CHAPTER I - 06
"What is going on here? where am I?" He asked rhetorically, stumbling and trying hard to move against the wind.
He kept struggling against the wind but it kept dragging him back into the chamber making him yell out in frustration.
He woke up in a strange realm and nothing seemed familiar at all, he was confused and was almost losing his mind.
He tried moving into the vacuum again and was pushed back forcefully by the wind yet again and so he stopped trying and sat back down on the floor when he woke up.
"What's wrong?" He muttered looking around once again, he saw he was in the middle of a vacuum and yet it felt like he was inside of a cabin with no encasement.
There was no door, no window; it was just like being in a vast space.
He propped his head with his hands and concluded he was most probably drunk, but then he wasn't hungover.
So what was wrong, he thought, pulling his hair in frustration.
He pulled himself off the floor and tried walking in another direction with the hope of finding an exit but was once again pulled back to his former position.
He sighed for the umpteenth time and decided to time the wind and rush against it, he moved as if he was walking out and as soon as he felt the wind picking up again, he rushed against it and landed right inside of his bedroom.
Filled with shock and agitation, he turned left and right, walked towards his bedside drawer, touched the bed, and even touched the portrait of Cassie he hung up on his wall.
And they all felt right, his bed was still made, it was just intact like he never left, seeing everything just the way it was, he concluded he was in his bedroom and not hallucinating.
"But how come the cabin led to my room?" He said.
"Something isn't right." He started moving to pick up the glass cup by his bedside.
"What's wrong with me?" He yelled in frustration hitting the cup straight into the wall.
It hit the wall with a loud sound before shattering into pieces.
The sound of glass hitting the wall alerted the guards standing watch outside his room hoping to prevent intrusion of anyone.
They both rushed in and were shocked to their bone marrow to see their missing Lord hale and hearty in his room.
They immediately went on their knees to pay homage to him.
"My lord, we were all worried at your sudden disappearance." One of them said.
"Yes my lord, the whole of the realm was in disarray at your disappearance." The other one added.
But Romeo just looked at them confused.
"What disappearance?" He thought.
It was all driving him crazy and he didn't even know what was going on with him at the moment.
One minute he was in a strange room and the next he was back in his room.
Seeing that their Lord Romeo ignored them, the two guards slipped out quietly to inform everyone that he was back.
The news of Lord Romeo's return soon spread like wildfire, the whole of the vampire realm and a few of the other realms had heard about it.
Soon after, Alpha Lucas and Lord valentine heard of his return and rushed down to his realm without wasting time.
They were stopped by the guards keeping watch at his bedroom entrance and told that Lord Romeo wasn't accepting visitors and wasn't talking with anyone.
But that didn't deter the duo. They barged past the guards and went straight into the room.
They found him sitting by his window with a glass of alcohol in hand.
He was lost in thought, drinking nonstop from the glass of alcohol, and didn't notice their presence until Alpha Lucas dragged the cup out of his hand.
"Drinking yourself into stupor aa a ga aia n." Alpha Lucas mocked slamming the glass on a nearby tray.
"He can drink himself to death if he wants, but can't just disappear on us without prior notice." Lord valentine spat.
"Where have you been Romeo?" Alpha Lucas asked, sitting with his legs crossed on the bed.
Lord Romeo turned to face the duo with a perplexed look on his face.
"I don't know where I have been, it's still like a bad joke to me." He answered as if not sure of what he was saying.
"A thousand-year-old vampire doesn't know where he has been." Lord valentine said bursting into loud laughter.
"That's like the joke of the year." He added rolling on the bed in laughter.
"This isn't a joke Val, I'm being serious, I don't know where I have been." Lord Romeo interjected scratching his head.
"You've got to be kidding me vamp." Lord valentine said, picking up the sincerity in Lord Romeo's word.
Alpha Luca who'd silently watched the both of them banter borough out the CCTV camera they retrieved from Cassie's graveside.
