Chance’s pov
A couple of hours earlier
I was the last one still at the office where I’ve been working since I was 16. I always worked late into the night because I needed the money to move out to get my own place, not because I didn’t get along with my parents. No we were a tight knit family but I wanted to live independently and didn’t want to be dependent on anyone else. It will be beneficial for when I meet my mate, we’ll have somewhere private to hang out but my wage is rubbish for someone who didn’t go to college after finishing school. I got decent grades when I left school but I didn’t want to go to college or university. It wasn’t that I wasn’t capable, I just didn’t think it was for me and was the reason why I looked for work and got this job. I’ve been stuck in this job ever since. I haven’t even made enough for a deposit on a flat as I don’t get to save much as I have to pay my way. When my parents were alive, they didn’t want me sponging off them and since I had no plans to go to college, they expected me to contribute to the bills which I was ok with. At least they weren’t forcing me to get a higher education to study something they wanted me to study. I had a choice.
After their deaths, they left everything to me, the house, the car, money, everything was mine so I didn’t need to get my own place anymore. However, I continued to work the long hours and took on extra work otherwise I’d start missing bill payments and could lose the house. I can’t allow that to happen. It’s the house I grew up in. If my parents were alive, it would still be theirs and would stay in the family for eternity unless they decided to buy a new place. Now I want to keep it, it reminds me of them and I feel close to them even though I know they are gone. It’s like they are here with me.
When they died, I was devastated. I never expected to ever have to bury them. They were Vampires like me. It’s unusual for Vampires to ever die as they are difficult to kill. I don’t even know where to begin on killing one of my own and have no interest in doing so but someone around here does. It started a couple of months ago, people began to disappear and they didn’t return unless they were dead but it wasn’t just people disappearing. People were being murdered in their home or in town. Some were found in the streets with their throats slit or puncture marks on their necks like the kind a Vampire would make. This made everyone cautious and never trusting of anyone as no one knew who was responsible, the police was full of Vampires so they knew it was the doing of a Vampire or some kind of supernatural being who left the same puncture marks. They are searching for the killer but had found nothing yet or there would be news of it and the murders would have stopped but they haven’t. More and more people are dying. I’m afraid I will be next.
I don’t know why they took my parents, my parents didn’t have any enemies that I knew of and hadn’t had any altercations with anyone so why would they be murdered? The killer or killers must have a sick mind who find it thrilling to witness murder and commit it. It makes me cringe, I will never understand it. I’m not a killer, I would never hurt anyone unless it was to defend myself or someone I cared about which I’ve never had to do. I’ve never had the opportunity, no one has ever wanted to hurt me or anyone I know. I never had the chance to defend my parents, I didn’t even know they were in danger. I was working late one night a month ago and when I came home, I found them dead in their bed. Someone had broken in and murdered them, the house was a mess. I knew something was wrong the moment I stepped in when the front door was left wide open. My whole world broke into a million pieces. The loss of my parents is the worst thing I have ever been through. What I came home to that night, will always haunt me for the rest of my existence. An eternity if I never die. It was unbearable, I didn’t think I’d be able to go on but I did because I knew that one day, I would meet someone special and they would take the pain away. We would build our own family and protect it at all costs.
I was worried that the ship had sailed for ever meeting my soul mate as I was 26 and mate less. Everyone other Vampire I knew around my age or younger was already in a relationship but not me. The humans were mostly single, they were being young and free, going from one person to the next in a short amount of time. They knew nothing of mates. They were care free and knew nothing of the dangers of the world. They knew nothing of the supernatural beings living among them. Most were harmless but some like the serial killer on the lose was one they should be cautious about but they had no idea so how could they be?
I enjoyed work, it kept my mind focused and made me forget what I had lost for a little while. It helped me keep going when I had no one to share my life with. I was alone. Yeah I had friends who I saw from time to time but I had no one waiting for me at home anymore and I hated it. I want to meet my mate already, I want to be happy again.
By the time I was done for the today, I went to look for Andy who is the caretaker, I’ve known him for 10 years since I started working here. He is also my best mate and has always been there for me when I needed him. He is single too but by choice. He decided not to wait for his mate and got into a relationship with another Vampire a few years ago then regretted it when they broke up. Now he’s decided to just wait to meet his mate like me whenever that will be. Hopefully soon for the both of us.
“Hi Chance,” Andy greeted me when I found him mopping the kitchen floor. He had dark grey overalls on with a cap with the office logo on that covered his short brown hair.
“Hi Andy, I was just heading out,” I replied.
“Oh you’re done for the day? I’ll be done in around an hour,” Andy yawned. His black eyes looked tired. I knew I was and couldn’t wait to get home to bed. “I’ll see you tomorrow,”
“Bye,” I said before going back to my office cubicle to switch off the computer and grab my stuff before heading out.
No one was around. It was to be expected this late at night. It was nearly 2am. I had to walk across the road to get to the car park to my car.
I knew something wasn’t right the minute I stepped foot to cross the road. I could sense someone behind me but I didn’t look back, I continued walking, I quickened my pace. Once I was across the road, I had to walk around the corner to the middle of the road where the car park was.
Before I reached the corner, I turned back to see a couple of hooded people heading towards me. I didn’t have time to blink before they were in front of me and I realised they weren’t human as no human could move that fast. I had nowhere to run to or any way of defending myself when there was more of them than me. It would have been foolish to attempt it. I turned back but one of them was standing behind me, I turned to the left and the same thing. I turned to the right and again the same thing. I was caged in. I was in deep trouble with no way out of it.
“Let me pass,” I said but none of them budged a muscle and I was met with silence. I knew this was it, I was going to die and join my parents having never met my mate. I kept looking around for any signs I could escape but there were none. I couldn’t see their faces clearly because of the dark but their height and build told me they were men.
Suddenly, one of the men took a blade out of their jacket. I had no time to react as the next thing I knew, the blade was plunged into my lower stomach and all I could feel was pain as blood began pouring out.
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