Salighayan; A Taboo Love Story

Chapter 17

~ Mike’s PoV

I watched Maya as her eyes slowly opened up, then flew open in surprise, she sat up suddenly and looked around as if afraid of something, I had a vague idea what could be causing her upstart.

“Relax, we are not in a hospital, we are in my room” I said to her and could already see her relaxing.

“I remember that the very first time we met you were strongly against the idea of going to the hospital so I brought you her instead and had the paramedics set up the medical you are currently receiving” I added.

I had been watching her ever since she had been laid here and was treated, she didn’t have any wounds so there was nothing to treat, only a saline solution bag was hung up and passed into her.

I was told she only needed food and rest for a few days to regain her normal composure because she had been looking all haggard and a bit sunken.

Now though, she was already back to normal, that is if I can call her normal, just from a saline solution and without the food she had regained her normal composure within a few hours.

It was like something out of a movie as I watched her while she was unconscious, very slowly and almost unnoticed, her color return, the sagged parts filled back up, the dark circles of her eyes erased and became lush with color.

If it hadn’t been for my supernatural senses I wouldn’t have noticed till the process was completed, I was marveled.

Of course I had seen speedy healing before, I am a vampire and I heal very fast as well, the process though is what is different.

While for vamps and other supernatural I know, the healing is really fast, instantaneous at times save for huge injuries, those take a bit more time and sometimes requires treatment even.

But hers wasn’t like that, hers was almost like magic, like someone or something was carefully putting her back together perfectly, it wasn’t like any healing process I had experienced before.

Maya relaxed and sat properly on my bed, she looked around, probably because she didn’t want to meet my eyes or because this would be her first time in my room, I think it’s the latter though.

My own eyes stayed on her though, she looked really beautiful at this point, wait, what am I thinking of, I don’t even know if she is really ok despite the healing.

“Maya, how do you feel?” I asked her, her face snapped towards me when she heard her name, then she tried for a smile at me, I liked it.

“I’m fine boss, thanks to you” she said and then pulled out the line in her “I don’t need this anymore” she said but as she pulled out the line, warm blood followed.

I saw Maya looking at the blood as if it was something she didn’t know she had, she was so astonished by it that she got carried away by looking at it.

I on the other hand got thirsty, I want a taste of that blood, ‘what! When did I start craving for her blood, this is bad’ I thought to myself.

I had always seen her as irritating, because of the ocean smell and just the ordinary fact that I didn’t like her, but now I was looking at her and thinking she was really beautiful, no wonder I now craved her blood.

I stood up and headed out.

*

~ Princess Mylie’s PoV

“Please wait!” I said to Mike as he was about to leave and he just answered, though he only just stayed where he was and didn’t closer.

I am really getting confused with this dude, wasn’t he the same one that stayed right beside me for hours before I woke up? Because I definitely felt his presence beside me all the while I was unconscious.

And now he is just going to walk away without so much as a word “Thank you” I said to him.

I felt maybe that was why he suddenly got annoyed, or could it be that favt that I had gotten carried away looking at my own blood?”

I had never expected it to look so much like theirs, in the deep our blood had either a dark bluish tint or a dark greenish tint, totally depending on which region of the ocean you lived.

But then seeing that warm, bright thick red blood color had me in an unexpected awe, it closed up right after so I hid the arm behind me only to see him leaving.

“Well” he said “If you hadn’t treaded my men pretty quickly and selflessly most of them would have either lost their limb or their lives even, so no, thank you” he finished and I got so touched.

But I was angry, I had been staying with him now for about a week, working with him and his “men” as well and he didn’t bother to mention that they weren’t even human.

“When were you going to tell me?” I asked him, he relaxed after the question and it was then I realized he had been tense, ‘why was he tense?’ I asked myself to which I had no answer to.

“Maya, I’m sorry, I really am, but there was no way I could’ve known if you had known about the supernatural before you lost your memories, and it is dangerous to tell humans about it just like that” he answered and I could hear the sincerity in his voice and see the logic in what he said.

“But I work for you, and them, wasn’t in any danger? Walking around not knowing what or who they really are? I don’t even know if I can still come to work there of if I even should” I said.

I was being logical, even though deep down I knew I wasn’t going to stop working for him, not when I’ve come this far, he is only just within my reach, right now, I just have to cross this hurdle of whatever he really is.

“Well you were never in any danger with my employees, but you are right, I should have informed you of this world because you deal directly in it, I’m really sorry for that” he said again.

