My Vampire Kidnapper by Lillith Devero (general ebook reader txt) 📕

Xavier was able to quiet her by putting his hand over her mouth and grabbing her forearm to prevent her from hitting her head from hitting the stones above.
“Now,” Xavier whispered, “we need to run across this clearing as quickly as possible without being spotted.”
Jennifer nodded, not trusting her voice and Xavier’s hand was still on her mouth. Xavier, realizing this, removed his hand from her mouth but still kept a firm, but not painful, grip on her arm. I’m not going to lose her again.
“What did you say?” Jennifer shockingly whispered. I didn’t say that!
“Say what?” Xavier questioned.
“Oh. My. God.” Jennifer said. Say something if you can hear this.
“Something. What are you talking about you just said that.”
“No I didn’t.”
“Jennifer. What the hell are you talking about?”
“Watch my lips.” I’m not moving them, but I’m still talking to you.
“Holy shit! Well that answers my questions about your psychic powers!”
I can hear what you think too and that was pretty loud.
“Sorry. It’s just exciting.” Xavier said releasing his grip from her forearm.
“Xavier.”
“Yes?”
“I can’t hear your thoughts anymore.” Just after that a gunshot went off.
“They’ve found us!” Xavier whispered, grabbing Jenn’s arm again and pulling both of them both out of the cave. At once when Xavier’s skin touched hers she could hear his thoughts again, and none were very pleasant.
As Xavier ran them as fast as he could from the clearing with gunshots going off left and right. After passing through the clearing unscathed, they came upon a massive forest of pines that seemed to have no end. But it did in fact have a very quick end because of Xavier and his vampire speed, 20 miles of pines only took less than 10 minutes to run through, but Xavier stopped before they could completely clear the forest. From where they were Jennifer could hear what she thought was a highway only about half a mile away.
After 5 very strenuous minutes, Xavier quietly announced, “Okay. They’re here.” Xavier grabbed Jennifer’s hand but then quickly let go as if her skin had been scalding hot, then he grabbed her forearm; still feeling as he had to make contact with her. She attempted to read his thoughts, but he seemed to be blocking her, either that or it’s just that I’m an amateur at reading thoughts.
He continued to lead her along to the highway. Once past the line of trees she saw an old beat up four-door pickup sitting there; and Ava was driving.
“Come on you two! We really only have about five minutes until they track you to this highway.” Ava said, the worry in her voice gave Jennifer comfort. It was nice to feel that someone cared about her that wasn’t attracted to her in some way or form. She was also extremely glad to see that she was even alive.
“They wouldn’t have been on our tail so soon if you had been faster getting here!” Xavier exclaimed, as he guided her up to the side door, with the tiniest hint of worry in his voice. That scared Jennifer more than anything else had recently.
As he assisted her into the truck, Gregor turned around from his place in the passenger seat stated the obvious, “So you finally changed her.”
Xavier climbed up in the truck to sit next to her left, shut the door, and instructed Ava to start driving before he responded to Gregor, “Yes, and you know it was necessary. It might prevent Yarwood from coming after her again.”
“You know that that’s not going to happen.” Gregor said solemnly.
“Wait, wait, wait… Who’s Yarwood?” Jenn asked, picking up on the presence of a new name.
“You would know him by his nickname more. Y.” Gregor said.
“Oh.” That’s all she could say, she was still very exhausted.
“Have you told her everything yet?” Gregor asked Xavier.
“No. I have not.”
“You know that she has to know eventually.”
“Yes I know.”
“Tell me what?” Jennifer asked.
“Why I kidnapped you.” Xavier whispered.
Chapter 19

All she could do was just sit there in shock it seemed like. So he decided to tell her, because Gregor was right, he needed to tell her everything, starting from the very beginning.

