lling the surroundings with t

e were a few tiny houses built on the steep

tle could be seen visibly as i

e human population was settled on steeps, havin

t on a plain land between the C

own log house, whose lights were still o

e had cleaned the mess that arrogant Prince has created, asked her m

ded to go up. Emma, the single parent of the two beautiful

t go down," Emma looked older than her age. The wrinkles around her eyes

-working life. Humans were meant to serve the vampires and

espectable jobs in the eyes of the powerful creatures. In e

ad built by selling all the goods they ever had. The wages were so low that

atched her mother's face change expressions with every word her lips spoke. She was wearing the

to him will be a fool's errand," Emma didn't like those humans, who would tor

ian and a dirtbag with no morals an

ble to get to him before he closes the pharmacy," Ophelia knew, deep down inside that her mother wanted to stop her not because of the downpour, but because if any supernatural being spott

own and kissed her mother's head before she pulled up a gray sweater over her b

ps kept sliding down the steep before she could meet up to the small road, probably 13 feet wider, shrouded wit

had soon safely reached Mr. Harrold's pharmacy, where he was still per

the righteous deeds, it was told that he would se

iately beamed with thirst. It was no secret that Ophelia was the

gether to warm them up once she noticed how red and cold the

pleasantly, wearing a smile that she would fake to the people s

n this weather?" his black eyes quickly scanned her with a smile on his lips. It w

you could manage to give me a medicine," she squeezed her one ey

e from me, right?" his lip curled a bit upward, the loud gulp h

emark he made. His one-sided smile grew

tone turned bitter after she rejected hi

It's raining and is very late," before

my wife to please her?" his lascivious habits were public knowledge, but since he was the only human that

u double for it whenever I've the money," Sh

wood and the glass windows of the pharmacy very

oden table between them to lean ahead towards her, "You have to pl

er spine, the shivers of disg

ing him in the eye. She was known to be rebellious but w

extent, the instant her esteem was on the l

me. I'm too hard to stay here in this empty, boring shop," He straightened his ba

at him for, but she was in need and that w

umbrella and left

nd cafes were, she realized she wasn't alone. She was able to pick up th

n as she nervously looked arou

ky. Ophelia was well aware of the dangers she could enco

she took, even through the heavy rain, she

notice if she could see the person, and once she loo

llow. Before she could even react to this sudden encounter, he pulled her to t

brella flew away with the wind

over her head and adjuste