Valkyrie - the Vampire Princess 3 (6 page)

Chapter
13

I looked out the living room window as
my mother
parked her car
.
My mother got home
and lay down on the
couch
.

“All sacrifice for nothing!”
she grumbled

“Sacrifice?” I asked innocently.

“Your blood count
has been made in vain,
” she
said to me.

“
I don’t understand,
” I said.

“
The doctor disappeared
a few
weeks ago
.
No one
knows
where
he is now and they can’t find
your blood count.”

“Did the doctor
disappear
?” I asked
being sure
about the
answer
.
After all
,
I saw
when
Eros
killed the doctor and his men
.

My
visions
revealed
to me the murderer.

“
That’s weird
.
Why
would
the doctor
disappear
this way
?” She
stared at me.

“He could have
gotten into a mess
,” I said
normally.

“It
might be that
...” s
he finally agreed with me.

“Did they
comment
only
about that
?”

I
wanted
to be
sure
about Eros. I wanted to be sure he
wasn't
one of the
investigation’s
targets.

“
No one
knows
anything.
Even
the delegate doesn’t know the
cause
of his
disappearance.”

Chapter 14

I was in my room and sat on the bed. I was reading some pages in my diary. For one awful moment, I was reminded of when I first met Eros. But my thought had been interrupted when I noticed my mother’s presence. She was standing in front of my bedroom door and she was looking at me.

“What happened?” I asked, seeing her look over me.

“Nothing happened. I like to observe you,” she said. Her face was thoughtful.

“It is not so bad,” I said, returning to my reading.

“Valkyrie!”

I gazed into her eyes as I was apprehensive.

“I’d been thinking about leaving this town,” she said carefully.

“Do we have to leave this town?” I rose, holding my diary. “Why?”

“We aren’t safe here with all the strange things that are going on right now....”

“We aren’t safe anywhere else either.”

“I have already decided to do it,” she said.

“No, mother, we won’t leave this town.” I said decided.

“Valkyrie, you have never gone against my decisions,” she said surprised.

“That's right. Now it's my time to decide what is good or bad for me,” I said.

“Valkyrie, you are also different,” she said.

“I’m sorry.” I said and lowered my head.”I don’t belong to you,” I said sadly.

“Why are you talking about that, daughter?” she asked me and her eyes were wide.

“Forget what I told you!” I tried to soothe what I said to my mother.

“Are you thinking of leaving me?” she asked, worried.

“I'll not do that,” I replied as I thought I had done it once.

“Then you will go with me wherever I go.” Her voice was authoritative.

“We'll stay here,” I said resolutely.

“Why don’t you want to go away from here?” she insisted.

“I like this place,” I said as my mind saw Eros’ image.

“You're right...so we'll stay here,” she finally said.

“Mother, don’t worry about me.” I stared at her face. “I know how to defend myself,” I confessed to her.

“You act as if you have supernatural powers,” my mother joked.

I said nothing. I just came back to open my diary.

But I had the supernatural domain and she did not know it yet.

Chapter 15

Mirta went to the town center with her classmates to watch a movie. She had called me to go along with her but I thought it was better I don't go. Avoiding groups of people would be the best thing to do.

She left the movies accompanied by three girls. They made several comments about the movie. The four girls walked on towards the main street. Mirta stopped walking when she saw something across the street,staring at her.

“Eros?” she said confused. She didn’t expect his presence at that moment.

“What did you say?” one of the girls asked.

“Eros is across the street,” Mirta said to her classmates.

“He hasn’t attended school for a while,” another girl commented.

Eros waved Mirta to go over to him.

“He wants to talk to me,” Mirta said. She crossed the street and approached the young vampire. Her friends were across the street, watching them.

Eros was in his dark clothes.

“Eros,” she said as she approached him.

“You’re here ...” he said looking at her pink dress.

“I came to watch a movie with my classmates. I called Valkyrie to come with us but she didn’t want to come.”

He continued watching her as he showed no interest in knowing about me.

“Valkyrie told me you went to visit your parents,” she commented.

“Yes ... I came back yesterday,” he said.

“Valkyrie will love to know about this.” Mirta looked content.

“She already knows,” he alleged.

“She told me nothing about your return,” she said.

“Can we talk somewhere else?” Eros asked looking straight ahead.

“Oh, yes,” Mirta replied innocently.

She thought that Eros wished to talk about me.

Mirta gestured for her friends to go away. Then they walked away and left Mirta in the company of Eros.

The two went on and walked to a small square. There was a bench made of wood and some pigeons walking on the ground. She sat on the bench and Eros remained standing.

“Do you want to know about Valkyrie?” she asked.

“No,” he answered, his voice was cool.

“No?” her face flushed. “So what are we doing here?”

“I wonder about you.” He looked at her intensely.

“What about me?”

“Yeah, about you”

“Why do you want to talk about me and not about Valkyrie?”

“Forget Valkyrie!” he ordered.

“She is my friend,” she said.

“She is my friend, too,” he affirmed.

“I thought ...” she said confused.

“Did you think what?”

“I thought you like her,” she insisted.

“And I do like her ...” he said naturally.

“I'm relieved.”

“Not the way you're thinking.” Eros said again.

“Don’t you feel for her what she feels for you?” she asked surprised.

“No,” he replied coldly. ”And she knows it.”

“Valkyrie is in love with you, though she never said that to me.”

“I know.” He walked into the middle of the square. “She knows I cannot return what she feels for me.”

“She doesn't deserve it.”

“I cannot stop it,” he confessed.

“That’s why you called me to talk?”

“No,” he said and stared at her face.

Mirta got confused. Eros was being mysterious all the time. He did not carry the same face of the young man who attended school. He looked much more bold and attractive.

Those feelings bothered her. She didn’t approve of the boy that her best friend was in love with.

Chapter 16

Mirta remained standing beside the wooden bench. She held the skirt of her dress as she had knowledge of Eros’s approach.

He stopped walking in front of the girl and looked into her eyes.  She attracted him to her.

Unlike me that had never caused him any effect.

Two pigeons flew up and Mirta looked up at them, hoping to divert her gaze from Eros. The vampire’s hands grabbed her face and made her gaze at him again. Mirta began to retreat with the feel his cold hands touching her delicate skin. But she could not escape the clutches of the seductive vampire called Eros.

Then he kissed her lips.

This damn kiss made me shed other tear of blood.

I was not in this place. But I could sense and see all scenes from the event. That was because Eros had a strong connection with me, from the moment he sucked my blood for the first time.

I was at my bedroom window, holding strongly the fabric of the curtain as I held myself back from going after the two of them. That would have been a big mistake.