Andreas' POV.-I step into the room grumpily and make quick stomps into the middle while listening to Dyrean's advancement behind me. Whipping around, we meet gazes and while I frown with agitation, he lets out a sigh of exasperation."What new business do you have with me this time? I thought you made it clear the last time?" I'm quick to challenge right away, raising my brows and my tone, apprehensive.Dyrean gives me a hurtful look but doesn't make to say anything yet. He relaxes back and exhales with his gaze drifting elsewhere. I watch him roll his shoulders gently and confusion seeps into me.Now that I give it a little thought, we've been apart for many centuries to get to know each other beyond the basics. For one, I didn't know him to ever raise his voice like he did the last time we met in a similar environment.My confusion mellows down as I see him regard me once more, now ready to give me answers. He says calmly, "Father sent his sentries to go find you, and what did yo
Sorah's POV.-Fretting pensively in my seat, fingers fumbling over tremoring thighs, respiration stuffy, and paranoia drenching down to the bones. I can't keep still, I'm too frazzled, and all I heard that vile Vampire spew, still plagues my mind like cancer.A soothing hand comes over my hand, giving me a jolt to look aside and see Mei with a rueful smile. She comforts me, "My Lady, please calm down. You don't need this for the baby, you need to breathe and relax.""Mei," But I can go no further. I feel tight and too tense as I lower my gaze and blink my eyes a couple of times.I was fine with whatever Andreas would do to me. My life has no meaning and doesn't warrant any devoted protection. I shouldn't matter any more than that other daughter of the Strauneuffs.Yet, I entered into a world I'd been so curious about, I made acquaintance with a being I should steer clear of, lights began to ignite in my bleak world, and now...my heart has grown selfish in forlorn."What's going on, w
Sorah's POV.-He can hear my thoughts!I blush sheepishly and blink my eyes lower. His chuckle comes again and I hear him continue to speak."We were peculiarly close when we were younger. Even though it's strange for us Vampires to display the slightest of affection."I lift my gaze slowly, the blush fading from my face and sheer curiosity taking over as I adjust my position to face him with interest."I can't bring myself to picture that irrational man as a good kid," I express honestly and pout. "He despises attachments."This is all from firsthand experience. But Dyrean gives me a subtle look that harmlessly tells me Andreas was indeed the otherwise. I flush deeply and he lowers his eyes to his slumbering son, weaving his long thin fingers through the boy's maroon short hair."You must know my kind is deficient in empathy. But there was a sole exception," He says calmly with what I recognize to be a doting expression on his face. "Our mother defied that norm and raised us with af
Sorah's POV.-"Your abusive husband?"My eyes grow wide with bewildering shock and I grab her hand in mine, squeezing tightly. I jitter with turmoil as she reclines while I pull her back to look at my displeasurably frowning face."Eliot hits you?" I inquire with keen bewilderment and she shudders and keeps her gaze away.Who would've ever thought Eliot Serhin has such a disgusting personality? This was never featured in the News. But of course, it wouldn't when he comes from such an influential family. I'll need to try and dig answers out of her somehow. I grab her shoulders to compel her to face me but, she starts to speak suddenly."I guess I wasn't what he wanted," She exhales solemnly. "He made that point clear each time he swung at me."She looks into my wide eyes directly as she rasps, "I wasn't as beautiful as you are."Why that- I clench my teeth, flummoxed. My face flames up and Stella gives a short laugh. Staring at my face, she makes a smile I've never seen before. "Ste
Sorah's POV.- I remain standing in shock, with eyes wide and resisting to believe the event just now. No matter how I remain to stare out the gaping hole, those crimsons don't surface and neither does his taunting presence. "You did plead you wanted him to go away."A voice chimes into my mind and I make a turn to see Dyrean walking up to me casually. He's so repaired now that it's hard to believe he was a participant in the scuffle minutes ago.Stella makes a frown at me, also stepping up to meet me as she disregards, "You can't possibly feel sympathy for that thing, do you? I won't let you be hypnotized by his scheming again."His scheming...is that why I keep defying my resolve and hastening to him like an idiot from the slight weakness he demonstrates?His parting words repeat across my mind, in its echoes, crumpling my heart bitterly. It's a painful realization that I might truly be handicapped without him."How you've come to feel so deeply for Andreas is beyond me, Lady Sora
Sorah's POV.-"You're the most gullible and blindly-trusting fool I've ever come across."And my heart shatters to dust.After hearing what she had said to Stella, I thought I could stomach it all and confront her to find out the truth about our friendship. After all, she's been the only other person in my life for years aside from Mei. Mortiz represents so much in my life; my strength, my fight, my hope, and lots more. I could never do without her in my life.And that is what has cost me the most now. How can I trust someone other than Mei so foolishly? Where has Mortiz been in my strife during my stay at the Claudes? Where has she been in my peril after I fled for my life?To easily discard all we shared just like this...I regret it all for it hurts ten times worse than I thought I could handle."Does it hurt that much?" She sneers. "I've never for once thought of you as anything close to a friend; you're not worth it at all. I just pitied you, lonely dying thing- Ah!"Her sneerin
Sorah's POV.-"You belong only to me."What a thing to say. Staring down at me with shoulders high and void belittling eyes. His nonchalant countenance makes me stir with intense irritation. And I scoff. Bitterly.I spew my words through fastening jaws with a scowl distorting my facial muscles. "You own nothing of me, Andreas," I fearlessly step forward and stab my right index into the middle of his chest to emphasize my words."How dare you think you've got any right to exercise upon me after committing such a heinous crime against me?" My voice stutters, picking up my rioting emotions as I continue to reiterate my finger stabs against his chest."You..." I exasperate with hot tears swarming my eyes and limbs already trembling. "You took everything I had away...he was all I lived for. My baby was all the hope to keep me going!"My fierce stabs morph into pounding fists as my emotions consume me with contempt towards the heartless Vampire quietly withstanding my outlandish spurt of p
Sorah’s POV-“Tell me, Andreas,” I stand before him now with wild eyes. “Do I still stir an appetite in your filthy guts?”The others keep away as I plant a defiant front before the crimson-eyed Vampire who has plagued my life. My crazy eyes search his with a smirk-smile. His orbs are cool and condescending; the very look I averse the most from him.How he manages to keep calm and without the slightest of guilt for what he’s done to me...I hate to only realize it now the longer I discover the jarring depth of his savagery. Just as Dyrean warned and tried to protect me, Andreas is nothing but a heartless monster.The corner of his bloody lips twitches to rise in a smirk that livens the rest of his face into a callous expression. He turns fully to me, his towering frame hovering over me with intentional intimidation encasing his form. I gulp and step back from his slow but haunting advancement in his overt quest to oppress me.“Why, you’ve still got some juices left in you t