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ALLURE OF THE NIGHT
Chapter 311 Interested In Another
The following day, the sky was cloudy, and the weather didn't change much compared to the previous night, holding the same coldness.
Eve woke up early, finishing her bath and dressing herself in a presentable way. She couldn't stop thinking about the time she had spent with Vincent last night. Her toes still curled at the thought of their nightly activity before Vincent had left her to sleep.
Opening the room's door, Eve stepped out into the corridor and started to walk.
"Good morning, Ms. Barlow," one of the maids, who was holding a tray in her hand, greeted her.
Eve smiled at the maid and wished back, "Good morning."
The morning time in the Moriarty mansion was busier than Eve had expected. The maids and the servants were quick on their feet, dusting and sweeping before the other members of the Moriarty family would walk in the corridors and the hallways. Dried flowers in the vases were replaced by fresh flowers that held scent and colour in them.
As Eve climbed down the stairs, she noticed on top of the first flight of the stairs, Vincent stood with Viscount Eduard and Lady Annalise. She hadn't expected them to be up this early, and when she made her way to where they stood, she offered them a deep bow.
"Good morning," Eve politely greeted them.
Vincent didn't hold back, and he stepped forward towards her. He put one of his arms around Eve's back and leaned forward to kiss one of her cheeks. As he smiled, the corner of his eyes crinkled, and he asked her,
"Did you have a good sleep?"
Eve tried to keep a straight face, but she couldn't stop staring at Vincent's open affection towards her, and she knew it was something she would have to get used to in time. She replied with a smile, "Yes, it was good."
Vincent hummed with a knowing smile, "If you need more of what I did, I will be happy to help." Eve wanted to cover the shameless vampire's mouth before he would say something more to kill her with embarrassment.
Lady Annalise slightly frowned and questioned him, "Why? What is wrong with Ms. Barlow?"
"Nothing," Eve's quick response only made her appear suspicious.
"Eve was stressed with what happened yesterday and I massaged her feet yesterday," Vincent smiled with mischief in his eyes.
Hearing it, Viscount Eduard looked at Eve and said, "We are sorry to hear about the damage the houses had to bear for the rogue's actions. It is good to see that you and your people were uninjured."
"I am grateful to the Moriarty family for accommodating me along with my family members in the mansion this soon," Eve offered her gratitude with a bow.
Viscount Eduard gave her a nod, "Though Vincent and you aren't married yet, you are already part of the family. If not yesterday, you would be moving in here next week. I am guessing that my son has already made all the arrangements you need for your stay here?"
"Yes, he did, Viscount Eduard," Eve answered and at the same time, they heard the sound of someone's footsteps from the end of the corridor, as if the person was running.
Lady Annalise's frown deepened. She glared when she noticed it was her own daughter who was causing commotion this early in the morning. The little vampiress noticed Eve standing next to her brother and wondered what her governess was doing this early morning. Her feet moved even faster until her eyes met her mother's disapproving eyes, and she quickly reduced the speed of her little legs, which eventually came to a halt.
"It seems like you do whatever you want when you think no one is looking at you, Allie. Have you forgotten how to behave?" Lady Annalise was ever the strict mother whose lips set themselves in a thin line.
"I thought something was chasing me..." Allie replied in a small innocent voice, where one would believe it to be true if they didn't know that Allie had spent enough time with her elder brother to learn some of his ways.
"And what did you think was chasing you? Time?" Lady Annalise demanded with her eyes slightly narrowed at her daughter.
"Spider?" It was Vincent who answered, and Allie stared at him, before quickly nodding in agreement.
Eve internally smiled at the understanding that Vincent and Allie shared between each other. Vincent helped in saving the little one from their mother, and Allie helped him from being exposed to the little crimes that the little girl was aware of.
Viscount Eduard placed his hand on his wife's back to gain her attention, and he said, "As everyone is already awake, let us all have breakfast early today. Alfie," he called the butler. He stood on the floor below, and the butler quickly came forward. "Fix breakfast for everyone."
"Yes, Sire," Alfie responded with a bow and left.
While everyone reached the bottom of the stairs, Eduard looked around the place and called one of the maids before ordering, "Tell Marceline to join us for breakfast."
Eve walked towards the dining room along with the Moriarty family members, and she hoped the night had been easy for Eugene too. She doubted she needed to worry about the safety of the black cat, considering how he had lived many lives until now.
On the other side of the mansion and in Marceline's room, the vampiress was being helped by the two maids to be dressed, with her hands stretched wide. The maid sent by the Viscount knocked on the young vampiress's door and stepped inside the room.
