MATTEO RODRIGUEZMatteo Rodriguez has just gotten back from his morning exercise. His body dripped of sweat and smelt of fresh leaves and of woods. He marched straight to the fridge and grabbed a sachet of packaged blood. He tore it open with one bite and gulped the whole content at a go. He wheezed out air and hissed noisily with a squeezed face. There was nothing better than drinking human blood.For some years now, the vampires have stayed hidden after been hunted down by the humans. Now they mostly fed on packaged blood gotten from animals. He feared he might not have been able to control the desire to taste a human blood if he had come in contact with one as he trained that morning as his recent craving for human blood had gotten quite desperate in the past few days.Animal blood tastes like shit to him if not to all vampires. He was just about to head into the bathroom to wash up when the doorbell rang.He groaned, turned to go get the door.He peeped through the camera as he go
Eleanor broke into a full run after she got out of the hospital. The thought of having her family see her as a monster broke her heart. She thought of going to Elisa but her head wasn’t having it. She couldn’t afford to hurt another person. She wanted to be away from everyone and alone. And so she ran, breathlessly down the street. Even as she ran, the restlessness she felt kept tugging at her chest. She kept having this feeling of a being in her but she strongly shut her head against it.She screeched to a stop at a convenience store, dashed in and grabbed a bottled water from the display shelf and walked to the sales counter. She noticed the moment she stepped into the place and headed for the water section, she got unusual stares from people also buying stuff. Eleanor ignored them, she has had a lot for the day to care about people’s stupid stares.She grabbed the water and walked down to the sales counter.“Here.” she dropped the water on the counter and waited for the lady to sca
“Dad, Uncle Bob…” Howard called quietly after Eleanor had left the ward.“Yes Howard. Do you feel any pain in any part of your body or do I just call the doctor?” Dad asked him worriedly.Howard nodded no and then kept mute. He was wondering if he should spill what he saw and knew or not. His only sister now feared him. The flash of what her eyes had looked like seconds before she pushed him flashed in his head. It was like a sparkling fire. He had never seen his sister act so strange and unusual. But then he worried that telling their dad and uncle could cause more trouble for her.“You must speak to save her, what if she is sick or in trouble…what if she hurts someone else out there…you must speak to save her…” another voice told him.He groaned.“Howard? are you sure you don’t need the doctor?”“Eleanor is behaving strange….and different…” he blurted.His dad and uncle squinted in confusion at him. “What do you mean by strange?” uncle Bob asked curiously.“I can’t really say but th
ELEANOR’S POV I heard Elisa’s last words to me as I parted with her. I was angry, mad but above all sad that my trusted friend had been lying to me all along. She must be shameless to have brought my family into this. I wasn’t going to ask dad anything. Hurting Howard was enough and I am not willing to make them distrust me further. “Eleanor…you have been a fool all along…” I muttered sadly to myself. In all these, tears refused to drop from my eyes. I was just walking with nowhere in mind as my direction. I felt my shoulder brush past people but I neither knew what they looked like nor when they passed as I felt only numbness. “Listen to your friend. She might have hurt you but you don’t think she would ever lie to you with your family…” a voice said within me. It was that strange tiny voice in me again, always sounding as if it was part of me, as though it knew anything about me. I grounded my teeth and forced myself to not hear the voice. “Aren’t you ever curious why you grew u
HOURS BACKLucas stood in his favorite spot, behind the window whose blinds have been drawn away and gazed out of the window down the street. He let the time tick in his head as he waited for his two most trusted people to arrive. It was finally time he told them everything as he had promised. The other day he had gone and confirmed that truly the Crescent pack exists.Moments later, he heard the sound of their shoes accompanied by their bickering. He had left the door open knowing they would soon arrive.“So, what is this you have to tell us?” Fabiano asked as he turned one of the seats around to face the direction Lucas was facing and then slumped into it. “Ooof! I still have another shift to run in an hour’s time.”“Baby,” Lauretha crept up behind him and whispered. She planted a kiss on his cheeks. “So…what is it you have for us?”He turned to face them, then to Fabiano he said specifically, “You certainly would lose interest in that job of yours after you heard all I have to say.
Eleanor stirred and slowly her eyes began to squint open. Everything seem blurry as she tries to force herself to wake.“I should be dead…where am I? heaven or what…” the question rang in her.She remembers while she schooled abroad how some religious teachers made mention of a dead person waking up either in paradise or somewhere they call hell. That moment, Eleanor couldn’t tell which one she has managed to find herself in. She did a few bad things and maybe didn’t deserve the paradise but why wasn’t she feeling pain and being burned in some fiery fire? She felt warm, peace, quietness and even the breeze blowing her skin.Her eyes heavy at first, but gradually she forced it open. It was met with a tall figure that had his back turned against her. He seemed to be busy staring ahead into what she couldn’t see.Eleanor blinked. She tried to sit up and scan where she was but felt a sharp pain around her neck and body. She bit her lips to muffle back the groans that made to leave her lip
ARTHUR’S POVAre humans always this weak?I mean I had always known they were weaklings but I had no idea it would be this terrible. I stared at the unconscious body of the human girl, much to my detest, my mate now and exhaled with irritation.I sighed and sat beside her. The rest of my life was going to be a long one. Mated to the one with the blood I hate with my whole life.FLASHBACKAfter my annoying cousin, Maxwell had left, I angrily left the house hoping to die where no one would ever find my carcass. As I walked, I felt an energy that something bad would happen to my mate. I don’t care about her one bit and so I ignored the feeling and walked on. But the warning became stronger so much that I could not focus nor continue in my journey. I knew it was only a matter of time before the full moon appeared and also my death. That is if the curse would happen. Going to save her would mean me accepting our mate bond. Something I would never do.But then the force got stronger and str
Maxwell, accompanied by his parents, Mr and Ms Jo with some of the elders of the pack on his side storms Arthur’s house.“Maxwell is here, where the fuvk are you Arthur…” Dennis growled within him. He and Jeremy was in Arthur’s living room. While he paced around worriedly, Jeremy stood motionless at a spot. His face held nothing but fear. Fear that the curse has finally happened and the Alpha of Crescent Moon pack, dead. They had ransacked every nook and corner of his house in search of him but found nothing. Even his phone was left lying on his bed. Arthur left them no clue, no nothing and it frustrated them.Dennis stopped abruptly and turned towards Jeremy. “Can you reach him now? I feel my power is not strong enough to reach him. He must be far away…”He had mind-linked Arthur several times but felt no connection.Jeremy stood, mute. Uncertainty and fear grazed his eyes, visible enough to be seen by Dennis.Dennis heaved. “Don’t tell me you believe Arthur is really dead?” he ask