Chapter 122 - Stay Away

>>Nena

“What?” I actually really had no idea what he meant, “What did I do?” I didn’t do anything to give him trauma!

Alister folded his arms, “You gave Quincy your blood didn’t you?”

I froze up for a second. So it did happen!!! And then I pouted, “I mean,” I played a little coy, “Is that a bad thing?”

He chuckled looking at my expressions, “For Quincy,” He un-folded his arms, “Maybe,” He waved his hands around and ended up folding them again.

“Why though?” I folded my arms as well, “He takes blood from so many humans but why not me?”

“Well~” He dramatically wiggled his fingers out, “For starters which is also the most important thing, your blood is like a high class wine.”

“Wouldn’t that make one want it more!” I mean who wouldn’t want it? It’s like vintage wine!

“Oh I would love to have it, anyone would love to have it. I mean I would die for it. Oh!” He raised his hands in defence, “But don’t get me wrong, I’m just stating how desirable it is, I already have my Blood mate.”

“Blood mate?” First I had ever heard of it, “What’s that?”

“Oh? You don’t know?” He was a little surprised, “Well makes sense,” He was suddenly un-amused, “You didn’t make much progress with Quincy so of course he didn't tell you.”

“What is it!!” It seemed like something important so of course I had to find out what it was!

Alister chuckled at me, “It’s like a person, who’s your lifetime blood supply.”

“What!!” There was something like that!! I never heard about it!! “A lifetime blood supply?? And from only one person!! There’s something like that!!”

“Yeah, you can make someone your Blood mate if you like the taste of their blood but it rarely ever happens since it also means you’ll get stuck with them for life and they get stuck with you for life. My wife is mine since she’s a fae but most vampires refuse to get bound like that plus among vampire couples no one would tolerate a third wheel since a vampire can’t be a blood mate and there are some other complications.”

“So, does Quincy not want to be bound either?” If that is true that would be devastating! He has many different blood suppliers, so it makes sense if he doesn’t want to be bound to one.

“Hmm,” Alister thought about it, “I guess it would be better to say he’s afraid to bind anyone like that.”

“Why?”

He sighed, “Well, that’s not really important. The thing is, he treasures you and he didn’t want to hurt you yet he ended up drinking so much from you that you were out for a week.”

That last line took a little bit of time to process, “A week!!” I was out for a week!?!?! “Oh my God!”

“That’s not the problem Nena,” Alister sighed, “Like I said before, your blood is addictive. You could have died.”

The weight of those words hit hard and my head buzzed for a moment.

I could have died?

I shook my head

I didn’t want that to faze me.

“But I didn’t,” I looked back at him with a firm gaze, “I’m still here.”

“You came back only because Quincy somehow managed to control himself after you passed out. This was not a good thing.”

“I know… But it seemed like the only way…”

He was able to control himself? Maybe it paid off that I always put my blood in his coffee and got him used to my special taste.

Alister sighed and unfolded his arms, “I realise how you must feel.” He gently patted my head, “You’ve fancied him since you were a child but Quincy is a challenge.” I looked up at him and sighed.

I first met Alister when Quincy wasn’t home. Ten years ago when Yohan was hurt, Maya and Quincy took him to the realm of magic for treatment.

At that time Alister came home to meet his son but found me instead.

“I’ll overcome it.” I told him and he smiled.

“Oh I would love to see that.” He chuckled, “He already has a trauma associated with a human, now you gave him another one.”

“What trauma?” That was suspicious. Who gave him trauma? That person better not be alive now or I’ll give them another trauma for hurting my bae!

He stepped aside, “Go see him for yourself.”

I wasn’t talking about that but I had to see Quincy anyway, so we can talk about this stuff later. I marched down to his room and Alister followed.

I knocked on Quincy’s bedroom door but he didn’t answer. I knew he was there since I saw the work room was empty when I passed by it. So I knocked once again but once again got no answer.

Is he ignoring me?

I opened the door and stepped inside, “Quincy?” I called his name in the dark room but was met with silence and then rejection.

I spotted Quincy within a few seconds and tried to move closer to him when he spoke in a heavy voice, “Stay away from me.” When I heard Quincy’s voice I instinctively knew he was angry.

I took another step towards him, “Quincy…” He was sitting on his bed with his face down. I didn’t want him to be angry with me. I already knew the reason why he was mad. I gave him my blood and almost ended up dying. He must be blaming himself but I have to tell him I’m okay, “I’m alright…”

“Nena Hayes!!” He yelled my name, making me flinch and freeze in my path, “I want you far away from me.” I turned his face to look at me and I saw his eyes glowed for a moment. I had never seen him so angry but that wasn’t the only thing there was, “You broke my trust!!”

There was fear in his eyes along with expressions of regret.

That made my heart shatter.

I indeed broke his trust. All my life he had told me to be careful and that he won’t take my blood.

I backed away to the door where Alister was standing.

I know I did wrong and hurt him and that hurts me too but I don't regret it. This is one of the things I’ve always wanted.

I gritted my teeth as I thought about what to say to him when Alister bent down next to my head.

“I told you,” He whispered in my ear, “This will be a challenge.”