"Stefan! You are here!" Lucinda placed the book in her hands back and smiled with wide eyes as she ran to the young demon who held her in his arms.
"Yes, yes princess! I am back with a lot of more gifts. But you should not be running like that hugging a lower level demon like me. Master would kill me if he saw that." she ignored his blabbering as her hands already reached for the bags in his hands.
Stefan shook his head. "And here I thought that you would be happy to see me! I am hurt." Although he said that, he opened the bag Hazel had sent first and passed the new books to her.
"These books are specially protected with the spell of the dark witch. It will not be destroyed like last time." the eyes of the girl sparkled as she held the book.
It was a love story of a witch and a vampire. That was strange! Stefan never brought a love story before. It had a man with dark hair and crimson eyes and a girl with green eyes and silver hair. For some reason, she kept staring at them.
"Stefan, do you think I look like this man?" she asked but then shook her head, "i am sure all of them look the same. Why have you brought a love story for me though?"
She let go of the book, giving it a last glance and then checked other books. It was about their culture, their races and the last one was about their food. She picked the last one and started rummaging the pages.
"I thought you would like it. But I see that you still only like food." Stefan smiled as he opened the next bag and passed a lot of food to her.
"Then you are going to enjoy it very much." She let go of the book instantly and started eating the food with delight.
His eyes softened looking at the young girl who was handling most of the work of the hell alone. His grandfather seemed to be enjoying the fights and leisure time while she was working her butt off in handing all the demons.
"That was worth dying!" she exclaimed as she licked her fingers, "what was that again, cake right?"
Lucinda frowned and stared at the chain. It has a crimson pendant just like her eyes that she could not help but smile.
She wore it and looked at herself in the mirror. Her silver hair still taunts her and her crimson eyes remind her that she was not a demon. She did not have golden eyes or dark hair like them but.. She still drinks blood and eats meat like them so it was all well in the end.
She had asked so many times why she was different only to see hurt in their eyes. They truly treat her like family save for her aunt Eve.
She shook her head as she picked up the romance book again and stared at the man for long before shaking her head and placing it back on the table.
"One day, I will run away and see that world with my own eyes."
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"Once again!" Lucy sighed as she had already tried thirteen times but she was not able to disappear completely. Once, her upper half body was in the study of her father while her rest of the body was left here giving Rafael a fright.
"I do not think I am cut out to be a witch." she muttered but looking at the stern face of her aunt, she bit her lips and tried again.
"You are not paying your whole heart to it." sighed Anna as she waved her hands and brought the whole body of the girl back to one place.
Lucy touched her face and then looked at her feet with relief.
"I am a vampire not a witch. I do not want to be one too." she said adamantly as she puffed her cheeks and stared on the ground.
"Mother is just unreasonable with me since she expects too much. I do not want to live in the palace, I want to run away. I am sure even hell would be better than here."