Savannah didn’t know what to think when she watched Vincent. He didn’t move, and she didn’t either. She wasn’t sure how to approach the situation. What should she say? Should she even say anything ay all? Should she accuse him of lying to her and demand the truth out of him? She should let him explain.
She didn’t have time to pick because in the next few seconds -using his vampire speed- Vincent was standing directly in front of her, only inches apart. The sudden close proximity made Savannah overly nervous, she had to concentrate on her irregular breathing.
Vincent just watched her, gazed at her face. Savannah suddenly felt belittled, small, and uncomfortable under his gaze. She was afraid to move. But Vincent’s face was nothing fun to look at. His face looked beyond torn and sad, Savannah thought hers might look the same if she weren’t so nervous and scared.
“I-” Vincent held out his hand, as if to reach for her. But he let his hand dropped, as did his facial expression. Savannah suddenly dropped her bag and wrapped her arms around Vincent. She didn’t know why she felt the need or overwhelming desire to comfort him, but it was too late to take it back now.
“I don’t know what to say…” She whispered gently into his neck. His arms wrapped tightly around her waist. “Don’t say anything, just let me hold you..” His words were soft, tender. His cold breath sent shiver down her neck. She felt a pang of guilt rush through her veins but it disappeared as quickly as it had appeared.
They stood like this for what felt like an eternity. Savannah didn’t even realize she was crying until Vincent wiped away the tears his palm rested on her cheek bone, and he gazed into her eyes. “We do need to talk.. As much as I really don’t want to”
Savannah jus nodded absentminded, and looked anywhere but his eyes. Grabbing her hand, Vincent led her back to the manor.
Once inside, he led her to their old room. Savannah quickly placed her bag on the floor next to the bed, sighing deeply as she did so. Her knee now finally healed but still tender made her sit on the bed, taking a break from standing on it.
“What happened, the day you left, went missing?” Savannah dreaded Vincent’s question but she knew it would come, she’d rather deal with it upfront than later. The warm tears pricked at her eyes before flooding over. “I was attacked, by wolves.. As you can tell the messed up my knee pretty badly..”
“It doesn’t make sense why they took you in and took care of you..” Vincent stood in front of Savannah, a few feet away. He didn’t want to get close and she preferred it that way. “I know.. I don’t know what their intentions are.. I could barely understand their motives that day..” She lied through her teeth and she knew it. But that was the plan, Karin’s words rang in her ears.
Dismissing her thoughts she awaited Vincent to say something, anything. Savannah knew that Karin gave her permission to tell him that they already told her the truth about her and her mother. “My blood.. It’s immortal.. They told me..” The room suddenly grew terribly cold and bitter, the awkwardness was almost unbearable. Savannah wished she could just fade away in this moment.
Finally willing herself to look up, she watched as Vincent’s face went rigged, he knew she was watching him. “I know you killed my mother, but why? I trusted you in this place, you were the only person I had made a connection with, you lied to me. You sat there and made me tell you how my mother died, you made me relieve the events that tore me apart, How heartless can you really be? You have a heart of ice!” The tears were fluent but Savannah was able to control them, she was more angry than anything.
“Look, I didn’t know that you would ever find out about that!” He snapped back. This fueled the flames. “Oh so you were just going to lie to me the entire time, even if I fell in love with you?!” Vincent rolled his eyes. “no, I wasn’t going to lie forever, I knew it wasn’t right. I didn’t want to lie, I’m tired down Savannah, damnit!”
“Then fucking explain it to me!” She screamed on the top of her lungs. In a flash Vincent had pinned her down on the bed his fangs protruding out, cutting his lips in the process. “You’re so damn annoying!” For the first time since she’s been in this place, Savannah wasn’t afraid, she called his bluff. She stayed perfectly calm, even though she had doubts about him. She didn’t trust him fully, now she hardly ever could.
“You’re absolutely pathetic, are you trying to instill fear? I hate to burst your bubble but it’s not working” She snapped with sternness in her voice, she needed him to take her seriously. Suddenly backing off, Vincent stood just a foot away form her, and Savannah fixated herself on him.
“So what’s it going to be? You going to tell me the truth or not?” Savannah crossed her arms defensively. “We had to kill your mother, Savannah she would have ruined everything, before I knew you I was on board.. I hated her for keeping suck a secret -you- from us.. I resented her..”
Savannah just listened, she wouldn’t interrupt him now. He was finally telling her the truth, it wasn’t exactly what she wanted to hear but it was what she had to hear.
“We need your blood, The plan was to kill your mother then take you captive, once you turned eighteen and your blood became purified, immortal.. We would keep you alive but drain you slowly. Taking what we needed to protect ourselves, to instill that we would stay strong, forever..”
