I stepped off the elevator near our suite, but Terry stayed on, I held my hand on the door, “Where are you going?” She smiled.
“Up two floors.” And she pointed her long elegant finger upward. “Get some sleep. You look tired. Don’t wait up for me.” She had this look on her face. Her eyes no longer brown but somewhere between black and brown. She had fed but she wasn’t completely satisfied. I had seen that with Sebastian. This empty hungry look which made him stir and pace anxiously as if he had forgotten to do something.
“I really didn’t want to be alone tonight? My father,” I said to her.
“I know but this won’t take long,” Terry said with a sly grin and the door closed in my face. I continued walking and opened the door to the room. I needed some sleep because I didn’t want to think about my father. It was like that when I was young. Whenever I felt lonely or I couldn’t handle the day and Sebastian had gone off and left me alone in that large castle with Elizabeth, I just remembered his mother’s name.
Elizabeth asked me to call her mother. And because I was so young and needed someone to make me feel secure, I looked to her for comfort. But she had a coldness I didn’t know about until now. They were all vampires and cold and unfeeling.
Even Sebastian must have been cold, but he never showed that side to me until recently.
It was the first time I dared questioned Sebastian’s feelings for me. Maybe I didn’t want to know the truth. How could he feel anything the way he is? It was a lie he had been telling me all along. It was a lie when he said he loved me.
Taking off my clothing and walking into the shower, I let the shower jets rain down cold water to balance that relentless heat of my body. I stayed there a long time before I felt better and my skin had finally cooled.
I walked to the dresser where I had put the new clothes I had bought and put a tee shirt and panties on to go to sleep. Before climbing into my bed, I opened the curtains. I could look out over Seattle at night and wonder if Sebastian would find me.
Trotting to the bed, climbing inside and pulling the covers up, I looked around. At that moment I wished for a book. I could read it and maybe fall asleep. I opened the drawer to the night stand. Any book would do.
My eyes became heavy but before I could fall asleep, a loud knock came to the door.
Looking over at Terry’s bed she had left her key. “What the fuck now.” I tried to hold my cursing to a minimum, but I thought I would be asleep now and some place in my dreams where Sebastian and I would be together. It appeared that that would be the only place he and I could exist—in my dreams. And now that was being interrupted.
Jumping to the floor, I rushed to the door and opened it. Standing in front of me with blood dripping from her mouth and her eyes red, Terry rushed passed me. “What have you done now, Terry?” Trailing behind her and reaching for a towel to clean up the blood at the door, I turned with a wet towel in my hand and looked passed to see if anyone was outside. When I didn’t see anyone, I got on my knees and wiped up the trail of blood from the elevator.
There wasn’t much because most of it was on Terry’s clothes. Sitting on my bed I dropped the towel on the floor. I looked at Terry when she finally came from the restroom. “I’ll ask you again, what did you do?”
She stood looking at her hands as if she was a little child who had killed her favorite cat. “I didn’t do anything. I went to Blake’s room because I wanted an apology from him for what he had done to me, and how he had ruined my life, and he laughed at me. He even tried to rape me again, but I told him that wasn’t necessary because I wasn’t a girl any longer, and I enjoyed being fucked by men. Lots of men.
This time I actually enjoyed him sodomizing me. I felt nothing. My only desire was to have an organism. For some reason I had an insatiable need to have sex. I was the aggressor this time. I was using his body and it didn’t please me and I needed more, but after an hour of heavy sex he couldn’t perform.
I laughed at him and he tried to hit me, but I slapped him and he fell across the room. I didn’t realize I was that strong,” she said twisting her hands one on top of the other. “He called me a bitch, Zoey, can you imagine that? He made me a bitch early and now he said that he was going to do to me what his friends had done.
When he reached for me, I broke his arm, and then I hit him again across the face with my fist. When he fell backwards on the floor he hit his head on a table. There was a large wound on his head,” she gestured to her forehead, her hands trembling, “with blood oozing from the cut. The blood drove me crazy and I can’t remember much after that.” She wrapped both arms around her waist.
“I must have blacked out because when I woke, I was kneeling near him and my mouth was full with blood. I knew I shouldn’t have been happy but I was. I enjoyed empting him of all that made him a horrible human being. I guess that makes me horrible too?”
Terry was asking for words to make her feel better and to validate that she wasn’t this cold bloodied creature who prey on mortals, but I couldn’t find the words to disagree with her. She had been a horrific dreadful person with her actions.
“Go take a shower. We need to get out of here and now. I don’t know where we’re going, but we have to get away from here. You are nothing but trouble, Terry.”
Closing my eyes and placing my hand to my mouth I looked at her. She had too much feelings to be a cold bloodied killer. Why doesn’t Sebastian come and take that burden from her and change her. I didn’t want to make her feel bad, but she had been warned, just like I tried to warn her about Aare at the bar.
Terry lowered her head and wandered to the shower.
I took that time to pack. Then I remembered Ann and Robbie. I had Ann’s number. Maybe she could give us shelter wherever she had gone. I found her number in my wallet in my purse, the one Aare didn’t take from me when he had me abducted. He placed all my belongings together. He thought I would never get out of that castle.
“Ann.”
“Who is this?” Her voice sound as if she was far away or she was whispering.
“This is Zoey.”
“Zoey? Are you alright? I thought you were dead or something. Robby said that he knew those two werewolves and they work for a bounty. There was a bounty on your head. And he said they work for vampires.”
“I know that now, but no, I’m still alive. It would take more than a kidnapping to kill me.” I tried to sound up beat. “I got away from those werewolves and a vampire, but I need a favor.”
“Anything. Sebastian gave Robbie enough money for us to live on for the rest of our lives. And for that I’m thankful. Where is he?”
“I don’t know where Sebastian is, but he’s planning on joining me.” Not the whole truth. I didn’t like lying to Ann but this was an emergency. “I have to leave this room and I need a place to stay until Sebastian finds me.”
“We would be happy to take you. We live in Seattle.” She sound a bit embarrassed about it. And she should be. Sebastian told her to leave town and not stay around for that detective to find her and ask her questions.
“Give me the directions to your place.” I wrote the directions down and handed them to Terry who was standing in front of me waiting. I said goodbye to Ann and that I would see her in an hour.
“Terry, keep this for me. Don’t give this to anyone but Sebastian. It’s where I’m going and I suggest you find a place to hide.”
“Where the fuck can I go without you?” Terry questioned. Her eyes wide and her voice hoarse and shrill.
“That life we had before is gone. I can’t very well go to a boyfriend and tell him that I’ll be hanging out with him and by the way I’m waiting to become an immortal. Like a vampire. It might go over with one of my hookups, but sooner or later he will sober up and realize that it’s true. Do you see what I mean?” she said to me.
“Pick up your bag and come with me.” I inhaled. What she said made sense and I didn’t want to bring her with me, but I had little choice in the matter because Terry was right.