Evangeline’s POV
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I was sitting on the tree, doing nothing. I had already texted Diana that I would be away from the pack for a while, so she didn’t need to worry about me, and I would share my location with her in case I moved from my current one. I was thankful that she didn’t nag me with the unnecessary question and gave me the space I needed.
I was still having a hard time believing what had happened.
Ivory was extremely silent after that. I knew she was more hurt compared to me because she had kept her expectation high. I would have kicked that jerk away from my life by rejecting him, but it was Ivory who almost begged me not to do so.
My Lycan was so much in love with her mate.
‘Are you mad at me, Ivory?’
‘Do you think that I have any reason to stay mad at you?’, She whimpered in pain.
‘Well, I didn’t tell you about your presence to them.’ I pointed out the reason.
‘I kind of know that why you did do so! You want to choose them for what you are, not because of me. I know werewolves look for the wolves in her or their mate. They get highly disappointed when their mate doesn’t have wolf-like humans, vampires, angels, witches, or demons. So, they ended up rejecting them or mistreating them.’
‘Thank you for understanding me.’
‘Do you think he will choose us?’
‘I don’t know, Ivory. I don’t know that he will choose us for just his wolf or for himself as well. I just don’t know.’
I didn’t tell her anything, but deep down, she knew that I was missing him already. The feeling of restlessness and hurt, which I had been trying to bury in my mind for half an hour, came back with full force. I started to feel the painful ache in my heart, a pain similar to the one which I had felt when mom left me.
What scared me more was my bond with mom was from her womb to seven years, while I barely knew Daniel for the last four days.
Just a small touch of him, and I used to feel a lot of tiny firecrackers in my whole body.
Just his gaze on me used to make my knees go jelly and knees.
Just snuggling into his arms used to make me feel complete.
I shook my head at all those thoughts. Was Ivory’s feeling affecting me, or were these my own feelings? Or was this what Daniel wanted to do to trap me in his web?
I doubt that I could ever let my guards down around him.
Now the situation between us was like neither did he trust nor did I. I wondered how things would work out between them when there was no trust in their relationship?
Was this the end?
Damn it! I couldn’t even get mad at him food the things that he did; all I felt was hurt.
‘I’m sure he will make it up for us. He will have to; otherwise, I will kick him personally.’
‘I hope so. And I hope this distance between us will help both of us to realize our feelings which are still unaware to us.’
‘By the way, are you really going to your biological father’s coven?’
‘I don’t know. I don’t even know where it is.’
“Fought with your mate?” I heard Silas’s voice again. He was standing on the tree beside me, folding his hand around his chest.
‘And there he is.’, Ivory scoffed. ‘Stay away from him or any other male. Even though our mate is a jerk, but we belong to him.’, She reminded me of which I rolled my eyes. I didn’t know Daniel’s mini version of him with him.
“No.”
“Your expression says the otherwise, tigress!”
“You’re following me,” I asked more as stated.
“Kind of yes! But to keep others safe from you, you know! You need to handle my eyes on you everywhere until your 20th anniversary, the day when you got your vampire powers.” I narrowed my eyes at him but didn’t say a word thinking this could be an important rule for new vampires. On the top of that, I didn’t want to lose my control and end up killing any innocent human especially.
“I want to visit the coven if I’m allowed to.”, I said, on which he didn’t say anything for a while and kept staring at me. “What are you looking at?”
“Nothing, just thinking something.”
“And what’s it?”
“That you’re definitely mad at your mate.”, He said, shrugging his shoulders. “And now, going back to your question, yes, you’re allowed to go there, but…
“But what?”
“It won’t be safe for you to go there because you are newly shifted and unmated in case something goes wrong, then I won’t be able to forgive myself.”
“You’re my guardian, right?” I asked to which he nodded his head. “Then won’t you be there with me in case something goes wrong?”
“Is that even a question?” he smiled, and I jumped on the tree on which he was standing.
Wow! Never did I think that I could be able to do something like this.
