Escaping the Hunters

Present

I woke up to kisses on my neck, a scrape of a fang and I squirmed only to hear a groan before letting the rest of my body become aware of what else was happening in the bed.

Zander had his hands on my hip, and the other in my hair, when he nipped my skin my eyes flew open. "You're okay." He said and I felt him turning me. "I wanna taste you." He growled at me and I met his eyes before he leaned in and gave my lips a peck before his mouth moved to my neck.

"Ahh." I screamed when his fangs scraped my n****e and kept going down. I moved my legs apart when he kissed over my belly button. I felt his hands spreading my lower lips apart he groaned against my clit and I bucked my hips in surprise.

"Keep still." He demanded before his hands went to my hips and held me down.

I whimpered as he went back to licking and sucking. When he used his fingers and curled them just inside I orgasmed long and hard and when he was back in my face I grabbed his head and pulled him to me.

"You are mine Vivian." He pulled back and his red eyes met mine and I couldn't help but nod at his claim. "Say it for me." He demanded.

"I'm yours Zander." I told him and he lifted his lips up in a snarl before I leaned in to him and licked over one fang before I felt my own descend. "All yours." I whispered and his lips moved down to my jaw, moving me face away I let him lick over my neck. "Zander..." I felt myself realize what he was doing, he was trying to create a bond.

"What?" He asked pulling away and I shook my head and felt the tears start to rise into my eyes. He had a wife. He had a bondmate before me, I can't just be the second one. I gulped hard and he looked so confused as he sat up. "Vivi, look at me and tell me what just happened." He demanded, cupping my face.

"You've already bonded someone else." I said and felt everything wash over me at once. I grabbed the sheet from the bed and pulled away. I used my speed to get things and got out of the room.

I took deep breaths and felt the tears that had been welling up streak down my face and I tried to wipe them away before I found anyone. I got to the other side of the building and went to a dark corner before tugging my clothes on.

I pulled my boots on and before I could find my way out an alarm sounded above me, making my ears burn just a bit. I crouched down and stayed where I was. I curled into a ball and tried to stop crying but for some reason I felt dirty, and used, and tricked into finally giving myself to someone who wasn't worthy. Someone who could never be mine.

I sat there, crying for almost an hour before I heard someone cooing over me and I looked up to see a man I didn't know, he looked scared, his hand outstretched and I gulped and shook my head. He called through a walkie talkie saying he found me in a section and I was curled up.

I heard feet moving, lots of them, and then I felt other vampires closing in and I looked to the man who had been on the walkie talkie and he just asked me to stay where I was.

"Ma'am, we just have orders to keep you contained, you tried to run, and we can't let you do that. I am so sorry." He told me when he realized that I was going to run.

As soon as the alarm switched off and I could feel the men closing in, I took off. I tried to find my way out. I hit the tunnels I had come through, getting a bit lost before finding my way out, and out of a different club than what I had first seen.

It was closed, the doors locked from the outside. But I made my way upstairs, I found a door leading out and I weaved in and out of people walking towards me, not knowing where I was going, where I could go, nothing.

And then I felt it. I was being watched. I stopped on a corner, and I looked all around. Trying to see someone who could see me, but I didn't. But I heard whispers.

I focused on each direction, trying to find out which way they were coming from, and then I took off after the haunting voices. I got to one area of just homes and listened harder before hearing Paul's laugh.

I looked around again, trying to track down the sounds, but before I could take another step I felt an arm come around my waist. Someone came towards me, placed something upon my forehead that burned and I sank to my knees.

I screamed out, willing someone to help me, but before I could look around there was a blood splatter over my eyes and I winced and fell to the ground.

I heard my name being called. I heard it all, but I just kept falling into the darkness.

"Where were you!" I looked around the dark room, I hear Paul, shouting at me. "I was killed Viv! Where were you? Drawing?" I screamed as he came close to what I could now tell were bars and he was pissed. His eyes were red, his fangs out and ready to kill and I shrieked back and tried to stay away.

"Paul... what happened?" I asked after he seemed to calm down and even reached out to touch his face but he started to shake my cage. Making me fall onto the back as he started to try to pry the bars open. "Paul!" I cried and reached for him again.

"You're the one who left me to run everything! You couldn't even find a friend to be happy with. Always had to be with me! Always had to be the pesky little sister who was the recluse and only came out when I told you! What do you do now that I am dead? Do what you always have? Draw?" He asked me and I gulped and shook my head.

"Paul please, what is happening?" I asked and touched the cage, but when I did, it expanded, and he was inside this time. He grabbed my shoulders, his claws bititng into my shoulders and I winced and cried out.

