Her Vampire Master (Midnight Doms) by Maren Smith

Author:Maren Smith [Smith, Maren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Burning Desires
Published: 2019-11-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Merris

I feel like a fish, dangling from the fisherman’s line, with absolutely no hope of rescue and nothing to do except watch through the crack in the bedroom curtains as the sun slowly sinks.

I can’t even see it anymore. My window faces east. But I can see the hue of the sky changing colors, gradually deepening, the baby blue of this beautiful day turning the color of a bruise as it darkens. I have no idea how long I’ve hung here, alternately switching between standing and dangling with my arms pulled straight up. I think it’s been hours, the molasses-slow passage of time occasionally punctuated by the increasingly mortified housekeeper wandering in and out.

I don’t know which of us my change in predicament has embarrassed more. The first time she saw me in it was when she brought a supper tray. She looked at the chain, at the thorn, shook her head as she looked at me, and then climbed up onto the bed alongside me.

“Help me,” I begged, but she only put half a turkey sandwich in my right hand and an uncapped water bottle in my left, and climbed back down again. “Don’t go!” I cried.

“No involve sex games!” she replied, almost as desperately.

And so, with nothing else to do, I ate my stupid sandwich, drank my stupid water, and I hung there while slowly the sky got darker. The purpling bruising hue turned grudgingly inkier and the shadows inside my room grew longer. I stood up. I sat down. I wished I’d been smart enough to turn a light on, because now I was sitting in the dark.

I also wish I’d not drunk so much water or had the foresight to visit the bathroom before hanging myself up like this. I really have to pee.

The house goes quiet. Not that the elderly woman who’d been taking care of me all day had made a lot of noise, but occasionally I heard her. I know she cleaned up the mess I made with Aleron’s bust. I also heard a vacuum in the distance. One of the times she brought me water, she puttered through the room long enough to clean the bathroom and, although she looked longingly at the bed, she left again without touching it.

I could maybe understand it if I thought she was frightened. Does she know she’s working for a vampire? Surely, she has to know something about this whole situation is odd. She has to. But now, every time I see her, the impression I get isn’t one of fear. It’s one of incredible embarrassment.

I’d like to think if I’d walked in on something like this, I’d let a ‘fish’ go, but there’s no telling what Aleron’s told her or how often that poor woman comes to work to find something like this going on.

The thorns are on this bed for a reason. The nape of my neck prickles as I regard them in the failing light and try my best to pretend my nipples aren’t prickling too.

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