LOGINThe vampire duke of Valestead was not a man to be trifled with. He was centuries years old and full of hate for humans because of the death of his beloved mate; Katherine during the mass killing of all supernatural creatures. Meeting Guinevere Pedro must be the fates way of playing with me because of her exact resemblance to his dead wife and she is also an enemy just because she was human. The duke decides to marry her to find out exactly why she looks like his dead wife and then to kill her to satisfy his animalistic urge but what he did not expect was that she would her innocence touching him in places he never knew existed and once again… the duke's dead heart shall awaken before it is too late for both of them and before the war of old strikes again
View MoreAmelia pushed the door to her apartment, looking tired as ever before walking to the sitting room.
Getting to the sitting room, everywhere was dark except for the television which was turned on ..
Amelia couldn't help but to be panicked as she clearly remembered turning off her television before leaving her house.
Shortly, she heard a voice which made her shudder in fear.
"Finally, you're back, have been waiting for you!"A loud scream escaped her mouth , making her nervously rush to get the light switched on.
"How the hell did you get inside my apartment?" Amelia asked almost immediately.
"Have you forgotten I'm your best friend? Besides I know where you hide your spare key"Amelia's best friend Linda spoke up.
Amelia fell short of words , before her attention got caught up inside the television.
Linda sighed seeing how her best friend's eyes were helplessly glued to the television.
Linda: Stanley is having his final March at Atlantic City, what do you think huh?
Amelia was still silent with different thoughts going through her mind.
"Do you have any regrets?"Linda whispered into her friend's ear but received a deadly glare.
"A regret?No I never do, in fact that was the ….."Amelia stuttered, rubbing her temple in embarrassment.
"Umm really?" Linda said, teasing her friend who already turned around to leave for her room.
"Maybe I should go for him! Afterall thousand ladies are dieing to have a one night stand with him. You'll allow me right ?''Linda asked teasley.
"You…!!!"
Amelia fastened her footsteps towards her room, feeling nervous and angry at the same time.
" Hey! I'm just kidding though but who knows whether there's someone out there with the motive of pursuing Stanley? Who knows?"
Amelia was relieved for a second when she heard her friend's first few words but her face dramatically changed when she heard the last few parts.
"What I'm I even saying? Thousands of ladies want to pursue him , he's a big time celebrity afterall" Linda yelled out those words clearly for her friend to hear before resuming back to the television.
Linda sighed.
Inside Amelia's bedroom.Walking to the wine cellar inside her room , Amelia got a wine and glass cup before walking back to the shelf.Picking the photo albums she had kept for years without bothering to check it out , but she finally decided to ."Do you hate me now?"
Amelia sobbed, as she ran her hands on the particular photo in her hand , it was her happy day during her teenage days.Gulp!
She gulped down the wine inside her glass cup in one go before letting down her tears , the tears she has been keeping inside her.
Suddenly realization dawned on Amelia that she didn't know where the boldness came from.
"I love you Stanley and I'm ready to go after you once again!"Amelia picked her phone and immediately called her secretary who picked up almost immediately the phone rang.
"Hello Ma'am?" Secretary Katie's voice echoed at the other end of the phone." Book a first class flight to Atlanta city" Amelia said with boldness , not knowing where the sudden boldness came from.
"But ma'am what about the contract we are signing tomorrow morning with our business partners?" She asked.
Amelia was silent for a second , but she already made up her mind to go for what she wanted.
"You can put it on hold or you can cancel it!"
Amelia knew fully well that the contract cost them a whopping five billion dollars but she decided to cancel it just to go for what she wants..
"But ma'am , are you really sure about that?"she asked, hoping her miss would reconsider it again.
"No but , do as you're being told, Young lady" Amelia said In a Stern tone as she had made up her mind.
Call ended.
Amelia sighed tiredly feeling a little bit tipsy before collapsing on the king sized bed with the photo on her chest with her arm wrapped tightly around it.
Next morning.
Amelia rolled out her small luggage looking fully dressed up with her hand bag in her left hand.
" Morning , what's up with two bags?"Linda asked with curiosity
"Morning, it means mind your freaking business"Amelia said with an eyeroll
"Com'on , I'm your best friend. You should tell me what's going on with the two bags"Linda whine like a babyLinda dropped the mug in her hands on the dining table before rushing towards her friend.
"You'll make a joke of me, if I say it" Amelia mumbled.
"Com'on why would I ? I'm your best friend and I'll always understand you okay? Don't you trust me?"Linda asked staring Keely at Amelia as the held each other hand
After a brief thought, Amelia made up her mind to tell her friend with the only hope of not being discouraged.
"I have made up my mind to go after him"Amelia said with a deep breath
Almost immediately, she was pulled into a tight hug by her friend." I'm sure it took you a while to make the decision but you made it after all , go for it bestie!" Linda said .
