Alpha's Little Vampire Mate
Chapter 63

He nodded. "I agree with you, I also can't seem to bring myself to trust anyone. Let's just do this and I would look for a way to keep them busy, while we go about with our plan. You just follow my lead..."

We retired to bed after a well spent day. There was no zeal or urge to make love to each other that night, so we just cuddled in each other's warmth and went to sleep. The next morning, we were awoken by a loud bang on the door. Marcus asked that I ignore it and the person would go away, but I got out of bed and wrapped myself in Marcus's big robe, I strode lazily to the door.

I pulled the door open to come face to face with a smiling Lily.

"Ta-da!" She said, lifting up two medium sized black bags in her hands. I already knew what was in there, she never forgot to bring blood for me and for her care, I was grateful. "By the look on your face, I see that you already know what's in here. So, can I come in?!"

I looked back, where Marcus was sprawled out naked on the bed, his half lidded eyes staring at me with a naughty smirk plastered on his lips. I came out, making Lily take some steps back to make more room for me. "Marcus is still in bed, let's just go downstairs and talk."

She raised the bags of blood in my face. "And this? You wouldn't want any of the servants stumbling upon it perchance, would you?"

I face palmed, groaning at my own thoughtlessness. I took the bags out of her hands, asking her to go ahead downstairs and I would join her shortly. I opened the door, going back into the room and ignoring Marcus's heated gaze, I went to drop the bags on our little vanity table. I made to leave for the bathroom, so I could wash my face and clean my mouth before joining Lily back downstairs, when Marcus's demanding voice stopped me. "What is in the bag?"

"Blood," I said, trying to sound nonchalant.

"Blood..." he said. "So, wouldn't you put that in the refrigerator?"

I gave him a straight look. "Me drinking that," I said, pointing to the bags that rested too comfortably on the table. "Would depend on whatever she has to say." Without letting him speak any further, I went into the bathroom, slamming the door behind me.

Ten minutes later, I walked into the kitchen to find that Lily had made a cup of coffee for herself, and had equally made one for me. "Thank you," I said, pulling a chair back and plopping down on it. "So... what's up?"

She took a long sip of her coffee, leaving where she had been leaning on the counter and came to have a seat beside me. "I have been quite busy with Mark since after the coronation feast. What have you been up to?"

"Nothing really, just spending time with Marcus, that's all!" She took another sip of her coffee. "He has been so busy the past week, working on something that Marcus had instructed him to, and I just wanted to spend some quality time with him... alone," she winked.

I grinned, wiggling my eyebrows at her suggestively and she gave out a hearty laugh. "So... where were you last night?"

Lily shifted in her seat uncomfortable, as she took a visible gulp of her coffee before setting the cup down. "I was at home, why?" Her eyes kept darting about and refusing to meet mine, making my heart rate speed up.

"It's nothing," I said, forcing a smile. "It is only that I had dropped by to check up on you on my way home, but you were not at home. Where were you at that time?"

She stared at me with wide scared eyes, her lips parting and clamping shut, as she seemed to be struggling with words. "I... I...." she stuttered, not being able to string together even two words. "I was..."

"You were?" I snapped, coming off harsher than I intended to. I was getting impatient and with the way she hesitated to speak, I felt dread, crawling into my body and settling at the pit of my stomach. I needed some sort of assurance, to at least know that I still had Lily by my side.

"It should be when I went to get some blood for you!"

Her sudden reply left me a little taken aback, but I was quick to notice that she hadn't given me a direct answer. "And where exactly were you getting the blood from?"

She shrugged, picking up her cup of 'half-drank' coffee and walking up to the sink. She poured the rest of the liquid into the sink, rinsing the cup. "From the woods, where else?" She said, the tension radiating off her like hot steams from a scalding pot of water.

I nodded, even though I knew she could not see me. A little laugh left my lips, and I raised my mug to my lips. I saw her turn to stare at me cautiously and I avoided her eyes. Not wanting to make her get too uncomfortable, I got up, asking that she helped me make pancakes.

We made pancakes for the next hour, directing the conversation to a more safer topic. She did not try to go any deeper, I also kept the conversation simple and plain. I called Marcus down when the pancakes were ready and we all sat to have a hearty meal.

After breakfast, Marcus went into his office to do some work. Lily and I chatted for a while and when she offered that I follow her back to her place, I refused, giving her whatever flimsy excuse I could come up with. She said her goodbye and left, promising to come and visit some other time.

I went back upstairs. I eyed the bags that were sitting where I had left them. The door opened and Marcus walked in. I ignored him, going to pick up the bags and going over to the toilet. "What do you intend to do with those?"

I pulled out the bags of blood, ripping them open. "Flush them down the toilet." And that I did, seeing Marcus's impressed smile through the mirror as the water rushed out and flushed away the red liquid...