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Alessandra
AS THE SUN STREAMED in through Sebastian’s bedroom window, I could feel its rays burn against my skin. It didn’t feel like I was going to go up in flames anytime soon, but I knew I couldn’t allow myself to get too much sun exposure.
As I drew the curtains shut, I glanced over at the desk where Sebastian had left the Stark Coven Doctrine for me.
I sighed. The book was a lot thicker than I’d realized, which meant I had a lot of reading to do. But there was something much more important I needed to do first.
I slipped out the door of Sebastian’s bedroom chambers and walked across the hallway. I didn’t even bother to knock as I entered Sebastian’s Slave Chambers. I was on a mission: find Julia.
I hadn’t quite figured out what I was going to do with her once I did find her. I didn’t want to kill her... not just yet, anyway. I had to figure out a way to make her life a living hell first, a deeper way to get to Sebastian.
I supposed that what I really wanted to see was how foolish Sebastian really was. If he was trying to hide the girl from me, then he had to have known better than to let her go back to the Slave Chambers.
Actually, on second thought, if I found Julia in the Slave Chambers, I would kill her. I would do it right then and there, just to prove a point.
If Sebastian was really foolish enough to believe he could just lie to me like that without even attempting to hide her from me, well... I would personally ensure that her corpse was delivered to him when he least expected it.
While I was certain Sebastian would figure out I was the one who had killed his precious slave, it didn’t even matter. He could hold it against me all he wanted, but the truth was that he needed me. He believed he needed me to defeat Emilio Craven, but he actually did need me to prevent his aunt from taking her rightful place on the throne.
When it came down to it, I was Sebastian’s only hope... and knowing that he needed me, whether he liked it or not, made me smile.
As I walked down the hallway to the room I knew belonged to Julia, I tried to decide how I would kill her if she was inside. I could just rip her head off, but that wouldn’t have been any fun.
No, I would drink every drop of her blood until there was nothing left.
Opening the door, I stepped into the room. When I laid eyes on her bed, I was sort of surprised to find that it was empty.
I stood there for a few moments, wondering where Sebastian could’ve been hiding her from me if she wasn’t in her room. And that’s when it hit me.
He must have been keeping her in the Chambers.