Thirty-five

For this reason, the event that follows makes Benjamin and I jump in fright.

— MILA!

My security guard walks through the bedroom door and in that second me and the Greek God, we're both on stunned faces.

— MILA! - he repeated anxiously, entering the bathroom.

"Fuck!"

The vampire who rarely shakes himself, today shows uneasiness when he sees his nephew invading the bathroom. He stands up with the towel still in his hands and I remain seated with nowhere to put my face.

"Don't you know how to hit, Piter?" - he questioned with an altered voice, with a strong pose.

"What the fuck are you doing in here?"

Piter creates a courage I've never seen before. He faces his uncle with an anger and disgust that even the strongest of men would not dare to dare.

"Shouldn't you be down there with the King?"

"I ask you the same!"

"I'm her security, so I can come and go from this fucking room whenever I want!"

Benjamin gets out of control with his nephew and goes after him, staying a few inches from his body and a few minutes away from ending his life.

"Talk to me in that new boy tone and I swear I-"

"Stop!" - I put myself in the middle of the two.

My security guard is shocked by my intrusion and soon begins to analyze me with his eyes.

— You... -he stops, thinks, huffs angrily throwing his straight hair back and repeats. -Are you naked?

"Heavens!"

"I-I...I..."

I should have been quiet, or hidden.

— Yeah — — he can't say anything.

He looks at the uncle who was inside my bathroom, looks at the environment around him and then turns to my body, understanding the riddle.

— Pit -

- Do not say anything! he interrupted me, disappointed.

"Don't talk to her like that!" -it's rude.

"Stay in your face!" -flooded with jealousy, he pushes you hard in the chest.

— PITER! - I shout at him, disapproving his action.

"Okay boy, I'll teach you to respect your elders!"

"Fuck!"

“Benjamin!” -echo his name asking him not to do what he intends.

He takes off his blazer in a huff and soon his feet move towards his nephew.

"No Benjamin, no, please!" - I beg trying to stop him.

But he grabs my security guard by the collar of his uniform, pinning him willfully against the wall.

- SON OF A BITCH! she screamed, grabbing her uncle's wrists.

— I'M SICK OF BEARING YOUR CHALLENGES! -he shakes him returning his back to the pottery twice as hard.

— STOP! - I fill Benjamin's arms with slaps, doing everything for him not to kill him.

That adrenaline might even give me energy at the moment, but when the time comes, I know I won't last.

"What are you going to tell the King when he walks in here and sees my body?"

"I kill him too, then all my problems disappear!"

Who should die does not die at all. Even those uninvolved pay for Thomas's cruelty and ignorance.

- Drop! -command. -Let him go, Benjamin!

"Listen to your Queen, before you make a fool of yourself!"

— It was stupid to let you get out alive that day!

"What?"

— You're pissed, pissed because I fucked your wives!

No, I didn't hear that.

"Wh...wh...what?"

"MY GOD!"

My eyes widen and I start to pull away from both of them at that revelation.

The punch the vampire gives the security guard goes unnoticed by my eyes. Eyes that had been unblinking for almost an entire minute.

Then, to make the night that much better, my bedroom door suddenly opens, accompanied by the voice of the one everyone hated.

— Mila? -called me.

"God..."

- Still! he whispered to the security guard.

"Don't tell me to be quiet, dammit!" -he whispers back.

The two exchanged whispers and my brain went crazy with the presence of Thomas, Piter's revelation and the pain in my stomach.

"Sir, how am I going to explain this situation to my sick husband?"

"Naked with only a towel wrapped around her and locked in a room with two men, alone!"

"If you don't shut your fucking mouth, I swear I'll shut it for you!"

"Can you two just fucking shut up?" I get irritated with them, in a low voice.

— MILA! -he screams. - C-come love, where are you? -he stumbles over the words like a drunk, bumping into the nightstand next to him. -Mobile hell!

"He's drunk!"

"Oh, don't say!"- mocked my little devil.

"I'll solve his problem in a minute!" - he affirmed advancing in two steps.

- No! -block him by placing a hand on his chest. -You won't lay a finger on him!

"Do you think you can stop me?"

"What the fuck is going on?" -He doesn't understand.

"This is not the time!"

"A-love, are you in the bathroom?"

— Go, go soon. If he comes here and sees us, we'll all be sentenced to death!

"Or only he may die if he lets me pass!"

I narrow my sinister eyes at him, giving him the answer to his idiotic suggestion.

- I'M ON MY WAY! -scream before showing faces.

“Oh, there you are!

I hear his footprints towards the bathroom and already worried about his actions, I squeeze the towel with my hands, going to the room quickly and fearfully.

- I am here! - I appear all distressed.

"H-hi, love!" -he comes staggering in anticipation of kissing me, but then full of revulsion I manage to deviate.

