CH51 Drink me dry

We left the shower wrapped in towels, we came to the bedroom and Damon made sure the door was locked, when he was satisfied he went to our suitcase and pulled out his clothes, I was sat on the bed towel drying my hair when Damon threw a t-shirt at me

"Hey!" I complained, as Damon laughed, he got dressed and after drying my hair I got dressed too, once we were done we blinked to the throne room, Charlie and Dylan winked at us, we just smiled.

The meet and greet went on all day, no one had any problems with Leah as queen, most were actually grateful.

That night after my nightly routine I crawled in bed and kissed my mate I missed him, I missed us, I never wanted to be apart from him again, I removed his t-shirt and Damon didn't stop me, I kissed his jaw, his neck then went to his shoulder,

"Time to bleed you dry, my king" I spoke against his shoulder to which Damon groaned, I bit his shoulder, and Damon played with my hair whilst I drank from him, when his shoulder healed I moved away, my mouth was bloody so I wiped at it with my hand "I love you Damon" I told him honestly

"I love you too" he kissed me, I lay my head on his chest he wrapped his arm around me

"Damon?"

"Hmm?"

"As queen I command you to feed when you need to, and as your mate I give you permission to drink from me, whenever you want, you don't have to ask" I knew Damon was still feeling low, and I knew he probably still won't feed so I had to do something

"Yes my queen" he told me, wait, did I compell him? Didn't Eros say I couldn't do that anymore? I sat up to look at Damon I watched him with his eyes closed, but he opened them to look at me, wondering why I was looking at him "what? Are you okay?" He asked me

"Who am I? To you I mean, who am I to you?" I asked him he moved his arm away from around me, he lay me down on my back, he touched my stomach, then he kissed me passionately

"I hope that answers your question my queen" he groaned out I hummed as he moved away,

"When I compelled you accidentally in the past you called my queen, I was worried" I explained

"Eros told us you couldn't compell me anymore remember?"

"I know, but I don't know, I guess I thought the fight we had, caused her to change her mind" now he hummed,

"Hey was Charlie surprised when you slept?" It was almost too funny to think about, I wanted to know how funny Charlie's reaction was

"No" Damon said

"Come on not even a little?"

"No, no, I mean" Damon stopped talking, I crossed my arms as I sat up Indian style on the bed

"What happened?" I asked

"Nothing"

"Damon" I instructed

"I didn't sleep, I mean I tried, I just couldn't, not without you" he whispered the last part as he too sat up, I cried and hugged him again, the man just found out he can sleep and then he lost it straight away

"I'm sorry" I told him honestly

"Don't be" he assured "you're back now, I'll sleep tonight" he promised seemingly happy

True to his word, when I woke up that morning Damon was still sleeping, I smiled, gave him a kiss on his cheek then went into the bathroom.

When I came back out Damon was still sleeping I smiled wider, I got back into the bed and kissed his abs, I lifted his shirt for better access, I then kissed his chest, his shoulder, his neck, then I kissed his lips, and bit his lower lip, the vampire hissed and held me by my waist

"I command you to always wake me up like this" Damon whispered, his eyes were still closed but he was smirking

"Yes my king, I will" I groaned out kissing him again Damon moved us so that I was on my back on the bed and he was next to me

"Good morning beautiful" Damon whispered as he started to kiss me, touching me on my abdomen under my shirt.

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We were soon ready to take on the day, and meetings ran all day, and the next week was over in a flash, it was time to leave after our three extra days, I was not looking forward to north America, not after all the kings had decided they thought what was best for me, I didn't like Paul and I wasn't looking forward to staying at his Palace but I told myself I was doing this for my people. We packed up our bags and after goodbyes Mali blinked us to North America, we were standing in the throne room, Paul was sitting on his throne, he had a man crouched at his foot as his right foot rested on his back, two people were standing on either side, one held a tray with a drink, the other stood with some fruit, he looked straight at me and the woman standing with the fruit popped a grape into his mouth, I gasped when I realised both women and the man under his foot were vampires, Damons grip on my hand tightened out of anger, and my grip tightened to calm him down, Paul stood up

"This is where vampires belong" he said pointing behind him, Damon growled "keep your vampire in check Anastasia, we wouldn't want any accidents to occur" he threatened, I let go of Damons hand and blinked to Paul, I looked into his eyes and commanded him

"You will not touch my mate" the smile left his face, then I looked behind him

"Stand up" I told the vampire on the floor, he stood straight away, his veins were visible, his eyes were red, the vampire was hungry "how long has it been since you fed?" I asked him

"Anastasia" Paul began I faced him now

"That's queen Anastasia to you Paul" I corrected him I faced the vampire I had been addressing before waiting for an answer

"I I can't remember, your majesty it's been weeks" I gasped at the man's voice, it was so raspy like he was thirsty, I looked at the vampire holding the tray, she seemed fine

"Find this man some blood" I instructed her, with a fleeting look towards her king she nodded and left "treating people like that again might cost you your throne king Paul, remember that" I warned the king, I then walked backwards into my mates hands, still with my back to Damon, he wrapped his arms around my waist, I smirked at Paul as he watched Damon kiss my neck.

