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transfixed by him, by his desire for me.
     
    I stopped in the middle of the great hall and continued to watch him.  He smiled, but it was twisted and angry, and I knew that he was going to do something to punish me.  A chill ran up and down my spine, and I knew that I had been stupid to test Robert’s love for me.  I had angered him, and someone was going to suffer.
     
    I watched, stunned, as his fangs grew and his head flung back, then snapped forward and then proceeded to rip Emily's throat out.  Shrieks of excitement circled the great hall as Robert held her limp body high above him with outstretched hands, his mouth and front smeared and swamped with dripping blood.
     
    A sigh of relief escaped my throat in a soft hiss as he threw her body on the huge table; I thought he intended to let her heal, how wrong I was!  Like a flash of lightening, he threw one of the long but thin logs that were stacked beside the fire.  His aim was straight and true, piercing Emily's heart with a sickening thud, and so ended her newly transformed vampire life.
     
    I did not vomit and I did not move, I just stood quietly, waiting for him to reach my side.  I drowned out the sound of the evil nest of vipers surrounding me, their cheers at the death of one of their own sickening and cruel. 
     
    He reached my side in a flash, his presence consumed me, and his whisper caused me to shake.
    "You see how easily I can take away all that I have given you, my love."  Grabbing my waist, he swung me around in a circle, his laughter and the laughter of the other vampires around him echoed around my head without gaiety, and I knew in that moment that he would most definitely kill me if I ever abused his trust.
     
    Chapter Four
     
    Rober t’ s eyes shifted rapidly around the crowd of vampires, his eyes shone with excitement and malice.  He looked down at me, a cruel and spiteful smile playing around his soft and gorgeous lips.
     
    Letting go of my hand, he jumped gracefully onto the huge table, which still housed the dead body of Emily.  He walked over to her body, and casually, with no emotion or regret, kicked her body from the table.  The crowd of vampires once more laughed and shrieked, and I felt disgust for their depravity overwhelm me.
     
    Robert lifted his hand to hush the crowd.
    "My friends...shh, my friends..." he waited patiently for the crowd to quiet, and when he had their attention, he continued, "My friends, I have a treat for you."  He smiled down at them, and if I had any doubt before, his presence, and their reaction to him, confirmed that he was their king, and the leader of them all.
     
    "Tonight we will have a live dinner.” I gasped in horror, but the other vampires cheered and heckled in glee.  I was not sure what he meant by 'a live dinner' and I was sure that I really did not want to know.
     
    "We also have a treat for our newly transformed vampire, Gwen.” Robert’s face shone evilly, his laughter, spite, and anger, radiating towards me in waves.  He had, I knew, decided to punish me for my earlier outburst in the bedchamber.
    "Gwen will have the honor of making her first kill.” His red eyes shone into mine, and I know that he saw the horror I felt at his words.  Clapping his hands in what resembled childish glee, he shouted over the crowd of crazed animals, " BRING IN THE FEAST! "
     
    All heads, including mine, turned towards the curtain that hid the entrance to the kitchens at the far end of the great hall.  Four naked people walked from the entrance, I could see from the glazed and faraway expressions on their face that they had been bewitched.
     
    I did not recognise three of them, but the fourth I did, it was my maid, Anne, and I knew without being told, that she was the one that Robert had decided I would feed from until she was starved of blood and her heart stopped beating. 
     
    I watched the four of them make their way to the table.  The excitement of the other vampires faded from my