Leonardo's POV
I admitted that I couldn't help noticing the tears in her eyes, even though I rarely saw them in Jenna's eyes, so I was totally unfamiliar with Jenna's tears. But this moment, I did not know the reason why my heart was full of this inexplicable pain when I saw her tears.
"Hold your tears, Huntress! I will not pardon you for those little drops of salty water! With me, you will always be guilty! YOU, get up!" I kicked Emily, the dying blood slave next to me, "Go to Luise and ask for some blood-filling medicine. Take it. The huntress still needs you to interrogate her."
Emily struggled to her feet. "Your Royal highness, You've drunk up Luise's blood. I can't go to him."
"Oh, yes! I forgot that!" I smiled, pulling over the chain nailed to the wall, and bound the huntress's hands firmly. I was afraid she should be too cunning, and escaped while we were gone!
She struggled a few times, but because of the wound, she could not succeed. "Save it, dear huntress! You will never ever escape from me! You'd better do exactly as I say and tell me the details, or the torture will be unpleasant!" With that, I took out a medicine bottle from my arms, poured out two of the pills, and gave them to the huntress. "Take them!" She turned her face away, not believing me.
"The huntress does not deserve the kindness to her, your Royal Highness!" Emily was there to object. "I don't want to hear you talk about nonsense. SInce Luise was dead, you can find another Luise. Is there any problem with that? Or you just want me to teach you myself?" I looked at the blood slave with some impatience.
"It’s all my fault, your Royal Highness! My nonsense words has disturbed your ears. I'll disappear in a minute." Emily said, raising her eyes slightly. There was hatred in her eyes, not for me, but for the huntress on the other side.
The sunlight outside was so strong that it hit the walls of the dungeon, and the white walls reflected the huntress's face. Once again her beauty caught my eyes. Her long eyelashes flickered and drenched her forehead with perspiration. Perhaps from pain, some of her perspiration flowed to the bridge of her tall, small nose, which dangled precariously at its tip. Bruising and residual blood were at the corners of her mouth. All of this was telling me that she was a beautiful woman. Her beauty was in a way that I couldn't ignore, and, crucially, I was fatally attracted to her body, whether for the smell or anything else.
I'd never felt this way about a woman other than Jenna. Even with Jenna, my heart would never beat again, but the damn woman in front of me was making me feel uneasy. No, she couldn't continue seducing me like this!
My thoughts were interrupted by Emily, who dragged herself back into the dungeon at some point. "Your Royal Highness, I have taken the blood-filling medicine as ordered, and now I can resume my questioning!"
"Good!" I needed fresh air to dispel my expectations for her. "If you do well, you might get three days off work, and I won't have to feed on you."
"Thank you, your Royal Highness! I would be so grateful!" Emily knelt and kowtowed to me in delight.
I turned my back without looking back at the huntress.To be frank, I dared not look at her in such a bright light, for Vampire sensitivity magnified all senses until it disturbed the things in my chest. But through the torture she remained tight-lipped and seemed to hold her breath. Never in the world had my authority been so questioned! An idea came to me. "I have never tasted the blood of such a tough bitch.
“How about you being my blood slave for the rest of your life, but at least you will keep your miserable life from ending!"
Echo 's POV
This Vampire was simply a crazy pervert! He sucked the blood of living people and turned them into his blood slaves. Moreover, he hypnotize slaves to do all the bad things willingly for him. I couldn't completely wake Emily up, even if she wasn't hypnotized by Vampires, but she was so full of fear and dread which actually made her "wake up" in no time.
She tortured me, whipped me, and woke me up when I was unconscious, then continued to torture me. I seemed to forget that I had been her rescuer. I even felt sorry for her losing parents to be orphaned. But I would never be threatened to confess out of something I didn’t do myself. Although it was painful, I showed no worries to her torture, for the clotting grass precipitate in my body and the medicine given by the Elder could make my wound heal quickly, at least in half a month. So I was planning to get out of here in the next two weeks.
But when the Vampire came to me and tried to make me surrender, Emily caught the chance to accuse me of killing Jenna and insulted me, even though she was dying herself. She even insisted on begging the Vampire to kill me immediately. No one in this world really believed in me anymore. The Vampire gave me two strange pills to take, but I didn't want to walk into his trap. I chose to ignore them.
