Chapter 20
So I didn’t dwell on how much hair was falling out of my head, it’ll grow back anyway.
I checked the time, and it was still 4PM, so I bathed, dressed up, and lay back down, dozing off afterward.
When the Mistress opened the door as dramatically as she used to, I woke up immediately, jumping to my feet.
“You’re ready. Good,” she commented and began walking away, leaving me to run after her.
Thankfully, for the first time in a while, I didn’t feel pain anywhere else but my throat.
I was so scared of touching it to avoid ruining it further, but I knew it wasn’t healing properly because the bones weren’t set well, so each time my body knitted the flesh back, the bones ruptured, and the whole process began again.
I don’t know who asked that guard to do what he did so I didn’t know if I could ask to see a doctor to help me set it right.
But how would silencing me do anything for anybody? It’s not like I could take them to court for locking me up in the dungeon. Whatever happened to their Princes was not my fault, and they decided to punish me for it; this whole speech impediment was a step too far.
But I feared I might piss somebody off if I asked for help. I was a servant, after all, one obtained by a common debt.
If only I knew who my father was and he was alive, I would have been able to leave that toxic mateship and find a better life outside of Julian.
But with no one to protect and defend me, he and the Alpha bullied me into staying put, foiling all my attempts at running away.
Now I was stuck in this place, unable to even say a word without feeling intense pain.
I had to stop the direction my thoughts were taking me so I could keep up with the Mistress.
Also, I was close to tears and I didn’t want to break down in the middle of the staircase. She didn’t look like she’d console me. In fact, the closer we got to the last floor which was the Royal wing, the faster she walked, her form becoming more rigid.
Sometimes I wonder how she got to this position. Managing all the blood servants and house servants, making sure every part of the palace ran smoothly without a hitch. She gives commands to guards and enforcers without having to raise her voice and they listen immediately.
Idoubt she’s related to the King because her features were completely different from theirs.
When I was younger, I learned that the Princes were a miraculous occurrence. The King actually fell in love with a human, something really unheard of, and she got pregnant. Another impossible scenario.
But no one knows what happened to their mother or why she wasn’t changed and crowned queen.
The king had turned back to stone around the time of her disappearance, too, so I knew she didn’t get here by getting him to feel anything for her.
I had to stop thinking about the vampire whose work ethic I might admire, but it was one of the reasons I couldn’t leave here as we got to the last floor.
She turned left instead of the right side where their suites were in and after three doors, she knocked on the fourth.
“Come in,” I heard that familiar voice and had to compose myself as it affected me once more.
‘He’s the enemy Vi, don’t forget that even if he stopped that enforcer from fucking with you,’ I reminded myself mentally as the door opened by itself.
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Chosen by the Vampire Twins
