Chapter 1 ~ Souls

Angelique

As I awake I feel a presence by my side Louis my love, I think and the memories of the night before come flooding back. I now realize it is not Louis beside me but my wonderful and always charming Beaumont.

I know I am smiling but I can’t help it just knowing that I am in his arms makes me forget about how wrong this is, for me, Angelique Alice Marie Chousiel, the oldest daughter of the Queen to be in bed with a boy from a very low family of our kind. I am next in line after the Queen, and my family has been heading our people for centuries now, who am I to try and break tradition.

Beaumont’s family is new to living the life of being civalized, they had lived rogue for a good part of five meleniums. Beaumont’s parents were the first of his family to become civalized, and only a year later was Beaumont born. Mt parents don’t believe that Beaumont is really civalized, but they think his younger sister is.

I feel his arms tighten around my fragile body, and I know he is awake and looking at me. I decide there is no point in keeping my eyes closed and open them to look at him. He is smiling his cute and very attractive half smile, but I am looking at his beautiful eyes that go crimson red when he is really hungry, but right now, his eyes are pure ice blue, as they had been when we were children.

Beaumont tilts his head and gives me one of his soft slow kisses, his lips barley touch mine. I realize I have no idea what time it is or, where we are for that matter, I push away from him trying not to see the hurt in this eyes.

"What time is it and where are we?" I ask franticly. I look around at my surroundings, not making sense of any of it. Not the blue dresser with my shirt on it or the old wooden floor and base boards. Why am I in a room I don’t remember being in when I fell asleep.

"Calm down my dear, we are at my house and it is six in the morning." He says in a soft voice. He seems very calm and that sooths me a bit, I now recognize the guest bedroom of his apartment.

"Calm down? Calm down it’s six in the morning and I have to get home before my mom realizes I’m not home!" I scream while getting dressed and search for my jacket.

Beaumont walks over to the chair and picks up my jacket with his long steady fingers, strides over and hands it to me with his strong out stretched arm. He is only wearing flannel bottoms and I can see nearly every curve to his muscle toned body, correction I can see every muscle.

"Do you want me to bring you home?" He asks with his deep Italian accent and when he thinks I’m not paying attention I can hear a bit of the Russian creep into the edges, his voice is low and soft. I can remember when that voice was still high and squeaky, how he had changed so much since then. We have always been friends I can’t remember a time where he wasn’t around, he had been there for all my birthdays, even when Louis could not make it.

"Oh Beaumont, the poor girl is perfectly capable of driving herself home she’s not two, now are you?" A sarcastic voice says from the door way, I know exactly who it is without turning around, Nakea.

Nakea is one of my best friends who just happens to be Beaumont’s younger sister. With her long bright colourful hair and deep sea green eyes, eyeliner on thick with bright shadow, she is a scene girl and everyone knows it.

"No I am not two, and nice of you to knock Nakea who knows what we might have been up to. I have my car here Beaumont I do not need a drive." I add the last part in a matter of fact tone.

"I heard you guys yelling from the other side of the apartment sorry but yelling is not one of your normal sounds when you wake up next to him, and whatever you might have been doing I’ve more then likely seen you do it before." She gives me that look that means I’m right and you know it.

My cell phone starts to ring in my pocket *Pretty Pretty Please,* I take it out and look at the caller ID Louis is calling me, of great. I flip it open to answer it and say. "Hello."

"Hello Angelique I’m just calling to remind you that we are meeting to talk about the wedding at seven." He says.

"Oh I remember I am just going to get ready and I will be on my way." I say.

"Alright see you then." He hangs up the phone. I shut my phone and see Beaumont was listening to every word and he is hurt that I am leaving.

"Before you leave Angel, I meant to give this to you last night." He hands me a piece of paper, I shove it in my pocket.

"I’m sorry but I really have to go, I have a meeting in half an hour." I gave him a quick kiss, hug Nea,grab my keys and run out the door. I am supposed to meet Louis for breakfast at seven and it’s now six thirty.

I still have to go home and change into a decent outfit, and try to think of an excuse for not coming home at all last night before my mom realizes it.

Persephone

I am sitting at my desk in the library with Darcy as Tor comes in. Darcy and I are doing our regular thing, researching about our histories. Tor grabs my attention from my work by stealing the book I am reading. I look up at him and ask most politely. "What?"

