"Fuck!" Lothaire cussed under his breath with gritted teeth when his eyes met Larisa's standing a few meters away from him. He would have been able to sense her following him with his heightened senses but his burning hunger didn't allow him think properly and as a result, was unaware of her movements until then when he heard loudly, the rapid beating of a heart heavily in fear.
Larisa's body trembled in fear when she saw Lothaire drain the life from the young girl and viciously slashing her throat with no remorse whatsoever, she thought he would drink a bit from the girl and let her go after compelling her but she seemed to have forgotten that he wasn't a kind hearted person and neither did he feel remorse or empathy. She was the only one who gained those things from him, no one else.
Lothaire saw the horror stricken face of Larisa as her eyes were fixated on the dead girl who was been slowly covered in a pool of her own blood, she had wanted to scream, wanted to tell Lothaire to stop when she saw him draining the girl but her mouth only opened unable to make a sound and only stared frozen in horror.
He walked slowly to her but his long legs covered the distance between them in five steps. She didn't move, but her heart thumped faster and harder, she was scared but he couldn't understand the reason why, when she already knew what he was but she was human and she was fragile.
He stretched his hand to cup her cheeks but he stopped mid way when he saw his hands covered in blood, still dripping from his fingertips and her eyes narrowed to his bloody hands which made her gulp.
"I told you to wait for me, why are you so stubborn?" He said with a low voice and her eyelashes fluttered.
She tried to compose herself, she had promised herself that she wouldn't be scared of him anymore no matter what, she'd try to hide her fear but seeing the young girl's life been snatched away from her so ruthlessly made her want to cry, she didn't want Lothaire to change who he was, she knew he couldn't because he was born that way but still, if he was a bit considerate about ending lives like it meant nothing then she wouldn't be filled with so much disdain for what he had done.
"You didn't have to kill her." She said with a very small voice and the tears that had been threatening to spill from her hazel eyes dropped on her cheeks and it hurt Lothaire to see her crying because of him, he realized that he didn't have to hurt her physically or emotionally to make her cry, all he had to do was hurt others which would equally hurt her too.
"You don't even know her, just forget about it." He said with a cold voice as he took out a kerchief from his pocket and wiped the blood from his hand thoroughly, with no act of remorse.
"It doesn't matter if I know her or not, she has people who cares for her like you do for me, haven't you thought one day how you would feel if someone took my life the way you take innocent ones?" Larisa asked as more tears spilt from her eyes, her tears made him weak but she mistook it from him feeling remorse.
"I'll never feel that way because I'll never let anyone lay a hand on you as long as I'm alive and I'm immortal which means it's never going to happen." Lothaire said with a firm voice, there was no hint of remorse in his eyes and she knew that he was never going to care about anyone's life except her own because he was selfish and only the existence of his breed mate mattered.
She wiped the tears from her face with anger etched on her face as she shot him a long glare before stomping out of his sight. He didn't say anymore as he silently followed behind the angry girl who was unaware of his presence till they reached the room and she turned back to see Lothaire walking into the bathroom to freshen up.
She scoffed in disbelief that he felt no guilt after taking an innocent life and she could see it from his eyes that his conscience didn't prick him even a tiny bit but she couldn't despise him even if she wanted to which made her even more frustrated.
Lothaire came out from the bathroom in sweatpants but bare chested as normal since he had always slept bare chested but still, she couldn't help but think he was trying to seduce her. He stared intently at the girl who was reading a book, seated on the bed but the anger in her face couldn't be hidden.
"You care about everyone but not everyone cares about you." She heard Lothaire's deep voice resound in her ears and she whipped her head towards his direction as he sat on the chair, fiddling with a book on the table.
"It's called been selfless when you put others first without caring if they care about you or not." She retorted as she averted her gaze back to her book and she heard Lothaire scoff.
"Well I'm not so selfless now am I? So why are you always expecting me to act differently from my true nature?' Lothaire questioned rhetorically with squinted eyes.
"I never told you to act different, I'm just telling you to be a bit more considerate, you're not the only one that matters." She argued and Lothaire's face hardened.
"Of course I'm not. You are." Lothaire said with a serious expression as he held his gaze with her and she gulped, her anger washed away when those genuine words rolled out of his lips, she knew she was the only one that mattered to him and his sincerity made her feel an emotion she couldn't quite comprehend.
She was speechless and she just stared at him for a long time, blinking her eyes at him. He always seemed to find the right words to back up his devious deeds but he never made excuses for doing them, in fact he had solely accepted the fact that what he did was wrong as he accepted the fact he was the embodiment of evil a long time ago, the prince of darkness and he didn't care how anyone perceived him, he loved his monster and he knew she loved it too.
"I don't know why I keep arguing with you when you're obviously the wrong one." Larisa managed to say as she knew he always won his arguments whether he was wrong or not.
"I don't know what's wrong that's why I never try to act right." He said with a sinister smile revealing his white teeth.
"You're only acting that way because you feel like you were born that way, but no matter what you were born as, we all were given a choice to either be good or bad." Larisa said, passing her final points across, she wanted to stop arguing with him but she couldn't help but have a reply to every statement of his.
"You see Larisa..." He paused as he pushed his upper body forward in the chair with a dark gleam in his golden eyes. "I have no choice because I'll end up in hell anyway, not heaven because I've got the devil's blood running in my veins and every breath I take is pure evil." He continued and a devilish grin cut through his lips as he spoke.
"You'll end up in hell?" She asked as she was confused by his remarks. She wondered if he'd really go to hell and leave her behind as sh couldn't go with him.
"It'll be my own hell not the devil's." He stated and confusion hit her.
"W..What about me?" She asked with uncertainty.
"Don't worry, I'll take you to hell with me, you'll be my queen and I the king." He said as his grin widened.
"What?"
"Don't worry, you'll be in hell but not a flame will touch you." He said and she relaxed, going to hell with him didn't seem like a bad idea if a flame wouldn't touch her. As long as they would be together, she didn't care if he took her to hell with him.