Naomi's PovThe next morning, I was already up on my feet and making my way downstairs. It was funny how I wasn't even feeling weak despite being punctured the previous day. I waited for some minutes so that I would be able to get out of their hair. My first step toward making that dream come true was to start living up to my duty. I located the kitchen with ease today and I gave myself a pat on the back. I was supposed to know the in and out of this maze. It wasn't unachievable as long as one set his or her mind on it, because it was surely going to come to pass, and I was only waiting to make sure that everything was happening as it should."Are you sure that you're not a zombie?" A voice called, and I turned to see what was happening, yet no one spoke again. I waved it away and made sure that I was on my way to making it all legal and making sure that I was seen as the best domestic staff. That would give me more access to lots of things.Emma had hinted to me already that this pa
Naomi's POVThe joy that filled my heart when I saw her was incomparable, and I quickly rushed to go and hug her. She was stiff at the beginning but slowly warmed up to me. " I'm sorry for asking you such a sensitive topic. I'm sorry about that. I apologized again.There were two major reasons I was apologizing. One of which was the fact that I wanted to be able to penetrate her mind and make her a friend and also because she was the only companion who had shown me a miniscule affection. I was sure that the rest of the people here were vampires with no remorse whatsoever."Why are you acting weird?" She asked me and I shrugged softly. Her hand snaked out to feel my temperature and I smiled at her. She was actually behaving like I was acting totally weird when it was them who made me go mad earlier."I guess I'm beginning to understand many things these days. It's not kinda great for someone to have all the time in the world and at the end of the day, don't get the things that I wanted
Naomi's POVThere was nothing that could deter me from having the time of my life in this place because of the way it was built. It turned out that Emma was fun, she just needed a worthy accomplice and, according to her, she hadn't found anyone who was worthy, which made me laugh at her words. She was hilarious and at the same time awesome, and I knew that I was going to spend a lot of time laughing."Did you really do that?" I replied when she told me about her escapades when she was human. She was the one doing the cooking and cleaning while I followed her around to just make sure that she was getting company."I don't know what i was thinking about at the time, but I guess I was just a young girl without the sense of anyhow other than being able to get out of the situation and that was what was happening. Well, I don't know what my father was thinking, but he flogged the hell out of me." She told me and I chuckled."You know that If you were your father too, you'd do the same." Sh
Naomi's POV"You sure have a lot to say, my dear." He drawled, and before I knew what was happening, Emma was no longer beside me and I shook my head. Oh really, this was cool. What a friend! I thought.Now I realized why she was busy coughing, but I was waiting to see what his reaction would be. "I said what I said." I heard a hiss from behind me and I turned to see Travis standing and looking at me with sheer anger in his eyes.Well, that was his business, because I wouldn't have anything to do with him except break his head. He was too arrogant for my liking."Really?" Lucian drawled again, and I stared at him challengingly as if to say. What would you do? I was digging my grave, but that was more important to me than any other thing that I held dear. He had managed to subdue Emma into thinking that she was living her best life here, meanwhile she was just suffering to the fullest and I didn't say anything."You're not going to tell me that you don't know what you're going to do
Naomi's POVI was thinking about the other things that could help with all that I was planning to do in but I couldn't fathom it at the end. I was busy thinking about what and whatnot was going to help me through and through.The cell cage opened swiftly, and I stared at the person who was coming. It was a woman, her eyes were blue, the bluest pair that I'd ever seen in my entire life, and I was busy staring at her wondering what happened and why she would be in here. She was ethereal. Or was I dead? I wondered but she chuckled. "No, you're going to die, at least not by hand." By whose hands? "By Lucian, of course, I know that you are not going to have the best out of it, but you will be grateful that you did." She said.Now these words were very confusing, and I was wondering what was happening. I didn't understand what she meant by that."Are you sure that you aren't supposed to be able to change the ways that they should go?" She added, and I was scared. She was speaking gibberi
Lucian's POV“Let her go, Travis.” I made my way into the dungeon where she was kept as Travis released her and took a step backwards, bowing his head.I have always ignored both of them when they exchanged words, because I felt like the girl needed to be taught a lesson, and it was good exercise for Travis to learn self-restraint.“Leave us.” I told him as I proceeded inside her cell. She looked at Travis with a smug look on her face, probably feeling superior that I had defended her.If only she knew.I chuckled as I bent down to go face to face with her, staring into her eyes to hypnotize her.“Wh-what are you doing to me, you blood-sucking demon?” Her eyes were already disoriented, and she was trying her best to defy my hypnosis.I snorted in amusement. A fragile human girl trying to shake off the hypnosis of a two-hundred years old vampire? As if that could ever happen.I would give her credit though, she actually managed to last longer than most humans I knew.“Sleep,” I whisper