Tor looks at me like I am missing something. I take more notice of his appearance. His hair is windblown and his clothes are slightly torn in places like a branch had caught in it. He must have been running the patrol of the borders of our land as he usually does.

"You found something while out on patrol?" I say. Darcy looks up, now interested.

"Yes isn’t that much obvious? I found a new scent near our land and I fallowed it." He looks around as if he were back outside at the trail. "The trail led through the next town over and there were traces of the scent of blood, human blood. There was a trace of Vigee-Lebrun scent as well." With that Darcy leaps up gives me a hug says goodbye and runs down the stairs and out the door.

"Well this is not good." I say, stating the obvious.

Beaumont

Angelique left and once more I am alone when she goes to see him. I can feel it in my bones Josette is near, but why? Why would my exiled twin sister be coming back to a place she can not even remember.

The prophecy tells that one will kill the other, for we may be twins but we could not be less alike. I am in love with the Princes who is betrothed to the Sultan of the Underworld, and she is to destroy all of vampire kind.

I try to clean up our apartment after last night, I’m trying to keep my mind off of everything I feel for this woman because she isn’t mine. Nakea has left to go to the salon to get her hair done, and I hope she doesn’t come home any time soon. I don’t want her to come home and tell me for the millionth time that I should move on and get over Angel.

It’s not my fault, I’ve been attracted to her since we were small. I’ve always felt a pull to be around her, I should have been hanging out with Daniel and James, but I hung out with Darcy and Angel instead. I always got along with the older boys its just I always eneded up with the younger ones.

I go into my room and lay on my bed, I look around the room and everywhere I look there is something that reminds me of her even though she has only been in this room a few times. I have all of her school pictures, and pictures of us on summer breaks, and a picture of our first date before we found out that she has to be with Louis.

I don’t let Nakea in my room for fear of her thinking I’m crazy and obsessed with Angel, I get up off my bed and leave the house, must find her and ask what she is doing. She can’t lie to me we always know if the other one is lying or not telling the whole truth. We have only met a few times in our life but we know if one is near the other, my parents sent her to Russia when they heard the prophecy.

We were a new family to the civalized life and if we killed one of our own we would have been frowned upon, but if they would have kept her we all would have been exiled when the prophecy got out.

As I come out of the forest just off of our territory I see her. She is a small woman with short blond hair, a very round face and the ice blue eyes that run in the family.

"What are you doing here?" She asks in an annoyed tone.

"I’ve come to ask you that exact same question?" I say leaning on a tree.

"I am starting an army. Are you still trying to get the preppy princess, Angelique is it?" She says like there is nothing to worry about.

"You’re starting an army and you ask me about my love life?" I say in astonishment.

"Yeah I really don’t like her." She says.

"Okay, whose all in this army of yours, and yes I’m still after her." I say.

"Well you see I’m still working on it but most of them are nearly created vampires so they don’t have any family history for you and your friends to try and look up. But I can tell you that my mate William O’Devilin." She says like she hasn’t told me anything.

"Okay thanks I’ll go now." I say not wanting to stay any longer.

"Whatever bye." I leave at a run as fast as I can. My only problem is that she is my sister and I still lover her and I don’t want to kill her. What am I going to do when they find out she is here or that I know she is here.

Angelique

The west side of town has a wall of naturally placed rock that is the base of a small mountain. My home is placed on a big lot on the very edge near the rock wall. Our house is an old manner style house with three stories. When you walk in the front door there is a grand staircase to the left with a landing overlooking the entrance, with a hall to the rest of the house to the right.

The living room is at the front of the house to the right of the entrance, with a stone fireplace and a flat screen TV over the mantle. We have old leather furniture and antique end tables. The master bedroom is to the back of the house behind the living room. The left side of the house has the dinning room at the front and the kitchen and bathroom to the back of the house.

There is a door to the left of the staircase that is Daniel’s room, in front of the stairs is the door to James’ room, there is a bathroom the two of the share that is connected to both rooms. To the right of James’ room is the little girls Roslind and Josette’s room they have a bathroom connected to their room.

