Serpent Twins: The Fall

The Vampire King

Adriana’s POV:

“Where have you been, Alex?” I asked to my brother when he suddenly appeared in his study room. 

He looked pale, so I asked for a goblet of blood for him to the servant through telepathy.

“What were you doing here, Adriana?” he sighed and sat on his seat behind his dalbergiawooden desk.

“I was looking for you, but you’re not around. Where have you been for almost an hour, Alex?” 

He seemed restless.

“Some errands,” he replied, not wanting me to dig in. 

I was worrying about him as the paleness indicated that he has traveled quite far and his aura was muddy blue, represented a fear. 

How could it be?

I sighed and came over him. I wrapped my arms to his neck from behind.

“I was worrying about you, Alex,” I muttered softly and kissed his hair. 

He squirmed, “Not after you played me like the last time, Adriana. I meant it,” he said coldly.

I whimpered, “My Dearest brother, I said sorry, didn’t I? And I won’t marry Cameron ever. He’s much younger than me. Almost twice below my age,” I pouted my lips and stomped my feet, going to the tufted sofa in front of the fireplace.

His eyes were softened, then smiling, “Just behave, Adriana. Please don’t give me a headache. If you’re going to wait for your love, so be it.” 

What he said was a bit odd. It didn’t sound like him. I thought he was the last person who would bluntly say the L-word.

What has happened to him? 

“So, where have you been, Alex?” I insisted to ask, I was genuinely more curious now. 

I mean, he isn’t the type to hide any secrets even if he is the reserved type. I could feel his mixed emotion flowing, depressing one.

He shook his head, “So, why did you look for me?”

I cleared my throat, “I was wondering if I could turn one of my human slave into vampire.”

His eyes went piercing, “A human slave? Didn’t you hate human? And I’m not the one who has authority for it, Adriana. You should ask to father and bring the request to The Council. You know that.” 

“I know, but you’re the least of hate among us, so I ask for your opinion first,” I told him.

“The least?” he laughed, “Who is he to you, Adriana?” he continued. 

Oh, he thought it is about a man.

A servant came knocking and brought two golden goblets of blood for us. O negative. We drank it all at once, the servant took back the goblets and quietly left. His face started to get better, his paleness reduced significantly.

“And it is she, not he. She is a human child that I want her to be with me. She’s just turned seven,” I told him.

“You have frightening hobby like blood bathing, how could a human child could have a will to be a vampire?” he asked.

“Well, I think she want it too. She thought I’m like both angel and demon for her,” I laughed.

“I don’t think you have strong reason to turn her, Adriana. Just look for better reason otherwise just keep her as she is,” he told me.

“You don’t understand, Alex. Human ages and will die. I don’t want her to get old. I want her to stay a child so that I could… pet her forever. She is the first human I like to keep,” I told him.

“She will hate you, Adriana. When she realized that she won’t be able to grow up and it is forbidden to turn a child too,” he reminded me.

“But what if I will never have a child, Alex?” I finally blurted out my true reason.

He sighed and came over me, on his knee holding my hands.

“It’s a cruel fate for us, My dear sister. But you do still have a chance, believe me. Don’t give up yet,” he kissed my hands and wiped my bleeding eyes with his two thumbs. 

Yes, we vampires cry blood.

“Do you think there is someone for me in one million of us?” I looked at my handsome brother, he was sitting next to me with compassion look. 

He didn’t answer, but I felt like he wanted to answer.

“Alex?” I asked him again.

“Could be in a million of us or in seven billion of others,” he finally said.

It made sense. My Uncle Thomas’s wife was previously human, but the thought of having a human mate disgusted me and that will be way too complicated as we have to turn the human first.

“So, don’t kill them easily, Adriana. You won’t know if the human you killed probably the great grandfather of your mate,” he continued.

I laughed and held his arms. I just love him. Then I remembered about Madeline.

“Alex, are you happy?” I asked softly.

“What do you mean? I live,” he answered with blank stare. 

