LOGINWith her bright red lips and neatly tied hair, Emily was ready, standing in a corner of the parking lot, engrossed in her phone.
Emily's beauty easily dazzled Adrian's gaze. His eyes immediately focused on the pretty woman, especially with Emily's captivating scent filling the air tonight.
"Oh my, this scent... I'm not sure how long I can resist the temptation to inhale it," Adrian took a deep breath as he walked, trying to calm his mind and not show any suspicious behavior.
However, Adrian's mind was noisy, imagining Emily's screams as he sank his fangs into her body. These wild thoughts had been playing in his mind since earlier in the afternoon.
"Hey!"
In the midst of his tumultuous thoughts, Emily flashed a sweet smile at him. She shifted her gaze from her phone and approached Adrian, who had now stopped between the cars near them.
"You look beautiful. Do you have a spare outfit? I remember you weren't wearing this when you were working," Adrian observed Emily from head to toe. His admiration and desire to kill her increased drastically.
Emily's physical beauty was undeniable. His heart raced, the scent of her body and blood becoming even more pronounced. If there were no people in this parking lot, Adrian would have chosen to end Emily's life right away.
"Yes, that's one fun fact about me. I always prepare at least one spare outfit in my bag in case I need to leave or attend something unexpectedly. By the way, are we going now?"
"Yeah, sure. Come on; my car is over there. I forgot to tell you to wait in front."
"Then how did you find me here?" Emily gazed at Adrian intently.
Of course, Adrian couldn't tell her that he was able to find her from her strong scent. Adrian chuckled and said, "I just went around the parking lot. I don't have any special abilities to find a woman, even one as beautiful as you."
"You're much more interesting than being a leader at the office, Mr. Adrian."
"Just call me by my name. We're not working right now. And this is my first time flirting in a parking lot between these two cars."
Adrian and Emily laughed together. They were both trapped in an unusual feeling, both admiring each other. However, Adrian had something else in mind that Emily certainly should have considered.
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A Japanese restaurant became their main destination. Emily's charm melted Adrian's heart, who had planned to end her life quickly. His heart, which a woman's arrival hadn't touched for a long time, urged him to enjoy their date tonight.
Moreover, what's even more interesting is that Adrian is trapped in a conversation that manages to overshadow his desire to suck Emily's blood.
"I didn't expect us to have the same taste in music. I rarely meet men who honestly talk about their preferences. Most would lie to spend time with the women they're interested in. Let's say, for sex. It's sad, but that's the reality. Hahaha! Men's minds are only focused on sex! Haha!"
Emily took a sip of sake from the glass on the table. Her face looked flushed; this was her fifth glass since they arrived. One could say she was starting to enter the drunken phase, as she was already having difficulty controlling herself during her ramblings.
She was now leaning against the wall, closing her eyes.
"You're drunk enough; I think you don't need to drink anymore, Emily. We should go home."
Adrian was now trapped in two considerations: taking her home and forgetting about Emily's blood or taking her home and sucking all the blood from Emily's body. On the other hand, he had a considerable attraction to Emily, and he also felt a sense of pity.
"I have to try to kill her first. After all, the target of 10 virgin bloods must be realized soon."
That determination in Adrian's mind prompted him to immediately embrace Emily's body, which was now leaning against the wall while smiling broadly.
"Where are we going, Adrian? I still want to be here, Haha!"
Emily's loud voice caused some other patrons to glance in their direction. Adrian patiently embraced and guided Emily to walk without stumbling. His desire to suck Emily's blood grew stronger.
Whether it was because of alcohol or not, one thing was sure: her body scent had increased dramatically and was far more enticing than before.
"Forgive me, Emily," Adrian muttered, quickly putting the woman's body into his car.
The black car sped off towards the city's outskirts, specifically to a forest at the border. Adrian was truly racing against time; he couldn't wait to enjoy Emily's blood.
After half an hour, Adrian's car arrived at the secluded forest. He immediately turned off the car and looked around; no one else was himself.
"Okay, I have to be quick. There's a lake nearby where I can dispose of Emily's body," he murmured.
Long fangs and claws started to appear. Adrian grinned and leaned his head towards Emily's neck, which was leaning in the car seat. They were very close when Emily suddenly turned her head and opened her eyes, smiling at Adrian.
"Adrian, have we arrived?"
Adrian's focus was disturbed, and his fangs and claws disappeared instantly. Emily, still intoxicated, was hanging on Adrian's neck affectionately.
"I don't want to go home; come with me, Adrian..." Emily whispered to Adrian.
"Yes, we've arrived. I'll take you home. Wait, I'll open the door."
Adrian wanted to save time; he quickly got out of the car and strategized to gain control over Emily.
His fangs and claws reappeared as he opened the car door and carried Emily's body. However, what he discovered now was even more shocking.
Emily, who was embracing his neck, suddenly kissed him passionately and aggressively. Once again, Adrian's fangs and claws disappeared. Adrian tried to evade, but Emily was much faster in reclaiming his lips.
"Let's do something crazy tonight, Adrian..."
