86 Stealing the forbidden fruit- Part 2 (2/2)

He didn't even need to steal the forbidden fruit from the orchard. The apple had fallen right in the palm of his hand and he had no plan to leave it, Nicholas thought seeing her look at him anxiously.

”Can I ask you something?”

”Anything,” he took her to the side so that they could sit.

”I read that vampires have cold skin with frozen heart. But yours, you have a warmer temperature and your heart beats too,” it wasn't that it was always warm, the temperature of his skin felt like any humans skin would.

”The one you speak of holds true for the average vampires. It is different for the pure blooded vampires,” he stated, leaning his back against the wall, ”There is a reason why people fear the purebloods. Apart from living the longest out of all the races, and the fact that it would take more than a stake to kill us, some of us are gifted.”

”Gifted?”

”You could consider it to be an ability which differs from one pureblood to another. Sometimes...even the one who is gifted would mistake it to be something else. Not much research has been done on it, or rather you could say people aren't aware of it. It's secret not everybody shares.”

”Are you one of them then?”

”Curious little thing, aren't you. If I told you it wouldn't be a secret anymore now, would it?” he chuckled.

A week passed by and Heidi heard from Stanley how a new edict had already been placed on the four empires for a period of a month. Had the number of death rate increased to the point where they had to take drastic measures to implement a new edict? When she asked Stanley, the butler had called the south lord an imbecile blockhead who would be the only one to come up with a resort to divide the humans and vampires.

Now that she was officially engaged to Warren, Venetia, Warren's mother expected her to spend more time at their mansion from morning till late noon along with her and their relatives. This led to her spending less time at the Rune's mansion as well as around Nicholas. She wasn't sure if she had to be sad or thankful about it. Just because the lord carried a placid face around the Bonelake empire, that didn't mean it was the same when it was only him and her. He was teaseful as ever, sometimes even testing her by using a woman to flirt when she was around. He was a sadist, if she wasn't sure about it before she definitely was now.