The HG didn’t assign any job for Damien the following day.“Just get out of my sight!” was what he snapped at Damien when the latter went to him later for instructions. “Don’t let me see your face tomorrow morning too!”Damien had no idea if this was the worst news or not but he knew that he couldn’t stay for long in the man’s office so he quickly thanked him and was about to leave when the man said fretfully “You had better let your backer know that too. You will be held responsible if I lose my job!” he said in a near-yell.Damien quickly left before the man would change his mind and came up with something else again.“Why is it so hard to communicate with these people?” he thought on his way back to his room as he remembered the session he just had with Andrea which he had luckily came through unscathed and without getting her angry. Also, an important discovery too that he had not dared to confirm from the girl yet.After the panicked moment of how he was going to explain the fact
As it happened, he was unable to ask Andrea about his suspicion anyway.The moment she completed the assignment, she thrust it under Damien’s nose with an imperative “Look at it! I did it myself”Damien had barely had the time to check out the alien equations before she closed her notebook back, tucked the textbook underneath her armpit and skated out of the room. With a shout of “This room is yuck!” she was gone and Damien realised that he truly did not even want the answer to that question. What was the name that her friend always call her? He tried to remember as he could see the girl’s fiery eyes in his mind’s eyes as she was always glaring or scowling at him. Damien couldn’t remember ever seeing her without her customary angry look.He sat on his bed for a while in thought. “She must not know” was the litany that was running through his mind. He was certain that if she know that he worked for them, she would certainly make sure that he lost that job immediately. He imagined tha
“Hey, bro!” Sky called out to Damien the following day at school. He had been waiting for the latter just so he could tell him that he did not care about those bastards.He knew that Damien had been trying to protect him by keeping him out of his trouble and that must have been the reason he said what he said the day before in that imposing manner.Yes, he knew that now. Though it had taken him all afternoon and the better part of the night before with some pep talk from Marcus before he finally arrived at that conclusion; Sky figured what mattered most was that he understood him now.So even though Michael had informed him that he was to do according to what the leader said and stay out of the issue as Damien could take care of himself; Sky left The Abode very early that morning so he could wait for Damien at the door to tell him that they were in this together and they would face those pompous assholes, that had no idea of who they were up against, together.What happened was nothin
Damien was excited to see Sky waiting at the gate for him that morning and he was about to cross over to him to ask about the red-haired girl, momentarily forgetting the fact that he wanted nothing to do with the younger vampire at school to prevent any problem that could stem from such association.Just as he moved toward Sky’s direction, he could see the way some girls were pointing at him and he instantly remembered what he had said. He turned away from Sky when he heard the faint familiar sound of Cade’s car and he knew that it would look good for Cade if blabbermouths like Cade saw them together that morning again.He could feel Sky’s anger as he entered the school’s main building. He passed a small smile on his face as he passed some students who gave him a wide berth as though he had fleas on him. He could see that the fact that his uniform was clean and ironed that morning did not change their mind about him so he walked just as Sky would as he passed them.Ms. Mace was not in
“It was a tradition that those three bastards started,” Sky told Damien through gritted teeth, in answer to his question. He scraped his finger through his hair as he looked up and down the hallway. It was surprisingly deserted now compared to how it had been in the past hour. After Laura’s order that made the students reluctantly left even as some of them take pictures and posted them on their websites. Not only was Laura liked by most of the students, juniors and seniors alike but she was also the school’s head prefect. Sky looked back at Damien’s dripping uniform and winced. “Come, let’s get you cleaned up first. I don’t think that shirt can ever get close to white anymore but at least your hair wouldn’t be matted with paint anymore.” “Tell me the rest,” Damien said without moving an inch. Sky sighed “Okay, ehn, what was I saying? Yes, Ashton started it and it is only exclusive to him. Anybody that he gave the All Hands Mark will not only be bullied by him but everybody in the s
“How dare he even show his face here after that?”“Wow, these poor people have no shame” “If it was me, I would find somewhere to bury myself and I wouldn’t face anyone again ever!”Damien could hear the students whisper clearly as the teacher carefully completed the diagram he was drawing on the board before he turned to him.“What happened to you?” the man said and the class laughed as they expected that he was talking about Damien’s pain-spattered uniform. Damien smiled as he felt Sky’s wave of anger filling up the room and he knew that the ignorant students would quake in terror if they knew what was going through the younger’s mind at the moment.He faced the teacher “I…”“Look at you. A new student who got enrolled this late yet you are coming to class this late? What are you standing there for? Get in or do you need a royal welcome?”The students laughed again and they already got their phones ready for recording to add to the ones they already recorded that morning.Damien al
