"What?" could not help my forehead from frowning at what she said. She is flipping over the story as far as I understand the current situation. My feet landed in their mansion unannounced simply because I want to return her daughter and collect the two days of my lifeline that was deducted from my barcode for killing Marcos and his cousin for her sake. Is her mother for real? Even if Cecelia is her daughter, she must show some respect for bringing her to the mansion alive even if unannounced. A simple "Thank you" would do for me, not with some kind of threat to get sued. "My husband is in critical condition after the ambush," she confessed. "but our expert doctors and nurses managed to remove the bullets from his body. And he is in the middle of recovery." "What?" my mouth remained open. I heard an explosion last night. But I did not see Cecelia's dad in the car when I decided to cancel our mission and hop out of the building when I saw Cecelia being chased by tw
"I'll take it." before Celcelia's mom could say a word, I snatched the briefcase from her hands, close it, then smiled at them. "I hope this gonna be the last time our paths cross. Thank you so much, for this, Madam Mayor." Afterward, I hail a cab heading back to the bunker. I cannot transform myself into a bat when the sun was already up. Bats are more sensitive to the sun than the moon. But I haven't tried shifting into a bat beyond six in the morning though. I wanted to at least try for once but I am worried my bats might get burned from the rays of the sun. Even if I have a daylight ring that protects my vampire from the heat of the sun, it is still not an assurance since my body will be divided into pieces when I shift into tiny bats. On my way to the bunker, my brain could not help but wonder about Cecelia. Although I already agreed not to see her again, I could not help my brain from reminiscing about the short period we shared. Let alone the mystery
While the rest of the guardians are busy reporting to the council about their month, our team is also busy discussing what the news Damon brought for us. "Do you think it has something to do with our last mission?" asks Rust in a worried tone. "You're considering it too?" Lucifer seconded Rust's idea before he pointed his blaming glimpse at me. Guilty or not, I am the one indeed to blame if what they claim is the same news Damon referring to. But failing one mission is not enough for the council to punish us with something big. After all, team New Orleans has managed to accomplish ninety-nine out of the hundred missions successfully. "Come on, guys, relax your balls, okay?" Monbert tapped the tip of my shoulder to help me ease my hatred and anger toward Lucifer. "No one knows we failed our last mission unless one of us..." "Not me," Rust defensively whispered when our eyes were locked on him. "And why would I ruin my reputation as the King's nephew
Then, he opens the briefcase to take a look at what he can find inside. His glimmering eyes and jaws being open wide only prove that he just hit the jackpot. Who could not be? I patiently counted all the money that I saved for almost eighty years including the ten million dollars Madam Mayor gave me. Overall, the money in the two briefcases totaled forty-eight million dollars. Even with the two of them, the robbers could leave already. But I think they are up for something bigger. A bank always has money reserved in its vaults. "Who could have thought we could meet someone as rich as you, young man," he added before he ordered me to drop my knees on the floor. Then, he continued asking for the rest of the customers. Speaking of the customers, there were around fifteen of them including us. Mathematically, if I manage to save all of them, I could have at least fifteen more hours increase to my lifeline. Let alone the bank employees. Not bad when my vampire ba
As soon as my foot landed at the crime scene, my nose immediately smells the blood that stained the surface of the ground. Though I am not quite sure where it comes from when I could sniff two different types of blood all over the place. One comes from a man and the other is from a woman. "Help!" Someone seeks help. So, I followed the source of the faint sound. After two months of not being able to taste human blood or not seeing Cecelia, all my abilities started to go dormant again. Not that I don't want to, but my demon blood is not used to it since, especially when I no longer have a team to depend on. I need to survive alone. But in order to do that, I have to be strong. As soon as I found someone's body lying on the ground, I shifted my head in the other direction and calm my throat not to get a thirst for blood. "Help me, please," he added. "I don't want to die." I could not help myself from looking at the man when he is the first person I encountered to say that. Most
"Can't you guys hear me?" Maverick insisted. "You two have huge bodies but you can't hear me?" "I see." I inhaled deeply before smiling at them. "They cannot hear you, Maverick. How about I say, then you do what I ask?" We don't have much time left when the time clock above us says it's almost dawn. And in a few hours, the sun will rise. Since I started living in a condo, my body also adopted the nature of a true vampire who loves to sleep in the daytime. With the help of the air conditioner in the room, my body sleeps faster than I used to back in the bunker. And speaking of the bunker, that makes me wonder about what my previous team is doing at the moment. If by chance there were all out tonight and doing their humanitarian mission like me. Don't even know if the council still assigned them in New Orleans. But that is not one of my worries anymore. I have someone's fiancee inside the club who was reported to be someone dangerous. If something goes wrong, it
Cecelia's freezing stare cut deep down beneath my heart and soul. I did not expect to receive such a cold welcome after two months of not seeing each other. It was also the first time I caught up a glimpse of her terrified me. Perhaps her parents have something to do with it considering they forbade me to get closer to her at least meters from her. Needless to say, I accepted the ten million dollars offered by her mom but I could not uphold the terms and conditions. Leaving no choice, I reached out to the door and pulled it open. "Gaius?" an unfamiliar face suddenly breathed out my name as I was about to get back to the table where Ceceli's friends are having fun. "Right. You're Gaius the one who beat those bank robbers, aren't you?" She and her friends immediately surrounded me out of curiosity. I know nothing about any of them but their eyes are telling me that they will not let me go if they got nothing from me. Despite those wasted humans surrounding me,
All my senses started to elevate as soon as Cecelia's sweet and fresh drops of blood were dragged down starting from my mouth passing through my thirsty throat and we're stored in my hungry stomach. I could feel the immense current that crawled through all parts of my veins. My vampire got awakened again. Immense power and strength are two things in my possession after tasting her blood. That makes me wonder how fast and strong I could be once I could drain the entire blood in her body. As I was about to dig my fangs deeper into her wrist, I stumbled to the floor a few times until I reached the corner after getting a hard kick from Maverick. Not a friendly reminder or push, but a kick that resulted in me moaning in pain. Let alone he did not take off his rubber shoes while wandering my place. "What are you doing?" he stands furious but deep inside him lies a trembling muscle. "Are you trying to kill her?" I slowly dragged my gaze back to Cecelia and found he