She opened her eyes slowly. Her head was throbbing and her eyes felt woozy as she tried to make sense of where she was.She tried to rub her head and realized that she was hanging mid-air by the arms. Her feet were a few inches off the ground, and her arms were tied to two large poles.She tried to shook herself free, but the chains around her arms were very firm.“Where am I?” She mumbled, and just then, a large door she had not noticed before, burst open and in walked Isabella and Liam hand-in-hand as usual. Liam was looking even more pale than he was yesterday. His hollow eyes looked eerie.Meanwhile, Isabella on the other hand looked very beautiful, her lips appeared redder and her complexion was even more radiant, which led Hadassah to believe that she had killed another human.They stopped just in front of her, with Isabella stepping even closer. “Hello, Hadassah. It was lovely of you to HANG around. Get it?” She mocked as she laughed at her own lame attempt of a joke.Hadassa
She opened her eyes with a gasp.“No, no, please!” She screamed as she sat up.“Honey,” Her mother exclaimed, rushing towards her.Hadassah looked around at the unfamiliar room and at her mother, who was watching her with concern. She looked at her hands and saw that fluid was being passed into her body through an IV drip. “Mum?” She echoed and her mother touched her face gently, with tears streaming down hers.“What am I doing in the hospital, mum? What happened to me?”Her mother began to sob softly as she drew her into a gentle embrace. “You're fine, sweetheart. You'll be okay.” She consoled.Hadassah's eyes began to spin and she desperately wanted to lie back down on the bed. Her mother noticed and gently lowered her back to the bed.She shut her eyes tightly, trying to control the spinning, and that was when everything came rushing back to her. Memories of her getting bitten by Liam and dying suddenly flooded her mind and she gasped again as her eyes flung open.She touched he
He fell to his knees as he coughed out something that looks like ashes. He was deteriorating from the inside by the minute, and soon, in a matter of days, he would be completely gone.He felt weaker and weaker as he managed to crawl out of the bathroom and into the bedroom. He didn't have the strength to get on the bed, so he just laid on the floor.The pain he felt was excruciating. It's been so long he felt physical pain, he had almost forgotten what it felt like. But nothing could be compared to the pain he felt seeing Liam sink his teeth into Hadassah, and the way life was gradually fading from her beautiful eyes.He had been enraged. He saw only red as he pushed Liam away from her and attacked him. He wanted to kill him right there and even though he did manage to deliver a few blows, he still felt like it wasn't enough. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^He clawed, kicked, punched and even bit Liam a couple of times, determined to end it all right there. If it hadn't been for Hadassah's mother
She placed a gentle kiss on his forehead as she stood up from where she had been laying beside him on the bed.She observed his closed eyes with sadness. He was asleep! To think that just few nights ago, he told her that vampires don't sleep, nor get tired, now here he was, sleeping soundly. It felt unnatural, watching him sleep and she knew she couldn't leave him like this. She had to act. Surely, something could be done.She was determined to find a solution as she gently closed the door behind her and headed downstairs where she met the maid in charge of the house—Mrs Peterson— who was waiting with a worried expression. She looked expectantly as Hadassah descended the stairs.“Is Master Steiner okay?” She asked, looking worried and Hadassah wondered how much the woman knew.“Why do you ask?” She asked, trying not to give too much away.“He rang and told me not to bother coming today till further notice, but he sounded so off that I just had to come and confirm if he's okay. Plus,
The person stopped in front of her, while she remained frozen to the spot.She couldn't help but feel like she knew him. It was like she had met him before, but his face didn't look familiar.His expression was hard, as he glared at her before he broke into a friendly smile and said, “Hello Hadassah, it's been a while.”She frowned. “Have we met before?” She asked with squinted eyes. “You don't remember me, because the last time we met, I came to you with a different face.”“A different face?” She asked and then gasped as she remembered. “Larry?”He smiled and nodded.He looked very young, like a seventeen years old, nothing like the other day. His green eyes sparkled like emeralds, his complexion had a radiant glow and he had brown hair.She remembered the time they met, he had used the fog to disrupt her vision, making her see Aamon, but then he tried to bite her that time. Remembering that made her recoil a little bit and he noticed.“I promise I’m not here to hurt you. I'm deepl
“It's very simple. Since I have a special blood, once you bite me, it will be the end. You won't have the urge again, and you will also be healed…” She chattered excitedly like someone that has found the cure for cancer and he just stared at her like she was growing horns.“Are you crazy? You want me to bite you? Are you even listening to yourself?”“I know it sounds absurd, but…”“No, it doesn't sound absurd, it is absurd. Do you realize you could die?”Her eyes widened and he knew she really hadn't thought this through. “But what if you only took a small amount?”“It doesn't work that way. I'll need enough and enough might kill you. Anyway, it doesn't matter because I'm not drinking anyone's blood, least of all, you…”“But what if the person was already dying?” She asked with pleading eyes.“No!” His tone was firm as he said it and she sighed.“Why won't you do this for me?”He cupped and caressed her cheeks with his thumbs. “Sweetie, I want to do it. I'm not ready to leave you eit
Larry's feet suddenly felt too heavy for him to move and he remained rooted to the spot, even as Xander gave him a look to continue walking. He was sure he heard right. Sure he was slowly disintegrating, but his ears still worked perfectly fine. Why would Liam want to make Hadassah his mate? It made no sense.Suddenly, Liam turned to him and signalled him over and that seemed to be the push his legs needed, as he immediately walked towards Liam who was slumped on his throne made out of pure gold and sipping from a gold goblet.He extended the goblet in his hand and Larry immediately understood what he meant, as he grabbed the next bottle of wine, opened it, and poured it into the goblet for him. Liam just nodded and continued to sip from his goblet.Damien, one of the older and second-ranking vampires, stood up to talk. “But Liam, this woman already has a mate and what about her blood?”Larry knew what they were thinking. They also wanted a taste of Hadassah's blood and if she belo
“He wants to turn me into a vampire?” Hadassah yelled, slamming her fists on her thighs. “Hasn't he done enough? Is he still not satisfied that I'm in the hospital, close to death because of him?”“Oh, I didn't know…” Larry was saying, but Hadassah was not quite finished with what she was saying, so she continued, “And isn't it enough that he turned my best friend against me, made her kill my father and eventually killed her too? Isn't it enough that he kidnapped my mother? Isn't it enough that the man I love is also on the brink of death all because of him?” She screamed in frustration.Her mother was staring at her open-mouthed and she didn't realize, not till she was done ranting and was now panting.“Isabella killed your father?” She asked quietly, her voice shaking like she was trying to hold back tears.It was only then that Hadassah realised what she had done. Up until that moment, she was the only one who knew that Isabella killed her father and she had never told her mother.