“Let me guess, trying to fake falling in love with me was part of the brilliant plan than eh? To put me with Kent on purpose to make me feel horrible then you -poof- come out of nowhere and protect me, huh?” Her voice betrayed her, not matter how much she didn’t want him to know that she had trusted him and started to care for him, the crack in her voice told him otherwise.
“It wasn’t like that, you have to believe me. Savannah I fell so hard for you. I was never supposed to. I wasn’t even supposed to spend my time around you, at all. I was supposed to keep a safe distance from you.. Those were my brothers original orders, but when he realized that you were miserable with Kent, he let you switch. He wants to keep you happy, in hopes that you will give us what we need form you.. He is willing to make a deal Savannah.. It might be best if you take it”
Savannah didn’t want to take any deal they would make. But Karin’s words rang in her head. Karin wanted her to befriend them once more, to get in ‘good’ with them, to learn there plans, weakness, vulnerabilities… anything that would help the wolf clan.
“Well I guess I can listen to what you two have to say.. But don’t get too excited, I am no where near forgiving you yet..” And she wasn’t sure if she would ever be able to forgive him. Who forgives a fake, maybe his feelings for her were real, but he still deceived her, lied to her.. He mad it clear that he disregarded her feelings.
“Alright, then let’s go meet Payne in his office”
Without nodding, Savannah stood up and fixed her self, adjusting her shirt and then patting down the wrinkles. She followed Vincent through the halls to the all too familiar office that held the answers within.
“Savannah, I have been expecting you” Payne’s grin made her sick to her stomach. “So I’ve heard” She snapped before taking a seat in a chair by his desk. Vincent stood lightly against the wall, after closing the door Payne took a seat on his desk, leaning casually on it.
“I know those werewolves told you everything. They just want to use you against us Savannah, they will tell you anything.. I know you’re not happy with us right now.. But I want to make a deal” Payne was quick and to the point. But Savannah couldn’t help but to quickly think about the fact that these vampires must not have known about her mothers letter.. They were clueless about what the werewolves truly had in store.
“And what is that?” She narrowed her eyes in skeptic. “Well, I will promise to let you live in this manor, master free. You can have the grand room, my old room. We will remodel it to your liking, you will have no rules. No chores, you will be free to roam wherever you want, I will offer you two personal guards, one being Vincent.. Of course…” Savannah concentrated on everything he said before speaking.
“What’s the catch?” She responded emotionless.
Payne grinned. “Ah, I was getting to that. Well once you turn eighteen, I could just drain you completely of your blood, kill you and be done with it. But instead I figured it is your life of immortality that you were granted and if it wasn’t for you, then we would have no option of being completely one hundred percent, immortal..”
“Furthermore, I would like to take a little blood form you every week. Not enough to kill you, only enough to make a difference in myself and my bother, and enough so that your body can casually produce more.. You would hardly feel any side effects, maybe casually some vertigo, or a ill stomach, but nothing you couldn’t handle.”
Payne finished, folding his hands in his lap watching Savannah carefully. “I must apologize for my brother’s behavior, you must know I had no intention of making him fall in love with you, In my opinion you are just an average human, usually replaceable, except in this case of course.. Please disregard his guilt, it truly is not his fault and we had no intentions of him becoming weak for you..”
Savannah didn’t nod, she didn’t say anything. She sat in silence, she was still. She need more time to think about things, at last she needed to be able to sneak off tonight at midnight and let Ben know of everything that has happened thus far.
“I will need a day or two to think this through..” She said softly, making sure she kept her breathing calm and her posture composed. Payne grinned. “As would be fair, I will let you roam free, no master as of now, and I will await your decision tomorrow morning, I hope you make the smart decision. I would hate to kill you Savannah, your blood is so powerful.. You can become so powerful..”
His grin made her feel uneasy and she just nodded curtly before stepping out of the room. Vincent was silent the entire time, he walked back to their room and once inside he left his words betray him.
“Please take his offer, I need you here, with me..” Savannah sighed deeply not wanting to talk about this right now. “I don’t want to talk about this right now. I need some time alone. Vincent nodded his head solemnly.
“I see, I will stay with Trevor for the night, eave you alone..”
After his words he slowly crept from the room, leaving her alone to her thoughts.
Savannah just sat on the bed, thinking about everything. This would all be such hard work. Thank goodness her birthday was only three weeks away, any longer and she would surely fall apart, that is if she keeps up with this façade long enough not to.
[[ Author's Note: I know it took quite a few days, hopefully not too long. I did update before this but it was for my other vampire story, you can check it out if you want, or don't it's completely fine. I hope you like this chapter, I tried to make it longer than average. The song is very good too, It's a cover of an old hip hop/R&B song, I always love the lyrcs, But I hated the way it sounded, but this rock cover is just absolutely amazing. I literally have had this play on repeat all night long, haha. Oh and this is random but does anyone watch The Secret Circle? I just started watching it and it's pretty interesting, I know it's based off of books but I haven't read them.. so yeah lol. Well bye guys! ]]