Bedding My Vampire Mate

"Hmm…" Audrey trailed and deliberately avoided looking at Joanna's face.

"Kyle and I might be in a relationship but our relationship is not as serious as yours and Kay's," Audrey admitted. She stood up with the empty glass of blood in her hand.

"I thought you liked him or did I guess it wrong?" Joanna demanded. She didn't understand why Audrey would say her earlier statement.

"Don't you and Kyle…"

"You smell sweaty so why don't you go and shower?" Audrey interrupted and immediately moved towards the kitchen before Joanna could say anything else.

[Both of them have only been in a relationship for a few days. Don't tell me they have already quarrelled?]

Joanna peered at the direction Audrey went not knowing what to make out of her conversation with Audrey.

Joanna stood up and approached their bedroom door since it was obvious that Audrey didn't want to continue with their previous discussion.

Before they went to bed, Joanna cross-checked that Audrey had packed all the things they would need on their trip.

Afterwards, the two friends discussed how they were gonna go about their departure.

At 5:00 a.m., Joanna was seen with a backpack strapped around her back and another luggage in her right hand.

After she reached their bedroom door, she turned around and stared at the sleeping face of Audrey still lying on the medium-sized bed.

[I am sorry I have to do this]

Joanna hardened her heart as she turned and walked out of the room without making a sound.

At the main exit, just when Joanna had concluded her plan a success she felt a hand around her right shoulder.

"I thought a thief broke in so it was you?" Audrey remarked when she noticed that the person she caught trying to sneak out was Joanna and not a thief.

She let go of Joanna and rubbed her sleepy eyes.

Audrey's eyesight returned to normal after she rubbed her eyes a few more times.

"Why are you with your luggage?" Audrey demanded a bit more seriously.

"D-D-Drey…" Joanna stammered. She gave herself away without saying anything.

"I asked a simple question so why are you stuttering and shivering at the same time?" Audrey growled. Just a look into Joanna's wavering eyeballs and she knew that something was off.

"Wait, don't tell me you were planning to sneak off to Hilmert Forest this early in the morning without me?" Audrey made a wild guess. It would have remained an assumption but Joanna's expression confirmed her hunch.

"So you were really going to run off without me. I can't believe this!" Audrey retorted. She spun and stomped back into the house.

"Drey, wait up," Joanna shouted as she chased after the furious Audrey.

When she entered their bedroom she met Audrey sitting on the bed with her back facing the door.

"Drey…"

"If you want me to apologise for catching you red-handed then sorry, I can't do it," She grunted and tried to lay down but Joanna grabbed and made sure she didn't lay on the bed.

Joanna knew too well that she would stand no chance of convincing Audrey if she laid down on the bed.

"Drey, I know I was wrong in trying to sneak out without you. I am sorry so don't be mad," Joanna apologized soberly.

"We planned this together. If you didn't want me to come along you should have told me. The farthest I would have gone would be throwing tantrums and momentarily getting mad but I wouldn't have forcefully tagged along if you were against the idea. Why did you play foul when you were the same person who agreed to travel with me?" Audrey voiced out how she felt.

A vein popped out on her forehead as she said her piece.

"From the beginning I wanted you to join me on the trip. You don't know how happy I was when you volunteered to accompany me on this journey even without having to ask you…"

"If you were as happy as you said then why did you betray me in the end?" Audrey shouted just as much as she was hurting.

"Did you think I would drag you backwards with your investigation? Is that why you tried to sneak off while I was fast asleep?" Audrey accused and angrily brushed Joanna's hands away from her body.

"Of course, that is not true…"

"If all I said is not the case, what is the truth then?" Audrey demanded fiercely.

"I…I…" Joanna hesitated as she looked away from Audrey's face.

"If you know what is good for you then you will tell me the whole truth, else, you and I are gonna have a big problem going forward," Audrey threatened coldly.

What Joanna didn't know was that Audrey bet everything on this last sentence of hers.

"On my way back home I ran into your mother. No, to be precise, it looked like she had waited for me at that spot for a long time," Joanna started in a soft tone.

"And why on Earth would my mother be waiting for you? Did you both have any arrangements without my knowledge?" Audrey asked a bit cool-headedly this time around.

"Because she was worried about you and your safety. I am sure she must have wanted to stop you when you told her about your impending trip to the dreaded Golden Core Pack. But knowing too well that you would not listen to anything she said, your mother must have swallowed back all she wanted to say and I can't blame her for this," Joanna continued.

"Just like she said, you are the only child of your parents. You are everything she has, even I would have been reluctant to let you journey into such a dangerous place if I were in her shoes," Joanna concluded.

"Since I said I would come with you to The Golden Core Pack, you should have known that I would keep my word no matter what. Also, what if I am everything to my mother? You are your mother's only child too, aren't you?" Audrey quizzed, her expression stern just like her voice.