“Can’t she see that her involvement with him has something to do with what they were doing?” he thought briefly before she stepped forward, shrugging her friend’s hand off.“What kind of a head prefect will I be if I leave you all to do as you want in this school just because of an idiot?”Hushed whispers went through the students when they heard that statement from Laura as they knew who she was talking about. Nobody dared talk about Ashton. Well, nobody but Laura. Some of them were recording the event. Some were doing Livestream on their channels in the school-launched app “MaryConnect”“Now, every single one of you that has taken his place should get back in line,” she said with a fold of her arm across her body.The first student that pushed Damien out of the way was just telling the servers what he wanted when Laura spoke. He looked back guiltily when almost every head in the cafeteria swung to him.“Ah, Senior Laura. I was just…”“Step out of the line now!” Laura said and the la
Damien looked down at the food on his tray and then back at the entrance where Zach just left after giving his order. He obviously expected Damien to follow him instantly. The whole room seemed to be in bated breath as they waited to see what he would do. He turned around and saw Laura shaking her head at him. Damien looked away from her instantly as he wished fervently that the day could be over as soon as possible.There would be no escaping this. He knew so he went back towards the counter to return his food. “You are just going to waste all that food?” the server said to him in a disapproving tone. “You children have no problem with wasting food, do you?” “Kelsey! What gives you the right to talk to the students like that?” an older-looking woman said as she came to the counter. She seemed to be in the kitchen before. “Don’t think I can’t fire you just because you got in through the back door. Even a newbie like you must know that Maryland students are not like that backwater s
Months Later...Damien stood in the palace of Santa Eyre. He was looking down through a concealed portico at the people down in the palace waiting room.The creme de la creme of Santa Eyre was down there. All of them were waiting for him to see them on one issue or the other. It had been the routine for Damien for the past months now. There had been a lot to deal with, after their encounter with Ulric. The King's burial had been an international affair. King Saldus had been a very influential and well-beloved king. Presidents of countries, well-known CEOs all over the world, and dignitaries from different continents were in Santa Eyre, for days, to celebrate the dead king.They all believed that the king had died peacefully in his sleep. Only Damien and his inner circle knew that there was more to the king's death. There had been a dark essence to his chakras. Damien still couldn't come to terms with how much Ulric took from them. The call Allan received after the battle with Ulric,
Total darkness filled the whole house as the power supply went off all of a sudden. The only silhouette that could be seen was the dark mass gathering again in the middle of the room. It was so massive and tall that it seemed like a giant was forming out of it. The witches rallied together and a spark of fire ignited above them to conquer the dark. Light could be seen from afar but the immediate environment of Damien’s house was as dark as the void itself. “I will purge you abominations from this earth!” came the terrifying voice of Ulric as the darkness swirled around the lights and they all went out again. One of the witches screeched, and by the time the magic light was lit again, she could be seen grabbing her throat, as blood poured out of her mouth and sunken eyes. “We need to take this motherfucker out!” Liam shouted and the rest were right with him. Damien took the lead as they charged the dark mass again. Damien released the orb and every protective substance he had in t
Everyone in the room looked at each other as the mocking voice of the man they all knew, had heard of, and heard of resounded throughout the house. The distortion to his voice was horrid and the frightening element in it was only causing more fear in those around. Only the leaders were still stoic. The soldiers were half paralysed with fright as King Saldus went on and on to describe explicit ways that they would all be obliterated that night. Exactly at 11:58 pm, the voice stopped talking and Isabella’s phone exploded right there in the middle of the room. It was charred beyond recognition. A blast of wind rocked the shingles of the house. Suddenly, the witches all exclaimed “Stench of the underworld” A knock sounded at the door at exactly 12:00 am. They all looked at each other and beneath the bravado, was a hint of apprehension. They all knew that they might not come out of this alive. Still, the witches flung the door open by magic and someone tumbled inside. Even as everyone
