Chapter 15.

Kate's P.O.V

"What do you want?" I asked for the hundredth time as Steven closed the door to a small house he had driven us to. He walked around and closed the drapes on every window and then walked back up to me. He looked down at me with a smirk on his face, still wearing sunglasses. I instinctively backed away a few steps and he chuckled.

"Aren't you happy to see me?" he asked but I didn't answer.

"What do you want?" I repeated and felt a lump in my throat. My mind was all fuzzy, and all I could think about was that I had left Embry, again. I wondered what he was doing right now. I just wanted him here with me.

"When you left, you hurt me." he said and stepped closer to me. "I want to be with you, Kate. And now you won't be able to leave me, we can be together forever. Literally."

I raised an eyebrow at him.

"You think I want to be with you too?" I shuddered at the thought. "Not much of a relationship if you're gonna keep me here against my will."

He laughed and I wanted to gag at the sound.

"I think you'll change your mind when you're like me, because then you can't go back to your wolf" he said and I got even more confused. Like him? What did he mean? In love?

He lifted his hand up and for a second I thought he was going to touch me or something, instead he reached for his sunglasses and took them off slowly, smirking and looking straight in to my eyes.

I gasped as I saw his eyes, and it felt like the world was crashing down on me. His eyes were blood red. I didn't know much about science, but I knew that red eyes weren't normal.

"You're cute when you're thinking really hard about stuff" he said and for the first time I realized why his voice sounded so different, and why he looked so different. Steven wasn't human anymore. He was a vampire. Embry had never told me what vampires looked like so I had just assumed that they looked just like humans. And they did, almost.

"You're a vampire" I whispered and managed to look away from his eyes. I wouldn't be able to look at him again.

"Very good, I bet your wolf told you everything about them huh?" he said and I cringed in pain at the sound of someone saying Embry's name out loud. I needed him right now. If he knew I was standing face to face with, or even breathing the same air as a vampire, he would freak out.

"Not much" I mumbled, too scared to move or even look at him. "Just that they're dangerous..." I added in a whisper. Was he going to kill me? If he wanted me dead, I would be dead, right?

"He was right about that" he said and walked over to one of the chairs that was in the room. I just now realized we were in a kitchen in this weird house. I looked around, wondering if this was his house or just some random, and I shivered at the thought of him killing the real owner of this house.

"But I won't hurt you. I could never hurt you, I love you, Kate. Probably more than that wolf does. What's his name? Edwin? Eric? Whatever, he's not important anymore." he said and tilted his head to the side. I swallowed and had to try to look like I wasn't scared half to death.

"But I don't love you..." I mumbled and forced myself to look at him. His smile faded and he stood up from the chair.

"Like I said, you will change your mind when I change you" he said, sounding almost angry, and I took a step backwards.

"Change me..?" did he mean what I thought he meant? If it was even possible, I was more scared now.

"Not now of course, if we're gonna be together forever, it would be weird if you were seventeen, wouldn't it?" he said and my eyes widened.

"So you're just gonna keep me here? Until... when?" I couldn't keep my voice from trembling. I couldn't return to Embry if I was a vampire.

"Just a few years" he said and started walking to the door. He turned around and gave me a smirk that sent shivers down my spine. "I'll be right back, sweetie. I just have to hunt"

I pulled my knees up to my chest and wrapped my arms around my legs.

"Are you cold? I would warm you up but let's be honest, I'm pretty cold" Steven said and laughed at his own joke. I just shivered.

After Steven had come back from his 'hunt' he had given me some food that he had stolen somewhere, but I hadn't eaten much. I was too terrified. All I wanted right now was to wake up from this nightmare and find Embry sleeping next to me in my bed, but I knew this was reality and no nightmare even though it felt like it.

I didn't know what time it was, but since I had left last night I bet it was almost night again.

"I don't get what you see in that freak anyway" Steven suddenly said and I looked at him with tired eyes.

"I love him, and he loves me" I said, feeling the need to defend Embry. No one got to call my Embry a freak. Steven chuckled.

"He'll get over you though, especially when he realizes that you were mine first." he said, sounding so sure of himself. I was no ones but my own.

"Get this straight. I love him. Not you. I will never love you. Get it?" I said, feeling angry. I regretted it as soon as I saw the flash of anger in his eyes though. It couldn't be a good idea to piss off a vampire.

"Well then I guess we have to teach him a lesson, won't we?" he said and stood up from the chair he had been sitting on. I stared at him, afraid of what he might do, but he only walked over to the door.

"Don't go anywhere" he said before leaving the house once more.

If Steven hadn't been a vampire I would probably had tried to escape, but I wasn't stupid enough to try. I was really afraid of what he was up to though, but I knew that he wouldn't be able to hurt Embry because he was on another continent, so that calmed me a bit. But I still knew that he wanted to hurt Embry, I had seen it in his eyes. He hated him.

A few minutes later the door opened and Steven walked in, closing the door behind him.

"Come here" he said, holding his left hand behind his back. I was too afraid to ignore his demand so I walked over to him. "Give me your bracelet" he said and I frowned. Why did he want that? I took it off and handed it to him and he took it in his ice cold hand. Then I saw what he was holding in his left hand and my eyes widened as I saw the blood dripping from the object. It was a hand. A real hand. With blood all over it, like he had just ripped it off someone.

He put the hand on the table after he had put my bracelet on the small piece of wrist that was still there. I felt like I needed to throw up but was too afraid to even move. I was frozen to the ground, staring at the hand on the table.

"Let's show him what happens if he refuses to forget about you" Steven said and I could hear the craziness in his voice. He wasn't just a vampire, he was crazy.

He pulled a cell phone up from his pocket and took a picture of the hand lying on the table with my bracelet around it, and my stomach twisted in pain and nausea when I realized what he was doing. Embry would think that it was my hand.

I had been wrong. There was a way for Steven to hurt Embry, and that was by hurting me. Steven didn't want to hurt me, but Embry didn't know that...

"Is this good?" Steven said and showed me the text he had just written.

Forget about her or I'll send her to you. Piece by piece.

I stared at the screen in terror and watched as he pressed send. Suddenly everything went black and the last thing I felt was a pair of ice cold arms wrap around me.

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