END ROADS

CHAPTER 45: HIDDEN HISTORY OF MIST COVEN!

"Grey, are you under a threat or something?" he grinned awkwardly.

"No, am not. But I don't think there is any trouble in knowing your allies and foes" I wanted to laugh at that. I stared at the landscape beyond him then my eyes darted back to him.

"How do you know if I won't wake up one day and tear your chest open and rip your heart out?" I looked up at him with challenge.

He smiled stepping closer till we were toe to toe, nose to nose. My heart pounded and my senses were alert at an instance. Yet my whole being felt so small, submitted to him like a female before her male. He stared deep into my eyes his green ones sparkling with something dangerous and lustful. I swallowed wanting to lick my lips that had gone dry all of a sudden. His gaze didn't waver then his hand snaked around my waist pulling me up close to him. Bodies plastered against each other. He leaned in and my eyes widened but his lips went past my cheek to my ear then whispered.

"Because I am the only male, only vampire, only man in this world and beyond who can get you helpless and fragile without doing anything at all" my breath got caught as I struggled to breath. He was right he was doing nothing at all and I was already turned inside out. "Now, do you promise to protect this prince when necessary my little one?"

The devil's whisper! I almost cursed but nodded anyway and stuttered a yes then he stepped back. I exhaled loudly which I hadn't intended though I had held my breath for too long.

"As I was telling you before we got here, I had to go through rituals. Walk in nightmares and travelled far south to the Black mountains to complete my cultivation. Then I got what I want" before I inquired more or commented he shot into air and stayed there looking down at me. Looking glorious with his dark log hair and the black attire blended with the northern lights.

"Then I received this" he lifted his shoulders a little letting them fall back. Then a small glow appeared behind him before a second passed a pair of pitch black wings appeared from behind him attached to his back. The feathers were long and dark, darker than the night. His hands were clawed and his hair looked even longer if I wasn't wrong. His eyes were black so black like the wings themselves and his fangs looked stronger and fierce... dangerous!

I closed my mouth when I discovered I was gaping at him. He grinned at me flapping his wings that caused his hair to wave in the wind and rose dust since he was not too far in air.

"Scared?"

"Surprised" I answered honestly.

He lowered himself till he was just a metre above the ground. "In my entirely shifted form, this is exactly how I look" he said.

"And when you get those oily things dripping from your eyes" I asked with a small voice

"That I when I am in the mood of scaring off people, but this is exactly what I look like" he responded and honestly they creped me out. He smirked and I rolled my eyes. I do forgotten he got access to minds a lot.

"With this, I always feel mighty and see things from a different direction. Everything feels clear ad I can smell sin, deceit and purity in people. I can tell when someone is selfish, lusting and lying. It is like having control over minds" he stated staring at me silently.

"That is way too powerful" I whispered.

"But yet, there is a part of me that is never free. A part that is in the dark, desires blood smear, desires a lot of bodily things, drinking and sex and it never impresses me at all. A part of me that never gets over grief and grudges it's as if a part of me is caged and is always fighting for freedom. Always begging to be free but when am about to step out something drags me back into the dark and I can't do anything anymore" his tone was sad and the wings were gone, he was back to his vampire self "that is why I prefer shifting to the extent of a vampire and not that far. Coz when am that far off even humanity never works" he answered sadly.