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Dan POV
I opened my eyes and looked out of the window. I had spent time, so much time and energy on her. How could I have not realised she was engaged.
She was engaged to a powerful man. I remember the words spoken to me. "Your grace, I should warn you that your actions would not be appreciated by her fiancé, my brother. You may have heard of him. Jack Elfan."
Yes I had heard of him. Prince of the elves. I doubt Becky knows what he is. If she did surely she would except I was a vampire. I wasn't surprised. Someone so beautiful would have a mate. But why him? Why Jack. He didn't deserve her. He was a scoundrel.
I remembered Becky's confused look. Why was she so confused? Was she wondering how I found out? Did she know that man was Jacks younger brother?
I cursed myself. I had finally found a spirited person. Someone who I couldn't imagine losing interest in.
But when Jack fell in love he fell hard. In the few 100 years I have known him, he felt passion. He had told me about a girl. He was also a lover of the human world. We were best friends. He was more curious though. So curious that he joined a school. Met a girl. Fell in love. Then was called to his duties as a prince. We lost contact.
It then hit me. He is a bit like me. He is no scoundrel. If he doesn't deserve her, then neither do I.
But why Becky? Why was she engaged to him? If she was the girl he fell in love with…weren't they broken up? Meaning any engagement was broken.
I sat there for a while. I couldn't understand why I cared so much. As I have said before I was fascinated by her. She was supposed my change. My beauty. But she wasn't mine.
Becky's POV
Jacks brother stared at me. He was the image of his brother. Jack, my first love. But that was not what was bothering me. Dan said engaged.
I had no knowledge of being engaged. I silently walked out of the room. Heavy footsteps followed me. "Becky! Becky! My name is Luke. Luke Elfan."
I looked around. "Yes I know. You're Jack's brother. He spoke of you."
"Becky I realise you might be a bit confused-"
"Confused about what? Jacks brother being in the company of supposed vampires? Or being told I'm engaged? Because I am quite confused about both." I retorted.
He gave me a tired look. "Look Jack never told you everything. He did love you;" I winced at the past tense, Luke noticed "I will not speak for him. If he still loves you that is for him to say. But you are engaged to him."
"Erm no. You see we split a while back. Besides he never asked. We were young. We-"
"You accepted the necklace though. You may not know its symbolic reasons, but it is important. It bound him to you."
"If he was so bound to me then why the hell was he with that girl? I saw him. He cared for her. And only a few weeks after we split! He cared for someone else when our relationship had only just ended!" I shouted. I was getting angry. Yes Jack gave me a necklace. I still have it and it is very pretty. But I was never told it was a sign of engagement. And in my normal opinion that would normally be mentioned.
"Bloody hell, you think this girl mattered more to him then his fiancé?!!!"
"I am not his fiancé. And he broke up with me. Please process this. He broke up with me, I saw him with someone else. Yes he I think he didn't care for me. Do I need to spoon feed you this information any more than I already have?"
"You are an idiot. He is an Elf Prince. He wants to marry you."
I stopped. "Elf what now?"
"That would be one of the things he didn't tell you about."
"Yes well elves and royalty never really cropped up in our conversations."
I looked at Luke. Vampires, Elves. My head hurt.
I was getting over Jack. I am not accepting being engaged to him. He left and hurt me. "Well I am now breaking the engagement. If you will let me find Dan so he can take me back to my room, I can find the necklace."
His eyes narrowed "weren't you listening to me? You are bound. It can't be broken. He has been looking for you. You have been here for three days." Is that all? Felt longer. "You do know about the time differences don't you? Well he was away from his land for so long, the people demanded that all the time he spent with you was not in vain. The people wanted a wife for him."
I looked at him again. My god. All this was serious. Vampires and elves and god knows what else. There was no hint of lying in his light face. His blonde hair was in a ponytail. His eyes were not as blue as Jacks but were still mesmerising.
"He left because he knew you would freak. But he knew he would have to come back. He knew you were both bound. The women you saw him with was probably his intended. Maria, they were supposed to be married.
But Jack, like your vampire Dan, acquired a taste for the human ways. Our mother gave him a chance to find someone." Luke sighed; a flock of hair fell over his face. "I can't explain everything to you. Mainly because I wouldn't be able to put it as Jack could.
I will come back for you. Jack will be happy to hear that you are safe. Might not be so happy that you are here with Dan. Until next time Becky."
And he walked away. I had to find Dan. Half of what Luke said never made it to my brain. I needed things to be explained. How could I be a fiancé?
Jacks mystery girl was called Maria. Was he saying goodbye to her. Or was he hoping he could escape this engagement? What could they do anyway, if I refused to marry him? Force me?
He had hurt me too much, and I wasn't ready for a commitment. It wasn't because of my family, they didn't care. I could marry a tramp and they wouldn't even stutter.
I just didn't want to marry Jack. I would always love him. But in my heart I always knew our time for real happiness had passed.
I tried to think of getting back to my room. But I didn't know the way. I couldn't handle getting lost when my mind was in this state. So I sat in a corner. I blocked the memories of my happy times.
Funny, but as I blocked out the memories, one memory pushed its way through. I hadn't thought of it after it happened. It meant nothing to me. But I remembered Dan's kiss. The one were he used it as a distraction. He was the opposite of Jack. A change from Jack. A change. He was dark and so mysterious. He was a vampire. He was dangerous. He would be perfect to distract myself of Jack for a while.
I knew it would be bad to use Dan as an excuse not to think of certain things. But a few stolen kisses won't matter. A few moments of passion, even if love wasn't included. It could be my drug. Until I face Jack or Luke and see what happens from there.
I sat in my corner. I waited for him, or somebody to take me to my room. My sense of adventure had left me. I couldn't be bothered to find it.
What? I was tired.
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