She smiled to herself. Alexander was becoming more pliable to her will by the hour, it seemed, and now she was close to finishing her mission and finding out just what her captor had to hide from the rest of the world. Her year of captivity would finally prove fruitful tonight.
She woke up suddenly in the late afternoon. She cleaned herself and ate a nice sized meal. Her body was acclimating well to solid food and she had had only a few problems, but none of them lingered. She suspected that she was through the worst of it.
She woke up Alexander with a mug of warm blood as she had done the night before. She took him to the kitchen and showed him her plans on a blown up picture of Kenneth’s compound that she had taken the liberty of printing that morning.
“I don’t know baby, there will probably be a lot of guards in that thingy over there,” she said, swallowing her intelligence to lead Alexander. “Maybe a big strong man could go through those gates though, because there are those walls all over the place.”
Alexander took her bait nodding in agreement, “I could go through the front gate with my friends, we could take out that building there,” he said pointing at the front yard guard shack, “Then I could storm the front doors there,” he said pointing to the front of the house. He stood up nodding to himself, “Don’t worry baby I’ll make it through and Kenneth is as good as dead.”
Ansuya smiled up at him, as much as for the false show of support, and for her contempt at just how stupid and “bullet proof” Alexander though he was. “Oh, baby you’ll see. When you kill Kenneth, everything will be alright and Wolfgang will have no choice but to promote you and give you back your warehouse, maybe even give you more duties and responsibilities.” She hugged him around his waist, “Pretty soon I’m going to be the mistress of a vampire Head of House,” she said swallowing the bile that was rising in her throat.
Alexander returned the hug, but bent down and kissed her passionately which Ansuya forced herself to accept and return. “We need to go babe; my friends will be waiting.”
This wasn’t unexpected but the unceremoniousness of it was a little jarring. “Baby, how much do you trust these friends of yours? How much about me have you told them?”
Alexander stopped and looked back at her, “They know that you’re a werewolf,” he said taking a step towards her and grabbing her around the waist, “and that you’re mine.” He then kissed her roughly, shoving his tongue deep into her mouth. Easing off a little he said, “That’s all they need to know. And yes, I trust them.”
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Ansuya was not terribly impressed with his confidence. She would have to watch these friends of his carefully. Her capture as a secret was advantageous to Kenneth. For Alexander it would be as well. But his friends might see opportunity there, opportunity that she planned to deny them. She was strong enough to shift again and therefore strong enough to defend herself. If Alexander was blind to his friend’s ambitions, then she would have to kill a few vampires in the near future.
She grabbed a set of clothes and shoved it in a small bag and hurried after Alexander as he held the door open for her.
She got into the car that Alexander unlocked and buckled her seatbelt. The vampire tore off through the parking garage and roared out into the night streets of L.A. The two of them eventually pulled up into another parking garage. This one was a standalone though, not connected to any office or apartment complex. Yellow florescent lights gave a faded light as it shown down through dirty transparent coverings. The garage was multi leveled with heavy unfinished concrete barriers and fencing between the levels. There were multicolored graffiti and street tags all over the place. By the looks of it you’d think you were in gang territory, but she knew that this was actually a fairly upscale part of outer Los Angeles. Alexander parked on the roof level and Ansuya exited the car.
Facing them was two other cars on the roof with them an upscale luxury car, and a high horse power muscle car. There were two other people on the roof with them, one female and one male. They both looked a bit like Alexander, very muscular and strong, physically. Since they answered his call though, neither one of them could be very strong on the intelligence side of things.
Alexander walked up and grabbed Ansuya by the waist and held her tightly to him. “All right, listen up;” he barked at them, “We’re going to do this hard and fast.” The two vampires were listening to him intently. It was all Ansuya could do not to shake her head and roll her eyes. “We’re going to hit Kenneth’s compound through the front gate. Me and Hagen will go through the front gate. Hanna,” he said nodding to the brown haired woman leaning against the muscle car, “You will keep an eye on Ansuya, keep her safe.” He said this while hoisting her in the air a few inches, demonstrating ownership. Ansuya smiled up at the man, but in her mind she was ripping his throat out.
Alexander continued, “Once we get inside, Kenneth is mine, do you hear me? He’s mine!” Both of the two vampires nodded solemnly. Even if they weren’t the brightest in the bunch they knew that this was Alexander’s one chance to get back in Wolfgang’s good graces. She had to admire their loyalty, if nothing else.
“Ansuya,” he said looking down at her, “I want you to go with Hanna.”
“But baby I want to be with…”
“Don’t argue with me!” Alexander interrupted her mid sentence. “You will do as I say and you will go with Hanna.” He gently shoved Ansuya towards Hanna. He looked at Hanna again. “You’ll take Ansuya and circle around to the back of Kenneth’s compound. Once the shooting stops you can follow us. That way we have both exits covered.”