Marceline moved her eyes to look at the lowly servant with disdain in her eyes. The maid informed her without raising her head,
"Milady, breakfast will be served in the dining room in a few minutes."
"This early? There's still an hour left before breakfast and I haven't gotten ready," Marceline waved her hand at the maid, "My hair hasn't been done."
The maid pursed her lips and went to inform, "But, milady--"
"Didn't you just hear what I said? Now leave and stop getting on my nerves!" Marceline snapped at the maid and the maid quickly left before she would take the ire of the vampiress.
Marceline had barely slept well with everything that was going on in her life.
First, her plan to drive the lowly human her brother was attached to had miserably failed. Secondly, because her first attempt had not just failed but had made way for Eve to end up staying under the same roof as her. Lastly, not to mention, the lowly human was the reason why she didn't have fangs anymore.
The young vampiress gritted her teeth in anger and released a heavy breath through her nostrils. Right now, her priority was her fangs, and she had to find out how to get them back! She ordered one of the maids in her room,
"Tell the coachman to prepare the carriage, I will be leaving soon."
The maid bowed and left, while the other maid stood next to Marceline. The young vampiress turned to the maid and ordered, "What are you idling about? Brush my hair and have it tied low."
Not too far from the Moriarty mansion stood another mansion that belonged to the late Lady Camille Wright. Lady Camille's brother, Marquee Hooke and his wife, Lady Aurora sat in the parlour room with their beloved daughter, Rosetta Hooke.
Rosetta sipped on her tea without a word, while Marquee Hooke was busy inquiring about his sister to the butler. The butler answered,
"The authorities haven't found any evidence, Sire. If I may speak, I believe Lady Camille went to visit Moriarty mansion."
Marquee Hooke shook his head and said, "And why would she go there and then to Nicholson's mansion, where her carriage was parked right in front of it?"
"That... I am unsure," the butler replied. He then said, "It was the letter that Lady Rosetta had left behind."
Lady Aurora turned to look at her daughter and questioned, "What letter? How is it that you failed to mention it, Rose."
Rosetta rolled her eyes and cleared, "It was just a thank you note for Aunt Camille, mother. I don't know why that was even important. That is like you being upset that I walked on the street here." Her mother stared at her, and she quickly said, "I just wrote in the letter how I enjoyed my time here with her and thanked her for looking after me. Aunt Camille must have remembered something or was confused, how would I know?" She innocently asked in the end.
Her mother turned to look at her husband and suggested, "Perhaps we should go visit the Moriarty family. We didn't get the opportunity to talk about some things, maybe now is the time, yes?" She passed a look at her husband as if they had unfinished business with the pureblooded family, and the man nodded.
"Ready the carriage to leave. We will be visiting the Moriarty mansion," Marquee Hooke ordered the butler, who readily nodded. The butler was happy hearing the order because he believed the notorious Moriarty family was behind his mistress's unusual death.
Marquee Hooke and his wife, Aurora Hooke, got up from the plush couch. The older vampiress nitpicked her daughter and said,
"Fix your clothes and your face, Rose. You aren't a small child but a woman who is going to marry soon."
"To who?" Rosetta asked warily, not knowing what her mother was planning for her.
"Vincent Moriarty, who else would it be?" Lady Aurora questioned her daughter.
"But I don't like him. I don't want to marry him. I think his interests are elsewhere," Rosetta responded, and when her mother frowned at her, she shrugged her shoulders. "Neither do I, nor Vincent like each other. Can we give it a rest already?"
"No," Lady Aurora snapped at Rosetta, looking at her daughter as if she was naive, who didn't understand how the world worked. She stubbornly said in an authoritative tone, "If there's anyone you are going to marry, then it is going to be Vincent Moriarty and no one else. And if his interests lie somewhere, it is time you work on making yourself interesting to him."
If it weren't for the night when Rosetta had witnessed something going on between Vincent and her dearest friend Eve, she would have been worried as she hadn't even reached the dock yet, where her ship with Eugene was yet to sail.
The young vampiress didn't understand why her mother was intent on marrying her off to a person from the Moriarty family. It wasn't as if her family name wasn't powerful and wealthy, not to mention her father held a higher status compared to those pureblooded vampires, Rosetta thought in her mind.
Noticing her daughter dawdle in her thoughts, Lady Aurora ordered Rosetta, "Go quickly to your room and powder your face.
It seemed like she didn't have much time and would have to confess to Eugene before her mother would find another vampire for her, thought Rosetta and left the room.
When Rosetta was out of sight, Lady Aurora turned to the butler and questioned him, "Tell me in detail about what happened the day when Camille went missing and after it. We need to know everything, including what my daughter has been doing all this time in our absence."
