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His Lady of the Night

Chapter Five

At 7:30 am the alarm clock went off waking Olivia from a sound sleep. Groggy she slapped the snooze button and closed her eyes, "Just a few more minutes," she whispered to herself. Suddenly, her eyes snapped open and she sat up as the memories of last night's thoughts filtered into her mind. The tiger. Jake. "Nah," she said and shook her head at her imagination. She got out of bed and proceeded with her morning routine before heading to Christopher Columbus High School located in the Northeast Bronx where she worked as a counselor.

By 8:15 am she was out the door and waiting at the bus stop down the street. The bus arrived five minutes later and Olivia boarded with a "Hi Harry" to the driver as she passed and took a seat. At 8:25 am the bus stopped again and two men with guns boarded. The second man pointed his weapon at the driver while the first came down the isle and stopped at Olivia's side. Olivia was scared. What did these men want? Why was this happening?

"Olivia Sterling?" said the man in a raspy voice.

Startled that he knew her name, Olivia looked up into dead eyes, she shivered with dread and tried to slide closer to the window but the man snatched her arm in a tight grip and pulled her up.

"You're coming with us, Master wants you," he declared. Olivia began putting up a fight but the man was ready, "You fight, we kill all," he whispered in her ear. Frightened and believing he meant it; the fight went out of her and she let him pull her unresistingly off the bus. The other man kept his gun trained on the driver and other passengers as the man with the dead eyes dragged her to a car and stuffed her in the trunk. A few seconds later she heard a shot fired and doors slamming then the car was moving.

Terrified, Olivia lay there trying to figure out why the men had kidnapped her. She had no family that could pay ransom and she had no enemies who'd want to hurt her, in fact she had no friends who'd even do this as a practical joke! By the time her heart stopped beating wildly enough for her to think clearly they'd arrived at their destination. The trunk opened and the two men pulled her out. They dragged her into an abandoned building, pushed her in rickety a chair, tied and gagged her, then left. Tears slipped from Olivia's terrified eyes as various horrifying scenarios flitted through her mind.

Deep beneath the earth Jake awoke with a sense of panic. Something was wrong. He scanned his sanctuary then his home. There was nothing there that should have awakened him. Still he could feel the panic mounting in him. Then he knew. Olivia. She was in trouble. He reached out to her thoughts and saw everything that had gone down just a half hour ago. The men with guns, the car and the building.

 

He recognized the men; they were Julius's stooges. Not completely zombie-like for he'd only drank from them once to ensure their loyalty. That meant Drake had sent his highest lieutenant to take his love. Rage exploded as he silently slipped into her mind to calm her wild thoughts. What Jake didn't know and was only to find out later, was that Julius had never taken the two gunmen's blood, he'd only made Drake and all other vampires believe he had.

Jake calmed somewhat as he found her unhurt only scared. He chuckle as one of her wild thoughts had Julius looking like an absurd little green man come to earth to take her toes as a trophy to prove he'd been there.

The words " Olivia love," came across the distance and jerked Olivia from her morbid thoughts. " Julius is not a little green man no matter how much I would wish him to be," said Jake.

" Jake, is that you?" Olivia's frantic voice echoed in his mind. " Where are you?"

" Be calm Cara, I cannot come to you right now but I will as soon as the sun descends and the moon begins its rise," he said.

" What do you mean you can't come now? I'm in big trouble here! Some goons just kidnapped me off the bus and I think they shot the driver . . .or one of the passengers at least. I heard the shot! I don't understand it. Olivia said forlornly. Usually I'm forewarned when danger is near but this time I wasn't,"

Jake stiffened, as he realized why she'd had no warning and it was his fault. He recalled the command he'd issued so she'd sleep without nightmares. He sighed deeply and felt guilt find its way in his heart for the first time in centuries. If he'd only known that her dreaming was also part of her gifts, he'd never have done it.

 

©2006 Romance at Heart Magazine.

©2000 Angel Young.

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