Ah. I knew where this is going.
Images from my past came flashing through my inner eye
and my mind became cloudy and very, very heavy.
I don't remember exactly what happened afterwards.
I silently did and let him do as he said while I clung to the image of Sebastian.
He just had to come pick me up. Right?
A knock on the door blew away the fog resting on my mind and cleared my sight.
As the door opened a wave of cold air hit my seemingly exposed skin.
I looked down on myself, noticing I was stripped and as vulnerable as back then.
My eyes wandered towards Samuel and I saw how he was buttoning his shirt,
fastening the steamy black belt around his waist.
He picked up a handkerchief and dyed it red when gently swiping it across his hands.
Red.
I lowered my gaze and saw the many red and swollen strips on my skin.
As I carefully tried to touch them I hissed,
quickly retracting my finger due to the burning sensation spreading across my skin.
„Oh John!", I heard Samuel exclaim while flashing his teeth.
„Could you take her back to her room?", he asked the long-haired butler whose name turned out to be John.
„Of course, my Lord.", he bowed and then shifted his gaze towards me,
wearing a similar fake and sinister smile like Sebastian.
I got up from my chair, still stripped of my clothes when John approached me,
picking up my clothes and then shoving me through the hallway
back to my room where he threw the fabrics on the floor.
He opened a door in my room and pulled me into a washroom which contained a large bathtub.
I yet couldn't make out what he was thinking, just like when I first met Sebastian.
The noise of water echoed through the room and hot steam wrapped around my skin.
John's hand was on my back now, signalizing me to get into the bathtub.
The water was somewhat relaxing and eased my wound.
He was now washing my torn skin and opened his mouth:
„Lord has told you about his plans, didn't he?", he said in a completely different tone from when he was around Samuel.
„Yes, he did. I am going to be a vesser for a power which he otherwise wouldn't be able to control, he said.",
I replied, my voice sounding uncomfortably raspy.
„Correct. The preperation for that are starting tonight.", he said as he washed my back.
My heart froze. I wished dearly for Sebastian to find me before that happens.
After I was dried with a soft towel I stood in the middle of the room,
wondering why he was unable to find me until now.
He had marked me, didn't he? I touched the mark on my neck, softly and slowly tracing the lines.
The image of his glowing eyes were etched deeply into my memory.
Yet again I felt the eyes of John on me.
He approached my back and touched my neck with his bare hands.
„Oh, we definitely can't keep this, kitten, it would only interfere later on.", he said,
applying pressure along the lines with his finger before suddenly pushing me to my knees.
I thumped on the ground, his thumb pressed to my neck now, firmly pushing onto the middle of the mark.
My breath was immediately sucked in, white and blue spots dancing in the corners of my eye.
„What are you-", I began when the skin on my neck began to crackle audibly,
sending shivers down my spine.
John began to chant in a foreign tongue and second by second my skin pained more,
feeling as if it peeled off my flesh.
I could feel something moving deep inside of me, an energy which raged through my body wildly.
Sebastian.
I screamed suddenly when it was painfully pulled out from my body, leaving me to feel strangely hollow.
„Now he can't possibly interfere anymore.", he said while laughing in a croaky voice.
I staggered, trying to get up quickly, bending my neck to eye my neck in the mirror only
to see that the mark has in fact disappeared.
My heart sank to the bottom.
„No... What did you do!", I strut towards John whose eyes have turned into slits
and his sharp teeth exposed while his face distorted into an eerie grin.
I hit against his chest, shouting, crying while he was guffawing like a raven.
That's when I noticed.
His eyes were glowing bright red.
They were staring deep inside of me.
I felt like I stared at a beast which was ready to tear its prey apart.
I...
Lol I have zero creativity atm, bear with me. I promise the next chapter will be a lot longer than this :)
