While the rest of the guardians are busy reporting to the council about their month, our team is also busy discussing what the news Damon brought for us. "Do you think it has something to do with our last mission?" asks Rust in a worried tone. "You're considering it too?" Lucifer seconded Rust's idea before he pointed his blaming glimpse at me. Guilty or not, I am the one indeed to blame if what they claim is the same news Damon referring to. But failing one mission is not enough for the council to punish us with something big. After all, team New Orleans has managed to accomplish ninety-nine out of the hundred missions successfully. "Come on, guys, relax your balls, okay?" Monbert tapped the tip of my shoulder to help me ease my hatred and anger toward Lucifer. "No one knows we failed our last mission unless one of us..." "Not me," Rust defensively whispered when our eyes were locked on him. "And why would I ruin my reputation as the King's nephew
Then, he opens the briefcase to take a look at what he can find inside. His glimmering eyes and jaws being open wide only prove that he just hit the jackpot. Who could not be? I patiently counted all the money that I saved for almost eighty years including the ten million dollars Madam Mayor gave me. Overall, the money in the two briefcases totaled forty-eight million dollars. Even with the two of them, the robbers could leave already. But I think they are up for something bigger. A bank always has money reserved in its vaults. "Who could have thought we could meet someone as rich as you, young man," he added before he ordered me to drop my knees on the floor. Then, he continued asking for the rest of the customers. Speaking of the customers, there were around fifteen of them including us. Mathematically, if I manage to save all of them, I could have at least fifteen more hours increase to my lifeline. Let alone the bank employees. Not bad when my vampire ba
As soon as my foot landed at the crime scene, my nose immediately smells the blood that stained the surface of the ground. Though I am not quite sure where it comes from when I could sniff two different types of blood all over the place. One comes from a man and the other is from a woman. "Help!" Someone seeks help. So, I followed the source of the faint sound. After two months of not being able to taste human blood or not seeing Cecelia, all my abilities started to go dormant again. Not that I don't want to, but my demon blood is not used to it since, especially when I no longer have a team to depend on. I need to survive alone. But in order to do that, I have to be strong. As soon as I found someone's body lying on the ground, I shifted my head in the other direction and calm my throat not to get a thirst for blood. "Help me, please," he added. "I don't want to die." I could not help myself from looking at the man when he is the first person I encountered to say that. Most
"Can't you guys hear me?" Maverick insisted. "You two have huge bodies but you can't hear me?" "I see." I inhaled deeply before smiling at them. "They cannot hear you, Maverick. How about I say, then you do what I ask?" We don't have much time left when the time clock above us says it's almost dawn. And in a few hours, the sun will rise. Since I started living in a condo, my body also adopted the nature of a true vampire who loves to sleep in the daytime. With the help of the air conditioner in the room, my body sleeps faster than I used to back in the bunker. And speaking of the bunker, that makes me wonder about what my previous team is doing at the moment. If by chance there were all out tonight and doing their humanitarian mission like me. Don't even know if the council still assigned them in New Orleans. But that is not one of my worries anymore. I have someone's fiancee inside the club who was reported to be someone dangerous. If something goes wrong, it
Cecelia's freezing stare cut deep down beneath my heart and soul. I did not expect to receive such a cold welcome after two months of not seeing each other. It was also the first time I caught up a glimpse of her terrified me. Perhaps her parents have something to do with it considering they forbade me to get closer to her at least meters from her. Needless to say, I accepted the ten million dollars offered by her mom but I could not uphold the terms and conditions. Leaving no choice, I reached out to the door and pulled it open. "Gaius?" an unfamiliar face suddenly breathed out my name as I was about to get back to the table where Ceceli's friends are having fun. "Right. You're Gaius the one who beat those bank robbers, aren't you?" She and her friends immediately surrounded me out of curiosity. I know nothing about any of them but their eyes are telling me that they will not let me go if they got nothing from me. Despite those wasted humans surrounding me,
All my senses started to elevate as soon as Cecelia's sweet and fresh drops of blood were dragged down starting from my mouth passing through my thirsty throat and we're stored in my hungry stomach. I could feel the immense current that crawled through all parts of my veins. My vampire got awakened again. Immense power and strength are two things in my possession after tasting her blood. That makes me wonder how fast and strong I could be once I could drain the entire blood in her body. As I was about to dig my fangs deeper into her wrist, I stumbled to the floor a few times until I reached the corner after getting a hard kick from Maverick. Not a friendly reminder or push, but a kick that resulted in me moaning in pain. Let alone he did not take off his rubber shoes while wandering my place. "What are you doing?" he stands furious but deep inside him lies a trembling muscle. "Are you trying to kill her?" I slowly dragged my gaze back to Cecelia and found he
Damon cracked up instead of getting worried when I slightly exposed his body to the rays of the sun. Though the sunlight was not that sharp yet, getting exposed to the brightness could still be enough to crack a vampire's skin. "Is that how you supposed to greet someone more powerful and important than you, huh, Gaius?" Damon uttered. "Put me down. You're just wasting your time. We are here to talk." So, it happens that I notice Damon wears a daylight ring as well. And I assume all members of my team are wearing the same thing. They were supposed to be sleeping by now, yet the three of them managed to head out and reached my place without worries or fears. "Then we'll talk here." I dropped his body away from me by force. Monbert and Lucifer followed while Rust is busy talking to Maverick. Maverick was already aware that anyone from the vampires should not know about Cecelia sleeping in my room. It is not just our eyes that can be linked with each other, but o
Before I pull the door close, I studied the hallways heading to my unit first to check if someone was watching. I have to make sure no one sees Cecelia leaving my place, especially team New Orleans. While observing the hallways, something came up to my mind. Considering the world is already dominated by high-tech equipment, I decided to install CCTV cameras in the hallways. In that way, my eyes could see everyone coming in and out of the unit ahead while lying in the room or even while reading books. Two or three CCTVs are somehow enough. And I still have enough cash left in my briefcase to buy them. After confirming no one hides behind the walls, I went back to my unit and found Cecilia in the kitchen with Maverick discussing something. I was pretty convinced they were talking about me when they were stunned and dumbfounded upon seeing my face. "What are you two doing?" I asked Maverick as I tried to ignore Cecelia's glance. Maverick let go of the knife a