Chapter 11: Night Duty
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Chapter 11: Night Duty
‘What happened at Donna’s place?’
That is the only thing Alcina can think of once seeing her daughters and Tiana come back with what appears to be a somewhat comfortable, tight-knit bond between them. How does it possible when they properly get to know the others for less than a day? Also, where are those scratch marks on Tiana’s arms come from?
“You’re not going to tell me what happened between you all, little prey?” At last, Alcina can’t stand her curiosity and queries the botanist during the dinner.
“Hmm?” Tiana hums out questioningly as she’s drinking from her goblet at the moment.
“Come on. Spill it out. Why all of you seem…oddly close when you only spend a day together?” The tall lady presses for more, gazing at Tiana expectedly.
“Oh. It’s really nothing, my lady” the botanist dabs her mouth with a napkin, putting on an innocent grin. “We just had a good time at lady Beneviento’s—Enjoying teas, sweets, and pleasantry. Oh, also a little bit of research and plants. You know. The usual”
“Hmm” Alcina’s still bothering by this, though. Therefore, she tries to find it out another way, “How was your trip to aunt Donna’s today, my dear?”
“Ooh, it’s so cool mother!” Daniela places her knife and forks down with a loud noise, “You should have seen Tiana in action! She’s whoop! Swoop! Then bam! –She got Angie right in her firm grip”
The vampire lady bites her lips into a thin line, strains every muscle on her face, trying to keep her laughter in. She doesn’t understand even a tiny bit of what Daniela’s speaking, truthfully. But Alcina can’t say it wasn’t cute. Therefore, she speaks.
“So, whoop, swoop, then bam—I got it” Alcina’s tone is filled with chuckles.
“How did you understand that, mother?” The brunette stuns and gives Alcina her most confused look.
“She’s only kidding, Cass” Bela replies to her sister, adding another tone of giggles into the conversation.
“Now. Would any of you be kind enough to properly tell me how was your outing, dear?”
Cassandra and Bela help their mother with events, conversations, and details back at Beneviento manor. Starting since the traveling part, that poor brown bear, the welcoming tea hosted by their aunt Donna and her dolls, the hours-long discussion between the botanist and the lady in black that somewhat similar to a scientific seminar, and the c****x of this outing—The incident in the greenhouse.
“What?” Alcina flicks her orbs to Tiana, “Did I hear it correctly? You…hugged Angie?”
“Hehe. Guilty as charged” the botanist simpers, raises her hands as she admits her own doing. Scratch marks display evidently as a result of the said matter.
Even Alcina somehow irritates by the fact Tiana gets herself harmed, she’s, at the same time, impresses by how Tiana deal with everything that happened—The way Tiana treats Alcina’s three daughters with understanding and empathy. The way Tiana carefully takes Angie into her arms, despite knowing that she’d get hurt from that. And, most spectacular of all, the tall lady is touched by what Tiana had done for her sister, Donna.
“…You did good, Tiana” the vampire lady states with her silky voice. “Yet, why you say nothing when I previously asked?”
“I didn’t do enough to boast, my lady. I only do what I can” the botanist rubs the back of her neck sheepishly. “Hence, I don’t think I deserve this much admirations and compliments”
Alcina, once more, is moved by this petite human’s personality. The mistress stares in Tiana’s direction, pondering inside her head, Smart, humble, and full of surprise—What you are really, little prey? It’s understandable why Alcina has such a question. Normally humans, even before the lords would give them the concentrated Alkaloid extract, would look at the tall lady, her daughters, and her siblings with either an undeniable detest or terror in their eyes. Or both, most of the time. Those humans already judged Alcina and her family to be immoral. Labeled them as the vicious beasts, the sinful souls even before they would actually get to know Alcina and her family.
‘And since I already that bad in their eyes, why should I bother playing nice?’ Another sup of Sanguis Virginis flow down Alcina’s throat, warming the vampire lady from the inside.
At first, after the blast and Mother Miranda’s death, Alcina once considers withholding her extreme behavior as she wants a peaceful life. To live as nearly normal as she can with those who matter to her for once. Alas, after being regarded as a wicked creature for so long, as well as no guiding figure of how to be a human again, the vampire lady just stops and accepts her fate as is.
‘Just when I already made peace with that—This little prey come along’
The idea shows itself distinctly in Alcina’s mind while wrapping up the dinner and sending her daughters back to their accommodations. It’s difficult to believe, but never once Tiana has ever looked at Alcina as anything near vicious. Since the 1st day she comes to the village, the botanist always filled her twinkle pupils with utmost admiration whenever she sets her gaze upon Alcina. Tiana, furthermore, confesses her feeling to the vampire lady and agrees to become Alcina’s plaything of her own free will. Sometimes, the mistress wonders if Tiana has an unusual preference or something to behave this way.
