I didn't even know if to laugh or be offended. Theo was a fucking pest! Was he now stalking me? And how in hell had I not realized he'd been following me?He reached us and looked from me to Adrianne, and then back to me.“Don’t you wonder, Luna, how we always find ourselves meeting at unusual places?” He asked.“You’re following me,” I said in a dry tone, trying to calm down the storm that had erupted within me. Theo didn't know Adrianne was a vampire, and he had been too far off to hear anything we had discussed“Yes, I am.” He confessed with a shrug glancing once again at Adrainne who stood stoic. “Because I don't trust you, now who's this?”I chuckled, turning away at the ridiculousness of this whole thing. Should I just kill him off? He wouldn't be missed, the man was such an incompetent idiot, I felt second-hand embarrassment at his existence.“Who are you?” Adrianne asked, walking closer.“Theo,” He said, stretching his hand, and like I had done to her, Adrianne ignored him. Sh
Damon sat up slowly, he reached out a hand and collected the wristwatch from Alex. The glass was broken and it had blood stains on it.I stared at it mouth agape. The first and last time I’d seen it was on the day it had been gifted to me, I remember discarding it on the table because I knew I was never going to wear it, ever.“I’ve never seen this with Alena,” Damon said. “Theo! That lying bastard!”“It’s mine, dad gave it to me on the night of the party and I’d kept it in the bedroom. Amidst the chaos of that night, I totally forgot about this, I've never worn this wristwatch a day in my life.” I explained.Damon turned to me. “It’s yours?” He asked.I nodded.“He’s obviously lying.” I said, “I have no reason to attack Theo and why would I leave my wristwatch lying there? It makes no sense.”“Someone is setting you up,” Damon said in a low voice, turning to me.I was well aware of that fact. Theo was, I didn't know his plans but this stupid move had his M.O all over it.Damon contin
How do you get the attention of someone who wants to have absolutely nothing to do with you?It's been three days and Damon has actively been avoiding me. His spot on the bed next to me was cold, he hadn't slept in it for the past few days. When he wasn't outdoors, he spent his time in his office where he had his dinner and slept in.It was unsettling, to say the least. I had never felt this silence from his end before, and it was so because it was my fault. I hadn't lost sight of my goal - I could never, but like I’d said, I was going to take whatever he has to offer, and so far I wasn't liking this bad. I was bored out of my mind and nothing was helping ease it.“There have been rumors,” Marina was saying. It was late evening, and we were in the sitting room having tea and cakes.I didn't say anything in response and so she continued.“Of course, I know it's not true but apparently they said Theo defied you and Damon unleashed on him or something like that, it's all distorting tale
“I have been so worried about you,” Aunt Aurora said, running her hands down my shoulder. “I made something.”She said moving towards the table, she picked up a necklace with a tiny rock and placed it in my palms.“We can converse through this, your mother made one for me and herself before…” I nodded and tucked it inside the inner pocket of the coat.“Have you found her?” I asked, referring to the witch who had made the anthurium potion.Aunt Aurora’s expression turned somber.“I have,”Excitement swelled in me. “Where does she stay?”“Eliana,” She said, holding my hands in hers. “My darling girl, I know you have suffered so much but are you sure about this? You know you are welcome here, it’s been long enough, and no one cares about your mother’s mistake anymore. We will accept you where you rightfully belong.”“As long as you all keep seeing me as Mother's mistake, this isn't the right place for me,” I said.She took in a sharp breath. “You know that's not what I mean, I worry for
I felt everything in me die at her words, my blood stopped flowing, my heart stopped pumping… Every single thing went dead and I could only stare back at the witch with empty eyes.She took in my expression and burst into another of her horrific laughter.“Oh dear me! This is more entertainment than I've gotten in a long time.” She paused and watched me. “Don’t tell me all this while, all this time has passed, so many long long years have gone by and all through it that you thought your mother was innocent, oh no, you poor, sweet child.”“Shut up!” Aunt Aurora said angrily. “Shut the hell up!”The woman turned to aunt Aurora, her face the epitome of pleasure. “You too Aurora? No, I thought better of you. You should be smarter than the kid, shouldn’t you? It will be pathetic if even you think your sister was falsely accused.““You’re lying,” I heard a distant voice say, it took a few seconds to go by before I realized it was mine. It sounded foreign to my ears, small, quiet, broken. “M
I remained unmoving on the floor, too paralyzed by shock to even move a muscle.“Get a grip of yourself, Eliana!” Aunt Aurora screamed at me. “Do you know what you were about to do? Do you realize the weight of the deal you were about to make? If it hadn't been for me?”Tears ran down my face, pouring down furiously this time, they weren't even trying to hide.“I know you are in shock but that woman. She's the devil herself! She doesn't care about anyone else and has only ever wanted power, she is greedy and power-hungry. I swear she is the worst of our kind to have ever existed.”“No,” I said in a small voice, I was still on the floor staring at the ceiling. “Mother was, undoubtedly so. Margaret was the absolute worst.”My aunt took in a deep breath before setting herself on the floor beside me. She placed her hand gently on my arm.“You know she could be lying, right?” She asked.I shook my head. I had deluded myself long enough, I wasn't going to continue to do so anymore.“You kno
One look was all it took for Damon to know something was wrong with me, to get rid of his anger, to put aside everything that has been going on with us, and to hold me in his arms, letting me collapse into him, allowing me to fall and catching me just in time.He didn't say a word, he simply held me like I needed to be held. His arms around me in that protective way of his, the one that shut out everything and left me in the cocoon of his body warmth, caressing not just my body but my soul. Loving me in a way I could never love myself, holding me in a way that sheltered me from everything else, myself included because right now, I was a danger to myself and I only wished I could be spared from my mind.My mind was a monster, a wild child that kept screaming, flailing, crying, and pounding to be set free… I wished I could, I was in utter chaos and the only thing I could do was cry, let it all out, all the pain and betrayal, I let them flow out of me through the tears and they did pour
Damon watched with an expressionless face at the body that had been pulled up from the grave it had been previously buried in. He was almost unrecognizable, and from how bad he looked, Damon was guessing it must have been at least ten months since his death.But the man being dead and buried was not his business, his concern was that the man was a vampire… Another one.“What do you think happened?” He asked Alex and David who both stood at his sides.“Likely had an altercation with someone,” David answered, peering at the body with a frown on his face, “these goddamn vampires sure make it feel like they're everywhere. We can't deny it anymore now, I believe there are quite a number of them in our pack.”Alex said nothing, gritting his teeth.“They are living freely,” Damon said looking straight ahead, he had a nagging at the back of his head that he couldn't quite make sense of yet.“You have gone soft.” Alex finally said.Damon looked at him with a raised brow.“What do you mean?” Dav