Lady Aurora listened to everything her sister-in-law's butler had to say, and though it appeared as if she was interested in finding out who had killed the deceased vampiress, that wasn't why she inquired. Once the butler relayed everything that had happened, the woman's chin tipped up thoughtfully.
"I will bring justice to Camille's death, Myles," Lady Aurora assured the butler with a smile. "But I will need your full cooperation for it."
The butler was quick to respond, "Of course, Lady Aurora! Anything you need!"
ALLURE OF THE NIGHT
Chapter 312 Moriarty And Hooke
In the Moriarty's mansion, Eve sat next to Vincent at the dining table. As the maids entered the dining room with dishes in their hands, another relative of Lady Annalise entered the room..
"Good morning, Viscount Eduard and Anna," Charles greeted them before walking towards where Lady Annalise sat.
"How was your trip to the South, Charles?" Viscount Eduard questioned his brother-in-law, who took a seat next to his sister.
"It was truly a splendid time spent. The people there are just as you would expect them to treat you when I said I was related to the Moriarty family. The food and drinks, not to mention, the life there is definitely different than what we usually see here," Charles answered to the Viscount's question. He leaned towards Lady Annalise and kissed her cheek, "I am sorry I couldn't reply to your letter. I tried to come as quickly as I could."
Eve, who wasn't particularly fond of Charles after how he had treated a servant during the ball night that had taken place in this mansion, silently picked up the glass of orange juice placed next to her plate and took a sip from it.
"How is everything going with you, Vincent? I see we have the governess having breakfast at the same table as us?" Charles asked, looking back and forth between Eve and then his sister.
"When times change, don't you just love it?" Vincent remarked without explaining why Eve was allowed at the table.
Charles, who wasn't particularly fond of humans, especially not the one who belonged to the lower status, his lips twitched. He said, "Just because time changes doesn't have to mean that we have to change everything. Mixing something from two different levels or kinds has never done well anywhere."
Lady Annalise decided to answer her younger brother before Vincent would try to smack him down with his words, "Vincent and Ms. Barlow have decided to marry each other. Ms. Barlow will be part of the Moriarty family soon."
Charles looked taken aback by the revelation and with a frown, said, "I did not see that coming. Not even if I turned to look at it. H--how, how did this happen and when?"
"It was all thanks to your elder niece who helped us to understand how much we like each other. You know what they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder," there was a grin on Vincent's lips as he said it he turned to look at Eve. "Isn't that right, darling?"
"Marceline helped?" Charles wasn't sure if Vincent was joking or if he had spent too many weeks away from the mansion for things to change so fast. Because if there was one thing everyone in this mansion knew, it was that Marceline Moriarty held a strong distaste towards humans. It didn't matter if it was a human who belonged to a low or high status.
"Mhm," Vincent nodded in glee. He took a loaf of bread from the basket and then picked up something that looked like jam but it was darker and thicker in texture. He said, "The wedding is going to be in a month's time, and we hope for you to attend it. Even though technically we aren't related by blood and only by name."
Charles laughed, though it was a hollow one. He said, "Of course, how could I miss attending my nephew's wedding." He looked around the table, where the Viscount and his sister seemed comfortable with the news. He asked, "Where is Marceline?"
Viscount Eduard turned to the butler, who quickly gave him a bow and left the dining room. After five minutes, he returned without Marceline and informed, "Sire, Lady Marceline isn't in her room. The maid said she went out in the carriage."
When Alfie finished uttering the last words, a maid came hurriedly inside the dining room and offered a deep bow. She informed them, "The Hooke's family has arrived at the mansion."
"The Hooke's?" Lady Annalise's eyebrows furrowed. "Alfie, did you fail to inform us about them visiting today?"
With a poised expression, Alfie replied, "No, milady. There was no previous information about it."
"Tell them that I have invited them to have breakfast," Viscount Eduard ordered Alfie, who bowed and left the room again.
During this time, Eve felt an air of worry settling in her mind. It was because though Rosetta was easy to handle when it came to her aunt's death, she doubted Rosetta's parents would behave the same.
Eve felt Vincent place his hand on her left hand that was resting on her lap. She turned to look at him, where their eyes met, and she saw him offer her a smile. He said to her in a low voice, "Breath."
And Eve did that. She took a slow and deep breath before exhaling it.
Soon footsteps approached at the door of the dining room, Alfie announced, "Marquee Hooke, Lady Aurora and their daughter Rosetta Hooke are here."
Soon the three members of the Hooke's appeared in their proud and arrogant demeanour, their nose up high, stepping inside the room.
