SYLAQ'S POV

THE last thing I expected was to feel something toward that kiss but to my surprise, that kiss was everything I wanted from life and more but she just went after her boyfriend without looking back at me. I didn't want to stop kissing her, it was new for me to feel this way toward anybody much less a human but I knew what I was feeling was more than I wanted to handle. I was at war with my heart for letting me feel drawn to her. I needed to kill this feeling right now.

            "Hey, MR. Steel," Austin walked in with a grin on his face. "Welcome back, dude."

                 "Get out!!" I snarled, the beast in me was ready to tear him into pieces.

                "Chill bro," he raised an eyebrow.

Without delay, I sprinted to him and just bit into his heart like a hungry lion.

I didn't even allow him to escape from my grasp. I smothered him tightly, engraving my fangs into his upper arm. His blood tasted very good and so I fed from him faster than ever until he dropped dead. I needed the animal in me to be in control so that I wouldn't be drawn to Ariella but I froze when I saw her walking in. The terror and grief displayed on her face automatically put a halt to my life.

            "Ahhhhh!!!!!!" She wailed in agony. It felt as though I could feel her pain, it was as if her tears were mine and I just couldn't help but feel torn apart.

           "No! No! This...this...can't be...Austin....not...Austin,"
Ariella sobbed heavily, the camera in her hand dropped to the ground causing it to crumble. When her gaze shifted to me, I wanted the earth to swallow me, I just couldn't watch her look at me with disgust, terror, dread, and worst of all, hatred.

Seeing as nothing was coming into my head, I remained speechless and helpless, she had seen me in my worst form, she had seen the demon inside me, and for some reason, that caused my heart to dwell in agony. I had to admit that for the first time, Sylaq Steel was lost for words.

Austin's blood had turned my white hoodie into a red and kinda pink hoodie. Honestly, I liked that guy, I shouldn't have killed him but I did and now I was regretting it. I had never regretted taking a life before now, it was as if the beast in me was taken captive by Ariella and my punishment was that I would live with the guilt of causing harm to the one girl that I felt something for.

      "S...so...you're...you're the animal? So you're the monster? You're the demon, the...the devil, the vampire who's responsible for everything," she questioned as though she didn't want to believe the whole thing. Momentarily, I wished I wasn't responsible for all that but double fuck, I was.

People called me worst names than the names she had addressed me as but her words were like the weapons vampire hunters used in killing vampires. They hurt me badly.

           "Austin! Why are you taking so much time?" Rachel's voice echoed from the background.  "Austin! Austin! If you don't come now, I'll change my mind about us doing the dirty," her voice became louder and I knew that she was super close to entering the hall.

             "Why did you have to kill him? No why did you even kill Julie and Kate? Why the fucking hell did you kill them? What the fuck are you?" Ariella snarled viciously,  anger filling her hazelnut eyes.

               "This is what a vampire beast does," I worsened the situation with my response but what else could I have said?

The eyes that looked at me with so much passion a few minutes ago were now looking at me with so much disgust and hate. Her look was enough to send me to my grave.

              "Haaaa!!" Rachel groaned when she saw her boyfriend covered in blood next to her.

                 "No!' Not my Austin," her tears resembled that of heavy pouring rain.

           "Who did this to you?" she glanced at how damaged his chest was, how bloody he looked, she stared at my hoodie and instantly yelled, "It's you....Isn't it? You're the vampire!"

Ariella was just standing motionlessly in a corner without saying a word.

The only way I could think of fixing this whole mess was to lessen Rachel's pain. It would be easier for her to move on if she was compelled to do so. "He was killed by a deadly animal, you didn't see this and you will not cry over him rather you will move on and you won't let his death bring you down," I had no other choice but to compel her. Just like I expected,  Rachel stopped crying, got up, and left.

Ariella shook her head in disbelief, she must loathe me even more for what I just did. I felt the need to explain myself to her but the more I searched for one, the more I realized that there was nothing that could justify my ruthless actions. Because of me, she would think that all vampires were monsters but that wasn't true. I knew a lot of vampires who were kind-hearted. A good example would be my mom. However, I didn't know what to do with all these new emotions burning inside. I mean, my initial plan was to totally destroy the hazelnut-eyed human but right now, I hated the whole plan.

ARIELLA'S POV

I saw how he hypnotized Rachel to just move on from this tragedy. Now that I was thinking about it, everything made sense. The minute he got here, everything changed for the worse.

I chose this devil over my Angelic boyfriend.

I fell for the demon.

He's a fucking vampire!!

Why couldn't I see the hell in his hello?

I was always in control but I let my emotions choose this monster.  Holy Shit, if I  didn't get the hell out of here, he would also kill me and I also needed to report him to Dad so that could find a way to make him killing all those people and my friends too. With every fiber of my being, I ran as fast as I could but the vampire beast  caught up to me in a heartbeat.

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