*** AUTHOR’S NOTICE ****
(Due to some inconveniences the next three to four chapters would be written in first person point of view)
*** JEFFERSON’s P. O. V ***
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Immediately after I finished I collapsed on the bed. Many thoughts were running through my mind.
I was typically having the best day of my life.
I lay on the bed looking at the woman who now had her head on my chest looking at me in the eyes.
Her gaze made me smile slightly.
Though I had blood on my hands I wasn’t going to let anything happen to her. Though I knew it was a time before my enemies found me I would protect her.
My master would probably come to my aid once I get into trouble with the pack.
Because the last time I followed his orders I didn’t know why. But he asked me to leave a clue.
The woman on my chest knew not who I was. So I felt hiding it from her was kind of harsh.
Turning my head and looking into her eyes I whispered into her ears.
“I have something I want to tell you.”
“Shhh!”
She gestured using her hands to cover my mouth.
“Everything can wait. Am sure you’re also tired. Let’s rest.” She whispered.
“But…”
“No honey it can wait ” She interrupted me again.
I had no choice but to shut my mouth.
After that, I could hear her gentle breathing on my chest. She had fallen asleep already.
I didn’t know she was this tired.
As a vampire, I didn’t need to sleep
all the time to regain my energy.
I could just drink blood and regain my strength in a matter of minutes.
But I didn’t know why I just wanted to stop drinking blood after I met this girl.
But I knew it would be impossible because I had way too many enemies and I had to be strong to be able to confront them.
Though I wasn’t a good person and had killed a lot of innocent souls. I was just following the orders of that person.
He was the one who made me who I was and I didn’t want to betray him.
I sighed as this thought was going through my mind.
I looked at the girl sleeping peacefully on my chest and sighed. I knew I would die soon. My death wouldn’t take long. But I wanted to spend the last moment of my life with the girl I loved.
Well, it was a good thing anyway.
One would always face retribution for whatever one had done either good or bad.
I didn’t know how. But amidst my thoughts, I fell asleep drawn into a world of dreams.
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I didn’t know how long I had slept but the weeping of someone woke me up.
Immediately I sat up and looked around.
I was in the room but DeLorna was nowhere to be found.
Suddenly I heard the sons again.
Looking around the room no one was there. It was coming from outside the room.
Immediately I stood up and got down from the bed.
Immediately my legs touched the floor. My body became feeble. I could feel some kind of strange weakness spread in my body.
But I ignored the weakness and made my way outside the room.
Getting outside the room I was met with the shock of my life.
On the ground was the person who I loved with my life on the ground lifeless her head had been chopped off.
I fell to my knees weakly looking at the body without a head.
Suddenly I heard the cry again and immediately looked around as to where it was coming from.
It couldn’t be DeLorna that was crying her body was right in front of me lying lifeless and headless.
I raised my head and looked in the direction where the sound was coming from.
In the distance was a small girl sitting beside Rita’s head crying.
I hadn’t noticed her because I was so engrossed in my sorrow.
I guessed she must be Rita’s younger sister.
But she never told me she had any relative talk, more or less a younger sister.
I looked at the girl and shook my head in pity.
Standing up slowly and weakly, I staggered towards the girl.
My eyes were heavy as I struggled to stay awake. With each step I took, I could feel the word spinning but I held on and continued to walk toward the girl.
It was not until I was some meters away from the girl did she notice me.
Immediately she saw me staggering towards her she screamed in terror.
“Don’t come near!”
She continued shouting.
“Am not going to hurt you,” I replied weakly.
“No, get away from me you monster.” She screamed.
“No, I am not going to hurt you,” I replied.
“No, you are.” She screamed at the top of her voice.
Immediately I became confused by what she was saying. She was a sibling to the girl I loved. There was no way I would hurt her.
I stood confused on a spot looking at the girl who was now shivering in fear at the sight of me.
Was I so scared? I asked myself.
Though I knew I had committed many sins. I was careful enough not to leave a witness. I would finish off all who saw me.
“Why are you afraid of me? Am I not scary? Right.” I said, giving a light smile to the girl.
But this even made the girl shiver more in fear.
I couldn’t put my fingers on what was wrong.
I was sure the girl had never seen me. So why was she scared of me?
The way she was looking at me was as if she had seen a grim reaper. What the hell was happening?
Though I was standing on a spot. I felt I would soon collapse if I didn’t do anything to cure my weakness or something.
“Why are you scared of me?” I asked the girl some moments later.
Immediately I asked the girl this question. She looked at me with hatred burning in her eyes.
I wondered what had happened to this little girl of more than ten years of age who should have this amount of hatred in her heart.
“You killed my sister and you are also coming to kill me.” The girl replied after some minutes.