“So, Silas, after I will mark you, I will be able to feel your emotions, right?” I asked to which he nodded again. “Will you be able to feel my emotions as well?”
“No! I can’t until you want to share your emotions with me. It will be like you will have all the remote control of my feelings, but I will not have that remote of your feeling.”
“Great. This is what I wanted to know.”, Saying this, I grabbed his right wrist, just like he suggested to me before.
“Remember to bite me with your fangs, not canine. Because your werewolves bites are injurious for me.”
“Noted that. And keep telling me more about it.”, I said and held her wrist firmly up to my mouth.
“Your orders will be above everyone for me. And yes, a little amount of your power will be transferred to me as well. Just a little, not that I will also become the hybrid just like you.”
“So, you will be able to control the time, just like me, for a minute or something?”
“No. But I will get immune to it whenever you use your powers on me. It won’t work on me.”, he said truthfully. “Hold on! You have the power to control the time?” he asked in surprise.
“Umm…yeah! As for now. I only know how to freeze the time and then get back to normal.”, I muttered, biting into his wrist. He hissed in pain when I unknowingly injected my venom, or that’s how it works. I had felt the same time when I bit the rouge. It seems like it is normal to inject venom into the blood of the person whom I bite, just like a snake. Then I retracted my fangs from his wrist, waiting for his wound to heal, but it didn’t.
“You will have to lick it to form my guardian mark.”
“Okay!” I agreed reluctantly and licked his wound, and just like he had said, a small tattoo of fangs appeared on his wrist.
‘It is it. Next time, I won’t allow you to touch or lick some other man.’ Ivory growled in my mind before I could have said anything; Silas chuckled softly.
“What’s it?”
“I can hear your Lycan’s pissed voice. She is fond of her mate, isn’t she?”, He asked, on which Ivory growled in anger. “All right. I’m going to stay away from your human. And trust me, I will like to wait for my mate rather than hitting on your human.”, he added, making some distance between us.”
Ivory stopped growling at him and sat quietly in the backseat of my mind. I smiled at her behavior before speaking, “How can I block you from hearing my thoughts?”
“You have to concentrate in your mind.”, he responded. “It seems like I have to teach from ABCD of new life.”
“I can’t agree with you more.”
“Now come on, I will take you to my former master’s coven.”
“Former Master?”
“Yes! You are my new Master, tigress!”
Finally, I was going to meet that person whose blood was in my vein.
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I would never have imagined that the coven in which I was going to was under the ground. Not just me, but no one could have ever thought of it. But then again, I had thought that they would be living in darkness, but they were artificial light all around the passage.
I followed Silas in the passage with my superhuman speed, and when it ended, we were standing in the big mansion surrounded by mist and the forest.
“This is also one of the gifts of a vampire which we use for safety.”, Silas explained.
“Oh, okay! How many vampires stay here, by the way?” I asked, looking at the size of the mansion.”
“227 excluding you, and if you count humans, then just 401 excluding you again.”
“What are humans doing here? Are they their mates?” I asked, walking with him on the way toward the mansion. Since he was with me, no one asked about me things though they were looking with curious eyes.
“No. They are the vampire’s pets. Just like humans keep dogs and cats as their pets. Only the difference is that vampires feed on their pets.”
“But you had said that drinking human blood is forbidden.”
“Please forgive me for missing one word in that sentence,’ drinking human blood without their permission is forbidden.'”, he corrected himself, on which I glared at him. “Do give me that look as if you are all innocent. You will also drink your mate’s blood when you will get comfortable with him.”
I shook my head, “I won’t do that. I will never hurt him or kill him by sucking all his blood.”
“Oh please! Mark my words! You won’t be able to control your thirst when you will be near your mate. And feeding on him doesn’t mean killing him by sucking all his blood. It means sucking only the limited amount of blood from him which won’t harm him, and in case you won’t stop, then…that can be a problem.”
