"You heard him right, my dear, Cecelia." claims the other wolf. "He is the owner of the club you used to spend a few nights with your friends."
"And also the reasons why we managed to know where your alpha dad lives," says Marcos. If he claims to be the owner of the club behind me, his name is Marcos. Whatever they want from me perhaps has something to do with my dad after knowing they are of the same kind; monsters. Alpha? Is that what they called my dad? But knowing about their connections with each other is the last of my worries at the moment. I still have my bleeding leg to attend to. I believe that if the wounds will not be cured as soon as possible, I might collapse or worse death await me. "Please, don't kill me," I beg them, then adjusted my body when my leg starts to get numbed. "If you need money, I'm so sorry, I didn't bring cash with me. How much do you want?" I try to reach for my sling bag but my hands could barely reach it because what my body could feel is the unbearable pain that I felt in my right leg. I simply wanted to get my bank card to give to them. "Your dad's head is what we want, Cecelia," Marcos said, his words stopped me halfway through getting my sling back. "Money is not the issue for me, and you know that." What? What does he have to do with dad's head? Did dad do something to them? "Those long curve lines written on your forehead tell me that you still don't know who your father really is. Of course, how could you know? You're a human and he is the alpha of his werewolf pack." "He's a monster, Cecelia." says the other wolf. "He killed my entire family. And to get him, we have to get to you first." "Then you have to get passed through me first." a familiar voice of a man suddenly appeared behind them. Despite the difficulty breathing, let alone the thought that my eyes were about to give up, my consciousness still managed to recognize the man's face. Gaius, my knight in shining armor. He then smiled at me. The wolves immediately turned around and faced Gaius. They barked at him in unison but Gaius remained calm and cool as though he does not possess any signs of worry or fear while staring at those glimmering blue eyes. "Open your eyes, Cecelia," he uttered. Perhaps he already noticed that my body is about to give up because of too much blood that was ejected out of my leg. "You'll gonna die if you close your eyes." Medically speaking, I don't know the connection between closing my eyes from dying, but I followed Gaius' advice. So I stayed my eyes open and saved my breath to wait for him to save me and rush me to the hospital. "I did not expect to have this in you attacking your avid customer, Marcos," he added. "If your werewolf kind had issues with her dad, do not use her to get to him. Is that how werewolf works these days?" From the way, my brain understand the situation, Gaius also recognized the owner of the club. Perhaps he is also one of them. Dad once told me to stay away from him because he has a secret that I should be worried about. "Stay away from this mess, Gaius. We know the curse system befallen in your vampire kinds." Marcos said before he turned his face back at me. What? Did he just say Gaius is a vampire? Does that mean dad is right about him? And what is this cursed system he was talking about? "We know you can't kill us," Marcos added before he ordered the other wolf to get me. "But, we can kill you." then he bends his knees and jumps on top of Gaius while the other wolf is rushing in my direction. My brain wanted to run but my body was no longer aligned to respond to my escape plan. The numbness that I felt had already reached my chest. And my entire body was feeling cold and wet in sweat. Perhaps this is a natural feeling when someone is about to die. To my surprise, the wolf who rushed in my direction was raised to the air when he was about to lay a hand on me. He was raised and attacked by those tiny bats. When I glance back at Gaius, I was taken aback when half of his body was fighting with Marcos with those tiny bats coming in and out of his body. I wanted to scream when the other wolf dropped its body next to me, heartless. However, my voice did not come out of my mouth. Instead, I only heard the whooshing sounds of cold air and a short whimper coming from my mouth. "Who says I cannot kill?" Gaius said to Marcos. "I just did to your cousin, Blake. It means that you are next." his body returned to its complete shape when the tiny bats went back to him. All the incident that happens today was too hard to bear. My feeble brain isn't prepared to learn and accept this kind of information as it was completely beyond the human imagination. I finally dropped half of my body to the ground. But I saw Gaius feeding his mouth with Marcos' heart in a rush as though he has not eaten in days. So, I close my eyes, trying to remove, delete, and reformat those terrible