On the wall to the left of the landing are two doors the first one is a staircase to the third floor and the other door is the door is the door to my room. The staircase has a small landing and a turn to go up a bit farther. At the top of the stairs is a hall, the first door to the right is Darcy’s room, the door after that is Lancelot’s room they each have their own bathroom. After Lancelot’s door is Sebastin’s room, and the last door is Nicholas’ room, they share a bathroom.

The house is beautiful on the outside, it is kept well and with six boys, mom has to find something for them to do. We have a gate at the end of the drive and a fence all around our property.

As I drive into the driveway of our beautiful house I see my mother standing on the doorstep, she is not happy with me. I can also see five sets of eyes looking through the windows, my brothers are mad as well.

I climb out of my car and decide I will tell her the truth, well I will tell the truth to Darcy anyways, but to mom it will be most of the truth.

"Dove sei stato, young lady." Oh god she is talking in Italian again, asking where I have been in her stricked mother voice. She looks good for fifty years old, with long pin straight hair, grey eyes and she looks only thirty or forty.

I can see my brothers clearly in the windows as I walk toward the house, they all smirk at me. I know they can hear what she is saying.

"Mother I’m twenty, I’m not a young lady anymore." She’s giving me the no sass look so I say. "I was at Beaumont and Nakea’s and we got drunk, I didn’t want to risk driving home so I slept in one of the spare rooms." That is mostly the truth, I did sleep in the spare room and I was drunk, I was just very weak from being fed from as well. I can see the shock in my brothers’ and mother’s eyes.

"Angelique! If Louis finds out you stayed the night at another mans house it could wreak everything me and your father have planned for you!" Of course that is what she is worried about.

She never asks me if I want to marry Louis, no I am just expected to because the old ones said one from y family would marry one from theirs, and since my sisters are two young I am the one they choose, but I want to marry Beaumont.

"I know, I’m sorry mother." I walk past her into the house and up the grand staircase. All my brothers start yelling at once. I walk into my room ignoring them all, down the hall I hear my mother call out. "You have to meet Louis in twenty minutes at Fritery." I go to my walk in closet and pick out a long flowy black skirt and a wonderful red shirt I got the day before.

Darcy walks into my room without knocking and stands next to me. "So what really happened that took you so long to get home?" Darcy is the youngest of my older brothers and is my best friend I have always told him everything, all of my darkest secrets.

"You really want to know?" He nods his head yes. "Well I did get drunk with Beaumont and Nakea. When Nakea went to bed, me and Beaumont went to the spare room and then he…ah… well I let him… I let him drink from me." Darcy is looking at me horrified, then he smiles and laughs.

"I always knew it’s okay, I’m not mad. I remember after the first time you came home and vomited everywhere. I told mom you were drunk, to keep her from asking questions." He always covers for me when I can’t myself.

I smile at him. "Thanks Darcy you’re the best, oh crap I have to go, I have ten minutes to get to Fristery." I give him a quick hug, and go to leave my room.

"I need to talk to you when you get home Angel." I hear Darcy yell as I walk down the stairs.

Louis is known as the Sultan of the Underworld he got the title when his father died a few years back. I can remember how sad he was. I have known him since we were small seeing as our parents were best friends, we spent a lot of time together, with my brothers as babysitters.

We eneded up being very good friends but to marry him I can never do that, I don’t like him in that way, I like Beaumont In that way. Louis is six feet tall and kind of lanky and awkward but has the muscle to back it up, with light brown hair and blue eyes.

I walk into Fritery’s,an old restaurant on the far end of town. I see Louis sitting at our favorite table, as I get to the table the waitress walks over. She is young maybe sixteen, she has the beauty only a sixteen year old can have. I can tell she is about to get off work because she seems a little distracted.

"Angelique? Do you want something?" Louis asks throwing me out of my train of thought.

"Oh, um coffee please." I give him a smile.

"I already ordered you a coffee sweetheart would you like something else?" Louis asks me with a big smile. God do I feel stupid, I was caught up in my thoughts I didn’t realize he ordered me a coffee.
"Oh no I just need coffee." I giggle and lean over and give him a quick kiss.

"Long night again I see?" Of course he can see it in my makeup less face that I had not gotten much sleep, he just knows me that well.
"Ya, I was out with Beaumont, and Nea." I look down at my coffee that the waitress just put in front of me hoping he will not ask me anymore questions. I don’t want to explain exactly what the three of us were doing together.

