Taehyung’s POV 

Great. Fucking perfect. I would call myself an absolute fucking idiot if I did not know it was an absurd lie, since I am the brightest one in the entire coven. Namjoon is book smart, I am street smart. But even with all my smartness and years of experience, I cannot for the life of me understand why I am enjoying so much toying with this girl. 

It has to be because I know she hates my guts. It has to be that. 

She gets all riled up and her cheeks tend to taint with a pink shade every time I make her upset. I can even see the color creeping up her neck and her hands closing into fists as she fights back whatever thoughts she has about murdering me. She is tiny. How can she be so freaking violent? 

Yeah, I am lurking because I like to make her upset. Although I was told not to play with my food, multiple times, and I do not have the habit of biting random hunters, since their blood tastes like shit, or so I was told. But her? She makes me slightly curious. 

She doesn’t smell awfully bad, even with the male scent trying to grasp to hers, and she has spunk. She is also a pain in the ass, but I will take care of that when I kill her and drop her body in some ditch so the rest of the Legion can find her. Because this girl has to die. I don’t make the rules. In this case I may have, but it is not only up to me to decide this. Namjoon will not want her around either. Especially with that temper of hers. She is a menace. We will probably be able to do it only after everything in here is settled and we are ready to leave. I don’t want an army trying to fight for a vendetta that has no business in happening. I try to avoid killing anyone in my path, but this girl is stubborn enough to track and try to wipe me off the map, which is all the more reason to get rid of her first. 

I watch from the shadows as she emerges out of the building. The city has been a bit more deserted at certain hours, the Legion probably forced a curfew on the ones they knew, and those spread the word, implementing the idea to the curious minds humans as a measure of safety. They are smart and manage to tend the needs of the people who have no idea supernatural beings crawl around them. But even so, I was expecting more. It was easy enough to slip through the security cracks. No one stopped me, no one even crossed my path. Which is for the best. I am not sure how I would explain to Namjoon I had to kill one of the hunters.

The building she went into after leaving her house, looks old. Old enough to be here for over two centuries. I hide myself downwind and hold my breath when noticing her emerging from inside the building. She turns right to walk back to her place. Or so I suppose, since it’s the closest. How I stumbled on her address is still hard to believe. She frowns and stops in the middle of the sidewalk. Lee looks over her shoulder and her eyes meet mine. 

A smile creeps its way to my lips as I watch her gaze widen in shock and horror. She wasn’t expecting me to breach the city lines. Especially since she tried so much to be intimidating during our last conversation. Or whatever the fuck that was. My smile deepens when I wave at her and can hear her growling beneath her breath. A truck cuts her line of sight on me and I take the needed advantage to disappear into the shadows of the building.  

I watch from my spot as she looks around the street, trying to spot me again. When she can’t find me, it seems she gets furious, or more than she was. Lee sighs and resumes to walk down the road to cross it. When Lee arrives to this side of the street, I hide the smile creeping on my lips. She is feisty. I am pretty sure if she could right now, she would try to rip my head off. I say try because she wouldn’t be able to do it. She bites down on her lip, and I suppress a chuckle creeping up my throat. For whatever reason I cannot comprehend, toying with her just made my day a whole lot better. 

Her phone goes off. She groans and takes it out. “What?” She comes close to growling while silence fills the alley and I watch as her shoulders slump and she turns to leave once more. “I will be right there.” Lee turns the call off, pockets her phone again and for a brief second, I swear she sees me when she looks up. But it’s impossible. Not even another vampire would be able to spot me right now. “I don’t know where you are, you filthy asshat batman wannabe, but know this is not the last time we meet. Test my patience once more and I will be the last thing you see before you die.” 

With those final words, she turns around to leave the alley. I almost stop her. Almost go down there and grab her arm, forbidding her to leave. Just to prove her wrong, of course. She thinks she can kill me? She may very well try. It won’t happen. From my spot, I notice how she walks down the street. Lee takes a peek over her shoulder and slips into the shadows between both buildings. 

I follow her because... well, I am not letting her out of my sight. She is a menace. What if she does something she shouldn’t? Like fighting someone from my coven. I will have to kill her then. I am only making sure my family is safe. Nothing else.

