Valkyrie - the Vampire Princess 2 (6 page)

My father laughed at my sense of stupidity.

I looked up at his countenance, having fun at my lack of culture.

“No human would live in a place like this for many hours
,” he explained to me. “Those who live here we call ‘
pre- vampires
’.”

“
Pre-vampires
?” I frowned at him. I had never heard those words before in my life and what they signified.

“This is one of them
,” he said, motioning to a creature approaching us.

I looked in the same direction. I saw something moving under a huge black cape, its face was covered by a great hood. It was an unknown figure for me.

My father had made it stop walking, using only the movement of his hand toward the creature.

I looked at Vincent without understanding his behavior, what he wanted me to do with the prey.

“Come closer!” he ordered me. “This is your meal.”

I did what my tutor suggested to do, and then I approached the creature with no speed as I felt
a panic.

I came closer to it
. I could see its horrible face and it looked like a disfigured human with its round eyes, white and huge teeth, its skin was peeled and without vivacity. It looked like a deformed vampire.

My thirst for blood ran high
. I lowered the hood of my prey, grabbed its neck carefully and put my nose on its neck. I smelled its blood and I stuck my teeth with all my will into its bloodstream. I closed my eyes, savoring its red liquid. The more I extracted from it, the more I wanted to drink it. The creature went limp in my arms, fainted, in its last breaths. Vincent grabbed me by the shoulders as he was terrified. He prevented from me sucking its last blood drop.

“Enough!” he shouted at me.

He separated me from the fainted body, which went straight to the ground like a dead corpse.

“Let's get out
of here!” he ordered.

I was led by him, who laid his hand on my shoulder.

“What will happen to this creature?” I asked as I was sorry for what I did to that poor soul.

“It will die in
a few minutes,” he said.

“Aren't they immortal like us?” I asked
, interested.

“That is why they are called
pre-vampires.” My father said.

Chapter 10

Vincent ordered Eros to his bedroom. The same came to the site immediately. He walked, afraid, toward his master. Eros knew something had happened after my father had claimed his presence at that moment.

He noticed
my father’s rude attitude.

Then Eros stood before him.

“I'm here
,” he said.

Vincent stared
at him from head to foot.

“You were almost perfect in your mission
,” Vincent alleged.

“What are you talking about?”
He wrinkled his face at his master as he looked worried about his comment.

“It was not in our plan
for Valkyrie to fall in love with you.” His voice sounded heavy.

“It was not in our plan
that I manipulate her heart,” Eros said back.

They faced each other in seriousness.

“I also have no power to do that,” he justified.

“But it could have been avoided!”
My father said irritably and turned his back to him, avoiding looking at his servant at that moment.

“Tell me! How?” Eros also became revolted at his master.

“I trusted you!” He turned back and stared at Eros.

“There is no reason for you not to trust me any longer.” He faced him too. “I have not laid a finger on your daughter.”

“The worst thing you did, you
molested her heart,” Vincent said aloud.

“If it weren't for that damned love she feel
s for me, she would not be here,” Eros confessed and walked to the open window and looked at the stones on the ground."Or do you think she would just come here to meet a father who was never present in her life?”

“You did everything premedit
ated. You made her fall in love with you in order to bring her here,” Vincent said even more upset at him.

“Wrong!”
He went away from the window and walked to the middle of the bedroom. “I never wanted this love, but since it exists ... I took the opportunity to complete my journey,” he confessed.

“My
daughter does not deserve it,” he grumbled.

“You also would do the same or worse.” Eros assumed, staring at him.

“Get out!” Vincent ordered, annoyed.

Eros walked toward the bedroom door without looking to the sides, keeping his posture
straight. Vincent had not convinced him he had taken the wrong attitude.

Basically
, Vincent knew he was right, but to have been his daughter in such a situation made him angry.

The master of the vampires had kept his gaze on his room door, as it was closed by his servant, isolating him in his quiet bedroom.

Chapter 11

Valeska buttoned my dress from the bottom up, with her eyes upon me
. In her unconscious there was a desire to be in my place, to be the legitimate daughter of the most powerful vampire in the universe.

She noticed I did not have this conception. I always envisioned being born and breathing my last breath like a human.

Everything I was living at that time was not to my liking
; living in that dark, deserted and cold place, I being a blood slave and victims lost their lives.

 
“You are quiet!” she whispered.

“I am in fear of what I've become.”
 I admitted with my face down. What I saw in front of me were only my pale feet in contact with the cold ground.

“You have yet not realized how much all this is good!” Valeska said in high spirits.

“If I knew it would end up like this ... I would not have come to this castle,” I confessed.

“Why are you here?” she looked at my face
. “It's because of Eros?”

“I am here because of my father.” I gazed to the side.

“You know you can confess everything to me,” she insisted. “There's nobody here to hear you besides me.”

“I do not want to talk about it
,” I said as I looked up at the wall.

“Eros is your torment! I see it!” she said, forcing my confession.

“Does he know it?” she asked.

“No.”

“Why don’t you tell him how you feel?”

“I'm afraid.”

“Why afraid?”

“I’m afraid of
his reaction,” I said, in anguish.

“And if he feel
s the same for you?” she insisted.

“If he feels the same for me ... I must expect
him to express his feelings for me.”

“Eros will never
do it,” she said rapidly.

“How do you know?” I asked astonished.

“I’ve known him for a hundred years ... He’s never confessed his feelings to anyone.”

“Do you really think he feels something for me?” I asked with brightness in my eyes.

“I cannot say ... but he behaves different in front of you as if he was favorably impressed by you,” she said.

Those words came from Valeska’s mouth. They encouraged me to face my fears and confess to Eros, all I felt for him. These feelings were born inside me the first time I saw him in my classroom.

Valeska made me feel different. She gave me courage to face everything with vigor and determination. She had convinced me that Eros could give me his love in return
. That he could feel for me all that I really felt for him. I would need to tell him about the existence of my love for him.

Then I imagined it would not be an easy task but also not impossible.

Chapter 12