BLOODLUST | jenlisa

Chapter 9

It was dawn.

Vampires are busy with their own world, some are hunting animals for blood as they're not allowed to go after humans, some are having brief conversations, some are having a small competition with their powers, betting money of course. They're making the best time out of the day before the sun comes up.

Somi, walks in the hallways, with Jay walking behind her. As for them, they are hiding their relationship from the higher ups, Rosé, Taemin and especially Jennie.

Quite frankly, Jennie forbid the vampires to build any kind of relationship or affair with one another as a rule, with an unknown reason why. They are also unaware about her 'affair' with Vernon, besides Taemin.

They are on their way to send the queen a report about the current state of the agreement, based on what Vernon gathered by sneaking into the human and dhampir territory.

"Is she still asleep?" she asks.

Jay shrugged, "She normally wakes up at 3, she should be out now." he looks behind, "Did she not leave?"

She shakes her head and as they slowly approach her room, their noses was immediately filled with a strange smell coming from inside. They both look at each other, panic enveloping their eyes.

Somi knocks, "Your highness? Are you awake?" she raises her voice against the door.

The prince turns the knob but to their luck, it is locked. He knocks but they couldn't hear any noise or voice inside the room. Glancing at her, asking for a permission, he crushed the metal knob with his forearm and pushed the door open.

They entered the room and that's when they see Jennie lying on the bed, her arm hanging from the corner of the mattress, looking extremely pale and sick.

Jay rushes to his cousin, panicking, he checked her pulse on her neck and wrist. Then, his eyes found the open cupboard with an empty rack. "She ran out of blood," he mutters and as the cold breeze fly across the room, he smelled an intoxicating scent coming from outside the window.

He walks towards it and looks around, his eyes found the broken pieces of tube on the ground, with the already drying blood on the concrete ground.

"Did you find something?"

He shakes his head, "Tell Rosé her last tube was thrown out the window," he says, "Jennie isn't responding, I couldn't feel any pulse."

Somi's eyes widen, "What?" she glanced at the weak frame of the queen on the bed, "She can't be dead, right?"

"I sure hope so she's not,"

She bit her lip in frustration before taking a quick bow before her and runs out of the room to find Rosé. She searched the whole castle, every corner and finally sees her talking to another vampire in the throne room.

Rosé spots her running up to her and dismissed the vampire away. She faces her, "Did something happen?" she noticed the panic in her eyes.

"It's the queen...she-she ran out of blood, the last tube she has was thrown out the window. She was pale, she doesn't look like she was breathing."

The older vampire puts a hand up, "Thrown? Someone threw it out?" she repeats, thinking if she heard it right. "Who..."

"That dhampir, I'm sure it was her."

The loud roaring of engine enters the city of the vampires, gathering attention from around the car. Lisa parks the vehicle just before the castle and silently walks back inside. She had a very important business that she needed to settle during midnight.