Eve hadn't forgotten Lady Aurora's threat given to her and her family the last time they had seen each other. Despite the older vampiress's behaviour towards her and Aunt Aubrey, Eve had still continued to be friends with Rosetta.
With the presence of the Hooke family in the dining room, the Moriarty family members stood up from their seats to welcome the Marquee's family, and Eve stood too.
Lady Aurora held a refined smile on her lips, which was reserved for the people of their status.
Lady Annalise offered a wide smile to the guests. She reached to where Lady Aurora was, and the two women gave airy kisses to each other's cheeks., "Lady Aurora, what a wonderful surprise to have you and your family here again. If we knew that you were visiting us, we would have prepared something special."
Though Vincent's marriage was now fixed with the human, it didn't mean she didn't hope for the Marquee's daughter to be married to him.
"Oh, please, you don't have to worry about such things. To have a meal with your family is prestigious enough."
The Viscount and the Marquee shook their hands together, exchanging words of greeting before Eduard Moriarty said, "Please have a seat at the table. The more the merrier."
The guests walked around the table before taking a seat each.
Rosetta, who caught sight of Eve, quickly walked to her friend's side and sat next to the little vampiress, Allie Moriarty. When Lady Aurora settled at the table, she smiled with delight as her eyes shifted from one person to another until it fell on a human. Her eyes slightly narrowed, while the smile on her face continued to stay intact.
Before Lady Aurora could remark about the human, Viscount Eduard offered his condolence, "Marquee Walter, my thoughts are with you regarding Lady Camille's death. She was taken too suddenly and without a hint of why." Lady Annalise nodded in agreement to her husband's words. The Viscount asked, "How are you holding up? If you need anything, we would be more than happy to offer our assistance in the matter."
Marquee Walter Hooke's physique was lean and slightly shorter in height compared to most people in the room made him look small. He held a grim expression on his face, holding his hands together while his elbows rested on the table's surface. He replied,
"Not very good. I share this because I know your family understands how it feels to lose someone dear. Camille, my sister, has always been there for me. Through thick and thin, and now that she is gone, it has left a hollowness of shock that my family is still trying to come in terms with."
With worry marring on his face, Vincent remarked, "Indeed, Lady Camille was a good woman whom I had a pleasure knowing and speaking to. When we heard the news about her body buried out at Darthmore, we couldn't believe it."
Eve didn't know how Vincent did it, but she wasn't an expert when it came to acting. After all, she was the murderer. One would think they would forget about the woman's death, but somehow it kept coming back to her.
Three maids started to serve food to everyone sitting at the table, and Lady Aurora raised her hand when one of the maids was going to serve her. The vampiress said, "What I find astonishing is my sister-in-law's murderer hasn't been found yet?"
"I thought it was Mr. Walsh who was behind it," Lady Annalise remarked, as the gossip and rumour she had heard wasn't up to date with the women who attended the same soiree as her.
Marquee Hooke shook his head and responded, "If I am not wrong, it was Vincent himself who let Mr. Walsh out of the dungeon?" He turned to look at Vincent.
"That is true," Vincent replied, and continued, "I don't know why someone would frame a poor man like Mr. Walsh to something so extreme. Can you believe it? I felt that I had to get him justice before something happened to the innocent man," he said to the people in the room and took a bite from his meaty toast.
While everyone continued to have their breakfast, Rosetta noticed Eugene appear in the dining room. Her eyes lit up like the lights during Christmas. But at the same time, she wondered what he was doing in Moriarty's mansion instead of being at home. Her eyes not so subtly followed Dawson's butler, while he served the food.
Lady Aurora noticed her daughter's eyes light up. What she didn't realise was that her daughter was staring at the man standing next to Viscount Eduard and not Vincent Moriarty. But with the way Rosetta looked, it was how it appeared. After all, the older proud vampiress could never imagine her daughter paying attention to a lowly servant.
ALLURE OF THE NIGHT
Chapter 313 Threatening Offer
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During the entire time of breakfast, Eve could feel Lady Aurora's scrutinising eyes on her. But when she looked at the woman's way, she found the woman talking to someone else at the table or looking elsewhere.
Not liking that the lowly human woman was sitting at the same table as her, Lady Aurora directly spoke to Eve, "Since when did you start to join the Moriarty's to have breakfast? This must be the first time?"
Eve politely smiled and replied, "It has been long since I started having breakfast together with the family, milady."
The woman softly huffed, before the stated, "Up in the North, we don't dare to mingle with the people below our status. The last thing we need is the lowly ones to misunderstand where they stand compared to us. I hope you haven't too. After all, you are still a governess."
"Not for a long time, Lady Aurora," Vincent responded, and Lady Aurora turned to look at her possible future son-in-law, offering him a smile along with a question in her eyes.
