Chapter 8
As my blood dropped to the necklace, the Blood Oath between Alden and I was finally formed. I took the new Oath Necklace.
“Scarlett…” Sean was allowed to speak again, and he let out a muffled groan. He said in a cracked voice, “Don’t…”
He was sad because he was used to me staying by his side like a servant.
But I no longer wanted to endure the great pain when the heat struck again.
And neither did I want to convince myself to continue to love him after being neglected and hurt again and again.
“Sean, you were right. I was just your blood slave, and you needed me for my blood only.
“Let’s leave it at that.” I no longer had anything else to say to him.
Since I had just taken an oath with Alden, I felt a bit cold. Reaching out, I put the Oath Necklace around Alden’s neck, my hands trembling slightly.
When I had wanted to put it around Sean’s neck back then, he had refused my touch.
Sean howled, his voice grating. The veins on his forehead bulged as he broke free from Alden’s restraint, and then he staggered toward me, his limbs covered with wounds. “No… Scarlett, I love…”
He didn’t get to finish.
Alden gripped him by the neck and looked at him with disgust. “You
don’t get to say that word.”
They began to scuffle, bumping each other into the wall and the door from time to time, causing muffled sounds.
Then another drop of the blood on my neck congealed and then fell to the floor.
They stopped right away.
Alden, my new master, came to his senses and punched Sean hard one last time to get out of the fight.
Clutching his abdomen, Sean bent over and collapsed to the floor. He stopped moving and was tossed out mercilessly.
Seeing me tremble, Alden, whose body temperature was extremely cold, stopped my bleeding quickly and then carried me back to the room to keep warm.
“I don’t love him anymore,” I whispered in his arms.
He stopped in his tracks.
Then he opened his mouth,
I could feel his chest vibrating as he asked, “Can you love me?”
It was a sunny day, and Alden walked with me in the courtyard.
There was a figure in the corner that followed me everywhere. After several failed attempts trying to get rid of him, we gave up and simply ignored him.
Though I had taken a Blood Oath with Alden, he didn’t need my blood very frequently. Worried that I’d feel bored at home, he asked me if I wanted to work at the platform again.
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Having no better things to do, I went back to the train station. This time, unlike before, I had a more flexible work schedule. I inspected the trains. during the day, and at night. I patrolled as usual.
Every time it was my shift. Alden would always send me to the platform and take me home.
And there was always a figure who stood silently from now far away from
- me.
“Scarlett, something has happened in Compartment 1. Get there now!”
I immediately rushed over, only to see a person I hadn’t seen for ages.
Well, she wasn’t exactly a person anymore.
Chelsea knelt on the ground, her face and hands covered with blood. The metallic taste filled the air, alluring those vampire passengers around.
But Chelsea didn’t notice. She stared at her trembling hands covered in blood, muttering, “I killed someone… I killed someone.”
Sean, who followed me over, roared to intimidate those vampires.
Then he crouched down to wipe off the blood on her hands with his clothes.
“Sean, I killed someone for their blood… How? How could I do this?”
Upon seeing him, she cracked. She hugged him tightly, crying non–stop.
Sean gently patted her back and looked at me when I was dispersing the crowd.
“You’ve forgiven me, right? You said you’d stay with me forever. Right?” Noticing his gaze, Chelsea subconsciously raised her voice, wanting his
Immediately, Sean stepped forward and stood in front of me, leaving
impatient and bared his fangs to scare me. Chelsea’s hands in mid–air.
She was stunned for a few seconds before suddenly turning around and glaring at me, her eyes already turning red since she had been crying. “It’s all your fault… It’s all on you!
“It’s all because of you!” she shrieked and yanked me, making me lose balance.
The guardrail doors burst open, and shards of glass
I fell onto the railway track heavily before I could even feel the pain.
pierced into my body.
The alarm rang out; someone pressed the emergency start button.
The locomotive in front of me began to move. In no time, it’d run over me.
“Scarlett!”
Sean’s voice was soon drowned out by the rumbling wheels.
It was too late to do anything.
In the next second, the train roared past me.
Maybe it was my illusion; I seemed to have heard a desperate cry.
After being dazed for a few seconds, I came back to my senses and realized I didn’t die.
But someone thought I did.
Sean frantically wanted to jump onto the railway track but was stopped by the staff of the station. He kept struggling and screaming until he burst
into tears.
Seeing him like this. Chelsea aside was stunned and stood in situ. After realizing what she had done, she started to scream in horror, too.
The platform was in chaos.
Meanwhile, Alden and I stood high above. He clutched my hand tightly, seemingly in lingering fear.
Once again, he saved me.
Í held his hand back, and we left the platform together.
Chapter 9
