2 stitches. That's how many stitches it took to close up the cut on my lip. Why he hit me so hard I will never know. All I do know is that I am NEVER going to attack him like I did. Even when another slave is getting abused. He's completely hopeless. "I'm SO sorry! You didn't have to do that for me!" Emma apologized for like the hundredth time.  

I sighed and rolled my eyes at her. "Emma. Its fine. Really! I told you that if you got in trouble I'd make him take it out on me. And he did. So stop apologizing!" I snapped. Jason had numbed my mouth so he could stitch it up. Now it doesn't hurt to talk as much. I wonder how bad its going to hurt when the medicine wears off...I shuddered. I'll think about that later.

 "You're probably one of the bravest slaves I've met..." Emma muttered.

I shrugged. "Why is that?" 

She laughed humorlessly. "Because you are the 1st slave that I've ever met that would stand up to their master like that. Especially Blake of all vampires. He's the cruelest master I've ever had."

 I nodded in agreement. "Yeah I know what you mean. All of my masters have been vampires and they were all cruel as hell. But Blake is the worst. I'm probably not going to live much longer anyhow. So whats the point in complaining." I murmured. Talking about death is never easy. Especially when its your own.

 Emma shook her head. "Don't talk that way!"

 "Why not? You know its true. Blake and I don't exactly get along that much. One of these days I'm going to say or do something that will make him kill me just like he killed the others." We finally got to my room and I turned to face her. Her blue eyes were sad. 

"You can't say that! Jasmine....Blake sees something in you," she whispered. "He won't kill you. If he was going to you would have died already..." she finished. 

I laughed for a second and then I sobered up and looked at her gravely. "Save the jokes for later Emma." 

"I'm not joking. If he was going to kill you, you would have died earlier when you stood up for me. I've been here for about 4 months. Want to know what happened to his other slave?"

Did I? I mean maybe knowing how she died would save me from making her mistake and I can live a little longer...but talking about her death seems a little rude.Eh. What the hell? It wouldn't hurt to know.

"Sure." 

She sighed and looked as though she wanted to cry.  "Stacy was one of the sweetest girls I've ever met. She didn't hate anyone. Not even Blake, though he treated her like shit. No matter what she did, she was always doing it wrong and getting in trouble. Every time I saw her she was bruised and cut up really badly. She was even sent to his torture chamber once." She wiped a tear from her face. "He sent her there for one day. It was about 2 months ago. 4 weeks before she died. When she got out she was hurt even worse. She had bruises everywhere. She was too hurt to work, yet he still worked her really hard. One day, this other slave happened to do something that Blake didn't like. He was in the middle of yelling at her and beating her when Stacy showed up down the hall. She looked up at me and I could see in her eyes that she had just snapped. She ran up to Blake and pushed him away as rough as she could manage. When she pushed him away she slapped him and screamed at him about how she was tired of watching him hurt others and how she was tired of him hurting her. Blake backhanded her so hard it knocked her out. Then he drug her body into one of the guest rooms. A few minutes later all you could hear from that room was her screams and some loud banging sounds. Then nothing..." At this point Emma broke down into sobs. I can only imagine how terrible it must have been to hear her get killed.

A few minutes later she finally calmed down. "After Blake had finished killing her he stormed out of the room. No words can describe how pissed he was. It only got worse when he saw me and 4 other slaves in the hallway crying. He told us to 'get our sorry asses back to work  if we didn't want the same fate as her!' We went back to work and everything went back to normal. A few weeks later you showed up." She looked at me with her tear filled eyes and shook her head. "I thought he was about to kill you today. I should go back to work before the same thing happens to me." She smiled at me sadly. "I'll see you later Jasmine. You should get some sleep." With that said she turned around and quickly left my room. I went and lied down.

That story had me terrified. Blake obviously doesn't like humans and he's already hurt me. Poor Stacy. No one deserves to die that way. Just thinking that I might suffer that same fate scares the hell out of me. She obviously didn't die an easy death. Yet...she died fighting. And that is how I'm going to go down. When I die I won't die cowering and begging him to let me live. I'll go down fighting just as hard as possible. 'How can you talk about your death so easily?' I cant answer that. I'd be lying if I said I'm not scared. My thoughts trailed off as I fell into a deep sleep.

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"Jasmine! Wake up!" Blake's voice broke into my deep sleep and I quickly sat up. He was at the end of my bed watching me with his bright blue cold eyes. His lips were turned down in a deep frown. He's actually not that bad looking...Whoa! Where did THAT come from.

 I shook my head and sighed. "What do you want?" I said softly. I wasn't in the mood to yell. I have a severe headache and my mouth is extremely sore. I moaned softly and put my head in my hands.

"Jasmine...I'm sorry about your mouth." he murmured. I froze. And here he is again apologizing to me. 

"Why?" I said and looked back up at him. He looked surprised. 

"Why?! Because I hit you too hard!" I shook my head. 

"No. I mean...Why do you care?" Once again he looked like I took him off guard. 

"Because...I...Who said I cared? I just figured you'd want me to apologize!" He finally snapped.

 I smiled sadly. "Exactly." For some reason I felt upset that he didn't care.

"Whatever. Just get up and go do your chores like you're supposed to!" He growled. He tossed a piece of paper at me and quickly left my room.

I got up and quickly dressed into some clean clothes. I grabbed the paper and left my room.  I looked at the list and sighed. Well looks like I'm back to working my ass off.

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Well here it is! Chapter 7!!! I told you I'd update at least 1 more time before school starts. Sadly this is my last update for at least 2 weeks. School starts on Wednesday and the beginning of the school year always stress me out. But once I get settled into school and stuff I'll update again. I'm still working on my next chapter for Strange Attraction. I'll try to have it out before Wednesday but if I don't I'll update when I update this one again. Anyhow...Please vote, fan, and comment!!! If I get alot of votes and comments I'll make the next chapter super long! I promise! Well...I'mma stop talking nonsense now! Peace out!