Chapter 4. Torturous heartache
Gabriella was deep in sleep when she felt a disturbance in the bed that she had been sharing with Kraven for several months now. She groaned in protest and opened her eyes drowsily. She saw Kraven standing beside the mattress, pulling on his clothes. Gabriella sat up and frowned
" Where are you going?"
Kraven glanced over at her quickly and smiled
" Lord Viktor sent for me to accompany him on a lycan hunt."
Gabriella sighed. Every few months Viktor would ask for two or three vampires to accompany him on a lycan hunt. 'Why does he always choose Kraven? Can't he find another vampire to accompany him?' she thought grumpily.
She looked up at him inquiringly " Any idea when you will be back?"
" No" Kraven replied, " I will most likely be gone all night."
Gabriella rolled her eyes and sighed loudly " I wish he would find another vampire to accompany him. I get so lonely when you leave."
" Aww " Kraven teased, " I promise when I get back I will make you feel special."
Gabriella hurriedly pulled on her dress and shot Kraven a wolfish smirk " That sounds like heaven" she giggled. She laid her head on his chest and smiled before looking up into his blue eyes, " I'll be waiting for you " she laughed as she kissed him.
Kraven kissed her back, hungrily before breaking off and hurrying out of the chamber.
Gabriella frowned and grumbled to herself. What was she going to do now? 'Oh well ' she thought 'I had better run along to the kitchens, without Lord Viktor here who knows what the other vampires will do'. She quickly scampered out of the chamber and dashed all the way to the kitchens. She quietly pushed open the doors and peeked inside. Most humans retired for several hours before nightfall but some still scurried about preparing last minute flagons of hot steers blood.
" Gabriella?" a deep males voice asked, " what are you doing?"
Gabriella jumped at the voice and looked up into the speaker's hazel eyes, " Vargner! Oh I haven't seen you in ages!" she exclaimed, hugging him.
Vargner was one of the very few male servants in the mansion. Gabriella wasn't sure why there were hardly any male servants but she didn't want to ask in case the answer was taboo like, there are more male vampires then female if one of them gets bored there are plenty of female servants to entertain them. Gabriella shuddered, she didn't fancy entertaining any other male other then Kraven.
She looked up at Vargner and smiled, " I just thought you could use some help" she lied.
Vargner smiled, " Good. Without Lord Viktor here the other vampires usually get a little more wild."
" Oh, you know Lord Viktor was going out? Who was accompanying him?" Gabriella inquired inquisitively, knowing the identity of one of the vampires already.
" Umm... Master Kraven and Master Sorren". Vargner replied.
Gabriella nodded. Sorren was a friend of Kraven's. He was a stocky vampire with shoulder length black hair and a dense black beard. According to Kraven, Viktor had recruited Sorren when he was a slave of the Viking's. Gabriella had met the Irish vampire before but hadn't of liked him. Sorren was very sadistic.
" Have they left already?" Gabriella asked.
Vargner was about to reply when the door burst open. Vargner gasped and pulled Gabriella behind a tapestry on the wall. Gabriella watched through a tear in the fabric. What she saw made her heart ache.
Kraven was hungrily kissing a female vampire called Kendrasene. The blonde vampiress groaned in pleasure as Kraven started to kiss and bite her breasts.
" Kraven" she moaned, " what about the servants? They might walk in on us".
" I don't care. Let the pathetic creatures catch us then they might understand just how beautiful you are" Kraven said, panting.
" Oh Kraven" Kendrasene moaned and the couple kissed wildly until Gisellea, one of Gabriella and Vargner's fellow servants timidly entered the room
" Oh... Master Kraven?"
" What do you want?" snapped Kraven angrily
" Um... sir Lord Viktor is ready to go" Gisellea said nervously
Kraven nodded and turned to Kendrasene, " Wait for me. When I get back we will continue our tryst" he purred
Kendrasene nodded and they kissed passionately before Kraven turned and rushed passed Gisellea, out of the kitchen. Kendrasene too, walked out of the kitchen brushing past Gisellea as though she were scum on the floor.
Gabriella and Vargner slipped out from behind the tapestry, startling Gisellea" Oh my lord!" she gasped, "Gabriella, Vargner you scared me! Were you behind there all that time?"
" Yes" said Vargner, " Kraven and Kendrasene! I had no idea. What about you Gabriella? Gabriella?"
But Gabriella rushed out of the kitchen. Tears pouring silently down her face and her heart ached. She didn't even stop running until she came to the servant chambers. The chambers were very small and dirty. Before the vampires had started keeping humans as servants they had kept lycans as servants. The walls still bore the claw marks of transformed lycans. Gabriella rushed into the small corner of one of the chambers and flung herself down on the straw upon which she slept. There she cried and sobbed herself to sleep.
