Morning came and the sunlight peeked through the black velvet curtains, Larisa struggled to get up again, she couldn't wake up late afternoon like the other day. Immediately she awoke, she caught sight of the most gorgeous figure she could ever see, sitting on his usual position facing her. She wondered if he would watch her everyday like that, she was so amazed by his sight that she had already forgotten her near death experience the other night.
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Lothaire watched Larisa wake up looking like an Angel, her brown long hair falling freely on her shoulders which he very much wanted to comb his long fingers through but quickly dismissed his thoughts.
" uhm..Lothaire.."He heard Larisa call him with her angelic voice driving him out of his thoughts.
"what's wrong Angel..." He drawled with his deep husky voice making Larisa blush anytime he called her angel.
"can I call my friend...To check up on her, she might be worried about me". She explained with a hint of worry in her eyes. She watched Lothaire spread a grin on his face that looked dark but sexy at the same time, she had noticed everything he did spoke of darkness but also immense beauty.
" I doubt she'd be worried but sure". He said stretching his muscular hand toward her gesturing for her to come. Larisa walked toward him wondering why her friend wouldn't be worried about her.
She stood two feet apart from him, then he got up and his tall big figure towered over her making her feel intimidated, her heart skipped a beat and she instinctively moved a feet back.
Lothaire saw how intimidated she was and tried to make his face as less intimidating as possible, but Larisa wasn't scared of him she was just scared of the fact that she was already falling in love with him despite barely knowing him. He dipped his hand into his pocket and brought out a phone and then handed it to her which she took with slightly shaking hands and a sweet smile on her beautiful face, she quickly dialed the number in a rush to hear her friends voice. "hello..Who's this?". Larisa heard her friend speak, " its Larisa, where are you?" She asked in a worried tone.
"oh! hows your vacation at the beach going? I thought reception was shitty there?" Larisa was stunned by her reply 'beach? Vacation? when?' confusion made her speechless. "uh..." Larisa's speech was interrupted by the phone being yanked from her hand by Lothaire and then within a second smashed the phone with his bare hands which turned to nothing but tiny chunk pieces leaving Larisa with widened eyes making it look bigger.
."why did you do that?! And why does my friend think I'm in the beach on vacation?" Her eyebrows creased in anger, Lothaire used his finger to smoothen her brows leaving her perplexed by his action.
"I'll buy you a new phone so you can talk to her but we had to make everyone you knew think you went on a vacation or it'll be weird that you disappeared". He explained, she thought it was a pretty good idea, she nodded in approval but made a confused expression.
" wait! How did...." Her sentence was interrupted again by Lothaire which she found quite annoying "compulsion....its a vampire thing ". He explained like he knew what she was about to say.
" Do you read..." She grunted in frustration because he interrupted her again.
" Yes but I cant read vampires, demons and yours because of the mating bond" He explained and she nodded but how did he know what she wanted to say,
"because it's written all over your face". He stated and her brows creased again which he found adorable. " Shower and eat your breakfast, we're going out". He ordered, he could see rebelliousness in her eyes but she oddly obeyed him and dashed into the bathroom.
She was done bathing and wore a dress given to her by Lothaire, which was exposed at the whole back and barely stopped below her knees, thankfully, her long hair covered her back but she glared at him when he wasn't looking.
They reached the dining together which could seat around twenty people but weirdly, they were the only ones seated there, with all kinds of delicious meals placed in front of her one by one till the table was filled.
Lothaire rested his hand lazily on his chin and watched her as she stuffed her mouth with food completely oblivious of Lothaire as if she had forgotten he existed.
Larisa felt heaven rest on her tongue as she ate the food, really there was nothing better than food but as she looked up, she saw a pair of golden eyes watching her intently making her choke on her food, Lothaire quickly offered her water which she embarrassingly accepted, she wished the ground would open up and swallow her at that moment but thankfully, someone walked into the dining.
It was Darius, he strode elegantly into the room but there was a gaping difference with that of Lothaire. He was in a black suit as always with his straight face, he glanced at Larisa with black eyes as sharp as spear and then ignored her turning his attention towards Lothaire.
"The Emperials will be here by tomorrow concerning your wedding, they're not happy that you got married to a human". Darius informed,his voice devoid of emotion,his blank expression seemed like it was plastered on his face from birth.
