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Chapter 7: Howl

"Oh no…no way." I muttered shaking my head.

But Horatio nodded his head slowly while his devilish vampire sons gave me a fangy smile and I paled with horror.

"…you'll be the bride for one of my sons."

Since a little kid, I have always dreamt of marrying a handsome young man that would sweep me off my feet and a wedding at the beautiful Maldives Island. I want a dream house near the beach; have two beautiful kids and even a dog that I'll probably name Lucky.

Those were my dreams.

And now they will forever be.

"What?" My voice an octave higher.

"I said; you'll be the bride for one of my sons."

"What?"

"Are you deaf?" Horatio looked at me questioningly.

"No, of course I am not." I snapped. "It's just that you said sons instead of a name. That means I am not decided to be whoever's bride yet?"

"Yes, I haven't decided which are to marry you." I shuddered at the word marry. It just sounded so wrong. "I don't want to force you so I want you to choose for yourself, or if one of my sons proposes to marry you himself."

The boys chuckled and I felt like throwing something at them. Of course they are enjoying every freaking moment of this. They just love to see people suffer. Bastards.

I folded my arms across my chest and I smiled, "And what if I choose not to marry any of them?"

Horatio gave me the same smile that sends shivers down your spine, "Then what use is it for you to live any longer?"

I gulped. I know exactly what does that mean. I sighed; I can never get out of this. And if I ever did, I am probably already dead.

"Here's the deal, Adele; if you continue to live here and become the bride for one of my sons, I promise not to harm a hair on your pretty little head. But if you go against the deal, I couldn't promise that your head will stay where it is."

Horatio smiled at me and I shuddered, gosh aren't father and son alike?

So reluctantly I agreed to Horatio's deal and Maxine cheered. "Yeah, something fun to play with!" and I shot him a deadly glare.

"I think it's better if I introduce to you the rest of the household." Horatio waved his hand at the door and I saw a large ruby ring on the index finger of Horatio's glimmer against the firelight.

Somehow the ring looked so familiar…

The double door opened and Walter the butler, the driver and three newcomers entered. After knowing that vampires actually lived here, one look and now I'm starting to understand why the butler and the driver were so pale in the first place. There were two females and I am guessing the one that were clad in a black and white frilly apron dress must be the housekeeper. Although I have to state that she is a little too pretty to be a maid.

The other two newcomers who look nearly my age; a female and a male were stunningly hot. Both of them compared to the rest of the pale vampire community in the room have very tanned skin. The female had long straight earth-brown waist length hair and a pair of jet black eyes while the guy had black spiky short hair and emerald green eyes. And they are very, very tall.

"You've already met Walter, the butler." Horatio waved his hand towards the butler and later to the driver who he called 'Will'.

"This is Mindy, our housekeeper." The lady in frilly apron had long carrot red hair that runs down her back in curls and an amazing pair of violet eyes, smiled politely at Horatio and gave me an annoyed glance. Guess I'll have a hard time with her too.

"Those two over there are Grace and Julian. They are the slaves in this house." I could easily sense the disgust in Horatio's voice as he said their names. They too didn't seem to like the way Horatio called them. "And Grace here," the female stood forward and nodded her head towards me. "Will be responsible for you and if you go missing, she will have to take the consequences."

Grace flinched when she heard the word consequences and I got an impression it won't look good. I glared at Horatio; he is smart to actually put someone with me and stated that this girl here will be punished if I run away.

Horatio smiled at me, his fangs not showing thankfully and nodded to Grace. "Grace will show you your room and the house. Mindy will assist you if you need anything. Now you all may leave."

With a slight bow everyone, except the seven sons left the room with Grace holding my arm a little too tightly.

As soon as the double doors close, Grace turned to me, an annoyed look on her face and her hands still on my arm. "I will show you your room now." Since I'm very short, Grace was practically towering over me and glaring up to her wasn't exactly easy.

"Can you remove your hand, please?" I asked nicely, not wanting to pick a fight with someone I will have to live with for quite a long time. That is if I do not run away. Grace stared down at me, "You promise not to run?" I nodded my head and she sighed, "Fine, I think I can trust you."

And as soon as her grip loosens, I sprinted.

I didn't bother to turn behind when I heard Grace's alarmed shouts from behind. I just kept running and running as fast as my short legs could carry me. I could hear Grace's angry shouts coming fast behind me and I ran even faster. Either Grace was a really fast runner or I was just lousy at running because it didn't take long for Grace to catch up.

I am not one to give up that easily and no way am I giving up now. I pushed my legs to run faster and faster, reminding myself again and again not to turn behind. The hallway was so long it never seems to end and I was already panting. But I just kept running.

I could see the front door opened wide and the sunlight spilling into the hallway. I felt a smile spread across my face. The sun! I'm going to be safe!

But things don't always go the way we planned.

Before I could even reach the door, someone grab me and lift me up as if I was some rag doll.

I kicked and screamed, "No!! Let me down!! Let me down, you idiot!"

I felt the person laughed and I moved slightly to take a good look at the person who was carrying me over his shoulder like I was nothing and came face to face with Julian. I squirmed, "Let me down!! Let me go!!"

Julian laughed again; his voice was deep and awfully sexy. "Hey Grace, did you lose something?"

Grace came jogging towards us and scowling at Julian, "Great, you got her. I shouldn't have let you go in the first place, stupid human."

Julian laughed in my ear and I hated it; it keeps ringing in my ears in a weird way. Julian finally let me off on my feet then only did I notice how tall he was. Grace was already two and a half heads taller than I am and Julian was taller than her. "Running out into the sun won't stop me from getting you, you know."

I looked at him, "What are you talking about?"

He gave me a sexy smile and I felt like knocking it off his face. "The sun doesn't affect me and it definitely doesn't affect those vampires in there. So it's pointless to run into the sunlight and still get caught."

I groaned, why does everyone seem to be able to read my mind? "Don't vampires fry under the sun?"

"Partly myth but if they take enough of blood they wouldn't fry and you're out of luck because they just did." Julian revealed a set of straight pearl white teeth and I couldn't help being dazzled by his smile. That was before I kicked myself back to my senses.

"Then what are you?" I snapped.

Grace growled at me, "If you don't watch it I might bite you and you'd turn into one furry hairball."

My eyes widen and Julian laughed before smacking Grace behind her back, "Ignore Grace, she's nice when you get to know her better. But my best advice is to not run again; I can't guarantee if Grace will really sink her teeth into you and you turn into a fur ball. That won't be pretty."

I eyed them curiously, "Fur ball?"

Julian's emerald eyes sparkled, "Oh, you know, we howl at the moon and we run in packs."

Seeing that I still don't get what he was trying to say, Grace butted in.

"We're werewolves, duh."

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note to Min Xian: I put you as the housekeeper hoping that your cooking and cleaning skills will improve!!