**Ch 333: Secrets Revealed [R-18]

[Viewer Discretion Is Advised.]

All the furniture, wall pictures, and whatever else is burning away in the room as my babies' unbearable cries blared over the sweltering flames. In all directions, I scanned everywhere to find an escape to get me and my babies out of this illusion. The bedroom door was engulfed with fire, and the double glass doors to the balcony were blocked with a wall of fire. As my eyes found Orlando, he abruptly launched his body on top of me, and then he forced my backbone onto the bed from underneath him.

"Let us go!" I screamed as he pinned my wrists above my head, and I suddenly realized I was now wearing a revealing bright red sparkly dress that was way too short. It barely reached my thighs.

"Never," he whispered frightfully into my ear. "Even in your dreams, you can't escape me."

"How is that possible?" my chest rapidly heaved up and down as he ogled my breasts that hung out of my low-cut cleavage.

"Unlike Kai having a wasteful mind control gift, my first gift gives me the power to enter dreams," Orlando revealed. "Unfortunately, we both have the same second gift, though."

"You're a dream walker!" I cringed as he squeezed my wrists tighter.

Orlando taunted. "You guessed it."

"Get off of me!" I yelled, and he sneered at me yelling in his face.

"Mind yourself now," Orlando warned. "You owe my family and I."

"You and your family can go rot in a tar pit!" I spat, trying to twist my wrists free, but there was no use.

In a hoarse raw voice, Orlando fiendishly chuckled. "Who do you think kept you safe all these years?" he asked.

"It can't be true," I whispered as I thought back to what Athena told me the first time I met her on the roadway.

"You silly girl! The Collin Coven wasn't the only Coven watching you. You think what you feel now is pain. You have no idea what you're in the middle of. Your broken heart hasn't begun!" Her exact words flashed in my head.

"You've always been around!" I breathed, and he smirked.

Orlando revealed his secrets. "My grandma, Morbius's wife, and Aunt Emily delivered you. Unlike Kai and his family, who abandoned you to be unprotected, my family and I have been around like your dark guardian angels since the day you were conceived by your teenage parents. Otherwise, if we hadn't, another Coven would have killed you in the womb."

"This can't be the truth!" I held in my tears, and I still tried yanking my wrist, but he only held me tighter from squirming.

"Oh, but it is true." He grinned like a creepy clown. "For being human, you were the most beautiful baby I have ever seen in my endless years. You hated me when I held you. I knew then I'd have to work hard at claiming your heart. I even had to start eating human food for you, which I'll tell you now, that was very unpleasant."

I heaved while I was utterly speechless to hear these secrets. The cries from my babies were the only thing that snapped me awake. Real hard, I fought again to get out of his grasp. Just as quickly, he released my wrist, and then he ripped my dress in half, which fully exposed my underwire red-laced fabric bra.

"I know you love black, but I always felt red looked incredibly sexy on your body," he flirted before his long tongue licked along my neck, which was repulsive to me.

"Don't you dare try anything!" I fought by wiggling from underneath his muscles, but he kept me pinned beneath him.

"Don't act like we didn't have fun those other times I entered your dreams," he reminded me. "You had a blast until I would bite you."

"You're a sicko!" I snapped in his face, but he only laughed.

"Come on, babe, who are you fooling? Yourself?" Orlando asked such a ridiculous question. "We both know you still love me."

"I don't!" I yelled as the fire sizzled around us, and my babies still wailed.

"Somewhere deep down inside your conscience, you still do. You're only denying it." Orlando whispered seductively before his fangs elongated larger, and then his neck harshly bent down.

"Aaah!" I shrieked once his fangs punctured right into the crook of my neck. Hot blood rolled down my throat as he dug in deeper. Passing the roaring flames, loud sucking sounds traveled to my ears. As the painful bite only increased, I tried kicking underneath his well-proportioned shaped figure. To my failure to break free, his fingers end up groping my upper left thigh.

"Aaaaah!" I only screamed louder when my ankle was getting fried by the fire.

"Victoria, you need to wake up!" I briefly heard Kai's voice.

"Kai!" I called as tears started to swell in my eyelids.

Taking his time, Orlando slowly withdrew his fangs from the skin on my neck. My entire neck was throbbing in pain, and I felt weaker.

"He can't help you. Nor can he help his offspring," Orlando taunted.

As I looked to my right, I still saw the three bassinets were lit with fire, and I could hear my vamp babies screaming non-stop inside them.

Kai's voice echoed again. "Victoria, wake up!"

"Kai, help us!" I yelled, and Orlando laughed at my pathetic outcry for help.

"I said he can't help you." He grinned sinisterly before his face lowered to my neck, where he began to lick the blood he left there.

"Victoria!"

"Kai, I hear you!" I shouted, feeling fraught by Orlando.

His unpleasant breath circulated into my skin as he suggestively insisted. "Give up because it's useless."

"Don't listen to him!" Kai hollered from the fiery ceiling. "We are stronger together. This is your dream! Think of something to use against him."

"I liked to see you try," Orlando mocked me between his busy lips, which were kissing everywhere on my chest.

To end this torment, I focused really hard to envision a short metal rod in my right hand, which I had stretched away from Orlando's sight. I felt the weight of it pressing in my palm as it was flashing like a lightbulb into a configured shape.

"You know Orlando," I say, which brought his attention to look down upon me.

"Yes, beautiful?" he eyed me intensely with a concupiscent gaze.

"You're wrong about me loving you because I was in love with the man you pretended to be. But I will never love the sadistic creature you hid behind the mask!" I spit saliva in his face, and he hissed in full-on aggression.

All four of his fangs expanded as the rod took solid form in my hand, and then I quickly cracked the rod against his nose, which spontaneously broke his flesh open to bleed upon impact.