I nodded, feeling his hidden pain. But I wouldn’t ask for more, not this time. It’s been ages since I was coming here. We all had secrets, pains, and loneliness to bear with. 

“Why Nicho is this late,” I muttered for no reason, as we all arrived here and he is still nowhere to be seen while he is actually just nine hours away. 

I could feel my brother’s body was tensed up hearing his twin’s name. His aura was slightly muddied red, represented anger. I know they both not so get along, well they used to be, but something suddenly changed. No one told me why. But still, they shared the most magical thing among our kind, sharing heartbeat and pain.

“Have you called father?” I diverted the topic.

He nodded, “Yes, he’ll be here tomorrow.”

I carefully examined his handsome face, seeking for another hidden emotion, but he just went flat now.

My dearest one.

Alexander’s POV:

It was 06.00 p.m., we were all waiting just below the staircase in front of the main entrance as the king arrived with his envoys crossing up the bridge to my castle. I was wondering why he used the car rather than helicopter as he could save time if riding helicopter, but he is actually a confident one, he believes that he has unlimited time so why should be in rush, for him. His motto isn’t applied for us. Soon after getting out of the car, we took a bow. He came over me first and he surely wasn’t happy.

“My king, welcome back,” I greeted him and gave him a stiff smile.

“My son,” he nodded and looked at Madeline who was standing beside me. 

She gave him a bow, but my father held her chin, raising to his face. He gave her a disapproval look. Madeline was terrified, I could feel she was almost shivered.

“Father,” I called him. 

He hissed at me and his eyes were changed when spotting Nicholas.

“Your Grace,” Nicholas looked genuinely excited. 

My father gave him small smile and patted his shoulder. He moved to his only daughter standing next to Nicholas, with a blank face. I couldn’t scold her through telepathy as my father could sense it. He is more powerful than we all here.

“Father,” Adriana greeted him and took his hands to kiss them, but she didn’t smile a bit. 

My father ignored her rudeness as she made it up by kissing his hands. 

“My king. My dear bother,” I heard Uncle Thomas greeted him warmly. 

My father pulled his brother into a light hug, his face was lit and he whispered something on his ears.

“You’ve been good, my brother,” he released the hug and moved to the last person, Cameron.

“My king,” he took a bow and tried to kiss my father’s hands but he just walked away to enter the castle. 

My father didn’t hate Cameron, but he is just not into him as Cameron was caught of having fling with human slave once.

Mother came out just like in slow motion, she is beautiful as ever, but very pale. She was wearing all black gown with a nearly black sable fur coat.

My father was waiting for her to get closer as we all kissed her hands one by one and then we were all following to their slow steps to the grand hall, except for Madeline as she isn’t related to the meeting and mother was following her to show her the room. All of my servants were standing and giving him a deep bow against the corridor’s walls. Adrian was standing at the end of the corridor. He gave him a deep bow and my father gave him a sign to follow him.

We all took a seat in the grand hall, with my father was sitting at the head of the table whereas I used to sit. He tapped his fingers slowly as the servant placed a chalice of blood in front of him.

“I want solution. Enlighten me,” he spoke after sipping from his crystal chalice.

I nodded and started to explain my plan.

“Your Grace, we’d like to ask permission to build an identity database server effected to all of our kind to find a match to the specimen’s DNA. Once we have a match, it will be easier for us to track down to him or his pack, if any. And we also need The Council to approve us taking sample for all of our kind.”

“You mean, The Council members too? Do you have any idea this is outrageously insulting request?” he got angry, his eyes were slightly red. 

He just arrived for few minutes and already lost his temper.

“Your Grace, if I may to speak. It is important to convince all of our kind if The Council do it to. The world has changed now, we need them to fully support us,” my Uncle Thomas said. 

He gave me a nodded as likewise. 

Father was quiet for few seconds before starting to respond, “I’ll think about it, but I agree with the plan. You may execute it right away,” he looked at me and took his chalice to drink more, “And where will this dangerous database be built?” he continued.

“New York City, Your Grace,” I replied. 

