Prologue

Jasmine's POV

Location: Ecuador ( a vampire civilization)

My red silhouette clicked on the dark blue marvel elegantly. It was night but thanks to my idea, everywhere was illuminated with led lights in their designated holders. Even though only a few of the bulbs provided a light theme, it was better than the dull burning fuel lamps I saw here ten years ago.

My adrenaline pumped faster and my pulse increased. I could feel the rushing circulation in my veins and the loud throbbing of my heart. I was indeed happy but anxiety was taking the best part of me. Prince Lorenzo might end up proposing to me after today's special date.It was a good thing actually, I thought, covering my mouth with my hand before I let out a shy smile trying not to do a happy dance.

My black shoes complimented my body con dress that stuck to each curve on my body. I had a lace veil over my face and my hair was in a neat bun. I clutched my purse made out of snakeskin tightly. It held my lipstick and nothing else. It was my reason to carry the Prince's first gift to a date I expect he was going to ask me out. I didn't know if it was just my anxiety but the guards leading me through the hallway where Prince Lorenzo and I were supposed to have a date kept looking back at me strangely.

My confidence was self-built, I had looked at myself in a full mirror before following their trail, or else I would have unarguably believed I had something wrong with my outfit. I huffed before rolling my eyes which threatened to get stuck at the back of my head. Vampires were annoying but I wouldn't have had any being to be my second family apart from them.

I was still in my head when I felt my body powerfully shoved forward. I lost balance as I groggily crashed hard on the floor. A stinging pain on my wrist spread to the rest of my body. I opened my eyes and I caught my wrist in a very odd position after a cracking sound. This was the second time I'd be injuring the same wrist!

I panicked removing the black net over my face while I shivered in pain. I panicked to the abnormal position my wrist had bent to. In a split second, I was arguing whether to look at who had pushed me in the first place or to look at where I was even pushed to in the first place. Fuck!

A voice made me consider my latter decision as it addressed a figure that might have pushed me.

" Jason, don't you think that was hard?" The voice said with a sarcastic tone. I raised my head to meet vampire figures standing in two lines as they faced one another. I happened to be in the middle of them and far opposite me where their arrangement ended was a circular board about a human size.

"Scarlett?" I referred to the voice that spoke earlier. Her figure was now right in front of me. My purse had disappeared from my grip, to somewhere across the room and I was concerned. Prince gave me that!

" You think we should do something about this?" Scarlette squatted to my height on the floor where I was visibly shaking because of my injured wrist. My skin was turning blue quickly and the pain made my eyes reddened with tears. There was no doubt my mascara was now smudged.

Scarlett surely wasn't looking for my opinion because the next second I heard a crack as she fixed my wrist in a split move.

I was forced to compare that pain to what I felt while pushing out a six-kilogram pup a long time ago, back when I was with the werewolves.

"That must have been hurtful," a masculine voice roared from my back. It was the Prince, My Prince!! Prince Lorenzo!

I caught myself smiling through the pain while I struggled to stand on my feet excited at his appearance. I held my injured arm to my belly and turned around. I staggered a bit as I tried to walk and it was just enough reason to find myself in Prince's arms which I consider my safe place.

I couldn't wait to get out of this place. It didn't look one bit like a dating scene and for some reason, I felt a dark aura engulfing me in the room.

My expectations were one, the Prince scolding the idiot who had pushed me. Two, I expected him to choose a punishment for the riff raff for messing with me while he led us out of the room but to my surprise, he let his shoulder nulge my body off him so I was now standing upright before he cuffed my both wrist with his hands at my back.

"Lorenzo that hurts!!" I screamed.

"Fucking Manners!" Scarlett whispered audibly.

My hair was all over my face now so I nod violently to try to get it off my face but it was in vain. I felt Prince Lorenzo making me walk forward. By now I was desperately trying to free myself from his uncomfortable grip.

I staggered, unable to maintain my balance walking with my silhouettes. This made me desperately kick them off my legs as the vampire Prince walked me forward. His sadistic sister, the Princess, Scarlett let out a creepy grin as her brother was now tying me to a board in between the assembled vampires whom I individually recognized well. They were Elder of Ecuador! They had weird paintings in red on their faces. The black garment that each one of us was wearing only made the scene creepier.

"Lorenzo what is happening?!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. I was supposed to be on a date with him. Why was he tying me to a board?

I flipped my hair off my face trying to get a better view of what was happening. It wasn't the month of April or November. So it wasn't April fool's day nor Halloween even though every day seemed like it with the vampires. If this was a prank, it was indeed a bad one and it would take me time to forgive Prince Lorenzo. I had to fucking dislocate my wrist in this crazy prank!

I craved his smell immediately after he withdrew his body from mine. He smelled of some wild berries and traces of mint. This was the vampire Prince's signature smell which I was sorely addicted to.

" Lorenzo, I am not forgiving you for this!!" I warned while whining. I was pissed and the whole of my left hand was on fire.

He leaned in before carefully sweeping my black hair away from my face. I pouted while squeezing my forehead as I watched him smirk at my face. Seriously the situation was funny to him? I was looking like a fucking chaos right now and one of my forelimbs was on fire!

I wasn't expecting him of all people to land a very hard slap on my face. The impact made my head hit hard against the board. I felt the metallic taste of blood in my mouth which I involuntarily spat out at him. This triggered the appearance of his fangs as he cringed at me.

It was a short time to process me being tied up to a board with an injured wrist while the love of my life I desired so much was fully active in the scene. I was supposed to be on a fucking date with him. I was even expecting him to propose to me today after ten long years but here he was attempting to unalive me after slapping the face he seemed to adore too much.

"Lorenzo, cut it, you didn't groom her all these years for this." His father's voice roared calmly from his back. I was shivering and I could feel the sweat spurting and streaming down the skin of my forehead, back and in-between my exposed legs. I have lived with them for ten years. I never imagined I would ever be murdered by them, that too with the involvement of the least expected person, It was so unreal.

He withdrew from me while I shivered violently. What was going on? If I wasn't hallucinating, I was amid the Royals and Elders of the vampires in this room. And what did Prince Lorenzo's father mean by "groom me all these years?"

"Father, today I complete my sacrificial pledge as the next heir to the throne." I watched Prince Lorenzo say while bowing to his father. My mouth was dry and I couldn't come up with any words as I watched unappealed and shocked by the situation that wasn't making any sense to me.

"I wish for the ritual to begin." Prince Lorenzo's father ordered and in a swift movement the heir had a sharp golden blade on my throat while I stared at him heartbreakingly.

"All__all these years?!" I stammered while a tear rolled down my left eye. He only pressed the cold blade more against my skin. I closed my eyes walking down memory lane from where it all started. Nothing made sense right now and it probably never would as I was currently staring at death in the face, from the hands of my lover.

All in all, I never thought my desire was ever going to be my doom.

"I am pregnant, Lorenzo__" I confessed, wanting him to know he was about to murder two beings. One was a human he betrayed and the other?

The seed he planted in my womb.