In Paris, Ragnor and Clara were at Vivienne's villa for a visit. They happily had lunch together."Where is Gabrielle?" Clara asked noticing Gabrielle's absence."Well, you know her. She left the house this morning. I am sure she will be back when everyone is sleeping," Vivienne replied with a sigh."Awww, mummy, just show her a little love and she will turn around," Clara suggested innocently. "She feels abandon," she added and Vivienne just smiled.After lunch, they all sat in the living room, each with drinks in hand while they chat."Ma'am, I came to say thank you for everything you did for me during my dark moments. Your kind words and advice gave me back my happiness," Clara appreciated and turned her gaze towards Ragnor with a smile.She held Ragnor's hand affectionately and Ragnor couldn't help but plant a kiss on the back of Clara's hand and Vivenne smiled seeing the undeniable love enveloping Ragnor and Clara."Remember my dear, love is beautiful but is never without problems
Ragnor responded with a "hmm" and walked towards the front door."Make sure you don't wake her," Ragnor said as he opened the front door and was about to step out to his study.The butler peeped into the bedroom hearing what his master had just said and Clara was still sleeping hugging a pillow. He told the men to stop working and come back when the ma'am was awake. Clara woke up 5 minutes after they had left and quickly got out of bed when she couldn't find Ragnor."My love, where are you?" Clara called out to Ragnor putting on her robe.Ragnor came out of the study upon hearing Clara call out to him and walked toward the bedroom, meeting her at the door. She quickly ran into his arms, and he wrapped his hands around her."You scared me. I thought you had left," Clara whined."My love, I won't do that to you. I promise," Ragnor assured her still hugging her."How was your sleep? You were exhausted when we arrived," Ragnor asked in a gentle voice."I slept well. How about you?" Clara a
"You heard her, so we are going to San Francisco," announced Jessica and Andrews frowned."So we need to start packing," Andrews said grabbing a travelling bag."You do the packing, I will get us the tickets," Jessica said holding her phone in hand as she dialled a number on it."I don't touch lady's stuff," Andrews said making Jessica laugh."I think Gabrielle is here," Andrews whispered and Jessica laughed harder.Jessica had not felt anything because her concentration was on Clara."Awwww, you miss her already?" Jessica teased and Andrews just went back to packing.While they were busy packing, Gabrielle who had followed Andrews out of the house had already heard their conversation. She quietly left the place."I just need to find a way to go with them," Gabrielle thought, her mind set on withdrawing all her savings to get herself a ticket to follow them.Jessica purchased their plane tickets for San Francisco. They left the hotel half an hour later to the airport, went through the
Andrews shoved the phone into his pocket and offered Gabrielle his hand. Gabrielle slowly lifted her head, her hand touching her lips, as she alternated her gaze between Andrews's hand and his face. Andrews was standing a distance away from the door. He stood there, waiting for Gabrielle to take his hand, with a slight frown visible on his face. Staring at the beauty before him, his stare softened, and his anger went out the window.Gabrielle finally accepted his hand. She was now standing very close to him. His hands moved down to her waist without him realizing it. Gabrielle remained silent. It appears Gabrielle's beauty gets to its peak when she is silent. He was not sure when he started yielding to the desire drawing him closer to her again till he felt the softeners of her lips against his."I am just playing along. Baby steps," Andrews lied to himself as he captured Gabrielle's lips in a passionate kiss.He gently kissed her, pulling her close and deepening the kiss like she was
Outside the palace, Princess Siku stood next to her horse, petting it. Her mind sunk into thinking;"When we talk about beauty, I am a goddess of beauty. Men growl at my feet both humans and vampires alike, so why?" She thought. "What is so special about this powerless human girl?" she thought.SIku was indeed a beauty; Eyes like sparkling diamonds, a slim nose, an oval-shaped face, plump pink lips, a perfect eyebrow shape, flawless skin, and long crazy eyelashes. She has an hourglass body shape. Every man in the immortal city, both humans and vampires admires her extraordinary beauty. Coming to San Francisco she did have heads turning. The only person not moved by her is Ragnor, so how did that human girl capture his heart? He is literally at her beck and call.The most embarrassing moment in her entire life was when she drugged him and stripped herself naked in front of him in his room. He didn't even spare her a glance. He was disgusted by her. He shoves her out of his room like she
Siku went in search of her father after the call and found him in the throne room. Maddox stared at Siku as she walked towards him."Dad, come to think of it, if Ragnor's mother returned with a three-week-old pregnancy, assuming the king didn't know about it, how did she end up with the king? She is not from a noble family," Siku pointed out leaning on the window sill facing her father, who was equally leaning on the window sill."That is an interesting observation. You are right, Ragnor's mother is not royalty," Maddox replied thinking about it and he frowned realizing something."Wait, are you saying the two vampire Lords have something to do with Ragnor's mother's marriage to the king?" Maddox asked, finding another meaning to the two vampire lords' reactions to the information they shared with them.Aside from the third vampire lord, it looked like the other two already knew something and hence were not surprised."It is possible," Siku replied. "Wait, this doesn't make any sense.
