Chapter 1

Summer

My eyes and nose stung and every muscle in my body was in pain. It was blinding me and all I could see was darkness.

I suddenly realized after a few moments that this meant I wasn't dead. Yet.

I tried to reorganize my thoughts. So, I'm laying on the ground of some sort. It feels stiff and keeps bumping up and down. I can feel all my limbs, but I cant move anything. Great.

I'm almost dead and I cant even do anything about it.

It felt like hours laying there with no relief coming, but finally I could at least open my eyes.

What I saw around me was not pleasing.

I was in a wooden box of some sort with curtains on the two sides, blocking exits so I couldn't see out past the box. The wood was very unstable, as it was, it turns out, bumping up and down.

I looked beside me to see Casey passed out on the floor as well.

Casey!Even through my pain I could suddenly scramble over to him.

His head lolled to the side and he looked like a toy someone had just tossed him there on the floor carelessly.

"Casey? Casey?" I shook at his shoulders.

He remained immobile.

"Please, Casey wake up!" I checked his pulse. I could feel a faint, yet steady, heartbeat.

I sighed and leaned back against the wooden seat on the side of the box.

"I don't think it's time to be relieved yet," said a smooth man's voice from the dark corner.

I jumped at the sound of the voice. Then when I realized that me and Casey were not alone in the box I started to scream.

The man stepped out of the shadows.

He had shaggy blond hair and a beautiful face. He looked about my age and was very well built.

"W-where are w-we?" I stuttered, a very unusual thing for me to do.

"In a carriage," he said gesturing to the box- carriage.

"Wait, why am I in a carriage? The last thing I remember was being in a car and-" I stopped, my memory flooding back to me.

"Yes, I'm sorry about having to do that," he said apologetically.

"YOU did that?" I yelled.

"A bit theatrical, I must say, with the whole wave thing." He chuckled.

"We almost died!"

"But you didn't," he said, winking.

The topic "we" made me think.

"Wait, what about Casey? What's wrong with him?" I said, mad at myself for forgeting about my past out boyfriend laying next to me.

"Oh, he's fine. He just doesn't recover as fast as you do apparently," he said, narrowing his eyes.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Lucas Sadan, and you two are my newest slaves."

"WHAT? You think we're slaves? You're crazy! Just let us out of this place and go home!" I stood up suddenly.

"I'm afraid you can't do that," Lucas said sadly.

"And why the hell not?" I yelled.

"Because you are very far from home."

I went at him then planning to kick him, or punch him, or do something to create harm for the crazy man, but he stopped me with the grip of one hand.

"Let GO of me-" I said thrashing around.

"I really didn't want to have to do this, but-" He grabbed my head and wrenched it to the side.

I screamed again in fear he was going to snap my neck.

Instead he leaned close. I could feel his lips graze my neck and I screamed even louder.

Then he bit down on my neck and the world turned black.

Finally after what seemed like forever, the world came back to me. I opened my eyes groggily.

I tried to sit up, but winced in pain for trying. I felt so stiff laying. There was a sharp pain in my neck. I instinctively put my hand to it and my hand came away bloody. I started panicing.

He bit me. Lucas.

I shot up off the floor, looking around the carriage frantically.

Where is he? What is he?

"I'm a vampire," Lucas said steping into the carriage area again.