Chapter 1
I was sitting with my young mistress in the dining hall as we were calmly discussing happily together about many things as I ate and she drank her dinner.
Zdravstvuyte(s-ter-ras-voo-tea-ā), which where I'm from means hello, my name is Clawdia Hearts. I am the superior Alpha Wolf Shifter of all wolves in the mortal human world and also the first female to take the name. I am part of and the second in lead command in the Shifter Council. To get it straight, I change or shift between human looking form and my wolf form and I am not a disgusting werewolf. My wolf is separate from me, but we generally share ideas. She protects me and I keep her out of trouble and well fed.
My young mistress here is my master, she is a vampire princess and is a part of the Vampire Council. Her name is Victoria Song and I love her and wish for her to become my mate, if my pack will let me, but that cannot be let out to the vampire world as we are a forbidden couple for our councils have a sort of 'venom' for each other. I fell in love with the worst possible person I could. My Victoria is to be married to Lord Ethan, "the most perfect vampire in the council oh, how wonderful he is!" UH! I completely and utterly loathe him. He is a total dickhead to my dear Victoria and does NOT know how to treat a woman, especially his fiancé. Anyways, she is sugary sweet with a pinch of salt in her. Although she sometimes gets drunk off blood when she has had too much and those turn into my favorite nights together... if you know what I mean.
She is the reason that I agreed to the terms of the treaty. Oh! Right, I didn't tell you of the treaty. The reason why I call Victoria my mistress and master is because a few centuries ago the two councils, the vampires and shifters, signed a treaty to end the Hundred Century War. In this treaty the vampires were to leave the human world and create a new one for their kind, but they had to sustain themselves in some way, so each clan was allowed to take a few of a single species to keep, breed, and exchange with other clans for sustenance. Although, the vampires were not satisfied with just this, they didn't see it fair, so in addition to the animals, each vampire council member would have a single shifter council member as their personal pet, Butler, or servant however was seen fit. Luckily there were just enough members on each council that there was no extra need for two vampires to share a single shifter, because that wouldn't end well.
Now the vampire's high councilman got to speaking with the shifter high councilman, and decided that the treaty was slightly heavier on the vampire's side, so he added in that each clan that the shifter pet belongs to are never allowed to hunt and kill that shifter's creature ever again. And whosoever were to break this would be handed over to the shifters to dispose of or do what they pleased and saw fit for punishment.
Now I was one of the few lucky ones that was allowed to choose who I wished to be the pet of, as being the high councilman's right hand woman, he knew I could never lie to him. I immediately chose to go with Ms. Song. For before I knew that she was a vampire and before she knew that I was a wolf shifter, we were the best of friends. As soon as we found out about each others secret, we created a secret code and began writing letters to each other and sent them by a very special person who was the only other one who knew of this, a dear friend of ours that happened to be a poltergeist so she was able to pass between worlds without question. Her name was Lydia. We, Ms. Song and I, had known Lydia for a while now, although I wouldn't call it the best way to meet someone. You see the night that Victoria and I first found out about each other, we met Lydia under the worst possible circumstances.