Mali left after goodbyes

"Oh before I forget, you with the fruit, what's your name? I enquired

"Sarah" she told me fear evident in her voice

"Sarah, gather the servents, all the servents, the butlers and any other staff, and bring them here please, as soon as you can" with a nod Sarah left, with my green dress trailing behind me, I walked to the throne and sat down Paul opened his mouth to say something but the look I gave him stopped him from speaking, Damon, Dylan and Charlie came to stand next to me "oh and Paul, could you please find some chairs for my mate and brothers?" I dismissed him, the man walked out huffing probably cursing me, I laughed at that, maybe this trip could be fun, Dylan bent down next to my ear

"Brothers?" He questioned

"Is that ok? I'll stop saying it if you want" I told him quickly, Charlie bent down next to me

"I like it" he said, and Dylan agreed with him

"Oh and Damon, if you ever hurt our sister again we will kill you" Charlie said looking at Damon

"Wait if she's our sister does that make us brothers?" Dylan seemed grossed out

"Stop over thinking, nothing has changed" I whisper shouted as I heard Paul come back, he had a stack of three chairs and he passed them to Dylan

"Thank-you your majesty" Dylan greeted the king, Dylan gave a chair to Charlie and one to Damon, and they all sat down, Paul stood awkwardly, away from the throne, I let him, it was amusing.

After around fifteen minutes I heard footsteps, but no heartbeats, Sarah walked in presumably with all the staff

"You may leave, king Paul, I will talk to the staff without your presence" I dismissed him once again, and once again Paul huffed as he walked away I laughed but covered it up with a cough

"Are you enjoying this?" Damon whispered near my ear

"Immensely" I told him honestly with that said I stood up to address the people in front of me

"I am queen Anastasia, and this is my mate, king Damon, these are my brothers Dylan and Charlie, Dylan will take notes, as I talk to you, I will talk to you now, but let me be clear, if any of you need to talk to me privately you may, we will be here for the next three weeks" there were murmers around the room "So let's talk, the first question I usually ask is if you're happy, but I already know the answer, so instead I will ask you this, what can we do to help you?" I asked, when no one spoke I carried on "please don't worry, what you say here will not leave this room, this I promise" still no one spoke "come on you guys, I can punish king Paul, but I need you to tell me why I need to punish him" still no one answered but a vampire at the front looked towards the ceiling to his right, I looked too, but I couldn't see anything, I looked at the vampire that had looked when he saw me looking he looked down at the ground, I stood up and walked to the corner where the vampire had been looking I allowed myself to float, there was a device stuck on the ceiling I pulled it out, there was a red light flashing on it, I floated down again and walked to the throne again, I gave the device to Dylan, he looked at it

"Mic" was all he said, I put my hand out telling Dylan to give me the device when he did I dropped it on the floor, and stamped on it, breaking it.

"Now if there's nothing else, who wants to begin?" I told them as I sat down on the throne again, the vampire that had helped me find the mic came forward.

"Your majesty" he stared at the floor whilst he spoke "king Paul is ruthless but we're scared, if we speak against him he will hurt us, kill us, those that go against him die, we can't take that risk" the man said his piece then went back to stand in his original place

I stood up ubruptly again

"He will not hurt you, this I promise, I am here to help you" I pleaded with them I heard a heartbeat outside and cursed under my breath but every vampire in the room heard me, the door opened and Paul walked in, he looked in the corner where the mic had been, then he looked at me, I looked at the floor where I had stamped on it and he too looked at the floor where the mic lay broken "I know I told you to stay out whilst I spoke to your staff, why are you here Paul?" I asked him sounding very calm, but I was fuming a fire ball appeared in his hand

"If you think I'm going to let you, a pathetic little girl, take my throne you're more stupid than I thought" he told me, throwing the fire ball at me, I blinked away but the throne got burnt "No!!!" Paul shouted watching the throne burn I just laughed

"Does anyone have the ability to throw water?" I asked sarcastically.