ARIELLA'S POV

I had really missed seeing the sun, it felt good to be out of the palace. In vampire fiction novels, I thought that vampires and sun don't get along but the situation was different here. Nathan and I were heading for the river.

I was embracing the sweet scent of fresh air, adoring the tall and beautiful trees present around me. Truly, Mount Evie was indeed beautiful. I squinted, trying to find mountains but I couldn't find one. Why would they name it Mount Evie if there were no mountains around? Perhaps there was one.

"So are there like mountains in this kingdom," I asked Nathan who was walking fast.

"Not at all," he responded, shaking his head

"Then why name it Mount-Evie," I sounded curious.

"Late Evie Steel, my great grandmother secured our future. Then, the Steels were just ordinary humans, they were helpless, belittled, and treated poorly by the witches, werewolves, and fairies...."

"Fairies?" I nearly screamed.

He continued with a smile, "yep. You'd be surprised by how large our world is, As I was saying, Evie got tired of seeing how much her family was suffering under the rule of the evil King and Queen so she took a stand, a stand that changed everything," he exhaled and continued, "she made a deal with the most powerful witches and somehow turned her husband, Frederick Steel into the first vampire in the world. At first, it was hard for Frederick to control it but he later handled it well.  With his silver fangs, he killed all the wicked rulers and initiated his children to be vampires, and just like that the population kept on growing widely. Evie remained human, she didn't transform into a vampire," he stopped

Wow. That was just wow. So Evie Steel created these monsters and was never transformed into one.
"Please continue," I batted my lashes.

"Vampires were seen as threats to all humans so our enemies grew," he paused.

Of course, vampires were threats.

He cleared his throat, "I don't know the whole story but our enemies found a way to burn Evie on a mountain."

What the bloody hell?

"Frederick Steel avenged his wife, he killed his enemies and transformed so many humans into vampires. He got the whole Kingdom burnt down and transported to a different land. Being a strong vampire, it was easy for him to take over the land," he sighed.

"Wow!" That's all I could say at the moment.

"He honored his wife by naming the Kingdom, Mount-Evie," he said.

Finally, I understood the concept behind the name. "When did this happen?"

"Two thousand years ago," he told me, causing me to gasp.

"Woah! Highly strange but woah," I expressed, and he let out a surprised snicker.

Suddenly, a strong man sprinted from our front to me and strongly grabbed me by my right shoulder. I tried to free myself from his tight grip but he was way too strong for me, he could only be a vampire. He pierced into my delicate skin with his long claws causing me to groan in pain.

"Ahh! Please don't kill me. I swear my blood is not sweet and you won't enjoy it," I screeched as loud as I could. The vampire growled and roughly used his sharp fangs to suck blood from my shoulder. I felt my whole life crumbling as he fed from me without mercy. The pain felt like death itself, I knew this day would come, this was to be expected but I wasn't expecting it to be as painful as this. Sylaq was there to save me the last time but where was he now that I needed him the most?

Nathan was too small to fight him so he ran to find Sylaq.

I felt my whole body shrinking with each passing second, he didn't loosen his grip on me at all. I was the helpless host and he was the powerful parasite. Fuck, my body was reacting badly to his bite. Double fuck, I was gonna die from this.

"Let me go! I am the wife of your Prince so for your safety you better free me now," I boldly said even though I was slowly dying from his bite.

The ugly-looking vampire laughed aloud, and he grimaced, "I don't answer to Prince Sylaq Steel. I only obey the commands of Princess Bella Steel who told me to end you and by the way, your blood is very sweet."

W-What?

Holy shit, I knew that one of Sylaq's family members would try to kill me but somehow, I hoped it wouldn't come to pass.

Did Bella hate me so much that she would send someone to kill me?

In the blink of an eye, a white wolf launched himself against the vampire. He smothered the vampire without giving him a chance to fight back. The wolf immediately bit the vampire on his chest which made the vampire fall to the ground lifelessly. My eyes grew wide with terror just seeing all that but still, I was relieved that this white wolf saved me.

The white wolf turned into a young, very good-looking guy with black hair, and his ocean-blue eyes complimented his masculine features.

I was still pretty much shaken by what just happened,  I was grateful to this wolf guy for saving me from that vampire.

Before thanking the wolf guy, Sylaq appeared from nowhere and grabbed the wolf guy, "how dare you try to harm my wife?"

"Sylaq, let him go. He saved me from that man or vampire," I pointed to the unconscious vampire on the ground.

"Let me go now," the wolf guy shouted but he didn't let him go. The wolf guy got angry and fought back. They were both tearing each other out and threw heavy punches at each other's faces.

Bloody hell, it was fucking scary to watch the scene in front of me. They would kill each other if no one stopped them and I couldn't even find Nathan.

"No, no, Sylaq don't kill him!" A tall lady snarled from behind, her brown hair fluttered as she dashed up to the guys. "Please don't kill him." Her black eyes looked worried as she stopped Sylaq from killing the wolf guy.

Sylaq flung the wolf guy away and that just blew my head off. I watched how Sylaq was looking at the lady with much anger and disgust.

There was blood everywhere, making me want to puke. I've never loved the smell of blood, a major reason why I never wanted to study medicine.

As if this whole situation wasn't bad enough, the injured vampire that got bitten by the werewolf or wolf guy got up, brought out a knife from his pocket, and stabbed himself over and over over and over again. He groaned in pain, his chest poured out much blood, and his eyes got shut before he passed away.

Why in the world did he kill himself? Nothing is normal in this town but I was gonna lose my mind if I stayed here one more second.

I just couldn't hold the vomit at the back of my throat anymore so I threw up on my clothes, actually Sylaq's clothes. Sylaq ran to me but I ran as fast as I could. I needed to get the hell away from this creepy place, I needed to run from this abnormal life.

Unfortunately, Sylaq caught up to me in no time and firmly held my left hand and I wondered if I would ever be able to escape.

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