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Chapter 3-Blind

Anxiously, I paced outside my father's office. Something did sit right with what Angela had said.

Why would they kill an entire family because they refused to volunteer? No, something wasn't right. But what?

Her face looked serious as she murmured the words… she looked like she was about to cry.

At least she was with Bella.

The way she ran to the child, her hands caressing her hair. I regretted my decision to make Rosalie her mother. Angela would have been a better choice.

The door creaked open as the guard came out.

"You can go in now." Saluting across his chest, he bowed as we crossed paths.

The warmth of the room rushed out the door. The crackling fire brightened up the room. My father was standing near his prized bookshelf.

"Edward! I didn't expect to see you, where is your mate?" He put the book he was holding back on the shelf before he enveloped me in a rare hug.

"She's asleep. Father-"

"I do hope she is alright?" My father's eyes were deep with concern.

"She is fine, she's with the other human right now-" I continued. But my father spoke again.

"I don't see why you saved the human. You don't have a connection with her." He walked to a blood-filled champagne bottle. He poured a glass of blood for me and handed it to me before he poured one for himself. I stared at the glass, reluctantly, I placed the rim of the glass to my lips. The liquid squelched down my throat, the slimy goo clinging to its wall.

"No I don't; but my mate does though." My father walked behind his oak paper- covered desk and sat down in his leather armchair. I remained standing, letting the pain consume my body.

"Just because that human protected your mate doesn't mean you have to save her." He started to shuffle through the papers. He reached for his ink pot.

"Look, my mate would be distressed waking up and finding herself in an unfamiliar place, like I did."

"Son, what about if they find out. We broke the rule-well you did." He glanced at me before signing a piece of paper.

"They will not find out that I kept her alive. They will assume that I took her somewhere privately to drain her. You know yourself, Father, that they don't care about the humans as soon as they leave the sanctuaries. They don't care about the humans as long as they get their pay, they never knew about me until you turned me." I growled.

"Edward, you were a child. This is an adult!"

"An adult, who my mate needs. I couldn't let her die. My mate would hate me!" He sighed in defeat.

"This is the last adult one, understand?" He scolded me, waving his quill.

"You know, I wish you could see how cold hearted you have become…" My father brushed off my words as I said them. He always did.

"Well son why are you here then? You wouldn't leave your mate if it was not important." He continued to write.

"I have come for a reason." He gestured for me to continue. His eyes never left the paper he was reading." I have obtained some unusual information… the Luciraces have been breaking the law…they've been forcing humans to volunteer…"

He didn't even flinch at the sound of the news I gave him. His eyes focused on the paper in front of him. "And why would they do that son? They signed the treaty saying they wouldn't harm them…" He frowned before writing on the document.

"Well maybe… they are planning on turning the humans against us," I pleaded.

"Edward, where did you get this idea from?" He scribbled quickly at the bottom of the document.

I sighed. "It's just unusual, that's all. And why else would they do it apart from trying to destroy the humans altogether?"

"Why would they want the humans to hate us?" He frowned before scribbling on the paper. His words echoed in my head. Why would they want the humans to hate us? The Luciraces had enough power as it was. If the humans turned against us, it could end in a revolt against the royal family, which would give the Luciraces a chance to overthrow us. They had attempted to do it before and they used the same technique.

"Because they are planning to overthrow us…." I whispered the words into the hostile air. My father continued to shuffle through his paper.

"Tell me how the Luciraces forcing human volunteering they are trying to overthrow us?" His voice was bland as he shuffled through the paper.

"Why else would they do it Father! Remember the last time-"

"They would not betray their own kind!" Father snarled, his quill scribbling away.

"A human can volunteer if they want to!" You're wasting my time Edward. He snarled in his thoughts.

"Why would a human volunteer to die, Father?" I growled.

My father's eyebrows creased upon this information. "Yes, why would they do that?"

"I don't know why they would but the human says that she did to be with my mate."

"Son, you can't trust humans." He sneered the last word.

"We can't trust vampires either. The humans are innocent in all of this and you know it!" His chair thumped against the wall as Father jumped to his feet, his fist connecting to the desk in anger.

"No they are not! They are the reason the Luciraces control us. They are monsters and cannot be trusted!" He seethed, his eyes wild as he stared at me.

