I busy myself making soup and feeding him before making him drink medicine. I am not a doctor but I nursed him till the temperature is back to normal. Kai is sleeping on the couch and I am in the bedroom but the next morning I opened my eyes to see a person staring at me with wild hair and dirty face.
"Ah!" I fell down from the bed in fright.
"Mother fucker! Why the hell are you standing by my bed like a ghost? Are you trying to scare me to death?"
"I'm hungry." He said simply. I really want to smack this kid, "You are lucky I don't want to dirty my hands or I would spank you." I say in disgust at his dirty clothes.
I woke up and showed him to the bathroom after cutting his hair. I cut the entire thing leaving him bald. He looks like a monk hehe..
"Go in there and wash yourself until you are clean and pleasant smelling. There is no way I can have an appetite with you looking and smelling like this." I threw him into the bathtub filled with soap water.
I went to make breakfast knowing his animalistic nature I made a lot of fried stake. I had it frozen before but now that I will be moving, I had unplugged the fridge to clean it up before the trip.
On the other side of the city Lu Pei woke up in a bad mood. That boy didn't take the initiative to find him again, is he trying to attract his attention like this? 'Snort'
He remembers that night Mikel was very responsive and even took the initiative to ask him for more satisfying him greatly. But then unlike before when he would cling to him and make all sort of excuses to stay till he has to go to work, the boy had left abruptly in the middle of the night.
Then he didn't call or text. Usually the assistant is annoyed by the influx of a messages from Mikel but as of late he has even been blocked. It seems he found a better sponsor.
Curling his lips disdainfully he got ready for work and will get a new companion. Money will buy him all sort of beauties. Lu Pei didn't know it himself but the moment he had seen Mikel in that bar, his face overlapped with the obedient boy's face who shyly smiled and called him 'uncle' in the past.
Even when the young man had asked for four hundred thousand yuan he had given it freely. And after verifying that he was indeed the boy's first he wasn't regretful. But this feeling of being discarded like this is very unpleasant.
"Find out who Mikel has moved on to." He ordered his assistant but saw him hesitate. "You already know?"
His assistants are supposed to anticipate his needs and act accordingly. "I found out he went to his home town to bury his only relative. A man named Ma who raised him after finding him abandoned in the slums bins. He had stomach problems that required 340 thousand yuan for medical bills."
The assistant didn't continue but Lu Pei can read the rest himself. Mikel had needed the money but now his grandpa is dead so he has no reason to be desperate for money.
"Get him in debts." Lu Pei is not about to be rejected.
"He quit the day time job and the one in the club has fired him. The one bedroom is being rented out to someone else." All this made Lu Pei feel a slight panic. Is Mikel planning to run away?
"I don't suppose you know where he is going?" He asked his secretary.
"Probably somewhere closer to his school. But it is still holidays I will find out the exact location before school opens."
Lu Pei didn't doubt it. But this Mikel thinks he can use him and then just disappear as he likes. Make Mikel need him like a life line then sell him to the highest bidder when he's had enough of him. This will teach him who is discarding who.
"Sir, the nephew is back from abroad."
Assistant who was on the phone reported. This news made Lu Pei's heart to be in turmoil. He had used a look alike to vent his perverse desires for his innocent nephew. Can he face him? The dark thoughts a moment ago momentarily put at the back of his mind.
Currently downtown in Mikel's flat. Kai had just come out of the bathroom looking
"You have white skin?" I am startled by the clean face before me. This face doesn't look like a beggar's face at all. Shouldn't it be yellow and sickly? Is it the mysterious clan genes? So hateful Ah!
The rude beggar didn't respond but took a plate and started eating.
"Ehem... why did you come to my house Kai?" I asked and to my surprise he stopped eating and turned to me. I haven't seen someone with red eyes and red hair before but for the clans it usually shows the color of your mana.
"Father said I must go find mom." This answer... is there a misunderstanding? I don't have a child!
"Explain." I demanded.
"No, I eat first." The eyes are deep and stubborn. I sigh in resignation and allowed him to eat. Taking out grandpa's box, I put on the beautiful green bracelet and it looks good on me but I better cover it up in this neighborhood before moving.
I took a scarf and tied it over it making look fashionable. I am bisexual anyways even if it looks a little gay who cares?
