Letting Loose

 Mara's POV 

 I staggered a little in shock, blinking confusingly at the guards who all had different shapes and sizes of guns pointed at me, and I wasn't dumb; I got educated a lot by my father and some of his trusted guards to know that the guns currently pointed as me all contained silver bullets. 

And silver was dangerous to vampires, it could take a vampire out in an instant.

"What?" I managed to wheeze out after a couple of seconds and at the same time started to try to mind-link with my sister because all that the leader of the guards had just said sounded ridiculous to me.

For one, how could I kill my sister whom I love so much? And for what? How could someone even think that?

I've never killed someone in my entire life, or at least – not on purpose like these people were currently accusing me of.

Two, how is she even dead? I just saw her some hours ago.

These guards are all ridiculous.

And even if she was dead, which I seriously doubted, why had my family members not been informed about it yet? And why was I being accused of killing her?

The thought of causing harm to my sister alone was enough to make me feel cold and disgusted with myself. It wasn't news that Layla always spending time around me, keeping me company and being my only friend, was dangerous to her– because she was an ordinary vampire, and a bite from me would end her life instantly– because I was a vampire with two souls instead of one like every other person in the family.

The fact that Layla loved me enough to put her life at risk and have complete trust in me each time she spent time with me, made me hellbent on never losing control of my powers because even the thought of unintentionally hurting her was just as gut-wrenching.

I changed tactics when I was unable to get a hold of my sister after about a minute, choosing to mind-link with my father instead, and I informed him of what was happening instantly. He was around somewhere and was going to be here in an instant, I was extremely sure of that. 

My father was that protective of me, and even if it made me annoyed sometimes, in a moment like this, I was glad I had someone that I was sure was going to abandon whatever it was that he was doing to come to my aid in an instant.

And he did show up before a minute was up.

He came with bad news, but he rushed to my side instantly and cupped my face, his cold hands pressing into my pale cheeks as he stared down at me.

"Are you alright, Mara?" He asked and I nodded my head immediately, darting a gaze towards the guards who had all lowered their guns a little because of my father's presence.

"Father, they said Layla is dead–" I started to say and a crumpled look crossed his face instantly, just as he started to nod his head.

"Yes, Mara, she is. I got to know about it some time ago." 

I felt like something died inside of me, and my head started to buzz a little. Father seemed to notice the change in my emotions instantly because a look of concern replaced the pained one in an instant.

"H- how? I spent some time with her some hours ago and she was completely fine." I said to him after a minute, stuttering a little.

"We're here to arrest your daughter, Master Maverick." The guard who has accused me of murdering my sister said loudly and my father's gaze snapped off my face to focus on the guard's in an instant.

"What?" He asked, obviously just as shocked and taken aback as I.

"Lord Klaus' orders." The guard helpfully supplied.

I blinked a little because that name sounded familiar and quite powerful.

"Who's that?" I asked my father almost immediately.

"That's your sister's soulmate." The guard supplied once again and I felt something twist inside of me, something akin to pain, pain from multiple things at once.

My soulmate who had rejected me, was the same one who thought I killed my sister?

My soul had never felt so much pain in my entire life.

"I didn't kill my sister," I said to the guard after a few moments, lifting my face in defiance.

"Yes, you did, which is why you're being arrested. I'm afraid you'd have to accompany us to the lord's lair, whether you want to or not." The guard continued, and he lifted his gun and pointed it at me before he completed his sentence, and the other guards did the same in a second.

"I can't accompany you to wherever it is you came from, because I didn't do a thing." I paused and pointed a finger at the guard.

"You should apologize for wrongly accusing me of commuting such a crime, how could your lord even think of such?" I spat out as I glanced up at my father. "Father, tell them I didn't kill Layla and ask them to be on their way already."

Father remained silent and just kept staring at me, and after a few seconds, a small gasp escaped my parted lips in disbelief.

"You'd let them take me away? For something I didn't do?" I asked in a tiny voice as I shook my head in disbelief and took a step away from him, not believing what was currently happening.

