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The next morning.Rebecca was walking in the garden, instead of going out for a walk because of all the things that had happened the last time she had gone out.Veronica accompanied her, but her body language showed that she wasn’t interested at all. She was only doing it for the sake of giving company to her sister and was also making sure Rebecca wouldn’t go out.“Is it necessary to get up early and exercise?” Veronica asked.“If you get lazy, you get fat, and if you get fat, your brain doesn’t get the right amount of oxygen,” Rebecca said, “and that’ll affect your thinking. But if you exercise, then it’ll reduce the stress and also improve blood oxygen levels.”“Reducing the stress, huh…” Veronica slightly smiled. “I guess you’re finally thinking of moving on?”“Moving on?” Rebecca didn’t like that phrasing of words. “What the heck is wrong with you?”“What?” Veronica’s heart skipped a beat. “Did I say something wrong?”Rebecca shook her head, not even bothering to reply.“I said i
The vampires Denise, Cranston, and Zakaria were among the few that had managed to get back to the main world with their lives intact.It was all thanks to Denise’s ability to cloak themselves and using a cloud to travel faster in the sky. And they eventually reached one of the most popular vampire underground cities, Shambol.But they weren’t allowed entrance yet, so they were waiting outside at the bar, drinking on the rooftop.Zakaria looked the dullest among the three because he lost all confidence after his trip to the moonless kingdom.“Crossing the Cronos Sea was dangerous as hell,” Cranston, however, was living the moment by eating and drinking to his heart’s content. “And then we flew over the fallen Atlantis continent, which was the creepiest thing ever, with those cyclops, snake, and monster fish statues. What were those things all about? I lost my appetite from watching all those things that appeared as if they were looking right at us, and I couldn’t eat anything during th
Denise and others were allowed entrance into the city of vampires, which was really big as a city with a domed ceiling that was thousands of feet high from the ground level.The city wasn’t in as bad shape as they thought it would be, but there were clear signs of battle near the border, which led them to believe that the rumors did have some truth to them.They were taken to the Lord’s tower that was in the center of the city.On the top floor, the lord of the city, Vril, was sitting on his throne in the shadows. Just his presence was domineering, and it made Cranston and Zakaria sweat. They dared not to lift their heads. Along with Denise, they kneeled and greeted him, “Lord Vril, thank you for letting us into your city.”“Denise Egor…” Vril had his head resting on his right fist. “What is one of the dragons of Torn doing here with the ancient weapon Mind Cube that’s supposed to be in the vampire king’s repository? What kind of shit are you trying to pull?”“I-I heard that this cube
Rebecca was eating alone in her villa. She was drawing shapes in the rice with her finger.Louis and Bella were watching from the first floor’s balcony. “Look at her getting lost while eating… When are you going to tell her?” Bella pinched his forearm. “She needs to know that Benjamin is most likely alive.”“I told you already that it does more harm than good if we tell her that,” Louis retorted.Rebecca drew the crescent moon shape, and it made her remember the time when she was looking at the beautiful full moon from the rooftop a few months ago, and Benjamin mimicked her by doing the same from the first floor’s balcony, but he was also looking at her often.“Why are you looking at me more than you look at the moon?” she asked, annoyedly.“If you look at the moon, you will have looked at the whole world,” Benjamin said, smiling, “but if I look at you, I will have looked at my whole world.”“H-Huh?” Rebecca didn’t quite understand the meaning behind his words. “You sure know how to r
Veronica joined Rebecca during lunch, but she was still angry because of what Rebecca had said the other day, so she didn’t talk with her.However, Rebecca herself started the conversation. “I get that you want to help me, Veronica, but I’m not stressed to the point I don’t know what I’m doing. To me, Benjamin can’t be replaced by anyone. He wasn’t just a handsome man. He was the sweetest soul I’ve ever met. His passing away left a gaping hole in my heart. And the rest of it is in a million pieces. The way he died makes no sense, and it hurts me even more. I wish I was able to do something. I wish I had done some things sooner. I’m fighting with my own guilt right now. It won’t go away just because I date some new guy. I don’t want my pain to go away like that, either.”“...So you want to keep hurting like this?” Veronica asked. “Do you think that makes sense? Do you remember this? Not long ago, during one of the nights, I was sleeping in your room. You woke up at 2 AM and started pr
It wasn’t just Denise but Zakaria and Cranston also froze completely after Emmanuel and Jezz Bell slightly released their aura.(I heard recently that these two were artificially created purebloods…) Denise frowned. (But the energy they’re giving off is no joke. It’s as if they wouldn’t lose to Vril, the king of Shambol. There’s no way I can fight even one of them, let alone two.)“You are the infamous pharmacist, Dust Egor,” Emmanuel purposely teased her, “or was it Dung Egor? Whatever it is, you sure are stupid for thinking you can get away with it after stealing the mind cube.”Denise frowned. (Shit. Are they here for the mind cube? I’m sure nobody saw when I stole it. I erased all the tracks, too. How the hell did they know?)“I can hear the gears in your head turning, bitch,” Jezz Bell’s voice was cold. “Don’t think of anything funny, and tell us where you hid it.”“I-I’ll take you to where it is,” Denise said. She didn’t want them to know that the Mind Cube was with the king of
Zakaria wanted to kill both Louis and Bella, but they were able to hold their ground against him.“Let’s go,” Cranston said and left the scene.“Tsk, consider yourselves lucky, crooks,” Zakaria blurted before turning into a blur and vanishing from their sight.Louis looked at Bella, whose hand was darkened because of blocking Zakaria’s technique. “He must have coated his nails with some kind of poison, that bastard.” Judging by how it managed to paralyze Bella’s arm, it was no ordinary poison. “We were able to stop him from stealing our life span, but if those guys come again, we’ll be doomed.”“I think one of us should take Rebecca to a safer place, somewhere no one can follow us,” Bella suggested.“Why would Rebecca come with me?” Louis asked.“She won’t. That’s why you should take her when she’s unconscious,” Bella said.“Let’s say I took her away from here, and those three vampires returned to this villa,” Louis said. “What then? In the best case scenario, they’re going to take yo
A few hours later.Night has fallen. Akash was sitting outside the room Veronica was in because he was not being let inside. He looked very dull because his parents were kidnapped, and his wife had fallen sick.“The doctor who said he’d come in the evening hasn’t come yet,” Elizabeth frustratedly said. “He must have been threatened by Andrew. Otherwise, he would have come.” While the others were silent, she was the only one yelling in the room.Selena, on the other hand, called Brian and asked him to send a trustworthy doctor.Brian said he would.Lisa and Roshan were watching television in the hall. Even though they didn’t put loud volume, Elizabeth scolded them and told them to go to their rooms. And they did.About an hour later.A new doctor came to the sterling villa. Brian personally brought him. Louis was standing at the gate. After Brian and the doctor went inside, Bella was coming out in a car, with her children unconscious in the back.She stopped at the gate and said, “You