Lucian Morningstar

REGRETS!

The bar was packed with people and little chatters here and there could be heard. The bar tender for the day was Alisha. Although she rarely talks, she has been doing her best to chit chat with Lucian seeing that he was down. Lucian was gulping down vampire mix Hennessy. The strongest Hennessy mix specially for vampires. He has been drowning himself in alcohol since that day. Not that it helps as it would for regular vamps, Lucian is no regular vampire. 

 He couldn't stop thinking about Lilith and how sad she looked. To make thinks even more unbearable for his heart the fact that he caused her pain continuously pricked his heart. He had a feeling deep in his guts that something was not right. But he had no idea what it was. He didn't want to check at Lilith's apartment for fear that he might do something really foolish. So instead he sent Argo that morning to check up on her. Since then Argo hasn't return and he has been growing impatient. Lucian creased his browse while looking at the clock, he griped the tumbler in his hands tightly and growled until it shattered in his grips. He stood up and dashed outside before an eye could even catch a glimpse of him.

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"Home sweet home!" Vlad said to himself as he walked down the streets looking at the land he had left behind in the hands of his grandkids. when walking gradually on the streets something caught his attention just by the palm trees lying on the side of the street a young girl who was blind folded was being forcefully thrown out of a van. He could sense her pain from a distance, and she reminded him so much of Samaria. Taking little steps towards that direction he said;

"Hmm!" then he ran swiftly living behind his traveling bag lying next to a palm tree by the streets. Standing in front of the Van he drags two people from inside the back seats of the Van effortlessly and hits their vital points swiftly, so that they are incapable of moving. He dropped them motionless to the ground and looked at the confused maiden standing before him, taking off her blindfold he smiled at her, in order to make her feel calm. Lilith quickly covered her mouth, so that her trembling lips wouldn't be noticed. She was panicky. She stuttered trying to ask him;

"You are one of them aren't you?" Vlad smiled at her warmly and said;

"it's okay You need not be afraid I am not gonna drain your blood" her facial expression said she wasn't frightened of him taking her blood. Rather she was frightened of something more. The place was silent as he observed her facial expression. He said to her after a while;

"Did the witches played with your mind?" Lilith's body shuddered with fear, she clasped her hands together against her chest and raised her eyes to look at the man frightened.

"Oh man!" Vlad answered lazily and drew her into a tight hug. The other goons in the car took advantage of his diverted attention and tried to escape. Suddenly they were stopped by Argo's swift and instant punch on their tires, which led to the tires busting. Lilith flinched at the loud sound of the tires busting. She embraced Vlad tightly. Argo winked at her seeing that she was aware of their identity as vampires.

"Well! It's what it's is, you don't have to be frightened!" While the commotion was still going on Lucian made a swift appearance before them. When he was before them, he asked;

"And what is going on here?" Lilith shuddered in fear at the sound of his voice, she gently removed Vlad's hands from around her and walked away without looking at anyone in the eyes. She walked to her apartment in silence and lost in her thoughts. The moment she got into her house she ran and locked her doors, locked up the windows and slumped to the floor in her room, she was breathing heavily. She hugged her legs against her chest tightly and cried out her heart. Looking at her laptop, she trembled with fear. She looked everywhere around the room and when she couldn't find anything and anyone suspicious, she picked up her laptop and locked it away in her cupboard.

She relaxed her muscles a bit and picked up her phone from the table. Immediately after switching it on she found missed voice mails, messages and missed calls from her boss Mr. Marlo and his nosy secretary Miss Ruth. She quickly typed a resignation latter and sent it to each of them. When she was done, she called Karan without wasting any time;

"Hey girl! What's up?" Lilith's nose became stuffy and her eyes filled with tears. She sniffled and answered him with a brittle voice;

"Karan! I am not okay…" Karan asked her instantly, he was worried about her;

"What is wrong girl? Tell me!" Lilith wiped her teared and attempted telling him over the phone but couldn't after several attempts.

