Vampires Realm Prophecy 01 - Child of Light

to show him.
    He grabbed hold of her wrist and yanked her onto her feet, nearly pulling her arm out of its socket. He spun her around and searched her for the weapon she was apparently concealing. She smiled when he let her go and threw her bed covers aside, evidently hoping to find the weapon hidden there.
    “I said I had nothing.”
    He turned on her and she backed away from him when she saw the black look in his eyes change to one of hunger. Her brows furrowed when she bumped into the wall and realised she couldn’t escape him. He slowly closed the gap, his gaze burning into her while he looked her over.
    She closed her eyes when his body touched hers, his arms snaking about her waist to hold her against him. She could feel his desire and turned her head away, not letting him near her mouth. He pressed a kiss to her cheek and her jaw tensed when he worked his way down towards her neck. Her hand itched, the stars tingling as magic buzzed through her veins and built up inside of her. A tiny voice at the back of her mind kept whispering things to her.
    It would be so easy.
    In the blink of an eye or a flick of the wrist, he’d be gone.
    She’d be free.
    Before she could do anything, he was walking out of the door muttering commands to his guards.
    She looked at her hand as it glowed and pulsed with magic. It was too unpredictable without the amulet to focus it. She couldn’t control that much power. When she’d unleashed it on the vase, it had surged through her and she’d barely been able to stop it when it had blasted into the wall.
    It was no use. If she tried to use it to kill Arkalus, she would probably kill half of the mansion and herself too.
    She heard the key grating in the lock and then the door of the next room slammed shut.
    Walking back over to the bed, she lay down and curled up into a foetal position. There had to be a way of escaping this prison. She’d done it before, she could think of a way again. Her fingers toyed with the star around her neck while the rising sun made sleep call to her.
    The witches had told her that dreams would give her answers. She prayed that sleep would bring them.
    Her thoughts drifted to Valentine.
    She hoped he was safe.
    No.
    She smiled and shut her eyes, her hand closing around the star necklace she wore.
    She knew he was safe.
    She was the one in danger.
    * * * *
    The sun was still high in the sky. Prophecy could sense it. It was telling her to sleep, but sleep wouldn’t come no matter how much she tried. She stared at the television as she idly flicked through the channels. Her stomach growled, reminding her that it had been too long since she’d properly fed. The last thing she’d eaten had been the clergyman and most of that had been used to cleanse her blood of the poison. If it hadn’t been for Valentine’s strong blood, she would have been hungry long before now.
    Her eyes drifted shut and she licked her lips. She could remember the taste of it, the feel of it. It had been the one thing that had been clear during her delirium. She could remember Valentine holding her to him, could still feel the desire he’d felt when she’d bitten him. She hadn’t seen any of his memories in his blood. She’d just felt an overwhelming sense of connection.
    She touched the marks on her neck and then let her fingers drift down to her necklace.
    She wondered why she had no marks other than Valentine’s. Would this person he’d spoken of be able to unlock her memories? Would she remember her sire? Her mother?
    She frowned and flicked back a channel to a documentary. She watched the video of a solar eclipse and then a scientist appeared. He pointed to a series of diagrams that she couldn’t follow.
    Her fingers tightened around the necklace as something dawned on her.
    Eclipses.
    She was born during an eclipse and in her lifetime another would come, but this one would signal the end. That’s what Mathias had told her. Another eclipse would come.
    She turned the sound up, wanting to hear what the scientist was now saying to the woman interviewing him.
    “It is very interesting. This eclipse is so different to others. It will last longer, you see, long enough that it is causing quite a buzz in academic groups and amongst astronomers.”
    Her mouth dropped open.
    An unusual eclipse and in her lifetime?
    It had to be the one that the prophecy spoke of.
    “It will move steadily across Europe, beginning here near Africa and it will travel this way, covering most of