Sky did not wake up immediately. Morgan tried to wake him up but she eventually looked up at Damien and others. “I think he used up his vitality. Ulric did something else with Sky that he had never done with any other host before. He used him up. He might…he might never wake up” she said with a sigh of defeat. “No, no. that is not possible. Do something leader. You have to do something!” Michael said in desperation. Damien knew that but then he thought of the fact that Ulric might want to use Sky’s condition as a distraction for them while he strike from elsewhere. Damien was the head of the group and their link make them strong together, just as he make them vulnerable together as well. If Damien was caught in the realm while trying to heal Sky, any damage done to him at that moment will affect the whole group as well. He was sure that Ulric had a plan to do something to them while they were trying to heal Sky. Though it was difficult for him to do; he had to ask “How long can he
“You changed her?” Michael confronted Damien the moment he got back to the house. He had to teleport Laura back with him since she was still very much out of it. He had just placed her in his room, where Morgan and Isabella were keeping an eye on her when Michael confronted him just as he came out of his suite.Here we go. He thought. Anger welled in him for the reminder of his guilt. He respected Micahel for being a stickler for rules but at the moment, he did not care to be reminded that he had failed to protect his woman. He did not need the clan leader to rub more salt unto his wound. Not at all.“If you have a thing to say, just say it,” Damien said as he bypassed Michael on his way to the main floor.“If I…” Michael paused in disbelief then he lengthened his stride to meet up with that Damien. “If I have a thing to say? We never change humans. You know how precarious they could be and you went to turn one of them?”“She is one of us now,” Damien said as he turned back to face hi
Sybill Macmillan couldn’t believe what was happening! When Andrea called her to inform her, she thought that her bratty sister was just acting up. Truth be said, Andrea didn’t appear as bratty as she used to be. Sybill felt it must have to do with the fact that she didn’t have to see her daily anymore. It had all started long before Sybll left for school. Andrea had capitalised on her invitation to the palace by the king, an invitation orchestrated by that nobody. Damien. Sybill still couldn’t think of him without distaste in her mouth but she didn’t dare say any of her thoughts aloud.Who could have thought that a mere gawking, gardener? A good-for-nothing would turn out to be a prince. A referred prince for that matter that the whole of Santa Eyre and its environs had become submissive to. Sybill snorted as she remembered the rumour she had once heard that the king intended to pass the throne to Damien. Sybill doubted if the king would be so dumb to do such a thing. Why would a man
Laura’s awakening was messy, to say the least. She woke up hours later feeling disoriented, groggy and out of it. It took her a while to recognise Damien. Then she blurted out “I love you” thoughtlessly. In the next moment, she was shouting bout feeling so thirsty, then she started pulling at her hair and agitating about hating her skin. Her clothes felt too tight. Her head hurt and she felt like she would die if she did not eat something.Damien knew what was happening. Despite how much he wanted to ignore it, the inevitable couldn’t be denied. Laura had become a vampire and if he did not do something about it, she would die within the first hour of her awakening. He tried to talk to her during that moment to see if she would rather choose to die than become a fully-formed vampire, yet it was like singing a lullaby to a deaf kid. She could hear him. She seemed to have some iota of consciousness but she was not comprehending what he was saying.“Okay, okay. Can I eat now?” was the ans
It finally dawned on Damien why Sky/Ulric wanted him to see him draining the life out of Laura. It was just so he could make a difficult decision or live eternally with the guilt of causing the death of the girl that he only belatedly realized he loved. Tears trailed down Morgan’s face as she stood up. “It is no use. I…I can’t do it. There is nothing to draw from. I can’t heal her.” She spread her bloodied hands to the sides as anguish soaked her voice. “My hands are filled with her blood, and I can’t bring her back. I was supposed to be better than this”“Now, now. You shouldn’t beat yourself up, A Ghra. This is not your fault” he looked straight at Damien over Morgan’s head “This mess was not for you to sort”“What the hell did you just call me? How can you be so cold and glib right now?” Morgan lashed out at him. “An innocent girl is dying for God’s sake. She did nothing wrong! She is dying and there is nothing I can do. That… bastard drained her lifeblood. He wanted us to watch h
Laura called him in the wee hours of the following morning. He almost couldn’t believe his eyes as the true caller on his phone identified the number. The call brought back the memory of the kiss they had shared and the messy feelings that seemed to take hold of him whenever he heard her name or that of anyone related to her. “Laura?” he called her name like a question. “You are…”“Awwn, isn’t this sweet?” everything stilled inside Damien as he heard Sky’s voice. Fuck it! He yelled in his mind, knowing immediately that damage had been done. If not, why would…Laura!“What have you done to her, Ulric?” Damien asked instantly.“Ulric? Who is that? There is only your buddy, Sky, here. Remember me?” Sky’s horrid tone said over the phone.Damien quelled all forms of imagination that wanted to come to his head about what could have happened to her as he said calmly “She has nothing to do with this. I thought you were said to be a wise man. Surely, you must know that she is a human and she i