"Well anyway, what colour would you like the brides maids dresses my dear?" I can tell he knows I don’t want to talk about my night, so he changed the subject to a different topic I don’t want to talk about, oh joy.

I think maybe a light blue or even a lilac colour, if that’s alright with you, Louis." Really I do not want either of those colours, I want black brides maid dresses and a red dress for myself, but for a wedding with Louis those colours wouldn’t work. Louis is very conventional man red and black are colours of the wedding I truly want with Beaumont.

"Those are beautiful colours, but you will have to make up your mind soon dear. Why hello Claudius, nice to see you here." Claudius is our funny friend, who always seems to show up at the perfect time.

"I saw the two of you through the window and thought I would come in to say hello." Claudius says as he steals a chair from the table to the right and sits with us.

"Hello Claudius, nice to see you again." He looks over at the door smiles and says. "I think you have a visitor, Angel."

I look over and see a grey-blue cat walk in the door, and I know it is Nessa. I only see Nessa when Persephone sends me a letter or when Persephone is around. Nessa comes to the table and I see the letter tied to her neck. I lean down and untie it from her neck to read it.

Dearest Angelique;
I am writing to tell you of a great evil coming to our peaceful way of life. A woman by the name of Josette Vigee-Lebrun (the name startled me, could she be a relative of our friends Nakea and Beaumont?) has been killing near our territory. That should not be taken lightly. I am frightened about the safety of the rest of us.
I propose a council within a fortnight of now. Send Nessa back with your reply, don’t take too long we need to hurry.

Sincerely Yours

Persephone

Oh f**k this is not good, I look up and see Claudius and Louis staring at me and I notice my mouth is open, I close it quickly. "Sorry guys but I have to go, I’ll stop by your place after I have a nap, I’ll explain the note when I get there tonight." I give Claudius a hug and Louis a kiss, I then leave the restaurant with Nessa at my, heals.

~*~

I go straight up to my room as I get home, to write back to Persephone. I sit down at my grand desk take out my stationary and start to write.

As I finish my letter, I tie it to Nessa’s neck, who was sleeping on my beautiful black silk bed. Nessa wakes up in the middle of my tying it and see soon as I finish, she jumps off my bed and runs out of the room.

Now what am I going to do with myself for the rest of the day? I walk out of my bedroom and see Rosalind leaning aginst the wall waiting to talk to me.

Why can’t I be an only child? Why do I have to have five older brothers, two younger sister and a little brother. "So where were you last night? Were you with Louis? Or oh my god were you with Beaumont?" I can see her eyes light up more with every question.

"Slow down, and you don’t need to know where I was because it’s none of your business." I say.

"Oh please tell me."

"No! Now leave me alone."

I walk down the stairs and see father standing at the front door. Father is a big man with broad shoulders and a go-tea. "Your mother tells me you stayed the night in Beaumont’s spare bedroom because you were drunk, now is that any way for a Choiseul lady to behave. Should a Choiseul lady be getting drunk with other men so close to her wedding and then staying at their houses. I say not! You are getting married soon you should not be going out at all, let alone staying out all night with Beaumont!

That boy is going to be the end of you my dear, Louis will find out and then where will this family be, your sister is to young to marry him. You know our families have an arrangement if we had a daughter she would marry their son if they had one."

"I’m sorry father, I know I have to behave better or I will lose Louis, and if I lose Louis then I will not be able to find a husband and I will not be able to have children of my own. I know father you have said the same thing many times and I am very sorry." Father walks around me and up the stairs without another word.

I go to the fridge and get a bottle of water. "Angelique when was the last time you hunted you are so pale?" Mother is so quiet I don’t notice her at the kitchen table.

"I’m not sure, two weeks ago. Do not worry, I am going with Beaumont tonight to hunt." Good thing she doesn’t know what I want to do after hunting.
"You spend so much time with him, why can’t you get Louis to take you hunting, and you know you have to keep up with your hunting." Mother looks so worried.

"Mother you know Louis has a lot of work and barley had enough time to hunt for himself let alone take me with him, and I know I have to hunt more. I’m going to bed for a while I will talk to you later." I go up to my room and almost as soon as my head hits the pillow I’m asleep.

I wake up to my phone ringing, I answer very sleepily. "Hello?"

