FORCED BRIDE OF THE VAMPIRE LORD

"You are saving me from fire?" asked Oliver with a flabbergasted look when she nodded. For some reason he felt that she was looking too innocent. Too naive, too… he shook his head.

She was a demoness. He could not fall for her words.

"That is not a good joke!" he tsked as he held her and pushed her away. "This is not real fire but a kind of explosion that happens in the air. See!" he pointed at the sky which was filled with the array of colors that make it look beautiful.

Luci stared at the sky with awe and then at the men and women who were enjoying it while kids were clapping. It did not look dangerous at all.

"So this was fireworks?" Oliver nodded and smiled when he looked at her shimmering eyes,

"You should come out often. I never knew that you didn't even know what fireworks are!" he placed his hands on her shoulders again and pulled her closer, "if you improve your relationship with aunt, and she would allow, i will bring you here often." he smirked looking high and mighty when she shook his hands away.

"Do you know my mother well?" his brows furrowed at the foolish question but then he chuckled.

"I know you are being sarcastic. But aunt is not that bad. You know.." he hesitated for a second, "i have heard that she gave birth to twins but only you survived. Maybe she is strict to you because she is afraid of losing you too. I wonder if she would have been softer if your sister would have been here." he sighed as he held her hands and pulled her up.

"You should try to mend your relationship with her. She looks so dim and sad, you know!" he kept muttering but Luci did not reply at all.

She was trying to grasp more and more. Her mother gave birth to twins and one of them did not survive. Did that boy mean she was the twin who did not survive?"

"Are you sure that the other girl did not survive?" or she was sold! I was sold. Her heart trembled at that thought when the boy frowned.

"Tsk! Have you seen your sister in the palace, Lucy? You should not make fun of the dead?" he flicked her forehead but then sighed. "Do not talk about it in front of your mother, she would be really upset about it."

"Do you know where I live?" She wanted to go and meet the woman who had kept one daughter while selling the other in the underworld and even lied about her death. How could a mother be this cruel?

"Are you sick? Do you have a fever? What kind of rubbish are you spouting?" He touched her forehead but when she raised her head and met his eyes, he paused. Why did he feel that they were darker than usual? He could almost see a shade of black instead of crimson color.

"Do you know where I live or not?" she asked again with more pressure when he flinched but nodded his head.

"You live in the palace princess. You live in the biggest palace of the empire since you are the daughter of the vampire lord and the demon with the most power in the world. You are the daughter of living legends who have fought the great war and brought peace to the empire. Are you happy now?" she let his hands go when he sighed and rubbed them while looking at her with an aggrieved face.

"I never knew you were that strong! You almost broke my wrist." he complained but she did not pay any more attention to him. All this did not attract her anymore.

All she wanted was to leave and go find her mother. She stood up when he called her again.

"Hey, where are you going? The festival had just started and a lot of fun was left.'' He called her but she did not pay any attention to him as she kept walking away.

She kept walking until she bumped with another young man.

"Hey, watch your steps." he hissed but she did not mind it. But before he could go away, she held his hands when he frowned and glared at her with grim eyes.

"Do you know where the palace of the lord of vampires is?" she asked in an urgent voice when his gaze deepened.

"The biggest palace in the empire?" she added, "do you know where it is?"

"Why do you want to go there?" he asked with a tilt of his head but she did not reply.

"Forget it! I will ask someone else." She let go of him and held the hands of an elderly woman and asked the same question. The young man stared at her with a deep look when he noticed her silver hair and crimson eyes.

That was the description of the famous princess of a vampire lord. But..

He kept staring at how the elderly woman smiled and nodded her head as she pointed towards her left and then explained her way. The young girl thanked the woman by chanting a spell. The woman who looked in pain just a moment ago was surprised when she was able to walk properly again.

But before she could thank the girl, the girl had already disappeared. The eyes of the young man turned darker.

Luci looked at the sky which had turned darker and then at the palace in front of her eyes it was full of security.

"Is this where my mother lives?" she tilted her head as she kept staring at the place but did not walk in. She was dangling in the air and could see the whole palace. She saw a lot of girls in the same clothes working around.

Just when she was growing impatient, she was a young girl that looked just like her in the garden standing with an elderly woman who was scowling. Her eyes narrowed but before she could move closer, the elderly woman raised her head with her hands ready to attack

"Who is there?"