Naomi's PovI woke up to Travis shaking me violently. I was still disoriented, and my head felt woozy."What is it this time?" I was cranky. I knew 'the buyer' or rather, Lucian, had used a spell or something to knock me out. I tried to fight against it as best as I could, but I was no match for it.I was forced back to the present by Travis' silence. He didn't react or respond to my question, which was so unlike him. He just kept working on the chains binding me down. "Are you finally here to free me? Or is this supposed to lull me into a false sense of safety so that you'll finish me off?" I knew I was poking at the bear, but I didn't care. "If I wanted to kill you, I wouldn't need to lull you into any sense of safety whatsoever. It will be quick." He replied, but immediately, an emotion similar to regret passed on his face before he masked it. It only appeared for a moment and I thought I had just imagined it. "Oh well, he speaks." I taunted him. "For a minute there, I thought y
Naomi PovI stiffly accepted the champagne he had poured for me, determined not to let my anxiety show. Why was he being nice all of a sudden? Was there an ulterior motive behind it?I held the glass in my hands without taking a sip, trying to determine if it was safe to drink it. Setting down the glass after much deliberation, I attempted to ask him questions about the ball. "So is it a vampire ball? What am I to expect?" But Lucian acted like I didn't exist, typing away on his phone while sipping his whiskey. I tried again and when he still didn't answer me, I became angry. "You really are a terrible monster, you blood-sucking demon. You locked me in your house at your mercy without any hope for freedom, treating me like I'm nothing but a blood bag to you. And now, you're carting me away to some ball I have no idea about. The least you could do is to tell me what to expect."That gained his attention and he looked up at me, but before I could give myself a pat on the back for
Naomi's PovLucian had gotten a call from Bruno's brother the next day, and he had accepted that they would give Bruno a befitting funeral, which Lucian had started making arrangements for. He had told his brother to inform their families and friends, including the people that Bruno had worked for. Lucian made sure that he had chosen one of the best cemeteries in the country, and had made sure he was able to buy a building solely dedicated to Bruno for being a hero and saving his life.As Lucian did this, it seemed like he felt a form of unease wash away, and he was able to breathe again. Before this time, he had always felt a pang of guilt and anything he slept. He had always seen Bruno in the dark pleading to him for help, but there was absolutely nothing that Lucian couldn't save him any longer. At times, Lucian told me that there were cases where he had forgotten that Bruno was dead.To fulfill his promise, Lucian made sure that he did everything possible to give Bruno a befittin
Lucian's PovTravis and I had sat down in the sitting room as we talked about the fact that Bruno's brother had started searching for him.He only knew that his brother imported goods from other countries, but they didn't know who exactly he worked for. He had noticed that his brother hadn't been picking up his calls for days, and he decided to search for him.Travis explained that his brother had sat at the building where Bruno used to work to look for him and search around to see if anyone knew the whereabouts of Bruno.He wasn't aware of everything that had happened that night, but he knew that something bad had happened to Bruno.I couldn't hide my sounds as I stared at Travis. I didn't know if it was right to just go ahead and inform him that Bruno was dead, but I didn't know if that was the best thing to do. I didn't know how his brother was going to receive the news, but it wouldn't be nice to watch him all day coming to the building to search for Bruno, even though we knew tha
Alexander Pov“I hope you had a nice time with your sister,” I asked, staring at Laura, who sat in one of the guest rooms.Just as I had instructed Madonna not to take her back to the cages, she needed to be fed well and cleaned well, so that in the coming days she would still look presentable to the buyer. “Yes, I did,” she responded as a tear escaped her eyes. “So why then do you still cry ?,” I asked as I moved closer to her. “I do not want to be sold anymore, I just want to be with my sister,” Laura said as she knelt down beside me. “What's all of this, you do not dictate if you are being sold or not. " I decided that, and nothing or no one counters my word. " There's nothing you can do about it, Laura, you can't change a thing, like I said, but you are here to fetch me some handsome money”, I responded as I stared at her.“I beg you, she is scared, she doesn't want me to leave,” she said as she pleaded for mercy.“I think I made the mistake of making you see her the other nig