"Hello hun, did I wake you?" It takes me a minute to realize that I’m talking to Louis.

"Oh yeah I had a head ach when I got home so I lied down to watch tv and I guess I feel asleep." I am still half asleep as I lay out my lie, god I hate lying.

"Alright I was just wondering what is going on that you had to write to Persephone right away?" He sounds really concerned.

"Oh we can talk about that when I get to your house, okay?"

"Alright, when will you be here?"

"I’ll be there soon darling."

"Okay love you, Angelique."

"Love you too." I close my phone. Oh great now I have to go to Louis’ house.

　

~*~

Persephone

Nessa jumps up beside me with Angelique’s letter.

Dear Persephone;

I’m afraid she might possibly be related to him there is only one Vigee-Lebrun family in the area and Beaumont’s father was an only vhild. That means anyone around here with his name will most defianitly be related to him.. I will talk to him about it tonight when we go hunting together (he says he’ll get me a wolf tonight, you know how hard it is for me not to get bit well fighting with them). Send Nessa back if you find anything more out about Josette.

Sincerely Your

Angelique

Tor walks into the room just then, he looks concerned. "Josette has been sighted, and she is strong; Almost as strong as Beaumont."

"Crap." Is all I say.

Angelique

Oh god I really dint want to be here, I think as I stand in front of the door of his town house. It is the same house he grew up in, I bet there is still a dent in the wall where we fell down the stairs and I bounced my head off the wall when we were six. I finally get up the courage and knock on the door.

I can hear his foot steps coming toward the door, it opens and there is Louis in his unbuttoned dress shirt and jeans. "Angel you know you don’t need to knock, come on in." He smiles at me as I step through the doorway to allow him to close it.

I go into the living room and sit on the sofa and put my purse on the floor. The hard wood floors are well warn and you can see the original colour of the wood on the railing of the staircase. Louis is standing in front of me now. "So tell me what the letter said?"

I tell him all about Josette hunting on our territory and that Persephone has called a meeting at her house. Louis thinks the meeting is the perfect move, and says he will leave early to help Persephone organize everything. "Thank you Louis, I think she will be very pleased to hear that."

Louis smiles at me from his place on the love seat. "Now time to get down to business, and talk about the wedding." Oh yay… wedding details. Crap I have no idea what to say, I have to remember everything mother told me she liked.

Louis goes right into wedding mode, he starts talking about flowers and colours and seating plans. I just tell him everything mom told me and I even take out her notes from my purse on I so that I know I am telling him everything she wants, since this is more her wedding then mine. Mother pretends to act like it matters what I think of things but then she will make a big argument so that I agree with what she wants. Louis talks about invitations and the cake, and I just space out and repeat everything I have heard from my mother about the wedding.

I’m just going through the motions I’m not really feeling any of this wedding but I have to make it seem like I am as not to hurt him. Mother is always worried that Louis will realize I am not a blushing bride. "Angel, I think you should go and eat something you look like you are starving yourself." Louis sounds concerned again.

"Are you sure Louis?" I ask hesitantly.

"Yes Angel." He smiles and gets off the love seat to walk me to the door. I pick up my purse and walk with him I give him a quick kiss and leave. Instead of going to get something to eat. I drive home, Darcy said he wanted to talk to me and we still haven’t talked.

I walk into the living room and sit next to Darcy on the couch. He is watching the history channel and they are talking about the sixteenth century. "Darcy?" I say.

"Yes Angel?" He smiles at me.

"You said you wanted to talk to me?"

"Let’s go to your room I don’t need anyone hearing what I want to say to you." Darcy is scaring me, he is never this serious with me. Darcy is the only brother I truly trust and can talk to, but I’m always scared he will "grow up" and start siding with our older brothers.

I sit on my bed and wait for him to start talking, he looks stressed. "Angel you can’t go through with this." I’m so confused, go through with what.

"Go through with what, the Josette thing?" I ask still not understanding what he’s talking about.

"No Angelique! Of course we have to deal with Josette, but I mean you can’t go through with this wedding." Oh my god he’s serious, he feels like I can’t get married.

"Are you saying I’m not good enough for Louis, or that Louis isn’t good enough for me?" How could he say such a thing, I am so good enough for him.