Xavier had always been a little more special to his mother, Lady Cliantha, than his father. Xavier believed that that was because he could never have been as coldhearted as his a few seconds younger brother. But none of that mattered because his mother loved him.
One thing you have to understand about Pureblood vampire families is that they absurdly territorial, and in most cases they tend to rule an entire coven of vampires. Purebloods, being the reclusive beings that they are, they usually live somewhere far from the humans. The Impure are much more social with humans than the Purebloods; possibly because of the fact that they themselves were once human. They are still just as territorial and even more territorial over their prey. In some cases an Impure may even choose a single human to be their slave or even mate in extreme cases. If an Impure decides to mate with a human that human, in most cases will either die or be changed.
While Yarwood and Xavier were being tutored in the ‘art’ of war, Xavier succeeding with a bow and arrow and Yarwood succeeding with a broadsword, their younger sister was being taught how to be a proper lady for her future husband. That had been the way it was. The boys would learn actual knowledge, while the girls were taught to sit around and act like proper ladies should. That had never worked for Zena. She felt that she had a right (which at that time no women had any rights) to be able to do all of the things that the boys could do. Of course their father, Lord Vermundo Adalsteinn, would not hear of this. He threatened to banish her from the royal family and force her to live with a peasant family if she wouldn’t correct her ways and strive to become a proper lady. Zena, stuck in her headstrong ways, denied his request, saying that she couldn’t be anything other than what she was.
When Zena was banished at 15, Yarwood took it especially hard. Xavier had cared about her too, but not nearly as much as Yarwood had. They were as close as two triplets could be. Xavier had always seemed the odd man out. But life still went on without her there, the boys’ training even seemed to get more intense with every passing day.
They had not seen or heard from her in 6 years when war broke out between the two families and by that time both the brothers were considered adults in the coven’s eye. For you see, once a Pureblood reaches the age of twenty-one they go through the change that an Impure would except that their already vampire filled blood allowed them to complete the change within one day instead of having to wait an entire year because their systems are already adapted to the vampire blood. Once the change was completed they were no longer fledglings, they were adult vampires. The war was with a neighboring coven from over the mountains. Every few years or so the coven from over the mountains would attempt to take over the Adalsteinn Coven, no one knew who ruled over the coven from over the mountains so the name of their coven was unknown. It was a terribly bloody war, fought for over 12 years, to vampires that seemed like no time at all. Xavier and Yarwood were forced by their father to take part in the war. He had said that it was good for their character. So the boys fought, never knowing why or what for, they just hacked down the enemy until none were left on the field of battle. In the final fight of the war on the banks of Lake Adalsteinn the leader of their opposing coven was revealed. It was a young boy, barely a man, who had inherited the thrown too soon. Xavier attempted to stop his brother from killing the poor boy, but he tried too late.
Xavier was grieving with remorse as they returned to their father’s castle. They boys arrived just in time to see an assassin slitting their beloved father’s throat. Xavier’s skill with his bow allowed him to kill his father’s assassin, but that still couldn’t save their father. Xavier’s gaze had then wandered around the room as Yarwood ran for his father’s falling body, able to catch it in time due to his vampire speed. Xavier’s eyes landed on his mother who was still barely breathing, suffering the same fate as her husband. Tears filling his eyes, Xavier cradled his mother’s head in his arms until it was no longer his mother that he clutched, it was a corpse. Yarwood had done a similar thing, but he then stood up and began pacing the throne room.
“Who shall rule now brother.” Yarwood asked Xavier.
“Not me of course.” Xavier replied wiping the tears from his eyes.
“But it is your sworn right to rule, as the eldest.”
“Well then brother maybe I don’t wish to rule this coven, and you bare the name Adalsteinn, do you not?”
“Yes brother, but…”
“No, you shall rule. That is that.” Xavier said turning his back on his brother.
Xavier walked toward his chambers, but before he could enter Yarwood addressed him once again. “In my first royal decree I am going to terminate Zena’s banishment.”
“Fine. Do whatever you wish. This is your coven now. I pray you use your powers wisely.” Xavier replied.
Xavier grieved for the poor boy and his mother that day as he rested. The pain never seemed to stop building it seemed as if he was about to burst. Always grieving, he continued on with a bleak and meaningless existence.
Several thousand years later Yarwood and Zena began to research in psychic abilities. Xavier thought nothing of it at first and was convinced by Yarwood to join. It was about that time that Yarwood had begun insisting that everyone was to call him Lord Y, saying that Yarwood was just too old fashioned.
Eventually after a few years of research they successfully discovered a child with the genetic makeup to have psychic powers if properly stimulated. Xavier was fascinated, and studied the boy from afar, but for Y and Zena that just wasn’t close enough. Sneaking behind Xavier’s back they decided to kidnap the boy and run complex experiments on the boy, all the while still hiding him from Xavier while Xavier believed that the boy had gone off to stay with some of his grandparents for a while and there was no need to follow him there.
After they had kept they poor boy in the castle dungeons for over two weeks Xavier discovered their secret and found the boy nearly dead. All of their attempts at a stimulant for the boys