Page 88 of Blood Bonds

“Foolish girl, our Fated believes she can make us forget.”

Tal laughed bitterly and agreed.

“Oh little Peach, you have no idea who you’re dealing with, do you?”

I started shaking my head, knowing they needed the truth.

“I’m not the one who has been fooled, but you two have been. You think all of this was real when it only ever real was for me. That’s the cruel part. We have all been played the fool, but you’re right, no more foolish than me, because I believed…fuck, how badly I wished for it to be real,”I told them, looking up at the ceiling and trying to hold back the next wave of tears.

“It was real!”Victor stated angrily, and his brother followed suit.

“Very fucking real and if you would release us, we will kindly prove it again!”

“I am sorry,” I said again, wondering how many more times I would say it before I finally got the courage to leave.

“You keep saying that, little one, but your words are rather empty when you don’t do anything to rectify your mistakes,” Victor said harshly, making me flinch at the dangerous tone.

“Oh trust me, the only reason I am about to rectify them is because I love you both.”

“Another empty sentiment when you stand there and refuse us our right to touch you,” Victor added, his anger mounting by the second.

“Believe what you want because pretty soon it won’t matter anyway,” I told him, making Tal growl,

“Whatever you have planned, it is a mistake. I don’t know who has gotten to you, but if you think for one second that there is anything or anyone powerful enough for a Vampire to forget his Fated after tasting her, then you are the only one mistaken.”

“I am not your Fated,” I said heatedly, swiping at my tears and hating the way it looked as if I had just struck both of them as they flinched.

“Your punishment just keeps mounting, Sweetheart, so I suggest you stop now and listen to me when I tell you, this is your last chance to rectify all of this. Release us, and do it now!” Victor demanded, making me remind him,

“I am afraid that my time for following orders is at an end because it is daylight. Which means I am no longer under your control. And it may be hard for you to believe but I wish it wasn’t the case, because that way I may not feel the immeasurable amount of guilt that I do.” Victor shook his head and told me,

“Oh, sweet girl, you speak of this like it is the end.”

“It soon will be,” I stated firmly.

“NO! No, it fucking won’t, and it never will be, do you understand me?!” he snapped, his roar of anger making me take a few quick steps back in fear. Fuck, he was frightening when he did that, with the way his eyes flashed demonically and his fangs extended.

“Listen to him, Nessa, for he speaks the truth,” Tal tried as if he was currently playing good cop.

“I wish it didn’t have to play out this way. But please know that I am sorry I let it get this far. That I allowed myself to get so carried away and we…that I allowed last night to happen.”

“Save your regrets!” Victor snarled angrily, making me flinch.

“My only regret is taking advantage of the situation. Of the lie you have been made to believe!” I argued, wondering why I still here. It was like I couldn’t seem to just make myself walk away.

“The only lies are the ones you tell yourself by thinking you can just walk away. The lie you believe in thinking you can ever run from us, that there is a single place on this planet you believe you can hide… for I make you this vow, girl…we will fucking find you!”

“Victor, easy, Brother,” Tal tried to get him to calm down, only he snarled and continued regardless.

I took a few small steps back, as if he had the power to burst free any second,

“We will find you, Nessa, and make no mistake, we will not be so trusting the next time we make you our prisoner!”

I gasped at this, knowing it was most definitely my time to leave.

“Then I am truly sorry, and even more so for what I have to do next,” I said, knowing that if Victor hated me right now, then the next time he found me he wouldn’t just want to make me his prisoner…no, next time he found me he would want to kill me.My only hope of surviving his wrath was if their memories were truly taken.

So with little choice but to hope for the memories being wiped, I walked toward the dagger making Victor gasp, warning me dangerously,

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