“Where are you going?” Alcina asks when she sees the botanist leave her side.
“To my own room?” Muddle, the botanist unconfidently points to the direction of her chamber.
“Oh? Are you? Did you forget our deal already?” Alcina grins frisky, showing her canines out. “My, my. Does this mean I got stood up by my plaything?”
“W-well, no. I—Ekk!”
With a swift motion, Alcina takes a step forward to the botanist and cradles Tiana up within her arms. The small figure squeaks and links her forelimbs around Alcina’s neck because of this unforeseen motion. Alcina hums pleasantly while Tiana hides her face away in the crook of the tall lady’s neck in embarrassment.
“You’re not getting away that easily, I’m afraid” Alcina adjusts her posture, carries Tiana with one arm, and pats the botanist’s head with another while whispering, “Let’s talk about the definition of my plaything, shall we?”
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The botanist can’t utter a single word out as her ladyship takes her to the main bedroom of castle Dimitrescu. Alcina’s bedroom. Ever dignified, her ladyship sits in front of the vanity with Tiana on her lap. Alcina can feel the small figure is shaking, her heart’s beating incredibly fast and loud in Tiana’s chest.
“Did I scare you?” though the mistress knows the answer, she just can’t pass an opportunity to tease Tiana.
“N-no, my lady. That isn’t the case. It’s just…too close” the last two words from Tiana are barely audible, but Alcina hears it anyway. As a result, her ladyship purrs happily in her throat, strokes Tiana’s back lazily to calm her down.
“I see. I’m glad you’re not scared of me”
“…There’s no way I would scare of you” Tiana nestles her face closer to the chill skin where her ladyship’s cervix met her shoulder as she can’t meet Alcina’s orbs. Finally, with a few more seconds pass, Tiana presses on with a hushed tone, “B-because…I, I truly like you, my lady”
The botanist believes she can speak her mind openly like this because she doesn’t see what kind of expression Alcina would react to her confession. Just like the first time she professes her feeling to Alcina while hiding her face in her hands. The mistress’s lips curve into an elated grin. She hums out happily before tenderly pulls Tiana away from her neck and says.
“Since you said you like me, would you help me get off of these uncomfortable accessories?”
“Yes? Yes! –*Ahem* Please, excuse me”
The botanist reaches for Alcina’s hat while still sitting on her ladyship’s lap. Carefully, she removes the stylish hat, deposits it on the vanity, and goes for the earrings next.
‘Why I feel so much drawn to this human?’ the tall lady queries herself as she observes Tiana’s movement of stripping her off.
Tiana carries on—Undo Alcina’s bun, gently massage tense muscles around the neck, unhook the delicate pearl lace that comes with house Dimitrescu’s coat of arms, and finish with taking off the roses’ brooch. While focusing on helping her ladyship gets more comfort, Tiana doesn’t notice how close her face is to Alcina’s. At the moment she does, Tiana’s cheeks burn noticeably red, pupils widen, and gazes deep into Alcina’s. Her ladyship gives out an inviting aura, tempting Tiana to come closer. Then, hesitantly, Tiana closes the gap between them with a meek, longing kiss.
“Hmm,” Alcina coo.
Her ladyship roams her hands all over the botanist’s body, aims to exploring and finding out where it’d make Tiana feels good. Placing one hand onto Tiana’s soft cheek is enough to melt the botanist to the tenderness of Alcina’s touch. Though the hands are covering with gloves, Tiana swears she can feel Alcina’s pulse through them. Vaguely, the botanist feels her ladyship tugs the hem of her shirt, pulling it out from her pants. Tiana flinches and breaks free from the kiss for a brief.
“M-my lady—”
“Alcina” the vampire lady breathes that out, carries on kissing along Tiana’s nape.
“Hm? –!” the botanist brings her hand to her mouth, bites the back of it to suppress her moan when her ladyship teasingly brushes her slick fingers up Tiana’s inner thigh.
“Called me Alcina and I’ll listen to what you have to say” Leisurely, her ladyship carries on unbuttoned Tiana’s shirt as speaking.
It’s only a name. A set of words by which a person is addressed. But the idea of calling this elegant lady by her name, Alcina, makes the botanist loses her ability to think straight as much as the movement of her ladyship’s hands does. How could she not when the one she falls so hard for is now allowed Tiana to call her by name. My lady, you’re so cruel, Tiana thinks and whimpers, sinking her teeth onto the back of her hand deeper as Alcina traces her tongue along Tiana’s now exposed collarbone.
“Well?” the tall lady pauses her doing, looks to Tiana with expectation.