"I don't know how many times I've told you that I DIDN’T kill Jenna, but if I had anything to do with it, it had something to do with me and the heart of Moonshadow!" I said feebly, not wanting to see the Vampire's face again, even if I could not erase the deep eyes beneath his flaxen hair in my brain.
"Oh, you seem to giving your answer to my question, but I'm sorry to say that I didn't even get a word from it!" He stepped forward and pinched my chin, forcing me to look up again, and I saw my shadow in his blood-red pupil. It must be a beautiful day outside, even the dungeon was so bright with the sun!
"Well, let me change the question. Where is the heart of Moonshadow? If I get it, would you help me bring Jenna back from the dead?" The question was so instructive that no matter what my answer would be, I seemed to fall into the trap he had set for me.
I can't answer NO. If so, he would take it that I did have the ability to bring the dead back to life but would not be willing to help him. In that case, death would be my fate! I didn't want to die. However, I could not answer YES, because the result must be that he asked me or himself to go to my family and steal the heart of Moonshadow. Whether he succeeded or not, I would be the ultimate subject of family trial. Finally I had to commit the double crime of stealing and assisting others to steal!
Consequently, I shut up tight and didn't answer his question. My behavior for keeping silent seemed to annoy him. He ordered Emily to torture me again. I tried not to make a sound.
"I have never tasted the blood of such a tough bitch. How about you being my blood slave for the rest of your life, but at least you will keep your miserable life from ending!"
I would never have expected such a request from a twisted Vampire! Was he so contemptuous of me that I would choose to be his blood slave to survive?
"That’s never going to happen! Unless you kill me!" I said firmly. Right now, the sun was shining high enough to reach my position. My feet bathed in the sun, and a strange thing happened!
The sun burned my feet just like someone pouring boiling water on my feet or a flame singed my skin. I felt extremely painful and almost died for this!
Please, Moon Goddess, save me now!
Echo 's POVPain! Pain! Pain! I'd never felt pain like this before. It was ten times worse than the lash soaked in salt water whipping on my body!"What's wrong with me? I pulled my feet back out of the light. "What happened? What did you do to me? !" I looked at the Vampire in anger.Surely, he must have done something to me! Is the whip in Emily's hand to do with it? Or... I looked at the Vampire with a puzzled face, and he looked at me with a smile and a hint of defiance."Perhaps your great Moon Goddess is punishing you! Aha!" Even Emily chose to stand aside, saying and doing nothing, as if hoping that I would be burned to death by the sun!I lifted my heavily shackled hands and stroked my burned feet. How strange it was! There were no scars on my feet as if I had just been dreaming! "How did this happen?" I checked carefully to make sure it wasn't my fantasy."That's a good sign." The Vampire stopped his smile and squatted down. His eyes were at the same level with mine. I saw hi
Leonardo's POVThis woman was acting like a Vampire! Did it mean that after she absorbed Jenna's Vampire power, she was going to be a Vampire, too? But we Vampires had never been like this before! No one could be a Vampire unless we suck blood and then resurrect them! Could a hunter's ring hold all that power? I chose not to believe that the heart of Moonshadow could do this, nor would I. However, I DID watch her wounds heal immeasurably."You keep questioning her. I need to taste some new blood." I motioned to Emily for another round of torture and quickly left the dungeon myself.Back in my room, I lay on the bed. Memoeries about the hunter came to me like tide hitting the shore. Her beauty, her dignity even in the face of torture, were deeply imprinted on my mind. To my surprise, Jenna's image was fading away in my mind,being replaced, step by step, by another shadow, and her image just vanished bit by bit!Thinking of this, my body was suddenly attacked by a flow of dry heat. I kn
Leonardo's POVWhat did I do? Making out in bed with this fucking huntress? This was definately betrayal, a betrayal of Jenna! Emily's screams woke me up. "Your Royal Highness, I... I'm sorry, I didn't know you were..." She apparently choked back, not daring to continue. I got up, found the bathrobe lying on the sofa and wrapped it around me. Then I turned my evil eyes on Emily. She dared to disturb me when I was in the heat of desire. She was now on her knees, trembling, and in my anger I kicked her hard."Get out of my room!" I was furious.When I turned around, I saw the stunned face of the huntress. Her hands around my neck were still frozen in mid-air and she could not lower them. She must have been woken up by Emily's cry, too. Seeing my eyes resting on her half-open collar, she hastily sat up and pulled her ragged clothes aside to cover them a little, but the more she did so, the more attractive she looked!"Huntress, listen to me!" I grabbed her by the scruff of the neck and c