Lee paces around a corner and I notice her not stopping when a guy approaches her. She passes by him, leaving the young lad dumbfounded behind. He smells like bad news, and I don’t think he is used to being ignored like this. He makes a motion to follow but seems to regret it. Either because Kim Lee means business or because I dare to step out into the light when he takes a step closer, meaning to follow her. One of those two things seems to make him rethink his decisions. Without even noticing me or the guy, Lee reaches the end of the street and walks straight into the forest. I curse under my breath, knowing to follow her I will become exposed between hiding spots for a couple of seconds. 

I could leave. Go home and rest. But this girl looks like trouble, and I am not sure how safe we will all be if she sticks around. 

She walks between the trees. I take the chance to be as silent as possible and slip myself between the buildings and the edge of the forest. Lee barely makes any noise and as much as I hate her guts, I cannot help but to be impressed. She has to have some training. Her breathing is always under control, her body moves as if she is made of air, and even the way she takes her dagger out is silent. 

Seok-Jin has to have taught her how to do this. There is no way this is a skill the girl was born with. 

Right as my mind is trapping me, she stops. Lee climbs a tree and hides in its shadow. I do the same from a safe distance and watch from afar as she crouches on the branch and takes her dagger out. She looks as if she is hunting, which is... oddly entertaining. Her entire body leans forward and Lee closes her eyes as a breeze caresses her cheeks. When a boy passes beneath the branch, her entire body freezes. He doesn’t even have time to realize what is going on. And unfortunately, neither do I. Lee jumps on him and dives a silver dagger into his back. She takes him to the ground without much of a fight. Her hands cover his mouth and she muffles his screams. 

My stomach churns. But before I can go and stop her, she stands, and I know the boy is already dead. Lee’s shoulders slump as if in defeat, looking down at the corpse. She almost looks regretful. Almost. Someone who does a cold-blooded murder like this will never regret it, so I know she is most likely contemplating her own kill. She has experience, and worse than that, she is brave enough to do this without backup. 

I need to keep a sharp eye on her or we are fucked. She is a woman, and Legion hunters are known to be mostly male. But what if she is the one, we should all fear?

Lee turns around and I notice her face. For all it’s worth, she does look regretful, but I know it is a lie. She takes one step closer, leans down and wipes her blade on the corpse’s clothing. Her voice, however, comes out cold. “Are you getting off on watching me murder someone?” 

I do not move. Not because I am scared, but because I am pretty sure she is talking to me, trying to lure me out of my hiding. She probably knows or suspects I followed her since the alley. It has to be that. There is no way stinky over there knows where I am. No way at all- why is she turning in this direction? 

Lee takes a few cautious steps. For a second I consider she saw me hiding when I arrived, but then her eyes drift to the entire tree still not looking up in the direction I am. So she knows I am around, just not precisely where. I can live with that shit. Just need to be extra careful around her. Her sense of smell and sight seem to be extra sharp. I wonder if her brother has the same abilities? He probably does. She cannot have such a talent and be a follower instead of the Legions leader. Not that I think the Legion would let a woman take charge. 

I am not even sure how they let Lee be a part of it in the first place. Probably because there is no denying she is talented. As much as I hate to admit it, Lee is the first hunter who can tell when I am around. If that shit is not some sort of talent, albeit an annoying one, then I don’t know what is.  

With a resigned sigh, I drop from the tree and land right in front of her. She doesn’t blink. Doesn’t even gasp or steps back when seeing me. I tilt my head, studying the humanoid girl, or whatever the hell she is. She cannot be a full hunter. No way. Although I would bet my left nut if that would let me figure her out. What she is. Nothing else. I am only curious about that. 

She slides one of her legs back and gets in position to attack me, but I sigh and she cocks a brow. A smirk makes its way to my lips, knowing she is willing to talk. “I think we established stinky you cannot beat me-” 

“Call me that shit again and I just might prove you wrong.” 

“Listen,” I say, raising my hand. “As much as all of this banter might very well be foreplay to you,” she groans at my words, and my smile goes bigger. “I don’t do knife play. Well, not on fragile little things like yourself.”

“I am not fragile. And I do not have a knife play kink.” 

I look her up and down. “You seem pretty fragile to me. You bleed and you break.”  

Lee groans. I swear I can hear her molars closing together. “Why are you here anyway? Following me is one of your kinks?” 