"Mm? Have you decided to replace her with another one for the job? Or is it that this human is leaving town?" Lady Aurora continued to question, and Rosetta watched her brave mother, who was bold enough to put her hand in the terror's mouth.
Rosetta sang praises for her friend, "Mother, Eve is an excellent governess. Better than our Mrs. Merstun, who came from a high family."
Lady Aurora offered a slight smile to her daughter and said, "I am speaking to Vincent, Rose. Don't speak in between when I am talking to someone. You know how much I disapprove of that habit of yours."
Rosetta's face turned red in embarrassment, and her smile faltered before she looked down at her plate to avoid meeting others' eyes at the table. Especially Eugene, whom she noticed had turned to look at her.
Lady Aurora turned back to Vincent and said, "About having a lowly status human join us at the dining table."
"It would be better for you to reconsider your thoughts and words for her, Marchioness," Vincent bluntly responded, leaning back on the chair on which he sat, before letting his arm rest on Eve's chair behind her. "Looking down at the members of the Moriarty family has never done anyone good."
Both Marquee Hooke and his wife looked at Vincent and then at the human. Marquee Hooke turned to Viscount Eduard and asked him, "I don't think I heard about your son being married." There was a slight tension in the man's voice as he said it, while Lady Aurora's eyes narrowed at this bizarre, unexpected news.
Viscount Eduard answered with a smile, "We haven't announced it yet, but it was decided very recently that Ms. Genevieve Barlow will be marrying Vincent within a few weeks of time."
Charles Gallagher raised his glass in the air that held blood in it and remarked, "Wonderful news, isn't it?" and he gingerly took a sip from the glass. He was bummed because since Eve had appeared in the mansion, somewhere in his mind he had hoped to sleep with her. Governesses from low status were often quick to agree to share a bed for a decent amount of money. But the moment had slipped.
Rosetta felt happiness bubbling up in her chest. The joy she felt right now from knowing Vincent Moriarty was soon going to get married to Eve, only confirmed her earlier suspicion. Now she could happily continue to pursue Eugene. But her mother didn't share the same happiness as her.
Lady Aurora was taken aback, and her eyebrows rose high towards her hairline. She murmured in shock, "What? That's not possible."
She had already decided that her daughter would marry Vincent Moriarty, and she wasn't going to change her decision! She stared at the human with disbelief. Just as she thought, her daughter had failed to snag the man, and this human had used her charms on the Viscount's son.
Vincent responded to Lady Aurora's words, "Hm? What's so hard to believe about? I have agreed and so has Eve. Now we only need the priest to perform the ritual."
Lady Aurora placed her hand on her husband's thigh to get his attention, and Marquee Hooke said, "I thought the matter about my daughter marrying your son was fixed when we last visited here. Lady Annalise, you were the one who reached out to me and now I hear that my daughter will be cast away for a human?"
Lady Annalise held a troubled expression on her face. Before she would try to reply, Viscount Eduard explained, "Forgive me about it, Marquee. But we decided not to hope on it after your daughter Rosetta said she didn't want to marry Vincent. I believe if Lady Camille was here, she would explain the same."
Lady Aurora chuckled at the Viscount's words, "Pardon me, Viscount Eduard, but Rosetta doesn't know the difference between what is right and wrong sometimes. She made a hasty decision, but it doesn't mean that we have agreed to it." The atmosphere in the room started to heat up, and Eve noticed Allie turning worried like her.
"Marquee Hooke," Vincent uttered the name loud and clear for the little commotion to stop. He said, "The only person I will be marrying is this woman sitting next to me right now. You can accept or reject it, but it doesn't change anyone's opinion here. Not even your daughter wants to marry me, isn't that right, Lady Rosetta?" He turned to look at the young vampiress, who cautiously gave him a nod. "There we go. Now if we can finish our breakfast in peace."
When the breakfast did get over and everyone dispersed from the room, Vincent walked past the hallway when Lady Aurora stopped him, "You live up to your reputation, Vincent."
"I hope it is all good," Vincent brightly offered the woman a smile.
"I think it would be wise for you to reconsider your decision about marrying my daughter. It will be good for you and my family too," Lady Aurora patiently waited for his reply.
"Frankly speaking, I am having trouble seeing the good that you are trying to imply for both the families. Care to explain more about it?" Vincent hummed, his copper-red eyes directly looking at the woman. "You can have any man's son who belongs to a high status. I know I am the best, but sometimes you need to settle with something lesser than it."