"Here, watch this." He said playing the scene at the graveside for him to watch.
There was a pregnant silence hovering over the room for about five minutes until Lord Romeo spoke.
"That wasn't me." He said, further confused.
"I wasn't at Cassie's grave anytime this week, I was to go there today, or was it tomorrow, what day is today?" He asked in confusion.
The duo watched him with mixed feelings, one thinking he was going mad and the other thinking he was probably drunk.
"Wait, what?" Lord Romeo screamed.
"I didn't just watch Cassie's grave being dug up, or did I?" He asked replaying the video all over again.
He quickly rushed towards his walk-in closet to retrieve an unknown object before dashing out of the room in the direction of Cassie's graveyard.
"Hey Romeo, wait up." Lord Valentine called after him.
"We need to go after him." He said to a seemingly calm Alpha Lucas.
"You go, I'll come after you." Alpha Lucas replied using his eye to direct him out of the room.
Now left alone in Lord Romeo's room, he gave the room a calculating look, sniffing to maybe detect a strange smell but he didn't, so he gave up and went out to join them at the graveyard.
By the time Alpha Luca arrived at Cassie's graveside, the whole place had been turned inside out, and the flowers planted by the grave keeper had been poured out in different directions by a Raving Romeo.
It was like a stampede just occurred with a sobbing Lord Romeo sitting by the ruin left behind.
Alpha Lucas walked towards Lord Valentine who was standing at a safe distance from Lord Romeo.
"I've never seen him this crazy." Lord valentine said, sensing the presence of Alpha Lucas.
"He has a fiery temper, so this isn't new." Alpha Lucas pointed out.
An hour after everything calmed down with Romeo, the duo walked toward him and found out that the object he took from his closet was a pendant he had once gifted to Cassie.
He clutched it to his chest wailing silently and cursing at whoever had stolen his precious Cassie.
It was obvious he hadn't gotten over his love for her, no one but Alpha Lucas and Lord valentine could testify that the cold vampire could and was actually in love.
Alpha Lucas pulled the deranged vampire and took him back to his study.
He left him and went to order his servant to prepare his favorite when Beta Ryan arrived from her visit to earth.
"I'm back." She announced walking straight towards Alpha Lucas's fridge.
She picked up a snack and moved towards the figure sitting downcast on Alpha Lucas's chair.
Thinking it was Alpha Lucas himself, she walked towards him and was about to scare him when she noticed he wasn't even the one sitting.
It was Romeo, the annoying vampire, the supposed missing Romeo was the one sitting on her Alpha's chair.
She was surprised and a bit angry to see the reason she had just journeyed to earth, sitting Comfortably on Alpha Lucas's chair.
"Can you stop staring?" He snapped at her.
"Weren't you missing?" She asked back.
"For God's sake, I wasn't missing." He yelled.
"You weren't missing." She replied perplexed.
"You were gone for over two weeks, and the news was all over the place, I just returned from going to clear your suck face off the news on earth." She added.
"I wasn't missing you dumb wolf." He insulted.
"You called me dumb, you piece of the night walking shit." She yelled, rushing at him.
She grabbed his collar and clawed at his neck.
He just had a way of working her with his words, he always had something degrading to say about her so she let out all of her pent anger against him.
"I wish you died wherever you went." She said still clawing at him whilst heating his chest furiously.
Lord Romeo kept during her attacks making her more infuriated.
The sound of their duel attracted Alpha Lucas and Lord Valentine into the study room.
Lord valentine immediately jumped into their midst to stop Beta Ryan's fist from colliding with Lord Romeo's jaw.
It ended up hitting him straight on his cheeks forcing him to groan in pain.
Having calmed the both of them, Beta Ryan now stands heaving heavily by Alpha Lucas's side and Lord Romeo holding his swollen cheeks by Lord Valentine's side.
Lord Valentine noticed a difference in the gait of whoever they saw in the video at the graveside of Cassie and who was currently fighting Beta Ryan.