Farewell

Kiara dug into the breadbowl filled with onion soup. The more she regained her strength the hungrier she was. At least this kept Katia pleased although the other vampires weren’t fond of watching her eat. Something about the smell of human food not being pleasing to them.

She didn’t care. An hour after sundown William and his vampires were scheduled to leave which couldn’t come soon enough. She hadn’t minded them when she had been weak and often just confined to sleeping and every now and again eating something. But now that she was a bit stronger and was trying to walk about to build her strength, seeing all these handsome vampire men annoyed her. Especially since none of them knew the meaning of the words ‘bashful’ or ‘modesty’. She had lost track of how many times she’d seen a free swinging man. Worse of all it seemed to amuse William to no end to see her frustrated over all the naked men. He kept suggesting she was welcome to take one to her bed.

The saddest part of all was that if she weren’t so sick and tired of being sick and tired she would have taken one of them to bed. Bill seemed almost like a distant memory, she couldn’t remember the last time they had even been together in the same room, let alone experienced intimacy. It was the downside of healing. As her body grew stronger so did her hungers and her more wolfish desires. She hadn’t even attempted to shift because of her still mending bones.

She had spent most of the daylight hours picking up all the mess around her house. It took her longer because her knees still feeling stiff. Not to mention there were some articles of clothes she didn’t want to imagine anyone wearing.

Thankfully cleaning up around the house, picking up the stray clothes and eventually putting food in the oven ate up most of the day. By the time the sun went down and she could hear the tell-tale signs of vampire activity the house was pretty much in decent shape. She just needed to de-scent her house from all these vampires and she’d be happy.

~One hour after Sundown~

William had all his vampires packed in a sense. As Miss Griffen healed she had insisted they take their leave despite William being keen on watching the debacle between her and Compton. Katia had left a list of medicines and things Kiara had to do, he’d finally convinced Alastair to wear pants instead of his usual kilt and after a good night of fucking he’d gotten Colin to stop his sulking, at least for a few hours.

As the vampires stood outside, holding what few bags they had brought and scouting both the sky and the clock to ensure they arrived back in the UK before sunrise he himself stood before Kiara who was keeping a modest distance from him.

“You seem eager to be rid of me Miss Griffen”

Kiara sighed. She hated that she somehow owed King William a favor for him nursing her back. He was arrogant to a fault and the fact that he’d been quite keen in tempting her into his bed and the bed of any of his vampires irritated her.

“I am alive…I won’t be dying anytime soon and theres nothing else for you to do in this place… so it is best you leave”

William smirked. He’d already sent Compton the one message, he had hoped he could show Compton how Kiara had moved on by sleeping with another vampire. It would have been even better had he been the vampire but half of the plan would suffice.

“Very well… we’ll be taking out leave and the blood with us as well” he said, referring to the several bottles of high end synthetic blood they were taking as payment.

Kiara shrugged. She didn’t care that William was taking blood, the more he took the faster he could leave.

As she waited for him to leave but he didn’t, instead he just towered over her with that smug look on his face like he was waiting for her to change her mind and leap into his arms. She rolled her eyes.

“King William…you and your vampires are not welcome in my home anymore. I rescind my invitation”

She saw William’s eyes go wide. He clearly hadn’t expected that and he was clearly not pleased but she didn’t care. She was irritable, her home reeked of vampire sex and Katia’s diet had her restricted to all the fun foods she wanted. She stood at the threshold of the door as all the british vampires took to the sky. Only when they were well out of eyesight did she sigh in relief and closed the door. Now she just needed to de-scent this place for the unlikely event of Bill showing up. She didn’t need him yelling at her for not only not being a good puppet and staying put but for somehow cheating on him now.