"I– I don't know what you're talking about,""I can't imagine I'm getting fortuitous by the second." He remarked and snickered.Before Marleen realized it, he grabbed her by the neck and she instantly fell into unconsciousness._________"Mar–leen?" Ava's worried voice exclaimed for Marleen when she saw him on the doppelganger's shoulder."Relax, bestie, she's fine," Dominic said as he lowered Marleen close to a shackled Ava."Why is she here?" She asked. Marleen was still unconscious."How many people know about the Ancients?""Many. Although they don't believe in it since they haven't seen one before. Why?""Just attempting the know the numbers I'm roughly to kill,""Don't! They're innocent, they know nothing.""This girl here didn't seem like that to me. She's different, do you know that?" He asked as he waddled past Ava.He picked a chain and bound Marleen's hands with it. After that, he strides toward a chair and sits on it."I can't believe father let different species run the e
90He looked up from downstairs and wondered if Anne was asleep. He climbed it slowly with hesitation, he didn't want her to feel uncomfortable.The stairs appeared longer than usual. His heart, something didn't believe existed, began to race. He was nervous for no reason.As he reached the edge of the stairs, Anne's room entered his view before his room which after before her room. He strides to her door and knocks on it slightly.On the first knock the door opened. He couldn't believe she was actually waiting for him to come to her room.He slipped into the room, the lit candles were glowing. He glanced at the wall clock and it was a few minutes past nine."I thought you were asleep," Dominus said as he strolled to her, "How's your wound?" He noticed she hauled her arms freely.A beaming smile appeared on her face. "It healed. The pain was severe at first, but after the plant you dipped, the pain began lessening. And now, there's no pain."Dominus wasn't believing this. He moved clos
"Would you want it served bare or clothed?"Ivanna felt nauseous inside her stomach as she listened to what the chief servant referred to as a dish. It was another slave being emancipated to the Youngest Master of the Breguet family as a meal.Slaves were dined as food for the nobles. They were molested and fucked, which often led to death, but the nobles never felt any concern. To them, humans were just food and sex slaves.Ivanna continued to swab the floor as she stared daggers at the young master as he walked down the stairs she just mopped. He didn't even care if it was recently wiped and stepped on with his blood-clothed shoes.The Young Master walked towards an elderly man, his father, and sat on the chair across from him. Ivanna knew they were about to talk business. And when that's about to happen, everybody leaves the room. Including other nobles.So she thanked her stars and picked up her bucket, before striding towards the exit door. She hissed inaudibly as she felt a pain
Ivanna chewed her lower lips not to grumble in pain as the tether around her wrist tightened with each step she took. She was tied against a moving carriage that belongs to the Young Master. He didn't kill her as she thought, rather, he was attempting to make her walk through a crowd filled with deranged vampires.She preferred a painless death to a demise rendered of ripped flesh by insane vampires. The option here was for her to survive, and she wasn't seeing a way that would happen. She had no fighting tools or power nor strength and speed like the vampires. She was a simple human.She dreaded the day she fled her beautiful Mansion and maids at her call just to escape a marriage to an old man. Marrying the old man back then seemed a better option in her eyes now.The carriage wasn't moving at high speed, thankfully, but her veins were hurting at how tight the tethers were clutching to her wrist.Just then something sprinted past. She may not be as fast as the purebloods or vampires
"Who did you say sent you?" A hairless man questioned Ivanna for the third time. She was feeling kind of wary especially when his eyes roamed down her body with a lascivious gaze."The Youngest Master of the Breguet's family." She replied, trying to hold his eyes with hers."And you're scrutinizing for a red ruby? The chronological type?"Ivanna nodded her head, trying to stop the annoyance building inside her. "Yes."The bald man gazed at her for a while and shook his head. "We don't have such an item here."Ivanna heard a siren go off in her head. She knew such items were sold here, she had visited here with one of the special assignees. She couldn't go home without getting the red ruby."Can you check again? I know it's sold here." She requested, hiding her panicked tone.But the bald man simply looked through a book with an uninterested expression. "We don't sell those here. Please excuse me, I have other people to attend to."Ivanna had no other choice than to leave. As she walke
"B-but Young Master, n-now?" Her voice shook.Xander threw her a weird look and continued removing his coat. He brought out a little bottle from his pants pocket and threw it at her. "Use this to tend to your wounds." He didn't wait for a thank you and picked a new coat from the bed and scrambled out of the window.Ivanna quickly applied the medicine to her wounds before the young master changed his mind.The day was dark yet again. And the thoughts of escaping hadn't left her head. What that blind man said to her still lingered in her mind. She needed to escape because he was never letting her go.She just needs to find the perfect escape plan, and the right person to help her.___________"You're taking over the kitchen today, Ivanna, you'll be accompanied by Sarah. Not much chit chat girls."Ivanna and Sarah nodded at this and walked along the path to the kitchen. It was a big kitchen where meals for the entire Mansion were prepared.Ivanna has only ever been in the kitchen five ti
Ivanna glanced from inside the carriage at Sarah whose body was almost covered with bruises as her body went on all fours on the rough ground. Her hands were also tied to the moving carriage."S-she didn't drag me along, First Young Master, I convinced her into it." Ivanna tried to plead on Sarah's behalf."I know." His simple reply came."B-but-""She disobeyed me."Ivanna shut her mouth. It was true Sarah disobeyed her master, but she convinced her into it. She should be outside the carriage serving punishment like Sarah, not sitting comfortably inside the carriage while Sarah got dragged along.Ivanna didn't know how she would face young master Xander when she also disobeyed him. Two days in a row."Don't worry, I'm not telling him." His words surprised her."Really?" Hope filled her chest.He nodded. "He knows already."And her hope disappeared just like that. There was no going back this time around, no mercy. She knew young master Xander, and he was never one to pity a person mo
Ivanna knew there was no going back, she was doomed. But she also knew he wasn't gonna kill her when he already knew her originality. But the young master Xander is erratic.Ivanna carefully turned around, her fingers squeezing tight to the scared Sarah. They were both doomed."Young Master Xander," They both bent their heads, Ivanna out of confusion. Her shaky fingers weren't hidden from the young master's eyes, causing his smirk to grow further."Slaves on the run, I wonder what you're doing here." His statement confused Ivanna. He called her a runaway Princess a few seconds back, now a slave?Footsteps emerged and Ivanna knew who it belonged to. The head of the Lachlan household, Mr. Victor Lachlan, and his wife, Hopia. Her grandparents.An unknown smile suddenly crept to her face. Although she was a bit fizzled by the smirk still lurking on the young master's lips, she shrugged it off.Mr. Lachlan and his wife made their arrival, and Ivanna noticed how aged they have become after