“But vampire venom’s are position for werewolves and vice versa.”
“I agree, but there is an exception when they are mates.”, he explained and saw a few dead bodies of humans was taken away by one single vampire. “Seems like their masters can’t control their hunger.”
“What can be the reason that these humans willingly become vampire’s pets?”
“Money and their poor living standard. That’s why sometimes they willingly throw themselves in this hell and sometimes their loved ones.”, Silas replied nonchalantly, but I really felt bad for the poor humans.
By that time, I had reached the hall of the mansion. Immediately something burst loudly, startling me a little. And the next thing I knew, a lot of flower petals started falling on me.
I looked around and found everyone gathering together, looking at me happily.
‘Don’t tell me that they are happy because I look like food to them.’, I asked Silas through telepathy and felt a little weird because this was the first time I was doing something like that.
‘No. They are just happy that their Master’s only BORN child is here.’
‘But how did they know that I was coming here? Do you tell them about it?’
‘No. Tigress! But Perhaps I knew how they could figure out about your arrival. Vincent, your kind of brother, has a gift of a glimpse of the future.’
“She’s the one. She’s beautiful. Whom do you think she will choose as her mate? Obviously, me, no me, no me”, I could hear the various type of whispers, and Ivory started growling in anger hearing all this.
I looked around, searching for one particular vampire who could share something familiar with me! Ivory was actively searching him to find any scent which was familiar to mine.
“Eva!”, A short vampire. I mean, not that short, but he was hardly 5’5 to 5’6 while I was 5’7 or a little more. “How do you like the little surprise?”, He asked with a small smile on his face.
‘He is Vincent. The first human who was converted into a vampire by your father.’, Silas said before I could have asked.
“Hello, Brother.” I returned him the same small smile. “You already saw me coming, didn’t you?”
“Well, I just saw the glimpse of what was coming.”, He said and forwarded his hand to touch me, but he hesitated a little, so Iean forward, letting him touch my cheek. He caressed my cheek and pulled his hand away before speaking, “I’m glad that you came here to stay with us by leaving that stupid Alpha.”
Everyone hooted in happiness after hearing him while I just furrowed my eyebrow at his choice of words.
What did he mean by that?
But before I could have said anything to stop them, everyone became silent on their own, and their body stiffened except Vincent. My eyes followed everyone’s gazes and stopped a man in a long black jacket who had just arrived.
His entire being radiated power; his stance demanded everyone’s attention, and his eyes on everyone were so deadly that there was pin-drop silence in the hall. No one could say that this was the same place where all these vampires were hooting like an audience in the stadium. But all thoughts immediately flew out of my head as his eyes landed on me.
There was nothing common between us.
I had taken almost everything from my mom.
But I knew.
I just knew…that this vampire was the Coven’s Elder, the Master which Silas was talking about. Not to forget, this vampire…was my biological father, Orpheus.
“Vincent, when you knew that she was coming here, then why didn’t you do anything to stop her?”, He asked in a deadly calm voice. Ivory could tell that he was controlling his anger.
“Father, I saw the glimpse of her leaving her mate. So, I thought she was coming here forever.”, he explained, but that’s when I opened my mouth to clear his doubt.
“I’m not here to stay permanently.”, I said. “I will go back to my mate. I have left him for a while, not rejected him.”
Immediately Vincent’s body stiffened hearing it. He looked at his father, who was giving him a ‘what the hell have you done’ look.
“I…I thought…”
“I had warned you not to bring her here until her mate turned out to be a jerk; in short, he REJECT her.”, He yelled, and everyone quickly ran away from there, resuming whatever work they were doing before.
“Father, I misunderstood the things by seeing the glimpse of the future.”
“Silas, take her from here as soon as possib…
“That’s no use of that. They are already here.”, Vicent said, cutting me in between.
“What are you talking about? I’m sure whatever it is, it is related to me.”
