"And who is this?" He asks with a smirk, I look to the king who watches us intently. Ida grabs his hand, not minding the blood.

"My friend! Opalescent! But she likes Opal better. I love her! She's the best!" His eyes dragged over me. "Opal, hm? How gorgeous are you." He smirks, Ida smiles. "Make her your mate." The King interrupts. "Silence, enough of this nonsense. Vampires could never have a human as a mate, it would be an abomination. Unnatural. Clean yourself up, Istvan."

He walked out, slamming the door.

My head fell down on it own record. Unnatural, abomination. "Opal..?" I looked up smiling sadly at Ida. "Hi, whats up?" She gave me a sad look. "Are you okay?" I nod, smiling. "Thank you for asking."

Istvan soon returned, with new clothes on and a clean face. He leaned against the frame of Ida's door.

"Dinners ready, Ida." She bounced up from my lap. She grabbed my hand, tugging me. "Eat with us, Opal! Please, please, pretty please." She begged, pushing out her bottom lip. I nibbled on my bottom lip. "I don't know.." Istvan moved in. "Come on, a friend of Ida's is a friend of mine." He says smoothly.

"Okay, okay." Ida lets out a cheer.

"So, it seems my cousin has taken a fancy to you." Istvan says as he walks with me. Ida ahead of us skipping and singing the songs I taught her. I smile, nodding my head. "Yeah, we clicked. She's a really sweet girl." Istvan scoffs, "She's really not...you bring out the best of her. Just like you bring out the sex in me." I shook my head, blushing.

"Please, you're little cousin is right here." He chuckled. He poked my cheeks, "Blushing." He sang.

I moved away from his touchy hands.

"How'd Kronos get ahold of you." My heart fluttered at the name. "K-Kronos?" I ask, Istvan gives me a look chuckling. "Does he make you call him master or something?" I shake my head. "Oh the king...he-I stole something. He was to execute me but it didn't happen. We don't talk, I've encountered him three times." He raises his eyebrows.

"Hmm, well that's good for me. I never liked seconds." I chuckle, shaking my head.

"You are very flirty." I say tucking a piece of hair behind my ear. Istvan grins, taking my hand and kissing it.

"Only for you." He says winking at me. "Oh? I'm sorry, but I can't say I believe you." He laughed. "Okay, alright. Maybe I love woman. Is that so wrong, Opal?" He teases. "Oh no." Ida whispers as she stops just a few feet from the dining table. "Ida?" I ask looking where she was.

Natalia sitting there. Istvan sighs, rubbing Ida's head.

"If it isn't the witch bitch." He says making Ida smirk. Natalia's eyes cast with the inky black from before. "Istvan." She says, her voice reminds me of nails on a chalk board making me wince inwardly.

Her face drops in a scary frown as she sees me. Istvan notices and puts his hand on my back.

He looked at me, his crimson eyes giving me a look of some security. Ida takes my hand and we all take a seat next to each other. "Who said you can eat with us? You really think you could eat with people superior-" Ida cut in, showing her true age.

"I'm superior to you. And I said, Opal can eat with us. So she will." Istvan laughed and clapped his hands. "Damn! Just like your mother, Ida." Ida blushed and smiled.

Natalia's glare settles on the young girl and then to me.

Emma walks out, gasping as she sees me. She gives me a look that reads, what are you doing?! And I gave her one back, pointing a sly finger at Ida. Emma nods and sets the weird food down in front of Natalia and the king. Or newly found Kronos.

Even his name is so sexy.

I gasped as Emma placed down a plate of my favorite. Chicken Alfredo, I grinned up at Emma. "Emma how did you know?" I said in awe, forgetting about the eyes that watched me.

"I didn't. You like Italian." I titled my head. "Italian..?" That sounded familiar. It's been a very long time since the vampires took over. Only the humans that were well off got to have education. But even it's schooled and controlled by the vampires.

Obviously I wasn't one but Flo was going to be. I tried with the twins but they always skipped it. It cost a lot of money for them to be in it.

Emma giggled but her eyes shot up and her face fell. "I'll explain everything later. Enjoy." I nod, Tobias made this for me. On my birthday, the last day we had together. "You've never been to Italy, Opal?" Ida asks and I shake my head. She gasps, "Why not?!" Then she pauses. "Oh yeah. Sorry." I giggle, "It's okay."

I look up, Kronos looking at me.

I take my fork and take a bite of the delicious food. "Who's Tobias?" Istvan says and I freeze, looking at him. "What." I whisper. "Answer his question, human." Natalia snarls with a smirk. "He's someone who meant a lot." I answer curtly, Istvan looks me over.

"Hm." Natalia scoffs. "That's a bunch of bullshit. You humans are always so emotionally attached. What happened to him? Someone kill him." She smirked as she saw my shoulders sag.

"Aw, poor thing. I bet that's what he deserves. That's what all nasty humans deserve." I stand up. "You don't know him. You've never met him, never talked to him, he was nothing how you picture us humans. He was smart, and loving, and caring something you'll never even dream to be." She stood up, slamming her fist against the table.

"Who do you think you fucking are? I can cast a spell on you that'll make you wish you didn't have a tongue." I shook my head. "I'm speaking facts. You're speaking from ignorance." I brace myself as she raises a hand but nothing comes making a loud shriek come out of her.

She's ready to climb onto the table to lunge at me but Kronos stops her.

"Relax, love. I'll handle it." He says as he kisses her cheek. A pain sprung on my face, mirroring where he had just kissed her.

"I want her dead." She cooed, her voice changing somehow and a change in Kronos showed as well.

"I've had enough." He says grabbing me and taking his knife with him. "King Kronos please-" He looks to Emma and she looks away.

No one could help me. He squeezed my upper arm tightly as he yanked me, Istvan holding Ida as she screamed and cried.

He dragged me out to the open arches, pressing the knife to my skin. Natalia smirked as she trailed closely behind us wearing a flashy dark purple dress that dragged on the floor. He pressed me against his back as he restrained me. "You kept me here." I said, "You didn't kill me-when you had the chance." He chuckled, "I won't make the same mistake." He cut me, my blood began to rush out.

Istvan's eyes grew black and soon Kaleb and Evangeline stalked towards me too. Out of nowhere.

He let me drop at his feet. I looked up at him, tears pooling my eyes, I held my neck trying to stop the bleeding. "Opal! No!" Ida screamed just as her cousin grabbed me, sinking his teeth into me. I cried out, digging my nails into his shoulder.

As my head dropped back my eyes connected with Kronos', Natalia on his shoulders as she watches with a gleeful smile.

Kaleb bit into my wrist and Ida jumped onto him, flinging him across the floor. Evangeline tried but Ida protected me, but even she wasn't strong enough to push me free of her cousin.

I looked to Ida, "Find Flo. Become best friends for m-me?" Emma let out a scream, and my eyes rolled to the back of my head.