pressing my fingers against the three wound in his dead flesh.
His blood was dark and thick, he didn’t bleed like humans. His blood was gummous.
I was sure he wasn ’t an illusion; he had survived, he was an immortal. It would be impossible for a human being to escape that ambush.
For the first time I understood that being a vampire had some pros and immortality was one of them.
“ In a few hours I’ll be totally recovered”, he said, while removing the three bullets from his chest, only with his fingers. He contorted his face in pain after removing the bullets.
The bullets fell on the floor, clinking.
When I looked into his dark eyes, they changed its color; now his eyes became light-gray and there were dark rings around them.
His teeth sprung slowly. He needed to show up his true nature by doing that.
I faced his light grey eyes, without fear. It occurred to me that his supernatural look was even more irresistible than his human face.
How could a creature from the darkness be dreadful and beautiful at the same time ?
I interrupted my thoughts after I had heard what he said.
“ You’re in danger!” He was so worried.
“ What should I do? They’ll certainly come after me, and you’re also in danger.” I deduced, watching his face.
I hadn ’t realized that I was much concerned about him, instead of myself.
I wouldn’t forgive myself if something bad could happen to him again.
“ You’ll have to come with me.” He stared at my eyes. “You shall behave like a human, but you can’t do everything they do.” Eros warned me, with a harsh voice.
“ Where are we going?” I stared at him, confused.
“ We are going to the place where I came from” he communicated, looking up at the stars in the night sky.
I watched his gloomy face.
“ We are going to our planet.” he said and turned to see my face.
“ Your father is there. I came to Earth to take you to him.” His voice seemed apathetic.
“ All this scares me.” I confessed and closed my eyes, shaking my head.
“ Neptune is our planet, there’s no danger for us there. And if you stay here… they’ll try to kill you.” he said, afflicted.
“ I can’t leave my mother.” I said, looking at the floor.
“ It will be just for a while.” he insisted.
“ She needs me.” I insisted.
“ Your father needs you too.”
“ Why didn’t he come to see me instead of ordering you?” I asked, and saw his face which was very serious.
“ When he figured out about you, it was too late. Your father, by being our master, he needs to recover his energy and the only way he managed to do that would be to sound asleep for a long time.”
“ Can’t he come back to Earth as soon as he wakes up?” I asked.
“ He wants you by his side… in ‘ Neptune ’”, he said, softly, touching my cheek. “As long as you’re with him, your mother won’t be aware of anything, she will be sleeping profoundly.”
“ What will you do with her?” I was frightened.
I panicked , afraid that something crucial could happen to my mother.
“ Trust me.” he said, friendly.
It was impossible not to trust him.
After a few seconds of silence , his supernatural vampire aspect metamorphosed into an owl and it flew away.
I looked at him, surprised, by watching his transformation.
That was him all the time, the owl that stood almost every night on my window. That was him protecting me.
Now I could understand why he was fond of owls, reading books about them.
I remembered that day in which Christian had burned that owl.
That was him ; he was there, not in a human appearance, but in a bird’s aspect. And so he had came back to school, on the next day, with his hand bandaged, due to the burn on his hand.
Every time he surprised me more with his mysteries; when everything seemed revealed and clear to me, something unexpected always happened.
CHAPTER 30
My mother was sleeping and her window was open. She couldn’t imagine
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