"Please can you come over to Hems-Ville? I really need you!" she finally begged him to come over. Karan nodded severally before he answered her;

"Alright girl, I will take the first flight to Hems-Ville first thing in the morning!" she sighed and said to him in a low voice

"Thanks Karan!" he smiled and answered her;

"You are always welcome! Goodnight" he turned off his phone and she dropped her phone on the rug. She sighed and gradually stood up and started taking off her clothes one after the other and carefully.

"Ouch! The s**t hurts damn all of them!" She could still feel the pain from retrieving her memory in her whole body must especially her head. It was an excruciating pain that was going up to her head from her spinal cord. She walked gradually to the bathtub and immersed herself in the herbal hot water mix. She remained there lost in her thoughts about everything. She hissed and sighed and mumbled every time she remembered Lucian. Because of the pain of betrayal, she felt inside her heart she promised herself to stay clear from him before she leaves town. She thought of the compulsory things she needed to do before she left and wished she was already done with it;

"How can one man be so cruel as to play with my sanity as if I am a puppet! I am just plain unlucky for me to keep meeting such people who take advantage of me all the time" she closed her eyes and slept off in the bath tub.

"Granddad why was that lady hugging you?" a picture of his granddad hugging Lilith steered jealousy in his heart. If Vlad wasn't his granddad he would he would have definitely punched him in the face there and then, but even at that, he was still agitated knowing how perverted Vlad can be. Vlad sensed his grandson's jealousy and snickered. 

"Uhm? She wasn't hugging me! I was hugging her… she was obviously abducted by some jerks and tortured… I was trying to console her you see, if I am to be precise I think she was captured by some witches and wizards. Poor girl, she's so fragile and beautiful" Vlad dropped his briefcase in the sitting room and went to the inbuilt bar. He took a glass from the glass cabinet and poured himself a glass of vampire wine. Looking at Lucian in the eyes he said;

"I wonder what wrong that poor girl committed to deserve such torture from those people" he looked at Argo and asked;

"Hope you locked up those four witches we captured… I am going to teach them a valuable lesson not to mess with any property that belongs to the Draco's" he stood up from the stool by the bar and started walking up the stairs. He stopped midway and said;

There's gonna be a big party here tomorrow so prepare and oh, please do invite that pretty young lady here Argo" Argo nodded but he was unsure as Lucians eyes were on him.

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Lilith opened her eyes and found herself still immersed inside warm water. Although, she was feeling cold for the water was no longer warm. She sneezed and came out of the bathtub, her whole body was pale because she stayed in water for too long. Standing in front of the mirror and looking at her pale body Lilith hissed and murmured;

“Damn it I look like snow white and I don't even give a damn! Who will see me when I intend to lock myself away in here…" she grumbled and grabbed her towel from the towel hang and walked into her bedroom.

 After creaming her body, she was walking away from the shower room when she heard a knock and a thought came to her mind. She paused in her steps and thought of many places in the house where she could hide herself. The knock persisted and just as she was about to hide herself away she remembered that Karan was arriving early in the morning that day. All her fear vanished at the thought that it might be Karan knocking. She looked at the time and it was 5:am and Karan was supposed to arrive around that time. She exhaled and calmed her nerves and smiled and said;

"Oh! Man I over think things a lot what would bring the devil here when I made peace with myself… I know for a fact that its Karan after all he should be arriving by this time-ish I guess. Why didn't he call me though?" she relaxed herself and hurried to open the door. Only to find Argo standing in front of her door with a mischievous smile.

She brews with anger when she remembers the time she confided in him about her dreams. 'How ignorant do I keep getting! I don't deserve this and now look at the fool looking at me with a silly smile' Lilith complained inwardly about how pained she felt. She was looking directly into his eyes with fury brewing in her eyes.

 When it occurred to her that according to the silly vampire novels and movies she watches she can get hypnotize. The thought of the pain she went regaining her memory from those witches that abducted her made her quickly look away from his eyes with this words;

"What are you doing here?"