There was no one in the hallways, apart from Vincent and the Marchioness, where both looked like they were battling with their eyes and words. Lady Aurora said, "You will be rising with the status of Marquee—"
"I don't think you know about me or my family so let me help you with it. Status and position means little to nothing to me. You can give it to someone else," the smile continued to grace Vincent's lips, and he keenly looked at the vampiress. He questioned, "Is there something you are hiding?"
"That is something you are expert at and need to tell me," Lady Aurora challenged him back. "I know you are the one who killed Camille."
Vincent calmly replied, "That is a wild accusation, and a big one at it."
Lady Aurora suddenly chuckled and said, "Camille's butler saw the carriage ride in the direction of the Moriarty mansion. My daughter is a naive girl, who doesn't know what to do sometimes, and I need someone who will secure her future. You see, Camille's butler found another crumpled note behind the drawer during Rosetta's stay. Half written by my daughter."
"And what was written in this note?" Vincent questioned the woman.
"It had mentions about the human woman. Many days ago, Camille and I had a discussion about this, about the human spending time with my daughter and ruining her life," Lady Aurora sounded sure, and she asked him, "Did you kill Camille?"
"No," Vincent deadpanned, "I had no reason to kill her," he shrugged his shoulders.
"Then you must have gotten her killed through someone. You killed and buried her in Darthmore. Not to mention, you even helped Mr. Walsh come out of the dungeon, when no one else cared," Lady Aurora's eyes suspiciously looked at Vincent. "You might be able to fool others, but not me. I know your hands are covered in her blood, and you would be surprised to know how I am sure about it."
"But that is not all, is it?" Vincent hummed, "You are here to make me an offer."
Silence fell for a few seconds in the hallways, and Lady Aurora said, "Marry my daughter, and I won't expose you. A marriage to cover up the murder you committed. I am a Marquee's wife, you might already be aware of the connection and power I hold."
Vincent started to laugh at Lady Aurora's offer, and he said, "What a funny woman you are. I am impressed. You don't care about the deceased woman, but the opportunity you can make with it. I love it," he grinned wide, while the woman's expression barely changed. He said, "Too bad, but I am not interested in your bargain."
"You are making a mistake, Vincent Moriarty. One that will cost you very expensively in the future," Lady Aurora warned him before the other people of her and his family appeared in the hallway.
Vincent's eyes turned cold, and he remarked, "Let us hope I don't make you pay for it then."
ALLURE OF THE NIGHT
Chapter 314 Words Between Friends
Eve and Rosetta walked in one of the quiet corridors, away from the others who were now in the parlour room. Eve noticed the young vampiress turn behind and then look back in front of them, and when their eyes met, the vampiress smiled at her.
"I thought you weren't going to be living here until later this week. Seems like Vincent is too eager to have you in the mansion," Rosetta remarked, while holding a hint of curiosity in her eyes as she looked at Eve. "I didn't know you liked him back otherwise I would have not badmouthed him in front of you," she looked sheepish as she said those words.
Eve smiled a little before she shook her head and said, "Back then I wasn't aware that things would turn this way between us."
"Are you sure you want to marry him?" Rosetta asked because she wasn't too fond of Vincent Moriarty and had long back decided that he wasn't the person she wanted to marry. No amount of handsomeness could rid the terror he had ignited in her towards him.
"He isn't too bad, Rosetta. He is different, but I think his other qualities overshadow that other side of him," Eve assured her friend, who looked genuinely concerned by her choice of the man she had agreed to marry. She continued, "There was a fire outbreak in Meadow, and Vincent came to rescue. He brought Eugene and me here to safety."
Rosetta quickly nodded her head, "I hope you both are alright? It must have been scary to have a sudden fire in the town. I wonder which crazy person would even think of lighting up the entire place."
The crazy she was going to marry, Eve thought in her mind.
Rosetta said, "I am glad to see that you are safe, and now that you are here, it will be easier for me to meet and spend time with you. I doubt my mother will have any problem when it comes to mingling with you, after all, soon you will be part of the high society," she smiled wide.
The two young women continued to walk in the corridor, where the corridors held light that came from the many candles that continued to burn brightly.
Eve asked Rosetta, "How long are you going to be in Skellington?"
"I don't think my parents mentioned it, but I am thinking maybe after Christmas?" Rosetta replied with a thoughtful expression. She then said, "My parents are too intent on finding out the person who killed Aunt Camille, and they won't be leaving the place until they find the culprit." Her red eyes moved to meet her friend's blue eyes, and there was a doubt. She said, "Myles, Aunt Camille's butler keeps insisting that Moriarty has something to do with it, because I wrote about you in the letter..."
For a moment, Eve felt her heart stop, and she could sense there was a question that Rosetta didn't ask her, as if the vampiress wanted to, but she was contemplating on whether to ask or to keep it to herself.