"Angel, you can’t marry Louis because you don’t love him, you need to marry who you love. I couldn’t tell you down stairs because mom and dad would disown me if they heard me telling you to break it off with Louis." I understand now, he’s telling me he wants me to be with my soul mate.

"I know Darcy, but how do I get out of this." I feel so bad how am I going to get out of this one, I don’t want to hurt anyone.
"You will figure it out Angel you always do, I believe in you." He smiles at me "I’m going to go back to watching my show, why don’t you try to get some sleep." I watch him walk out of my room and I lay on my bed watching the ceiling fan slowly sin around, until I fall asleep.

~*~

I wake up to paws on my bed, I sit up and see Nessa stretching out on my bed about to take a nap with another letter tied to her neck. I look at the clock five in the afternoon, I take the letter and open it to read.

Dear Angelique;

That is not a good sign… I heard a little more about her from Tor after she was sighted. Tor told me that she is definitely someone to worry about. You know how Beaumont is one of the strongest vampires we know… well she is as strong as him. Talk to Beaumont soon. We need to prepare against her.

Yours

Persephone

Persephone is my best friend, and Tor is her boyfriend, they live outside of town a ways on the far side.

Oh my, this is very bad I will have to ask Beaumont about this as soon as I see him. I now realize I am supposed to be at the end of my drive to meet Beaumont right now.

I walk down the stairs and just as I step off the last step the doorbell rings, I walk to the door and open it. Louis smiles at me from the other side of the thresh hold. He takes me into a big bear hug and spins me around. Just before he puts me down he gives me a kiss.

"So I am guessing you are not mad at my daughter for being late and leaving early at your breakfast meeting?" My father is standing in the kitchen doorway smiling at us.

"No I’m not mad we had two meeting today I just came to see her, I will be leaving for Tors’ in two days so before I go lets have coffee." He gives me another big hug. " I have to go, I am sorry Mr. Choisuel."

"Well I guess I will see you when you get back?"

"As soon as I get back I will see you, now I must go I’m sorry Angelique I thought we would have had more time to be together this morning. Have a good night I love you." He says as he closes the door behind him.

I go to open the door. "Where do you think you’re going?" Father says walking towards me.

"Hunting do you have a problem with me keeping up my health." I give him a look that says to leave me alone, he knows that I mean it and just walks back into the kitchen.

I go to the end of the drive way at a running pace, and Beaumont is waiting here for me. "Why hello young lady, thank you for finally gracing me with your presence."

"Oh Beaumont, I’m sorry I was asleep and just woke up, then Louis showed up out of nowhere. Can you blame me after the little sleep I got last night?" I give him the look he calls mischievous.

"Yes I know Louis showed up I had to hide in a bush when he left so he wouldn’t see me." I can hear the hostility in his voice.

"I wish we didn’t have to hide how we feel for each other." That makes him look a little happier, I guess knowing that I really do feel the same for him as he does for me makes him happy.

"Did you read the piece of paper I gave you?" He asks.

"Oh I almost forgot." I pull out the piece of paper and read it

~

I’m like a golden retriever

I’ll be there when he decides to leave ya

Don’t worry my intentions are true

How could they not when my heart focused on you

No matter how much things get queer

You should always know I’ll be here

If you need a shoulder to cry on

I’m the one that you can count on

Things may get really tough

But together we’ll get through it that’s no bluff

To see you and know you’re trying

That makes my soul stop dying

Either way I know it’s true

That I’ll always love you

~

"Oh my, Beaumont it is beautiful, I love it." I say.

"I knew you would now come on I’m starving, I will catch you that wolf you want." I take one more look up at the house and see ten sets of eyes watching me out the window.

"Ok and after we feed I have to ask you about something going on around the edges of our territory." We now start to run, we get to the top of the cliff far behind my house and I catch the scent of a male wolf I have been trying to get for weeks now.

Beaumont takes off at full speed and I am on his heals, but he is much faster than me and I am soon only able to fallow is scent.

I get the first whiff of fresh blood, and I take off and get there in time to see Beaumont snap the neck of my now dead wolf, how I love the sound a wolf’s neck makes as its being snapped. It makes me crave the blood even more.

"Here you go dear fresh wolf, drink up I smelled a bear up ahead. When you are done stay here, I will come back as soon as I am done."

