Chapter 1- Watching
Cole
I could see her from the window of my bedroom. Her dark hair cropped short beneath her chin and her hazel eyes shone brightly even on this cloudy day. She was tiny, so small and fragile looking, I almost wanted to stick her inside my coat pocket and protect her from things that were stronger than her. Though of course she was perhaps plenty strong herself, being of the vampire race such as me. She was a bit younger than me; seventeen, an entire ten years my junior, but that didn't matter. I had to have her.
She always walked along the dark forest on the edge of my property. She never knew I watched her, and even once I possessed her she would never know. She was sweet and painfully shy, and I wouldn't want to embarrass my little princess, who was trying to be so discrete. Though I was always curious as to why she chose this route on her way home, it was by far the longest way from the little shop where she worked. Not to mention many people in town were frightened of me because I always remained stoic and private, though I preferred being evaded by them.
Usually though, when I would see her by my home I figured she was avoiding having to go home to her cold, sometimes cruel uncle. One way or another he would pay for the hurt he put her through.
Her uncle was jealous of her parents who died in a tragic fire years ago. He had been brothers with her father and forever was in love with her mother, even after she chose to be with the elder, warmer sibling. When they died he took in his young niece, and treated her less than well, being angry that she was the product of his brother's betrayal, and the woman he could never have. Despite my hatred for him I would have to play it carefully, in order to marry her I would need to get his permission, or the Elders would never approve of us together. All in good time. I told myself.
She captured my attention again. She sat by the small creek, her hands twisted in the grass and her feet pressed into the cool water, the edge of her long, pale green dress becoming damp in the process. I want her now. I sighed in exasperation. Patience, patience, she will be all yours soon. Her head tilted back, exposing her sweet neck, she breathed in the cool air, her breasts rising to the sky. I held the frame of the window to hold myself back from snatching her up and locking her in a room with me forever.
She got up to leave, picking up her small bag and slinging it over your shoulder. No, don't go, you just got here. She could not hear my thoughts however, and headed back into the forest to her home. Her home for now, think my love, as soon as you become my bride my home will be your home, wouldn't that be lovely?
I headed to my study to plot out how this would all pan out. I had waited patiently for this moment for three years, ever since she came to live with her uncle. She was so sad then, clinging on to a small black kitten that was her only comfort of her old life. I wanted to comfort her, to tell her things would be alright, but she was so timid that the second she had seen me see her she hid herself away.
Slowly she became more receptive to the town, but even to this day she remained a loner, much like me.
I decided to wait no longer. In the vampire world she was of age and I was going to speak to her uncle first thing tomorrow about marrying his niece.
My beloved. My Selene. You belong to me.