Be Careful When You Bite Me novel Chapter 32

“Holly,” he greeted when his eyes caught mines,” are you alright?”

I nodded, hoping he doesn’t take another step closer. I could almost feel the tingling on my skin at the nearness of his body. It made me both nervous and slightly lustful.

“I’m alright, how are you?”

“I’m okay, I just wanted to check on you-“

“I’m okay, you don’t have to do that.”

“Yes I do, I’m the reason you’re in this mess in the first place.”

I didn’t know how to reply to that and so I stayed silent.

“You won’t be here much longer, I’m trying to get a hold of an old friend of mines at the Council-“

“Like that’ll work.”

He’s expression flashed with something like confusion,” I know it feels like you’re going to be stuck here for a while but I’m trying to find a way that I can help, there’s another full moon coming in a couple days, if I convince father to preform another ritual-“

I felt the tears sting my eyes as I snapped,” another ritual won’t work Damon! It didn’t work the first time what makes you think the second time will make a difference?”

I immediately felt guilty but I knew this was my way of trying to explain to him when he wonders tonight why I had escaped. Before he had the chance to reply, two guards approached us.

“Sir,” they greeted Damon,” your presence is required at the quarters, as well as hers.”

“What,” I looked at them in confusion,” why? For what?”

I didn’t have time to talk to the King and Queen, especially not when I had to find the tunnel and meet Dimitri in less then an hour.

Their next words send shivers of fear up my spine and I immediately knew that this was it. This was the bad feeling I had gotten in my chest.

“The Council is here, and they want her.”

Chapter 18

The guards bust open the gates to the quarters to relieve the inside where the King and Queen sat on their thrones as usual. The first thing I noticed was that the room had tons of people in it. Side by side stood Isabelle, Seth, Matheos, and Elisabeth. On the other side were six new figures whom I did not recognize and could only assume were the Council.

"Damon, Holly," the King greeted," please come in."

I tried to catch sight of a clock somewhere but couldn't find one. I attempted to push away any nerves and glanced at Damon who had already begun marching towards the thrones. He hesitated no time in demanding," father what is this?"

"Damon," greeted a man from the Council, as I got closer I could tell that his skin had a sudden hint of scales like reptiles and tried not to make a face, "good to see you again."

His pupils were oval and pitch black and I wondered if he was what Asia had called a shapeshifter.

"Under unfortunate circumstances, however," this time it was a girl, she had a high brown ponytail that ended at her mid-back. She had glowing brown skin and eyes that could hypnotize you.

"Vesto, Ameera," Damon greeted,"what's going on?"

A man stepped out of the group and approached Damon. He had a pitch-black mohawk that was bright red at the tips.

"Seth and Isabelle told us all about the foreigner you've been holding hostage," his eyes flicked towards me and back at Damon," I must say, I'm surprised."

Damon's angry gaze directed towards his brother and Isabelle realizing that this was what she had meant when she said she had something planned.

This did not need to happen right now. I knew the time must be about 7:30 pm but this didn't look like it was going to end anytime soon let alone with me walking out of here.