The Items I own are not many so when moving I only took away my clothes in one bag and a bed. I was initially going to leave this bed here but the addition of Kai made me take it with me. The bed belonged to grandpa before and was bought recently for his increased frail body.
The new flat is a three bedroom flat, I specifically chose a flat with compressed plastic glass for windows. Although it is very hot in summer, the windows are not easy to break open.
There is no balcony on this building to avoid crawlers. Relatively speaking this flat is one of the cheapest but when push comes to shove it becomes the ideal flat to rent at that time.
Kai took off his sunglasses that hid his red eyes and looked at the house with a mixture of curiosity and vigilance. "This is our home from now on." I tell him but the child doesn't say anything.
I can't bare to chase him away not that it would help, this boy is clearly persistent and powerful enough to break away from the authorities. It's fine to keep him here, I'll just think of it as keeping a puppy.
As soon as the moving people finished putting the bed into the spare bedroom, I covered the bed with comfortable but slightly warn out sheets and quilt. "Lets order a few things online."
I am going to spend all these few thousands in my account. From tomorrow onwards, food and necessities will be the new currency. After buying food and a few warm clothes, shoes, sheets and quilts, I bought a lot of toys for when I awaken my skill.
The delivery is the same day since it is from the same city. There is an article saying all the herbs in the plantation farm near here are somehow mutated to a different herbs that no one knows their use. Looking at the few thousand worth of herbs, I ordered them at the new discounted price.
Seeing these plants invokes a series of unpleasant memories. My heart thumped loudly in my chest, it seems the floor is rising and wobbling. A sudden nauseous feeling made me run to the bathroom to puke out all the breakfast I had eaten into the toilet.
Grabbing the toilet seat till my knuckles turned white, these memories won't let me go. I wash my face and rinse my mouth.
But in the maze there are moments, fleeting as they may be. Times where my heart didn't boil with rage and my mind isn't filled with thorny plans of world destruction.
"April." My one true friend. Although she betrayed me in the end I had loved her like a little sister and I can not bring myself to dislike her.
Should I be grateful for remembering my past life? Take it as an opportunity to carve a different path for myself? Or should I rage at being denied the opportunity to forget all the tragedies that befell me?
These memories are not good. Not even a little bit. When grandpa died he took all the light with him to heaven. I even became a slave to the vampires I had no idea existed outside fantasy and fiction.
As a blood slave there are potions and medications to help clean the blood of any diseases so that our blood will be delicious fir them to feat on.
It made the human slaves healthier but for me, it made me grow stronger. In the end I had to hide my strength so they don't see me as a threat.
They made us brew these potions since their status is low level and only useful to the humans who are very weak. But I found that if I twik the formula here and there I can make an elephant heavier.
Coming out of the bathroom I find Kai standing by the door. He must have been startled by my abrupt movements just now. "Go rest for a while I need to lay down a bit."
My phone woke me up, it is the delivery company. All the items I bought were accounted for.
I didn't forget to buy cooking materials like a gas stove, gas and water purifier. Electricity and water is about to be very expensive.
A knock brought me out from my musings. I open it and immediately started scolding. "If you go out then bring the spare key what if I was asleep?"
Instead of Kai there is a grown man out the door looking coldly at me. My heart sank what the fuck is the male lead doing here? I smile sarcastically "Oh my, the CEO couldn't bare losing his toy?"
Instead of answering me, his gaze turned even colder and he tried coming inside but I am faster. Before he could blink, he felt a cold edge of a dagger resting on his pale neck.
"Careful now, my hands are unsteady and the dagger is awfully sharp. We don't wanna scar that pretty skin of yours." My voice is no longer gentle when talking to him, in fact there's an unmistakable bloodlust in my cold eyes.
"I..." He is about to speak but my hand shook and the blade drew blood. His eyes turned sharp looking at me like he will devour me.
"It's best you move back a few steps. I really have no idea how to handle a blade, especially one so sharp." I looked him dead in the eyes. "Would you look at that, the rich can bleed. This red color is making me very excited."
The look in my eyes sent a chill up his spine he took several steps back. I tilt my head to the side playing with the knife in my hand with expert precision as if I am used to it.
He raised his hand to wipe the blood on his neck with a handkerchief. "I came to inspect the property to ensure my tenant is not moving into a broken place." Lu Pei said after a while. This is a bit awkward.
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