“Al…Alcina”
“Good girl” Alcina mutters a compliment out with a smile. She strips Tiana out of her shirt, discards it on the floor, then carries Tiana to her enormous bed, and lays the botanist down with care. Her ladyship pulls Tiana’s palm to her lips, kissing the inner of her wrist while mumbling. “So, what’re you going to say?”
“I, I-I –!” Tiana’s word’s cut short when Alcina gets on top of the botanist.
Her ladyship captures both Tiana’s wrists, pinning them against the cushiony mattress above Tiana’s head. Using another hand, Alcina tilts the botanist’s chin up to get a clear view of Tiana’s flawless nape and lowers herself down to nip teasingly on that warm flesh.
“May I?” Alcina pulls herself back lightly, asking for permission to drink from the petite human. Tiana sucks in a shuddering breath and nods.
“Mmm!” A faint sound of pain resonates from the botanist even with her best effort, keeping her cry to the minimum.
The moment her ladyship pieces her fangs into Tiana’s skin feels like the clock’s stop ticking, freezes the botanist in time with an inexpressible type of joy. Tiana’s whole existence is shaking, unable to comprehend this intense sensation she hasn’t experience before. Meanwhile, Alcina’s taking her time enjoying the addicting, flavorful red fluid Tiana provides. Before long, the vampire lady has to reel herself back and let go of the botanist in fear that she’d suck Tiana dry.
“Thanks for the meal” Whispering, Alcina licks the canines mark on Tiana’s nape one more time and pulls the botanist in for another kiss.
“Alcina—P-please. I,” Tiana breathes heavily while trying her best to get ahold of her sexually aroused. It’s implausible to feel this hot only from getting bitten by Alcina alone.
The flame of desire is now burning Tiana to the point it becomes torturing. I can’t take it anymore, the botanist thinks. Bucking her waist up slightly, Tiana subtly hints at the tall lady of what she wants. Please touch me, my lady, is what Alcina concludes Tiana’s boldness as. As a result, Alcina nips her gloves between her teeth to pull her right hand free from it. Her ladyship holds her bare hand out, wordlessly asks Tiana to coat her digits with some moisture. The botanist handles her ladyship’s large palm in hers, locks her eyes with Alcina’s while licking those sleek fingers, and glazes them with her saliva. The way Tiana trails her tongue along Alcina’s skin drives the mistress crazy. It makes the tall lady reaches for Tiana’s breasts and squeezes them roughly from the increasing heat of her own. At the same time, Tiana loses one hand from Alcina’s, freeing herself from her pants and kicks them off the bed.
“Urgh!” the botanist yelps out in delight when Alcina finally starts touching her down there. Fighting through her shuddering state, Tiana struggles to find something to hold onto as the pleasure Alcina’s giving is overwhelming all her senses.
“Oh? Do you, perhaps, like it here?” Alcina smirks when she feels Tiana’s tensing up when one specific spot’s being caressed. “Come on. Say it”
“B-but it’s, argh, embarrassing—” Another shivering breath cuts the botanist’s word.
It’s already hard enough for Tiana to take in the current satisfaction, but her ladyship doesn’t stop there. Alcina rakes her sharp nails on Tiana’s flesh, from her breasts down to her tummy. A bit too hard that those red lines spill a few droplets of blood. So, she leans herself down and licks them clean before presses downward to the botanist’s most sensitive place.
“Mmm!”
Tiana’s hip ruts up to the touch of her ladyship’s lips. Taking a detour not to give Tiana what she wants at an instant, Alcina leaves her bite marks along the botanist’s inner thigh. This makes Tiana wants to die on the spot for her ladyship’s mischievous. Though, the botanist doesn’t have to wait for long. Once her ladyship has enough fun, she takes the botanist in her mouth, tongue dancing up and down and circle Tiana’s c******s, makes Tiana whimper out hopelessly. And when the tall lady believes she prepares Tiana enough, she pulls back up to Tiana’s face for another quick deep kiss then says.
“Tell me to stop if I’m being too rough, alright?”
A nod in the acknowledgment is all Alcina needs. Her ladyship then slips her digit inside Tiana’s body and receives an indistinct cry of joy as a reward. Gradually, Alcina increases her movement speed, capturing the botanist with another passionate kiss. Tiana wraps her arms around Alcina in fear her body won’t be able to withstand this unbelievable amount of satisfaction the tall lady is giving her.
“Don’t run away it, little prey—Embrace it” Alcina mutters to Tiana’s ear when she notices the botanist is biting her lips to keep her voice in.
Once Alcina pushes another finger in Tiana’s body and arches them, the o****m just blows over Tiana like a crashing wave, taking her to the depth ocean of contentment. Tiana pants, body sinks onto the soft mattress as if it’s made of liquid. Alcina elbows herself back and admires her handiwork.
