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"I prefer this than being dead," then she added on a light tone. "Besides, do you have any idea how powerful I am now."Ivy rolled her eyes.Not this talk of power again."I could even snap you into two for stealing my boyfriend."Ivy's grip around the doorknob tightened immediately, her shoulders tensed."I didn't--""I know. I was only joking." She took a step forward and Ivy's eyes widened in alert, she must have observed that because she immediately retracted her step back to where she had been standing before.Seeing this, Ivy's grip on doorknob loosened, although her hand still held it."I owe you an apology. It was wrong for me to have tricked you like that. To have used you, used everyone. I'm so sorry that I lied to you. I know this might need some making up to. I'm ready to do anything. I also know that my outburst was terrible and uncalled for. You are my best friend. Best friends don't treat their best friends that way. Please, forgive me. Losing you is going to hurt me fo
She pulled herself up from the floor and walked to the bed, picked up her phone and called her Father, her phone pressed to her ear while it ranged lowly."Hello, Pa.""Isn't that my one and only lovely daughter?" His voice answered through the phone and immediately she heard her Mother's own, from a distance as usual."Isn't that my one and only daughter," she mimicked him sarcastically. "If you were half as passionate for the investors meeting we had today, how good that would have gone.""I could say the same about you in some other things," he teased. "When it comes to our daughter, I'm doing the work for the both of us, Sweetheart.""What?! No. Romito and I are as close as we are supposed to be," then her voice started getting really distant than it had started out to be, Ivy could hear some background noises like as if her Father was sneaking away, then she heard a door close silently.That confirmed it."I have escaped for now but she will come for me soon to make her point. Le
They must have gotten the wrong house because everything was alright here or... could this be about Elsa, did the government know about them? What would they do to them? What about her? She a criminal now?Different questions ran through her mind as she turned the key in the keyhole, then pushed the door slightly."Yes, I have every reason to believe that my daughter has been kidnapped for some days now."She heard her Father's voice filter in. Wait, her Father?! How was he back?! Last time she had spoken to him, he was in CarDavo."Also all the locks have been changed," that was her Mother's voice, firm and clear against the sirens that were blaring loudly in the background. What was she--?"When last did you speak to your daughter, ma'am?" That was a strange voice, most likely belonging to a police officer.Now she understood what was going on. For some reasons that she couldn't quite point out, her parents had thought she had been kidnapped and had taken the first flight down her
Fantasy.Myth.Doesn't exist.Those and more were the words that confronted her during her search.She had chuckled in her head at them.If only they knew.She had also found some things about the way the vampires were. Some she had remembered a time or two that she could have noticed, and others she immediately knew weren't true.The search results said that they were cold-blooded, couldn't walk under sunlight because it would burn them down to ashes, and many other things that even she knew couldn't possibly be true.The cold-blooded one though, she believed. She had been close to Chris on many occasions and he had felt cold against her skin. Silly of her, she had given it many reasonable excuses in the past.But then again, how was she supposed to have reasoned that he was just the cold one?Then what about the time she had tried to help Elsa out of the room immediately when she had woken up?Could it because she was hun-thirsty?Ahhhh.She sighed in her head, scrolling down and re
He did just that, he took care of her. Feeling better after a while, she laid on the sofa, sipping from her mug of warm ginger tea that Chris had prepared for her, while he finished up in the kitchen. When she saw him come back from the kitchen, she asked him the question that had been bothering her a while ago, while he was taking care of her. "Doesn't it affect you, the blood, because, you know...." He chuckled softly, "No." Then he settled next to her on the chair, "feeling better." "Huh-uh," she nodded. "Thanks to you." Silence settled between them, the voices from the TV fading away into the distance of her mind, before she finally spoke up, bringing up the heavy questions that she had been trying to convince herself for so long that they didn't matter. But they did, she knew, and she had to ask them now. "You said I claimed you. Did I...?" Her voice paused as she placed the now empty mug on the side table, then she leaned back into the sofa. "Does this have anything to
"Vampires don't have soulmates?""They do," he said then added after a small pause. "They used to."She rolled her eyes, getting really frustrated. "You had better start speaking to me in English and I mean "simple english' not all these 'hiding secrets here and there English'."He sighed, "Fine. We used to have soulmates, in the past but as time went on, we just didn't anymore.""Why?""I don't know. It just happened. My guess is that probably because we got more mixed up with humans and-- I don't know.""Hmm," she leaned back in her seat, not from fear this time but in slight relaxation and mighty thinking. "So you no longer have soulmates?"His shoulders tensed up lightly and she was afraid that asking the question again might have hit a hard spot."It's okay if---" she started to say but he cut her off quickly with an explanation."The last time any vampire found a soulmate was over a century ago, and that vampire was a Pureblood.""Are you a Pureblood?""Yes.""So is there a poss
They pulled apart to breathe.Her grip on his shirt loosened then her forehead creased in a frown, observing something."Your heart.""What about it?"She reach out and levelled a finger slightly underneath his nostrils."You are bre-breathing?! I thought--""Oh, that." He nodded lightly in understanding. "Is is because you are a Pureblood? That's why you can do all that?""No," he chuckled lightly. "It's an illusion.""Illusion," she repeated flatly."Yes," he took her hand pressing it against a part of his chest where his heart should be beating beneath. Her eyes widened in awe.She couldn't feel anything this time. She placed a finger underneath his nostrils as she had done before.Nothing."Oh my goodness."Then it returned back to normal.An illusion!"So every vampire can do this?""Yes, it is the way we live undetected in the human society.""Why don't you do the same illusion thing with your cold skin?""There are limits to how far we can go. That is one of the limits."She
Knowing what she was to him and knowing that she now had a choice must have done it. Knowing that whatever step she would take, would determine the totality of her life placed a heavy weight on her mind.She was thinking of what would happen if she decided to be with him and what would happen if she decided not to. Her marriage with her mysterious husband didn't bother her at all while thinking about the decision to go along with. It was already stated in the contract that she should live a single life, which meant being unbothered about any unnecessary commitment towards Mr. Mystery.What she was truly bothered about was if she was ready to get roped into a supernatural world for the rest of her life. Was she ready to leave this world that she already knew? Was she ready to give it up?He had talked about the supernatural world having its risks too, was she ready to face that?Was she ready for her problems to switch from the thoughts of parties, cars and fashion to whatever it