"You sure you can manage?" I asked Luna for the hundredth time today. How can I not when she has an ankle fracture? Not to forget those scratches. When she wore her frock, her knees looked like shit completely scratched, patched up with band aids.

"I'm fine Luke," she smiled.

I opened my door and went to her side to help her get out. She already got a walking stick, which is better than her walking with nothing.

"Here," I lifted her up by waist, handing over the walking stick.

"Thank you," she mumbled positioning herself in the stick. I reluctantly let go of her waist.

Why does she have to be so stubborn?

Why couldn't she accept my offer and take rest?

"Bye Luke," she smiled.

Hell, how could she smile when she is all banded up like this?

"Call me if I'm late but don't leave without me." She chuckled and nodded. She still has my other phone, of course she refused it but I am more stubborn than her.

Dropping Luna at the bakery, I left to the vampire village to investigate on the killing case. All of them had a pattern, all of them were stabbed somewhere in their stomach like they fell onto the sharp end of jasper wood.

The killer should have set up a trap long back before the victim could even go there, that's why there is no scent. And for that the killer must have been observing the victim for long else how could they set the trap so perfect?

The killer planned everything, all of them bled to death in a place where they won't get any help. The sooner I solve this case the better. But the problem is I have no clue about the killer. If they killed any ministers or their family members, we can say it's someone who hates the ministers like me.

This is completely different, all the people died have no resemblance or relations. Maybe they have and we don't know about it yet. And that is what I'm intending to find today.

"Carter," I said as soon as my best friend picked up my call.

"Send me the address of the dead vampires, I'm here at the village to investigate."

"On the way."

"Good," I cut the call before he could talk some bullshit about Luna. I don't know why he hates Luna. I've been with people before too but he hasn't said anything about that. But this? I wonder what's he thinking for him to hate her.

Carter mailed me all the address. I went to the first house that's near me. It was a female victim; I wonder what the killer had to do with her.

"Your majesty," an old vampire opened the door.

"You know the reason for my arrival?"

He shook his head looking at his foot, no one will dare to look at the king's eye while speaking. "Are you here because of my daughter's death?"

"Yes, and I need details."

We went inside his house and he started answering all the questions I have.

This is going to be an excruciatingly time-consuming process.

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By the time I was done with the fourth victim the time was 12.30. From what I've heard for the victim's family, all of the people who died fed on humans and once they are done, they killed that person. As if that's not enough, they had human slaves, toys for them to enjoy.

They haven't left a single reason for the humans not to hate them. Now that I think, there's a huge possibility for the killer to be a human. Someone who's been affected by these dead vampires.

What I don't understand is that why they are on a killing spree. If a person is affected by the vampire, then they should only kill them. But that's not the case here, it's a single person who killed everyone.

And to kill a vampire with jasper wood, I don't think any human is brave enough to get involved with vampires. Not to mention the fact how costly jasper wood is, you have to get involved with people worse than your worst nightmare to get them in black.

I called Carter to investigate on the remaining people and updated him with my assumptions. Once he is done, we might able to find something out from those details.

By the time I went back to Luna's bakery, it was five past one. And there she was, my mate waiting for me. She waited, that means something right?

"Come," I helped her get up.

I inhaled a pile of air to get my daily doses of roses aka Luna's sent. To my dismay, she didn't smell like roses, something's different. I sniffed the air again; it wasn't her regular smell. While helping her sit, I sniffed her neck and she had someone else's smell on her, a vampire's smell. It felt like someone deliberately sprayed their scent on her.

Vampires do that to mark on their prey to make sure that no one else touches them. Shit, realization hit me like a tornado. A vampire marked their scent on Luna, to make her their prey.

What the heck, I already have way too much problems on me.

For a vampire to mark their scent, they should bite you even if it's a small bite, they should bite to mark their scent.

Is Luna hiding something from me? Doesn't matter, there's no way I'm leaving Luna alone from now, I'll also make sure that she reeks of me and no one dares to touch her.

Is this the work of those leeches?

Are they trying to kill her because they saw her with me?

Heck, why haven't I thought about it.

Shit... Shit... Shit... I should have been more careful.

"Luna, did something strange happen today?"

"No, why?" she smiled.

Hell, she's as clueless as a new born baby.

"You look happy," I lied. She indeed looks happy but that's not the reason I asked it for.

"Yes, what are we doing today from my bucket list?" she giggles looking at me with those doe bule eyes that I could never say no to.

"We are going shopping; we need to update your wardrobe."

Now she would argue saying she don't need anything.

"Can't we order those online? Come on, who'll waste their time shopping?" she huffed.

Wait what?

"Did you just agree to what I said?" I asked her again.

She nodded sheepishly; hell, this girl would be the death of me.

"Can't we like go for a theme park or something?"

Hell no, "With this leg no way baby, think of something else." Her face scrunched in annoyance. Cute.

"We'll go for a movie then," her face brightened as if she found out some master idea. My poor wallflower.

"Movie it is then."