Chapter Three

No! This couldn't be happening!

I turned my head away as his hand approached me, hoping that this was just another sick nightmare. As soon as he had clipped the leash on, he practically yanked me out. I immediately became a gasping, shaking mess on the floor, trying desperately to get a decent breath through this Godforsaken collar.

Every movement caused pain to ring from my back.

"Dammit get up!" he yelled. A choked gasp ripped from my throat as he pulled upwards on the leash, not even giving me time to obey his order. I instinctively grabbed and pulled on the leash, trying to situate it so that I wasn't completely choking.

Bad move on my part.

The Pet Master hated it when I tried to do something against him.

"You little…" he mumbled angrily, raising his foot.

I tucked my head down, bracing for impact. What I wasn't expecting was for the man to take casual, a step in between us before the pet master could kick me.

"I prefer my belongings to be intact." He said plainly, extending his hand towards him.

Both me and the pet master stared at him in disbelief. The pet master sighed, regaining his business composure. His eyes quickly glanced to the sides, making sure that no one else saw what he did, since that wouldn't be good for business.

"Right, sorry sir." he said, placing my leash in the man's hand, "Please come with me to the front."

With that, the pet master turned on his heels. I stayed there on the floor, trying to process everything. The world was moving too fast. I looked up and shrunk back as I was met with those penetrating eyes.

He gestured with his head in a 'let's go' kind of way and lightly tugged on my leash. I stood up as quickly as I could, not wanting to be choked if he decided to pull harder next time.

My legs began to shake as I stood, both from the pain and because of the fact that I hadn't actually used them in a while. The man waited until I was steady, noticing my struggle, before he started walking.

This vampire was weird.

The pet master would have just started dragging me if I took that long.

It made me uncomfortable.

I made my best effort to keep a good amount of distance between us. Enough that the leash had some slack in it, and that there was no question on whether I was walking behind him. I almost ran into him, not realizing that he had stopped.

"Do you need anything else today?" the pet master said as he gestured to the assortments of collars, leashes, whips, muzzles and countless other things that I wasn't sure I wanted to know the uses of.

The man looked down at me before looking at the selection.

I avoided eye contact at all costs out of fear of what the consequences would be.

"Yea, I'll take those," he said, pointing at something that I couldn't see.

"Excellent choice." the pet master said, retrieving whatever the man had asked for.

The uncertainty made me shift uncomfortably.

"Are you certain that you don't need any whips? You might need it with that one," he said, pointing to me.

The man shook his head, making my nerves calm down ever-so-slightly.

"Nah. I already have one," he said.

Never mind on that.