There's Someone Always Watching

Tessa's POV

"Excuse me? What did you just say?" The world kind of just stopped at that moment. Did Niall just say prince? He was a prince? Of what?

"I-I said...I am a prince. You cannot speak so ill of me," he said slowly, as if he too was trying to comprehend it.

"Would you care to explain, then, Prince Niall," I said sarcastically. He gulped, his Adam's apple quavering as he did so.

"Come with me," he said, motioning for me to follow him as he opened the door. I follow him down a few stairwells and through a few hallways before he stops at a big door.

He opens the door slowly, as if trying not to wake someone from their slumber. He stepped aside, letting me in, then shutting the door behind me and locking it.

I put my hands on my hips, a-waiting his explanation. he motioned to a big fluffy couch in the corner. I saw that there were two identical couches scattered in the room, and a bid fireplace.

There were bookshelves; a whole wall of books. But less, many less, than the Castle Library. I sat down on the couch as Niall tended to the fire he had recently made, chucking firewood into the flames.

The fire's color illuminated his face, making it a might orange and sometimes yellow. He kept his eyes on the fire.

"Not all of what I'd told you about me was false, Princess Atessa." I cringed at the use of my full name. It was horrid. "But not all of it true, either."

Niall sat on a couch opposite of mine, which I was fine with. Not once did he look at me.

"My name is Niall James Horan, yes. I am from another province, close to Atesslavoy. It's name is Kilo. I was born and raised there. There, vampires aren't welcomed, not like they are here." He finally looked at me, sadness evident in his eyes.

"My father was the king of Kilo. He inherited it from his Mother, who had married the previous king. He had married my mother, Maura." He smiled a little bit at the sound of her name.

"My mother and father had three children. Greg, my brother, was the oldest. He was born, then I was. Then Jessica, you already know her." I snorted.

"Yep, I do know her," I said bluntly. Niall gave me a confused look, then shook it off.

"My mother died a few years after Jessica was born. My father starte becoming angry with himself more than anyone. She died of the same disease your father did," Niall said. I looked down, and he continued.

"He put more people in jail, and got heavier on the taxes. People were near close to starving, and he didn't care. He had a reputation to keep in order, he said."

I looked up at Niall, about to apologize, but Niall held up his hand, signaling me to not.

"Then one day, after my school ended, I was walking home. I refused to ride in carriage that day, though I don't remember why. I was attacked." My head jerke up. Attacked?

"I was attacked by the Clan that Louis and Zayn are in. The bad ones. One of them, not Zayn or Louis, bit me. I was turned into a blood-sucking demon.

Then I went home that day, because they left me alone after that. they're weird, that Clan. My father noticed my teeth marks, and I was banished. I wasn't allowed to go home ever again. Kilo had seen the last of me." He frowned, looking back at the fire.

"So then I traveled to Atesslavoy, because I heard it was 'City of The Vampires.' I thought I'd be accepted. And I was," he said with a smile. "You're mother and father took me in. Years after, probably eight or nine, maybe, your mother announced she was pregnant. With you. But she knew growing up in Atesslavoy wouldn't be right, because you would be a Half Blood, so she took you to the human countries. She thought not knowing your father would be better than if you did."

I suddenly thought of all the father/daughter dances in elementary school I couldn't go to. And all the boys that came near me. No one was three to scare them off.

"Harry and Liam were always there though. Your father sent them to be a little.. Guardian Angel, lets call it. They watched you grow up, from the day you came home in the human world to the day you came here."

"And then I met you," I said with a smile. He nodded, grinning back.

"Yes, and then I met you."

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