The Princess Venom

Chapter 5: They Finally Meet

Suzie’s pov… 

I decided to work with Viktor Elias for the sake of professionalism, my agency wanted me to work with the famous actor for publicity purposes, anyway, it’s just a one-time feature from a well-known magazine.

Aiko is currently doing my hair and make-up now, here inside my designated dressing room. Right now, we are inside the studio of a well-known magazine named VIP.

Three light knocks were heard from the dressing room door. Once the door flew open, my manager Vida came in followed by someone, a man in an all-black suit.

I stared at him from the vanity mirror while Aiko was busy with my hair. He is a man in his late 30’s.

“Hi Suzie, this is the president of the VIP magazine, Mr. Saito Morrey,” Vida stated as she introduced the late 30’s man to me.

I smiled at him and he smiled back. He extended his hand in front of me as soon as I turned around to face him.

“You look gorgeous in person Ms. Suzie,” he said smiling. He gently held my right hand and before it landed on his lips, I pulled it back.

“Nice to meet you, Mr. Saito,” I said with a smile and slightly rolled my eyes and turned my seat around to face the vanity mirror again.

“You don’t know how happy I am that you accepted our offer to be featured in our magazine’s anniversary issue,” he said.

“Suzie will not refuse that beautiful offer, Mr. Saito” Vida said, of course, she’s lying, because they had a hard time convincing me to do this project.

Light knocks were heard from the dressing room door, and when it opened, a man whom I didn't want to see showed up.

“Oh, there you are, Viktor” Vida happily said.

“I just want to have a little chat with Suzie,” Viktor said and it made me raise one of my eyebrows while looking at him from the vanity mirror.

“Request granted, Mr. Viktor,” the magazine president said.

Damn, how sure he is that I wanted to talk solo with Viktor. Everyone in this room stepped outside leaving me with this stinky wolf.

“What do you want from me?” I asked in a cold voice.

Viktor sat on a chair beside me but then he grabbed my right arm so I snarled at him.

“Cameras are all around here, bloodsucker b***h” he said while gritting his teeth.

“Of course, I freeze it off, i***t,” I told him and it made him growl at me.

“Who are you?” He asked me with his growling voice and sharped eyes.

“I am Suzie Arazon” I answered his question with my sweet voice.

“No, you’re not,” he said but the grip of his hand on my arm became tighter.

I pulled my right hand from his tight hold and snarled at him showing my fangs.

“Admit it, that you are Princess Serene” he insisted.

“Suzie is my name,” I said and stood up.

As I walk towards the door, he pulls me hard and I end up leaning on his broad chest. His bad odor goes right straight in my nostrils and I hate it, so I pushed him hard and pinned him against the wall of the dressing room and it created a loud bang.

“What is happening inside there?!” A loud voice of Vida was heard from the door, and they kept on knocking on it because I locked the dressing room door.

I didn’t mind the commotion outside the dressing room, all I want in mind is to kill this stinky wolf.

“You’re Serene, admit it, bloodsucker,” Viktor said, gritting his teeth making a not-so-loud growl.

“And so?” I snarled at him showing my fangs while still holding and pinning him hard against the wall.

“Damn you bloodsucker b***h!” He shouted and pushed me harder until I slammed on the chair and it broke.

Then the door forcefully opened, Viktor hurriedly came to me and supported me as if the chair had just broken accidentally.

“Oh my gosh Suzie, what happened to you?” Vida worriedly came to me and assisted me to stand up.

I push Viktor away but as I look at him, he’s smirking at me so I look at him with my sharp eyes.

“She accidentally fell,” Viktor explained to them.

“I am perfectly fine,” I told everyone with a smile but stabbing my sharp eyes on Viktor.

‘What happened to you, Suzie?’ Sunni talked to me through our minds.

‘This stinky wolf pisses me off' I told her.

Viktor walked outside the dressing room leaving me and the others.

Viktor’s pov…

After my little encounter with the bloodsucker b***h at the dressing room. Our photoshoot finally started.

I came here first at the studio, while my manager kept on chatting with the president and vice president of the magazine, I kept sitting here on my chair waiting for that bloodsucker b***h to show up.

A group of people came in, the last one to walk in is none other than Suzie. As I stare at her, she is really gorgeous, but she walks like Serene, at some point few of her gestures are the same as Princess Serene.

And, our eyes met, but I was surprised because this is the first time she looked at me without any anger in her eyes, it was just a pair of blank eyes with no expression at all. Her face, the way she looks, she is my Serene.

“Shall we start now?” The photographer said, so I nodded my head.

***

After the shoot, as my team goes back to the dressing room, I ask my manager that I will have a little talk with Suzie again.

I waited for her to pass by in the hallway. Minutes after her team passes by in front of me and of course, those bloodsuckers with her are fuming with anger that it seems like they want to grab and stab their fangs on me. 

Suzie is the last one walking, she is looking straight into my eyes. I let her pass by a little before grabbing her from the waist.

“What the hell is your problem now, stinky wolf?” She said whispering but gritting her teeth, as I pinned her against the wall here at the dark part of the hallway away from all the staff.

“Tell me everything, I know you knew everything from the very start,” I told her with a light growl.

I grabbed her by the neck, but a light sound disturbed us and it’s coming towards our location.

I instantly press my lips against her lips. Damn, I need to do this so that no one will suspect us.

Suzie tries to push me away from her, she’s too strong, to be honest, but I manage to grip her hand harder and pinned her too strong against the wall.

Then a man is closer to us, I was surprised that Suzie suddenly holds my face and kisses me back.

Her lips are so cold that I felt like a bonfire that was being poured by water with buckets of ice or like a sizzling plate that was being poured by water.

“Oh, my goodness, I am so sorry,” the man said right away.

