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PROLOGUE

I stood there watching her as she slowly walked into the woods and sat while putting her earphones in and probably listening to some music. Nobody ever comes here alone for they are all scared of us; scared of me and that is why it amused me so much to see this pretty little girl walking in the woods all by herself. I was standing behind a massive tree in tries of hiding myself from her. Although I knew she would not be able to see me as I was quite far away from her but I could clearly see her. Her eyes were the perfect pair that I have ever seen. She had a cute little nose and her lower lip was pretty plump. She was not much tall of a person and her head seemed to be reaching somewhere around my chest in case she stood in front of me. Oh the thought of her standing so close to me gave me goosebumps. I had this sudden urge of holding her, touching her, and devouring her completely. I never felt this way before, therefore it was very unfamiliar to me. All I have learned since childhood is that we have to survive and for that, we had to be vicious and we will go to any extent; even if that meant hunting people. 

Initially, it was just the animals that we hunted just like any other tribe would, but once during my great grandfather's era, people were running out of animals to hunt and as a result, they started practicing cannibalism. They had to survive and without food to eat, survival is not possible. Upon not being able to hunt animals in their habitat, the stronger ones or the upper caste ones started attacking the weaker ones in the community. Sometimes they would torture them till death and then eat their flesh after dumping their bodies in the fire and sometimes, they would not even bother killing their prey first; they would just simply get their knives, cut the flesh off the living person's body and eat it raw, that too in front of them while the other just screamed and whimpered in pain. It did not just stop at the stage of eating the weaker ones in their community as after few months, there was scarcity in the number of humans as well. They never harmed children as they believed that the kids were the future of the tribe and therefore they need to be saved. That was the point when they came up with the idea of hunting down humans from the neighbouring towns. As this went on for years, the people of the neighbouring towns tried to wipe off our existence and that is when my great grandfather and his brothers came up with the idea of selling their souls to the Devil. They performed rituals and sold their souls to the Devil just for the sake of their tribe's survival. They sacrificed themselves for the future generation and that is how we became strong; stronger than any human on this planet and it did help us to rule over these mere creatures for decades over decades. 

As my great grandfather was the one that came up with this idea first and was the very first individual to sacrifice himself to the Devil for our tribe, he became a God for the people of the tribe. After their sacrifices, our tribe kind of became the Devil's favourite, and we were granted immense power and strength and had the capability of conquering anything that we wanted and we did; we secretly ruled over the neighbouring towns. We never tried to control their lives, but we did capture these little humans for our needs. 

As I was lost in my thought, I suddenly saw her walk towards the river; nobody crosses the river. Does she not know that? She was standing right in front of the bridge that connected her world and my world. Yes, my world. I was the ruler as the legacy was passed on to me from my father as he took over as the Chief of the Tribe after my great grandfather's sacrifice and of course, we were no humans like her; we were different. We developed many skills over the year and our tribe evolved to be the most powerful. As I was looking at her, I saw this brat walk up to her and talk to her about something that I could not properly hear. I was standing some thirty to forty metres away from them but I clearly saw how startled she looked when he suddenly approached her out of nowhere. 

I sometimes fail to understand why this guy has to be like this; I have spent sixteen years of my life with this guy and I have always noticed that he stays quiet and calm, rarely talks to anyone other than three to four people in our tribe, so him approaching this girl was quite surprising to me. They talked for some time and then the girl just turned around and left after he left the area. She watched him walk away and then she, herself walked out of the woods but the fact she didn't know was that we both were watching her. 

I understand why I stood there and watched her; I had a reason but why was he so much interested in her? I didn't understand why he even let her not cross the bridge in the first place. He is our main hunter; such a skilful man he is. He is responsible for bringing humans to us but as he didn't take any step further to capture that little girl, suspicion was rising in my head. He never skipped any human from bringing them to us but what was it about this particular girl? Is he feeling the same emotions as me towards her? No! This can't happen. I saw her first, I fell in love with her first and therefore she has to be mine and I'll make sure no one except me even gets closer to her. I knew I had to find information about her and so I waited for him to walk away from the woods to go for hunting and as soon as he was far away from sight, I followed her scent. Damn this jasmine fragrance of her perfume and that delicious smell of her blood! Fuck! It was driving me crazy. I can't wait for the day to come when she will be in my arms and would be ready to be devoured by me.

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