Back at Vivienne's villa, Vivienne was still worried about Gabrielle's disappearance. Ninety-six hours and no sign or news of her whereabouts was enough proof something may have happened to her. Vivienne called her driver, and they quickly went to the police station to file a missing person report."How long has she been missing?" asked the officer."It's four days now," Vivienne replied."Has she ever done this before?" questioned the officer."No, not like this," Vivienne replied."What do you mean?" the officer asked for clarification."She sometimes spends a night or two outside home but she had never been away beyond two days maximum," Vivienne replied and averted her gaze feeling the officer would judge her as a bad mother."Ah! So it's her normal character to spend the night outside her home?" the officer said holding his pen and staring at Vivienne awaiting a confirmation from her."Yes, but it is the first time, it's been more than three days. She usually comes back home in a
Nyota didn't respond but said a little prayer in her heart and this made Maddox annoyed."Woman, I am talking to you?" Maddox said in an angry tone making her look at him from the corner of her eye.Nyota hissed at him as she moved away but Maddox grabbed her by the hand before she could go any further. He brought her hand close to his nose, inhaled her scent and smirked. Even when Nyota is locked up in prison, she is still a desirable woman. "Your beauty is tempting. Is that what you used against your husband?" Maddox questioned sniffing her neckNyota felt disgusted by Maddox's sexual harassment and wanted to free herself but couldn't. Her legs were in chains and so were her hands. The distance she can freely move around is the length of the chains on her. Maddox, unable to control his desire building up inside him, held her jaw and forced a kiss on her lips. Nyota pushed against his chest trying to stop him but he was a man and strong in strength. She used the only means of freedo
Emily, who was standing at the entrance of the bedroom, closed her eyes and began to glow, Clara's eyes widened seeing a glowing little girl at the door. She pulled away from the embrace, looking at Ragnor puzzled. "Brother do whatever comes to mind," said Emily. "Distract her," Ragnor thought and he changed into his flying form and kissed Clara Ragnor used what Clara liked to distract her. He started glowing and Clara smiled wrapping her arms around him forgetting the glowing little girl at the door as she responded to his kisses. Inside the room, George was forced to protect his eyes and he moved back as the glow in the room became too bright with Emily, Nyota, Ragnor and Clara all glowing together. The glow slowly began to fade and the room returned to its original light. It was almost 5 a.m. and the top floor of the palace glowing, had attracted some people to the area wondering what was happening. Ragnor smiled seeing Clara was now breathing and her body temperature had beco
"I only have one question. Did she want to come back?" Emily asked walking towards Nyota."Yes, she wanted to come back but Emily it was not easy pulling her out of the place," Nyota replied and Emily smiled.While they were talking, Ragnor was just sitting on the bed, in the same position staring at Clara while holding her hand in his. He couldn't hear any of the conversation going on around him. All he could feel was the emptiness accompanied by the immersed pain of the loss of his beloved. George and Nyota led Emily out of the room and back to her room. They sat her down and tried to talk her out of what she wanted to do."Emily, I know you love and care a lot about Aunty Clara but you are not healing a sickness or something, you are using her body as a medium to connect with her soul to pull her back. Emily, you know you can die doing that," George said worriedly."Emily, I know you want to help, but this is dangerous. You don't have a fighting ability; how will you protect yourse
"Please tell me she is still alive," said Nyota whose eyes were still moist with tears.Ragnor sat on the bed looking at Clara who looked more like she was sleeping but her body temperature was cold. George walked towards Nyota and hugged her tightly."I wish I could but we are going to try to bring her back," George said and pulled away from Nyota and looked into her tears-stained eyes."You have connected with her soul before. Ragnor will get the poison out and heal her body. I need you to be strong once he is done. You will call her back," George said."She was not dead when I did that. I am not sure if that will work with her ......" Nyota's voice thrilled off. "She is still not dead. She is like, what we say, in a coma but if we don't do anything she will die for real," George said and inhaled deeply. "Nyota, don't look at it that way. Her mind is still alive and her heart beats faintly. You connected with a soul before, that is more important and you can connect again. For Ragno
