Lothaire waited patiently in the living room for Larisa as he watched the time on the clock intently, not tearing his gaze off every second that ticked as he tapped the arm of the chair rhythmically with the ticking of the clock.
The time was strictly five on the dot and his brows creased when she wasn't back yet. He wanted to call her on the new phone he had bought for her but he refrained from doing so, he would wait a bit more, but his frown deepened when it was thirty minutes past five and she still wasn't back yet.
He stood up abruptly from the chair and was about to go out but the door swung open immediately, making Larisa bump into his hard chest.
"You're late." He said with a stern voice and she looked up to meet Lothaire's face etched with a frown on it, was he seriously mad at her for being a few minutes late? She sighed inwardly.
"It takes a few minutes to drive here you know, I can't just vanish into thin air and appear in front of you in a second." She explained, but he just gave her a hard stare in silence as she stood between him and the door. Her small delicate physique in front of Lothaire's huge, intimidating one made her look like a prey standing in front of a predator as she gulped anxiously at his silent look. She couldn't figure out if he was angry at her or worried as he gave her a blank look.
"You're right, I'm overreacting." He said calmly, as he broke the awkward silence and Larisa fluttered her eyelashes at him wondering if she misread him that he was angry at her for coming late.
"But I told you to be back by five and you have no excuse whatsoever, so you'll still get punished for breaking my order." He said with a stoic expression and she gulped at his words. Punishment? He expected her to leave around four so that she could be back by five, but she didn't see any big deal with coming back a few minutes after five except he was making a big deal out of it.
"You have no right to punish me!" She retorted with a firm look on her face even though she was obviously scared he'd punish her as he heard her heart thump loudly in his ears. He stretched his long arm toward her and she flinched in fear but then she felt his palm rest gently on her head as he lowered his head to hers and said,
"I punish people by torturing them, so why would you think I'd ever punish you?" He said with a low voice and she bit her lower lips knowing he was right and he'd never let harm come to her so why did she really believe him when he said he'd punish her.
"I..I'm sorry.." She said with a low voice as she stared into his golden eyes, thinking she had hurt him until she saw a sheepish grin cut through his lips.
"I told you to stop apologising, now didn't I?" He asked rhetorically and she bit her lower lips again. "Stop biting your lips or I'll bite them for you." He warned as his eyes narrowed to her pink juicy lips.
His voice was incredibly seductive to Larisa and she pressed her thighs instinctively as she was aroused. She saw his eyes lower to her neck and he subconsciously ran his tongue through his canines that had elongated already from hunger. His throat felt parched from lack of blood as he had been hungry for a few days now but he didn't want to drink her blood in hunger or he'd drain her dry, so he let go and kept a safe distance between them.
She knew he was hungry and she knew very well why he kept a safe distance away from her.
"You can feed from me, it's fine." Larisa said and he clenched his teeth on hearing her tempting offer, she was wholly offering her self to him but he knew he'd hurt her if he took it and the last thing he wanted was to hurt her or worse, kill her from his uncontrollable blood thirsty hunger so his resolve hardened as he refused her.
"Do you really want to die in my hands?" Lothaire asked with a hard voice. She trusted him fully that he wouldn't hurt her and only thought he was being too paranoid and overprotective but he wasn't for he knew what darkness laid within him.
"I know you won't hurt me Lothaire, I trust you." She said in assurance but Lothaire scoffed at her words.
"I can't promise you I that I won't if you take another step closer Larisa." He warned with a cold voice as he looked at her with emotionless eyes and Larisa gulped, she didn't know if he was serious about his words or he was merely trying to scare her away but she knew deep down, that Lothaire would never harm her, so she took a step closer as she said,
"I'd rather die in your arms than watch you suffer." She said as she studied his expressionless face and she wondered how he switched from teasing her five seconds ago to dark Lothaire.
She saw a devilish grin spread on his lips and his hard face softened as he said,
"Wait for me, I'll be back." She would have asked where he was going to but he sped past her in a second and disappeared from her sight, preventing her from asking her question. Lothaire's face hardened as soon as he left the apartment, the hunger intensified after seeing her and he felt his body burn with the unquenched thirst for blood. To his luck, the skies had gone dark and he walked quickly to a secluded alley where he would devour his prey which he hoped inwardly that it'd be a woman since their blood tasted a bit better than the men's even though it tasted shitty if compared to Larisa's.
Lothaire walked into a dark alley and rested his upper body on the wall as he dipped his hand in his pocket waiting for his unlucky victim impatiently as his throat itched endlessly with a burning thirst for blood. He didn't wait for a long time as he heard the faint heartbeat from the other direction and his neck craned to see who it was. A dark smile spread on his face when he saw a woman walking briskly and moving closer to his direction. It was a blonde girl about Larisa's age and she was coming back from a part time job.
He walked towards the girl with a quick pace and he soon caught up to her. The girl caught sight of the strange man with a dangerous and menacing presence walking up to her but she couldn't make out his face in the dark alley, but she could see vividly his glowing eyes in the dark. She halted abruptly in her steps and no one needed to tell her to run as she mechanically turned around and walked with hurried footsteps but when she heard the strange man coming closer, she took to her heels but she barely took three steps when she felt a strong hand gripping her neck tightly and she could feel his fingers pierce into her skin in a violent way, she winced in pain as she struggled to escape the man's hold but her struggle was useless.
Lothaire turned her to face him as he locked his gaze with her and his golden eyes burned brighter than the sun.
"Be quiet." He compelled her and the scream that had almost escaped her lips stifled on hearing him. His grip tightened as he craned her neck to the side to give him better access and he immediately dug his fangs into her neck,she struggled silently as tears rolled down her cheeks while he drained every ounce of blood from her body till she went limp in his hold. The blood flooded his mouth and his throat no longer burned as the red liquid cooled it, he finally had his fill and he withdrew his fangs from her neck as he heaved heavily in satisfaction.
The girl was dead, no doubt about it but he couldn't let anyone see her like this, they would freak out if they found out vampires existed within them in the modern age and would go to extreme means to eradicate them so he had to make it look like an animal attack which would benefit him since a forest was situated near them. His nails elongated into sharp claws and he viciously slashed the girl's throat at the side where he bit her which hid the bite mark as her flesh tore deeply and blood oozed out of it.
He let her body fall to the floor and was about to go back when his eyes met a pair of hazel ones staring at him in horror.