Taken by Fate

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Plucked out of the Collector's Pens auctioned off to a vampire contingent and sent across the ocean to the Alpha Territories was not exactly how I planned to spend my week.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Actually scratch that. I had planned the first bit. But I was supposed to be sold to the werewolves so I could save my friend from a fate worse than death. Instead the bloodsuckers have me and so far? It's not going great. I've been shoved into a corset and made to look like an extra on the cast of Bridgerton all to take part in the Harvest Games--think The Bachelor set in the 1800's but the men are all vampires and then</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>add a decidedly terrifying Squid Games element to the mix.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>No problem.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My goal-besides keeping the number of holes in my body to the current norm-is more than surviving. It is escaping the inescapable finding my way to the werewolf territory and getting Jordan back.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Cue the political strife.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Armed with nothing more than a super sharp hairpin my questionable charm and an irrational amount of optimism plans to get both me and my bestie out alive are in full swing.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Until the General of the Vampire Army and his molten eyes light me on fire and leave me wondering if escape is what I want after all. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Maybe one extra set of holes wouldn't be the worst thing ever...</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>