I could feel Nicholas stared at me.

My father squinted his eyes, “Why is there? That place is packed with humans.”

“That’s the idea, Your Grace. For better camouflage and also because it is the center of business, everything would be ready anytime,” I answered. 

We could just buy a building and make necessary renovations as desire without having humans suspicious rather than building in suburbs.

“Do the other rulers agree?” he asked to everyone and they said yes, except for Nicholas.

“Nicholas, my son?” he looked at Nicholas.

“I’d prefer in my region, but since this happened in my brother’s region, I’d accept it,” Nicholas replied.

“Your another reason, Nicholas?” My father asked again.

I warned him.

“After the Nine-eleven, I don’t think it will be wise to place our database there and there are more of us in Europe rather than anywhere else,” he replied, not wanting to take a glance at me.

“Thomas?” he diverted his attention to his brother.

“Despite Prince Nicholas has a good point, I would go for the crown prince, Your Grace. As I believe to his judgement in this matter and that we could always take preventive measure on any threats,” he answered.

I’m sure my father wouldn’t ask to Adriana and Cameron since my father knew, Adriana would take a side to me and Cameron to his father.

“Very well. It’s New York City then. Just do it fast. Everyone must be alerted and death penalty will be sentenced to those who denied cooperation. As for The Council members, leave it first while you were all working on the plan,” he gave his final decision.

I felt so relief. I took a glance to Nicholas and his face was blank and bored. 

My father intended to stay for a week, so I couldn’t go to meet Kimberly during the time. I could just teleport, but my father is unpredictable, if he found out about my absence, he won’t stop to dig out for every skeleton I hid. Everyone would be dismissed after dinner. Dinner in our term is at least one human for each one of us. I kept my captured humans in the dungeon for this occasion as others do. My servant brought us six humans, five of them are females as the remaining is a male. We didn’t choose to match the gender, but most vampire prefer the opposite s*x to suck if they could choose. My father was pointing to a beautiful young blonde and she was thrown away to my father. As he started to draw a blood through her neck, everyone but me has their own meal. I saw Adriana was viciously sucking from the poor young man’s arm. 

Wait a minute, the poor young man? What the hell is wrong with me.

“What’s your name again?” I heard Nicholas’s voice as he questioned a beautiful young brunette on his lap. I looked away.

“Kimberly,” her answered was startled me and I began to look at her more carefully. 

No, it’s not her. It can’t be her.

But Nicholas cruelly tore her top, revealing her big round breasts and he sucked her blood through her mouth while his nails digging into her breast. She was shrieking and kicking. With one hand on the nape, Nicholas drank her up just before she was almost dead and disposed her body to the servant who was standing behind him. It wouldn’t bother me so much except when he was sucking, he kept staring at me. I could feel he was sneering and mocking. That was a challenge. 

“You’re not eating, Brother?” Adriana pointed to the remaining girl who was almost passing out due to fear.

I shook my head, “I already ate.” 

I lied, she would know, but I didn’t care. I was losing appetite. I kept thinking about Kimberly, how to protect her from Nicholas without revealing ourselves to her. 

Am I being too selfish of wanting her for myself despite she really doesn’t know who I am, what I am?

Adriana wiped the blood stain gracefully with a napkin and got up as we all, as a respectful manner to the king who was content and intended to get a rest.

“Alexander, follow me,” my father called out, so I followed him under the curious gaze of Nicholas.

We were going to his room, the biggest guest room I have. The room was empty, I didn’t see mother inside. He took a seat at the red couch and stared at me with blank face. I took a seat in front of him, took my gaze down.

He sighed, “No luck, eh?” he asked.

I looked up to him, carefully thinking about the answer, “No, Father.”

“Alexander, your mother missed you. You would be a perfect heir if only you put your family affairs over everything, including yourself,” he spoke.

“Please have my apology, Father.” 

But I’m not as I felt like I did my best to please my family, to please him, but everything I did, displeased him, not enough for him. He always wanted more of me.