“Well, today is the unexpected meeting of the nearby ten covens of the vampire, and it will be held tonight. When they will see you here, they will surely suggest someone good enough for you. I mean a suitable groom…”; he didn’t complete the rest of the sentence seeing how my eyes would have started changing because Ivory was damn too furious right now.
“Is this meeting will cause any problem in my life?” I asked, gritting my teeth and looking at my biological father.
“Yes and No.”, He responded.
“No, because none of the vampires will harm you in any way, knowing that you belong to our coven. Yes, because after knowing to whom you are mated to, they will try to kill your mate so that they can have their chance with you.”
‘This stupid brother of yours has put the lives of our mate at stake.’, Ivory growled.
‘As if we will let that happen. Calm down, now.’
“Okay!” I nodded my head.
Silas smiled, looking at me before speaking, “I need to start thinking unexpected things because you always do something that’s opposite to what I think.”
“Sorry to burst your bullshit bubbles again.”, I grinned.
“You’re not mad at me?” Vincent asked softly.
“For overthinking, YES. For making the decision of my life on your own, YES. And I have already planned two punishments for you.”
“Punishments?” he asked in shock.
“Yes. Punishments, if you want me to talk with you ever in your life.”
“What’s it?”
“First, you will help me in case, because of your stunt, vampires plan to attack my mate’s pack, and second you will help me with my powers.”
“Done.” Vincent smiled widely. “Now I can see how father fell in love with your mother.”, he said, caressing my cheek again.
That’s when my gaze turned from him to the person who loved my mother once, or maybe he still used to love her.
Could I ask him why he never returned when he was alive?
Well, I knew somehow knew the answer already.
“Hmm.. who’s the outsider here with this amazing smell of blood?”, Everyone’s head turned in the direction of that voice and found 27 vampires dressed all in black.
Were they the vampires who were going to join in the meeting?
I could see a pair of twenty-seven eyes looking at me hungrily. Immediately Silas stood in front of me, forming scowled expressions on many of the faces.
“Whose pet is she, Orpheus? I want to buy her.”, The same vampire asked, still trying to look at me.
“She is not anyone’s pet but my daughter, Elder Alaric, but my daughter, Evangeline. And she’s not a human; she is just masking her scent.”
“You have a daughter? You never introduced her before.”
“That’s because she is a newly shifted vampire of four days.”
“But I can hear her heart pumping in her chest. How did she be a vampire when her heart is still alive?”
“That’s because she is a hybrid. Just like I used to be.”
“That’s a piece of great news. I was looking for a perfect bride for my son.”, He chirped.
Before my biological father could have replied, I spoke instead, pushing Silas on my left side, “I’m sorry, but I’m already taken.”
“Seems like you don’t know the basic manners, young lady, that when you elders are speaking, then kids like you should keep your mouth shut.”
“Oops! Too late for manners tuition!”
“Elder Orpheus, you should teach some manner to your daughter. I’m staying within my limit because of you; otherwise, I won’t take a second to teach her a lesson.”, He said, on which my father gave me a ‘keep quiet’ look.
“Please don’t mind her words. That’s a different thing that she was not wrong.”, he said, supporting me indirectly. “It’s too late to give a lesson on manners. And I doubt that she will like to take that lesson from that father who was never on her side. Now it’s her husband’s job’s to handle her.”
“And who’s that unlucky person?”
‘Please don’t.’, Silas commented before I could have opened my mouth again.
“Alpha Daniel Grint.”, My biological father commented on which he narrowed his eyes first and then nodded his head. “I think we should continue our meeting, for which we are here.”, he added, showing them the way where the meeting would be held.
“Won’t she attend?”, The same vampire, I believe Elder Alaric commented. “Since she is shifted four days before. I doubt she has any idea about things going around in the supernatural world. I’m sure her mate will be facing the same issues which we are.”, he added.
The moment he mentioned our mate, the ear of Ivory’s raised like a rabbit.
‘We should attend the meeting.’, She suggested.
No doubt my wolf was head over heels in love with her mate.
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#TBC