Her Darkness, His Light (Book 1)

Chapter 1

"Remember Eve. The dough has to be perfect. It's gonna be our food for the next two weeks." Alex reminded me. "Aye aye Captain," I salute him and he responds by ruffling up my hair like a child. He always does that. Treat me like a child. I don't think he'd stop even if I reached the age of fifty.

I've known Alex my whole life. Whole life meaning after the age of seven. That's one thing about me. I seem to have no memory before Alex. I don't know where I came from or who my family was. I probably didn't have anyone. Alex is now my whole world. Whenever I asked him about myself. He would just tell me the same story.

The vampires took his parents as slaves twelve years ago and that they're probably dead. Alex was alone for two years until he found me lying near the stream we always went to. He was only eleven at the time. He said that I was bruised up and had a big gash on my head and he had no heart to just leave me there.

He thought about it but just couldn't seem to do it. So he brought me to his house and nursed me back to health. When he asked me about my family and home, I couldn't answer him. So he just let me stay and now here we are.

 
Honestly, though, I was never really satisfied with his answer. He didn't have much himself.

Why burden himself by taking in another person?

He literally had to double his resources just to keep us alive. Well, maybe he was just young and didn't care. Whenever I tried digging deeper he'd feel uncomfortable and I'd take that as my cue to stop asking. Maybe he thought I'd leave him.
Whatever the reason was, he still saved my life and I'm forever indebted to him. I love him like the brother I never had and I'd do anything to make him happy. Anything. He always filled the emptiness in me and protected me from any harm. About my family, I started to believe that they were also killed by vampires.

"Hey! You done? I'm going to the stream to cool off. Wanna come?" he asks.

"Yes of course I want to. Just give me 5 minutes."

With that, I grabbed my favorite blue cloak which is very dear to me and I never go anywhere without it.

 
It was the only thing connected to my past. I even had it on when Alex found me.

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When we started walking across the market square, it was still kind of crowded with people bustling around, buying whatever they could with what little they had. Just to survive. We weren't even halfway through when I felt a heavy hand on my shoulder

"Where are you off to sunshine?" One of the castle guards sneered at me. The kingdom is always full of them. They're always making sure there's order and not any one of the rules are broken. "Just the market. To get some carrots. And she's with me." Alex said coming in the middle. I noticed his hands were fisted. He was controlling his anger. Alex always gets ticked off whenever someone touched me. 

"Oooohh look who's here to save you again, Mr. Tough Guy." He then looked straight at Alex "I wasn't asking you boy! Now move it!!" the knight shouted. A few heads immediately turned our direction. Geez, what was his problem?

Whatever it was, I couldn't let this get out of hand. I knew what Alex wanted to do. "Please Sir, we were only going to the market to get some vegetables that's all. My friend here is not well. He has a terrible flu so he's a bit cranky. I apologize for his behavior ." I said with a light bow. This seemed to please the stupid Knight.

"See now that wasn't so bad now was it? Back before six!" He barked out then turned to Alex "You should take some speech classes from her every now and then." He turned to leave.
"And you can take wisdom classes to decrease the level of your stupidity." Alex mumbles under his breath.