Chapter 8

Emma's PoV. 

"He-y, what was that?" 

"I don't know, I'll talk to you later." I speak before hanging up. I threw my phone into my pocket and went towards the direction of the voice.

"THIS IS HOW YOU DO YOUR WORK??" I see a tall man shouting on one of my servants. 

My servant is looking down, crying. I immediately walked to them.

The tall man has red eyes. He must be Royal Jack. 

I remember, Miranda told me that Royal Jack is kinda sadistic. He has even killed three servants till now.

"Royal Jack." I speak as I reach at an appropriate distance. 

He turns his gaze towards me and I see his eyes burning in red color. 

"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU NOW!?" He shouted at me. I lean my head back a little, he's too loud.

"I'm the New Servant Manager." I speak looking at him. He looks at me with an uninterpretable emotion in his eyes.

"I'm so-rr-y, Roya-l Jack." The servant speaks.

Rather than accepting the apology, he pushes her to the wall. She hisses in pain and more tears start to fall out of her eyes.

Okay, this is unacceptable. 

"You can't treat any of my servants like this, Royal Jack." I speak.

He jerks his head to face me and I can see his eyes have become even more brighter. But at this point of time, I care the least about this shit.

"What did you just say?" He asks, more like challenging me to say those words again.

"You heard me at first but still if your ears aren't working properly, I can say it again for you." I spat, winning the challenge. 

He clenches his jaw. I see his eyes turning to the shade of black and his long fangs pulling off. 

And I am mentally laughing at his childish act, he thinks he can hurt me.

"YOU ARE DEAD!" He shouted at me and unknowingly his voice is much heavier now.

I'm ready too, vampire.

I close my eyes and open it again. I feel my head heat up.

"JACK!!" Just as I'm about to control his mind, someone whose voice is familiar to me, interferes. 

I turn around and see King approaching us.

"You two, leave." He speaks, looking at Jack. His face doesn't show any sign of emotion, he's just staring at Royal Jack.

I move to my servant and wrap her one arm around my shoulder. 

Before going away, I look back at Royal Jack one last time and he's already looking at me with his eyes full of hatred. 

'Congratulations, you just made an enemy on the very first day!' 

( **Next day** )

The sun is setting, the sky looks beautiful. 

I'm sitting on the Palace's garden grass since I don't have anything to do. My hair is flying in this cold breeze. 

Though it's my second day, I guess I'm really fitting in this job. If we ignore his tantrums!

The servants are doing great, I'm glad that some of them opened up. Some of them still look at me like I'll eat them up but can't blame them. What else can I expect from the servants of a Palace?

They all, correction, we all are still lucky that we were born in this time. The past years were horrible for human history, the worst was experienced by the servants and pet slaves. I'm glad that the kings have banned this pet slave practice, but I know in some parts of the world it still happens. 

Talking about Royal Jack, I didn't see him after that little incident. God knows where he went. 

When I told Miranda about what happened, she got worried and asked me to stay away from him as much as possible. 

Miranda and my bonding is becoming stronger. She is really cool and I got to know that she's married. She has a daughter who is twelve years old. But when I asked her about how she became a vampire, she immediately walked away saying that she's busy. I knew she was lying but I can understand her not trusting me with this.

I can say that Aliza and I have become friends.

Yesterday, she accidentally threw coffee on me and became sick worried as if I won't live any longer. She forcefully took me to her room and wiped the coffee off me. She even insisted me to remove my clothes and hand them to her so she could wash them and hand me back, but I can't let a Royal do my work! 

She's cute and funny. She told me about some things which she and King used to do when they were children and I came to know that King has not always been like this, cold and arrogant. He was polite and kind as per her but I hardly doubt it.

I had minimal interaction with him and whenever I had, he was either shouting at me or ignoring me. Today in the morning, he shouted at me because I was walking.

It's like he's intentionally picking up fights on me. 

"What are you doing here?" I jump because of the sudden loud interference. I don't know for how long he'll keep showing like this. I close my eyes to calm my body and turn around. He's looking at me with no expression on his face. 

"I have nothing to do right now so I'm sitting here and enjoying nature." I speak.

I wait for him to speak but he doesn't utter anything. He's just standing, though his eyes look different, brighter than usual. He's probably thinking of something to argue about. Several seconds passed but he stayed still, no words, no movements. 

"Come, join me."

He immediately scoffs in irritation.

"You aren't lucking enough that I'll sit with you." He shouts.

'See, always shouting!'

I snigger at his statement. 

"It's fine," 

 "At least I'm lucky enough to hear you." I said sarcastically and turned my head back to see the sun drowning. 

I feel a whoosh of wind behind me. I turn around and he's gone. Good. I didn't want my sunset moment to ruin.

He really acts as a complete asshole sometimes. I see my watch, half past seven. The royals usually have their dinner at eight o'clock. 

After a few more minutes of enjoying the cold breeze and the sunset, I stand up from my place and move inside the palace. As I land in the kitchen, I see the servants are done with the cooking. They are taking the cutlery and cooked food to the dining hall. 

I move to the dining hall as well. I spot Miranda already standing at the corner, I walk to her.

After ten minutes, the royals start to come.

How ironic it is that only four people live in this huge Palace. My poor servants clean this whole damn thing so they could just walk from their room to the dining hall, or from their room to the parking lot. I hardly notice them coming out of their rooms.

I don't know much about their parents, I mean the previous King and Queen. 

As per the historical books, King Xavier's family, the Starkborns, has ruled over for more than four thousand years before King Edward came to show. King Edward's father, the Andrews Swordsman, was a very powerful vampire. He declared a war against the Starkborns, although the Starkborns won in the battlefield but King Justin Starkborns (father of King Xavier) gave one-third part of the world to King Andrews Swordsman, because he was impressed by his determination and honesty. 

But in the books, it's nowhere written that how King Justin Starkborns and his Queen, Melissa Starkborns died. 

The hall immediately goes silent, I look up and see King entering in. 'The impact he has!' 

As he sits on his chair, the servants start to serve all of them.

"The new manager will serve me."