‘God, I can’t calm down at all’
The vampire lady gets herself out of her white long dress and the remaining glove on her left hand, leaving only her undergarments there on her porcelain complexion. Her usual preference is to giving pleasure rather than receiving one. Prior to Tiana, Alcina had her share of fun, changing and breaking many playthings before the botanist would come along. She likes seeing her plaything under her mercy. She enjoying seeing them beg her to push them beyond the edge. But most of all, Alcina is addicting to the submission flash, showing obviously from her plaything’s soul.
‘I want to feel her more…’ Says to herself inwardly, Alcina meets the botanist for another yearning kiss.
Alcina scoops her plaything closer and continuing their night duty onward.
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Hours later, her ladyship is sleeping soundly with the little prey in her embrace. However. The same doesn’t apply to Tiana. The botanist has been awake for some time now. She only lies there and admires Alcina’s appearance in silence. The odds appear to be in Tiana’s favor, starting from the moment she comes to the village. She gets to meet lady Alcina and the 3 Dimitrescu’s daughters, moreover, gets a chance to follow her passion for botany and researching with lady Donna.
‘I hope fate would continue to be kind to me further on’ Tiana thinks.
She raises her hand, brushing a strand of hair away from Alcina’s face before she’d place her palm on the tall lady’s jowl ever so lightly. Tiana doesn’t want to wake the tall lady up after the frisky activity they’ve done, after all. The vampire lady’s visage looks relax. Not a single worry to be seen. So peaceful and innocent like that of a baby. Tiana pushes on studying Alcina’s look since she doesn’t know when she’ll get another chance with a close glimpse like this—The curve of her lips. That sharp jawline. Alcina’s full, soft cheeks. And that prominent nose. Everything of hers is just perfect.
‘Am I deserve to be here now?’ Pulling her hand back, the botanist starts doubting in herself if she should be by Alcina’s side.
With her current status as Alcina’s plaything, there is so much Tiana is unsure about. At first, when the tall lady says the two would talk, Tiana also expects to just talk. The botanist thinks the two of them would sorting things out, drawing the line of how things are supposed to be, and anything of sorts.
Yes, there’s a time when Tiana dreams of something more than just talk. It’s crystal clear that Tiana would love nothing more than to be showering with Alcina’s love and attention. But at the same time, she knows she needs to keep herself grounded. Using her rational over instinct to find out where’s her place in this relationship too. Tiana wants to know how Alcina feels about her. She wants to know if it’s alright for her to continue growing her feeling toward Alcina like this—And most importantly, Tiana wants to know if she can put her hope up and expects Alcina to return her feeling or not.
“What am I to you, Alcina?” Tiana quizzes the sleeping figure. So, of course, she doesn’t get any response.
Alcina moves for a bit, stretches her arms out, pulling the botanist toward herself, and purrs out drowsily. Tiana afraid that her question earlier has woken the tall lady up. Thought, when she hears a soft snore from Alcina, she lets out a relieved sigh as her worry is for naught. In the end, Tiana just lets all her concerns go for now and allows herself to drown into Alcina a little while longer.
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‘Indeed, what you’re to me?’
Unknow to Tiana, the vampire lady actually awakes and hears everything. Alcina gains her consciousness back at the moment Tiana pulls her hand away from her cheek. But she pretends to be asleep, so it won’t be much awkward between them. As of now. After hearing that question from her little prey, Alcina’s head is running to its best potential, trying to recall her take on Tiana up until now to come up with the right word to regard the botanist as.
‘What’s the deal with these feelings inside my chest?’
Alcina can’t clarify which feelings she has is stronger nor how to name each feeling—Alcina’s impress by Tiana’s personality. She feels troubled when seeing Tiana in pain or wounded, like previously when Angie harms the botanist. The urge of keeping the botanist close continues to grow stronger too after Alcina confirmed how top-quality Tiana’s blood is.
‘Is this a sense of possession? Or just because of my thirst? Do I want to keep her around purely because of her ambrosial gore? Or is there something more to this? But what is it then?’
The more Alcina ponders this through, the more questions pile up in her mind. Her line of thought is disrupted by a wriggling movement from Tiana as the smaller figure buries herself deeper into Alcina’s cuddle. The tall lady gives it an adoring beam, welcoming the little prey and tucking her in nicely.
‘Seems like this addicting warmth will be added up to the list of why I want her around’
Alcina nestles the botanist close, kisses Tiana’s head tenderly, and decides to push the question aside. She believes she can think about this later because she has all the time in the world to herself. After all, an undead like herself never bothers by how much time may have passed.
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To Be Continued >>
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