After Blake had refused all the female human slaves that were given to him by his father who was the vampire King, his father had them all killed and brought more of them for Blake.
He wanted Blake to sleep with them so that one of them will bear him a male son and he would force Blake to marry a vampire lady and be the King, just like his own father had forced him to do.
Blake hated this system, he didn't get to see his human mother that gave birth to him. he hardly talk to Serena, his vampire mom, she was so full of herself, always trying to act like she cares when the only thing she cares about is keeping that queen title to herself.
vampires have always been using humans as their baby factory because that was the only way they can reproduce, that was also why vampires despised other mystics, wolves and witches didn't need anything to breed, as they can do it themselves.
His father was the leader of shadow vein coven, which is the most strongest and powerful coven in the vampire realm.
Blake was certainly the only vampire that could tell his father no when the father needed a yes, and because of that, he didn't have a good relationship with his father.
he didn't like to be controlled and so he hated how his father was always trying to control his entire life, he was not allowed to be happy except his father want him to be, and he isn't allowed to be sad except for his father want him to be, he isn't even allowed to love except his father wants him to love.
he hated it more how the other vampires allow his father to control their decisions, it wasn't all the vampire's decision to hurt mystics from other kinds or use humans as slaves, it was his father's decision, and is always claiming it to be all the vampire's decision.
Blake was in his house garden watering the flowers and checking if any of them is missing vital nutrients, he loves gardening most of all breeding flowers it's one of the things that makes him happy.
"there you go buddy," he said, placing a fish into his pet eagle's cage as the bird flapped its wings to show appreciation.
"you welcome Nick," Blake had Nick since when it was little, the mom used to serve him before until she grew old and her baby took over, Nick has two more siblings who aren't always around and show up once in a blue moon.
"my prince, your father requests your presence," a guard told him with his head bowed.
"he gave you any reason," Blake inquired curiously
"no my prince," the guard replied bowing low.
"I will meet him in a few minutes," he told the guard before taking off his apron and hand gloves, his father calling him wasn't a surprise to him, his father always seek his attention every minute, it is either to go somewhere to let out his warning or to do peacekeeping or to go on a date with some powerful vampire's lord daughter, his father hates to be corrected or disputed, you do as he says or make an enemy of him,
he strolled down lazily to the chambers his father was staying, the guards standing outside his father's room, saw him and bowed, opening the door for him,
He meet his father and his so-called vampire mother sitting on their throne.
"you requested for my presence father," Blake said when he entered, refusing to greet or bow to him on purpose.
"and where are your manners of giving respect to your father when you approach him," Serena snarled viciously at Blake but made it less intimidating so Sage won't notice what she was doing.
"I guess that manner wasn't installed since you weren't doing the duties of a mother," Blake mocked, giving her a face-wide smile with gleaming eyes.
"you aren't a baby anymore Blake, at your age, I believe you should know the right things to do," she said, glaring at him venomously.
"Like how you know how to keep your harlotry business private," Blake told her smirking when he saw how shocked and frightened she was.
Blake had caught her many times with Mr. Garett who was a well-respected vampire in the coven, he had not bothered to say anything as his father also does the same thing, there was no love between the two, they married each other for a particular reason and Blake didn't want to live like that, he has experienced so many unhappy moments and refused to be forced to go through another one.
"how dare you accuse me of such, I wouldn't be by your father's side right now if I didn't love him, you this nincompoop, you seem to be forgetting that I'm your mother," Serena said, bulging her eyes out at Blake, the veins pulse on her neck would have been easily noticed if she wasn't trying to control her anger
"and who bestowed you with that title," Blake taunted, laughing very hard.
"Enough," Sage shouted tired of hearing both of their comebacks,
"seat down Serena and I don't want to hear you laugh anymore Blake," he shouted at both of them,
when everywhere was quiet, he handed a paper to Blake,
"Who do I deliver this to," Blake asked thinking it was a message his father wanted him to deliver,
"you should take a look at the inside," Sage told him nodding his head, after seeing Blake's hesitation,
Blake's face turned into annoyance after seeing female names on the paper,
"Those are the names of women you will be taking on a date next week, they are all beautiful women from renowned families and are the best to make a good wife and a queen,"
"if they will make a good wife and queen as you clarified, why don't you pick one for yourself because I think you really need one," Blake said glaring at his father with a clenched jaw
"BLAKE, don't start with me, for goodness sake I'm doing my job as a father," Sage shouted
"and I don't want it, I want to choose my wife myself,"
"and that an option I'm giving to you,"
"But father...,"
"Enough, you are going to take every one of them on a date, whether you like it or not,"
"you can't...,"
"that a command," he yelled at Blake, who just looked at him with hatred in his eyes as he walked out on both of them.
Blake went to the wood that night, sitting on thick trees and thinking about his life wondering if he will ever be happy in life, he doesn't have friends to talk to and he always feels empty and lonely,
today was blood Moon, a time when vampires become more bloodthirsty, he was also here to see if there is any scapegoat to feed on,
they was a party at the palace the would have been a lot of blood at the party but he didn't feel like being there, as the was too much of sex scene or a human slave being killed for fun, he loves drinking his blood quietly and in a serene environment.
he felt something running in the forest, as he followed the sound to where it was coming from, the noise suddenly stopped, as he used his night vision to check if he could still find it, he suddenly heard a scream which drew him closer to whatever that was, it wasn't a scream of fear but of pain and anger,
he finally reaches where the shouting came from and he saw a girl with wings that were filled with fire, he couldn't help but wonder which mystic she was, wolves don't have wings neither do witchers who can only fly when they use magic, whoever she was, she isn't an ordinary mystic, she seems to have seems his presence as she came to the spot where blake was standing before he left,