all the things I was saying either. It was all pouring out, all the anger and all the things I had wanted to say to him ever since that horrific night. I knew I was probably pissing him off and it was insane for me to do so. I lay here in this bed helpless, confronting my worst enemy. I knew somewhere inside, this may be it for me. He was probably going to kill me next. Todd was evil, he was evil before even the night of the attack, and he had to be much worse now.
I thought back to when we started dating in high school, our senior year. I should have known then to run the other way. Todd was controlling, and abusive to me. Not so much physical but verbal. He never wanted me to go out with my friends, made me quit Drama club and soccer. He said they took too much of my time, and he needed me more.
Kara and Beth begged me to dump him so many times, if only I had listened to them. They were my best friends, and they really loved me, but I was young and stupid, and thought Todd loved me too. It started to get bad at the start of our freshman year at Harvard. One night after a movie he swore I was flirting with a guy, he hit me in the parking lot, just a slap but all the same, he hit me. I should have dumped him then, but was too scared.
“You’ve got some nerve yelling at me like that right now. From what I hear, you’re in pretty bad shape. You should have known I would be back for you! I spent the last year hiding from all the cops your dad hired to hunt me down. If I hadn’t run into Vincent and his crew in New Orleans, I would be doing time in prison right now thanks to you.”
He walked around the room looking at all my pictures and personal stuff. “Daddy’s little girl.” He smirked holding up a picture of my dad, and me when I was 8 years old at the local fair. “Tell me Corrine, what does daddy think about you having a half blooded vampire as a boyfriend? I bet he wouldn’t approve would he? I bet he doesn’t even know, does he? Maybe somebody should tell him about William’s true identity eh?”
“Shut up Todd, you know you can’t, even the Dark coven would kill you for exposing what he is. It’s the un written law all covens live by. You can’t expose other vampires, half blood or not.”
“Do I ever follow rules Corrine?” he laughed and moved on to look at the other pictures I had on my nightstand. “Oh now that is sweet, you and lover boy together. He really does pass for a human. I could never tell by looking at him he was a vampire.” I watched him set that picture down and now his eyes were fixed on me. It was all too much for me, having Todd right here in my room, the confidence I had before was now gone, replaced by terror.
“I hear you’re really sick and that you actually gave your blood to William so he wouldn’t die. You really amaze me Corrine. You would give up your life for him, but you wouldn’t even sleep with me? You are a major head case, you do realize that don’t you? Oh and I thought you also might want to know you royally pissed off the Dark coven, by doing that.” He smirked. “A big mistake on your part.”
“Why? What does it matter to them, me saving William, which has nothing to do with your freaky coven!” I felt the anger welling up inside of me again.
“Oh… it does, Vincent wanted William back in the Dark coven for some reason.” He grimaced in disgust for a second. I knew he had a deep hatred for William and I hated to see what he was planning to do to him.
“You were the one who he believed led him away from being a real vampire. I will never understand why he favored him so much, but he was adamant that William return to New Orleans. Your strong bond with the followers led Doc to protect you. When Doc killed Vincent he sealed William’s fate as well as yours.” I felt a pain in the back of my head now. I was desperately