Naomi PovLucian opened his eyes slowly as he stared around. He had another nightmare. This had been Constance ever since he got back that night. He had always seen Bruno whenever he slept in pain, crying out to me to help him, but every time he tried to help him, he just disappeared into the air. He sat up on the bed and stared around the room. It was morning again, but I could see how he couldn't stop thinking about all that had happened two days ago. It felt like it was real every time he thought about it.Travis knocked on the door as he walked into Lucian's room, where I stood close to him. He bowed his head as he greeted him before moving close to Lucian. “How are you feeling today master,” Travis asked with a smile on his lips.“I am very much better, thank Travis,” Lucian said, smiling at him. “I am glad you are getting better, sir,” he said with a smile on his face.“What about Marcus?” I asked, turning to him. “Marcus is good too, it's just that he is still a bit too we
Alexander's PovMadonna climbed up the stage majestically as she swayed her waist, seductively revealing her butts to the crowd. She then handed the documents to me on stage.I smiled, looking at Madonna. She must have thought that she was part of the girls that wanted to be sold off tonight,However, I knew her too well. She was indirectly scanning the room for a potential customer that would go down with her after the auction this morning. I grabbed the documents and lifted them up, showing the entire people in the crowd how authentic my document was.They all cheered on as they began to clap their hands loudly, no jokes. They were enjoying it all.I returned my gaze to the buyers again as I smiled, “This document, you should go through it, and sign under the category that you have fallen under,” I said, smiling widely.One of my subjects collected it from me and handed it to the man who wanted to buy Laura and Naomi for thirty million dollars.As soon as he was given the document
Lucian's PovAccording to what Naomi had told me, she had revealed that Travis had struggled to carry me on his back and as soon as he got to the bedroom, he dropped on the bed. Naomi also explained that she was in my room searching for some things when Travis dropped me on the bed. I knew she must have run quickly and held one so tight.It was exactly two hours since I was unconscious. I still laid on the bed without moving my body. Suddenly, I opened my eyes, and screamed out loud as I raised my head.I wasn’t in a coma, but I had still not slept like that for years, and it felt like as soon as my eyes opened, there was something that changed inside of me.My eyes darted around the room and began to pant out loudly. This was exactly when I literally saw the faces of the people that were around me. Most likely, I was able to recognize Travis and Naomi. “You should calm down Lucian,” Naomi said as she moved closer to me.Although I couldn't hear them well, it seemed like I was begin
Naomi's PovI had literally witnessed this every second till the break of the day as I stared at the clock in my room not able to get some sleep through the night. I was worried and I couldn't hide it.I was worried that something bad might happen to Lucian. I was worried that I didn't know what more Lucian was hiding from me. I was worried that Lucian still hadn't healed, and it was obviously a sign of danger.Furthermore, I rolled from one end of the bed to the other part as I tried to sway away the thoughts and get some sleep, but it wasn't just working.Not only that, but I wish I had gone along with them. It had been several hours since they had left the house, but there was no sign of their return. I had walked closer to the glass window in my room several times when I heard the horn of a car around.I had also been calling them several times, but they were not answering their calls. I had wondered how important the issue was that had left them not answering their calls. I had
Lucian PovThe man didn't speak a lot, it was just a few words. Although, I wasn't able to hear it clearly, However, I staggered and the next thing I saw was the man opening the door for Travis and me to get in.Well, I honestly should have been skeptical about the place, but I wasn't. It was just a relatable moment that someone knew there was nothing you could possibly do for yourself. At that point, anything was going to be accepted.As I walked into the room, I noticed that it wasn't just a room, it was something unexpected, just like the frontal view of the building looked ancient, but the inside of the house was a totally different thing.It was different. I couldn't describe it, but was confidently sure that it was different. I could still see even when my eyes seemed blurred at the moment. I also knew it was the effect of the poison that had caused me not to see well.I lifted my hands, as I tried to rest on some of the things around the room so that I would not fall off.I had
Alexanders PovWhat kind of game was this, who was playing games with whom ? I muttered silently as I looked at the man.“Who did you say you want?” I asked as I took a step closer, trying to hear the name he was going to call out again. “I want Naomi Stevens,” he pleaded as he smiled. The people in the crowd stared at me as they wondered what they were trying to say. They had all expected me to go in and get Naomi Steven. I stepped closer, scrutinizing the man. Naomi Steven had been sold to Lucian's Vlod; it was impossible for her to appear here.Yet, my gaze lingered on Laura, standing on the stage, her heart racing. This was a bad day, made worse by this crackpot's claim."I don't understand," I said, my voice firm. "What do you mean?"The man's expression turned serious, his tone aggressive. "You're not listening. Did you not see the records of her sale months ago?"I narrowed my eyes."I'm not blind. " I saw it clearly, the man said as he turned and let out a bark of laughter