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I remember when I first saw my master, I nearly fell from his beauty. Strange thing to describe a man as beautiful, but that he was, and is, to this day. It was Lady Sheffield's daughters opening ball into the ton and of course, everyone was there. And I, as Lady Sheffield's maid, was there, sitting quietly in the corner keeping to myself.
Everyone woman, married or not, young and old, looked upon him with lust in their eyes. I, for one, was included, but turned away quickly as he found myself in the corner.
I hated balls, and for a maid-in-waiting, I truly did not have a reason to be here, until Lady Sheffield quickly came to me. "Oh, dear, dear Jamie, I have someone you need to meet." I followed her immediately and came into the presence of him.
"Lord Raven, this is Jamie, my lady-in-waiting."
Nice way to put it, I thought. "Hello, M'lord."
He smiled, taking my hand and pressed it to his lips. "How do you do?"
I think I felt each women's eyes burning a hole into my back. "Just fine, and yourself?"
"Good, good…" He looked to Lady Sheffield. "We shall take a walk."
"Of course, Lord Raven." Lady Sheffield bowed back and turned from us. He offered me his arm. "Jamie?"
Never at one point did I fall in love with Lord Raven, oh I fancied him, true, but I could never love him. He took me to the balcony.
"I have taken the liberty to add you as one of maids to my mansion in Calais in France. Lady Sheffield has said she has no need of two maids."
I swore a hard stone was in my throat as I swallowed. "I did not consent to such a thing."
"Ah, but my dear, you will. You are from there, are you not Celeste?"
I swore silently. He knew of my past and he even dared to speak my name. "Close, M'lord, close."
"Lady Celeste Marceau. I have heard of you, murderess."
"In self defense." I spoke quietly. "It's true, I had murdered my husband, the Comte of Bredeaux, and after that I fled to Cherbourg and I've ended up here. But you must know this?"
"That, I do. But you did not mention your lover… Ian was his name?"
"Do not speak that name in my presence!"
He chuckled quietly. "I told Lady Sheffield that I have an elderly grandmother, which I do, who needs your attention, which she does not. Will you stick to that story?"
"I don't have to go with you!"
He walked towards me and kissed my cheek. "But you will."
Damn the man, he was right.
Two weeks later, I was sitting in his chateau by the beach in Calais. I had barely spoken to him in that time, and when I did, he was in such a foul mood. It was odd. I talked to one of his maids, Molly. She was a very sweet, beautiful girl. And even if his chateau was by the beach, it was dark and damp all the days. And back to Molly… she was such a nice thing, but in love with Lord Raven.
As I talked to her, she did little things for him but he would never care. My master, he is hard to understand. Took me… oh… over a hundred years to understand him even a bit. And after my chat with Molly, I didn't speak to anyone for another two weeks.
One night, he called me up.
"Lady Celeste," he spoke to me kindly. "My brothers, Kane and Vampiro, have joined me for the time being. I wish for you to accompany Vampiro around the chateau."
I looked over to the one man by the window. He looked at the night sky and the other sat next to Raven, his face covered by a mask. The man by the window stepped close to me, and soon entered a patch of light where I saw it flash off the sharp blue eyes. I gasped; he was even more beautiful than my lord Raven.
"I welcome you here, Vampiro. You may call me Celeste." I offered him my hand and he did his best to try to make me faint.
Before I left with Vampiro, Raven said to me, "Please fetch Molly, darling."
Strange, I thought, as I left out of the door., He had never called me darling, nor he had ever called upon Molly. Something was amiss, and I intended to find out. We went down to the servant's quarters and I knocked on Molly's door.
"Yes, Lady Celeste?"
"Raven wishes to see you."
Molly squeaked happily and closed the door quickly, following me back to Lord Raven's drawing room. "I have brought Molly, Lord Raven."
"Very good." He flashed an evil grin towards her. "You may take Vampiro now."
I looked towards Vampiro. I had a feeling that tonight would be quite… interesting. "This way, sir."
To this day, I could not remember, not on my life what truly happened. We walked and I showed him around, and after a short dinner, he turned to me, his hand caressing my cheek.