"You think she came to meet me?" Eve asked softly, and the two women didn't realise that the pace of their footsteps had reduced.
"I don't know," Rosetta replied, and she shook her head, "When the time is right, my parents will find out the truth and they will stop unnecessarily suspecting everyone. There is something that I wanted to say to you."
Eve's eyebrows furrowed in question and asked, "What is it?"
They had reached the parlour room, and their footsteps had completely halted. Rosetta placed her hand on Eve's shoulder and said, "If one day in the future I need you, you will be there for me, right? I will do the same for you. After all, you are the only friend I know who is genuine and would never hurt me."
A heaviness grew in Eve's heart, and she stared at her friend, who looked as if she held complete trust in her. She replied, "If it is something in my hands and ability, I will be more than willing and happy to help you, Rosetta. I would never hurt you intentionally."
Rosetta beamed at Eve's words, and they heard footsteps from inside the parlour room that approached the door. Soon Eve noticed Marquee Hooke stepped out of the room with Viscount Eduard.
Marquee Hooke noticed Rosetta standing next to the human, and he said to his daughter, "It is time to get back home, Rosetta."
"Yes, father," Rosetta quickly left Eve's side and went to her father, exchanging a few more words with the Viscount. The father and daughter met up with Lady Aurora, who was already seated in their luxurious carriage, which was ready to be driven out of the Moriarty mansion.
Eve looked for Vincent but seeing how she hadn't come across him in the corridors or after breakfast, she noticed the butler walking her way, and she asked him,
"Do you know where Vincent is?"
"Master Vincent is out in the garden, milady," Alfie answered her question with a bow, and Eve thanked him. She stepped out of the mansion's entrance and turned her head left and right before spotting the pureblooded vampire, who stood in front of a bush with his hand holding a cigar between his fingers.
When Vincent heard light footsteps approaching, he turned to look at Eve over his shoulders. He brought the cigar near his lips and took a drag before blowing the smoke in a direction that wouldn't hit her.
"Everything okay?" Eve asked him, and Vincent gave her a nod.
"You are here with me, everything is perfect," Vincent responded, and he offered her a smile that held ease. "Something on your mind?"
Eve gave Vincent a nod, "Yes. I keep worrying about them discovering the truth." Her eyebrows knit again, and she took a look around the garden where they stood to make sure no one was there to listen in to their conversation. She said, "The butler knows that Lady Camille came to the mansion, and I think it has left bread crumbs behind."
"It isn't too hard to get rid of the butler. Once he's gone, there is less evidence left," Vincent hummed, taking another drag and Eve shook her head.
"No, he is innocent."
"Mm, I thought you would say that, but you seem to forget what I told you yesterday. No one is ever innocent, my darling. But you could argue that there are different levels of innocence, maybe?" Vincent's words were calm, as if it didn't worry him. But that was only because he was used to killing and burying the bodies.
To hide one body, they had already killed the coachman. They couldn't keep hiding more bodies for the murder she had caused because, at the end of the day, all those death would be caused because of her.
"Relax, I won't let you sink when I have wings. I promised to keep you safe, didn't I?" Vincent stepped closer to her and pressed his lips on her forehead. "You are mine to protect and I won't let anything happen to you. The Marchioness said she has evidence that points that we have something to do with the murder. But I will take a look at if she's bluffing or if she really holds any evidence at all. I only need you to stay quiet and not whisper about it. Okay?"
Eve stared into Vincent's eyes and finally gave him a nod, "Okay."
"Good girl of mine. Why don't you go inside and be on your way to Allie, and I will see you in the evening?" Vincent hummed, his one hand moving down her shoulder where he didn't want to leave her by herself. Not because he was worried that something would happen to her but because he wanted to stay close to her.
Vincent was fascinated and enthralled by Eve's presence, where all his mind could lately think about was her. He wanted to wrap his arms around her, breathe in her scent, feel her body against her, and hear her cry out his name, watching her dazed and aroused eyes staring back at him.
"Are you going to Darthmore?" Eve asked him, and Vincent hummed again.
"Yes, unfortunately work calls, and my presence seems to be demanded by the Head Council. If not, we would spend our time together, you in my arms where I would bathe you with kisses."
Eve felt a current run from her stomach to between her legs, where she remembered last night, and she turned a little breathless at the memory of it. Soon her eyes turned to bright gold in colour and Vincent caressed her cheek, "My mermaid, I cannot wait to have you."
"You already do," Eve whispered, and a crooked smile appeared on his lips. The woman was a siren, yet there was the innocence of the mermaid that he wanted to stroke and burn in flames.
