Be Careful When You Bite Me novel Chapter 13

Shit.

I remembered the boulder that I had scraped my knee on. If I could somehow pick it up and break the fence open with it, I could lead him upstairs and figure the rest out before the sunsets.

"Wait," I said out loud and began to trace my steps," I'm coming back, j-just wait!"

I struggled to operate my limbs properly and the task to both run and breath at the same time became suddenly impossible.

I ran back the way that I came but couldn't locate the rock. I kicked my legs into areas that had no light hoping my skin would make contact with it but it didn't. I turned the corner into a lightly dim hallway that I must have missed before and wondered where it led to. I decided to take my chances and ran down the new corridor, hoping that if there was at least one boulder that there might be another.

The further down the hall I ran the more I heard noises and seconds later distinguished them as voices.

Two voices, arguing about something. I felt the blood in my system freeze cold and came to a halt when I recognized one voice as Isabelle's.

"You stupid idiot!" she snapped, her voice low and angry," I told you to go with them! You shouldn't have let him go alone, you should have been there to kill that villager and show the King that only you could finish the job."

I took a few steps forward and hid my body behind the curve of the hall. I could see her long black hair somehow still glowed even in the dark and her snow-white legs went on for days. She wore a black mini skirt with a matching crop top that showed off her slender perfectly shaped torso.

"Do you really think it matters?" A male voice snapped back," Father would never let him be king now, not after I told him about how he rescued the jester."

"He's going to make him kill the jester," she snapped back," but he's not going to take away the throne."

"I will find a way to make him, just like I did with Xavier," I finally recognized the voice as Seth's.

"Xavier mated with a witch, he was de-crowned by default," Isabelle let out an angry sigh," Damon has potential. Sparing the life of a human inst going to get him thrown off as King."

"You have to get closer to him, find a weakness that I can use."

"I cannot keep playing as his sad forbidden love anymore Seth!" Isabelle sounded like she's on the verge of tears," but I need to be Queen."

"I turn 18 soon, by law I am allowed to challenge him-"

"And you will lose," she interrupted, " Damon is two years older than you, that means two years stronger, you have to give your father a reason to hate him, to see that he is unworthy, to see that only you-"

I felt my leg hit against something hard and recognized it as the boulder I had been looking for. I winced in pain and froze in fear when I realized that my blood had started to drip and that Seth and Isabelle had stopped talking.

I tried to calm down my beating heart and blend with the walls but I knew that it would be impossible now.

"Shhh," I heard Isabelle hiss," who's there?"

"One of the villagers might have escaped," said Seth," I can smell it."

"No, I recognize this blood," said Isabelle," I had this blood."

They were about to turn the corner to come face to face with me but I didn't wait. I let my legs do the panicking for me and ran as fast as I can back down the halls. I came to face two different sides of the halls and knew one led back up the stairs and the other led to the dungeon. I couldn't remember which was which so I prayed to everything and anything out there before I made a sharp left, running as fast as my legs could take me. I felt hot tears sting my eyes as my legs came to a halt, face to face with the metal fence. My heart thudded as if to break out of my chest and I couldn't help but wonder what they would do to me.

The villager man stood still behind the cell as if waiting for me.

"They found you...didn't they."

I couldn't respond, my speech was imprisoned by my panic. I heard a whooshing sound like a harsh wind and didn't have to turn around to know that they were behind me.

Chapter 6

"I'm going to drain you, human," Isabelle hissed, her eyes shining like lanterns. I wasn't aware of myself backing up until my back hit the hard concrete wall behind me.

My lips quivered and my brain raced in search of words to say but I was simply speechless.

My heart thudded quick enough to jump out of my chest and I suddenly felt like a mouse stuck in a trap.