As he left, he touched his neck just to find that his locket was missing. His mother had given him the same to help him control himself from using the supernatural powers that he possessed due to being half human and half vampire. He immediately dialed his mother’s number, but then her smart phone kept ringing. Unfortunately, there was no reply. He searched for the keys to his house in his pocket.
“Oh damn! I just forgot the keys at home itself. I will go and look for it in the hut once. Perhaps it slipped off my neck while I was asleep last night,” he thought.
But although he rummaged the entire hut, he failed to find his locket. He waited for a while for his mother to return, but then he wondered where she went, as she hadn’t returned for almost an hour. He decided to move on without his locket.
I was still in the hospital, and I was feeling weak, perhaps due to extreme blood loss, but then I wondered who had saved me. I could see the needle inserted into my vein in my arm. The other end of the tube was connected to a bag of blood. I wanted to go out and find the truth about Ben and Sara. No matter how hard I tried, I could not resist thinking about their relationship. Ben drifting apart from me was a thousand times more painful than the health condition that I was facing. I felt like pulling the needle and tube away and escaping from the hospital just to get a glimpse of Ben’s face.
“Doesn’t he care for me? He must have gotten the information already that I met with an accident and am hospitalized! Still, he didn’t turn up. There was something cooking between Ben and Sara for certain.” I thought.
The feeling grew stronger, and then, without realizing it myself, I pulled at the needle and left the tube dripping on the bed. Within seconds, I was at the door, just to see Ben enter inside.
One of the nurses rushed to me immediately and took me to my bed. She made me sit on the chair while they cleaned up the mess that I had created.
“What the hell did I do? Had I known that Ben was arriving, I would have pretended to be unconscious.” I thought.
Ben was accompanied by another tall and handsome man behind him. I wondered who that could be. I felt greatly relieved by Ben’s sight. Finally, he at least thought of visiting me. But then last night, he danced with Sara. He had almost insulted and humiliated me. How could I just forgive him for that? I would have lost my life yesterday if the anonymous guy had not saved me. I decided to ignore him and pretend to not have noticed him.
Ben looked at the blood bags all around him. He missed his locket. It seemed impossible for him to keep himself under control. “I wish I could have the bags to myself. What to do with the craving that is swelling inside my heart for drinking that blood?” I will immerse myself in emotions so that I don’t behave like a vampire. Those emotions will help me keep behaving like a human,” he seemed to decide within his mind to get himself out of the predicament he seemed to be in.
I felt a hand on my shoulders as I was sitting on the chair. I expected a nurse, but then I turned back to find that Ben was filled with emotions as he laid his hands on my shoulders. I felt as if all my stress had vanished into thin air. If he touched me for a few minutes, I might not even need any treatment. But I was too upset with him, and so I simply jerked it off.
“I am sorry, Anne. If you want, you can suspend me. But please don’t behave so rudely to me.” He said this as emotions seemed to be filling his eyes.
“Oh! So it is the fear of losing your job that has brought you here. Weren’t you with Sara the whole night?” I asked curtly to hurt him deliberately. He had hurt me to such an extent that my heart ached. I got intoxicated just because of his indifferent attitude. Didn’t I have the right to hurt him a little as well?
“You can think it the way you want, Anne, if it pleases you and satisfies your ego.” He said he was looking straight into my eyes. He had never made such eye contact with me earlier. He had always looked down or with respect while talking to me; he had a complete professional attitude. I was surprised, and it felt soothing to look into his eyes. I felt that I could get immersed in it for my entire life.
He put his hands on my shoulders. I experienced positive vibes immediately and felt much more relaxed. The pain that I was feeling due to physical injuries healed, to a great extent.
His friend was sitting beside him. He coughed aloud, as if he wanted to make his presence felt.
“Meet my friend, David. He was my childhood friend. My car had broken down, and so he just gave me a lift.”
“Hi! It was nice to meet you. I hope you get well soon. Ben was worried about you throughout the way, and he was in a hurry to meet you as soon as possible.” David said it with a naughty expression on his face.
“It is natural for me to get worried, right? She is the CEO of our company. If she gets hospitalized, our company might face huge losses.” said Ben, stamping on David’s foot.
“You wanted to visit Doctor Estella, right? I will introduce you to her. She will help you with your health issues.” Ben forcefully led David to the corner where Estella was checking on a patient.
I could see Ben introducing David to Estella. I couldn’t hear what they were saying as I was in a private ward. But I just felt that David and Estella looked great together. David was tall, had sharp features, and had a smile that could win several hearts. He seemed to be a cheerful, happy-go-lucky type of person. Estella was serious and sincere. But then she was beautiful and charming.
I could see Ben returning to my ward. He came and sat near me. He helped the nurse get the needles injected into my nerves all over again for a blood transfusion. But all the while, I could notice that he was quite uneasy.
“The sight and smell of the blood again and again will trigger me, for sure. I will soon take on my vampire form. I will have to think of some ideas to get out of here.” Ben thought as he helped the nurse.