Vincent's eyes turned slightly darker, and he dropped his hand from her cheek, "Not in many different ways. You will see."
ALLURE OF THE NIGHT
Chapter 315 Deal With The Witch
Far from the respectable and prosperous towns and villages where people resided, a lonely forest named Palavista stood with a lack of greens. It was because, even though the forest looked rich with flora and fauna, as a person walked closer to the heart of the forest, one would find the trees to have no leaves holding on to them.
And Marceline Moriarty had stepped near the forest with a dagger in her hand as she stood with her back to the carriage. Her coachman looked at the forest with a weary eye, and his gaze shifted to look at the young vampire mistress.
"Milady, I don't think this forest is safe to be around," the coachman said in a low voice, and when Marceline glared at him, he immediately shut up.
"I am here to see if I can find something that can be of use in the mansion's garden," Marceline harrumphed and ordered the coachman, "Stay here until I return, and don't wander around."
"Yes, milady," the coachman didn't raise his head but heard the vampiress walk into the forest. When a nearby crow cawed, he turned startled and moved closer to the horses.
Marceline Moriarty continued to walk into the forest, fearless even though she didn't have her fangs because of the way she had grown up, and her pride didn't allow her to show her weakness. She kept her eyes open, making sure not to be scared by the number of crows she came across, where some were perched on the branches, looking at her.
Even though the trees lacked leaves, the forest held a gloominess and with the dark clouds that hovered in the sky, it left an eeriness in the atmosphere. Soon even the crows stopped squawking and cawing and the only sound left was of Marceline's footsteps on the forest ground. The fog started to crawl on the ground, making it hard to look at the surface.
When a crow suddenly flew in front of Marceline, she gasped and stopped walking. She cursed the crow.
"A pureblooded vampiress in the forest," a woman spoke, and Marceline's eyes were quick to fall on a woman who stood not too far behind her. "Should I call it to be my fortune to have you here..."
"I have questions that I need answers for," Marceline stated in her proud voice.
"And what do I get in return?" The woman asked who was a witch in disguise.
Marceline pulled out of a pouch from behind her cloak. When she moved it, the bag jingled with coins in it, and she said, "There's fifty gold coins in here. They will be all yours."
The witch chuckled and said, "Pureblooded vampiress, just because I live in the forest, don't think I don't know the wealth all of you hold. And what use is gold for a person like me? I need something more. Something better."
Marceline said, "That will depend on the answer you give me, if it is worth it."
"Arrogance never does anyone good. But you should know it better than that," the witch slowly walked as if starting to circle a little away from where the vampiress stood. "Pass me the coins, and I will see next."
Marceline then threw the bag of coins towards the witch, and the witch caught hold of it, putting it under her dress to hide it. She questioned, "I need you to regenerate my lost fangs."
The witch laughed this time, her laugh echoing through the forest, but Marceline wasn't amused. The witch then stopped and said, "Are you a new to the vampire society? Even I know that vampires or pureblooded vampires can't bring back their fangs once it is gone. If you are here to waste your time, you should find something else to do."
"It is possible," Marceline stated with firmness and said, "My own sister was able to regrow her fangs. She lost in a few months ago but it is back. She said it was because of her kind heart. I need you to help me with it."
"With your fangs or kindness?" The witch was more than amused with the vampiress in front of her. She said, "There's no such thing as getting your broken fangs back, unless you are trying to stick your old fangs into your mouth. Many vampires over the centuries have come but no witch has been able to find a cure for it. I don't know about kind hearts, but you could try it, which I doubt will still work. It sounds more like someone who was kind helped her."
"Help me find the person who helped my sister!" Marceline's words held desperation in them.
"I cannot find the person in thin air, vampiress. You ask for the impossible. Might as well humble down and maybe you will be offered kindness too?" The witch shrugged her shoulders and started to walk from there.
"Wait!" Marceline shouted, and she quickly followed the witch, "I will give you anything if you help me!"
Hearing this, the witch stopped walking and asked, "Are you sure about it?"
"Help me get my fangs back and I will help you," Marceline offered the witch, her dull eyes had turned fierce, and the witch smiled.
"Then let me see how I can help you, though it is true that I cannot help you find the person. But maybe you can see whom your sister has been or come in contact with recently. Humans don't have powers, so it could be the werewolves or vampires, whom she came across," the witch suggested, and Marceline gave it a thought. "Did you say she regrew her fangs?" Questioned the witch.
"Yes," Marceline answered, and then heard the witch,
"Bring me your sister's old fangs, and I will try to trace it back to the person. But in return... you have to bring me a human. One who is a virgin. Bring me the person and I will fulfil your wish."
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