"You left me to run things! You left me as a sitting duck! You think the hunters would have never have known the same man ran the same company for eons? That I hadn't been the same year after year for almost a century? You never stepped up!" He raised his hand, as if to slap me and then he started to laugh at my wince.

"Why are you doing this to me?" I asked on a sob and he grabbed me around my neck.

"It's what you deserve. Letting me die. Letting that man defile you! Letting a bonded man have his way with you like you were nothing more than a w***e. If dad were here he would beat you." He sneered in my face and I put my hands around his wrist and held on.

"Paul, this isn't you. It can't be." I whispered and tried to move his hand away from me but he just tightened his hold.

"This is very much me little sister, and I can't wait until you're back with me." He tightened his hand even more, and I felt my brain going fuzzy and I looked around before seeing more lights. But it had been dark before. When I stopped breathing I heard him laugh again. This time I wanted to run from it, not to it.

I gasped as I woke up. I pushed my body up and I looked around the dark room. There was one candle lit, making the shadow dance, but then it started to transform. I heard Paul laugh again as the figure took on the shape of his profile and I gasped hard and backed into the pillows on the bed before screaming as the shadow came off the wall, coming towards the bed, but before it could even touch the white metal, Zander kicked in the door.

His face, so much like Paul's when I first saw him again. Eyes glowing red, teeth bared, angry as he could possibly ever be, and I pulled my legs up, shaking my head. I didn't want another nightmare.

"Don't please." I shook my head and covered my face.

"Vivi, look at me. What happened?" He asked me and I felt the bed dip and I jerked my leg away when he touched it.

"Wake up." I told myself and forced my palms into my eyes, putting enough pressure that it would hurt. Something like pinching myself.

"Vivi, you are awake, look at me." I heard Zander whisper and before I could get away from him, he had me in his arms, holding on tight.

"Don't hurt me." I whispered and he snarled and I flinched. "I'm sorry." I cried out and let my hand inch up to my neck and I covered it.

"Vivi... love, you're awake. It's me... I'm not gunna hurt you. Why would you think that?" Zander asked me and I gulped hard. "Why did you run from me?"

"You have a bondmate Zander. Your wife might be an ex but that doesn't mean-"

"Me and my ex never created a bond." He interrupted me and I paused and he held me tight to his chest when I tried to pull away. "No, you're going to tell me why you ran, and then what that witch did to you?"

"She made me burn." I whispered after a moment and he made a sound telling me to go on. "But then I was asleep, in a cage... and Paul was angry, he slapped me... called me names. He started to choke me and then I woke up here." I said and rubbed over my cheek like I could still feel it.

"Did he ever hit you?" He growled the question out and I turned to look at him.

"No. Never. My father was the only one who ever hit me." I told him and he leaned into my neck and moved his mouth up so he could kiss my cheek.

"Why were you scared of me when I came in?" He asked me, sounding almost worried over the potential answer.

"Paul was as angry as you had been when you kicked in the door. I thought I was still asleep and it was basically your turn." I told him honestly and he tightened his hold a bit more.

"But you know that I would never hurt you Viv." He told me and I leaned into him some.

"I get that feeling." I whispered to him before he was pushing me, making me turn into his chest.

"You're mine Viv. And I will find you if you try and run from me again. I don't want you going anywhere." He told me and ran a hand from my neck to my back and I leaned more into him.

"I overreacted." I told him and he kissed my temple before he laid back with me. "I should have asked about all of the important stuff before we ever even went on a date." I told him and he looked down at me, into my eyes and leaned his forehead on mine before I saw his eyes turning slightly red.

"Yes you did but I should have told you." He said and I gulped hard. "But now you know. Now I have to ask... if I kiss you, and do other things... are you going to run away? Because your present is ready and I'd really rather give it to you before you run." He said and I gave him a small smile before shaking my head.

"You didn't need to get me any present." I told him but he shook his head and leaned back in to give me a kiss.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and he moved his hands down to my legs, making me spread them and straddle him.

"Here you go." He had opened the drawer while I was distracted by his lips and held out a pretty little light green purse.

"Thanks, but why a purse?" I asked taking it and just holding it in my hands.

"Open it." He urges and I just nodded and focused on it. 

I opened the flap and saw there was a matching wallet and I nodded at it. "Comes with a matching wallet." I said and he gave me a look before telling me to open that as well.

I pulled that open, letting the flap fall out and I saw the real cards inside the slots. "I got ahold of your accounts Vivian Dunnage. And I got ahold of my people and got all your accounts secured and now... you get the real choice. If you want to go out on your own... you can without having to worry about your funds. But you could also stay with me. Come to Texas with me, let me take care of you and take care of these hunters."  He begged and I grabbed his chin, making his lips meld with mine.

"I'm sticking with you." I told him breaking away for a moment to let him know what I wanted.

"Then you'll be mine forever."