images that were captured and registered in my system. "Gaius, what are you doing? Stop it!" "Control your urge for blood. You already killed two. It's already two days' deduction from your lifeline." "Take her away from here. She's a human." "Dude, isn't she the woman in the club the other night Gaius wants to hit on?" Those were conversations coming from different male voices around me before one of them lifted my body and started moving. There were three of them excluding Gaius. Perhaps they were his friends of vampires. But where are they taking me? A few minutes later, the one carrying me set my body on a flat wooden surface. Someone began frisking my body, tearing my clothes apart. Wait. Are they going to take advantage of my dying body? Oh, my goodness. I haven't done that before yet the three of them are going to do that to me. Not one, but three. "Do have any idea what happens to Gaius?" one of them asks while putting pressure on my wounded leg. As far as my knowledge serves me right, he is cleaning and sewing up my wound. "Beat me." the one with a sweet and gentle voice retorted. "does any of you craved blood recently?" "Not me." says the one who is sewing my wound. "we have experienced a shortage of blood in our fridge only once or twice, remember?" "It was because I tasted Cecelia's blood on our first meeting back in the club." my ears were pretty sure that voice comes from Gaius. "I don't know how, but there is something in her blood that awakens my sleeping vampire. Everything activated all of a sudden including my thirst for blood. There is this part of me that wants more of her blood. I want to suck all her blood until nothing is left..." Gaius' voice started to fade off. And my brain was also feeling deprived of the power of sensation. I don't know what happened but I guess it has something to do with the one injecting something into my shoulder. "Get some rest, my dear, Cecelia." says the one next to me. And I don't seem to like the way he let out those words.Gaius POV "So, what now?" Monbert asked me after patching Cecelia's deep wounds before he slides into my spot in the corner. He securely cleaned and removed every trace of her blood from the coffin to make sure my nose could sniff nothing. Yet here I am helplessly staring at my wrist when it glimmered. My lifeline has been deducted by two days after killing Marcos and his cousin. And the fact that it took me a few days to save 48 hours of my lifeline, I started to regret I let my thirst for blood precede the sole purpose of the Cursed System. "The damage has been done, Monbert." could not help but eject the cold air of regrets out of my nose and mouth. "I have to find the solution to my case as soon as possible. Alone and before everything I worked for go to waste." "Do you need to borrow lifeline from us?" Monbert humbly offered. He even extended his wrist to me without any signs of hesitation. "I can lend you at least two hours." "No, I can't lend
"What?" could not help my forehead from frowning at what she said. She is flipping over the story as far as I understand the current situation. My feet landed in their mansion unannounced simply because I want to return her daughter and collect the two days of my lifeline that was deducted from my barcode for killing Marcos and his cousin for her sake. Is her mother for real? Even if Cecelia is her daughter, she must show some respect for bringing her to the mansion alive even if unannounced. A simple "Thank you" would do for me, not with some kind of threat to get sued. "My husband is in critical condition after the ambush," she confessed. "but our expert doctors and nurses managed to remove the bullets from his body. And he is in the middle of recovery." "What?" my mouth remained open. I heard an explosion last night. But I did not see Cecelia's dad in the car when I decided to cancel our mission and hop out of the building when I saw Cecelia being chased by tw
"I'll take it." before Celcelia's mom could say a word, I snatched the briefcase from her hands, close it, then smiled at them. "I hope this gonna be the last time our paths cross. Thank you so much, for this, Madam Mayor." Afterward, I hail a cab heading back to the bunker. I cannot transform myself into a bat when the sun was already up. Bats are more sensitive to the sun than the moon. But I haven't tried shifting into a bat beyond six in the morning though. I wanted to at least try for once but I am worried my bats might get burned from the rays of the sun. Even if I have a daylight ring that protects my vampire from the heat of the sun, it is still not an assurance since my body will be divided into pieces when I shift into tiny bats. On my way to the bunker, my brain could not help but wonder about Cecelia. Although I already agreed not to see her again, I could not help my brain from reminiscing about the short period we shared. Let alone the mystery
