Once bitten

Chapter 2

She arrived at Palacio Delmont at 10am. Another myth, yes they can walk on broad daylights, even purebloods.

Marshall Delmont is waiting for her as the private plane landed on the private airstrip in his land. It was good of a mile away from his palace. Delmont is one of the oldest vampire clan here in Pennsylvania and she learned that his vampire father is a Duke. And right beside him is a limousine. A formal looking guy was approaching her.

"Welcome, Lady Yzobel," he bows as he said this. "I'm Duke Marshall's butler, Keegan."

"Err, nice to meet you, Keegan," she awkwardly replied.

He ushers her towards the limousine, and open the door for them. Again he bows before closing the door.

Inside the car, she throws herself and hug the duke.

"Oh, I miss you, Papa!" she exclaimed.

Though they don't live together, Marshall always visited her quarterly and stays with her at for a week or three days at the least. He always copes up of what happening in her life and updates her of what's happening in his. She already knows that two of her blood sibs are also gonna live with them.

"So, why did you invite us to live with you this time?"

"I'll explain to you later, together with your sisters. They've arrived yesterday, and they're both excited to meet you."

When they've arrived at the castle, a few uniformed servants are already waiting upon their arrival. All of them bows down when she faced them after getting off the car.

"Welcome, Lady Yzobel," they chorused.

She just awkwardly nod and smiled a little to them.

Again butler Keegan opens the door for them and lead them to a door.

"The two misses are already inside my lord,"

"Great, thanks Keegan."

Inside if the elegantly designed office, she saw two girls talking animatedly. They both shrieked excitedly when they saw them.

"You're Yzobel right?" the redhead asked.

"You're so pretty," the silver haired says.

"Girls, girls. Let her sit down. You can continue that later."

All of them sat at the long sofa. Duke Marshall sat at the single sofa at their right.

"As you both guessed, she's Yzobel. Yzobel, they are your sisters, Melia," the redhead, " and Kazandra," the silver haired.

"You're all halflings but Yzobel is half human. And Yzobel, Melia's half witch while Kazandra is half werewolf."

Two slight knock was heard, then two female servants enter carrying tea sets and a basket of cookies. Butler Keegan was behind them and closes the door as the two maids left. He was the one that serves them as Duke Marshall clears his throat.

"About the reason why I invite you to stay here,"

They focused their attention to him.

"The king decided that every vampire, purebloods and halflings, that would come of age, must live closely here in the Kingdom."

They look at each other before turning again to Duke Marshall. All of them have a questioning look.

"All the princes have come of age and the king and queen are hoping that they will meet their mate if they gather all of the vampires that will come of age here," he explained.

"Prince Kaiser, the eldest come of age 3 centuries ago and he still hasn't found his mate yet. While Prince Bardock is already 375 years old and also hasn't found his mate yet. Both of them traveled around the world searching for their mates but no luck."

"The queen thought that they just missed them on their travels, thus decided to held gatherings every three quarterly, inviting all the unmated vampires but still no luck."

"Prince Xavier will come of age this month so they thought that the princes' mates must haven't come of age yet."

"Last year, I started a school for all the supernatural to attend, so all can learn how the other creature lived."

"All are spending two years so they can learn the way of life of each species and also have a chance to meet others and find their mates. Most of those who attend there has met their mates, and the King heard about this. Thus, they now enrolled all the princes there and also announced that all vampires, pureblood and halfling must attend at our school."

"I know that I promised all of you that you can live your life freely the way you want to," he looked apologetically to them," but I'm asking you to spend at least two years here with me and attend school again."

"No problem, Papa," Melia says. "At least now we're learning something new as we again attend a new school."

Both her and Kazandra nod and smile affectionately at their father.

All three of them got up from their seats and hug their father.

Duke Marshall lovingly taps on their back as he hug them in return.

"So who want some cookies?" Kazandra playfully asked.