Page 24 of Cinderella and Her Vampires (Dirty Paranormal Fairytale Haremlan 5)

I wanted to find a way to make him pay for his transgression. For constantly treating me like I was beneath him. For always telling me I wasn’t good enough. Tonight, he had done his last misgiving toward me.

“Like it or not, what I did was my call,” Silas said. His words burned through my frame. “Again, you didn’t see her first. I did.”

“Is that so?” I snapped. “At a human bar? You honestly want me to believe you met her the same night you brought Collin back here?”

He nodded once. “The other night. I went among the humans and caught a scent that led me to her.”

I shook my head. “Lies.”

The word echoed loudly through the room.

Silas, taking what I had said as a challenge, hissed and took a couple of steps toward me. “Whether you believe me or not makes no difference. I did what I had to do.”

“But did you have to be the one who tasted and fucked her?” I asked. “Does it always have to be you first? Do you not care how your actions have affected me or Xavier?”

“My methods were necessary enough for me to act on them. Regardless of whose feelings were caught in the middle,” Silas added. “My motives were a means to an end and nothing more.”

“It’s not fair!” I snapped.

Silas hissed again, flew through the air, and slammed into me. I flew backward until I slammed into the wall with enough force to cause a crack to appear stretch toward the ceiling. Silas stared me in my eyes and growled out, “So long as I am Prince, you will show respect and stay in your place. If you want the girl so bad, you can have her. But she will not become a distraction. If she does, I will break her neck myself. Especially if I believe you are falling under her charm.”

I glared back, not saying a single word. Words were useless at this point. He made his position quite clear. There was nothing I could say or do that would change his mind.

“At least, until I know for sure the girl won’t be causing any more trouble,” Silas added and then released me. His words were much calmer this time.

He kept his eyes on me as I adjusted my clothing. I figured he was waiting for some sort of acknowledgement as well. So, I added a smirk to match the glare in my eyes. He was my vampire father. My sire, after all.

“Well?” Silas asked.

I nodded once and left the room. But going after the girl wasn’t on my list of things to do. She was sloppy seconds now. And I didn’t want what Silas ruined. I was going to get my way on one thing, even if it killed me in the end. Silas was going to learn to give me the respect I deserved. He was going to learn that I was capable of leading. I was able to sire my own children. I could have women and not have to have him stand in the way. I could have my own everything without him.

My thoughts moved my feet and I whispered through the halls on a mission.

Minutes later, I stood in Collin’s cell. I was going to give him exactly what he wanted to get his revenge.

“You made your decision on what you wanted?” Collin asked.

I smirked. “I have.”

“Let’s hear it, then,” he said.

“I have a better idea,” I said and approached the man chained to the wall.

Collin stared at me as I moved. The closer I got to him, the more Collin realized what I had planned to do. He could read it on my face.

Little did he know, this was only the beginning.

11

CINDY

I was in a deep, dreamless sleep. But as time ticked by, the sleep slowly faded, and things started to come to me. Little things. Things that didn’t add up. The sound of the world outside of wherever I was. The smell of the air I breathed in. The softness of the floor I slept on. The warmth that surrounded me.

The annoying ringing of my phone.

I shot up into a sitting position. It took several seconds for my eyes to shift into focus, but I didn’t need very long to recognize my own bedroom. Even through my blurred vision. The question was how the hell I managed to make it home.

My phone stopped ringing. I stared at the thing as my mind went full tilt.

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