Forced Bride Of The Vampire Lord

"Still following her orders like her slave, i see?" Shyla mocked her daughter with a gaze full of contempt. "Did she even treat you well? Or are you a pet that is always at her disposal?" The tone only turned venomous as she was thrown inside the cell by the knight.

"Are you letting me suffer because your sister wanted to keep me in prison, Anne? I have better expectations from you but you only turned into another disappointment!" Her cold eyes were boring holes into the silent girl who was clenching her dress tightly in her hands and her head was lowered.

"You came here intentionally!" she whispered when her mother did not keep the silence. "Do you think Hazel did not know that?" Anne's voice was low and timid but her words were clear enough to silence Shyla when a wide grin formed on her face.

"Still she brought me here with arrogance." she chuckled and then looked at the ceiling. "I am sure she is having sex with that vampire now without a care about you and me. She had always been wild." her eyes flickered with darkness oozing out that she controlled.

"Let her go and be with me again! You deserve a better life." her voice softened as she looked at her daughter, "you are my daughter, i will never harm you." She moved closer to the bar of the cell and took her hands out to touch the cheeks of her daughter that did not move from her place.

Anne leaned on to the touch. She still has good memories of her childhood where Shyla and her used to play together, cook together and she even taught her how to cast the spells.

Shyla had been a kind mother and their family has been a loving family. She was happy at that time.

"Bella is your daughter too, mother!" the hands that were soft on her cheeks turned hard as she pinched Anne with force as if trying to punish her for her disrespect words.

"She is just a dark witch I could never give birth to. She had to die for our purification and her powers should be distributed to us!" she shouted. "When will you understand that? Until Bella is there, you will never grow strong. But if she is gone, you will be the strongest witch then.. It is for your future too."

Her voice turned soft again but Anne shook her head with a sigh.

"Why did you not understand your mother? I do not need power but a family that I miss. Where you used to smile looking at me while Bella and I played and shared our dreams." she took a step back with a look of disappointment.

"And I have not abandoned you, you have chosen the wrong path. While i.." she looked back at her mother, "i have always been waiting for you where our family is!" with that she turned to leave.

Shyla stared at her leaving daughter with narrowed eyes but soon her face relaxed and a smirk formed on her lips.

"It is Bella who has snatched you from me. But once she would be gone, you will soon come back to me and apologize for your rudeness.'' She whispered with a look of confidence and sympathy on her face as if she was feeling bad for them and then walked back and sat on the small bed that was placed for her.

She closed her eyes and whistled and soon sang a song with a leisure expression on her face.

Anne walked faster as if she was running away from the clutches of her past. She did not care where she was running to. She just wanted to get away from the voice of her mother that was clawing her heart. A deep sense of hurt and pain blurred her eyes when she ran.

"Ouch! Relax my lady!" came the voice that was full of surprise when she bumped into a man.

Anne raised her head to see a man that did not look like the staff of the palace. She knew everyone working here since she was living here for two decades but the man was not a vampire either, with his ocean blue eyes and a bit tanned skin.

His face looked like a human.

"Um, it is okay!" he said awkwardly when the girl did not apologize but stared back at him as if judging him.

He never knew that the maids had that much courage these days.

"Who are you?" she asked bluntly when he gaped.

"I am the new assistant assigned to the lord by council." he said with a look of embarrassment on his face. "I have come to meet the lord and report to him." Anne nodded silently, wiping her eyes to get rid of the tears.

She was not a weak woman that should be crying when her sister was trying to be the queen. She should learn from her.

"You should wait. The lord is.. Umm busy with his wife." she said as she was sure her mother was right about hazel being wild.

The man did not understand her pretext yet he nodded like a fine gentleman. He knew that his posting was nothing but a test for him since he annoyed his fellow humans in the council.

"Please come this way." Since she had bumped into the man and embarrassed him, she helped him in settling in the meeting room where he could wait.

The man looked around with caution. Though the palace belonged to a human ruler, there were hardly any humans around except a few maids that did not dare to raise their heads when he passed from there.

The knights were all low level vampires and a few of them were stronger one. They looked at him like a predator looking at the prey.

His hands trembled a bit as he held his suitcase tightly and was relieved that the woman was giving him company when he crossed them.

"You have to look back into their eyes with confidence to subdue them."