Page 1 of Tamed By Her Vampire Protector

Chapter 1

Meghan

From the other side of the room, I heard the other captive girls giggling.Shoving the pillow over my ears, I tried to drown them out.

“Junmin is so dreamy.”

“I like Carson better.I could drown in those baby blue eyes.”

The pillow was no use.I could still hear them as they flipped through a magazine and oohed and ahhed over how dreamy whatever insipid boy band member was mentioned in the pages.

How quickly things changed.When the vampires captured us from the humans who sold us out, the girls were scared and cowering in their own piss.It took less than a week for them to transform into a bunch of giggly teenage girls.

All it took was a couple magazines, some nice clothes, and some snacks from our vampire captors.The vampires would drop off a box of stuff for us every week after they went to the city to scavenge for supplies.Even though they brought us supplies, it didn’t mean they were going to let us out of our dingy room that resembled a prison cell.

“Leo’s even dreamier.He would fit right in with the rest of the band.”

They giggled again.This time, one of them let out an undignified snort as they laughed.I rolled my eyes.The way they swooned over the tall blond vampire who guarded our room was even more vomit inducing than their obsession with some pop band that ceased to exist years ago.

I would bet every last piece of chocolate I had hidden under my mattress that Jun and Carson were already dead, turned into bloody human juice boxes for some gang of vamps.There was nothing much left from the before times after the vampires brought about permanent night and took over the world.

“Hey, Meghan, which member of Five-O do you think is the hottest?”

I groaned.“The one with a wart on his ass.”

“What?”

“Oh, leave her alone, you two.Meghan’s too sophisticated to care about Five-O,” said one of the other girls.

“What a bitch.”

“Hey, we should do a Five-O theme for Christmas this year.”

The giggling resumed as they resumed flipping through the magazine.Turning on my side, I stared at the concrete wall and ignored them.The metal of the bed frame dug into my hips through the flimsy mattress.I pulled the scratchy blanket over my shoulders and closed my eyes.

Though the girls tried to cheer the place up with some string lights and magazine cutouts taped to the walls, there was no denying that we were here to be servants for the vampires.Nothing more.We weren’t going to be pampered like the human women who chose to betray their own people and sleep with the vampires.

It didn’t take very long for the vampires to put all of us to work once they captured us from the human men who betrayed us.We spent our days working in the kitchens, cleaning and cooking meals for the vampires’ female consorts.We were also made to donate blood every week to help replenish the vampires’ food supplies.

This strange group of vampires who captured us preferred to drink blood from a tap rather than fresh from a warm living body like most other vamps I’ve encountered.Perhaps the world was running out of humans, and they needed to squeeze every last drop out of us.Something like not slaughtering the goose while it was laying golden eggs for you.

While I didn’t like being forced to donate blood, it meant that the vamps made sure we got to eat fresh meat and vegetables, whatever was leftover from cooking for the human consorts.We had to replenish our lost blood cells, after all.Still, it was real food, not whatever canned stuff and stale crackers we could scavenge from the remaining grocery stores that hadn’t already been looted.

Before our capture, the last time I ate food that didn’t come from a can was when I was backpacking across Europe.I met another girl on the trains and together, Amanda and I ate our way across Paris in the weeks before the vampires attacked.Those were some of the happiest weeks of my life.Whatever happened to Amanda after we were separated, I prayed that it was painless and that she didn’t suffer too long.My chest ached for the best friend I only knew for a short while.

I closed my eyes, holding back the tears that threatened to leak out.Back when I was living with my parents in Michigan, I wanted nothing more than to escape and see the world.Now, there was nothing I wanted more than my mother’s arms around me and the smell of her perfume.

I guess I shouldn’t complain.The vampires here were nice enough, and one of their human consorts, Rose, stopped by regularly with treats and luxuries like fancy soaps and clothes for us.

Compared to the humans who abused and sold us to the vamps, the bloodsuckers were practically saints.There was nothing more I wanted than to forget about those dark days in the human settlement.What was supposed to be a sanctuary from the vampires turned into a prison of nightmares.The men there ruled the compound like tyrants.The women there were raped and abused, then when they were empty husks of themselves, sold to the vampires as walking blood bags.

The men left me alone once I taught one of them a lesson he would never forget.I could still smell his sour, fetid breath in my face when he climbed on top of me.It was amazing how easily my teeth sank through human flesh.Without modern medicine to attach his lips, the asshole remained a drooling lipless freak.Good thing human women were worth so much on the market, or they would have killed me on the spot.I became known as the crazy bitch, and none of them dared to touch me after the lip incident.

Not surprisingly, the other girls didn’t seem too displeased with the current arrangement.Of course, the sickly sweet calming potion the vampires forced us to drink every week may have had something to do with that.At first, I couldn’t believe that they had witches in their group.The witches who were willing to work with the vampires should have been working with the covens to banish the monsters from existence.But in this dark new world, some people were willing to compromise on their morals in order to survive.

Nobody had to know that I dumped every bottle handed to me down the toilet.There was no way I was going to drink some mind control potion.I would rather die than turn into an obedient zombie servant for the blood suckers.

Keys jangled and the lock on our door turned.I rolled over and faced the door.

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