"You are a beautiful girl, Celeste."
"Thank you, my lord." I blushed and turned from him. I stood up from my chair and made my way to the window. He grabbed my arm and pulled me against his hard body. He looked at me, god, what intensity. Vampiro was so dark; nothing would ever penetrate the world he lived in.
He leaned down and kissed me. His were soft against me. He pulled me closer and I, surprised, put my hands around his neck, deepening the kiss. It was getting out of hand. I was only to show him around, not be his mistress.
He touched his tongue against mine. I had kissed many boys in my youth, the skirt chasers, but none would have done what he did. Vampiro was definitely different. He knew what he was doing, being twelve years my junior.
He moved his lips down to my neck, kissing me, seducing me. "Don't worry, it'll pass."
At first I had no idea what he was talking about, but then I felt the sharp, mind-numbing pain in my neck.
He lied. That type of pain does not pass. To this day, whenever it rains, I feel a sharp throb in my neck. It hurt until I blacked out from the pain. He bit me, and I didn't know then, but next night I woke up. My neck was sore and I was exhausted. I looked around the room for anyone.
I dressed quickly(he had undressed me and raped me I had guessed) and was a bit too calm for what had happened. But then I was the same after I had stabbed Antoine to death. I went quickly to see Lord Raven. He would kill me for waking up so late. I knocked quietly at his door, but there was no answer so I pushed it opened and saw Lord Raven sleeping next to Molly. Smiling, I left and then ran into Vampiro. I blanched and tried to hide.
"Hello, darling."
I nodded slightly.
"See you're feeling better, love. Passed out last night. Too much to drink, love?" A small grin appeared on his too handsome face.
The bastard tried lying to me. He knew what he made me; he just wanted to confuse me. "You bit me. What are you? You're some sort of vampire!"
"Hence the name," he laughed. "Come, love, it'll be much better next time." He quickly made his way towards me before I could protest. How that man could simply seduce me with his eyes and I easily fell into his arms and let him bite me again. Then, darkness.
The next night was the same, but this time I did not run into Ian(he at least whispered his name to before I blacked out this time), but Kane. He was a giant. I thought he might have killed me with one of his hands grasping around my neck, but he was much kinder that I expected.
"I see Ian has changed you." Kane gestured to my neck.
I said nothing.
"Did you consent?"
"Would you?"
Kane chuckled, a loud, low bellowing laugh. "Has he told you anything of… us?"
"Considering I fall into darkness each time he bites me, I don't think I've given him the chance."
Another small chuckle. "Then let me tell you, Lady Celeste. Myself, Raven, and Ian were all friends about oh… two hundreds years ago? Yes, that's about correct. Anyway… one day, Raven fell down with an awful affliction of the heart and he was easily about to die when a man came to us and offered us immortality. Not just Raven, but all three of us. At that time, we were still young men, still wanting our youth, not knowing what he was going to do.
"And that was Josef, a vampire from Prussia. He didn't tell us he was a vampire; he knew we would have just laughed. Unfortunately, after such incident, we had been forced to follow him around the world, in hopes of finding a way of not being what we are.
"And until ten years ago, the day we killed Josef, we have not been free. But you, Celeste, are free to rule yourself."
"And Ian just assumed I would like to be a vampire?"
"You murdered, did you not?"
"Out of self-defense. Antoine was going to shoot me!"
"For what?" He probed.
I laughed quietly. "He found out about my lover… he had walked in on us one night and was determined to kill me and my lover. However, my lover decided to flee and left me to die. I grabbed the closest thing, a letter opener, and stabbed him before he could me. Does that make me a candidate for sucking blood?"
Kane shrugged. "Evidently, Ian thought so."
"Well I don't want to be one!"
"How many times?"
"Twice." I whispered quietly.
"Then resist him once more, and you can keep your life, Celeste."
Resist the irresistible Ian? Such luck I had.
TBC…
A/N: Please leave feedback-- and yes, I will get into more of Molly/Raven and what goes on with my boy Kane. Please review and tell me if you want me to continue and if I don't get three reviews, NO CHAPTER FOR YOU! :P Have a good night and review! - Saph
