Hi everyone! Here's the very first chapter of Enraptured! Y'all gotta listen to the song up top, it totally fits the mood of this chapter XD It's been more than a week since summer started and I've been dying because I have so much stuff that I moved out of my apartment since I'm moving to a new apartment this coming fall .-. It's sooo hard to find space in my parents' house to put all of my clothes in lol Anyways on to the story! Please don't forget to comment, vote, and share this book to friends!

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"You're too late." his smooth voice said disappointedly. Calloused fingers caressed my smooth skin while wiping away the tears that fell.

"I'm sorry." I replied. "I'm so sorry." I said again, a sob escaping from my chest. "I'd choose you a million times over again Daemon." I clutched his shirt tightly, afraid that he might disappear.

"I'll do anything just to have you back."I whispered.

"Then die with me."

My eyes fluttered open at the end of the dream. I wiped the streaks my tears left down my cheek. It's been almost a year and a half since that traumatic night. I lost Daemon, and when I finally realized how much I love him, it was too late. I thought the nightmares would have stopped after all this time, yet they persisted. Guilt, sadness, and disappointment greet me each morning I wake up. Yet, once my day starts I force myself to forget these feelings.

I grabbed my phone and saw that it was six in the morning already. I would've loved to go back to sleep but that usually wasn't the case with these nightmares. It was better to be awake than to be in slumber where I am vulnerable to my trauma. As I got out of bed, I checked my forearm for any marks. The dark intricate markings all over my forearm glared at me and throbbed in pain. I haven't seen nor heard from Angelo since he took Daemon's place as well as the new demon that marked me.

It was surprising that life had been seemingly "quiet" despite the warning my cousin Ethan bestowed upon me on the night of my graduation. He was confused as well but regardless of it all, I struggled my way to moving on despite my doubts of being able to love again.

Months after I moved to San Francisco, Brittany suggested that we move in together and get ourselves an apartment. The prices for an apartment in San Francisco were overpriced. However, Brittany's parents were able to help pay our monthly rent. I felt bad, so I decided to work as a barista at Starbucks on campus while attending university.

I missed Los Angeles. Mom decided to stay in order to be closer to Dad instead of moving with me to Los Angeles. I was worried that she would get hurt because of Angelo since he was now the new King of the Nether Realm. I haven't heard nor seen him for months. I was grateful yet it left a throbbing scar in me because he was my best friend for so long. I don't think about him often but when I do, the betrayal hits my heart like it was still yesterday. He claimed to love me but he only used love as a means to an end for power.

As for Teddy and Daniel, they decided to leave Los Angeles with me. After learning that Brittany was coming with me. They decided to leave too. They enrolled in the nearest community college and went to school while working at the same time. Eventually, we all lived in the same apartment while in college.

"Yo Celeste, we ran out of eggs and milk, we should get groceries soon." A voice called outside my bedroom. Ethan barged into my room in his boxers, toothbrush in mouth.

I rolled my eyes, "Do you have to walk around the apartment in boxers all the time?"

Ethan pulled out the toothbrush from his mouth and grinned. "I worked hard for this body cuzzo, I gotta show it off to the neighbors every chance I could get!" he replied sticking his butt out the window.

"I'm doing them a favor by giving them a view!"

I couldn't help but laugh at his huge ego. I was thankful for my cousin Ethan for just existing. He was the last of my father's side of the family to exist after the rest of Medio Terrae perished in Chinvat. At first, I was suspicious as to where his loyalty lies. However over time, he proved to me that he didn't have bad intentions after the events that followed my senior year of high school. After all, he was the one that warned me to leave Los Angeles the day of my graduation.

A year and a half ago

On the night of my graduation, I clearly remembered rushing to my old apartment, my mother standing behind me with tears in her eyes. I was leaving her so soon. "Can't she leave in two days?" she begged Ethan.

Ethan and I both looked at each other uneasily. We were racking our brains to make up the perfect lie that my mother would believe in order for me to leave Los Angeles. My mother was suspicious on Ethan's identity, but I assured her that he was in fact my cousin from Dad's side.

"It's imperative that I leave, Mom because I found out that my orientation is actually tomorrow in San Francisco and they require us to stay there to prepare us for college life and classes." I easily lied. Guilt and sadness shot through my stomach as I finished what was left to pack. My mother didn't ask any more information about my half assed lie which I was so grateful for. Ethan started putting my suitcases in his car leaving me and my mother alone. "Come with me to San Francisco, Mom." I begged her. She shook her head.

"I want to be closer to your father here." she replied sadly. I was afraid that Angelo would hurt her if she stayed in Los Angeles. "I'll visit you in San Francisco once you're all settled in." she reassured me. I simply nodded my head.

A honk blared outside, breaking the silence that emitted between me and my mother. The new mark on my forearm started to burn once more reminding me of the urgency that I needed to leave Los Angeles soon. I subconsciously pulled my sleeve down to hide the mark. I gave my mother a hug for the longest time before I left. I hopped inside Ethan's Camry and as he started the car, I saw my mother watching me leave with anguish in her eyes. I mouthed an 'I love you' to her before Ethan sped away into the night.

I urged myself to cry but my tears never came to console me. Ethan assured me that no harm will come to my mother or my friends who decided to stay because he sent people that he trusts to watch over her with protective wards. Any paranormal creature that my mother would encounter, would die. I asked him how he knew these people and he replied with the fact that they used to be a part of Medio Terrae but they decided to leave because they no longer wanted to be a part of what Medio Terrae believed in.

I was determined to survive the next chapter of my life. If leaving the city I grew up in means safety for the people I love, then so be it. I accepted my fate that my identity as the Bridal Fruit would never leave me. After seven hours of driving later, Ethan and I checked into the cheapest hotel we could find in San Francisco. We endured a couple of nights staying in this hotel with its horrible customer service and stained carpets looking for a decently priced apartment. Lucky for us, Brittany offered to pay for an apartment that her parents owned after she learned about my departure from Los Angeles. She later followed us to San Francisco to live with me and Teddy and Danny followed suit.

Present

I remembered being filled with unease the first few months I moved in. I waited for the demon that staked his claim on me to appear just like Daemon did in my dreams. Yet, they never came. Ethan used protective wards all over our apartment and handed me and my friends a protective amulet that wards away any paranormal creature.

I'll admit that I became too comfortable. I stopped looking behind my back in paranoia of anyone hiding in the shadows watching me. I began to enjoy my subjects in school and I decided to follow the pre-med route. I've always dreamed to become a heart surgeon and to be so skilled that I'm able to perform free heart surgeries to those in need. It was a dream I hoped that would never be taken away regardless of the danger that I had to deal with in my life.

I finally arrived at my apartment with takeout Chinese food from a couple blocks away. It was a long day of working at the university's coffee shop, and another long night of studying for my physiology midterm in a week and a half.

Once I stepped foot inside the apartment I was swarmed with the grabby hands of my starving friends who were eager to start eating. I laughed at their eagerness and took off my jacket and set it down on the couch nearby. As my starving friends including my cousin devoured the delicious greasy Chinese food, I retired to my room to lay down in exhaustion.

However, before I could dive into my bed's comforting arms, a bouquet of blue roses laid on the pillows innocently. My heartbeat quickened and I began to shake in fear and disbelief.

There was only one person in my life who gave me blue roses.

Who do you guys think gave her the blue roses? <.<