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Chapter 4

"Oh I thought you'd never return" A deep male voice said behind her.

She flips her book and chicken wings all over the place and crawls from her seat. She tries to run but end up on the floor. Her legs were too wobbly to run.

"Who are you? How did you get in…inside my house?" She forces the question out of her mouth.

"Violet right?" He asks as he paces around her living room.

She is dumbfounded. She quietly looks around the room searching for her phone and thinking of the easiest way to get it.

The stranger holds the phone up and shows it to her.

"Is this what you're looking for?" He says, "Don't be afraid, sit."

"please…don't hurt me.." She is cut off.

"I said sit!" He orders.

Violet jumps from the floor and rushes to the chair shivering.

"I'm Steel and sorry I startled you." He says calmly.

"How the fuck did you get into my house?"

"You invited me. Of course you don't remember. Hmm humans…" He smirks.

"No…I didn't…Humans?" She says in confusion.

"Okay…How are you feeling now?" He asks disregarding the argument.

Violet is confused at his gut and ego. He looked really sophisticated, but that doesn't give him the right to be a stalker and order her around her own house! And after taking a closer look at him and she realizes that there was something familiar about him. The long coat and blonde hair, she feels like she knew him.

"the guy on cool leather coat!!!"

"I know you!" She yells." You're the guy that leaves Pennywise Street at the same time with me, I saw you." She adds.

"Oh good memory". He comments in a sarcastic tone.

"You were there that night weren't you? The night I got attacked. Why didn't you help me?" She asks.

"Oh I did, it's why you're here…" he locks eyes with her.

"You did? Wait who are you?" She asks in a more confused state.

"Steel, and you're Violet. Listen Violet stop talking to the cops, you don't need them. You're safe now aren't you?"

"What did you do?"she was about to cry.

"I took care of someone trying to take advantage of you. A thank you would be nice."

"That guys face was gone; did you do that?" She asks.

"Not entirely, I had help from a wild animal." He replies with a smirk.

"Ok you seem confused. But I am not like you or your people. My clan has inhabited these land peacefully for decades, but a new Pack wants to taint this place and we won't allow it. I won't let anything corrupt my legacy." He explains.

Violet looked him dead in the eye as nothing he said is making sense to her.

"Pack? Sorry who are you again?" She asks for the third time.

"Alucard Steel" he yelled! The room become very cold, there is sound of wind whistling loudly, night birds scatter all over the clouds and wolves howl from far distances.

"Alucard like… Dracula…. like vampire…like in the books?" her words are broken.

Violet is petrified, she knows that it's time to stop asking questions but her curiosity kept her doing this. She has read a lot of vampire stories and she knows they are just fictions, but the strange things she has been experiencing has opened her mind to other possibilities.

"Not entirely, but yes I am a hybrid, call me Steel please. I just waned to be sure that you're alright Violet. That detective…Cooper will ask questions about the footage, the content will be a bit confusing, but stick to your story ok?" he adds"And keep our meetings private too."

Violet was unable to utter a word she had so many question but didn't know where to start.

"Why did you help me?" She asks in a faint voice.

Steel gave her a unimpressed look"Oh, You're not special, I just need to keep things in order."

"Wow are vampires this rude or it's just…" Violet looks back only and find that she is talking to the wind.

Oh my days! Oh dear what is happening to me?

She runs to her window to see if she'll get a glimpse of him but he was far gone. She grabs her phone and immediately started strolling through the contact to call Luca then she remembered that Steel asked her to keep their meeting private. She just sat down on her couch rewinding the events that nights event.


Alucard Steel is a far descendant of Count Alucard. Although the name did not stay in the clan due to obvious reasons. After the French Revolution, descendant of Alucard and other vampires had lived several lives and mastered the act of business from the capitalist and bourgeoisies. The acquires lands and ventures into as many businesses.

They became feudal since they lived for centuries, ventured into real estate, Agriculture, wine production, bakery and many others. They moved all round Europe and back to avoid questions of their mortality. They lived by different many last names from time to time: Cartier, Lavigne, Chevrolet, Lyon and many others

Some lived, loved, fought, died and lived again with the humans.

Some were lucky to find another meaning to life from one lifetime to another while others just want to quench their thirst for blood. Some even bore children with humans to as a representation of their love.

'Alucard Steel' is the name he goes by when amongst fellow vampires or werewolves. His worldly name at the moment is Damien Duplantier and he is a 'freaking billionaire.'

He owns almost all the lands in Chester, including Pennywise Street. One thing about Steel is that he silently likes to dominate wherever he inhabits just to mark his territory to avoid rivalry dispute with other clans. Now he is spending his time in America, but he owns lands, properties and business across Europe, some he doesn't even remember.

When Steel moves to Chester, he is accepted with open hands due to his wealth, huge cheque and the donations he drops during campaign and state development. Steel got closer to mayor, they made a deal to help keeping the city peace by giving over Steel a bunch of dangerous criminals, they are sent faraway to work on Steel's "business on sea" where no criminals had ever come back. When the mayor thought they were working, they had already became foods for the Pack. Steel also like wander around to keep the city 'crime-free' in his way when he is bored, like what Violet has been through.

Although he had wolves do the nasty work for him.

Steel feels uneasy because a new Pack of werewolves arrived in Chester to disrupt the work steel had put together for years by going around to devouring and turning just anyone.

"This is not how we work! We don't just hump on any human and devour them. If we did, we could end the world in a month. And what do we feed on then, uh? Monkeys?" Steel exclaims to Gay his bottler.

"How did it the visit go, sir?"Gay asks trying to change the topic.

"Splendid, do you have other news for me?"

"I sent wolves out to haunt, it was a bloodbath among them. None of them are willing give in, but we'll try something new tonight." Gay explains.

"Sir, do you think it was necessary to visit this human after all?" Gay asks in concern, "The detective has seen the content of the CCTV footage and he only got more curious."

"Where is the footage now? What happened to the techie whom is asked to modify it?" Steel asks angrily.

"There is nothing unusual in the footage, but if the lady tell people , it will bring us suspicion." Gay said.

"Gay, I have that covered. She won't talk to anyone about my visit." He assured.

"But sir why does she interest you? She is just an ordinary human, or perhaps…" Steel cuts Gay sentence short.

"oh gay, believe me, she is the last woman I would be interested!"he rushes these words out with his heart a little tugged.

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