Kaleb POV
Her words rang in my head as I licked her taste off my lips. I’d intentionally sucked some of her energy to show her how dangerous I could be but as a result now I had her taste in my lips and her essense in my blood.
I clenched my hand on the wheel having already started driving ten minutes ago with Kim silent besides me. It wasn’t just sweet and simple, it was also addictive. I could feel her energy inside me. Incubi are immortal the energy we need to keep on living is far more than what a human needs in their lifetime. Which is why I can only sleep with the same woman a maximum of seven to eight times, ten for the strong ones but any more they die there and then, their body shiverking up with no left in the cells.
An image of dried up Kim flashed before my eyes and I clenched my jaws in agony
Kaleb!
Kim cry from besides made me pull over on the road side only to have her dab at my chin with her handkerchief. When the white of the cloth stained with red I realized that I had bitten the inside of my lips while gritting my teeth.
“Why did you do that?” She asked leaning towards my side to inspect my lips carefully
“Why-?”
I caught her fingers in my hands, pulled down my lower lips and showed her the already healing wound. Her eyes widened in disbelief as the wound closed up in a few seconds to leave my lips look as though nothing ever happened.
“How?” She whispered but then answered her own question “you’re immortal”.
“Not all are” I told her the truth since she was my scribt, she’ll need to know more “there are some who choose to far away by putting an end to their energy consumption”
“Why?” She looked at me with wide green eyes that showed the purity of her soul. Kimberly was supposed to have a long happy life. This is why I didn’t want her to be my scribt. If she stays with me she’ll have to experience things that’ll change her life for the worse….. and I didn’t want that kind of life for her.
Which is why I decided that after she served the three years mandatory contract at my company, I’ll erase her memories of us, erase everything she feels for me and send her in her way. She deserved better.
“They find someone special that mean more to them than staying alive for centuries”. I answered her question.
“And you can’t be one of them”.
“No” she was so easy to read. Her eyes reflected everything that went on in her mind. “I’m their Prince, the heir apparent to the throne. I can’t afford to fade away.”
“Why am I not surprised anymore”
“You’ll get used to it”. I told her before starting the car. We had a destination to reach and we were running late.
Kim will learn to conceal her feelings, she has to or there would be several who would want to use her against me. As I drove to the hotel , I stole a look in her direction and found her staring straight ahead as if in a trance. For a long time I had believed that my heart was dead after everything that Trevina did to me but today almost two hundred years later, I felt that heart become heavy. Today I’ve done the same thing to Kim, I crushed her feelings but this was the right thing to do.
Erick’s POV
I crouched on the ground next to my head of security, Kendrick, hidden behind the shadows
cast by the tall trees. No know would know we were here neither the humans nor vampires.
“Are you certain?” I asked Ken in a voice only he could hear from where he stood a few feet away from me to the right.
Ken nodded, clothed in a black turtleneck that was bullet proof, I was also clothed in dark as well, dark blue jeans and a deep grey t-shirt with a similar dark cap on my head to hide my blonde hair. As we looked forward, we saw an abandoned warehouse with no indication that it had been occupied for years, expect there it was again…. a whimper followed by another different voice, a male one.
The whispers were rare, hard to pick up if you didn’t have super hearing or if you didn’t stay in the same place for too long but they were definitely here. Someone was holding people captive. Vampires.
Kendrick had tracked down this place a week earlier. We’ve been looking through the missing vampire list that we believed to have fallen victim to the Ancient mage, Tuhin’s hunger. That Ancient had devoured the hearts of hundreds of vampires while trying to regain full strength.
Thankfully my wife Alina had killed that son of the bitch at the right instant by thrusting the Artic Blade, an ancient weapon cutting him in half. We matched the DNA of the dead with nearly 93% of the missing vampire records, a small had been found on the leftovers of what we used to build the temple to worship ancients.
Those vampires had all vanished for the last two years when Tuhin was awake and needed refueling. It had occurred to us later that not all the vampires went into hiding. Someone else was at work here and they were capturing my people.
I lifted my hands and signalled for my soldiers, who were standing a few meters behind us and within the blink of an eye, the ten highly trained vampires rushed past us and tore down the door of the warehouse.
Ken and I followed behind them making sure no one escapes but when we heard no voices from inside we picked up our speed and found the warehouse nearly empty.
“Search every corner!”I commanded my men
Ken and I headed in the direction of five cages that lined the back wall. They were small, fit to hold only small animals which is why the vampires in it where curled at fetal position. There was a saline stand next to each cage and heavy amount of sedatives were being pumped into their blood every minute. Two out of the five captives were dead and the remaining three, two women and a man all nude were barely clinging onto their lives.
“Erick” Ken called and opened up the cages.
Once opened I teleported the injured ones to our healers all at once. When I returned back to get the dead bodies all the guards had solemn looks on their faces.
“Nothing?” I asked
They all shook their heads.
“Stay up here until the back up team arrives with their testing equipments.” I told them and then teleported out with the shrunken bodies.
When I returned to our healer, Alina was already there waiting for me, her eyes welled up with tears as she helped our healers lay down one of the girls on a bed and covered her with a white sheet. I placed two dead vampires on a separate bed so that can perform an autopsy on them.
“Erick!”
I opened my arms when she came to me hugging me tightly. Alina was the princess, soon to be Queen if our people she needed to be here for the injured so that they can recover. So they could believe they were safe.
“It’s empty. It’s like no one ever went there. Someone must have Ken snooping around and decided to abandon the location before they get caught. Those bastards!”
“No matter how clever they are they are bound to make some mistakes and when we find those mistakes we’ll find those bastards as well” said my gentle wife.
A week later the nine humans whose DNA were recoverd from the warehouse were traced down and when we reached the house, we found them all dead, throats slit open and blood splattered across the wall.
Whoever we were up against was one step ahead of us and that’s when I realized….. we had a traitor in our midst.