The Hybrid's Dangerous Thirst

The Punishment

The little girl was too young to worry about where the money came from and how her mother prepared a lot for her.

“Momma?,” she walked towards the table happily. Happy to see the decorations before her eyes that her mother has prepared for her. She has never seen such decoration before in her home.

“I guess you worked hard last night for preparing so much for me in the morning,” she mumbled in her mother's embrace. “Come let's cut the cake momma,” she said to her softly while dragging her mother towards the tea table and sitting down beside it.

Her mother helped her with holding a knife in her hands as she cut the cake. Her mother singing the birthday song for her made her day even more better.

After making a birthday wish and cutting the cake, it was time for her mother to give her presents. There were almost six to seven gift boxes, she loved each one of them. But in the end, her mother gave her something more.

“It's beautiful,” the little girl gasped as her mother pulled out a locket from her pocket. “Thank you thank you thank you ~ momma!” the little girl pecked her mother's cheeks in excitement.

“Glad that you loved it,” her mother mumbled with a relieved smile.

“It was the best birthday of my life mom! Thank you!” the little girl was amused by her mother. She believed that her mother worked hard for her last night but the truth was that she stole from a hotel last night. The hotel whose owner was waiting for the lady to come back.

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Days passed and the mother sold everything she brought from the hotel. She sold one piece of jewelry each week and it passed easily with nothing to be worried of. She stopped working or finding any other way of earning the money as she was addicted to selling the jewelry she bring from the hotel and selling it to the jeweler she knows.

She cleared all her debts and now she wanted more. She got an habit to buy expensive things and her need grew more and more. She wanted to buy a big house and live peacefully. A life where she has to worry about nothing and just live having servants for everything to do her work. This time she planned to steal more than the last time and she even prepared bags for that.

Jacob was sitting on his chair in his cabin. Once he got his eyes on the humans then he keeps on looking after them and know what are they thinking or doing. He learned her plans and chuckled at that mother's stupid thought while looking out of the window.

He can listen to what she was thinking in her mind. He let her go last time but it doesn't mean she will come to his place again and again just to take the precious things he has been collecting since years. He has the plan to catch her this time. Just for her punishment he wants to drink her blood. And also he has something more to do with her that the young mother can't deny.

Her daughter is small which means by the next few years she will grow into an adult who can work. He wants her to be his next manager when Arran or Daisy leaves. This way he won't have to look for any other people to work at his place by the time her daughter will work. And if she denies it, she will die.

The mother waited for the long day to pass, she thought it would be best to go late at night when almost everyone will be sleeping. But the stupid mother doesn't know, vampires and ghosts living there don't need sleep and they stay awake all night.

It was late at night finally, the mother stood out of the hotel looking at it with the bags in her hands before she went the same way hiding in the hotel as she went last time. The receptionist was not there and the hall which was full of people that night was not crowded now. She smiled at the thought that everyone would be sleeping and no one could catch her red hands. But it was Jacob who said the receptionist to hide from him and said in charge of the rooms to send mostly everyone back to their rooms.

The staff was chasing her secretly by hiding behind her. The mother didn't know about this and she continued walking into the same hallway and into the same room she went to last time. But this time, someone was already standing in there in the dark. He was Jacob Jonas.

The door behind the mother locked on its own as soon as she stepped into the room which made her flinch. The mother was horrified in fear as a thought crossed her mind that she was caught this time. She quickly turned behind and tried to open the door to run away but she couldn't, the door was locked from out. The staff who chased her locked it. There was no one in the darkroom except her and Jacob.

Jacob smirked walking towards her, slowly with a glass of whisky in his hands. “Hello, dear young momma!” Jacob let out a bitter chuckle.

Of course, the mother was frightened now while the outraged hybrid standing before she was frustrated by her. The mother begged him to let her go but Jacob didn't. He threw the glass of whisky on the other side of the darkroom, letting it break into pieces as it hit against the wall. He switched on the lights and in the blink of an eye, he stood before her, grabbing her hands and pinning her against the door.

Jacob's dark orbs stared into her dark brown orbs filled with tears in fear. She wondered who was the beautiful boy standing before her. As she tried to guess who was he, Jacob let out his sharp fangs, giving answers to the young woman standing trembling before him.

Her eyes widened, she guessed he was a vampire she read in storybooks. It wasn't a second passed when Jacob buried his fangs deep in her neck to drink her blood.

The mother shouted in pain for someone to help her, but no one can help her. The rule of the hotel is simple as it is, 'NO ONE CAN INTERFERE IN OTHER's PUNISHMENTS'. Even if the staff would feel like helping her, they couldn't.

The mother broke the rules of this place and now she was getting punished. Jacob didn't drink much and took himself back before she could die. He even licked the wound and healed it.

The mother's weak legs trembled with fear as she sat down on the floor. She was frightened by him, she has just now met a real vampire who bit her neck and sucked the blood out of her body.

The entire body of the poor mother was shaking in fear. Jacob sat on his knees and grabbed her face to let her look up straight into his newly turned red eyes.

Jacob's eyes turned wine-red as he drank human blood now. He stared for a long moment until the woman sitting before him stopped trembling. Jacob smirked before he spoke up.

“You are working for me from today onwards,” Jacob started. “You can't tell anyone about this place or about me to anyone. Whenever you will try to speak or write down about me, your body will become hard as stone or else you will be paralyzed,” the mother gasped right after hearing the penalty for revealing his identity.

“You can't speak or move for another few hours, better if you keep your mouth shut to avoid this punishment. I'll give you money, also I'll give you a big house, give you a big car, but you'll give me your daughter once she completes her education,” Jacob concluded with a smirk. It was a deal he said to her.

The mother's eyes widened when he said to give him her daughter. She quickly shook her head trying to say to him, NO, but Jacob tightened his fingers grip on her face in fury.

“Your life will get better and you will be rich, think of it before jumping to any conclusion