Chapter 16: The Stranger

Luke Dalca's POV

After I congratulated to the engaged couple, I went away to get some fresh air. I never a crowd guy. The public kills me as I can feel I was stuff in there. I went to the garden that I used to play when I was little when our mother was still alive. I sighed as I walked around the garden as it did not have its charm like before.

"Rough night?" A sweet voice comes into the darkness that I was sitting alone in the dark. The dark never fear me, I was born from it.

"Don't you worry, you will find your light, I hope. Are you with anyone?" The voice asked again. I chuckled as I knew I might be mental after this night.

"no, I was hoping that you can help me with that, a voice without a name," I replied. The voice chuckled and from the looks of it, it was a female.

"do you want to know me? I might be bad news to you," it replied.

"believe me, I knew bad and you are not one," I said before the voice was chuckling again.

"and why you know that?" It asked.

"because I am bad news myself," I said to it. I looked at the bushes and I saw a figure that was standing in the dark.

"come into the light. I want to see you," I said as I was looking straight into the figure. She knew that I was looking at her.

"will you laugh at me?" She said as she was trying to move into the bushes more.

"I'm sure someone who commented that at you will regret it later in his life," I said as I urged her to come into the light.

"Please don't laugh or you might regret it later," she said. I chuckled at the threat as I knew I would be making a bigger one.

"promise, stake my heart and hope to die," I said as the figure moves into the light. As I knew it, her hair was as white as snow and her skin was pale as porcelain. What amazed me the most was her eyes. Her eyes were like cherry blossom during spring. I was too amazed that I don't know what to do at the moment.

"what's your name?" I said without thinking.

"Charlotte," she replied.

"Well, Charlotte, I'll be damned," I said as I can't control my urge to take her now and then. Before I knew it, I went in front of her, taking her by the neck before my fangs grew and I bit her. How strange, she did not even flinch but more excited as I can smell her juices were flowing like crazy. She moaned as I sucked on her blood.

"oh, please, take me," she said as she hangs herself to me as I was sucking her dry. I can't control it but I have to stop as I don't want to be the killer anymore. I pulled away as I can see her blood was staining her pink dress.

"don't be afraid, I don't bite," she said as she walked toward me. I can't control it. Her blood was too strong.

"I will make sure that you will never look at everybody else but me," she said as she pulled my face to her and she did the unimaginable.

She kissed me!

Alina Dalca's POV

"Brother, where are you?" I said to myself as I was looking in the crowd from the balcony. It has been few people when it was struck 10 PM, most people have gone home as they afraid the creature of the night will be roaming around. I hope that my brother will not be hunting tonight.

"Luke, where are you?" I whispered to myself before I can feel something was wrong with Luke. Call it what you want but we have some vampiric bond as we can know when someone was in danger. And by the looks of it, Luke was not anywhere danger but rather lust was overwhelming him. I rolled my eyes as I knew that my brother has a huge appetite for human females.

"Hey, why are you here?" Kyle's voice comes from behind as he turned me around and was looking as if he was running around for quite some time.

"It's nothing. It's just, Luke being Luke. He might have gone already," I said as I looked into his green orbs. It was so amazing that I forget to breathe properly.

"why so gloom? We have our party to attend to unless you have a better idea to do," Kyle said as he wiggled his eyebrows at me. I rolled my eyes as I looked down below, onto the dance floor. Nothing was peculiar until someone screamed.

"Ahhhh!"

A huge commotion over the balcony as the crowd was building up. I looked at Kyle and he looked at me before we headed downstairs to see what it was about.

"make way, make way," Kyle said as he dragged me to look at the commotion. When I feasted my eyes at the balcony, two dead bodies were laying around on the floor with their eyes wide awake. Their blood was staining their suits as both of them were males.

"it's the animal. The animal attack has moved here," one of the crowd said that before they murmured something unpleasant about my estate.

"Alright, enough people. Why don't we call it a night?" Kyle screamed as he looked around to the crowd.

"Thank you for coming to our party, if you need any assistance from going home, please don't hesitate to tell us and we will make sure that you be back safe and sound. Now, if you please, let's give the police some space for them to work out when they arrived, okay?" Kyle said as he pushed people out of the balcony. I looked at the corpses as they have punched holes at their neck. It wasn't an animal, it was the creature of the night. And I knew who was to blame.

"Kyle, I'll be right back," I said as I went toward the balcony and jumped off.

"back, from where? Alina!" He shouted but I was long gone into the woods as I can feel Luke was near.

Luke Dalca's POV

"so, why are you here, Charlotte?" I asked her as I have sucked her before. She was laying around on my laps as I was leaning against the oak tree. It was the only tree that my mother loved the most.

"I don't know. One thing I was in a lab and the next thing I saw was this feeling to suck human blood. You think I'm sick?" She asked as she looked at me with her cherry eyes. I was so melted as its orb was calling me to kiss her but I control myself as I knew that if I kissed her, I might not stop there.

"you're not sick, Charlotte. You just have something that we like to call transition. You will feel this intense feeling for blood but not just any blood, it was the human blood that really attracts you most. I can show you to control it," I said as I caressed her white hair.

"will I be okay?" She asked as she was looking at me.

"I can't say for sure but I knew that I can help you to be a better version of yourself," I said as I really meant my words. I think I might have found something to redeem myself to as to my past.

"Luke! Luke! Are you there, Luke?" Alina's voice was coming into my eardrum. Charlotte was in a position for the attack as she did not feel safe.

"who is that?" She asked.

"It was my sister. Don't be afraid. She's good," I said as I took her hand.

"no, she is not. Master said so," she said as she got off me.

"Charlotte wait!" I said as I tried to stop her. She said Master but who was he? I have this thought that my father would most probably be involved in this.

"Luke, there you are. Why are you here alone in the garden not to mention, it was dark," Alina said as she looked around.

"just thinking and talking with someone," I said.

"What? It's just your hallucination," Alina said as she stalked to the seat that I have Charlotte earlier.

"is that blood on your shirt?" Alina said as she looked at me. I looked at my shirt and it was. I looked at Alina and she was ready to take me down.

"Alina, it is not what you think. I don't kill anymore," I said as I tried to reason with her.

"Then who was it that two-man on the balcony?" She said.

"What balcony?" I asked as I was confused with her question.

"there were tooth marks on their neck," she said. I laughed as she had forgotten about the killing.

"Alina, I don't do guys. Only female remember?" I said as I crossed my hands in front of my chest.

"then, who was it?" She asked as she looked at me.

"I think our father has a new player in this game," I said as I looked Alina, all confused.