Chapter 12

Emma's PoV 

"Emma," 

"You've always asked me how I became a vampire." I turn to her.

"My ex-husband was a maniac. He used to beat me and rape me!" 

"He even, twice, tried to rape his own daughter."

What!??

"My beautiful girl was just eight years old when he tried to bury her alive. I would've tolerated anything on me but when he started to torture my daughter, I couldn't take it." She says, tears start to pour out of her eyes.

Oh my God! My eyes widened in shock.

"So I took my child and ran away from that man and moved here, at Blackburn street."

"Before working in the Palace, I used to work at a small restaurant and there I met Adam." She says as she wipes off her tears.

I know Adam, he is her husband, with whom she's deeply in love. She is always talking about him.

"At first, I couldn't trust him, I was so afraid to trust anyone. But he stayed persistent. He took care of me." 

A dry smile forms on her face.

"And just when I thought I could live happily, my ex-husband came back to ruin everything." 

"He couldn't handle seeing me with someone else and he…" 

She inhales deeply before continuing. 

"He stabbed me and threw me in the forest to die." 

The hair of my skin straightens in shock. I feel my eyes wet. How can someone be so ferocious!?

"I died that day. And on the same day someone gave me life," 

She turns to me, her eyes are red because of crying.

"King Xavier." She speaks looking at me.

Huh!?

"King gave me the life I've always dreamt of. He turned me into a vampire."

"He asked me what happened and I spilled the truth." 

"The next moment King drained that crazy man to death." 

This is shocking, very shocking.

King saved her!? This is how she became a vampire and I was so stupid to think that some vampire would've hurted her and then turned into a vampire. 

"Since then I'm working here. In my 367 years of life I've ne-" 

"You told me you've been working here for the past 7 years." I cut her off. She looks at me and sighs. 

"That's what I used to tell everyone. I've been working here for the past 340 years." She speaks, leaving me in another absolute shock. I didn't know artificial vampires can live this long.

 But I'm so glad that the king killed her ex-husband. Mad men like him should not exist at all.

 And I'm happy that she's living the life she has always craved for. 

But one thing I don't understand...

"Why are you telling me everything now?" I ask.

"Because you're different from the rest." She says.

.

I knocked on his door with a tray in my one hand. It's a surprise my hands aren't trembling though my heart is racing at the top speed. 

He doesn't respond. 'Might be preparing to punish you.'

I knock again but still no response. 'He really is.' Shut up!

He is not responding, that means I should leave!? But leaving without any command is against the rules. 

I place a knock again and stare at the door blankly. But neither I hear him nor the door opens! 

Then I should just leave the meal on his table and head back. I nodded to myself and opened his gate gently. 

I move in and take a look all around but he's nowhere seen.

I walk and place the tray on the side table and move to the bathroom, but he's not even here. Where did he go? 

I move out of the bathroom and start to explore his room. 

Well, his bedroom just has a King-sized bed, a medium-sized side table attached to it, a huge screen, I guess TV just in front of the bed, almost a wall sized window at the opposite side of the door which has a very beautiful frame and a big shelf full of books at the corner of the window wall. Nothing impressive. 

But there's one thing that manages to catch my attention. His laptop on the bed!

I walk to the bed and sit on it, I take his laptop in my lap. It's open.

'It's unethical to look into someone's private things!' Ugh, please. It's so baiting right now!

But he's the King and he's already ready to punish me. Well, I'm sure my punishment would be doubled or maybe tripled if he'll see his laptop in my hands.

I sigh, and try my best to place it at it's previous place without taking a glance at it. 

But,

It's me and I saw the screen.

I see 'مزارع وشان' written on the top centre in big bold letters. It's Arabic. 

It means 'Wushan Farms' in English. I guess this is the document he needs to translate and share. 

I look up, should I help him? But he doesn't need my help.

I promptly look down and read a few lines of the file. It looks like a company's brochure. 

What should I do? He'll be back at any moment. Should I help him? Or should I pretend I never saw it? 

I nodded to myself and quickly took my phone out and connected it to his laptop to share the file.

The sharing hardly took twenty seconds, but these twenty seconds were too long for me.

I swiftly unconnect my phone and placed the laptop back on it's spot. Phew!

"What are you doing?" I freeze at my place as I hear his voice. My core jolts in reaction. 

Shit. Shit. Shit. 

"I… I was...umm" I stand up from his bed.

My god, think something Emma.

Playing a game on his laptop?

"Get out." He says as he comes and sits on the bed and takes the laptop in his hands. 

I breathe out before walking. Ass saved. Wait, isn't he punishing me? 

Woah, get out fast. I'm almost at the door when I hear him,

"Wait."