The Vampire Kings Slave Mate

Chapter 33-Mary

I fight the urge to pass out. I need to get out of this place and quickly, if I pass out now I’ll die. I pull

myself up into a standing position, my entire right side feels like its on fire, and I can barely put any

pressure on my leg; my ankle was either broken or severely sprained. I gritted my teeth through the pain,

slowly hobbling through the meadow, trying to find a place to rest and hide. I stub my toe on a rock, and

fall back down. I cover my mouth so not to cry out and I let out a little whimper. Why, why was I so damn

stubborn that I felt the need to run away. Why couldn’t I have waited for Nikolai to return back from his

meeting and tell me what was going on. Why did I always find the need to do everything on my own. I

would die in these woods tonight and I wouldn’t be able to revenge my family’s death, my hands going to

the locket around my neck, as I open it up and stare down at my family. Thoughts of the day Nikolai had

given it back to me, flood into my mind; I wouldn’t ever be able to tell him that I cared for him, that I no

longer saw the monster in my nightmares.

No I would not let myself die, I would not give up. I wasn’t a quitter. I had too much to do, too much to live

for still. I grit my teeth once again, pulling myself up into a standing position, with new determination, I

begin to walk through the pain, even if my pace is slow, I am still managing to walk and try to seek

shelter. I look all around me, trying to spot anything that might keep me safe through the night, and thats

when I spot it, a few hundred feet in front of me, is a metal door that I am sure leads to an underground

bunker. I can feel my hope begging to rise, things are finally starting to look up. I make my way slowly to

the bunker. I am less than a hundred feet away from it when the smell of rotten decaying flesh assaults

me and I can hear a loud hissing noise behind me. I try to run, but my injured foot won’t allow me too,

suddenly the ghoul is on top of me, smelling me.

“You smell like the king.” It hisses.

“The king is my mate.” I respond trying to keep the quiver from my voice.

“The king took a human as his mate. How pathetic.” The ghoul hisses. “I knew he was weak.”

It surprised me how well the Ghoul could communicate, I had always heard that Ghouls lost their human

side, but this one seemed to understand everything I was saying.

“King Nikolai is not pathetic.” I spit out, shit when would I ever learn to control my temper.

The ghoul lurches at me, and I shriek, as I jump and start falling on my ass, scraping my arm as I try to

catch myself. “I can’t wait to see the look on the king’s face when he discovers his mate has died, and by

who’s hands she died by.”

“Mary!” I hear Nikolai roaring in the distance.”Mary!”

The ghoul is on top of me in an instant, his hand covering my mouth. I bite into him and gag when the

taste of rancid blood hits my mouth. “Nikolai,” I croak out through the distaste of the blood. “Nikolai.” I call

once more, hoping he can hear me.

The ghouls hands wrap around my neck and my vision starts to fade. I can feel Nikolai’s presence in my

mind. I know he is close by. The ghoul knows it too. He opens his mouth wide, all of his teeth

turning into razor sharp fangs. I can hear a rattling noise, the telltale sign that a ghoul is getting ready to

devour their prey. I don’t want Nikolai to see this, I concentrate with everything I have and push at his

presence, expelling him from my mind. I feel alone again, and I know that Nikolai won’t have to watch me

die. At least I could give him this.

NIKOLAI

I let the mate bond and the scent of Mary pull me in her direction, I only hoped that by the time I reached

her it wouldn’t be to late. The amount of fear she was feeling terrified me, I had never felt so much fear in

my entire life, not even during my mother’s reign of terror. Is this fear, what the humans

deal with daily? Is this why Mary hated all supernaturals?

Suddenly my senses were overwhelmed with the strong scent of death, Mary’s scent was intertwined

with it. How did she manage out of the entire forest to stumble into a Ghoul’s hunting ground. Ghouls

were rare and few. Vampire’s hated losing to the beast within them, we lived the longest out of all the

supernatural creatures, with the Fae coming in a close second and couldn’t imagine being stuck in a

state where our beast was in control of our every action. Vampires are born with their beast, from the

minute our eyes open were taught how to control the monsters inside of us. We were taught to always

quench are blood lust and to never let our beasts take control for too long. For centuries after my father

was murdered, my mother reigned terror on the supernatural race and human race alike, everyone in the

kingdom thought my mother had lost control of the beast within and that she would end up a ghoul. I was

one of the few that knew my mother was still grieving my father’s

I pulled away from the memories of my past and tried to locate Mary through the smell of death and

decay. She was near, that I could tell, but I couldn’t sense her nor could I detect her heartbeat.

“Mary,” I called loudly, not caring if I drew the ghoul to me, it would be better if I faced him than if he

found Mary, no matter how strong my Queen was, she wouldn’t be able to defeat a ghoul on her own.

“Mary!” I shout again loudly, as I walk through the hunting area. I try to use our mate bond to infiltrate her

mind and see what she’s seeing, but our bond was still weak, while I had marked and mated her, I had

still not accepter her as mine, therefore the bond wasn’t complete.

I hear a loud shriek and can smell the scent of fresh blood. With my heart pounding in my chest, I take of

running in the direction of the sound, praying to the gods, that I wasn’t too late. “Mary!” I bellow as loud

as I can while running.

“Nikolai,” I can hear her cry for me, she sounds far away and like someone is trying to muffle her.

“Nikolai, please.” She cries, pleading for me to find her..