The Vampire Duke

Echo 's POV

I didn’t know how they took me back. When I woke up, ALL I felt was sore. My legs were scratched with thousands of brambles, big and small. I was locked in the dungeon, which I knew fairly well. Here once held a beast of prey which I finally subdued. From then on, Castile the Elder had shown the preference for me, hoping that I could become the future heir one day. Yet now I was here, being imprisoned by my people, my trusted family. What an irony!

TAT-TAT-TAT. Someone was approaching. Now I never got anything more to wish for as to be rescued from the dungeon. On the contrary, memories of my cold and cruel family crawled into my mind and made me shudder with disappointment.

The dungeon door was opened and a stranger entered. In the darkness I could make out only the side of his face. The bridge of his nose took up most of it, followed by two very thin lips. His eyes were so deep at night that they were indistinguishable, like a pool. The next thing I know was my severe choking.

"Are you the abandoned huntress of the hunter family?" Those two eagle eyes locked me. And this face, this beautiful face, with fangs full of hatred, was taking a look at me. "I want to bury you alive for Jenna!"

His wrist just lightly pressed, and I began to cough violently until I couldn't breathe. My consciousness went fuzzy. Just at the moment I felt my body suddenly rushing out an ineffable strength to break away from the man's bondage.

"This was impossible!!" The man looked unexpected. "You…you kept Jenna's Vampire powers? How did you do that? !"

The moon shone down into the basement, lit up the floor and showed me his face. Out of surprise, his fangs gathered. It was the most handsome face I had ever seen, with features so delicate. Even if he looked pale and bloodless, there was no doubt that the face seemed to have been carefully calculated and sculpted. But I couldn't be distracted by his face. He was Jenna's fiancé. A strong hunch in my heart told me so. I could even feel the great pain in his heart.

"Dear respected Duke Elliot, our majesty invited you to the reception room for negotiation!" Someone came to report it, interrupting my almost losing myself.

"Hum!" He suddenly looked at me and said, in a angry voice."Wait for it! You will pay! I won't let you off!" With that and by the light of the moon, he moved out at a Vampire-special speed, leaving me in this dungeon sighing.

I sighed for my fragile friendship, for my weak family affection, for not knowing where my future lay!

Leonardo's POV

Something must have happened to Jenna!!

In my chest, the heart that should never have beaten again suddenly become restless! It was a special CONNECTION between me and her, and it made me uncomfortable. So something must have happened to Jenna!

I stood up, ready to use our "CONNECTION" to find her. But I had just walked down the stairs when the pain in my chest hit me hard to the ground! The truth was that, Jenna DIED! The woman I loved most, my Vampire Princess. She was dead, going away from this desolate and disgusting world! Because of her, I can control my bloodthirsty paranoia and live well in the world. But now, my one and only spiritual support was collapsing!

Louis carried my favorite Boston wine into my room. Every day at this time, I would take a drink and go to sleep with my Princess Jenna. "Your wine, your Royal Highness!" He did nothing wrong, but I still got no trace of compassion. I opened my mouth and let my sharp teeth rip into his neck. Finally, I got his blood sucked entirely! Watching him fall to the ground silently and his body losing its color from extreme ischemia, I felt my brain so excited that it could hardly contain itself!

The moon was perfect. I was going hunting out there. Not many people went out at night in Sinpal. They seemed afraid to meet me, although no one had ever seen me before. After sucking the blood of six men, I knocked on the door of the hunter family.

In the dungeon, the damnable woman lay slumped on the floor, exhausted and weak. Her ragged clothes sold her sufferings out. Casstile the Elder told me that she had stolen the hunter's most precious treasure- the Heart of Moonshadow ring and made Jenna be her scapegoat. In that case, I would kill this woman myself to revenge for Jenna's death!

But the closer I got to her, the more uncontrollably soft my heart became. I didn't know why. I kept trying to adjust myself. When I put my hands around her neck, something familiar rose up inside her, rebelling against me. That was not right! It was Jenna's power! I couldn't get it wrong! Once, when we trained our speed in the Dark Forest, I had felt her power! I couldn’t get it wrong! But why did she keep Jenna's power? Was it because of the ring- the Heart of Moonshadow? I couldn't kill her, so I went back to the Elder, and to my surprise, he ordered me to take the damn woman back to my castle and did whatever I wanted to her.

Right! I would do everything I could to let her die under my torture, paying for the death of my favorite Jenna!

Echo 's POV

The guard took me to Casstile the Elder. The man was there. I was too weak to stand. Most importantly, the two powers in my body were still intertwining and fighting, which made me so sick!

"Your Royal Highness, Echo was yours. Please take her home at your disposal!" With these words, Casstile sat down, rotating his chair and turning his back on me.

"Your majesty......" My voice was hoarse, as if ONLY I could hear it. Then I looked at the handsome carved man, who was looking at me with malice.

"It is a rare measure of justice for you to hand over your people so generously." The man nodded slightly, which was regarded as a salute. "In that case, I won’t decline all this. Just in time, I need time to interrogate, well interrogate. Then will I learn how exactly she stole the treasure and plant evidence to frame blame!"

Obeying his order, his men blindfolded me with a black belt and dragged me out of the house. If I left here, I would become homeless because of the abandonment of my people. Maybe Jenna's curse on me was getting closer and closer...

We pulled up in front of a huge castle. The driver honked to open the gate, and I heard the sound of countless bats flapping their wings in the air. The man took me out of the car like a piece of garbage and threw me into the dirty, smelly basement. It was a place that almost a hundred times colder than my family dungeon! I couldn’t help shivering.

"Feeling cold?" The man only lit a candle. In the dark basement, that small flame seemed to be my last hope.

With the dim light lighting up his face, his facial features gradually displayed in front of my eyes, more stereoscopic. His face was so close to me that I could take a really good look at him. Vampire-specific white skin made his features more luxurious. Beneath the flaxen hair were a pair of blood-red eyes. I couldn’t feel temperature of those eyes. Right there, they seemed to be about to freeze at the moment.

"Before you die, you damn woman, I want to hear from you. How did you steal the treasure yourself and frame my Jenna? Say it!" He clutched me around the neck. I saw his pupils expanding and shrinking with anger, casting an inscrutable stream of shadows.

I should have been in a lot of pain, but as his hand rested on my neck, I could feel his hesitation for a moment. And then, suddenly, the pressure on me that I should have had was lessened a lot. I didn’t know the reasons of it.

He looked from his hands to my face, his thin lips drawing in a cold arc of disgust. He sneered, with redicule, as if the hatred in his heart would never vanish. He opened his mouth slowly. With those sharp Vampire fangs digging deeply into my neck, I closed my eyes in despair, only to feel about the uncomfortableness on my face from his thick hair...