The Lost One

Chapter 1

I swing my backpack onto my shoulder and shut the driver door on my car, as I'm walking to my first class of the day my phone vibrates signaling I got a text message. I grab it out of my jean pocket and unlock my phone. I feel my blood run cold, the message is from my father.

Meine Tochter, es ist Zeit, nach Hause zu kommen. Ich möchte, dass du an meiner Seite bist, wenn dein Bruder nach Hause kommt. (My daughter, it's time to come home. I want you to be by my side when your brother comes home.)

-Ihr Vater

He want's me to go home. It's most likely because my brother is coming back from destroying a rival coven. To me it isn't something to celebrate, it's a waste of life. My father has a different view then mine of course, he believes that in our world that if we are not strong enough then we should not deserve to live. Its survival of the fittest to him.  I almost didn't respond but I knew there would be consequences if I didn't, my father was not the most forgiving. 

Ja Vater, sobald meine Kurse heute fertig sind, buche ich einen Flug nach Hause.( Yes father, as soon as my courses are finished today, I'll book a flight home.)

-Ihre Tochter

My father wasn't my biological father.He was the one who picked me and who turned me into the creature I am today. A vampire. After the night  I woke up in that morgue he had brought me back to his home in Philadelphia. I wasn't told the exact location and I still wasn't sure where my father's home is, every time I'm called home my father sends his driver and he drops me off at our jet. The only one who is privileged to this information is my brother, Ryker. He is completely loyal to my father and never doubts any of his decisions, he is usual the one sent out with several members of my fathers coven to attack another. He is his right hand man, the only one is privy to any of our covens secrets. The only time I am let in one of those precious secrets is when i'm on an assignment or I'm hacking for the coven.

The day I arrived at the castle, the only way to describe my father's home,  Ryker made it very clear to me that I am only his sister by name but in every way it counts I wasn't related to him. He despises me, and I haven't the slightest clue as to why.  Ryker was my father's biological child, we were the only children that my father has sired, he wasn't very trusting. Everyone in my coven thinks I was so lucky to be picked by him and I must be something special.

I didn't believe that. I didn't even remember my past, I wasn't even sure why father had changed me. What was so special about me?  My father was the only one who called me by my real name, Ryker was never told my real name. Him and the coven call me Vanessa and was convinced of the fake backstory that my father had created for me.  The year that he kept me at home was the longest year of my life, that I remember anyway. 

My thirst wasn't the problem, I never had any problems with self control when it came to blood. I had learn German and learn how to defend my self if I were attacked or if the coven were to be attacked. Yet that wasn't hard either, it was when I had to learn all the rules to being a vampire.That was one of the hardest lessons to learn, because vampires honestly are all very judgey. Most of them have been around for a long time and are stuck in the time period views they were changed or born in. I learned a lot of edict and how to dress and speak from my aunt, my father's sister, Anja. She was very strict with me and still is very time I go home. 

She completely was in charge of my wardrobe, she had my blonde hair dyed to a dark black.She was trying to make me blend in so if outsiders come our little family will not be questioned. I honestly hated it. I preferred my blonde hair. She had me wear sophisticated outfits, most of them skirts and dresses. Something you would wear to business meetings. I'm more comfortable in jeans and a t-shirt and some tennis shoes than heels. So I try to wear whatever I want when I'm not home, when I go home she has free reign.

As the day passed I went to all of my classes and made sure to get the assignments for the next couple days so I don't miss anything while I go home. I expressed that I wanted to go to school to my father and he thought it was a great idea, he had suggested that when he first turned me but wasn't sure if we should go through with it. He didn't want to lose a hacker for the coven, but when I explained I could do my job away from the coven he reluctantly agreed to let me go. He let one thing slip about my old life, that I was a lawyer. Which seemed odd, I didn't think that I would go for something so strict. So I asked if I could go to school to be a teacher. He seemed reluctant, he thought I could be put to better use if I were to go back to school to be a lawyer for the coven. I expressed to him that a teacher could be very useful to the coven as well, there are children always running around and it would be good to have a education put in for the children  so they can go to college in the future to learn things and choose careers that could help the coven in the future.

He seemed to like that idea so he let me pick the school and where I wanted to go and he got me in. He paid for an apartment for me and had gotten me a car,  he checks on me every now and then but for the most part has only contacted me when he needs me to come home.  Ryker only contacts me when he needs information on a coven, the one thing I can provide back to the coven while I am at school is that I'm a very good hacker. I found my talent when my father introduced me to my best friend, Milo. He was our covens hacker but he had to go undercover for a few months, so he taught me the basics and I learned to love it. I kept at it and when he came back me and Milo were in his computer lab almost the entire day , every day. 

When my classes were over I headed back to my car and when I was driving towards my apartment, my father called. I wonder what he wants? He already sent me the text to come home, usually he doesn't contact me or talk to me until I'm home or on the jet.  I sync my phone to the radio in my car and answer the call.

Meine Tochter, wir brauchen Sie zu Hause imeditaly keine Sorge über den Fahrer kommen. Fahren Sie zum Flughafen und ich habe den Jet bereit ( My daughter, we need you home immediately don't worry about the driver coming. Drive to the airport and i'll have the jet ready )

 What is happening? Why is he rushing me to go home? He sounds nervous, he's never nervous.

Aber Vater Ich habe nichts Pack für den Flug nach Hause (But father I don't have anything pack for the flight home)

I know I have clothes at him but I prefer to bring my own things when I go because Anja tends to have control of all my clothing. But I still should have known better than to disobey my father.

Nicht ungehorsam Ihrem Vater! Ich werde alles für dich bereit haben, wenn du nach Hause kehrst (Dont disobey your father! I will have everything ready for you when you return home)

Ja Vater ( Yes father)

So instead of continuing home, I bust out a U-turn and start heading towards the airport. When I reach the airport I head to the back and park in front of the jet, when I get out I recognize several of my father's guards. Why am I being so heavily guarded? What's happening? I greeted them in German, the preferred language of the coven, as I walk by.

I sit down in the jet and look out the window, I hope it isn't something that was going to cause any trouble. When we finally take off I sit back and relax and wait for the captain to tell me that we have arrived.