48 Lonesome soul- Part 1 (1/2)

”Was it really necessary to go this far?” Warren asked with his hands folded against his chest while he leaned over the uneven wall.

”I think it is a very befitting punishment,” Nicholas replied, his entire front which was splattered with blood. Not his blood, but the blood of the man who was in front of him.

The man had only one of his arm chained while the other was unchained as the lord had driven the old, rusted saw he had been holding through the man's forearm, decapitating the arm away from his body. It resulted in the blood spluttering over the ground and on the Lord's white clean shirt and on his face which he now wiped with his hand.

”Ahh!! Ahh! Argh,” the half vampire suffered in pain at the loss of his hand.

”He looks to be in pain,” the Lord then murmured seriously and the tortured vampire looked up in rage.

”You dare look down at me?! You just wait, you fucker. You will have death worse than anything you have ever heard. Hell is waiting for you!” the man yelled in between the pan.

”This is hell,” the lord replied taking the pocket square from his pocket and wiping his face with it, ”You must be really delusional to think that heaven and hell exist. No one wonder you are a half vampire. Fear not, being a vampire you won't die this easily. But then you aren't a complete vampire which is why you will feel the sting of the iron slowly before your bones start melting and corroding just like this metal. Isn't that just wonderful,” he asked in delight.

”You fucking piece of-aah!” Nicholas jabbed the saw slowly over the man's arm as though he was grazing a knife over a cake which needed to be sliced.

”You have to be careful with what you speak. Or is it hard for you to comprehend the state you are in? Ah. Maybe you're still in shock. Let us give the man the required space,” Nicholas said to the guards and Warren, walking out of the cell while throwing the pocket square on the dirty ground which was stained with blood.

After reaching the mansion, Heidi hadn't got a wink of sleep. She kept turning in her bed until the moon was up high and finally she sat up to pour herself water in a glass. Taking few gulps from it, she got up to walk towards the open doors of the balcony. Standing at the frontier of the balcony she saw trees shake due to the wind, rustling against each other with a hush of whisper that disappeared in the wind that blew across the land.

Recollecting what happened at the soiree, she wondered why the man had attacked the lord. That wasn't the only thought though. She found the man to be extremely brainless to stab the lord when there were so many other vampires in the same room. May be he was trying for a surprise attack, she thought. Too bad the surprise didn't work for him. Warren and the Lord must have taken the man for questioning as she had seen the Lord take the man somewhere in to the forest. Thinking about the lord she wondered if he was alright. It reminded her of the night they had first met. She wondered if he was alright, after all she had seen stains of blood on his shirt before they had left the party. Unconsciously she worried for the man's health.

Still standing at the frontier she caught sight of figures moving closer to the mansion. It was Warren with Lord Nicholas. It seemed like they were talking about something serious as the lord had a serious look on his face while he spoke to Warren. Heidi was so used to looking at lord Nicholas smile that the face he currently adorned deterred her thoughts of what the Duke had asked her to do. It made her throat go dry at the expectation of what she was supposed to do. Luckily for her, standing afar, she missed the lord's blood stained clothes.

She didn't want to have murder on her hands, not that she would or could. No matter how angelic the lord seemed, it didn't mean he shared the same characteristics of an angel. The look on his face right now was a living proof of it. Before she could even try, she was sure she would be dead. And then there was the Duke she worried about. If she would go against him, God only knew what would happen to Howard or her. There was also her sister, Nora. No matter how rude or cruel she was to Heidi, she was still a sister who grew up with her. The thought of what happened at the Scathlok mansion scared her. It brought unwanted memories and she shut her eyes close tightly, hoping they would go away.