1 Chapter One

I already knew today was going to be a bad day, I mean I woke up with a migraine for God's sake. On top of that, today is the day. You might think I'm talking about graduation or even getting married, but no, I'm not. I'm talking about the one day a year that we, the humans, Have to hand over all of our girls aged 16-25 over to them the supernaturals and allow them to choose as many females as they want to do whatever they want with, all I know is that we never see or hear from them again and this year I have a bad feeling about it.

Yet here I stand, tied to a post in the middle of a clearing in the forest, waiting for someone or something to come and whisk me away to who knows where. I tried to move my hands and felt the rope rub against my slender wrists wincing I heard a twig snap in the distance and immediately froze my eyes darted around trying to find the source of the noise. A twig snapped to my right, and I turned my head to the sound only to come face to face with a male, I screamed as his eyes turned blood red and fangs dropped out from his upper lip.

"Oh, yes, you will do nicely" He whispered as he moved closer and inhaled deeply. " Lavander and Sage. You do smell lovely" I flinched back and smacked my head into the pole, hurting my head even more. He smirked "G-Get away from me" I whisper and close my eyes to both calm myself and my headache. I felt the rope being tugged at and the instant release that followed, I opened my eyes and took a quick look around before trying to make a dash for it towards the tree line.

I almost made it to the cover of the trees until I felt an arm wrap around my waist before slamming me into a nearby tree I closed my eyes in reflex before being pinned in place with an arm across my throat. "Open your eyes" The male hissed, and the arm pushed down tighter. I brought my hands up to his arm to pull it off my throat, "L-Let me g-go" I stuttered as I pulled harder on his arm as my head pounded even harder than it was originally. "Open. Your. Eyes." he snarled I could feel myself getting light-headed and made my eyes flutter open only for them to close again as everything went black.

The first thing I noticed when I came into consciousness was that I was lying on a bed, a hard bed at that. I slowly opened my eyes and let myself adjust to the blaring light that was surrounding the room. My throat stung, causing me to swallow and flinch. "She's waking up" A voice sounded from my left and I glanced over to see a red-headed woman with deep blue eyes, she was wearing a long form-fitting black dress, her hair was braided over her left shoulder with a piece left out and curled so that it framed her face I was a little overwhelmed with how beautiful she looked. I heard footsteps come from the other side of the room and I turned my head so fast I thought I gave myself whiplash.

Coming through the door was a tall blonde-haired man with light blonde highlights in it, he had light grey eyes and a nice tanned complexion; he was also very muscular the fact that you could see it through his shirt was a bit concerning and yet oddly enough I felt safe in his presence. I was so captivated by him walking into the room that I almost forgot that they had kidnapped me. "Who are you? Where am I? Why am I here?" I shot questions at them faster than I could breathe with the tube in my nose.... wait there's a tube in my nose "Why is there a tube in my nose?" I coughed as my throat scratched as I spoke. *I could really go for a cup of water.* I thought to myself before looking around again, searching for any water. The girl who was all but quiet now had handed me a cup half full of water.

"Thank you," I whispered before taking a drink and looking back at the man "Would I please be able to get some answers now?" He looked down before looking back at me "I am the Vampire King, You are in my territory and in my Castle, You are here to become my Vampire Beloved and You have a tube in your nose because you blacked out when my head of guard saved you from the vermin known as Werewolves and have been asleep since." I nodded and took a sip of my water before placing it on the table to the side of me. I saw that the vampire king had ended up right next to my bed, I slowly reached my hand out as if to touch him and it looked as if he wanted that to happen. *Crack* My hand contacted his cheek and his head turned to the side.

"You brought me here to be your Vampire beloved?" I sneered, and the girl giggled slightly. The vampire king's head turned back towards me and his eyes were bright red and his bottom lip had two little dimples in it. "Did. You. Just. Hit. Me?" He hissed and I swear to you his eyes flashed to a brilliant ruby, causing the girl to suddenly be between us. "Nunc autem non potes hoc facere" She muttered with her eyes flashing a brilliant gold.

The Vampire King closed his eyes and took a couple of deep breaths before opening his eyes again, and I could see that they were back to the light grey and his lower lip was no longer dented. "Let me try this again. A werewolf kidnapped you and my adiutrix here found you and thought you smelt like myself here so she brought you to us. We were then intrigued and got our Eldar council together and tried to figure out what was going on as you had my smell on you. Turns out you are from the line that helped create my sire. Therefore, you will stay here as my Vampire Beloved end of the story." He said before leaving the room.

After the Vampire King left the room, I turned my head to the woman next to me. "What kind of fuckery did this guy smoke?" I asked her and her eyes widened in shock or amusement I honestly couldn't tell. I tried to sit up, and she finally unfroze before laughing "This guy is Christophe Ambrogio, the only living member of the head family of Clan Ambrogio the Original Vampire line." She whispered as she moved to grab me another glass of water. *What is Clan Ambrogio?* I thought to myself as I grabbed the glass from the woman.

"Clan Ambrogio, one of the oldest Vampire families, They are practically royalty to the Vampire community, as a matter of fact, they are Royalty." She spoke *Who is this chick? How does she know what I thought?* My inner voice in my head said, and she smiled slightly. "I haven't introduced myself. My name is Oliver Jones, Oli for short." I glanced at her curiously, "Isn't Oliver a boy name?" I murmured as I took another sip of water. I instantly regretted what I had said and waited for any sort of retribution. If it was one thing I remembered from growing up in my town is that anything that wasn't human was immediately higher in the hierarchy of life.

Surprisingly enough she didn't hit or punish me, instead, she laughed I'm not talking like a polite chuckle or a forced chuckle, I'm talking like a full-on throw your head back belly hurting laugh, once she had calmed down which took five or more minutes, She looked at me. "Yes, it is a boy's name. My parents at the time thought they were having a boy, ultrasound, and everything until the day they delivered me. They didn't have a girl name handy or anything, so they just kept the name." I rose an eyebrow in confusion but decided not to say anything I looked around the room again and sighed.

"Is there a way I could go to the bathroom by any chance?" I murmured and Oli nodded "I'll help you, you're still weak from that wolf shifter knocking you out"