"Come in." I heard his smoky voice from inside his cabin. I breathed out slowly before opening the door.

As I entered the room, my eyes scanned through the cabin only to find it empty. But just when I was about to leave the room, I felt a presence right behind me.

On turning around I clashed into Manik's chest and as a reflex he held my waist. I could feel thousands of spark erupting within me but I let that feeling slip and unwillingly backed off.

"Wher- Gasp!" I gasped in surprise when he out of the blue pushed me against the wall.

Before I could open my mouth to speak he slammed his lips on mine, making me go weak on my knees. He kissed me like a hungry animal. It hurt and yet I didn't push him away.

If this satisfies him then be it.

I tried holding him but he pinned both my hands on the wall and continued torturing my lips. Finally he let go off my lips and hands. I breathed in heavily in need of air.

"Manikk." I breathed out as I looked at him, panting heavily. And one look into his venom red eyes was enough to send chills down my spine.

"You are in high need of blood." I said and sighed as I unbuttoned two of my upper shirt buttons and shifted my hair to one side. He pressed his body more into me and dug his head in my neck.

I craned my neck to give him proper access as he peppered a trail of soft kisses on my neck. I closed my eyes sinking into my feelings. The very next moment I felt his sharp fangs piercing into my neck skin.

I hissed in pain and tightened my hold around his shoulder as I tried to suppress the pain. But the pain just grew unbearable.

And yet I didn't push him away because I didn't want to. I let him suck my blood. After sucking a bit of my blood, he all of a sudden pulled his fangs out of my skin, making my pain double.

I suddenly felt cold when he backed off. I opened my eyes as I leaned on the wall for support. He must have got back to his senses. Sigh!

I saw him frown as he wiped his mouth. "Nandini why didn't you push me away?" I saw him fist his hands.

"You are craving for blood and if my blood satisfies you then you can suck it out as much as you want." I said as I breathed heavily. The pain was getting unbearable. I faked a smile, trying to show him that I was okay.

If it's for him, I don't care even if I get hurt. He means the world to me and I can do anything for him.

"Nandini this way you will get hurt and I can't let that happen." He said as he stepped away from me.

"Manik I am fine." I said as I neared towards him but he turned around.

"Nandini it's not fine. I hurt you yet again. You are not safe with me around." The helplessness in his voice made my heart hurt.

"I am your bride Manik and our stars are terribly crossed even you know that. And trust me with you I feel the safest." I tried explaining.

"Nandini I know you are lying." His voice was low.

Snaking my arms around his waist, I back hugged him. "Manik I am really okay but if you leave me I won't be able to survive." Tears formed in my eyes even with just the thought of him leaving me and I didn't even realize when it began to sway down my eyes.

Manik held my hand tightly which were locked on his waist and it gave me a sort of assurance that he was not going to leave me.

"Nandini I am sorry." His voice came out as a mere whisper but I heard it. "I am sorry for being such a jerk. I am sorry for hurting you. I am sorry for loving you. I am sorry for being a vampire. I am really sorry." I could figure out he was crying.

I immediately loosened my hold around him and made him face me. I saw his eyes filled with tears and it hurt to see him like that.

"Manik I can't see your tears." I said as I held either side of his face and looked at him with my tearful eyes. Instantly he engulfed me in his warm embrace as he cried.

"I am sorry." He whispered against my skin, hiccupping.

"Manik I am really fine." I whispered.

My world started with him and ended with him. I was ready to give up on everything for him.

In the middle of the dark night, "Nooo." I screamed and woke up, hyperventilating.
It was just a nightmare. Nightmare. I tried making myself understand but nothing helped. Drop by drop tears swayed down my eyes and my heart felt empty.

My mum abandoned me when I was small. My dad never acknowledged my presence. All the people that I loved left me and what if he left me too?

I was getting paranoid every passing second and right then I was pulled into a warm embrace and his soothing voice hit his ears. "Nandini until my last breath I am not going to leave you." He said, softly, patting my head.

"You are my everything Nandini." He rubbed my back and held me firmly in his arms.

With every second I registered his presence and I calmed down. My breathing got normal and I found the sound of his heartbeat soothing and musical. Listening to his heartbeat I fell asleep.

