Chapter 15

‘Endo vampire’ are vampires that have a different eye color than the normal vampire should have. The normal vampire has ‘color ranks’ like if you have red eyes, you are strong and a leader. Most royals and leaders have red eyes. While Endo vampires get to have eye colors like, blue, brown, green, and purple! Endo vampires keep this eye color for the rest of their lives. Unlike normal vampires. For example, an infant vampire has silver and blank eyes, symbolizing innocence and birth. Once they start standing up and walking, they unlock a much stronger eye color. There is no difference between an Endo vampire and a normal vampire other than the eye colors.

☆ Attacked ☆

Nicole hated herself when she woke up in the morning. She hated that she actually liked that vampire prince for a mere second. She was supposed to skin him alive, but instead she trusted him enough to let him carry her to the roof of the castle for her to spill her whole past to him.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. But she was sure glad he didn’t try anything pesky on her. Surprisingly, he actually slept on his armchair open the corner of his room when he noticed how uncomfortable she was next to him in the same bed. When Nicole woke up, she knew he wouldn’t be here, she knew he had fencing today, which may last an hour or two.

Nicole sighs and hops out of the bed, her eyes landing on the red pillow Inky is resting on.

“Morning, Inky.” Nicole lowers down, her hand settling on the back of his neck, rubbing gently to cause the feline to purr in pleasure.

“Glad to see your warming up to me.” Nicole grins, quickly grabbing a light blue dress from the closet and enters the bathroom for a quick shower.

Davis bought Nicole her own toiletries and equipment she may need. So she didn’t have much trouble to settle in this palace.

Nicole takes off her garments, and puts her knife and knife holder on the sink before opens the tap, allowing cold, freezing water to burst out of the shower head. She gasps and Her arms envelop her bare body as she shivers.

So far, her plan was a complete failure. Vampire prince doesn’t drink blood, maid has a crush on the prince, prince being depressive, prince almost kill her while trying to ‘dance on the rooftops’.

Now she really wanted to stab someone.

Nicole closes the tap and dries herself with a towel, putting on her belt on her thigh and slipping the knife in the small pocket, before putting on her dress.

She then uses a towel to dry her wet hair, brushing it then tidying it up in a braid.

Nicole sighs at her reflection in the mirror. Her looks and words hide the murderer inside of her.

‘But is it really worth it? Die trying to kill an enemy and ruin a while kingdom?’ Nicole wonders, before leaving Davis’s room to explore parts of the castle she hasn’t seen yet.

Nicole looked over at the end on the hall, to spot Madilyn carrying a tray, Madilyn paused and looked at Nicole. There was silence between them, before Madilyn looked down and walked off. Nicole was confused for a few seconds before she walked down the long and wide halls, looking over each and every family painting and passing every statue.

A variety of different vampires, all from one, big and famous family. The Dracula family tree. Nicole paused upon a painting of Vladimir Dracula himself, painted in year 1854. Pale skin, raven hair, crimson eyes and his signature smirk.

Nicole rolled her eyes, but just before she turns around, she was suddenly grabbed by the hair and pushed against the wall quite harshly. Nicole gasped as she felt her arms locked behind her and a large figure trapping her between them and a wall.

‘Dammit, if only I reach my knife—‘ Nicole suddenly felt the figure lean down to take a whiff of her scent, making her cringe.

“Ugh— dull blood. But I’m so...thirsty.” A masculine voice growled, a hand climbing up to grip her jaw and tilt her head, baring her whole neck to her attacker. Obviously it was a vampire, why would a human take interest of her blood and neck? His breath was fanning on her neck, and Nicole had to say something, fast.

If a human (that has never been bitten before) that already belonged to a vampire, gets bitten by another before their own master, it will be seen as if the new vampire owns them, since they won’t be ‘special’ anymore. It’s as if humans with their ‘first kiss’ when someone steals it. The vampire that originally owned them, may get rid of them. And that’s will ruin all of Nicole’s plan.

“I’ll break your neck if you bite me, vampire.” Nicole hissed, which made him quite surprised. And in a mere second, Nicole was flipped so she was chest-to-chest with the vampire she really wants to stab right now. She raised her head only to show a look of confusion to her attacker. He was fully clothed in a black cloak that even covered part of his face, only his jaw, mouth and nose were showing. Plus the glowing green eyes.