"Alright." He leaves right away, so I pull back my dark red wavy hair, let my teeth extend into fangs, oh how it hurts to keep them in all the time. I can already taste it as I lower my head and bit into the shoulder of this beautiful wolf.

As I suck the blood out of it all I can think of is how it feels to give blood when you’re alive, and that hope this will be enough blood to get me back to my normal self after the blood I lost the night before. I suck the wolf clean out of blood, take my fangs out of his shoulder. I retreat my fangs and lay on the grass a little ways away from the wolf.

"So what did you want to ask me about now dear?" He startles me as he drops from a tall tree above where I am laying.

"Well...who is Josette Vigee-Lebrun?" I ask not meeting his eye.

"What has she done?" I look up at this to see him looking as if a train just hit him.

"She is hunting close to our territory and she’s a strong vampire like you. I know you’re related to her so please tell me who she is?" I ask and this time I want the answer.

"I know she’s been near are territory, I have a connection with her, she is my twin sister." He hangs his head in shame at the last two words. "I should of told you about her sooner but I didn’t think she would ever come back."

"Well what are we going to do? If people start to go missing they will think it was us, you know they always think it is the loners who keep to themselves, who do these things." I am frustrated with him for not telling me for not mentioning his sister before, I thought we were closer than this.

"I know, how about we meet at Persephone’s, we can figure out what we are going to do. Would you like to leave tomorrow night?" He really wants to talk about everything it seems.

"That sounds good, we can spend tonight together." I give him another mischievous smile.

"Louis would not be happy with that and your father would not be in a good mood." He can’t keep the sadness out of his eyes.

"Well that’s too bad, I want to spend time with you." He know my tone, I have made up my mind weather he likes it or not, tonight he is stuck with me.

"What would you like to do for the rest of the evening." He asks though he knows the answer already.

"Let’s go back to my place so I can write Persephone back and tell her we are coming, and to notify everyone else about the meeting. After that we can figure out what we will do." Beaumont stands and helps me up, without saying another word run to the bottom of the hill, where the cliff is.

"Would you like me to jump first and catch you when you jump I’m scared you’re still too weak to make the jump alone." He looks at me with the most concern I have ever seen him have, he must have drank more than I thought last night.

"Well alright but you better catch me." I look at him with a very worried look. Beaumont jumps with one smooth leap and lands on his two feet without even the slightest look of it being hard, he really is the strongest vampire we know.

That is it if me and Persephone want to be able to fight with him, we must capture someone and drink their blood we would never get as strong as Beaumont, he has been doing it for years with me but the two of us are very weak otherwise.

Beaumont is looking at me like I’m crazy because I’m staring into space and not jumping yet. "Oh sorry spaced out here I come." I call down to him, I see him nod his head and I jump. I close my eyes and hope to dear go (if there really is a god) that he catches me.

He does just like he said he would and I don’t even have time to get out of his arms before he is kissing me.

I pull away and I know we are alone but we are in my yard and for all I know dad may be about to come out of the house and yell at me even more for what we were doing. "I am sorry Beaumont but not here not where they could find us, you can come into the house if you want, just no kissing for all I know my dad has this place wired."

"Alright honey, let’s go." He takes off toward the house with me on his heals once again, I’m just thinking that he really does drink a lot compared to me and Persephone, when we reach the house. We walk in and right to my room without my parents noticing I have Beaumont with me.

"So this is where my beautiful snowflake sleeps, when she’s not sleeping with me. In a king sized bed with black silk sheets and a black fluffy comforter." I ignore him as he sits on my bed next to Nessa and I set to work writing to Persephone.

Nessa walks over the second my pen goes back into the ink jar, I tie my letter around her neck and off she goes. "Alright then how about you go back to your apartment and I will go to Fritery and get some food and then I will meet you at your place as soon as I’m done." I smile at him.

"That sounds good to me sweetheart." We walk down stair and see that mom and dad are in the grand living room. We just walk out the door and I go right to my car, and I drive to Frietery’s

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Your chapter is TOO LONG. Not to mention the punctuation errors, unorganised fonts and thick paragraphs. It makes it hard for readers to retain their patience and anticipation for the next chapter. If they cannot be bothered to read it carefully, your content and plot, no matter how well written, will be wasted and unnoticed.

This piece needs a major brushing up! Leave some breathing space between paragraphs too.