Chapter 2

Lucinda Orlok. 

"Come on Lucinda, wait for me!!" Rebekah scoffed as she hurriedly packed up her luggage. 

Lucinda was super excited that she would be returning to San Francisco finally. Five years ago she was among the ascendants sent to North Carolina to go secure its regional secret house there and complete highschool like every mortal. 

"Lucinda??" Rebekah's voice echoed in a strained manner. 

Lucinda was super excited as they were finally returning to San Francisco.

She was a vampire-werewolf hybrid. Her father Viktor was a vampire who had an illegitimate affair with her mother, Elena who was a prisoner in his coven, the Immortal Fangs. 

All Lucinda could remember was when their coven was attacked by a werewolf pack and her father in order to save them, he had conjured, using black magic to transport she and her mother back to the human world but before that he had given her a paper that had the address of the secret keeper. 

Few months later, her mother had died. She was severely injured and she wasn't responding to treatments. 

What they do say happened to be completely true. Through blood they were mated and joined together and they couldn't live apart. She had numerous nightmares or should I say love-mares. 

Lucinda could read through her. That was one of the odd things she had inherited from her late father. He practiced black magic as well which made him able to travel far into someone's mind and be part of their mind. 

Ever since her death, Madamé Elisabeta had taken in Lucinda as her own daughter due to the closeness she had with Lucinda's father while he was still alive. 

Lucinda lived her life like a full breed vampire. She grew to love the vampires because she grew up among vampires only. 

"You better hurry fast enough because I can't afford to miss my flight!!" She scoffed as she wore a brisk smile. 

"Oh spare me that, Lucinda!!" Rebekah sneered. "I know why you're excited, and that's because of you will finally get to go to college and chase your dreams." She chuckled.

Not just long enough Lucinda's phone rang. It was a video call from the secret house. 

Stefan had met Lucinda during their early years at the secret house. He was a full breed vampire, different from me who was a dhampir.

She was once in a relationship with Luther, a human and Rebekah never supported her affair with Luther. Stefan out of love turned detective as he exposes Luther's dirty affair with different girls in college which led to their break-up. 

During her years of dating Luther, she had succeeded in concealing her true identity. 

"You know, Stefan really loves you or can't you see the greenlights??" Rebekah scoffed.

"I can't date Stefan. He's just 20, you don't expect me to date a guy I am older than or do you??" She sneered.

"But you both would make a great match." She laughed hard as she dragged down her luggages from the wooden stairs. 

Lucinda's iPad had rang.

"Uh oh!!" Rebekah jeered. "Just like I said it and here the caller is??" She mumbled pointing at Lucinda's iPad. 

Lucinda hurriedly accepts his incoming video call. 

"Hollaaa!!!" Rebekah jumped on the sofa as she waved at Stefan.

"Hehehe!!" He chuckled from the other end. "Rebekah. Longest time no see." He mumbled as he smiled briskly. 

"Yeah yeah!!" She replied. "I guess you are checking up if we're set to leave." She scoffed. 

"Uhmm don't mind her!!" Lucinda interrupts. "How're you doing??" She asked as she crashed down on the sofa having the back of the iPad up as she rested on the pillow.

"I'm great. So are you guys set to leave??"

"Our flight is in an hour. Rebekah is still getting ready." She mumbled. 

"I have something special waiting for you baby girl. I'll be there by eight noon." He smiled briskly. 

"Awwn… such a loving and caring bestie!!" She said excitedly. 

They kept on talking for a long time before she ended the call. 

It was a long trip to San Francisco and they had arrived in the evening. And as he had promised he was there by eight at Rebekah's residence.

He had taken a leave off for the night just to show Lucinda around the newest development in San Francisco. 

 San Francisco had few new things and he had taken her out to a newly opened Chinese restaurant whose delicacies were top-notch. 

He had dropped her off exactly by ten in Rebekah's apartment before leaving.

"Ding ding ding…"

"Heyy lazybones??" Rebekah said as she drags her from her legs.

"Come on Rebekah, not today please!!" Lucinda pleaded. "I'm really tired and I really need to have some rest."

"We have to report to the secret house with every other ascendant." Rebekah snorted. 

"I have heard you, Rebekah. I will be at your back." She snapped as she crashed back on the bed. 

Rebekah wouldn't give up as she jumped on the bed as she tickled her till she was up. She had groggily gone to bathe as Rebekah prepared breakfast. 

It was a few days to her 21st birthday and she was super excited that she would now be working in Trenton's Bar and she would no longer be kept hidden anymore as she was no longer a fledgling. 

Like every other vampire, she wasn't different even if her mother was a human and her dad a vampire. She had an extraordinary speed and heightened hearing ability which made it possible for her to hear distant discussions. She could hear indistinct chattering of everybody in a hall and within the years of training in the secret house under Rebekah, she has learned to get along with it without wearing headphones. 

That was what made her special, she could hear the dropping of a needle and passing dust. She enjoyed racing and she was a reckless driver because of her extraordinary speed. 

They had driven to the secret house among others who had accompanied them on the mission. 

They had reached the secret house as they made their reports. They had all passed the test and now they could now work in the TRENTON'S BAR. 

In the mere view the TRENTON'S BAR was just a classic bar were people come to spend some good time at night and during the day it was a beautiful cafeteria. But it also housed the secret house and for years it hasn't been breached by humans because it was invisible.