Be Careful When You Bite Me novel Chapter 28

“You sleep a lot,” Xavier said, munching on a piece of bread.

I thought that vampires don’t eat?

“Leave her alone, she had a long day,” Asia chimed in, sliding a plate with eggs, bacon and fruit my way,” eat up.”

“Good morning,” I replied tiredly, munching on a piece of bacon,” thank you for washing my clothes and breakfast.”

Asia’s smile lit up the entire room almost as much as the sun did,” my pleasure, I’m going to miss you when you’re gone.”

I nodded, suddenly losing my appetite,” I’ll miss you too.”

The drive back to the castle was silent. The tension made the air thick and I could tell it came from Damon’s confusion towards how I acted last night. I couldn’t keep up the act, I didn’t know how to, and so I remained silent for the entire ride.

When the car finally reached the main gates of the castle, my eyes flashed with pictures of the hard cold pavement walls of the cell Damon had put me in. I swallowed back my fear and reminded myself of the plan.

I turned towards Damon as the car stopped in front of the back entrance,” thank you for bringing me back.”

He examined my face for a couple of seconds with a thoughtful look on his face,” Asia says you’re welcome to go back whenever you please.”

I smiled,” thank her for me.”

I stepped out of the car and into the castle, memories flooding me like a waves of misery. I didn’t wait for Damon, instead I marched up, back to the room I thought I wouldn’t have to see again.

I jumped into the covers and sobbed uncontrollably for a couple of hours until I head my door open.

I sat up abruptly and demanded,” who is it?”

To my surprise, in walked in Isabelle and Seth.

“Look who’s back,” she greeted, the expression on her face clearly amused,” I didn’t think I’d get to see you again.”

I almost wanted to groan out loud at this point. I was sick and tired of people like Seth and Isabelle making my life here worse then it already was.

“I guess you couldn’t find someone to help you out after all,” Seth chimed in.

“What do you want,” I demanded, my voice steadier than I had predicted.

Isabelle came face to face with me, her finger nail dragging down my neck,” I know you told him.”

I felt myself swallow and realized she was talking about telling Damon.

I stayed silent.

“I know I said I’d drain you and feed you to the wolves, but I’ve got a much worse fate planned out for you.”

“Are you going to have Matheos and Elisabeth drain me instead?”

Hatred slithered through her cold gaze as she muttered through gritted teeth,” you wish.” She pushed back on my neck hard enough to send me falling back against the mattress. I heard the door shut as they existed.

I felt the hot tears begin to stream down my face and wondered if that had meant that Damon believed me. I crawled under the mattered and went over ways that I would be able to get out of here before Isabelle could hurt me. I fell asleep and the last image on my mind was Isabelle’s cold and evil stare.

I woke up screaming and grabbed my throat to make sure I wasn’t bleeding. I looked down at my arms and fingers to see nothing but pale and clear skin. I fumbled with the covered to expose my body but there was no blood. The door flung open and in marched in Damon.

“What’s wrong?” His voice was abrupt and worried,” you were screaming are you alright?”

I tried to calm down my breathing in order to utter out some words but it took a couple of seconds,” I-I had a nightmare.”

He sat on the bed besides me and stoked my hair back,” that’s okay, you’re alright.”

I nodded, still breathing hard. My neck still felt sore from the dream I had. I brought my fingers up again to massage it.

“What was the dream about?” Damon asked, his voice soft. He still stoked my hair back.

“Someone was trying to kill me, I couldn’t tell who, I think it was Elizabeth and Matheos.”

Damon brought the sheets up to cover my legs,” they won’t hurt you Holly, the outside of the castle is guarded, no one can come in without my permission.”

I nodded and thought if I should tell him that it wasn’t who was outside the castle that scared me as much as who was inside of it.

Damon stood up,” I’m going down to the village tomorrow, you should get some sleep.”

“Wait,” I stopped him,” why are you going to the village?”

“I have to run some errands-“

“Can I come? Please?”

“Why?”