A snort escapes my throat. “I am not following you. And stinky I don’t think you could cope with what I like.” 

Her smile is nothing short of feral when she lifts her chin at me. “No, I don’t think so either. I’m pretty sure you like your women when they are silent. The submissive, no consent kind of shit.” 

My smile drops instantly, and I take a step closer. “Oh believe me stinky, they all consent. I don’t have a problem with that shit.”  

She turns the dagger to her fingernails and starts cleaning as if she hasn’t just insulted my entire existence. “Let’s pretend I believe your words.” 

I swear she is going to make me lose my damn patience. Which, for all it’s worth, I am the most patient vampire I have ever met. But this girl is testing me. “Anyway, what did that kid ever do to you for you to kill him so mercilessly?” 

She looks over her shoulder at the body. I don’t know how they get rid of evidence, but burning a vampire’s body is always the best option. No trail of any killing if you do that. We don’t do well with fire. However, after how she mauled the guy, I am pretty sure Lee knows what she is doing. 

“He killed someone.” She turns her head to look back at me and I get a whiff from her scent.  

“So you kill him without a trial?” 

She shakes her head. “We usually don’t need trials. The killing of an innocent human is explanatory enough and does not need to be judged by our leader. We have better things to do,” there she goes saying our. Is she a part of them? Because she seemed to have power over the younglings the last time we met. “This vampire was stopped from entering the city grounds a few weeks ago. But he entered the primary school down the street nevertheless, and bit one of the little kids. I don’t need to tell you in the feed chain how sucking on anyone under the age of eighteen is forbidden by the supernatural laws. But not only did your friend over there fed from a six-year-old child, he also killed him mercilessly after.” 

“How?” I ask with a frown. He is not from my coven, so maybe some loner wandering around. If Lee is telling the truth, then I will not hold her accountant for this.

This sort of thing is rare, but not unheard of. Some of us tend to let the darkness show more than others. I try to avoid the ones like that. The vampires who think rules don’t apply to them. If we want to keep feeding, then we should do better and try not to kill humans. They are, after all, our main sustain. If we start killing the children, they will turn against us. Well, the ones who know we exist, anyway. And we all know what happens when the humans realize the creatures around them. They turn, and they do not ask questions before hunting us. 

“The bones were broken, and the son of a bitch removed the boys’ limbs but made sure the boy was still half alive when he did it. Then the bastard left all the proof for the parents to find in their home. We were called right away, and I have been trying to track him for a couple of days. My brother called earlier to let me know he was spotted outside the city limits.” 

“Your brother lets you kill vampires?”  

She tilts her head and her hair falls over her shoulder. “Why wouldn’t he?” 

“I don’t know,” I shrug, knowing I am pushing her buttons again. “Because you are a girl?” 

“I’m a woman,” she says, pointing at me with the dagger. Maybe I shouldn’t push her since she clearly knows how to use that thing. But then again, when have I been known for making good decisions? “And more qualified than any other hunter in the Legion.” 

“It cannot be hard to be more qualified than most of those idiots.” 

Well, this is fun. I haven’t bantered with someone in so long... actually, I don’t think I have ever bantered with a woman before. Not that I look at her in that way. I still want to rip her head off her body and kick it to the other side of the country. She is still a murderer, but if what she is saying is true, then the vampire did deserve to die. 

If she hadn’t killed him, one of us would. Children are absolutely off limits. Anyone under the age of eighteen is. It’s the law we must obey to protect humans and wait for their consent. Which, like I said before, doesn’t mean much to some of us. We are only supposed to feed from humans but some of us get carried away. A child’s blood? I don’t even think it could sing to a vampire. It wouldn’t have taste. It would be too innocent. Children don’t sin like adults do. Children don’t live like adults do. Their lives are full of laughter, or at least the good ones are. 

This vampire wasn’t only a killer, he was something so much more darker. 

Okay, so maybe he deserved to die. It still doesn’t excuse this girls behaviour. She does look menacing holding the dagger as if she wants to stab me. I know she is fast now, I am not getting caught off guard ever again.

“The idiots you are talking about,” she says in a drawl and taking a step closer. “Are the same ones who killed all the menaces our city had last year. So unless you want the same faith, I would advise you to leave.” 

“You are advising me now?” She nods at me. “It’s cute of you to think you can do such a thing stinky.” 