Echo 's POVKindness in this world went in cycles, and I never thought that the people I had saved by accident would now return my kindness. I picked up the keys on the ground, unshackled the handcuffs and anklets. Then I began my directionless journey through the Illusion Fog. The Thorn Jungle was made all the more terrifying by the mournful cries of countless crows flying overhead. Although I was a tough hunter with all kinds of brutal training, I was also afraid when my heart iwas weak.The weakness of my heart came from the abandonment and betrayal that followed when I thought of my family and friends, which made my heart cold to the extreme. I might as well stay put because I was not sure if there was anything else chilling in the forest waiting for me. For safety, I chose to stand where I was now. As an old saying went, standing where you were was the safest option while losing direction."Roar!" Not far away from the depths of the jungle came the roar of a male Lion. Why would
Leonardo's POVThis woman, this crazy little woman, should spend two days in the Thorn Jungle! It was incredible! Not even the most powerful Alphas Werewolf could do that! And she was only a little huntress.I put on my defensive cloak and entered the Thorn Jungle at dusk. Only then could we Vampires be protected from the attack of The Illusion Fog. She was about to faint, and my heart was trembling! "You were really tough, aren’t you?" I couldn't help saying those ironic words to her. The next second, she was crawling up to me with her exausted and battered body, dragging me at the corner of my cloak and weakly said those words. "I didn't kill Jenna, I didn't..." Then she fell down and did not wake up."Hey! Hey! Wake up!" I squatted down and tried to wake her up, but she was probably hurt too badly to wake up in a short time. I picked her up. As she curled into my arms, I realized how tiny she was, almost a head shorter than Jenna. Now she was like a sleeping kitten in my arms. Her
Echo 's POVAfter eating the food, I seemed to regain the ability to survive. Human beings were different from Vampires. They needed the energy provided by food before they could accomplish what they wanted to accomplish. What I wanted to accomplish, of course, was ESCAPE!Emily watched me eating, though she hated it and even said bad words to me, I didn't have time worrying about that now. If she took my kindness as granted, I didn't have to bother trying to get her out of the control of the Vampire."Anything else? I'm still hungry." I began to make demands on her."What? That's not enough?" Emily looked at me with disdain, as if I were a homeless beggar on the street."No, not enough. I haven't eaten for days, you know. I need food." I begged her, for the sake of escape,I would choose to give up my dignity just for a while."Well, just wait for a second. I'll ask Your Royal Highness for permission. I don't want to waste food and be scolded by Your Royal Highness!" she said angrily,
Leonardo's POVThis time, after I told James to throw her into the dungeon, I didn't look at her at all. Or actually I dare not do that. I was afraid to look into her sad eyes. Every time I see them, I couldn't stop sinking into them.I hurried back to my room, and Nathan followed me into the room with the purple bottle. I didn't say a word, still angry that he had hugged Echo! I really shouldn't be angry! And I had no reasons to be angry! Especially with Nathan, even though he was a good friend of mine, I still didn't want to show him any different feelings towards humans, even hunters. So, I restrained myself."Is she your new blood slave?" Nathan was still pestering me about some of Echo's questions, and I didn't want to answer them."She is Nobody. Never mind!" I answered perfunctorily, and quickly changed the subject before I had a chance to amplify my feelings of discontent."But you don't look like not caring about her at all!" Nathan continued. I don't know if I had been a lit
Echo's POVIt was another dark night. Time seemed to pass so quickly when I was away from my family. My stomach began to growl again. Although I was, as they say, a tough and unyielding huntress, I could not avoid hunger and thirst, because it was the basic human need to feed myself and quench my thirst with water.Water...... I need water...But Emily hadn't been seen since she brought me the meal last time. I was a little irritated by the extreme thirst. After a whole day in the sun, the dungeon was like an iron pan on a fire, bubbling with heat that made me weaker and weaker. I was about to get dehydrated. Moments of despair were eating my conscience like a zombie met a fresh brain. In general, at a moment like this, I should be thinking about someone who had given me hope again. But I thought of Leonardo, the proud Vampire Duke. He hated me so much and probably wanted to kill me himself if I were not for possibly keeping the truth of how Jenna really died.Why was that? Why did I