Adeline sits on her bed for a few seconds staring at the text: He is going to be there too. She gets up and noiselessly sneaks out of the house. She has to call Nadia and with so many people with super-hearing in the house, she needs to be careful. She walks a little away from the mansion and then calls Nadia’s number who picks it up on the first ring.
“What is he coming for?” Asks Adeline with annoyance.
“What do you think?”
“Ugh... this means you can’t come? This is infuriating, even now, after almost a hundred years we have to meet in secret. I hate it.”
“Calm down!” says Nadia, “I am coming.”
“What? No, it’s not safe!”
Tyrus is sitting in the hall with Lilia, Damion, and Brent. Esther and Adeline have gone to buy their dresses. Lilia has just finished telling them about Evarius’s invitation to Tasha.“What if he just has a crush on her?” Says Damion.“Oh come on,” says Lilia, “I mean Tasha is beautiful, but she is also a witch and that too of Serafina lineage and he is an original vampire, so a crush, phftt...”“Fine,” Damion says, “if you don’t want to be positive.”“Oh, I wish we could be,” says Lilia, “but anyway, we’ll find out tonight. Tyrus And I will pick Tasha up from her house. So, we’ll leave a little before you guys.”&ldqu
Evarius is standing in the large ballroom. The decoration is indeed beautiful. A stage has been set up to felicitate some members of the town. A few people are already here. He spots the red-headed girl, Lilia, her name is. She is with a guy in an emerald green suit. But he has nothing to do with her, not right now at least. Today, he has eyes for someone else. Would she have accepted his invitation? If not, he’ll have to find some other way to approach her. He is about to walk to the other side of the room when Lilia steps aside and he sees Tasha walking up the stairs to the ballroom. She is wearing the maroon gown he had sent her.Evarius is elated to see Tasha and quickly walks over to her. He holds out his arm to her, she looks up at him, hesitates for a bit, and then takes it.They walk inside, Tasha holding his arm and Evarius looking
Tasha and Evarius are dancing.“So, tell me more about yourself,” says Tasha.“What do you want to know?”“Your age, hobbies, interests, and of course, the ulterior motives for which you are steering a common girl around the ballroom.”“You are not a common girl, that’s the first thing I would like to tell you.”“Because you need something.”“Even if I didn’t.”Evarius looks at her as they draw a little closer dancing to the tune of the song. Her grayish eyes, her red lips, her black hair. There is something very tantalizing about her. The
“Come on!” Lilia says, “Let’s say hello to Emily.”“Um, okay,” says Tyrus, and they walk over to Damion and Emily. She is now giggling about something.“Hi, Em,” Lilia says brightly.“Oh, Hi! I was looking for you, but couldn’t find you, and then this man came along. Since then, it’s been difficult to see anything else.”She bats her eyelids at Damion in a flirty sort of way that brings up an urge in Lilia to shove her, but she controls her instincts and says, “So, where’s your date?”“I don’t know. He must be around, but I don’t care now that I have him.”She lo
Tasha stares at Evarius because she has no idea what to say. She had been thinking about what Evarius would ask her to do and she had come up with a lot of different answers. However, nothing compares to what he has just said.“You want me to help you die?” Tasha repeats slowly to make sure she has heard correctly.“Yes.”She pauses for a second and says, “What do you want me to do? Shall I pick a stake and drive it through you?”“You could do that if you want but it won’t kill me.”“That’s how vampires are killed...”“Yeah, but I am not a normal vampire. I am the original one. The other va
Esther and Brent had been standing close to the garden, watching Tasha and Evarius. They could not hear anything but they kept a watch in case things got out of hand and intervention was needed. When nothing happened, and Tasha texted them that she was leaving, they followed her and made sure she had reached home safely.Now, they are driving home.Esther and Brent enter the mansion. It seems empty. Probably, no one else is back yet. They walk up the stairs, and when they reach Brent’s room Esther says, “I had a wonderful night.”“Me too. Thanks for coming with me.”“Again, thanks for inviting me.”“And again, you look gorgeous.”
Damion keeps standing in the same spot. Did Lilia have sex with Tyrus? She chose Brent and now Tyrus. Why not him? What is so wrong with him that she can’t choose him? Initially, he had thought that she had chosen to go with Tyrus because of the awkwardness between them, but now it didn’t seem like it.Damion doesn’t know what to do. Should he stay up all night to see if Tyrus comes out of Lilia’s room? Because he needs to know. He needs to know that what he is thinking is true or it’ll keep eating him up. Although the truth also might gnaw at his heart, still, at least he would know it’s the truth instead of cooking up stories in his head. Wait, he could go to Tyrus’s room and check if he’s there. If he is not, well...He crosses the hall to reach Tyrus’s room. He slowly turns th
“She’s right,” says Brent, “what if the magic asks you to do things you don’t want to, or what if it is too taxing for you and you just can’t do it? You are still learning, after all. You realized that you are a witch just a few days ago.”“He said that all the instructions about the process that originally created vampires and other things have been written down and I can read those,” says Tasha. “So, you think I should just ask him to hand over the instructions or the book whatever it is, and see what it is all about.”“Yeah,” says Lilia, “that sounds right, and anyway it’s not like you can do the spells tomorrow even if you get to know about them, it’ll probably be a long time before you learn something of that magnitude.”