Adrienne stretched her arms seeking Alaric’s warmth on her bed when she felt her hands and arms only feeling the sheets under her touch.
“Alaric?” she asked in a mumble stretching her limbs and feeling herself sore below.
Adrienne moved her arms but still felt more silk under her than the flesh of the vampire she just shared a steamy night with. She opened her eyes and was greeted by the light bursting her window. She looked to her side and saw nothing but a creased sheet and a crumpled blanket. She rose to sit on the bed and looked everywhere about her room and saw that her dress last night was lying across the headrest of the sofa. The tray of food was gone except for an empty clean table.
She returned her eyes to the space that Alaric occupied last night. She turned her head towards the side table and found a note on top with a single-stemmed rose on top of it.
Adrienne took the note and read it.
Adrienne,Hello, my love. I’m sThe woman in a deep purple dress rose and walked towards her. “Adrienne!” She said with a big smile on her face. “How you’ve grown!” Her arms were stretched before her as she approached Adrienne. “I’ve missed you, my daughter.” She looked so happy. Her face was alight matching the bright glare of the morning sun that lighted the room. Adrienne was happy to see her mother that she hasn’t seen for a long time. She accepted her embrace. Her mother hugged her tightly and kissed both her cheeks. Then, she cupped her face and moved it to the right and left side. “You seem a little too thin, Adrienne.” Her mother said studying her appearance. “Are you eating at all, child?” Adrienne touched her mother’s shoulders and looked at her green eyes. The emerald orbs that she had not inherited from her mother but instead inherited the light brown color of her father’s eyes. Hazel eyes stared back at her mot
She didn’t hear it wrong, did she? Adrienne thought at loss for words. Because that moment the stranger vampire uttered those words, she felt that she may have gone deaf. Her auditory senses must have gone on vacation. She was looking at them with an open face mixed with astonishment, disbelief, and bewilderment. She opened her mouth to speak but no words came out. Maybe the surprise was just simply too much, it knocked her capacity to talk. It was simply unbelievable and she was disbelieving it. Her mother disappeared from her that night ten years ago without any trace where she could be found. At one point during that unforgettable night, she thought she must have been killed somewhere. It wasn’t until this year alone that Adrienne only found out that her mother was still alive. After she heard from one vampiress who had an unusual friendship with a witch inside a local boutique called Titiana’s Silks And Dresses where she bought a dress that time that she
Adrienne walked in haste as she got out of the room and strode out to the castle entrance. She stepped outside into the pebbly grounds of the castle and just kept walking straight heading unheeded under the bright sun until she found herself in the maze formed by rose hedges. She entered it and just wandered anywhere uncaring if she would get lost. The news shook her so much that she just left her mind blank for the next minutes she was walking without any direction in mind. She then felt the weakness on her legs and after wandering for a good few paces more, she noticed that she had entered the center of the maze and tried to find a seat somewhere. Fortunately, she found a white white-painted gilded bench located at the side of the hedges. She took a seat there and tried to relax herself. Her thoughts were lost in the revelation of her father being killed by her own mother’s lover’s little brother. It was difficult information for Adrienne to swallow. For wh
Adrienne left Emrick castle on an early morning. She went home to her old house back in Ardelean Village and stayed for a week. But she couldn’t stay in the place anymore. People would talk. She left after a week and boarded a train going north to God knows where she didn’t know. Much less cared, at all. She put her suitcase inside the train and crossed the aisle and found an empty seat at the middle. There were lesser people found on this side of the train. She put her bag on the opposite seat and settled herself on the dark red rose seat. The train waited for at least twenty minutes before it started to move. Gray smoke emitted from the chimney and it billowed in the wind, the gas seen through the glass window. The journey up north would be a long quiet one. She watched the rolling hills and green fields and passing trees already turning orange or yellow ready for autumn. The sky was clear above and there were occasional white birds that she s
Adrienne woke up the next day a little excited to have found herself a new home. It was built close to the woods so that when she needed to wander alone just by herself, the forest found at the back of her house was access to her immediate escape. She went to the center of the village to furnish her new house. She bought a new set of a round dining table with four chairs that came with two more extra seats. She also bought a new tall bookshelf. Then, she went to the next shop across the street to buy kitchen wares where she met a vivacious woman with a long wavy mane cascading her shoulders. She was carrying some tray as she wandered to the next shelves when the young woman bumped into her making her drop the trays she was carrying her on her arms. “Sorry,” the woman said immediately to her. “I wasn’t looking where I was going.” She bent down the ground quicker than Adrienne to pick the trays. “Here they are,” she said smiling at her giving the
Adrienne went to the village center to buy replacements for bulbs in her house. Sadly, it must be one of the forgotten things Golier Frank, the cottage owner, failed to mention to her when she arrived in her new house. Oh well, it was just a minor glitch that he neglected to inform her about.When she opened the light in her bathroom, it was absolutely off. So, she had to relieve herself in the loo without the lights on. When she opened the light to her bedroom to change into her clothes, it wasn’t working as well. That was two. She would have expected that when she went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, she could switch on the light on the ceiling but only darkness greeted her as well. It was only the fridge that provided the light.“Well, damn. Am I not pissed to find the lights not working,” she muttered to herself as she drank water. So, with the incident that every part of her room appeared to be dead with light she went to check the
Three years had passed since Adrienne Mallory first stepped foot inside the secret village of Aardwolf leaving Emrick Castle and her home back in Ardelean Village. Many things had happened and changed in those passing years. She was no longer alone like when she first arrived at the place. Despite that, she was more than happy now and quite content living a peaceful life inside the quiet town that she now considered her home. She had just been from the market carrying a brown bag and a large white bag full of vegetables and fruits and other foods to prepare for her son’s third year birthday. The sun outside was as bright and cheerfully sunny as it could be. It was spring so flowers were in full bloom and every petal shone and smiled as she walked back to her small cottage. She entered the small gate of her house and crossed the stone pavement built at the center of a grass lawn front yard. The front lawn with its bright green grass was occupied with two p
Rune’s third birthday celebration was delightfully celebrated by the adults inside the cozy house that Adrienne had built for herself and her son. They enjoyed the abundant cooking that Mrs. Lucian especially prepared for Rune and they helped themselves to the vanilla chocolate cake that Marcus leisurely created for the little boy. The little boy was changed to a red shirt and black pants. The red and black colors were chosen by Rune himself. He always immediately smiled when he sees red or black just like how he easily smiled more when it’s already dark, as if dusk and night were his best friends. But who wouldn’t be surprised by that? Some had an idea who the little boy with raven wave hair and blood-red eyes was while the rest of the village simply disregarded who he was. For he was young and he wasn’t dangerous to their eyes. More to the fact that he was strongly doted by the strongest clan in the village, the Lucians. When Adrienne Mallory came to Aardwolf Villa