Meaning, he is an ‘Endo vampire’. Nicole’s confused state changed into a ‘I’m not afraid of you’ state. She can easily kick him where it hurts, but his vampire speed and healing factor will give her no time to run at all. So she will just end up angering a vampire. If only he lets go of her arms and let her grab her silver knife to stab him in the heart. Silver can’t kill vampires, but it can weaken then for a period of time, about a day or two for them to heal.

“Trying to scare me, pitiful mortal?” He spat, before his lips turned into a dark smirk. Nicole glared daggers at him. That until it hit her like a brick. Didn’t Madilyn inform Davis that a traitor or an intruder pushed her out of the window? Is this the same person? This definitely looked like an intruder, because in all the two weeks Nicole stayed in this palace, none of the vampires were Endo.

“You. You were the one that pushed Madilyn from the window!” She said, and the vampire was taken back at her loud volume, before he understood what she meant.

“Ohhhh...that pure blood, very delicious, indeed. Oui, I pushed her, she just kept on fighting back and it was getting boring, and I was already full, so I thought I needed to teach the bird...to fly.” He growled huskily, before letting out a maniacal laugh. Nicole was about to actually kick him until he said that Madilyn was a pure blood and delicious. Nicole’s eyes widen in surprise.

“You BIT HER!?” His hand clasped on her mouth.

“Be quite, mortal. And Oui, Oui, she was very delicious.” He licked his lips, his other hand playing with a lock of Nicole’s hair. ‘What an idiot‘ Nicole thought, since both of her arms are free now. But Nicole was still suprised that Madilyn was a pure blood, but as she can recall, Madilyn had no bite marks on her neck. The vampire traces his thumb across her pink lips, his eyes locked with her own.

“Where did you bite her, you bastard.” Nicole gasped out, trying to act weak enough to distract him from noticing her hand trying to lift her dress to reach her knife.

“Oh, she was moving so much I couldn’t mark her neck. Instead I bit her in a place no one can see unless she shows them. But it wasn’t just one bite, sweetheart.” he chuckled, Nicole glared at him in disgust. Her hand finally reaching her knife, before she took it out of the pocket and lunged at the endo vampire. He gasped and fell to the ground, his hood falling and revealing his whole face to her. She was hovering over him before she stabbed him right on his heart.

Seconds past, and everything was just so, so wrong. He could’ve cried out in pain, but he was silent and smirking at her. He would have to bleed all over the floor, no, he was perfectly clean. He chuckled and grabbed her hand while she was holding the knife, before taking out the knife.

”This isn’t silver, darling.” He hissed, pushing her off him and pinning her to the ground, he grinned, flashing his pearly fangs before leaning down.

“You just made me want to taste your blood even more.” Nicole had to stop him, now. This was stupid, but it was the only way. She lifted her leg and kicked him where it hurts, before smashing her head against his to push him away, and then she made a run for it.

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Nicole showered again when she returned to Davis’s room, she felt so unclean and dirty. She just lost her useless knife, too. She kept rethinking what happened. It’s really good that she really memorized his appearance. Raven curly hair, green eyes, pale skin, a scar under his eyes and he is a vampire. But that’s all she’s got.

Nicole then orders one of butlers to bring Madilyn to the room. She really needs to check if that’s vampire bit her.

“Please lay on the bed, Madilyn.” Nicole ordered.

“What!? No!” Madilyn said angrily.

Nicole rolled her eyes and basically pushed Madilyn on the bed, before raising her dress only to reveal three bite marks. One on her shin, one on her thigh, and the other on her abdomen.

‘He did all of this in the hallway!?’ Nicole screamed in her mind. Madilyn sighed before she pushed her dress down. Before she untied her corset and the buttons on the top of her dress to show a bit of cleavage. there were about two other bite marks.

“H-he attacked you t-too, right?” Madilyn gasped out. Nicole put her hand on her mouth, his bite marks looked definitely violent and forced, blue around the edges, too.

“Yes, but I escaped before he bit me...” Nicole muttered. Madilyn lowered her head and buttoned her dress again, putting her corset back on.

”I didn’t know you were a pure blood, Madilyn.” Nicole said.

“I am, but being a pure always ends up in situations like...this..” Madilyn hiccuped. She did feel violated on that day.

“I’m sorry.” Nicole said, holding Madilyn’s hand. Madilyn smiled at Nicole. Maybe there wasn’t any differences between them at all.

“But now, we have much more important problems.” Madilyn said, letting go of Nicole and opens the door.

“What’s more important than a stranger in the palace?” Nicole asked, wondering.

“We have guests.“

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