“I wasn’t raising you to be ordinary, Alexander. You’re my next successor and my reign is about to end. I need you to think for our interest and selfless,” he said with bored face.

“Father, if I may to speak freely,” I need to know and now is the time.

“Yes?” he finally seemed a bit interested.

“Am I allowed to love?” I asked.

He suddenly laughed, “What kind of question was that? The most hilarious one coming from you. Yes, My son. You’re surely allowed. You can love and have all the women in the world as long as they are not claimed first by other rulers and The Council members,” he answered.

That’s not what I meant. I was screwing my chance. He saw me like a fool.

“But no matter how many lovers you have, they would always be concubines,” his next sentence was a death penalty for Kimberly and me.

“Even if she is the mate, Father?” his eyes flickered in red, but he’s not angry nor hungry.

“The law is made for our best interest, you have to remember that, Alexander. And I’m not the one to correct one for merely one selfish request,” he stated.

Not even for your own son and possibly grandchild too?

That was it. The king has spoken. Unless I became the king, he would never approve Kimberly. It was also the law that I will be the next king after reaching the age of one thousand. But Kimberly doesn’t have another 413 years like I do. 

Fuckthis.

“Where was the question coming from?” he examined me, I have to be more careful as he sensed my negativities.

“Hypothetical one, Father,” I lied and he knew. 

I got up and gave him a bow. He said nothing and I started regretting of asking him. As my father was taking a rest, I would go to see Kimberly. I would be stuck here for another a week so I was worrying if Nicholas would do something during my absence. But strangely, he wanted to stay for another night. I was wondering about his wicked agenda. Still I wanted to check on Kimberly, especially after finding her laying on her loveseat in flustered, it looked like she was just woken up from being unconscious. I just stood there watching at her sitting and thinking about what just happened to her. She definitely suffered lingering effects of sedation. 

Nicholas is a doctor, so he is very familiar with medicine or medical substance. He studied vampire, human, and even animals. And he is good at it, he made sure that everyone knew about it. I wanted to kill Nicholas, but he is my brother, so I told him that I love Kimberly to draw him a line. I would harm him if he still did something nasty to Kimberly after he knew that I am into her. I couldn’t believe my brother would do something so low to her. I was so boiling mad when I thought that he raped her, but she said that her hymen was still intact, so I assumed that Nicholas only touched her to please her.

This was all my fault, I let the security breached as only putting one man to watch over her.  Nicholas is not just a vampire, he has mimicry ability. Now I have to take everything more serious to protect her. But that would be mean, my guards should know that I was protecting her, a human. I sighed and drank one goblet of blood I ordered in my study room and pulled out my phone to call Kimberly. She must be sleeping, it was 01:01 a.m. in New York. She took my call after ringing four times.

“Alex?” her voice was hoarse, but sensually husky. How I miss her, even after seeing her few hours before with my invisibility power.

“Kimberly, sorry to awake you. May I go up?” I asked.

“You’re back?” she was surprised, but I could hear in her tone that it was a good one.

“Yes. No need to go down, the security gave me permission already,” I lied. 

How many lies were needed and how long I should lie to her?

“Oh, sure just come on up. Give me a second,” she hung up.

She was brushing her teeth and taking mouthwash when I stood in front of her door. I knocked the door once. I could hear she was frantically changing her clothes. I smiled. Then she opened the door. Her face was damp, lips were red, blue eyes were lit, and sexy bed head hair. She is such a tiny angel. I stepped inside her apartment and lifted her up onto my waist and kissed her passionately. She kissed me back. I kicked the door behind to close and carried her into her bedroom. 

I dropped her gently into her bed without breaking our kiss. Our tongues were sensually dancing in sync. Her hands wrapped my neck as mine were trailing from her fingers to her arms. She was shivered in pleasure. I ended the kiss when I felt unbearable hard on my groins. I pecked her on cheeks, bridge of her nose, forehead, and lips. Her eyes were wide opened. She was panting and her heartbeat was like music to my ears.

“I love you immensely, Kimberly,” I said it softly. 

