Helena’s POV
Like any siblings that roamed the Earth, take Cain and Abel for an example--there will always be sibling rivalry and the parents have their favorites no matter how much they try to deny it. My mother’s favorite was Maddox.
I really do not mind, as long as I have full access to the family wealth. They can team up and I still do not care. I am my father’s favorite and when he passed on , I felt indifferent, alone. Sometimes I think Persephone visits me in my dreams.
“Where the hell is Maddox?” Solandra roared in search for her favorite child.
“I do not know, and while you look for him, I am gonna go out in a while. It is a bit cloudy. “
I did not hear any protests from my mother. I am no longer surprised, I have lived three hundred years and I have not received a single strand of concern or worry from her, even if I blatantly announced that I would go out in broad daylight. I will take the car, park in the in-parking lot and go to a cafe or a mall. Whatever I fancy.
I Changed into something casual. Tattered jeans, sneakers and crop top and a luxury sling bag to complete the look, oh and also an over sized sunglasses to put the whole tourist ensemble together. I ended up in a cafe and I was just minding my business there, sitting in one corner when a man, probably thirty seven or so walked in.
At first, I paid him no mind, he might just be like any foreigner here. A tourist who wanted to see the world. Some dickhead who chose to visit Bulgaria than London or Paris. Of course, I have been to them a lot of times. He ordered burgers and fries. He sat down and was positioned where I could see him from his left side.
When I fucking notice his neck.
“What the hell?” I mumbled. I focused my eye on his neck and saw two distinct holes. “Those are fang marks!”
As if on cue, and without thinking it over, I approached the man in a very friendly manner even if I was tempted to wait for him outside, stalk him and grab him by the neck and ask him where he got those. Of course, I did not do that no matter how much I wanted to. We are civilized now and at this hour, the risk of being seen is too high. Those are definitely not tattoos and her mother the Duchess will flip when she tells her that she saw a tourist with a fang mark. Her mother have passed on a law decreeing that the humans are spared for now and that no vampire will be allowed to feed on a human and leave evidence walking like this. Her mother made this law to protect their world from the world of the humans who, if they found out of their existence would hunt them down and they will be forced to hide like rodents. Every vampire was aware of this law.
Except for those who made those fang marks. Whoever they are, they needed to be taught a lesson so it won’t happen again in the future. But first, she had to investigate. Often times, the victims who were fed on by a sin-eater or a vampire will not survive. We have a venom so potent that leaves our victim bloodless and lifeless.
But this guy?
He interests me.
I am going in now.
“Hi.” She said, smiling.
“Hello?” I said. Looking at my surrounding if she was indeed talking to me and that she had not mistaken me for someone else.” Are you talking to me?”
“Yes, uh, sorry. Pardon the rudeness. I noticed that you were alone and I just arrived here. “ Oh, my goodness, she was not just pretty. She was an exquisite representation of the female populace. Her eyes were aquamarine and her teeth were perfect. If I were a talent scout, then this girl is the jackpot.
“Uh, yeah, same here. Where are you from?”
“New York. “She said, as she offered me her hand, which I take wholeheartedly. “My name is Helena, Helena Mountbatten.”
“I assume you are traveling too?” He said, I noticed that he was just okay and still warm. Okay, he was not an ‘undead’. The undead are people who did not like living and did not like dying too. So they just hang around in the world, mostly in the underworld and sometimes make their way to the human world.
“Yes, do you mind if we hang around, like roam the town for a little since my friends are no where to be seen yet? I am kind of scared being alone in a foreign country.”
Three milleniums of existence will give you the right ammunition to hook and reel a man into keeping you company. That was what I was doing to be able to get the information that I needed before I report this incident to my mother. I cannot wait to see the look in her eye when she finds this out.I love my mother and even if I was not her favorite, I still wanted to wreck havoc to her life every now and then.
“Sure. My name is Zac.”
I spent the whole morning talking to him but I could not find any valuable information that might lead us to whoever bit him and also, I wanted to report this incident completely to the Duchess. Zac could not offer me anymore vital information, so I asked him about the fang mark.
“I like your tattoo. It is unique.” I said.
“Where?”
“The one on your neck. It looks cool.”
That moment, I realized that Zac had no recollection of how he got bitten. The person who bit him can erase memory or tamper with it. He reached for his phone and took a good measure of time staring at it, he even tried to erase it with his thumb.
“Zac, I have to go, my friends just texted me. I will see you.” I said as i left in a hurry.
“How?” Zac asked me.
I did not answer but I was serious. With how things are unraveling to me now, I will definitely see the man again.
A message from the author to my readers: Thank you. I was trying to figure my life when I was writing this story--with only one thing in my mind: Escaping from reality. This book holds a special place in my heart because I was not at the top of my game while patcing sentence after sentence, imaginging sequences and mending a broken heart. This had been my escape. My characters are all a part of me. Each were given a piece of me , so I can feel less burdened. i might not have written this perfectly or top notch, but I am sure that this is the best that I can offer while trying not to break down into pieces.I am a mother of two and I am messed up right now but the growing numbers of subscribers and readers gives me the push that I needed to type away, to put my thoughts into words. To hone the talent that I have (although I admit that I am a mediocre) and to pay it forward to the writers who have influenced me to write and to the friends who kept me going whenever I feel backing d
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