“Stop calling me that,” she groans out, and I most certainly know I will never stop. “Why are you so pressed about staying in the city anyway? I thought your kind liked freedom. We protect this town-” 

“I have a job here,” she cocks a brow and I smirk. “Yes, I work. Whats so wrong about it?” 

“Aren’t you like super wealthy?” 

“How do you think I stayed wealthy to begin with?” 

“I don’t know,” she shrugs. “Killing humans seems like a way to do it.” 

I take a step closer and force her to look up. She is smaller, but not fragile, like I said before. She can actually look down on me despite her height, which is odd. “I don’t kill innocents. All my blood sucking, as you like to say, is done willingly. Believe me stinky, I don’t kill, and when I feed, they love it.” 

She grunts but says nothing else. Our eyes lock and I wonder how would she taste. How would her blood feel at the tip of my tongue? Is she sweet like most human girls are, or is her blood like her scent, intriguing enough and with a hint of spice? For a moment, I wonder if she is able to read my mind since her entire body seems to tingle. Her breathing fans against my lips and a thought crosses my mind of how else she would feel. How would her body look beneath mine? But then she glances over my shoulder and quietly speaks under her breath. “Put the gun down Jimin.” 

The playful smile I had vanishes and I listen to someone’s footsteps approaching. How I didn’t hear him in the first place is a crime, considering he is anything but silent. It was the girl, she was distracting me. Lee looks behind me once again and quirks a brow. I hear as the humanoid hunter male sighs but appears to do as Lee pleases.  

She was doing it on purpose, wasn’t she? She was making me talk, so my attention was on her. They both want to get rid of me and my kind. But if her ways of distracting me were with the purpose of whipping me out, then why didn’t she let him finish? Does she want to do it instead? I glare down at her but she doesn’t look at me. Her eyes are on the male behind me. I don’t spare him the attention he wants from me. Still with my back turned, we both know I can kill him with just a thought.

“Were you trying to get rid of me?” I call her out, barely above a whisper. 

Her eyes widen. “No. I didn’t even know he was here.” 

I take a step closer and she takes one back. From behind me, the male shouts. I slightly turn my head and sniff. The scent... it’s familiar. Before I know it I realize it’s the same male that Lee smells like sometimes. Is he her lover? A growl escapes me, and I hear the click of a gun. Daring to look over my shoulder, I find the Jimin person pointing a small pistol at me.  

“Your little brain does realize that won’t kill me, right?” I ask, smiling at the idiot. “And don’t worry, I am done here anyway. You can take the leftovers.” 

I give Lee one last look and walk away. As soon as I slide between the trees, his voice echoes behind me. If this guy is a hunter, he must not be very good at it. I want to slap myself for not hearing him approach, but then again I was distracted. 

“What were you doing alone with him?” The male’s voice comes from the trees. 

“I was minding my own business,” Lee says, her voice a little quieter. “Which is more than you can do.” 

I walk around the trees closer to the city and find the solitude of the night. I can still hear them, but cannot see them both, so I climb to the top of the building and look down. Sure enough, they come closer to the tree line, where it meets the road. Where there is light and it’s safer. Jimin slides his hand through his hair, pulling the locks back. He is close to losing it, and for whatever reason, it makes me happy. I usually don’t like hunters, it’s a principal thing, but this one is extra dislikable. 

“Lee, you can’t walk around like this alone. What if-” 

“I had orders,” she says, lifting her chin. “From Jin to kill the vampire who was after the children. You know, the one you were in charge of but failed to find? I got a track of him in ten minutes. Then the other one came sniffing by and asking questions, but I wasn’t in danger. And even if I was, I could deal with it.” 

“Then why didn’t you kill him as well?” 

She stops. Her gaze travels to the floor, then back again at Jimin’s eyes. Oh, this one likes to fight. It’s obvious. She won’t go down easy and for whatever reason, my stomach seems to have insects going crazy about it. Lee takes a cautious step closer to the male. “Because he wasn’t enough of a threat, and because I was trying to figure out how he broke into the city.”

That little- what did she just say? Is she seriously mouthing me as if I could not kill her with my bare hands? 

“What are you doing?”  

I turn around to watch Yoongi approaching me. He walks on top of the building and before I can stop him, he looks down to where I am looking as well. “Research.” 