Immediately, my world started spinning. What did the girl mean?
I was sure I was sleeping all along before I was woken up by the girls sobbing.
Also, there was no way in hell I would kill the girl I loved. I couldn’t do that. And I knew that.
“W.. hat d.. o y.. ou m. ea. n,” I shuttered weakly looking at the girl.
The girl looked at me, her eyes still burning with hatred.
“You killed my only sister. My only remaining family.” She yelled.
“Me? Kill your sister?” I muttered pointing at myself.
I felt all her words were ridiculous to me. “Are you trying to blame me for what happened? Have always loved your sister and there’s no way I would kill her,” I said trying to defend myself.
“I had been sleeping all along and just woke up,” I continued.
Though I knew it was pointless explaining to this little girl. I felt it was all I could do to save my dignity.
“Lair!” The girl roared instantly.
“You killed my sister and even chopped off her head.” She roared.
I looked at the girl in surprise. Her actions were too much for her to be a little girl or as if she was possessed by someone who was controlling her.
“Am not lying,” I said weakly, trying to defend myself.
“No, I don’t believe you.” She yelled.
“Am telling the truth,” I said weakly. I couldn’t shout or yell at the girl because I was in no state to do that.
My body was getting weaker as time went on. And I felt I was slowly approaching my death.
I didn’t know if I was poisoned. But one thing for sure was that with each minute passing by, I was getting weaker and weaker.
“Then explain this.” The girl shouted, picking up a sword and showing it to me.
Immediately my eyes landed on the sword. I froze in shock and all I was about to say vanished.
How did the sword get here? I thought. I had only used the sword when I was going on a killing spree. I wanted to deny it but there was blood on the blade of the sword.
Though I wasn’t sure if the blood on the bald was DeLorna ‘s blood I couldn’t defend myself at this point.
First, the sword belonged to me. Second what in hell was it doing here? Had it grown a mind of its own and left where I kept it and killed DeLorna?
No, it was impossible. Swords were just inanimate objects no way in hell could have happened.
I was sure even a witch wouldn’t be able to make it happen.
Anyway, that was not the first thing right now.
What was disturbing right now was how to explain to the girl that I didn’t kill her sister.
I staggered towards the girl.
“Don’t come any closer ” The girl screamed immediately as she saw me walking closer to her.
“Am not going to hurt you,” I smiled weakly.
Though I knew my words were useless as she wouldn’t believe a thing I said I still said it to calm her.
Instead, my words were the reverse of what I wanted them to be.
Immediately the girl screamed seeing me coming closer. She was looking at me as if I was a devil.
“I’ll kill myself if you move any closer.” The girl suddenly said, bringing out a pocket knife and pointing it at herself.
I was only a few meters away from her. Immediately I saw this I stopped. I didn’t want to have an innocent death on me.
“Innocent? Hun?” I mumbled to myself.
I was never innocent and had taken many lives. So why was I feeling reluctant to see the girl threatening me to kill herself?
If I was not weak I would have super speed to her and collected the knife from her. If she knew who I was she wouldn’t be threatening me to kill herself. She would know if find it as a source of amusement when someone threatens to kill themselves because of me.
“Am not coming closer. Could you drop the knife,” I asked as gently as I could.
“No, I don’t trust you.” The girl replied.
I sighed and didn’t know what to say. I knew if it was an adult he or she would have discovered that I was weak from the way I was moving cause I was dragging my feet with force not walking.
Also, the spinning had become stronger and a very strong headache hit me.
Tears welled up in my eyes as I couldn’t endure the pain anymore.
I sighed. My endurance was slowly coming to a limit. I felt I wouldn’t be able to hold on any longer.
“Look over he’s the one over there.”
“Let’s go capture him quickly.”
“We must use him as an example so no one would try it again.”
“But he’ll kill us all.”
“Don’t you see the way he’s looking? He’s weak and doesn’t have any power to fight back.”
“Yeah, let’s kill him for the destruction he did to our village.”
“Yeah, he must die. We’ll burn him on the stalk in the market.”
Voices drifted into my ears.
Before I could look back I heard voices of people rushing toward me like angry bulls.
I wanted to run but I was too weak to do that. My legs wouldn’t move from a spot unless I dragged them.
I looked at the girl who was in front of me just to find out she had disappeared.
What the hell was happening? Was I hallucinating? Immediately I looked around and noticed that both my head of DeLorna and my body had disappeared.
I was in a completely different place.
What in hell was happening? I couldn’t understand anymore.
I turned to look at the villagers who were rushing at me.
Immediately I froze in shock. I recognized some of them. They were some of the people I had once killed when I went on my killing spree.
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