Echo's POVIt was another dark night. Time seemed to pass so quickly when I was away from my family. My stomach began to growl again. Although I was, as they say, a tough and unyielding huntress, I could not avoid hunger and thirst, because it was the basic human need to feed myself and quench my thirst with water.Water...... I need water...But Emily hadn't been seen since she brought me the meal last time. I was a little irritated by the extreme thirst. After a whole day in the sun, the dungeon was like an iron pan on a fire, bubbling with heat that made me weaker and weaker. I was about to get dehydrated. Moments of despair were eating my conscience like a zombie met a fresh brain. In general, at a moment like this, I should be thinking about someone who had given me hope again. But I thought of Leonardo, the proud Vampire Duke. He hated me so much and probably wanted to kill me himself if I were not for possibly keeping the truth of how Jenna really died.Why was that? Why did I
Echo 's POVAs long as I got a strong will and heart, no more pity for anyone, I would have the chance to escape! I knocked Emily unconscious and crept up the steps of the dungeon, which seemed endless. Finally, around the corner, I saw some lights coming from the hall or some other rooms. That dim light had turn out to be my desire and yearning for life.Gently pushing the wooden door, I was completely exposed to the light, like a dove which had been hiding under the magic handkerchief of a magician's hand, but suddenly the handkerchief was thrown. And I, the dove, was about to soar! No one was there! I breathed a sigh of relief. It was a long corridor that I had only seen in movies, and the wooden floor reflected the dim yellow light, making the world soft and fuzzy. I was like a little girl in countless dreams, looking around curiously. I had always been blindfolded and thrown into dungeons, so I had to rely on my body sense of direction while I was blindfolded to find my way out.
Leonardo's POV"At your request, your Royal Highness!" James knelt down to respond and called for the guards. As the guards drove her away, my heart began to feel uncomfortably. I did not know when I would be able to get rid of this restlessness which made me uneasy. I couldn't kill her! For one reason that she was the only one who knew how Jenna died. For another reason that, if she died, I was not sure what would happen to me inside--my heart, the little thing that hadn’t been beating since I became a Vampire.I felt like I' was losing control of myself, my feelings. And that was totally a bad sign. I might really need to leave the castle to find out why. As I was leaving, Emily took hold of my skirt. "Your Royal Highness, a vicious woman like her, unchained, should escape again! So..."I was in no mood to listen to her nonsense. "Whatever." With a hasty reply, I left the castle. The power of Jenna on that huntress was so strong, which made me rather upset! So, I would just get out
Echo's POVWhen I came to this castle, I was blindfolded and couldn't see my surroundings properly, which led directly to my being caught by the guards I had neglected. The power of my body was not adjusted in time, so I lost the ability to resist. But these guards, working for the Vampire, should have such powers which was the last thing I expected.With my years of training as a huntress, I thought I could easily defeat these useless guards, but now the guards who captured me were much stronger than I was."You're not getting away from me!" He was very tall, almost like Leonardo, but with chestnut hair and green eyes. He looked more cold-blooded than Leonardo. I escaped from his hand and prepared for a fight. But before the fight began, the other guards rushed up, and I was captured right away."Hunters shouldn't be alive!" the green-eyed guard said it fiercely."I have done you no harm!" I tried to defend myself."Do you think Duke Leonardo Elliot will easily forgive you for the wo
Echo's POV“So, Will you please leave the hunter’s house?” Uncle Marcus looked at me, with his two foxy eyes full of relief as if he was warding the evil off, and I was definately the evil in his eyes. So many years had passed, I thought Uncle marcus was already taking me as his daughter, or at least a family of his. But those sacarstic comments on me were cutting me through and tearing me apart.Dean added, “Now!” His voice was loud enough to drive those nightingales away, frightened. Of course he wanted me to leave at once. Because he was afraid of me as I was the biggest competitor for him on future heir. If I went away and never came back, he would surely be our future leader. Then I could never returned here without his orders.Homeless and abandoned, I was thrown out by Uncle Marcus. He was in charge of the family now, and he had got what he wanted. And I? Where could I go? In any case, I would never go back to Leonardo's castle. I once thought that his gentleness towards me was
Echo's POVI was terrified of getting a negative answer from Chuck Spencer, because I knew it would be hard for me to return to a place I felt so safe and hopeful at the moment after being kicked out."A blood slave?" Chuck Spencer looked at me with interest. "Are you sure?"I nodded seriously, quite sure. All of a sudden, he opened his mouth and easily showed the fangs of a Vampire. I was not surprised because I had seen it all before from Leonardo Elliot. Instead, I calmly put my neck out and got prepared to be sucked blood.He moved in front of me, ready to bite my neck, then stopped. "Vervain..." He let go of me, his eyes blazing. "What do you mean? You brought Vervain to my house! How dare you!"I forgot that I had been whipped by Emily with a Vervain whip, and the smell of vervain soaked in my skin. Abruptly, an idean came in my mind. I quickly explained it to Chuck Spencer. "No, it's not. Please don't get me wrong. I've come through the jungle and I smell like wild plants." I sh
Echo’s POVThousands of times, I told myself to keep the secret to everyone in this house of myself being a huntress, because once I let them know the true me, I could no longer stay here, letting alone turning to Nathan for help. I should settle down here and get a further plan for this.Now I had no idea about where Nathan was. And the disgusting guy named Chuck happened to go out. Even those maids hated and tortured me, with the power of Jenna, I could make it through. Those wounds and cuts recovered quickly, and this was the only thing that I felt pleased to be a Vampire. Sometimes, I kept thinking what would I be in the future. There was no history of any hunters who carried the power of Vampire with him. How could one live and be with such power that didn’t even belong to onself?I got no answer eventually. All those wonders and fantacies rose in my mind and faded away when I truly had to face the difficult situations right in front of me.Everyone in this house tended to be bad
Echo’s POVMy being weak and powerless earned me some spare time, not being drunk blood and just being the lowest rank of all the maids. I did cleaning all day and rested in the basement. Lena and Lexi asked me to work till very late in the midnight, locked the door of the maids’ room and oretended to be deeply asleep. So I had to get some sleep in the basement. Molly never did anything bad on me, but she chose to ignore the other 2 maids treating me really inhumanely.I never had eaten one meal with hot food, and even food that didn’t go bad. Lexi even made me eat her leftovers that she had spat in them. I couldn’t bear all this, so I had to leave myself hungry. Water was the only thing I could drink for living. Still, I would never change my mind of dealing with all those things. I believed that they were tests for me. I had to persist.“Hey, Slutty!” Lena called me. She really loved this word.” Come over here. I got something really important for you.” She blinked her 2 little eyes