I knew it after visiting her every night seeing her sleeping in bedroom when I was doing DNA sequence in Georgia.

Her body was tensed up. This is too son. How can I respond to this? I think I’m falling for him too.

“Alex, I thought we’re going to take it slow?” she asked me instead of letting me know her feeling.

I laid my body next to her, side by side. Her face was only few inches from mine. Her breath was hitting my jaws. I love how she loves my green eyes as I adore her light blue eyes.

“I just want you to know how I feel, Kimberly. It’s okay if you want to take your time to recognize your own feeling first,” I told her, tangled her fingers into mine.

“Alex, I… I’m falling for you too, but I don’t know if the feeling is real,” she stuttered, “Please give me a little more time to get to know to each other,” she continued.

She is one smart woman. I kissed her lips slowly, she closed her eyes, then I pecked her eye lids.  

“Take your time, Kimberly,” I muttered softly and pulled her against my chest, “Now sleep, I’ll be your company.” 

I hugged her tightly as her arms wrapped my neck and back and our legs tangled to each other. This feeling is real. I closed my eyes and unexpectedly drifted to my most comfortable resting mind.

Kimberly’s POV:

I was woken up in cold. I squirmed and curled my body in cocoon.

“Good morning. Are you cold? Sorry.” 

I looked up a bit startled, seeing Alexander was sitting with his back against the headboard. His long legs were stretched out a little over my bed. He’s very tall. He previously wore wool three-piece suit in navy blue, but had untied and took off his vest and pea coat on my dresser and was wearing only white shirt and pants.

“Good morning. No, it’s fine.” 

I wondered if Alexander moved from me because of his unusual cold skin as I remembered sleeping in his arms. I smiled as his face started to look pale. Pale but gorgeous, his green eyes shine bright.

“Alex, please don’t be offended, but your body temperature is unusual,” I blurted out my curiosity. 

His long eyelashes were batting slowly. 

Adorable. 

“It’s due to basal metabolism, I inherited the condition from my family,” he answered calmly and pulled to hug and kiss me, but I dodged him and jumped out of the bed with my hands closing my mouth.

“I need to take a shower,” I told him, wondering why he seemed perfectly fine even when he didn’t brush his teeth. 

Oh, did he use my mouthwash when I was asleep?  

I was taking my time to have a shower, thinking that only yesterday I almost on my peak point on Alexander as he still didn’t reply me back. But when I saw him, I didn’t even ask him yet, why he left me hanging without any news. That was unacceptable in my relationship. How could I be this fool. I need to know his reason and make sure that it won’t happen again. I didn’t even have a chance to complain him on the so-called birthday presents. As I washed my body, I remembered that ever since I told him that I’m still a virgin, he didn’t touch me like the first time he did. It felt like he restrained himself. I could feel his desire as it was obviously pressed onto my body last night. I giggled. I’m just glad that he is the man of his words, trying to respect my way, but in the other hand I also missed his burning touch.

The funny thing, lately I often to have vivid wet dreams and they were getting pretty intense each time. Just like before I met Carla, I didn’t remember much why I was fifteen minutes late and overslept on the loveseat. But when I woke up, feeling drowsy and having uncomfortable feeling down there, like damp, swollen, and a little sore. I made sure the door was locked from the inside, so I believed that no one was drugged and raped me as I had checked it right away in the bathroom that I’m still untainted. 

So, my best guess was that somehow I touched myself again?

I wanted to get help for my hallucinations and sudden-onset memory problem, but Susan, my psychiatrist friend is in Baltimore and I don’t like to talk it over a phone and as a surgeon, I can’t take antidepressant. 

Or perhaps all I need is a good vacation? 

It was almost two years I didn’t take any off. The last time I was traveling was to England, when my brother had just become freshman. I often spent weekend to work, even yesterday I got morning call to assist a podiatrist to do a knee amputation for emergency patient.    

