Bedding My Vampire Mate

"Miss Joanna, are you alright...,"

"Just fuck off!" She screamed, her red and tear-filled eyes shot at him.

"Miss...,"

"I said just to piss off," She yelled. "I don\'t want to set my eyes on anyone that has anything to do with him so just go before I pounce on you," She warned, her hands balled into fists.

Chris moved backwards but he didn\'t move more than three steps.

"I know you must hate me a lot right now. I am also aware that you want to be alone and I want to obey...,"

"Then why the hell are you still standing here ugh?" She snapped.

"Because I don\'t want to die a horrible death from his hand," He blurted.

"From what you might have noticed, you must know that none of the words he said was a joke. He will not hesitate to kill me like he said if I dare as much as to leave your side...,"

"And does it look like I care?" She hissed and stomped away.

Chris followed her notwithstanding her threat. Amos had acted as if he didn\'t care the slightest bit about her feelings but only for him to return to the spot he left her after she was gone.

"I loathe seeing you upset and I detest seeing you in pain even more but my hands are tight Joan. To keep you safe, I have to do this...," He trailed off.

He kept his gaze fixated on the path he saw them take.

"I am sorry and I promise to make it up to you for this later in the future," He said.

He ambled towards the path he took earlier.

After she had searched about two streets, Joanna and Raymond\'s group bumped into each other.

"Miss Butterfly...,"

"Joan!" Audrey ran towards where Joanna stood. "What happened? Why do you look this way...,"

"Don\'t touch me," Joanna brushed Audrey\'s hand away. She walked past them without sparing any of them a glance.

Raymond shifted his attention from her moving back to the place Chris stood.

"She was fine when we separated so what is wrong with her now?" He dictated, his cold gaze shot at the innocent Chris\' face.

"What did you do to her and where is Amos?" He asked.

He looked beyond where Chris stood. He hoped to see him come towards them but he didn\'t see or perceive his scent.

"Is he the reason why...,"

"I will catch up to her and make sure she is ok," Audrey informed. She disappeared before anyone had the opportunity to stop her or say otherwise.

Although it was not up to two minutes Joanna left before Audrey pursued her, surprisingly she was nowhere to be found.

"Joan!" Audrey yelled. She ran up and down the street using her powers.

"Where are you, Joanna?" She chanted and continued to rummage the street for her.

Before she knew it the others were beside her.

"Why are you searching for Miss Butterfly?" Raymond asked. He looked behind Audrey hoping to see Joanna but to his surprise, the lady he longed to see was nowhere to be seen.

"Wasn\'t she supposed to be with you so what happened?" He urged.

"I don\'t know," She stressed. Audrey ran her fingers through her well-styled hair and gazed at the far distance.

"You ran after her barely immediately after she left so what do you mean by you don\'t know?" Raymond accused.

"I did run after her," Audrey acknowledged. She dropped her hand by her side. "But she was gone when I got here...,"

"But how is that even possible?" Derrick interrupted.

Kyle wasn\'t the least pleased with the way the guys interrogated Audrey so he intervened.

He held Audrey\'s hand and pulled her to his side.

"Are you guys saying she is lying?" He confronted the anxious Raymond and Derrick.

"You...,"

"Shouldn\'t our priority be to search for her and not try to throw blames at each other?" Chris whose least worry was the argument on the ground cut in.

[If His Majesty gets wind of what happened here, I strongly believe that I won\'t be able to keep my poor life... He will not hesitate to sever me into tiny pieces until nothing is left of me]

Chris sobbed for his poor life which will soon be snatched from him.

"If she disappeared into thin air just like that does this means she might have got abducted by one of those groups which attacked us earlier...,"

"Hey, how could you say that?" Audrey interrupted Derrick abruptly.

"But I am saying the truth...,"

"How about we don\'t jump to a conclusion yet and searched for her first?" Chris suggested.

His eyes scurried from one face to the other.

"I am afraid I will lose my mind if I keep listening to you guys talk so, have mercy on me and let\'s search for her. I am certain she might not have gone far," Chris pleaded with them.

"We will disperse now but anyone group which has an update must inform the other group...,"

"And how will we do that when we haven\'t exchanged contacts," Raymond asked a sensible question that almost everyone there had forgotten about.

Because this concerned Joanna\'s safety and well-being all of them cooperated better than they have ever done before.

After they exchanged contacts they discussed how they were gonna go about the search.

Soon they dispersed and began their search.

Before they knew it, thirty minutes passed within the blink of an eye and yet Joanna was not found.

Everyone became worried after the new development but the most worried of them all was Chris.

He almost suffered a heart attack when Raymond called to give updates about their search.

"Guys, wait here while I call Amos to inform him about what happened...,"

"Can you not call him?" Chris blurted his hand and stretched toward where Kyle stood with his hand on the dial button.

"Do you think I love to call him to break such bad news to him?" Kyle retorted. He momentarily veered his gaze from the phone in his hand to where Chris stood.