Lucian Morningstar

HER CURIOUSITY!

“Helio Alexander Vlad Draco! What did I say you should do?” Kathy went after Helio who was frightened to his bones and hiding behind the curtains with his hands over his mouth.

“Aunty I am all set” came the sweet voice from behind her

“Oh! you are so sweet Felix, standby and let me deal with that no good Helio, I told him since yesterday to get ready but I came in here and he has been sleeping since morning doing nothing” Kathy looked really agitated and ready to punish Helio, so Felix decided to help out;

“Aunty! Why don’t you forgive him, I am sure he is sorry, I will help him get ready in the next five minutes he will be set, trust me.” Felix voice was as sweet as he looked so Kathy gave in to him.

“Aww that’s so sweet of you tiny!” she ruffled his curly hair

The house felt so empty after Kathy and the kids were about to leave the castle. Lilith wasn’t coming along as per Lucian’s orders. He said after the meeting at the towns square he will get Lilith from the castle and leave for the vacation home. So Kathy wasn’t very concerned about Lilith, she opened the portal and allowed the kids one after the other to pass through the portal, after which she entered and closed the portal.

Lilith got dressed in the short flare gown Kathy had dropped for her on the bed and roamed around the room alone, going through Lucians library and antiques. She was fascinated by the quality of his choice in literature and artwork. When she was bored, she picked up the book she was reading just the other night and continued reading it dedicatedly without any distraction. After she was done with the book and Lucian wasn’t back yet she decided to go for a walk round the castle. She roamed around the hall ways without going into anyone’s room, she knew better to respect people’s privacy, so she didn’t invade. She simply just admired the artwork used in creating a more advance castle. When she was done, she found herself looking around blankly at the reception area downstairs. She returned to her senses at the sound of the clock and mumbled to herself;

“What is wrong with me?” she turned to leave when something caught her attention, it was something on the ground that glittered from the light reflection coming from outside. It seemed it was partially covered with the rug, she moved closer to it tactfully and gradually opened it. She found the glittering thing to be an underground door. She opened it and walked through it, by taking careful steps until she found herself in a passage she walked through the passage looking at the locked doors, until she finally came across an open door, she entered inside the library and found so many books on the shelf. Lilith went round the library looking at all the books in astonishment and wondering to herself what the people in this castle want with so many books. Until one book in particular kept on a bookstand picked her interest. It reads;

“Dracula’s mystic!” she was confused, after all that was the book that got mister Bart Dion captured here in Hems-Ville, so why is it here in their library. She thought to herself. For historical purposes?’ she doubts that was the case, she simply relaxed her muscles and dropped the book back on the stand. She turned to leave when she heard a screech coming from one of the locked chambers. She searched for where the cry was coming from until she found the room. She opened the door and saw a middle aged man. He was tight and crying in anguish. Looking at him she had pity for him. she quickly started untying the man and apologizing to him.

“I am so sorry sir! Who did this to you?” the man couldn’t answer, he was just roaring like a wild animal.     

“Don’t worry I will soon untie you!” she said to him, but the man pushed her away and wagged his head to her as a sign of disapproval.

“No! …” the man screamed with all his might.

   “Stay away from me! The transformation is excruciating!” Lilith looked puzzled. She was very disappointed at the Draco’s without hearing the complete story of how the man got to be locked up in that room. All she wanted to do at that point was to rescue the man and to tell Lucian a piece of her mind even though she was a prisoner.

“Who are you sire? And what are you doing here?” she asked curiously with determined eyes. The man was panting and trying to get a clear vision of the woman standing in front of him.

“I am- I am- Mister Bart… Dion!” she stood still for a while trying to process what the man had just said to her in his mind after a while of thinking she remember the name and her eyes shot wide open in astonishment. She was confused as to what the man was doing in the underground building of the Draco’s. she thought that according to what she was told he was supposed to be in prison with the others she saw the last time Lucian took her to the prison cell rooms were offenders were kept.

“What!” she screamed, yelled by his response. She attempted going close to him to untie him once again but he pushed her away. she fell to the ground and stared at the man for a while, ‘why would he push me away when I am trying to help him!’ she mentally asked herself as she gradually stood from the ground.

“Are you crazy? do you think this is a joke? I said to stay away from me” his eyes turned glowing sea green and remained in place for a while. She didn’t give attention to the fact that his eyes turned glowing sea green for a while. In her mind she thought it was simply the flash of the light. she stopped trying to lose him and started with the questions again;

“But you are the writer of Dracula’s mystic! Everyone thought you were held captive here for the book you wrote” the man creased his browse in pain and whimpered.

“That’s what most people think but there’s more to it!” the man turned and looked outside through the small window opening and it was getting dark. He turned to look at her and his eyes were completely green this time around.

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“I have told you all, that there’s no way that my grandchild will attack Hems- Ville the land built with hard work by his predecessors!” Killian yelled in the hall and slammed his hand angrily on the round table. Vlad was just seated leisurely on a throne chair by the round table looking at the elders unfazed, he turned to the others after Killian slammed his hand on the table and said;

“The last time my grand-grandson’s girlfriend was attacked by the Baldovino’s! I only have one thing to say and that is the next time any of you will attempt the life of one of my family members…” he stood up and paired into each person’s eyes there and said;

“I need not say much!” Vlad turned his eyes away. the next minute Jaden barged into the meeting hall and slammed both his hands on the table yelling angrily;

“Who amongst you old geezers have bitten Mister Bart?” he perused into their eyes with fury and a feminine voice echoed in the dark;

“I did!” the feminine voice made herself visible by coming out of the dark corner. With each step the sound of her high heels ‘click-clack’ echoed.

“Hello! Brother in-law, still trying to maintain the peace from the sides… and yet no credit is awarded to you?” the sound of her voice built up fury in Jaden that it took him all his restrain to keep his anger in check.

Why did you do that?” he asked simply but even from the tone of his voice it was obvious that he had pent up fury.

“For fun?” she opens her hands and then cackled

“Come on brother-in-law!” she observes his temperament before she replied again;

“He was trying to escape the border with a stolen item, so I had to do what I had to do, why else would I attack him?” she was looking at him in a daunting manner, meanwhile Jaden was already provoked by her. He clutched his hands and was already trembling with anger inside of him.

“And you left him there for…?” he asked further as he marched towards her.

“Well! For you to clean up brother in-law! What else is your duty Mister Jaden Vlad Draco.” she provoked him further with her sardonic smile and annoying response.

“The nerve of the b***h!” Killian murmured.