When I finished my shower and dried my hair, I remembered of forgetting to bring clean clothes, so I just wrapped myself in towel and intended to peek inside my bedroom whether Alexander was still on my bed. I don’t want to tease him as morning is more sensitive time to the male. I stepped out once he was nowhere to be seen and the bedroom door was closed. I quickly got dressed in loose shirt and warm leggings. It was 07.00 a.m.

“Alex, are you there?” I went out to the living room, he wore his ties, vest, and pea coat, standing with one of the picture frame from my desk. 

So handsome.

“Who is this, Kimberly?” he turned around at me and pointing to the picture.

“Oh, it’s Amber, Helena, Susan, and Vladimir. My college friends in Baltimore, ” I came over him, he is so tall but has a great body, I wondered how is he without all of those clothes. I must be blushed as he bent and cupped my cheeks and pinched them.

“This to make it perfect scarlet,” he gazed at me playfully, as I tried to hit his hands, he caught them and I was already on his lap with his cold soft lips on mine. We were kissing slowly and when I tried to get it deepen, he ended it.

“I have to leave, Kimberly,” he told me, his green eyes were so bright under the morning light.

“Will you come back?” I asked softly, as he would be gone forever. 

My heart was beating faster. He smiled and took my left hand which wrapped his neck to his chest. 

“I will leave for a week, but my heart will miss you every day.”

I hugged him tightly, he was being romantic, I couldn’t believe how I thought he was cold, cruel, and arrogant be someone who was making me this happy. How lucky I am, he is truly gorgeous.

“I’m going to miss you too, Alex. Please don’t leave me hanging with no words,” I asked him.

“I promise, Kimberly,” he replied. 

I sighed in relief, believing his word.

“Are you back to Canada? Where is that?” I curiously asked and looked up to his gaze on me.

“British Columbia,” he replied short.

“But you just came back from Georgia. What were you doing in Georgia, Alex?” I asked again.

“Work stuffs and family affairs. My parents are visiting,” his answer was indeed short, but I don’t want to ruin the moment with my interrogation, so I moved my subject as I need to clarify this while he is here. 

I let go off my hand and left him to my bedroom.

“About that present, Alex,” I brought the watch box and carefully put it on the table and pointed it after sitting next to him.

“Do you like it, Kimberly?” he pulled me closer to his hard chest, stroking my hairs gently. 

“The dress was fit lovely, Alex. How did you know my size? But the diamond watch was crazy, Alex. I can’t accept such gift.”

I recalled to the moment when the French man, who was one of personal shoppers of Alexander, brought me the adjusted strapped watch to the restaurant when I was with Carla as I forgot that he would come back again to my apartment for the watch. Luckily, he had my number. The man was silent about the price, but Carla browsed it and found out that it was worth over three million dollars. Our jaws were dropped. I was holding the box like holding my life that night. Carla kept interrogating me the whole night. She didn’t believe that I haven’t slept with Alexander when going to Niagara Falls. But she told me that I shouldn’t turn down Dylan so early as he was also such a catch. I rolled my eyes.

Alex was smirking, “Good thing I didn’t buy the most expensive one as we should preorder it months in prior.”

I shook my head, rich people problem, “I can’t have it, Alex. Please.”

“What should I do, Kimberly. Giving it to my dog? I don’t have a dog,” he said coolly.

“You don’t? Not even a cat? You don’t pet?” I asked. 

Oh, he probably has horses.

“I don’t. My family… They aren’t into animals,” he replied. 

“Oh.”

What a bummer. I want to have a cat at least if I don’t live in apartment.

“But I don’t hate animals, Kimberly. That’s two different things,” he continued. 

I smiled and held his arms, “I know, Alex.”

“So, you’re no longer mad at me?” he asked, stroking my hair gently with lovingly eyes.

“No, but still it was burdening me. Can you just return it?” I sighed. 

“Technically, we could if we found defect or the piece wasn’t unsatisfactory. But that’s going to put them in trouble,” he replied. 

I don’t want people to get trouble just because I don’t receive super expensive gift.

“What if you want it back when I already sold it?” I asked curiously. 

Yes, what if. 

