Eunomia

Chapter 72 "All a game"

~Sebastian~

Bryony... Poisonous climbing vine. That girl is named like a plant, like a poisonous one. The only thing I can say is that I was warned but I didn't want to see it. She is poisonous because she had poisoned me to the point she was everything I needed and craved. In fact, she was also a climbing vine, she climbed to my heart and settled there until it was impossible to take her away from the place that now belonged to her. My heart was hers, poisoned or without heartbeat it belonged to her.

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It was late, very late, the sky was almost black and the only light you could found was the one of a few streetlights.

I can't tell you the exact hour because right now I'm busy following a... I don't know what kind of being I'm following anymore. I can just say that I thought I loved that being.

Thought, I'm not sure anymore.

"It was all a game after all, wasn't it?" I had to scream for get that being to stop walking.

I sounded more desperate than I would have wanted to admit, I may add. It was raining, I was soaked and disheveled but I didn't cared.

"Yes, it was, we both played with each other to get what we wanted, it was just a game. Everything was fake."

The mysterious being finally faced me, and well, it also looked more desperate than what it would have wanted to admit.

"You illuminated my darkness." I let out without caring about anything, nothing mattered, not even how dumb or pathetic I could seem at that moment.

I saw how the being crossed its arms and looked at me with wet eyes, I don't know if it was because of the rain or not. It rolled its eyes, trying to get its breath back to answer  me afterwards.

"Then you were so blinded by the it that you didn't realize the light you craved so badly was actually darker than your own."

I refused to accept it, I wasn't going to lose my black sheep for this, she never cared about me being  a vampire and the only question left here was if I cared that she wasn't human.

I walked with a determined step towards her and when I was close enough I didn't give her time to speak, I grabbed her face and kissed her, under the rain and under the answer to the only question that could save us.

The kiss stopped and I didn't stop grabbing her face, Lizbeth looked at me more confused than ever and honestly that was how I felt.

She took my hands away from her face taking one to her chest, to the height of her heart. I remember that day I hugged her, the furious beating of her heart... Now there wasn't anything, not a single heartbeat. It was like the beat of her heart had faded, as if it was never there... An illusion.

"I'm dead..." She whispered to the rain. "My heart doesn't beat."

I think she waited for me to run away and leave her in the middle of the rain, she looked down to her shoes but her hand was still grabbing mine, close to her heart. I took advantage of that to be the one who grabbed her hand and took it to my chest.

"Mine never beat." I looked at her in the eyes and a slightly smile formed in my lips.

Lizbeth smiled me back and now she was the one that kissed me, it was a nice kiss, under the rain, our tongues didn't touch just our lips agreeing in one only thing, how much they had missed each other. I placed my hands on her face again, caressing her cheeks, we stopped kissing a couple of minutes later.

"Eunomia." I let out all the air I had been holding back in that word. My arms slid away from her face. "Right now I have nothing clear except the fact that I have never cared about what you were." I smiled as an idiot, one fucking in love with the walking dead in front of him. "That scared me but I don't care." I confessed.

Lizbeth licked her lips before speaking.

"Neither did I."

And she kissed me. She sank her fingers into my hair and wrapped her legs around my waist, I lifted her holding her thigh tight as I kissed her the way I have been craving since too long. I had the urge to walk with her until crashing into the truck of the tree that was once our spot and that was some few feet away but then I remembered that tree wasn't there anymore so I got into the grove and we crashed into the first tree we saw.

The kiss never stopped, just got more intense, I felt the need to touch her everywhere but also to hug her and don't let her go of my arms again... and to kiss her, I didn't want to stop kissing her ever again. Our tongues synchronized, my hands sneaked under her T-shirt and hers under the back of my jeans as she tried to find a way to hold me tight.

Believe me when I say the last thing I wanted was that kiss to end but it was raining, we were soak and that wasn't the place, right now I wanted to do with her a lot of things that weren't just meanto be done in a grove.

I took advantage of the tree behind her to caress her face with my thumb as I held her tight with the other hand. My kisses had swollen her lips and the drops of rain ran down her face as her blonde hair was soak, just like her clothes that stuck to her skin.

I loved her, she was just the only one for me, I needed her to know it but I couldn't find the words just yet. It didn't matter, we had a whole eternity together to say 'I love you'.

"Should we go back with the other vampires?" I suggested instead. Lizbeth nodded bitting her lower lip.

She stopped surrounding me with her legs and now she stood by my side, I held her hand and we walked under the rain towards the industrial unit. When we were close I used my speed to ran to the door and keep it open for her. I stretched out my arm to reach the door but before I could touch it I felt an unknown pressure on my chest.

I thought I saw a shadow moving too fast for being human, or for me to distinguish what it was but the pressure didn't stopped. It was then when I felt the need to touch my chest to find out there was something in it. I looked down slowly as I grabbed the object, deep down without wanting to find out what was dangerously going through my heart. A stake.

Fuck, Leoni has always warned me to stay away from sharp sticks.

"Aren't you opening the door?" Lizbeth placed her hand on my shoulder and like I couldn't talk I just turned around. I would have gotten another stake up in y heart just for her not being there and avoiding my black sheep the expression of pure fear that right now she had all over her face.

I think some blood started to escape from my mouth as it also escaped from my heart, dark and dirty vampiric blood that I needed inside of me but it was determined to go out.

I heard Lizbeth asking me who did this and I wanted to answer because I knew it. I didn't see anything but I read a thought.

We don't want cheaters in the royalty.

I knew who was the motherfucker with Hazel eyes, royal arrogance and Indian surname that would kill me but I couldn't get the word 'Devak' to come out of my mouth.