Mated To The Vampire Prince

Chapter 9: Punishment (2)

(Logan POV)

“I am sorry, Father! I really am,” I said to my father, but he did not budge a bit from his order.

“ Your pleadings are futile. You have to accept your punishment and it is the order of a king,” My father said and tears welled up in my eyes. I know that if I didn’t do as he ordered, he would use his king's command on me.

“I don’t like the blood of humans. I am ready to accept any order and any punishment, but please don’t do this with me,” I tried last time but he was not ready to accept any of my pleadings.

I had no choice but to hunt down two men, two women, and two infants. I entered in the human town and it hardly took me an hour to gather my targets. They were all lying unconscious in front of me and I had tears in my eyes.

“A king shouldn’t be this weak. I am training you to rule the vampire kingdom. I know it seems hard now but you will thank me later for this,” My father’s words echoed in the dark forest. I know He was watching my every move and now, I have to do the most difficult thing in this world…To suck their blood until their bodies dry.

I took a look at them and then masked my emotions behind my cold and expressionless face. I started sucking their blood. I wanted to puke because I had never tasted the blood of humans and I always have blood from animals and from blood banks. This was my first experience of sucking blood directly from the human body…I finished my task and turned toward my father.

He had a proud smile on his face and he nodded while gesturing to me a well-done sign. I came back to my room and quickly headed toward the washroom. I looked towards the mirror and my eyes were blood red, My fangs were still elongated and my lips and shirt were covered in blood.

“I don’t want to do this, but I have to confess that the blood was really tasty and addictive. I licked all the blood from my lips and a smirk appeared on my face. I retreated my fangs and my eyes' color slowly started changing back to normal. I was feeling more energetic and fresh than ever before.

‘Was it the miracle of fresh blood? or was it because of human blood?” I asked myself, but I know it was the result of fresh human blood. I was feeling a different kind of

energy running through my veins.

I was lying on my bed and my eyes were focused on some unknown point. I closed my eyes and the innocent face of that girl started coming in front of my eyes. The way she was smiling and her enchanted sweet voice, All the things were unique about her. I even knew the design of her headband. I never saw anyone wearing a headband but It was looking so beautiful that I couldn’t take my eyes off of her.

I want to know more about her. I wanted to know her whereabouts and her hobbies. I wanted to know her name and wanted to tell her about me, but she was not a timid type of girl. Although, I like the timid, shy, and more feminine type of girl but that girl changed my choice. I never knew that a fierce type of girl could be so beautiful and so fu*king sexy…What?... Did I say sexy? I was feeling attracted to that girl but I didn’t know that I had developed a feeling for her.

These types of thoughts are not right for me. I shouldn’t think like that about her. After all, she is not my soulmate. A soulmate is the other half of your soul and your partner, which God chooses for you or should I say God bless you with a soulmate or mate. We, vampires, find our mates by their scent, and the color of our eyes changes when our eyes meet with our soulmate, but not all of us find our mates.

Some of us never find our mates and live our whole lives like zombies. Some vampires find their mates and they marked them to fully accept each other. Some of the vampires who didn’t find their mate stopped their search and took a chosen mate. The mate bond is not as strong as the bond of fated mates, but they do share a bond. Some of us don’t take chosen mates and spend their whole lives finding their halves or their mates.

I am also waiting for a mate because, as the eldest prince of the vampire kingdom, I need a mate beside me. If I fail to find my fated mate, then I have to mark and choose a mate for myself, who will rule beside me, but I am not interested in choosing anyone as my mate. I don’t want to pull someone else into the darkness of my life and ruin her life.

Although my mother’s love is like a ray of light in my dark life, my father didn’t make my life a bit easier. Sometimes I hate the words Rule, King and Throne because these words ruin my life. I never enjoyed a normal life like others and never enjoyed family time like my other siblings. We are four siblings, but except for Leona, I never share a strong bond with any other sibling. I sometimes feel like a cast-out or a cursed vampire. I was engrossed in my thoughts when sleep engulfed me and I drifted into a deep slumber with my angel. At least, I can be happy while thinking about my life with my angel in my dreams. And, I also got a reason to smile and be happy even for a few moments.