I noticed he had said sorry twice now, all through my one week stay with him I haven’t heard him say that ever, not even once, not to anyone, now I was getting it, twice even, ' I think I should try for a third time’ I thought to myself but then my rational self answered ‘don’t push your luck’.

I breathed a slight sign of relief, only that I hadn’t been in danger at work and still wouldn’t be, but he must have misread my sign because I heard him say

“Ok, now, tell me, What do you wish to know? I’ll tell you everything” he said to me and even though I really couldn’t figure out what his expression was, I knew he meant it.

“fine” I said and sat back down on the marvelous bed, his room was so elegantly plain, you would have thought it belonged to a really mature prince.

Oh and I had gotten to know that he and his family weren’t royalty, they were just really really rich, even at that though, he is still my prince charming.

This drove me to my first question “You and your family what are you people?” I asked him, at that point, he came closer and sat back down as well.

He took a deep breath before starting “We are vampires” he answered, but when he saw my clueless expression he continued

“Vampires are supernatural entities, they are made from humans, but they are stronger, faster, and almost immortal, if not killed they live for centuries” he explained.

“Made from humans?” I asked as that part got me wondering if that meant they were all once human.

He shifted a bit in his seat “Yeah in a sense, long long ago, two brothers chose to walk the supernatural path, one was bitten by a wolf and the other by a bat, creating the first werewolf and vampire, since then a lot of things had changed as there are now countless shapeshifters not just werewolves and also different kinds of vampires” he said.

“New vampires were made when a human dies with both venom and blood of a vampire in his system, for that a vampire had to have bitten the human, that had been the only way for vampires to be created before, but that changed when the first pure breed was born” he explained.

This was really getting interesting, who knew there was so much more to the human world than well humans.

“Pure breed?” I asked rolling the word about in my mouth.

“Yes, a vampire can’t procreate, but one was able to successfully impregnate a human and the human gave birth to the first pure breed vampire, half vamp half human, from then other vamps tried, many failed but many succeeded as well, soon after there was enough pure breeds to marry other pure breeds and start pure breed families” he answered at length.

I was about to ask how come he gad a family if vampires were created and not birthed, but now I had the answer to that, his was a pure breed family.

“Those we fought with yesterday were turned vamps though, they are more rebellious and don’t really follow order because they can’t really mingle as well as pure breeds does with humans and other supernaturals, the sun is an enemy and the next person is their food so they are more underworld folks” he said.

“Wait, you said the next person was their food? What do you mean?” I asked because I wasn’t sure that was a metaphor or casual saying.

“Vampires feed on blood, human blood mainly, turned vamps can only survive on that, but pure breeds can survive on both human blood and human food, makes the blending in all the more simpler, but then every now and then a supplement of blood is needed by pure breeds too” he answered.

I almost retched at that, wait, no wonder, The dark red repugnant drink I saw on their dinner table at the family dinner, it was the only thing they didn’t pass to me even though I was of the mind not to drink from it initially, that had to be blood.

“It is usually synthetic blood though” Mike said as if answering my thoughts, ‘could vamps read minds?’ I asked myself but got the answer already, if he could’ve read my mind then he’d know everything already.

“Synthetic blood?” I asked.

“Yes, made in labs by cloning actual blood, tons and tons are made to satisfy the vamp population, most prominent families are also in the business, as we are” Mike said.

Wow, he wasn’t kidding about telling me everything, well, I’m satisfied as it is.

“Hmmm, well, that’s good to know, means I’m not in any danger of you sucking my blood” I said with humor and laughed a bit.

He chuckled as well and scratched the back of his head, I still don’t know why he wasn’t feeling straight, I guess I shouldn’t bother him anymore for now, besides I need to get back to the ocean as soon as I can, I didn’t go yesterday night because of the incident, I might already be in trouble as it stands.

“Well thank you boss, I’d like to get off your hair now and go rest some more in my room if you’ll allow me, I’ll ask if I need to know more about the supernatural world” I said and made to leave.

He came near me and held my hand, “I’m truly sorry, Maya, go rest, take your time, come back when you’re ready and feeling up to it” he said to me.

I beamed up at that, smiling from ear to ear, I had gotten the third sorry after all, as I left for my apartment in the house all I could think of was his eyes as they looked at me when he apologized.

There was something else in them though as beautiful as they were, there was something quizzical, something not satisfied.