章節 31: PORCELAIN DOLL

Astrel smirked and expected the girl to run away in fear, but the next thing Vilian did, made him taken aback. Vilian took excited steps closing the distance between them. Astrel furrowed his eyebrows, trying to understand her.

"Are you for real?" she asked unbelievably, her excited voice chiming in the room. "Can you show me your fangs again? Could you flicker your eye color from blue to red? Is it for real that you can hypnotize people?" She kept asking questions after questions as if she transformed into a question box.

"Enough!!" Astrel's loud menacing voice echoed in the room, startling Vilian, though the excitement in the girl neither dwindled instead it excited her the most.

"WOW!!!" she screamed, jumping up and down as if she was a four or five-year-old girl. "This is so cool!!! I just can't believe this is real. I'm dreaming, aren't I?"

"Why on Earth would I be in your dream?" Closing the earlier distance between them Astrel asked in a low hoarse voice and a smirk tugging on his lips. Though Vilian didn't budge the slightest bit, she was trembling inside by the sudden intimacy they were sharing right now. she wanted to step back but didn't want him to be satisfied by that, although her heart was beating in a quick space which made Astrel's eyes flicker to blue flare colours.

Vilian widened her eyes in astonishment but soon frowned and asked in confusion pointing to his irises,

"Usually vampires possess red irises, don't they, so why is it yours flare like blue?" She asked, tilting her head to a side as a bird would do.

Astrel flickered her forehead, and Vilian winced and rubbed her skin which turned slightly pink though he didn't do it with much pressure.

"I'd advise you to keep your loose tongue-tied before you end up losing it, little kitty." He said annoyingly.

"Little kitty,you say? Do you say I'm a little kitty? First of all, neither am I a kitty nor am I small for you to belittle me, Mr. Devil," she said, huffing and puffing angrily, but earned a chuckle from him, which infuriated her more than she already was.

Not minding about it, Astrel said, "Looks like your family is enjoying and having fun leaving you all alone." With a smirk.

"Enjoy? They aren't gone for fun. Father had some urgent matters to deal with, so he went along with Mother and Danny." Though she knew her father and her stepmother differentiated or would not bother her, she never loved anyone pin-pointing it or confronted about it to anyone. She would always cover it up, for she was more than grateful for how she was.

"I see... And what might this be?" He asked while showing her a picture of a cute happy family, a little boy clinging onto his mother and father enjoying the Ferris wheel. His mother kissing his cheeks lovingly while his father looked at them dearly.

Vilian felt a small pang in her heart and a sadness which was covered up quickly with a smile. She always yearned for love and care from her family, but it turned out to be one of her dream that never came true.

"Ohh... this... father might have finished some of his works and took Danny to the park. Danny would have given a hard time being stubborn with Father to take him there, you know kids, how they might be sometimes," she said laughing out trying her best to mask her feelings. Astrel sensed a worried look in her which soon was covered up with a cheerful look.

Vilian felt happy for his brother, genuinely happy for her little brother who was surrounded by people who could provide him with everything a little kid would want, unlike her.

Sighing out she was to say something but then heard the ringing tone of her phone. Excusing herself she went to answer the call which was on the bedside table. Astrel's gaze traveled along with her.

"Hello, Mic?" she answered. There was a silence on the other side which made her frown, but then again she heard a faint familiar garbling sound that increased. Vilian screamed and threw the phone away immediately out of fear.

Taking a couple of strides, he came to stand beside her and asked, "What's wrong? Seems like you've come to like screaming lately." He saw the girl trembling in fear and reached her shoulder, but resulted only to be hugged by her immediately. Astrel was caught off guard by what she did. He slowly laid his hand on her hair and soothed and then looked at the phone that was on the bed. Hearing someone speaking on the other side of the phone, he reached out to take it, but Vilian tugged his shirt. Astrel raised his eyebrow in a question.

"No... Don't" she said. Even after Vilian said so, Astrel took her phone.

"Lady Vilian? Mi'lady? Are you alright?"The person on the phone asked concerningly. Astrel looked at the caller ID which read, "Michael".

"She's alright. What is it that you wanted to say to her?" came the cold intimidating voice of Astrel which the man on the call flinch on the other side.

"Who are you? What are you doing with lady Vilian? Why did she scream?" he questioned without stuttering though he was already fear of the man's voice.

Sighing out Astrel said his name.

"OH MY GOSH!! Mr. Watson." now that he got to know him, he suddenly felt like the temperature dropped down. He was sweating profusely. Well who wouldn't when they get to know they've done a grave mistake provoking the cold tyrant who'll not hesitate to punish, be it a small or big mistake. Laughing uneasily he spoke,

"Forgive this lowly one for not recognizing, you sir. I was only concerned about the young lady." he said and got a hum from Astrel.

"Michael, did you not hear what I asked you for or do I have to repeat it again? Tell me what it is, before you lose your precious head. My wolves might be more than happy to have you as their dinner meal, don't you think?" he asked sternly which made the poor man tremble in fear more than he was.

"I...I...It's about master Demus. He'll not be reaching home today, but before the birthday of young master Daniel which is after two days, S..sir." stammering a bit he said.

Astrel on the gave a thought and then felt Vilian's tight grip on his waist loosen and heard her lastly say, "It's the dark creature." which was barely a whisper and with that saying she fell on his arms half-conscious.

Astrel securely hold on to her not letting her fall. He felt her breathing uneven. Astrel end the call and raised her chin to take a look but saw her eyes were barely open.

"Shit. Damn it." he cursed himself for being vampire but not realizing the girl loosing her conscious state and Carried her to lay on the bed carefully. He didn't know why but found himself handling her as if she was a porcelain doll that might form a crack anytime soon if not handled her carefully even in the slightest bit.