I walk back to my home...to drained to run. I need to know if Caine really has discovered a crazy plan that can indeed hurt her.
*
Sunday was spent drinking in bed doing nothing, no one on this earth could understand how painful it is to say those things to your soulmate and see them in pain. It's worse that hell itself.
I had to will myself out of bed Monday morning to go teach, I had the slightest amount of hope that Rose would be there looking like her happy self. I wish it didn't hurt her, I wish she didn't fall for me this would make it easier...for her at least. But she was no where to be found. I wanted so badly to ask Jade how she was doing but when I tried after class she refused. She said she couldn't talk, she was to angry at me and needed a day or two, but she said she would make me tell her everything, even though I know I couldn't. Teaching was miserable I didn't what to do anything, I made it clear to my student I didn't want to be bothered, looking directly at certain lady students that, and I quote, 'We just want to make you feel better' like they could honestly help.
I went home that day and drank more, my only thoughts were about how Rose was doing. I didn't want to go to her house again because I don't know if I could keep myself under control like I had the night before.
Caden was kind and loyal enough to keep my paper work and grading under control while I was...in this state.
What if Caine never lets me be with her? What if after this she doesn't even want to be with me? Only one thing to solve this I think to myself as I lean back in the chair and take another swig of liquor
I have to kill Caine
A/N
Hey guys! Hope you liked this chapter! Poor Marcus right?! Did I do an ok job with this one sometimes I'm Super hard on my chapters because I don't really know how good or bad they are so tell me what you think about this one!
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-Madi