I could buy my own apartment and donate more for the Student Foundation. Well, if he agreed, or we’re no longer together as deep in my heart, I wanted to value his first gift, passed it onto our children later? What a brutal thought, I hid my face into his chest.

He laughed, “It’s yours, do what you have to do with it. I won’t take it back ever.”

“Thank you, Alex,” I muttered softly. 

“So, are you going to leave now?” I asked softly, starting to feel sad.

“Not without your answer. Kimberly, will you go traveling with me next Friday night? Just bring your passport and everything will be taken care of,” he said calmly.

I raised my head up and stared at him, “Where to Alex? I have to work.”

“You’re free on the weekend, right? I’ll make sure that you won’t skip your work,” he smiled at me. 

That smile, his eyes. How could I say no.

“I’d love to, Alex. May I know where to go? I need to adjust the clothes,” I asked.

“Somewhere a little warm and wet. It’s a surprise, Kimberly,” he gave a peck on my bridge of nose and kissed my lips long and deep.

Nicholas’s POV:

I was watching my brother entering Kimberly’s apartment, they instantly met like two people longing in love. I had to watch my brother taking her into the bedroom. I was feeling the urge to shout fuckso hard, but I don’t want anyone to come to my room. Technically, his guest room. I kept staring at how they were making out so intense and felt a huge relief after seeing him ended their kisses only to watch him confessing his love to her. Her answer was like forever to me, I thought she would confess the same, but I’m glad she was playing safe. As I was watching them sleeping together, I cracked my phone in pieces, not realizing I had it clasped tightly. I threw away the bluetooth earphones to the wall. The reality hit me hard. She is into my brother. They have mutual feeling. It was only a matter of time before Kimberly confessing her true feeling and letting her body to be claimed by my brother. I was surprised myself when seeing a blood spot on my right knuckle. I touched it blankly then I was realized that I cried blood. 

I fuckingshed blood for Kimberly. 

I really have no time, so I ran as soon as possible to my father’s bedroom. I have to do this before my brother coming back.

I knocked once. 

I called him out through telepathy.

he answered.

I came into the dark room, he always like dim or dark places as his castle is situated underground. He was laying on his side on the wooden daybed by the big window with closed curtains in crimson red. I kneeled before him and kissed his right hand.

“What is it making you so restless, Son?” he asked.

I looked up to him with pleading eyes.

“Father, I am going to disappointed you. I’ve been disappointed myself too by admitting this,” I told him

He straightened up and pat my head, “Take a seat, Nicholas,” he ordered me which I followed.

“Father, I have met my mate,” I told him carefully, “She is a human,” I continued.

“A human?” his tone was abrupt and displeased. 

Just like I thought, he was more interested by the fact that she is a human rather than my mate.

“Yes, Father. Unfortunately, the fate brought me to a human,” I confirmed him.

He went still, “Are you going to make the claim official?”

“Yes, Father. I want to marry her as soon as possible,” I told him.

“I’m not happy, Nicholas. But I want you to be contented. Do it. You have my blessing,” his final word relieved me.

“Thank you, Father. But if I may, I request for your kind discretion to let the issue in secret as I do not want to be despised by others of claiming a human,” I lowered my head.

“No one dare to look down to my son!” he snarled.

“Still, Father. I do not need others to disturb the process in any way, not even my siblings, especially because the human does not know yet who I am nor our kind. I need time to convince her to be our kind before marrying her, but I need your approval to make me officially claimed on her. My apology of requesting to such burdening thing, Father,” I gave him my most sad face.

He hissed at me, “Give me her identity and capture her. I’ll talk with The Council before making your claim official.” 

I came at him, kneeled, and kissed his hand again, “Thank you, Father.”

I left his room with satisfied face. I have never thought this would be so easy. I just couldn’t wait to see my brother’s face when seeing me claiming Kimberly or even wedded her as he could do nothing about it. All I have to do now is a good plan as I don’t want her to hate me. I want her to love me just like how she showed it to my brother. I don’t think it would be difficult for her to adapt as we are twins. I could be gentle to her too if I have to. 

