"Once again, I remind you, miss, our hotel rules." It was the bartender again. Like a shadow, he moved fast to Charlotte and just as fast he drew the blade to her throat. "As well as remind you that Mister Lucian is my boss, who I dearly respect and protect until death."
Charlotte felt it, of course she felt it, because that blade was boiling her skin like it was water. Her gorgeous white skin was turning red, almost bubbling up.
On the other hand, Damian didn't even notice the bartender moving. His eyes were wide open, he didn't even blink, and still he didn't catch it, he just appeared there without any sign or trace.
"Are you this horny, Charlotte?" Gerard's voice came from the back as he was still sipping on the whiskey calmly. "Crazy work in my opinion."
She realized it too, that she went over a line a bit… well, pretty much with her full-on attack on Lucian, and she immediately blushed but at the same time got a little frozen down and tense as she got up from him.
"I'm sorry!" She screamed as she pulled Lucian up like he was nothing but straw into her hug, but it was just worse because her grip on him was so firm that he felt like his bones were going to explode. "Your scent is so lovely I just lost my mind…" She whispered almost crying.
"Yeah, I got it, but… please let me breathe." Lucian whispered as he was fighting to not fucking faint from the power of her, and well, she did let go of him and finally he could catch his breath, but they just continued where they stopped.
"What a bitch…" Damian came again.
"Bitch?" Charlotte turned to him. "I'm not a bitch, you fucking human!" She raised her voice, and the atmosphere shifted again.
"Human? Lucian's a human too, you hate him too?" Damian asked with a cheeky smile on his face as he was staring into Charlotte's eyes.
"I only care for one human and that's Lucian… you are not a human but a fucking hunter who kills our species… I—"
"Stop arguing every single time, y'all been doing it for 2 straight years." Lucian suddenly spoke as he got himself together. "Can y'all at least once chill out?"
"Yes!" Charlotte again changed completely as she just turned and smiled at Lucian, while Damian shook his head but noticed something very interesting.
"Why are you dressed like this?" he asked as he looked at Lucian dressed in black suit, with a black cane with golden carving on it and symbols of his company, in his hand.
He looked fresh, too fresh especially with the signet ring on his finger.
"I'm going to the Midnight Auction." The moment he said it, Gerard at the counter almost spit out his whisky, and even Damian was looking at him in a mind-blown way at what he just said.
"You can't go!" Charlotte spoke again, but her voice this time wasn't that wet and full with love but more like a serious one. "Tonight is the—"
"I know what is tonight, that's why I'm going." He interrupted Charlotte, and before she could speak again, the bar door opened once again.
A woman came in dressed in a suit, she had long red hair and white skin, with brown eyes... Lucian's personal assistant.
"I got the budget report you asked for." She said as she pointed at the specific number on the paper, but she too, as she stood beside Lucian, was closing her eyes and was sniffing the air around him, feeling the desire to bite into his neck.
Lucian actually noticed as he finished reading the number and was just staring at Vianna as her eyes were still closed and she… literally started moaning a bit… with her face turning red and blushing.
"Seriously, what's up with y'all vampires today? All of you just horny out of nowhere or what?" Damian asked as well everybody was looking at Vianna and she just got embarrassed as she looked at Lucian, and he was staring at her… and well, Charlotte's eyes too were looking at her, destroying her to death with those eyes.
"I-I'm sorry, I don't know what—"
"It's alright, don't apologize… I'm human after all, of course you thirst for my blood." Lucian said as he laughed and tapped her shoulder, but something was up.
Like everybody in here was kinda suspecting he did something because it never really happens, and Charlotte noticed it too. When she charged at Lucian, she felt something in the air, a scent coming from him, that just totally mind-controlled her into the need to bite him, to feel and taste his blood.
"Anyways, the numbers look good so goodbye everybody." He said with a smile, and with that he turned around, and as he did Charlotte was already in front of him.
"You are not going anywhere alone, especially to the auction." She said as she crossed her arms. "I'm going with you."
Lucian's reaction to it was visibly not welcoming as he sighed. "I am—"
"I'm going too."
"Me too." Damian and Gerard spoke as they were looking at Lucian, and he just got more frustrated with everything because going with this trio to somewhere was chaos on its own.
"What you want to buy though, another rune blade?" Charlotte asked as she now walked back to the counter to grab her jacket and asked the right question because Damian and Gerard too were thinking about that.
Like Lucian never really went out for auctions, maybe twice in a year and that was it, and only if something ancient caught his attention, but that was toor are he alway went to the black market or other merchants like himself to buy things.
"Oh, nothing crazy… just that vampire girl."
They all froze down as he said it, but it was more about the fact that he said it with the utmost ease and with a smile on his face, like it was nothing, just another ancient sword or a shield… but no, that was something much more powerful... too much.