"Let me call Ragnor," George said and immediately searched for his phone. Back at Andrews's apartment, Gabrielle was walking down the road carrying her baby at Andrews's command. She could not control her tears and as she walked away from their apartment in the night, she turned to look behind a couple of times at Andrews, who was still standing in front of the apartment watching her back and kept on urging her to go. Killing Clara was like touching the lion by the tail, there was no way Andrews would escape death. He just wanted to ensure no matter what happens to him, Gabrielle and the baby will be safe. Ragnor's roar which was shaking the whole building could still be heard. Hearing Ragnor roar, you don't need a soothsayer to tell you the immense pain he was going through for the loss of his beloved. Inside the building, Ragnor was still kneeling next to Clara's body, uncontrollable tears flowed down his face as he continued to roar into the silent night. His fangs had already
Ragnor sat on the roof waiting and thinking of how to rescue both mother and child.Andrews was pacing up and down his apartment wondering if Ragnor could save his family without him having to kill Clara. Clara is in the palace and for him to go there would be too suspicious and calling her would be equally suspicious. He knew at this moment it would be difficult to get to Clara without raising any suspicion. Back in the palace, Clara was sitting on the bed in deep thought wondering if Ragnor was okay and if Andrews's family was out of danger. Emily was with Nyota asking so many questions as it was her first time visiting the city. George was resting in his room as he was working on some changes they would like to implement in the city. Ragnor had come to the full realization of his power and could control them very well so George was not bothered about what was happening with Siku and Andrews's family. George was certain everything would be fine. Siku cannot walk free this time. Cla
"Please come quick, Siku is, she is, please help," Andrews cried and ended the call."I hope this will get them here faster. Clara, I am so sorry for what I am about to do. Please forgive me," Andrews said and quickly called Gabrielle's phone which Siku answered immediately."Ragnor is coming back tonight. Please don't harm my baby. I will do as requested," Andrews said."Now, that is what I want to hear. You see, things are a lot easier if you just listen and obey," Siku said and laughed. "Since you have been a good lad, I will let you see your wife briefly," she said and put on the phone camera. Andrews saw Gabrielle tied up to a chair, her hair dishevelled and a cloth tied around her mouth. The baby was lying on the bare carpet. Seeing the tears flowing down Gabrielle's face and the baby on the floor crying, he felt a sharp pain in his heart."Please, Princess, I beg you, let the baby lie on a bed or something, it's too cold to lie on the bare floor. I beg you. He is just a child,"
"Gabrielle, where are you? is everything alright?" he questioned "Hello, Andrews," came Siku's voice and the colour drained off Andrews immediately upon recognizing the person. "How did she get into the city?" Andrews thought with eyes widened, concerned about the safety of his wife and child. "Did you miss me?" Siku asked and laughed, knowing from his silence, he was in shock. "Okay, let's not make me do anything nasty which will get my newly purchased carpet stained with blood. Cleaning items are costly in this city," she said nonchalantly "Please, don't harm them, I would do anything you ask of me. I promise," came Andrews's trembling voice. "Now, that is something I like but unfortunately it seems it's too late for you Andrews because there is nothing you can do for me unless you already have a plan that would work," Siku said. "Just tell me what you want and I will get it for you, please don't harm my wife and child," Andrews pleaded. "Ha......ha......ha...... ha," Si
"A couple of days more and I do away with this facade is quite exhausting," Siku thought and proceeded to her bedroom. The next day, Andrews and Gabrielle arrived in the Immortal City with their newborn. Gabrielle was already exhausted from the trip, so once they entered their home, she decided to take advantage of the baby sleeping to also get some rest. Andrews, however, went to the palace to greet the King and inform him of his return. He was just in time as Ragnor and Clara were about to leave for Matara to go pick up Emily. "Welcome back," said Ragnor after Andrews greeted them. "Thanks, my king," Andrews replied and bowed respectfully. "I suppose you left Gabrielle in San Francisco?" asked Clara. "No, I came with her. She stayed back at home to rest. She is very tired from the trip," Andrews replied. "That is fine. Give her my love and tell her we will come to visit as soon as we return from Matara," Clara said. 'Thanks, Mrs Usiku," replied Andrews. "Wow, this is th
"You will come with me. We will fly," Ragnor said and Clara was happy. The next day, Ragnor was in a meeting with some council members and Nyota and Clara decided to take some time to admire the city. The city indeed had changed a lot with the new ideas of improvement. While in town they ran into Siku, Nyota frowned immediately upon seeing her but Clara happily greeted her. "Hello princess," Clara said with a smile and Siku smiled back shyly. "Please, just call me Siku," Siku said and lowered her gaze. Nyota frowned but was shocked by what she witnessed. If someone had told her, that Siku had a twin or clone version of herself with a different mind, she would believe it. She thought looking at Siku shocked. "I can't address you like that; you are still royalty," Clara pointed out and Siku sighed. "Clara, can you find it in your heart to forgive me?" Siku asked, looking at Clara. "Don't worry about it. The past is in the past. It's a new day. Let it go and forgive yourself too