Arielle's pov

I stepped out of the bathroom into the room and took the dress lila asked me to wear. The dress was anything but conservative. It was a black dress that showed enough of my cleavage. It stoped above my knee and it had a slit at the side. I wore it and the black knee high boots . The jewelry was a black choker and matching earrings. I'm guessing they want me in my dark glory. Bad girl style . I stepped out and found the two girls lila was talking about. I went to them and they led through the never ending Hall and brought me to a place where they did my make up. I looked stunning. After applying my make up, lila came

"you look good Arielle "she said

I put on an emotionless face"yeah, thanks "

She smiled "are you comfortable enough? "

I looked at her

"of course I am, like,what can be more comfortable than being dressed like a prostitute and sold as a slave to blood suckers when I'm supposed I be snuggled up on my bed and watching avengers infinity war and end game or drooling over handsome guys on the Internet that I might never meet in my pathetic fucked up life!"

I was sure that the tears had already escaped

"I'm sorry you have to go through this. I know how you feel because I was also sold to the owner of this place when I was 13 as a slave. But on a serious note, don't tell me you haven't watched avengers infinity war and end game? "she asked me with an amused expression

"look, that's not the point okay, besides aren't you a slave?, how were you able to watch it? "

"my master isn't always around and I'm not only a slave, I also serve as a pet to his eldest son so during one of my 'visit' to his 'bed', he literally forced me to watch it. "

"oh, but why are you so comfortable saying it, I mean, I expect you to be angry or crying or something "

"oh, I cried three weeks straight. It was there weeks of pain and torture since I couldn't stop crying and cussing and fighting but I later realised that doing all that wouldn't change anything so I accepted my fate. This is why I'll advice you to not try anything stupid."

"I won't " I lied

She smiled and said " okay then, lets get going, and oh, try not to look at anyone. Some vampires can read people like an open book"

"fine, whatever "I said and she led through the hall to another place. She opened the door and led me to some group of girls. Some are them where crying some of them were handcuffed. I'm guessing those were the wild ones. Immediately she held the microphone, the hall filled with hundreds of vampires, both male and female became silent. I took her advice and decided not to have eye contact with any of them. Then she spoke

"good day. Today we're gonna be starting the auction with this beauty, Talia stephen. 18 years old......."

I decided to look around, Still avoiding any eye contact. I looked at some vampires and they had different eye colours, red(the most common), green, brown, black and surprisingly gold. After a few minutes of taking everything in, I met a familiar pair of red eyes, caden. He was shamelessly staring at me, undressing me with those red eyes. He brought the cup he was holding —that was filled with a red substance that I assume is blood— to his lips. He smirked and for some odd reason I blushed. I looked away from him and just then, lila called my name

"Arielle Damins, 17 years old, has a scar on her left hip and is a virgin. I was told to start the bargain at 100,000$ "

"100,000$" someone in the crowd shouted

"200,000$"a deep sexy voice said, my head snapped towards his direction and there stood the most handsome man my eyes have ever seen or ever will see. I shamelessly looked at him. He had jet black hair, beautiful ocean blue eyes that I could definitely drown in, perfect nose and sharp jaw line. And his body, oh my God...he had the body of a greek god. To sum it up, he's the perfect definition of perfect. Two men stood at his left and right side. They wore black suits and sunglasses and they were holding a gun. They looked like bodyguards. Mr.hottie must be a very important figure to have such tight security so that means he's probably rich, there's a 60% chance I'm gonna be sold to him...awesome...wait...what?..

"300,000$"someone else shouted and I inwardly groaned. If I get to spend the rest of my life as a pet I will prefer it be with someone that's hot, I.e...that guy. wait..... What am I thinking?...

"I'll buy her for double the amount anyone offers "the hot guy said and I did a little dance in my head. What's wrong with me?...

Then lila said "Arielle Damins, sold to the vampire prince Devon for 600,000$"

Wait, did she just say vampire prince, like a real prince, prince of all freaking blood suckers..... So, I'm being sold to royalty. My life just became 10x more complicated.