Chapter 28 Seductive Distractions

• Lucian smiled weakly, his eyes glimmering with a mix of determination and fear. “That's partially correct. My father, Marcus, was a very strong alpha wolf, and I was his only son and heir to his pack. His territory was far from here, very far from here, in a not-too-large village, and we were charged to protect all the people, humans, and wolves alike that lived in the territory from creatures who tasted blood, a job we did pretty fine for so many years until he came.”
• “Who came?” Adams asked, noticing the sudden shift in Lucian's demeanor.
• “A man, a strange-looking man, but he was no man. He was a blood-sucking demon, a vampire, and he had an unquenchable taste for blood that I haven't seen before. My father led the charge against this monster with his mighty pack and me by his side. We fought and attacked the creature with all we got, but he seemed an unstoppable force. He was untouchable, unkillable. I could have died that day as the creature's hands went through me and held my heart in my wolf form, and I was forced to turn back to human. I could feel his hand, its claws inside me. He was squeezing the life out of me, and I felt my heart was about to be pulled out of my chest. That's when my dad came to my rescue. He jumped on the monster from the back, biting him on his neck and separating his head from its body. We thought he was a regular vampire, and that the work had been done, but we were so wrong as he raised up again, and this time, his rage was clearly seen in his eyes. I have never seen such eyes in my life. They were filled with nothing but pain, anger, and death, and that's exactly what he brought on us all, Death. I watched as my father was torn to pieces, and the rest of his pack. He then went on slaughtering every single human and animal he found in the village, drinking them of their blood,” Lucian narrated, his voice trembling with the memories of that fateful night.