I took a glance at him and the moment he disappeared from my sight and not feeling his presence at all or smelling his scent, I wanted to immediately part my lips away from her lips but she gripped my neck way too hard that I couldn't move.

Even though her lips and breath are too cold, I still feel her soft lips playing along against mine. Then all my memories with Serene keep flashing back in my mind, the way her soft lips touch mine, her soft hands gently rubbing against my cheeks. No doubt now, I feel Serene in her.

A few seconds later, our lips slowly parted. She stares at me, and her gaze, all I can see is Serene’s eyes.

“I can’t take this anymore; I can’t hold this any longer” I whispered.

Even though I am still catching my breath, I gently cupped her face and freely kissed her. I am surprised she did not react violently and she kissed back again.

I ignore the coldness of her breath and lips, I just want to savor and enjoy this moment with her. I am feeling like she is also enjoying our little moment now.

Our lips are moving in sync, I feel those butterflies lingering inside me as I kiss her passionately now.

A few seconds after, our lips parted ways again, we both stared at each other.

“You’re my princess, my Serene” I whispered while still cupping her face.

She shakes her head, but I pressed my forehead against her.

“No, this is not okay” she whispered back, while we were catching our breath.

“This is wrong, I shouldn’t let you,” she said in a whispered tone, and then seconds passed and she disappeared from my hold.

I leaned my back against the wall and was still thinking about what had happened.

“She is my Princess Serene” I slightly let the back of my head hit against the wall.

“But she is now one of my mortal enemies,” I said looking blankly at the end of the hallway.

***

Staring blankly at these four corner walls of my room, I still can’t get over how my day ended. Yes, it ends up with me kissing a bloodsucker and I know that she is Serene. It’s her lips, her touch, her eyes, and the way she stares at me, those are the things that I am missing and longing for.

The difference is, she is not human anymore, even though she has this cold breath but her lips and touch are a bit warm, I expected to kiss and touch an icy cold one but it’s not. How the hell did she do that?

“Do you need me?” Lukas came in. I called him to talk about what had happened to me.

“I met her,” I said, but still staring blankly at the wall.

“Who?” He curiously asked.

“Serene” I simply replied back.

“What?!” Lukas looks surprised as I turn to look at him.

“Serene is dead,” he said, then I shook my head.

“Suzie… Suzie is Serene” I told him and his eyes widened.

“How did you know?” He asked with his low voice but his look was still in a surprised expression.

“I kissed her” I simply answer and look at the wall again.

“What?! You kissed a bloodsucker?!” His voice was in total shock.

I nodded my head as a response to him. I don’t know how I will explain to him that I got to kiss a bloodsucker, the most disgusting creature for us.

“Did she confirm it to you?” He asked.

“Or maybe you’re just thinking about Serene because they are look-alike,” he added.

“The moment our lips touch and the moment she starts to kiss me back, I know and confirm that she is the one I am longing for,” I explained with a low tone of voice.

“Viktor, I think you should be more careful about this,” he said seriously.

“Suzie is from the Arazon clan, a vampire clan, our mortal enemy,” he added.

“What if they're using the princess' looks to deceive you? Be more careful, don’t get deceived just because you feel that she is Serene” Lukas explained to me, I just nodded my head.

But damn, that moment, when our eyes and lips met, I knew it, she is the lost princess, she is Serene.

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Suzie’s pov…

A late-night here at my apartment, I am still shocked. I can’t say anything to Sunni, because I don’t want her to know about my past relationship with Viktor.

Why all of a sudden, I am comfortable kissing him like that? I know I am Serene, and I know the fact that I am romantically linked to him before, but the thing is, I am already a vampire.

I can’t explain why I feel that way. How deep is my relationship with Viktor? I badly need to know; I need to know everything about him.

***

It’s our second day of the photoshoot for the magazine’s special edition. While everyone is busy, I am sitting here on my chair still thinking about what had happened yesterday. A familiar man stood right in front of me, as I looked up at him, he was flashing a smile.

“Hey” he greeted me, and this time it’s different the way he said it, it’s like a greeting of a normal person and not a stinky wolf.

Still, I hate his smell, a disgusting and bad odor coming from him and I can’t stand it. I wrinkled my eyebrows while looking at him.

“I hate your smell,” I said irritated.

He pulled his chair and placed it beside me and sat down.

“I hate your smell too” he answered back and chuckled.

“What the hell do you want again?” I asked but not looking at him.

“Be with me tonight” he whispered.

Sunni looked at me, I know she heard what this stinky wolf said.

“I can't,” I replied with a cold voice.

“After the incident yesterday, do you really think that I want to be with you again?” I told him and he chuckled.

“Let’s just say that… I wanted to make it up to you” he said smiling.

I stared at him and he is now smiling genuinely at me. Is this the stinky wolf I hated the most? 

“Are you serious?” I asked him again, but with my irritated voice.

“I am,” he answered.

‘Are you going with him tonight?’ Sunni’s voice interrupted me in my mind.

‘I still don’t know, but I want to try,’ I answered her.

And then our eyes met, I don’t know what is happening to me, because I felt that I can’t take my eyes off him. His eyes are telling me to just look at him and only him. Am I being hypnotized by this stinky wolf? Hell no, I am the one supposedly doing that.

A sudden flashback came right in front of my very eye. It was the same pair of eyes looking at me.

“Be with me tonight, Serene,” he said with his sweet voice, his eyes smiling at me, and his hand caressing my face down to my chin.

Flashback ends the moment I blink my eyes.

“Okay,” I suddenly said.

“Okay? You’re okay to go out with me tonight?” He asked.

I was shocked by what I said, so I stood up and walked towards the location of the photographer. I know he is following me with his eyes and I can feel it or sense it.

The moment I reached the location of the photographer, I looked back at him and he was just seriously staring at me.