Fragrance in the neck

Leonardo's POV

Damn the hunters!

From the day we Vampires rose, the hunters should never have been left alive! Otherwise, today, I should be married to my beloved Jenna and live together happily for the rest of my life! However, it was because of her, this pretentious woman who had ruined all this!

Without hesitation, I bit her neck and blood ran down my lips. The smell was so familiar. It was Jenna's smell. Oh! That sweet smell! My mind was confused and I was totally mistaking her for Jenna! I turned the bitting and sucking at the beginning into a gentle kiss in the end. How I missed the time with Jenna!

All of a sudden, a voice of groaning softly came in my ears. "Ughm!" The strange voice pulled me back to reality. No! She was not Jenna but that fucking disgusting huntress.

"You seemed really easy to fuck, right? What a disgusting bitch!" I recovered myself and spat a mouthful of bloody spit at her side. Then I took out my handkerchief and wiped my hands and lips.Every time I was with her, I felt sick, let alone touching her with my own hands.

"Will you tell the truth now, huntress?" After I wiped my hands, I smacked the handkerchief at her feigned effeminate face, though it did not look displeasing. Instead, it even had some sort of tenderness and innocence.

She had no strength, and tried unsuccessfully to sit up straight. She feebly replied, "It wasn't me! I didn't hurt Jenna! She was my best friend."

I wanted to say something ironic, but I noticed a tear from her large twinkling eyes rolling down her white cheek, like a broken pearl. Damn it! Why did my heart thumped unsteadily, again!

"Your majesty Castile, the Elder, had personally admitted that you were responsible for Jenna's murder! Will you deny it in front of my face?"

"I did not kill Jenna, and if I had anything to do with her death, it was because of the ring!"

Her quibbling annoyed me so much that I squeezed her chin again so hard that she could look straight in my eye.

"Listen, Huntress! I'm not in the mood of listening to your immoral nonsense! I have ways of tormenting and destroying you! Tell me the whole story about how you killed Jenna and the legendary Heart of Moonshadow ring. I’ve heard about its magic that it was actually powerful enough to bring the dead back to life!"

Under the pressure of my palm, the woman raised her jaw slightly, and her eyes were losing their supposed vividness, as if she were dying. By the light, I began to admire her face. There was no makeup on her face, not even the smell of any perfume. She was so cool and calm that even when she was dying, there was no sign of her pleading. Her nose was slightly straighter than Jenna's, but her mouth was much smaller. Fortunately, I liked women with full lips.

"Hum!" Seeing her silent, I sneered, "I’ll let you off tonight. Think about what you're going to tell me tomorrow!"

I climbed the steps and slammed the iron door of my cell shut, leaving the chains creaking painfully in the air.

Echo 's POV

When the Elder turned his back on me, my heart was dying. The man I trusted and always looked up to, actually abandoned me.

I was taken back by the Vampire Duke to the basement of his castle, where the smell of dead rats filled my stomach. Now I was like a fish on a chopping board. There was nothing I could do but wait for his cutting me.

Sure enough, he began to torture me again, strangling me and drinking my blood.

Wait a minute! What was he doing?

I could feel his thin lips gently kissing my neck. Though the blood was still flowing, the strange hemostatic that had long been in my body was starting to do its work and stopped the flowing. I could feel his breathing getting faster and faster, as if the next second, something was going to explode.

I had never experienced anything like this. I froze for a moment, unable to move, and even unable to control my throat to make a slight grunt. Then, as if struck by something, he suddenly stopped what he was doing to me and insulted me with dirty words. He hated me! He even spat on me and gave his last orders-- if I was not plan to tell the truth tomorrow, he would do more damage to me than I dare to imagine.

I didn't want to be so destroyed by him and even br tortured to death! But how could I admit to something I had never done! Cursed, abandoned, unbelieved! Those were unhappy life of mine! I struggled for all this through the night. Thinking back what I was in the past, a brave, smart and agilely huntress rushed into my mind. I used to have nothing to fear but the disappointment of Uncle Marcus and the Elder Casstile. Because in my heart, they two were the ones who thought highly of me and put all heart into my training just for the future heirship. I might be the leader of the whole hunter family.

Now? Chains and locks kept me here in the dark dungeon, stopping me to be herself. I even couldn’t get up on my feet. Was there anyone who could come to my aid? No. No one and nothing.

The next morning, the sun shone through the high bars of the dungeon. He arrived as promised and walked gracefully up the steps. Her flaxen hair seemed to glow golden in the sun. The facial features are more solid because of the cold personality. He put his hands behind his back, as he always did. His straight spine seemed to make an announcement to the world how noble he was.

When he came closer, I saw that he had something in his hand. "Huntress! Are you willing to tell me all about it? Or do you want to stay with these dead rats?" As he spoke, he drew a sharp dagger from his back, with a tinge of purple on it, which startled me.

"Your blood is delicious! Of course, I speak for my dog! I just feel sick! So today, let me save some more for my lovely Collie!" He said with a smile. Then he grabbed my right hand and quickly cut my wrist.

The blood began to flow like a river. I hurried to stop it, but no matter how hard I pressed it, it did not stop. How weird! Unexpectedly, it turned out that those purple things were vervain! He was a Vampire and not afraid of vervain! But I was scared! Because vervain works against the coagulant that was built up in my body, it was causing me to bleed nonstop.

At this moment, a fierce dog, smelling blood, rushed into the dungeon. Woof Woof! It screamed and came at me. I fought back, but I was bitten all over and blood was still flowing.

"Shhh! Timbo! Lick the blood clean and get down." At his command, the dog obediently licked up a pool of blood on the ground and left the dungeon. My consciousness began to fade from the loss of blood.

"Now you say." He wiped the dagger with his handkerchief. The purple liquid was cleaned also.

"Do you think I have anything more to say? I don't know anything!" Even though I was a candidate for the heir to the hunter family, I really did not know how to use the Heart of Moonshadow. The only thing I knew was that it was extremely powerful.

"I should like to see how hard your mouth is! Come!" At his command, a lithe girl with a pale face came over.

"Just ask her how she got Jenna's Vampire power? And how can the Heart of Moonshadow bring death to life?"

"Yes, your Royal Highness." The girl knelt down and began the first round of torture.

She lashed me with a saltwater whip at the spot where the dog had just bitten me. The pain made me wish I was dead, and the salt-swallowed pain made me beg for mercy.

"Say it! Say it out loud! How did you kill Jenna? Why did you keep her power in your body? How did the heart of Moonshadow bring death to life? Say it! Say ir!" She mechanically repeated every word and every movement of the lash. I knew immediately that she was hypnotized by a Vampire.

"Please stop! I’m begging you! I can't bear it!"

She was as deaf as ever, showing no intention of stopping, even if I could see and feel that her own strength was draining away. While the man was leaving, I stood up with all my strength, and  feeding the vervain from the wound to the girl along with my blood. Vervain can dishypnotize Vampires. She soon came to herself.

"I'm sorry, your Royal Highness, I was wrong. Please punish me! I'm sorry!" Her fear was a conditioned reflex of prolonged abuse.

"Who are you? Have you been insulted and tortured by him?" I cared about her for she was as poor as me.

The girl looked up and I saw a pair of eyes full of hatred. "Bitch! I finally get a good chance to revenge for my villagers!"