Chapter Twenty-Nine

The Red Rubies had completed their choreography and they skipped away to stand behind the white touchlines on the field. I hadn't spent much of my time occupied in the ins and out's of sport but I could instantly tell that the dimensions of the pitch were not the average size of a football or rugby field. The playing space felt double the size and it only made sense considering the players were Vampires with abilities far more enhanced than humans.

The noise of an air hawk signalled the arrival of our players. The Luveldom Vampires were all lined up behind their leader and came out at a pace that was quite delayed for a Vampire but equivalent to human sprinting. As soon as our star player- Pierce Burningham stepped onto the field. Maximal cheering and excitement unravelled around me, touching each person in the vicinity like a domino effect. A rush of simmering exhilaration washed over me once I spotted my golden boy. Alex had a stripe of black paint on each of his cheeks and his enth