Dark Presence (Book 2 of Strider series)

Chapter 6: Sacred Words and Promise

“Tell me about yourself.” Viviana demanded.

Eristros didn’t turn his head to her. He don’t want her to see his pain when his remembering his past but still he told her. “My mother was capture by my father when she was sixteen and force her to birth me. She went crazy and fear of him that she couldn’t refuse his wish. He told me that my mother was going to kill me the moment I was born but he save me by killing her. It is the truth yet I don’t think my mother would be sane when giving birth to a Vampire child. Anyone like her would do that to stop the evil generation.”

“I-I’m sorry to hear that.” Viviana felt bad that she asked him of this but she never expected that Eristros would tell her his past after birth. She saw him shake his head.

“It was in the past. I don’t care about it.” She didn’t believe him. If he really doesn’t care, his hold to her hand won’t be hard gripped. She could feel a little shaken from him but she kept it quiet to herself.

“After that my father would force me to feed on blood. I was still a toddler to understand what his blood would do to me and the human blood he kept feeding me until I was three that I know for sure on my own that red wasn’t my favourite colour. I did cry all the time he feed me. It really hurt when drinking his blood but later I’m used to it. It was when I was five that everything changes. He didn’t feed me but caging me with three human children about my size. He ordered me to feed on them but I… refuse to take it. He got mad at me and prisons me for days with them. I couldn’t help them. There was no way out from the cage my father made. They all… died of hunger. I was almost too but my father refused to let me and fed me with his blood until I was strong enough to clear my head about everything happen to the children. Since then, he never stopped doing the same thing. And I couldn’t… resist them any longer. I have to… kill them. I don’t have a choice. I don’t want to see them die in pain.”

Eristros stop in his track and he choke. “Do you understand what I am? I’m a killer.” He turns to her with red tears sliding to his cheek. Remembering his hand cover in their blood was enough to break him to pieces. He was never recovered of it. Blood was everywhere even in his mouth and until now he still remember the taste of their blood of each one of them.

Viviana half-shut her eyes. She felt what he’s going through. She closed their distance and hugged him. “It’s okay now. There’s no one to force you anymore.”

Eristros groan. She didn’t understand what he was saying to her. “Viviana, I’m not a person. I’m a murderer. Aren’t you disgust with me?” he asked her, frustrated.

“But you were a child back then. Never the same as you are now. There’s a difference on that. In the past, you have no choice to survive. And now you are free to do what your heart told you. No more Nernio to force you to do what he wants. Don’t you get it? You are free, Eristros.” Viviana eyes sparkle while looking at him. In her eyes, she saw what he was and didn’t judge him of his action. To her, it was a normal thing.

Eristros couldn’t believe what he heard from her. She lighted everything in him, listen to him, caring for him when he didn’t deserve them.  He can no longer resist her and brought her mouth to him, need to feel her that she was there and her words was meant for him. He groans at his first taste of her mouth. It was sweet like candy and soft like feather. He gets greedy with his newfound and forced her mouth open to take his tongue inside her.

Viviana was stun in her spot when Eristros kiss her. She always felt his lip was soft and now that she tastes him, it was more than soft. It was fluffy and taste like the fresh mint of the forest. She brought her hand to his hair, pulling him more close to her, wanted to feel every inch of his mouth and body like he was doing to her. When she felt his erection on her stomach, it satisfied her that she found him interested on her as she for him.