"Roselle! Stop!" Romeo roared out desperately. The flaming thirst and his desperate struggle to fight against it made him dizzy. This little wife of his truly knew how to get under his skin and drive him insane! He knew he was close to letting the monster break loose. He had to grasp on to the wall to keep himself standing but his nails would not – no, could not – even sink into the stones anymore. He slowly sunk to the ground and leaned back tiredly against the wall. Gasping and fighting for air.Then she was already before him, kneeling with her hands on his shoulders, and checking him over with genuine concern and utter worry on her delicate little face. He closed his eyes to regain some sanity, to keep fighting this monster which was now right beneath the surface.To his utter surprise, she hugged him, burying her face into his sturdy chest and wrapped her hands around him. Her soothing warmth and the delicate fragrance of her skin wrapped around him like a cloud of soothing magic
"I will be alright, love."She had said that so naturally and his body stiffened at the words of endearment. This was the very first time she had ever used an endearment towards him and the effect on him – even though he was in this state – was just as unnerving.The sweet endearment swirled around inside him like some kind of spell, scattering his thoughts and erasing every struggle, every pain and insatiable hunger that even wildness and ferocity of the monster within seemed to have been momentarily reigned in for the moment.Then there was that confident and natural way she was talking about how he should just bite into her and drink of her blood. Where did she even muster up such courage? The way she was going about it was as if they were just referring to plain old water or even wine. Did she not realise that this was not something one can just take off on a free-flow basis? They were talking life giving blood here. He felt the situation was so surreal that the thought that this w
"Rom… I … I think this is enough." Her voice was weakening. But there were still no signs of Romeo giving up and stopping his feasting. Panic began to swell in Roselle's heart. She was getting really dizzy. She could somehow tell that it was only a little more she could withstand before her life would be in danger. And Romeo could not seem to hear her, at all.Oh, no… this is bad. She had to do something… to wake him up… to stop him… but her body… her mind…Weakly, Roselle hugged his head closely to her bosom. She did not know why she did that when it was more logical to try and push him away, but she could not think straight anymore. And then, her lips weakly whispered as her dazed mind was floating off. "Romeo… I love you."The moment those words left Roselle's lips, something seemed to hit Romeo like a wrecking ball and he was forced to be awakened from the addictive haze of pleasure he was indulging himself in.At that precious moment, he heard her small voice echoing at the back o
The first to emerge from the doorway was David. Everyone's eyes were trained intensely at that spot, all excited and at the same time apprehensive of what might come through it. As David lifted his head upon exiting, he saw everyone looking at him in alarm as his eyes were red and he looked as if he had just barely escaped with his life from something – and that something was one which is dangerous. What the hell! Did the princess fail and now the prince was after David?"What's wrong?" The men asked but David could not even bring himself to speak as of yet. It could be seen that he was trying his hardest to control himself, his hunger."The princess… what happened to –" Zolan froze and could not finish his statement as right at that moment, everyone began to smell an indescribably mouth-watering sweet scent that wafter over to them. That scent alone caused every single one present there to freeze and lose all rational thought or questions they had running through their minds.It was a
Zolan was not surprised that there were already a few Werewolves hanging around outside – in fact, he somewhat expected it. She was not even bleeding anymore and yet her scent was like a spilled perfume.Seeing that Leon was the one who blocked the Werewolves from barging into the library, Zolan looked at the man with curiosity. Everyone, most obvious being Levy and Reed, still had their eyes at varying stages of red. Thus, what could be expected of the common Werewolves who were also still deeply affected as though they were drugged with an extremely potent poison.But as he turned to look at Leon, the half-blood did not seem to be affected by the scent like the rest of them were?Zolan nodded at David to keep their comrades in check until the scent was completely gone before he approached Leon."All of you, leave this place, now. It's an order from His Highness." Zolan said. The Werewolf hesitated but when the air was finally clear from that sweet but deadly scent, their eyes calmed
"Amazing! The scent is completely gone! There is not even a trace left!" Levy exclaimed with eyes as wide as saucers. The men followed after Romeo – who was carrying Roselle protectively in his arms – as they all headed to the chambers of the prince and princess."Leon truly has done an amazing job. He used a strange herb on her wound." Zolan said and the others looked at Leon with amazement.Leon looked away and rubbed the back of his neck with his palm. "It wasn't that amazing. It's a common knowledge for humans. My mom is a human, so naturally, I have learnt about these things.""Still … that's quite amazing. We wouldn't have known heads or tails on what to do if you weren't here." David said in a serious tone when Zolan spoke."Are you certain this is a common knowledge, Leon?" he asked, questions and curiosity brimming in his intelligent eyes. "None of us have ever heard about any of the herbs that could completely hide the scent of a bitten human. Because the princess is now bitt
Romeo finally lifted his face, his hard eyes looking at the duchess with questions."A royal Werewolf doesn't taint a human virgin's blood when they bite them. This explains why the princess's scent remained the way it was before you bit her."The lines in Romeo's forehead deepened. He wanted more explanation. "This is apparently one of the royal family's secret. Here is one of the books that your mother entrusted into my possession for safekeeping before she left Dacria. And now I am returning it to its rightful owner. She said she had found these hidden in one of the secret dungeons in the imperial palace. Unfortunately, these books are the only surviving books about the real royalties left in this world. All of the other books have been destroyed by the emperor." The duchess said as she set the few volumes of books on the table.Seeing that Romeo at least looked a little better at what he heard, the duchess sighed in relief. She knew that Romeo was not just loathing himself right no
Currently, the statue that was named Romeo was frozen with shock and could not move for a while. When Roselle was about to speak, he dropped his head a little lower, and he drew in a breath that was not quite steady. He inhaled in such a slow but greedy way like how addicts absorbed a narcotic smoke.Roselle creased her brows. But when she perceived that it must be because of her blood, her heartbeat raced. Oh no.Suddenly losing her powers of speech, Roselle just stared at him with anxious and worried eyes. Her nerves still seemed to still be asleep at the moment that her brain was slow to respond in telling her what she should be doing or saying. Those large, crystalline eyes trained themselves on Romeo, silently observing his every move."Damn it," Romeo whispered all of a sudden. And before she could register in her brain on what was happening, they were inside their chambers again.Romeo hastily but gently laid Roselle down on their bed but instead of pulling away, he held himself