He loved me and I loved him but our love story wasn't this simple. I was a human and he was a vampire. We belonged to two different worlds and although our stars were terribly crossed, the world we lived in were against us.

"Manik I will never approve her as my sister in law." Soha, his little sister scowled. I could feel a knot form in my chest then in my throat. Why couldn't anyone for once love me?

"I don't need your approval. She is my wife and that's it." Manik said as he slipped his right hand around my waist and pulled me closer.

"Manik you have to chose between the throne and her." His father's fierce voice reached my ears and my heart shivered.

"The answer is simple. I chose her." He said, firmly and tears threatened to trickle down from my eyes. How did I get so lucky?

"And I don't need any of your approval to love her." He said before holding my hand and pulling me out of the house.

The throne meant so much to him and yet he chose me. The tears that I had been holding back fell drop by drop from my eyes. I felt guilty. I jerked his hand away,"Why did you do it?" I cried, stepping back.

"Nandini what do you mean?" Through my blurry vision, I saw him take a step towards me.

"I know what the throne means to you and yet you-" My voice died in my throat and I cried harder.

In a swift moment he caged me in his arms and pressed his lips against mine. His palm splayed across my back, pulling me closer. His other hand cupped the back of my head and involuntarily my one hand made it's way towards the back of his nape, pulling him closer.

He wasn't rushing. He rained my lips with slow deliberate kisses and he took his time exploring my mouth, making me feel wanted with every gentle stroke of his. My tears had mingled with his lips, creating rather an alluring slightly salty taste.

Trust me when I say nothing tastes as addictive as him, I mean it.

He slowly let go off my lips when he was sure I had calmed down. Looking into my eyes, he gently caressed my tears strained cheek with his thumb. "The throne is nothing in front of you. I love you and all I need is you. You are my everything Nandini."

For me, he was my everything. No matter whatever differences were in between us that never mattered to me.

"I look fine." I said to myself, looking in the mirror. For the first time I was going to attend a business party with him as his wife and each passing second I was getting anxious and nervous.

Right then the washroom door clicked open and he came out, looking all dashing. I looked at him through the mirror and I couldn't help but get lost in him.

I was so lost in myself that I didn't even realize when he had reached me. His hands gently held my bare waist, erupting thousand of sparks within me. His hot breath fanning against my bare shoulder wasn't helping either.

I leaned more into his touch and I could feel my heart beat increasing. He gently shifted my hair to one side and looked at my bruised neck. I saw him frown.

"Manik-" I started, but he cut me off in middle.

"It's left a scar." He said before gently running his hands on my neck and the tingling sensation just wouldn't stop. He then dug his head in my neck and I craned my neck to give him access as he gently dropped a few kisses there.

"Manik we will be late." I however managed to say and he rested his chin on my shoulder, making a bad face.

"Let's just not go."

"But you said it's important."

"Nothing is more important than you."

"This won't work on me Mr. Malhotra." I said as I stepped away from him and he made a bad face.

"Let's go."

We were living happily and I even had started believing in happily ever after but it was not our happily ever after, it was the silence before the storm.

"Nandini you are okay right?" I heard his troubled voice from the other side of the phone. I could figure out he was running somewhere.

"Yea I am okay but what's the matter?" I got tensed.

"Nandini where are you right now?" He asked, panicked.

"I am-" My voice died down my throat and a soft wail escaped my lips when I felt a sharp pain on my abdomen. I was stabbed from the back. The phone I had been holding dropped down to the ground. Weakness overpowered my senses and my vision got blurry. Not long after I fell down on the ground and my whole body felt numb with pain and I could feel my eyes dropping.

A lone tear escaped my eyes when I realized I would never be able to see him again.

"Your majesty the work's done." I heard a voice say and I knew it was the doing of Manik's father.

After that I don't know what happened. I blacked out. May be this is the end of me.

Our stars were terribly crossed but if only our situations had been different may be we would have had our own fairytale.

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So this is a two shots and the next shot most probably will be updated by this week ❤. Do drop your reviews.

I wrote this in such a rush. I just hope it wasn't a mess.