“Is that her?” I nod, answering his question. “She’s cute.” 

A snort escapes me. Of course, he would find her cute. She is every type of what Yoongi wants in a girl. Her hair is close to white. Her body looks as if it was sculpted by gods. She has curves and those legs... she could choke a man with those. Not that I paid attention to any of those details.

My stomach still churns with the thoughts from moments ago. I don’t understand why I had them, but I know they were probably a direct consequence from Lee trying to distract me.

Yoongi tilts his head, regarding her. “Why didn’t you kill her already?” 

“I don’t want to start a fight with the Legion if I do,” I say, gesturing down at the two hunters with my chin. “Plus, she has company. We need to be smarter than them” 

Yoongi’s eyes narrow as he studies the other person. Then he laughs. “She is in fact Jimin’s bitch, isn’t she? At least now you figured out who her cunt belongs to,” he chuckles. “They’re fighting?” I nod. “She doesn’t seem too pleased with him. But I guess all bitches are like that.” 

I turn around and walk out of the building, not being able to deal with Yoongi right now. One has to be in the right mood to deal with his bullshit and the way he talks about women. So I walk away and listen to the sound of Lee’s voice fading behind me. 

***

Someone needs to study my damn brain. I didn’t want to sign up for this, but the truth is there is no other way. After trying to figure out who the monster that killed the young girl the other night is, I traced its scent all the way to the vampire Lee killed. Which got me to the conclusion there is a cell working together. 

Working with another supernatural being. 

Fuck. It’s worse than I thought. So I applied for a job. It’s the only way I can move around freely in the city without having any of the Legion folks after my ass. Not that they will leave me alone, I doubt once one of them catches my scent, they will get the fuck out of my way. But at least this way I can be around the victims and do as I want. Or as close to it as possible. 

I lied to Lee. I did not have a job when we met. Well, not this one at least. My experience, or the fake resumé I got, landed me the vacancy as a music professor in the primary school pretty easily. Which is great because the vet hospital is a block away. So I am also close to the hunter girl in case she decides to drop by and kill me unannounced. But it was either here or high school, and my patience is not strong enough to deal with teens without sending one of them through the walls just because they annoyed me.  

A teacher looks me up and down as I approach the class. I know what she is thinking, it’s clear all over her face as it is in her scent. But I am not indulging in a quicky, either fucking her or drinking from the woman at work. I don’t even want to drink human blood for the next few days. I have been without for a while and I can manage my thirst even in the worst times. 

I enter the class and the kids shortly follow. “Good morning kids, I am your new teacher. Mr. Kim.” 

Of course they don’t need to know the reason they have a new teacher is because their last one took a permanent leave. I did not kill him. Get your mind out of the gutter. I did give the bastard enough money so he could move to a new country and start a new life. As long as he stays away from most European countries, he is fine. I don’t know why so many monsters like those, but they prefer the solitude of colder places than the warm ones.  

The entire class goes silent, which gives me enough pause to start the lesson. I learn the kids’ names, and no matter how much I don’t want to, I cannot help to find them adorable. I am a vampire, but I can still find kids cute. It’s not like I am deprived of joy. 

By the time lunch hour comes one of the young girls comes to the front of my desk. “Mr. Kim?” 

I turn to face her. “Yes Abby.”

“I think you should know you are very pretty,” I smile at her. “And also, our hamster, Sir Micealot, is currently at the doctors. He had an accident last week and wasn’t moving, but the nice lady doctor said she could fix him.” 

Fuck. I dry swallow. “The doctors? It was a lady who took Sir Micealot?” 

Extra points for the name. But now I can’t help to wonder if the lady Abby is talking about is the same one occupying my bloodiest thoughts. I had a dream of how I could kill Lee last night. And it wasn’t pretty. None of it. I woke up hard, and that shit never happens to me. But in the dream her blood... it was addictive.

There have to be more vets, and especially more women who are vets in this city. It has to right? They could not be the only ones, although the hospital is a block away from here. A knock on my door stops me from speaking, and I don’t even need to look to know who it is. 

I hear her gasp at the same time her scent strikes me right in my lungs and deprives me out of all air. When I look up behind Abby, my eyes meet two silver ones. Her hair is up, displaying her neck, but her plump lips part as Lee mumbles. “What the fuck are you doing here?” 

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