While the rest of the guardians are busy reporting to the council about their month, our team is also busy discussing what the news Damon brought for us. "Do you think it has something to do with our last mission?" asks Rust in a worried tone. "You're considering it too?" Lucifer seconded Rust's idea before he pointed his blaming glimpse at me. Guilty or not, I am the one indeed to blame if what they claim is the same news Damon referring to. But failing one mission is not enough for the council to punish us with something big. After all, team New Orleans has managed to accomplish ninety-nine out of the hundred missions successfully. "Come on, guys, relax your balls, okay?" Monbert tapped the tip of my shoulder to help me ease my hatred and anger toward Lucifer. "No one knows we failed our last mission unless one of us..." "Not me," Rust defensively whispered when our eyes were locked on him. "And why would I ruin my reputation as the King's nephew
Then, he opens the briefcase to take a look at what he can find inside. His glimmering eyes and jaws being open wide only prove that he just hit the jackpot. Who could not be? I patiently counted all the money that I saved for almost eighty years including the ten million dollars Madam Mayor gave me. Overall, the money in the two briefcases totaled forty-eight million dollars. Even with the two of them, the robbers could leave already. But I think they are up for something bigger. A bank always has money reserved in its vaults. "Who could have thought we could meet someone as rich as you, young man," he added before he ordered me to drop my knees on the floor. Then, he continued asking for the rest of the customers. Speaking of the customers, there were around fifteen of them including us. Mathematically, if I manage to save all of them, I could have at least fifteen more hours increase to my lifeline. Let alone the bank employees. Not bad when my vampire ba
As soon as my foot landed at the crime scene, my nose immediately smells the blood that stained the surface of the ground. Though I am not quite sure where it comes from when I could sniff two different types of blood all over the place. One comes from a man and the other is from a woman. "Help!" Someone seeks help. So, I followed the source of the faint sound. After two months of not being able to taste human blood or not seeing Cecelia, all my abilities started to go dormant again. Not that I don't want to, but my demon blood is not used to it since, especially when I no longer have a team to depend on. I need to survive alone. But in order to do that, I have to be strong. As soon as I found someone's body lying on the ground, I shifted my head in the other direction and calm my throat not to get a thirst for blood. "Help me, please," he added. "I don't want to die." I could not help myself from looking at the man when he is the first person I encountered to say that. Most
"Can't you guys hear me?" Maverick insisted. "You two have huge bodies but you can't hear me?" "I see." I inhaled deeply before smiling at them. "They cannot hear you, Maverick. How about I say, then you do what I ask?" We don't have much time left when the time clock above us says it's almost dawn. And in a few hours, the sun will rise. Since I started living in a condo, my body also adopted the nature of a true vampire who loves to sleep in the daytime. With the help of the air conditioner in the room, my body sleeps faster than I used to back in the bunker. And speaking of the bunker, that makes me wonder about what my previous team is doing at the moment. If by chance there were all out tonight and doing their humanitarian mission like me. Don't even know if the council still assigned them in New Orleans. But that is not one of my worries anymore. I have someone's fiancee inside the club who was reported to be someone dangerous. If something goes wrong, it
Cecelia's freezing stare cut deep down beneath my heart and soul. I did not expect to receive such a cold welcome after two months of not seeing each other. It was also the first time I caught up a glimpse of her terrified me. Perhaps her parents have something to do with it considering they forbade me to get closer to her at least meters from her. Needless to say, I accepted the ten million dollars offered by her mom but I could not uphold the terms and conditions. Leaving no choice, I reached out to the door and pulled it open. "Gaius?" an unfamiliar face suddenly breathed out my name as I was about to get back to the table where Ceceli's friends are having fun. "Right. You're Gaius the one who beat those bank robbers, aren't you?" She and her friends immediately surrounded me out of curiosity. I know nothing about any of them but their eyes are telling me that they will not let me go if they got nothing from me. Despite those wasted humans surrounding me,