Ch 003

AZALEA’S POV

NEXT MORNING

I woke up with a jolt, as I found myself in the middle of a wide bed alone and half naked. Panic surged as I instinctively throw the sheets over myself as if they could shield me from whatever it was.

My eyes had easily adjusted to the dim lighting of the room and I scanned the room, it was ancient and old school. The wall told the same story as the tapestries hung on the wall like museum pieces. I mean who keeps an old Mona Lisa painting in the bedroom?

My memory was hazy as fog, my mind was blank and I couldn’t remember anything despite the aches that I felt in my groin.

I haven’t processed anything when the door creaked open and a man walked in majestically like a king. I coiled into the duvet more, and he stopped by the bedside looking at me strangely.

I was also surprised mesmerized by this man standing before me looking like a demi god. Those golden eyes, tall frame and strong build was something any average girl could die for, but it scares me.

Who is this man?

The more I tried to remember where I’d seen him from, the hazier my mind became, making it thump with panic.

“Em.. who.. who are you?” I asked slowly.

A gentle smile broke from his lips as he tossed a blue dress at me, “You’re just as beautiful as you were in those days. If I had known you’re close to me, i’ll have come to snatch you from the day you’re born again” he said in a cool and serene voice unfit for such a personality.

I threw the dress back at him as I barked, “Get away from me! Who are you, and where have you brought me?”

His smiling face changed into a narrow, predatory expression something eerie and inhumane.

My heart rushed to my mouth.

Unexpectedly, he landed on me, knocking the breath from my lungs, his chest facing my bare own, making me feel unnecessarily hot and wanting. But wasn’t a fantasy, It was real fuckin real!

“Who are you?” I asked again, still trying to be brave.

“Your Mate, Your Master and the one who owns your soul” He said in a deep husky voice that doesn’t match the cool one earlier.

Fear gripped my heart as I breathed heavily, did I just get kidnapped? Or what is this man talking about? “Just tell me who the fuck you are and take me back to my home!” I snapped, twisting beneath him trying to get away from his grip.

“It’s normal you don’t remember. Not many people remember after their first time” He whispered again with a smirk that seems to have more sinister beneath it.

“Scoundrel! Is this the new tactic to catch innocent girls like me? Get off me now!!” I quipped, still trying to get away from him.

Being under him like this is so scary and fearful. The feel of his hot body close to mine, this strange bedroom, his strange words damn! I just have to get away from this place. It screams trouble but I don’t know what it was.

His aura feels too dangerous for me to be too safe, he grabbed my jaws forcefully and made me face his sharp gaze, “You have no idea how long I’ve waited for this day sweet mate. Don’t force it, you belong here to me!”

My chest thumped! I belong here and to him? “M…. Mate?” I asked slowly.

“Your blood is the most sweetest I’ve tasted over the years. None tasted like it since you left years ago” he said again adding to the suspense.

But despite the suspense, the fog in mind was slowly dissipating as the pieces was coming together. Old room golden eyes that shines mate taste of blood…

“I never thought I’ll ever see my bite marks on you in this lifetime after I’ve waited for more than a millennium in vain” He said again tracing my neck with his slender fingers that made me completely numb under him, “But as expected of the woman I was destined to protect and love all my life, it looks good on you that I wished I could suck you up at this very moment”

I didn’t react. I don’t understand a thing but I waited and he was looking at me not breaking the eye contact until I remembered that I was still trapped under this man.

Using this opportunity of his golden silence, I pushed him away and managed to stand on my feet.

He grabbed my hand immediately and stopped me from moving. I looked at him with fear. What if he wants to kill me? He’d said it that my blood tastes good, what if… What if….

Suddenly my eyes landed on a dagger beside the table lamp. Summoning another strange courage, I pushed him and quickly grabbed the dagger.

“As expected, you’re very fast and eloquent with your movements, maybe that’s why the goddess promised me of your reincarnation” He said again putting another suspense in my heart so much that I yelled.

“Stop!!” I looked into those eyes even though the fear of them was gnawing at my bravado, I continued, “Stop! Tell me what you are, why are you this to me just say something!!!”

“Heavens know I can never let you go” he said in bare whispers again, “Waiting in celibacy all these years, I know the goddess is not gonna give me a walkie -talkie as a mate”

These words only anger me the more. My grip on the dagger tightened, I wasn’t thinking I don’t want to think, I only want to get away from this strange man. My hand moved before my mind did, and as if I was propelled by something greater than me, I stabbed his heart!

“Argh!” He yelled in pain.

I dropped the knife with bated breathe, I… I can’t be a murderer, I can’t be, I don’t know with what speed I used to quickly exit the room towards the restroom.

My sanity was at stake as I washed my hand hurriedly, my brain was spinning and my heartbeat rate was at 360° Celsius as I can’t just make a thing out of everything that’s happening.

I breathlessly looked up to the mirror, and my eyes traveled to the side he’d traced just now and I saw those marks.

All of a sudden, as if the arch closing a big gate was lifted, the fog in my hazy mind lifted and everything came together and became one…

Hospital hallway. Fangs. Blood. Biting. O God. The Kissing smooching squirting!!!

Damn!! It’s him. The man that bite me at the hospital it’s him, the one that I slept with.

He… He… He’s not human!

Old house —mates He’s a Vampire!!!

I don’t know what force I used as I ran madly out of the house.

Nothing made sense, I was loosing my damn mind absolutely. I have to go see Daffy get to class and do Poppy’s assignments.

Sitting in the subway bus, I bit my hands trying to assure myself that everything will be fine, but nothing is going to be fine. His scream when I stabbed him keeps echoing in my mind.

“I killed someone…. I just murdered a vampire!!”