I had just staggered to my feet when he suddenly grabbed me and bit hard into my neck with tremendous force, breaking the skin. I let out a painful cry, and tears streamed down my face. No wonder, no wonder he had put my name on the list of maids going to the castle. It was just so that he could use me as cannon fodder and replenish the blood he lost whenever danger struck.
"You damned vampire, you wretched man..." I was crying bitterly and scolding him with all my might.
He continued to suck my blood ferociously, completely ignoring me and just kept on sucking. Gradually, my voice grew weaker and weaker.
A full moon slowly emerged from the black clouds. I looked up at the sky and was surprised to find that it was a purple moon. Gradually, the light of the pale purple, silvery moon slowly spread across the earth. My breathing became rapid, and my heart was pounding. The moonlight halo moved slowly, and when it finally reached Aaron and me, a most peculiar change occurred.
I saw that a kind of light blending silver and purple gathered on Aaron's body, forming an aperture with silver-purple shadows that slowly expanded and just wrapped the two of us inside.
Under the silver-purple moonlight halo, our eyes met. The amber light in his eyes was unfathomable, gloomy and cold, which made me shiver. Then the silver-purple moonlight halo changed color, turning from silver-purple to gold. As soon as the golden halo touched Aaron, it emitted a huge bright light, and then countless twinkling stars rose from around his body.
I forgot his cruel deeds towards me before and was stunned, looking at him as if he were a god. He also looked at me, with his eyes deep and inscrutable. A few seconds later, his body suddenly underwent another strange change. From the inside out, he slowly emitted layers of golden light, one layer after another, forming a beautiful golden light and shadow that slowly spread out from him.
The golden twinkling stars mixed with the golden light inside his body, bursting out with a huge bright light.
Just when I was stunned, he lowered his head again and bit hard into my neck to suck my blood. I trembled violently all over, and then with great difficulty, I held onto his shoulders to withstand this fierce impact.
The more he sucked, the weaker I became. In the end, I needed him to put his arm around my waist so that I wouldn't fall down. We were so close to each other that I smelled a unique scent on him, faint yet full of a bewitching and alluring feeling, ambiguous and tempting. I was actually a bit bewildered.
At this time, the battle unconsciously slowed down. Everyone noticed the changes on Aaron and cast their gazes at him. Taking advantage of everyone's distraction, the remaining black knights quickly jumped onto their horses and galloped away like the wind.
The tall black horses of the black knights let out sharp neighs. Only then did everyone realize that the enemy had escaped. The castle guards hurriedly chased after them and soon disappeared into the night in front.
Suddenly, the battlefield became quiet. Only I, Aaron, Lady Pesna, Annabelle and those panicked maids were left. Aaron was in the glittering golden light, with starlight shining everywhere. The aperture kept expanding, making it almost impossible to open our eyes.
I don't know how long it took before the golden halo on Aaron slowly shrank until it disappeared.
He finally stopped sucking my blood. I was on the verge of death and fell limply into his arms.
There was silence and darkness all around. It was terrifyingly quiet. Everything was over. Just when I was about to close my eyes and have a good rest, a terrifying scream pierced through the night sky. The charming elf Oxuna screamed like crazy: "Help! The earl is dead... He was assassinated by an assassin..."
In the darkness, I couldn't see clearly what had happened. But then, I heard Lady Pesna's shrill and sorrowful cry: "Oh my God, the earl... Lord Earl..."