He helped me lie down comfortably and adjusted the needles accordingly. “I will meet Estella and David and will be right back.” Ben said as he headed towards the ward in which Estella was examining David. To his surprise, what he saw was David embracing Estella, and she had dropped her stethoscope on the floor of the room. Ben coughed aloud to make his presence felt as he entered the room. At once, Estella pushed David apart as she blushed. Their position and Estella’s blushing face just described everything. “She was just checking my heartbeats with the stethoscope, and she stumbled and fell over me; that’s it. Please don't look at us like that, Ben,” exclaimed David as he tried to hide his feelings. “I know you very well, David! It is foolish to hide things from me. Isn’t it love at first sight?” asked Ben. “I must leave. I need to attend to other patients.” Estella said as she hurried towards another ward. “I forgot for a moment that it’s simply impossible to hide anything fro
When I woke up, I found myself on the bed in my room. I faintly remembered the events that had occurred the previous day. “It was evening when we were in the cab heading towards my bungalow. But what happened after that? I slept off, did I? I don’t just remember anything. Did Ben take advantage of my situation?” I tried to recall as I looked at myself. I was in my nightgown. “Who changed my clothes? What did Ben do to me?” I started getting worried already. I looked all around the room, but I couldn’t find him anywhere. I wondered where he went. I was filled with rage at him. My mind was already storming with a million questions about Ben’s character.I started breathing deeply, trying to release my frustration. I threw the vase right on the floor, breaking it into pieces. Tears rolled down my cheeks at the thought that Ben had betrayed me.“No wonder he was dancing with Sara that night. He is a characterless person who just uses girls and then dumps them.” My wrath knew no bounds, an
“You should better ask him. But if the locket is Ben's, then the chances are that he might have saved you. There seems to be something mysterious about him, Anne. I don’t know why, but I have felt a couple of times that he is extraordinary. I mean, I don’t understand how a man can overturn a truck with his hands. And the day when he saved you from the chandelier falling over you, he wasn’t even watching behind you, and how did he sense that it was about to fall? Whether you accept it or not, there is something cryptic about him.” Lily opened her heart to me finally, but I was so dumb not to listen to her. I took her so lightly that time. Had I been serious, I wouldn’t have lost my best friend and secretary, Lily, forever.Ha..ha.. What a joke, Lily! If he is extremely powerful, that doesn’t mean that he is mysterious or bizarre. I am impressed, and I would simply love to be in a relationship with him. The maid was saying that he kept awake the whole night and sat on the sofa in my roo
Ben held my hand and led me to the table. “Why does his hand seem so cold always, as if he places them in the freezer before touching me, and his skin looks a little pale as if he has hemoglobin deficiency? I should ask him if he doesn’t eat nutritious food. But this is not the right time to initiate such talks. I will ask some other time.” I thought, but then I failed to understand at that moment that he was a half human, half vampire, yes, a dhampir. That made him eat and behave like humans do. If he were a pure vampire, then he would be lying in a coffin during the day, unable to face the sunlight. But that gave him the benefit of doubt, and I believed him to be a human, and he concealed the fact from me. Although his hands felt unusually cold, every time he touched me, I got addicted to him and wanted more and more of it. I had almost lost my senses, and my only target in life was to have him as a life partner. I regretted going blind to his love. If only my parents were alive! Th
After the dance, Ben took out two diamond rings from his pocket, and to my surprise, he produced a bouquet of red roses from behind him. I just looked in surprise as something that was not present anywhere around a moment ago suddenly appeared as if by magic. He must have produced it using his supernatural powers. He presented the bouquet to me, which I gladly accepted, and then he held my hands, slipped on the ring on my ring finger, and said, “Will you be my soul mate? I can’t wait to spend forever with you.”A smile spread across my lips. I had been craving this moment since the day I met Ben for the first time. We were simply made for each other. I was glad that he proposed to me, and it just showed on my face. I could hardly contain my happiness, and I didn’t know how to reply, but keeping it short, I said, "Yes, Ben. I had been eager to hear these words from you for a long time, and I can’t think of anything I want to do other than spend the rest of my life with you.” I said as
We had already done all the arrangements and got our wedding gowns from one of the best designers in the world for our big day. Besides, we sent the invitations to all the famous business personalities around the world and also to our friends and relatives. The wedding was to be held in the church, followed by a grand reception party.Both the grooms—David and Ben—waited at the end of the aisle for us. We brides walked down the aisle together with Estella’s father because my father had passed away while I was too young and I didn’t have anybody else to call my relative. Both the couples exchanged vows and said prayers.Finally, we had the grand reception, and business tycoons from various parts of the world wished us well. David’s father was also a very famous industrialist, but David was the spoiled son of a wealthy man. Still, he was very good at heart and loved Estella deeply.Lily, who got really upset and angry at me for not having called her on my engagement, kept complaining to
I wondered how I was able to survive such excruciating pain that I had been suffering since the time I was kidnapped. There were numerous cuts and wounds over my body that had partly dried, and blood clots had formed over them. Apart from that, the fresh cuts with the sword on my limbs and shoulders made me feel that I would faint. But I think it was the effect of Ben’s supernatural powers that was protecting me since I was his soul mate. There was a time that I used to get afraid of even a drop of blood that would show itself on my hand due to some minor scratch, and now I was here tolerating so much blood loss. Blood oozing out of my body continuously had made me weak, and Joseph Andrews had not given me anything to eat for almost twenty-four hours now. Leave alone food; he had not even offered me water after I spat on his face. I had an extreme urge to drink some water. My mouth was dry, and my throat parched due to thirst.Throughout the night, I kept myself distracted by thinking
I saw the wizard Doyle Stalin for the first time in my life, although I had heard of him previously because he was a famous magician and his name kept appearing in the news headlines. He was an old man, and the wrinkles on his face were clearly visible. He seemed to be extremely wise and experienced. I noticed his hands, and I could see wrinkles there too. He had a thin frame and a long beard. Even his gray hair was long, and he had tied it into a bun. He was wearing a white robe with a black cloak over it and a pointed hat on his head. His expressions seemed to be kind and humble, contrary to what I had imagined. I thought him to be as rude and heartless as the vicious Joseph Andrews.He looked at Joseph Andrews very confidently. He didn’t seem to fear that wicked person. Joseph Andrews was dressed in his formal, professional clothes, but his face seemed to be worried. Although he had planned to behead the vampire, he seemed to fear his failure, although he didn’t want to show it to