Amelia's face dilated in shock upon hearing her friend's response.
"You think so? You think I should go after him?"Amelia asked once again to be sure of what she heard.
" No , I know so" Linda said as the both disengaged from the hug.
" I made some cold milk , how about you take it before leaving?"Linda asked .
"You're the best! You know me the most!"Amelia gushed happily before rushing to the dinning table to gulp down the cold milk made for it, it was her favorite.
" I got this for you beforehand with the hope that if you made the decision, I'll give it to you , here it is,"Linda said as she beckoned the ticket to her friend.
Linda dropped the ticket she had gotten even though it wasn't easy to get the ticket , but she put more effort and got it for her best friend.
"Oh my goodness! That's the ticket to the lounge?" Amelia asked with a big curiosity.
"Yes," Linda said .
At the City airport.
The excitement in Amelia's face knew no bounds , as she stared at the ticket in her hand, before putting it inside her handbag.Her booked flight would be leaving at ten o'clock and luckily she came to the airport earlier and got about eight minutes left.
"Wait for me Stanley!"THIRTY TWO"Love is like a sudden flame; it springs up in the heart and often consumes the whole being in a moment." HONORE DE BALZACTHE DUKEWe walked stealthily to the place we had seen in the vision, I could see that it had been made into a garden and in the garden were two cottages. I signaled on Henry to follow closely behind me as I did not want to alert them of our presence.We hid watching when we saw somebody come out of one of the cottages, I instantly recognized her as the new maid the one that worked personally for GuinevereSo it was she who had stolen Katherine's body, I thoughtWe watched her until she had gone into the second cottage before advancing to the first and true to what I thought Guinevere was tied there, her eyes closed at first and I thought she was dead until she moved, opening her eyes. I rushed over to meet her but she was looking beyond me at something or maybe someone.It was then in dawned on me that I had walked into a trap, there was a man standin
THIRTY ONE"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." NELSON MANDELAGUINEVEREThe torturing had been going on for quite a while now and every time I was cut I healed back, it almost seemed like I was healing quicker with every cut. I did not understand this and I was pretty sure neither did my captors who were…well looking at me with a look of surprise and concern on their faces.I felt every pain inflicted on me but it was almost like I was feeling it from another body, there was something wrong with me and it had to do with Katherine. I knew they did not want me dead if not they would have driven a stake through my heart already; they wanted answers I could not provide and I also wanted damned answersI wondered why I was being loyal to the Duke, was he even looking for me? Did he even care enough? Why was I trying to protect him what kind of loyalty was I feeling
THIRTY“Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear”MARK TWAINTHE DUKE"We need to all calm down." Henry started as he watched me.He could already tell that I was revising a means to save Guinevere"We need to go after her." Damien said, he could never sit still so he was pacingI still was in a world of my own thinking about what had just happened and its correlation to Katherine; I had not seen who had killed her then but what if it had a correlation to what happened today"I believe they thought she was Katherine, hence the kidnap." Henry continued sayingI wasn't paying any attention then; I could only think about was why they had taken her and what they wanted"They knew who she was” I finally spoke up… “They knew she was not Katherine and I believe somebody very close to us is messing with us right now. I don't think we are going to find out where she is except they invite us over.""So what are you trying to say, we wait?" Damien asked, incredulou
TWENTY NINE“The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing”JEAN TOOMERGUINEVEREHe was staring, waiting for me to say something to support my claim about his love for Katherine. I took a deep breath, hoping I had not just gotten myself into trouble before saying"I just was thinking about everything and why you have decided to tell me of this story; one between yourself and Katherine and I think it is pretty obvious, I did not just want to see it. You loved her and she did not return your feelings, is that it? She preferred the duke to you and that was what had fueled your actions from then till date”"That is not true but great job in trying to decipher why I am doing what I am doing. Katherine loved me; we were childhood sweethearts but this was before she turned the duke or at least her father did. He was her first kill, her father made her do it and then they became inseparable. She had only felt pity for him of course because he was a coward and no other person wante
CHAPTER TEN“Luxury lives in the finer details. It is a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It is a mint on your pillow before bed”IGGY AZALEAGUINEVEREWe arrived at the house of my papa with the duke and I not talking to one another. His eyes were closed just as it had been when he had taken me from
CHAPTER NINE“Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you are going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach the goal and by maintaining focus”OPRAH WINFREYTHE DUKEI had almost let myself be consumed by her… I had watched her try to hide from me because I had
CHAPTER EIGHT“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well”NICHOLAS SPARKSGUINEVEREHe was right, I was not his wife and would never be, so why was my heart beating in such painful way
CHAPTER SEVEN“She is clarity and confusion, never enough… always too much. A simple, complicated and perfectly flawed mess”PERRY POETRYTHE DUKEShe was watching me, staring at me eat even when she knew I was aware. She was supposed to be afraid of me, what was she doing staring at me with those
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