I shut my eyes when they come in contact with a bright light. Waking up to the sun shining through the window and in my face, isn't my favorite thing to wake up to. I really need to get curtains for those windows.

I rub my hands over my face before opening my eyes again, I let out a big exhale. I wish I could stay in bed all day for once, but that will never happen. I went to sit up but was stopped by a weight laying across my chest. I looked down and saw an arm draped over my chest and Emberlynn's head pressed against my chest.

After Emberlynn fell back asleep last night, I stayed up for a little longer to make sure she didn't wake up again. I didn't know a nightmare could be so bad, until I saw hers. Trying to wake her up from those nightmares is hard. Being gentle but strong enough to wake her up is hard to do But what was even harder, was watching her be in those nightmares. Seeing her toss around and cry for help is the hardest part.

I don't know why I am having these hurt feelings for someone who has only been here for a few days. But seeing her in that shop, covered in dirt and blood all over her back from her slashes, terrified of what could happen next, angered me.

I have always hated pet shops, they were never needed. Women should not be ripped away from their families, to become a toy for us. Especially the kids.

We have plenty of blood drives a year for humans to donate blood to us, it is what we agreed to after the war. So there is no need to use women as a blood bag and treat them like shit, until their owner takes their life. I have even tried to get rid of them, but I am not the Lord vampire, my father is so my opinion doesn't matter.

I slowly lift her arm off my chest and carefully sit up and lay Emberlynn back on the bed. I go to pull the covers back over her, when I hear her start to whimper. I looked up to see her face in a frown, like she was scared.

"Please" she whimpered

Fuck

I carefully place my hand on the side of her and rub my thumb back and forth against her cheek, hoping to calm her down. A warm feeling starts to flow throughout my body, like comfort.

A couple seconds later, her face starts to relax and her breathing starts to calm down. I keep my hand on her face a little longer and just look at her. I look at her clear flawless skin, the way her nose is perfectly straight, and how her lips are the perfect shade of pink.

Jesus Christ, what is happening to me?

I slowly release my hand from her face, with the warm comfort feeling disappearing. I stood up from the bed and looked down at her. I release a huge breath

Fuck I need a shower

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Stepping out of the bathroom, in just a pair of gray sweatpants, I look over to see Emberlynn still asleep in bed.

I think she could sleep in for a whole day if she could.

I walk over to the couch by the window and grab my guitar and sit down. I decided to work in my room today because I need peace and quiet for once, and I know Emberlyn will be quiet so I know I can get my work done, and to also take a break from work.

Music has always been my escape from royal life. It's a time where I can just let go and express my feelings.

I start to play quietly play without waking Emberlynn up, so I decide to start to start singing,

"How can you miss someone you've never met?

'Cause I need you now but I don't know you yet."

I play the guitar and sing like no one was in the room, and just play.

"I need you now but I don't know you yet"

I finish the song, with a breath, stand up and place the guitar down by the couch. I look up to suddenly freeze when two aqua blue eyes staring back at me. That is when I realized I wasn't singing like no one was watching, because someone was watching.

"Uh, did I wake you?" I asked

"No you didn't" Emberlynn replied quickly

I could tell she was lying, when her cheeks started turning red. "You sure?" I asked with a smirk,

"So what if you did?" she said back. I let out a dry laugh before coming over to the end of the bed and sitting down.

"My apologies for waking you" I said softly, truly feeling bad for waking her.

She sat up quickly, to my response "No you're fine I promise it was...really nice."

She liked it?!

I just smirked and looked down at my feet, hopefully hiding my blush. We then just stayed in silence for a little, until Emberlynn decided to break it.

"So you sing?"

Here we go

I nodded, keeping my gaze to the floor, "I do," I said. "Something to do to escape from all the royalty shit."

She laughed at my response, and I was shocked to hear her finally laugh. A beautiful laugh actually

"Well you're really good." she said back.

"Thank you" I said looking up at her to see her smiling. It's nice to finally see her smile, for me at least

She looked away from me and turned around to look at my desk . "Aren't you going to breakfast?" she questioned looking back up at me.

"No, I asked a maid to bring us food here. I am going to be working here today, away from everyone." I said back

She nodded her head again. Silence came again between us, for a while until she spoke, "Sorry again, for waking you up in the middle of the night."

"It's ok" was all I said. I really wasn't angry with her waking up last night, that's what happens when you are trapped in a hell hole like that shop for years. I then got up from the bed and went to the other side of the bed to the nightstand and grabbed her drawing, handing it to her. She took it from me to see what it was, when she saw it was her rose from last night her cheeks blushed red again.

God that's adorable

Oh my god, what am I doing?

"You're pretty good," I spoke out without thinking.

She smiled up at me, "Thank you."

Wow

STOP

I just nodded back. A knock at the door broke our attention from each other. I walked over to the door and opened it to bring in our breakfast.

Once we finished eating we put our plates on the cart it came in and I decided to get some work done and went over to my desk to start. A couple minutes later I hear Emberlynn's' voice,

"Can I take a shower?"

I look up from my work to answer her, "Of course, um there are some clothes for you in the closet on the left." I said pointing towards the closet. She nodded back and went to the closet.

She came back out with some clothes in her hands and entered the bathroom. Once she shut the door I let out a huge sigh,

What is going on with me?

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