"You reek of alcohol!" - I scold running to the other side of the bed.

"Wh-what's the matter?" - he said following me.

"I don't want to be around you with that smell!"

"I don't want to be close at all, not smelling roses, or painted gold!"

"My dick smells good!" - she said with a disgusting laugh.

- What? - I'm shocked by his boldness, rubbing my back against the wall to escape her fingers.

We were at an impasse where he did everything to touch me and I did everything not to be touched. Each time he got closer, I managed to run the other way. The drink didn't let him know he was chasing after me like a dog. Because if he was sober, he would surely have captured me by now as usual, using me against my will.

— Smelly! - he repeated trying to strike a serious pose. -It's not my mouth that will enter your pussy but my dick, my love!

- What? -fucking he advances.

"Are you fucking crazy?" - she warned throwing herself in front of him.

“Ridiculous! -mumble.

- What did you say? -He hears me.

— RI-DI-CU-LO! - I separate it into syllables, despising it.

“Who do you think you're talking to, bitch? -he spits in rage.

"With a turd!"

“Are you crazy? -he runs towards me, but I escape into the closet. -I WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO TALK TO YOUR KING!

He insisted on reaching me, while Piter and Benjamin, left the bathroom hiding outside the closet.

- What the hell is that? - he whispers irritably.

"Calm down, don't do anything stupid..."

"I don't have to listen to this shit!"

"He won't do anything to her, anything she can't already handle!"

The vampire was impressed by that sentence, trying to understand what his nephew meant.

"Enough of this shit, Thomas!" -debate. -Our marriage is not working out, in fact, it never did.

"Do you think you can leave me?" she pointed out. -Don't you know the laws of your country, Your Majesty?

"I'd rather be exiled and die alone than have to spend another day with you!"

— I understand that you are angry because I ate your fox, but I wanted you to understand my feelings too!

- Feelings? - I repeat with irony. -Do you have feelings?

— I only wanted a child, Mila! Your words don't make any sense. -Everything I do is to please you, I just wanted you to be happy and give me a son...

"My God, this man is crazy!"

“Are you serious, Thomas? - I get silly. -Look at everything you did to me, look at the pain you caused me...

The battery from earlier starts to drain taking back what he had given me.

"Did you think killing an innocent animal would make me give you a child?"

"I would do anything to have an heir!"

- I know! -I agree. - I know very well what you are capable of!

"Then why deny me?"

"Does he still ask?" - murmured from the outside.

— Because you're like a disease, you arrive quietly as if you're just passing through, but when we least expect it, you've already taken everything with your poison, becoming a terminal cancer. You can even feed on what should be healing. You are what we spend our whole lives fearing to know. What nobody understands, nobody supports. You are my nightmare every night. It's my cancer...

Putting it all out there, everything I've spent months and months trapping inside of me, soon gives me a feeling of absurd lightness. It was like opening a cage letting the bird fly. How to free a caged animal, which had to keep its mouth shut every day, while feeling human cruelty on its skin. How to finally be able to open the window and feel the sun with the warm breeze.

Earlier than expected.

Every charge I had zeroed out, letting my body slump against the closet carpet. On the other side, both think they heard something, being deceived by the soft floor that covered the noise of my fall, but from the inside, there was someone watching everything.

"Something's wrong!" -He starts to feel weird.

- Stay quiet. Can't you see they've stopped fighting? -debated. -They must be getting along!

— Silence... much... much silence... -he found it strange, trying to hear any sign of communication.

"Don't be ridiculous-"

"Shut the fuck up!" - scolded the nephew. -I need to hear them both!

Benjamin had everything to enter the room for good, but he chose to follow my request, he didn't want to disappoint me much less make me feel weak for not trusting my decisions. The problem is that everything starts to unravel when your ears don't capture what you want and your instincts start to be alarmed by the special connection that a creator had.

- Then? he questioned impatiently.

"Fuck, I'm tired of this!" - he said throwing himself into the large and luxurious closet of clothes.

"NO, NO, NO!"

Terrified, the boy holds him by the arm and soon the vampire responds with a push. The two fought entering the scene, not realizing that it was no use trying to remain invisible, until they collided with the atrocity that was happening inside that square, ending the fight between them in a disturbing way.

Piter and Benjamin, face their King, passing their thick hands through the unconscious and unprotected body of the Queen.

"I-I gave you so many chances..." he said drunk, sniffing the strands of my hair. -But if you didn't want to give me a child for good, then you'll take it for bad!

Kneeling in front of my naked body, he takes his hands to the bottom of his pants, undoing his belt. At the same time that the King is preparing to commit one of the worst crimes in existence, the most powerful of all vampires awakens an ocean of blood inside his eyes, taking the mark of death to the one who was once his friend.

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