“If we don’t pay the bills, we’ll end up losing our home!” Sofia’s voice tightened in her throat. “Our mansion that has been passed down for generations will go into a stranger’s hands!”“So what?” Narika indifferently snorted. “Why should I care, huh? You’ve also spent a lot of money in Carlos’ name even after he ran out of the mansion, didn’t you? You tried to push him into the debts. Now, you’re just reaping what you’ve sown, Sis. Carlos didn’t do it till now because he must have been waiting for this day to properly make you pay, and what better way than to make the banks kick you out of the mansion where all his bad memories lie? I can’t help but praise him this time. He’s finally doing something that he should have done long ago.”“Narika!” Sofia went for a slap, but Narika caught her wrist like it was nothing. “A-Are you out of your mind? Why are you talking like this?”“I know why you four are here,” Narika looked into her sister’s eyes. “I sold my shares for a good price a we
“Attack him!” Thomas howled. All the vampires swarmed onto Carlos with supreme confidence.Carlos played a video clip on his mobile.“Grandpa!” A college girl and a boy were crying in the video. It was Thomas’ grandchildren.“Stop!” Thomas howled even more loudly than the last time. “Stop! Get back!”All the vampires had to move back and make room.“They’re innocent,” Thomas' face showed worry. “They’re not even vampires. I adopted them because I needed an heir. Don’t bring them into this.”“I have no intention of harming them, Thomas,” Carlos put the mobile back in his pocket. “As long as you cooperate, your grandchildren will be sent right back to your house, without even a hair harmed.”“Cooperate? With that?”“What else? Fighting the Slaughter Squad,” Carlos was pretty frank about it.Thomas forced out a laugh. “Are you fucking crazy? We can’t beat them. My creed members aren’t weak, but the Slaughter Squad are trained killers. We won’t stand a chance against them, especially when
Gregory met Charles in his villa’s grounds. Gregory expressed his condolences for his destroyed building, especially because Charles didn’t even have residential insurance for it.Gregory asked Charles to help him play some poker games and win him some prestige and money. Charles agreed to help. They went to the Origins casino together and played for an entire day. Charles didn’t directly play, but he just supported Gregory instead.And Charles made sure to confuse Gregory so that he would lose his money while making it look like all this happened because Gregory couldn’t follow Charles’ advice properly.In the end, Gregory lost 9 million dollars in a day, and his hands began to shake as he walked out of the casino with Charles.“If I tell Victoria that I lost almost ten million dollars in a day, she’s going to kill me,” Gregory’s heart was not in his control. He turned to Charles and requested, “Please give me twenty million. I’ll make sure to pay you with interest in a month or two.
The stress made Victoria hate everything. Whether it’s the food that Cassey made, or the noises that the squirrels made in the garden, nothing pleased her. Not only did she scold Cassey, she also told the maid to kill the squirrels.Her exact words were this: I want them on my dinner plate tonight!Cassey had done many things in the past that she couldn’t be proud of, so killing a bunch of squirrels shouldn’t be a difficult job for her, but she had fed these little animals a few times, so when they came running to the bowl of gooseberries, she couldn’t catch them, knowing that Victoria would happily eat them for dinner.Instead, she gave them extra food so they would hide in their homes and wouldn’t come outside for a while. This was the best she could do.As she was coming back into the house, Marlon was leaving the house with a luggage trolley in his hand.“Are you going on a trip?” Cassey asked him without calling him ‘young master’ or ‘sir.’ “Did you tell your mother?”“Do I need
Marlon was one of the biggest cowards that Carlos had seen in his life so far. Marlon would always listen to his parents and elder sister so much so it would make others wonder if he’ll lick their boots if only they were to ask him.Marlon and Carlos didn’t have any particular enmity between them in the beginning, but Marlon still mocked and attacked Carlos in front of his family members, probably just to make himself feel safer by taking the side of his family.All of that was forgivable, but then Marlon joined his dad and Andres to beat Carlos and played a part in breaking his knees.Carlos’ body still remembered the hits he received while lying on the floor. Even though he begged them to stop, the three of them didn’t show any mercy. Narika wasn’t present back then, but Sofia and Victoria were watching everything with eyes full of happiness as if Carlos deserved everything he got.Currently, Marlon waited outside the gate.“Where is this Charles?” he had already searched inside and
A few minutes after Marlon left, Charles settled down at his tent. It was getting dark, and the mosquitoes were in the air.But they didn’t bother Charles, as if they could smell something wrong from him. He tried talking with mosquitoes, wondering if it’d work or not, and to his shock, the mosquitoes aligned in a big mosquito shape.“No way…” he covered his mouth in astonishment. “Is this my ability to control their minds? I’m able to do it very freely now.”His ears heard the noise of a vehicle stopped at the entrance.“Who is it this time?” Charles wondered, and his nose already caught the smell of the person the moment they opened the car’s door. “Laurel?” he hurriedly ran to the back of the tent and hid himself there. “I don’t want to meet her now.”Laurel entered through the gate and came toward the tent, calling Charles name loudly, showing that she was feeling a bit tense because it was getting dark and the eerie view of the collapsed building didn’t help her confidence, eithe
The bright moon toured the dark sky, making waves as this magnificent luminary always did.Laurel sat in the tent house. It was getting cold outside as the loving silvery light of the moon did its magic, so she closed up the tent and slept.Charles, on the other hand, sat behind the tent with a wine bottle in hand. Another curse of being a vampire was the natural resistance against intoxication toward alcohol. So, even though Charles drank the whole bottle of concentrated wine, it didn’t do any good.The moon’s reflection bore into his eyes; waves of emotions ebbed and flowed in his heart like how it would happen to the sea that the moon would look upon every night.Charles mobile started vibrating at some point. It was probably Marlon calling.He answered the call. “Hello, who is this?”“Your brother-in-law,” Marlon’s voice was rather soft.“My brother-in-law? I don’t have one though,” Charles said, speaking in his natural Carlos’ voice.“I’m Marlon talking.”“Oh… yeah, right. You ex
Caroline came to Laurel’s room, and the entire room looked messy just like her thoughts. Laurel was lying on the bed face-down.Caroline sat down on the bed and put her hand on Laurel’s shoulder. She wanted to warn Laurel, but after seeing her so depressed, she changed her mind.“If you fly two kites that look the same, they don’t fly the same way, Laurel,” Caroline said. “Every kite is different. Every heart is different. Charles called me and told me about his health. Most men wouldn’t have been honest like him and would have just married you so they could live a luxurious life with the Bisconsleys, but Charles was different. Perhaps, he also loved you, and so couldn’t think about marrying you after knowing that he wouldn’t be able to become a father.”Laurel didn’t say anything but just sniffled.“He’s the only man you liked at first sight,” Caroline’s mouth turned down. “First love is hard to forget. I’m sorry for pushing you to love him. If I had any idea that things would turn o