Marius’s POV:

After having Nicholas coming, I summoned Adrian Frumos. He must know about what was happening with my two sons as they made their quarrel obvious and I don’t need my children started the cold war or destroying reputation of our house. The House of Mircea. Adrian came with my loyal bodyguard, Mihai. They were both kneeled before me. Mihai then stood aside in the corner.

“Adrian,” I gave him my hand to kiss.

“My king,” he said after kissing it and I pointed to the seat in front of me.

“How long have you been in North America?” I asked.

“Fourteen years in Connecticut, Your Grace. For the purpose of forensic pathologist, and I moved to New York City recently,” he explained.

“Have you been encountered with my two sons before this werewolf thing?” I asked again.

“Yes, Your Grace. I have in several occasions as for Prince Nicholas when I was staying in Italy few years back then,” he answered.

“Good. Now I need you to gain information on my sons who are seemed to have interested to humans. On second thought, a human. Do you know something about it?” I looked into his eyes sharply so that he wouldn’t dare to lie.

“Not particularly, Your Grace. But Prince Nicholas did ask me about one human. A human woman. She is a surgeon in the hospital whereas Prince Alexander fixed the situation when one of his guard accidentally caused humans to have footages of our kind,” his information gave me clearer thought, but I want an exact situation.

“What is so interesting about this human?” I said it to myself.

He cleared his throat and was hesitate, “She is one beautiful little human, Your Grace. I met her once in the hospital.”

“Leave whatever you do now until I release you from my order. You will find out what relation between my two sons and that human and reported to me through Mihai. Use whatever resource if necessary. Mihai will arrange it for you. Remember, Adrian. What happened in this room stays in here,” I gave him final order.

“Yes, Your Grace. I will not disappoint you. Thank you for trusting me to have your honor,” he came to kiss my hand and left with Mihai escorting him.

I closed my eyes. Finally, my life started to live again, but in bad way. Alexander is the crown prince, he is already married with one good breed and even a rare born vampire. There is no divorce in our kind. Once they are married, they would stay forever, unless one of them were killed. My sons are most unique in our kind, they are the only born vampire twins, they both hold fascinating superpowers, and shared a deep heart bond. They were used to be inseparable siblings until they were being rebellious teenagers back then and it went worse when I ordered Alexander to wed Madeline instead of Nicholas fifty-six years ago. My eldest son has never visited us again after he accepted the arranged marriage. But if this human made it worse, I have no choice but interfering.

Madeline’s POV:

“Your Grace,” I kissed the king’s hands and then the queen’s as they were about to leave our castle.

the king talked to me with his piercing blue eyes.

I nodded and replied,

The queen didn’t say anything but giving me a stiff smile, her green eyes were cold and they just left. As I turned around to my husband after giving a bow to the king and queen, he wasn’t there anymore.

I called him out.

he replied.

I went to his study room and knocked on his door. He didn’t reply, so I went inside, but he was already gone. I sat to his chair, looking at our painting on the wall above the fireplace. Prince Alexander is one of most good-looking vampire I met. I was like almost died in breathless when my parents told me that one of the prince proposed to wed me. I secretly wished Prince Alexander to wed me as the other twin was quite famous to beséducteur. But ever since we had our wedding at First Ones’ castle in South Pole, the first time I set foot in there, Prince Alexander has been cold and avoided me. I thought he would change by the time, but it got worse as we rested separately. He said that I should sleep in his chamber, so I was waiting for him almost every day during our first weeks of marriage, but he just never came.

Was he angry with me?

I managed to reject Prince Nicholas’ seduction once as at first he came to offer me a help to please his brother.

Or did he know that I’ve been with someone else before? Was that the reason he didn’t want to touch me?

But I refused to believe such thing as his excuse as their family already knew that I was already engaged with Lord Henry Karlsson when they proposed me and my family was no doubt, choosing The House of Mircea over Karlsson.

Feeling annoyed, I went to the dungeon to check on the pregnant captured human.