"If you didn't trust humans, you would never have saved me. Or do you regret that?" I snarled at him, venom dripped from my teeth. His eyes lifted off the paper he was looking at to stare into mine.

My father reached out to comfort me. "Edward, I never meant it like that. You know I meant-"

I moved out of his grasp. "You know what, leave it. I thought you would be happy to have a reason to get them out of the way but clearly I was wrong." I turned to walk out.

"Edward, wait!" I turned to look at him. "Tell me why forcing humans to volunteer means they are planning to overthrow us?" His eyes pleaded with me. My face was cold as I sneered at him.

"Remember the last time they did it, the humans had begun to rebel, demanding we resign the throne… the Luciraces are trying to start another rebelling. They've been lying to them. The humans believe we're the ones who have created the law."

Father shook his head. "But they wouldn't break the treaty like that!"

"Well, they already broke the law…"

"What?"

"They haven't been educating them. They've caused humans to view us as evil creatures, who are heartless and can't even love. The human, who came with my mate, didn't even know what the word meant. All they know about the vampire world is that we force them to be offerings so we can drain them."

"They would not disobey me!"

I let out a humourless laugh out "Father, you know that's a lie. They don't even listen to us anymore for we can't technically boss them around as long as it is inside the stupid sanctuaries."

"No son, they would never break a law, knowing they could be punished for-"

"Father, can't you see? They have all the power over humans and they know you can't do anything about it because it is in the sanctuaries" He scoffed. "And because we never visit, they probably been lying to us for a very long time. Father, humans have been forced to volunteer for years." I snapped at him.

He stared at me. "Why didn't they refuse too?"

"From my knowledge, they kill an entire family" My father face echoed mine when I found out the news.

"They what?!" He yelled his fist slammed against the table, a crack started to form. "They had promised me that they would inform me of everything they do, the laws they create and how they punish the humans for breaking the laws." He growled. "They can do what they want with them humans but it is seriously cruel that they will kill a lot of them just because someone broke their rules. If what you say is true, you might be correct about them starting a rebellion. Has the human shown you anything?"

"I thought you said humans can't be trusted…"

"They can't but still tell me what she saw!" After a few minutes of silence I decide to answer to my ignorant father. It didn't matter what I said but I might as well tell him.

"From her thoughts they are kept in terrible conditions. She showed me the cells they kept them in… the humans had to fight for the food. Father, I know we may not like them but do they deserve to have to fight to death for a strap of food?" My father stared at me. "Father, my eyes have been opened. Not only because I found my mate but because I found a glance into the truth behind them four walls. You didn't see the way they scramble to the food, I saw a man crush a child to grab a piece of potato peel, no bigger than a babie's toe nail. I watched a vampire kill a child and the rest of her family as punishment for not volunteering in front of everyone! Father we have to do something!" I cried. "Imagine if that was us! You would hate the people that put you there. Wouldn't you? After all it is technically our fault for what has happened since our family put them there…

He came around and stared at a picture of my great-great-great-great-great grandfather.

Their golden eyes gazed into each other's. "He would be a shamed at how this world has become… he would regret allowing the Luciraces come into power, even if it meant the fall of our family… He only agreed for the safety of the humans. Now look what has happened! We have become true monsters, hating their guts for nothing but to give us a reason to kill them. Oh, yes he would be a shamed how his sons turned out, how they helped mould this world into tragedy." False sadness was laced in his voice. Of course he didn't care about the humans, he was just like the rest of the vampires that I lived with: cold-hearted and selfish.

"Father, we know that is a lie. He did everything only for this family. He never cared for humans and neither do you. I don't even know why I came to you. I should have known you would only care about your hold on the throne and over your people. They are your people no matter what you say! They are your responsibility. You are letting that man's mistake destroy their lives. You are letting the Luciraces control us out of fear! A true king would have done something about this a long time ago!"

"Edward, I want to help them, but are they worth it? They cause more trouble than they are worth, they just need to be brushed under the carpet and left alone like they leave us alone!"

"And what about us? What about vampires? We are harder to satisfy then humans…"

"Well, tell me, what I should do?" His eyes pleaded further with me. Shaking my head, I backed into the doorway.

"Why do you care? They are just dirt after all! A true king would figure this out by himself." Turning on my heel, I walked out the room towards my angel.

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