The world felt different after the cavern—quieter, softer, almost as if the air breathed with less weight. Emily didn’t know if it was her perception or if something about reality itself had shifted when the Light Source finally released its grip. All she knew was that morning sunlight felt warmer than she remembered.She stood on the small balcony of the cabin they’d taken refuge in—deep in the forest, far from cities, far from the cracks between realms—watching the sun climb slowly over the distant treeline. The breeze played with her hair, brushing the back of her neck with a gentleness that felt like a blessing she didn’t know she needed.Behind her, soft footsteps approached.Adrian leaned against the doorframe, still unsteady in the mornings, still wrapping a blanket around his shoulders like his body hadn’t fully caught up to the warmth of this world. His chest rose slowly, as if savoring every inch of air he inhaled. A faint gold shimmer lingered in the scar that now marked th
The light roared like a collapsing universe the moment Emily wrapped her arms harder around Adrian’s trembling body. The Source surged around them, its glow rising in towering waves that shook the dimension with the force of a dying star refusing to let go of the last two sparks that defied its will.Emily tightened her hold until her wrists hurt, burying her face against Adrian’s shoulder, refusing to let the light pry even a single inch between them. His breath shuddered against her collarbone, painfully uneven, a sound that made her chest feel like it was splintering.He was cold—colder than she had ever felt him. The kind of cold that didn’t belong to flesh but to souls left suspended in places they weren’t meant to survive.“Emily…” His voice cracked, rough and fading, like he was speaking through layers of frost. “You… shouldn’t be here…”She lifted her head, cupping his frozen face with both shaking hands, her forehead pressed to his. “Stop saying that,” she whispered fiercely.
The path did not appear as a doorway or a tunnel or even a shift in the stone. It unfolded like a tear in reality—thin, silent, shimmering—stretching open as Emily stepped forward. The white light curled around her ankles first, winding up her calves in slow spirals that felt like fingers tracing ancient sigils into her skin. She inhaled shakily, bracing herself, but the moment her foot crossed into the rift, the cavern behind her vanished. No sound. No echo. No Lilith. No First Shadow. No stone. No air. Just a sweeping wave of brightness that swallowed everything, pulling her into a realm that felt vast and crushingly empty all at once.The ground beneath her feet wasn’t ground at all—it was a surface of shifting luminescence, like walking on the inside of a star. Nothing had edges. Nothing had shape. The horizon melted into itself. The sky—if it was a sky—was a gradient of white and pale gold that pulsed in slow breaths, as if this entire dimension was an enormous living organism.E
The light didn’t wait for her. It pulsed once—slow and deliberate—like a lung inhaling the entire cavern, and Emily felt the pull wrap around her spine before she could fully steady her breath. Still, she forced her steps forward, one shaky movement after another, refusing to let fear take the lead even as her pulse hammered loud enough to drown out the cavern’s distant rumble.Each step she took felt heavier, as though the light dense in the air thickened around her bones, but she didn’t stop; she couldn’t stop—not with Adrian’s heartbeat flickering in the back of her mind like a dying lantern begging for someone to shield its flame.Behind her, Lilith stood silently, eyes narrowed—not in warning, but in a solemn acknowledgment that what Emily was doing was something no one else could help her with. And the First Shadow watched without a trace of hostility, its massive form half-silhouetted against the glow, posture lowered in a strange, unnerving reverence as if witnessing a coronat
When the Light Source tore Emily out of Adrian’s arms, the universe didn’t split—it folded, collapsing into a thousand impossible geometries that twisted like shattering mirrors around her. For one sickening instant, she wasn’t sure if she was inside her own mind, dragged into the Source’s core, or simply dissolving into a dimension that had no shape for her to cling to.Everything felt wrong.The light wasn’t warm; it stabbed at her, slicing into her senses until she felt peeled open. Not bleeding—just exposed, stripped of anything that felt like protection. And the worst part wasn’t the pain.It was the absence.Adrian wasn’t there.The moment the bond snapped taut and went silent—like a severed nerve—Emily’s breath collapsed. She curled inward instinctively, arms wrapping around her ribs even though she wasn’t sure she still had a body.“Adrian—”Her whisper vanished instantly, swallowed by the crushing radiance around her.She tried again, louder. “ADRIAN!”Still nothing.. No fami
CHAPTER 66The detonation of white light didn’t just fill the cavern— it erased it. For a split second, there was no stone.No bodies.Just light, folding reality in on itself.Emily felt her consciousness peel away from her skin, her bones, her breath—like she was being lifted out of her own body and suspended in a place that wasn’t a place at all. It was weightless, endless, terrifying. She wasn’t falling or rising; she was simply unmoored, drifting in a blinding void where her identity thinned into something small and trembling.And then— there was Adrian.Not at her side. Not in front of her. Not physically.He appeared in her mind like a flame— red-gold, fierce, trembling with strain— and she clung to that flame instinctively, desperately, because it was the only thing that still felt real.“Emily—”His voice echoed inside her like a heartbeat shaking loose from a dying body.“I’m here—don’t let go—don’t let go—”She reached out in the void, fingers grasping nothing, yet somehow t