The Emperials were four of the oldest pure bred vampires who ensured the protection of rules and regulations and were greatly respected through out Empire D even as much as the royal families but still they couldn't hold a candle to Lothaire, no one dared to question him or what he did but the Emperials had decided to because it was forbidden to mate with a human since they weren't supernatural beings and they couldn't live for long.
" Let them come." Lothaire said in an unworried tone. "Are you done eating?" He asked Larisa, completely ignoring Darius, she nodded and they set to leave. Darius had a cold expression that made her scared to her bones and the way he looked at her made her wary it didn't help that his aura was as dark as his look and maybe his heart, there was nothing warm about him unlike Lothaire whom even though he was more dangerous, was still somewhat warm.
Lothaire and Larisa got in his luxurious Lamborghini and set off. Larisa couldn't help but gape at Lothaire while he was driving, even trivial things like driving looked like he was taking a photoshoot, she watched the way his muscles flexed when he made a turn, the way he squinted his beautiful golden eyes.
she sighed dreamily, meanwhile, Lothaire pretended not to see the drooling Larisa and stifled a laugh.
They finally reached their destination, it was a very tall glass story building with large writings 'APHRODITE'S FASHION HOUSE' written at the top of it. It was luxurious in every way. Larisa followed behind Lothaire as he went in and watched everyone bowing their heads like he was the king, in a blink of an eye all the customers evacuated the premises which Larisa found unfair, 'its not like he is going to buy the whole thing' she thought as she rolled her eyes.
"My lord, how can I serve you?" She heard one of the staff speak in the most polite manner. "get her only sexy out..." He paused as if he was having a time out. "no get her nice clothes, not so exposed, I'll pick the jewelries" he ordered while Larisa wondered why he changed his mind about the sexy clothes.
"its fine I don't need jewelries, only clothes." She said slightly embarrassed. The staffs quickly took her to the clothes line showing her different expensive clothing but she only picked her taste(Korean fashion) and when she said it was enough, the staffs disagreed and asked her to pick more but she got annoyed and made it clear that she was done.
On coming out with the bags of clothes that were less than ten, Lothaire glared at the staffs making them cower and whimper in fear.
"we urged her to pick more my lord but..." One of the staffs spoke in a low voice.
"I'm really tired and I just want to go back." Larisa pleaded in a small voice batting her lashes at him and suddenly, the anger was gone. He gave her the new phone he bought and she almost jumped in joy "Thanks."
After they had arrived, Lothaire immediately left because Darius had wanted to speak to him. She called her parents and they had said the same thing Annelise said, it seemed like they had really compelled everyone.
She watched kdramas and waited for Lothaire until late evening, she wondered why she missed him. Immediately, Lothaire stepped into the room looking a bit disheveled, she wondered what had happened but even then, he was still smoking hot as ever.
"You've been waiting?" He asked more like he knew.
"no! Why would I?" She denied flatly. Lothaire didn't say anymore and went into the bathroom. She could hear the shower running and she immediately wondered how he would look naked under the shower.
She pushed the blanket off her legs so that her sexy nightwear would be more visible and then rearranged her hair 'what the heck are you doing?' Her inner self was shocked, where did she get the courage from.
She remembered him telling her that she would beg him to fuck her, remembering that, she stood her ground and before she could pull the blanket back up, he dashed out of the bathroom half naked again with only his pants on, revealing his glorious abs and veiny hands, his hair was still dripping wet and her mouth slightly parted, his gaze met hers and she immediately looked away flushed red, his eyes fell on her milky white sexy legs and her curves.
He gulped and averted his gaze from her body, he took a hair dryer and started drying his hair. "Have you forgotten or you're just pretending?" Larisa was startled by his voice, she blinked numerously.
"forgotten what?" She asked innocently.
"That I almost killed you last night." He said and she wondered why he suddenly brought it up. "oh! Well it wasn't intentional and you didn't kill me." She said calmly, she remembered how scared she was when she felt the blood been drained from her body but still trusted him that he wouldn't kill her.
Lothaire was expecting her to be scared but he got the complete opposite of her reaction towards him which he found odd, he could feel her fear when she saw Darius that morning but she wasn't scared when it was him, 'it could be the mating bond' he thought.
"You can still leave if you want." He said plainly and he could see her looking bewildered.
"But you said I'd die if I left." She said trying to make sense out of this nonsense.
"You'll die anyways." He said emotionlessly making her brown eyes gleam with unshed tears.