Mother made her way into the house with her handmaiden at that moment and she paused beside father. She had a grim expression which was proof enough that she already knew about Layla's supposed death.

"Mother, these people want to take me away, and… you guys won't do a thing?" I whispered, staring at her face in shock when she exchanged a look with my father and shrugged at me without saying a thing.

I puffed out a small, unbelievable laugh as I snapped out at them. "Do both of you also think I killed my sister? That I killed Layla?"

"No, child, no. We'd never think that." Mother spoke up this time, and then she started to wring her hands together.

"It's because we can't go against lord Klaus, Mara. We can't question his orders. It's why you have to accompany the guards over to his place." Father spoke softly this time, but my soul was already boiling with so much emotion at once, and I was feeling so much betrayal swimming through my veins at that moment.

"I'm not coming with you," I said to the guards now that I was facing them once again and I made sure my chin was raised in defiance. I refused to be accused of something I had no hand in, in something that sounded so ridiculously absurd.

"If you won't willingly accompany us, Miss Mara, it means you're indirectly asking us to make you come with us the hard way." The guards slowly started to speak and I farted a gaze at my mother who currently looked worried, while my father had on zero expression.

"You can't make me do what I don't want to," I responded to him in a calm voice, as I narrowed my eyes at him.

"I guess you want us to do it the hard way then." The guard supplied and proceeded to shrug his shoulders a little.

"Just go with them, Mara." Mother cajoled but I ignored her, focusing my whole attention on the guards whom I could already sense were all silently thinking up a way in which they could use in capturing me.

But, I wasn't a two soul vampire for nothing.

The guard leader pulled the trigger of his gun, and I was ready for him. I manipulated his mind into making him turn sideways at the last second, and he ended up shooting the guard beside him instantly.

The shot guard dropped dead immediately and started to decompose right there on my father's expensive rug.

"You sneaky bitch!" The guards' leader cursed before turning behind him to speak to his guards. "Everyone, attack her this instant."

I cracked my head from side to side and materialized away from the spot I had been standing in, and in the next second, over fifty arrows with silver tips got embedded into the wall behind where I had previously been standing.

These people aren't joking at all… they meant business. I noted to myself as I materialized behind them and had my hand outstretched just as they all turned around.

I moved my fingers around, flicking them sideways, in different motions, and I used my mind to control all their minds making them sluggish.

I could hear my parents gasp in shock, and I had got to admit, I was also kind of surprised at myself at the moment. I had never been in an actual fight before.

I moved behind every one of them and delivered a series of blows into sensitive spots that were going to make them drop to the ground instantly. I was trained by a lot of really good fighters, and because of my super-speed as a vampire, I swiftly moved behind each guard in mere seconds, delivering the punches in blurs until I zipped out of their midst as the last of them all fell to the ground. They were all panting and groaning in pain, as I slowly loosened the invincible hold I had on their minds.

I decided to finish them off because I was enraged about the fact that my sister was dead and they dared to blame me for it. I was also feeling a strong urge to kill all of them and end their pathetic lives.

And I wanted to suck the blood out of their throats until they drop dead at my feet, instead of killing them off with one of their guns 

I know it was the side effects of the two souls nudging at my urges at the moment. The urge to kill had never gripped me as it did at the moment, that my head was almost feeling dizzy from the urge.

I gripped the first guard by his throat and pulled him off the ground effortlessly, lifting him until his legs were suspended off the ground. All vampires had a natural gift of super strength but as a vampire with two souls, I automatically have double of that gift.

I stared at him and turned down my lips before squeezing at his throat tightly, feeling his life getting slowly drained out by my fingers. Before he could go limp in my grip, I threw him into one of the pillars a few feet away and his body slammed into it loudly before collapsing on the ground in a dead heap. The rest of the guards had started to get scared and I walked around until I was beside the guard who was stylishly reaching for his gun. Kicking his gun out of his grip, I wrapped my hand around his throat and jerked him off the ground.

I faintly heard my mother gasp in shock but I tuned her out and continued to squeeze the slim neck of this current guard. I didn't let up until he went completely limp in my grip, my fingers were currently tingling from the number of lives I was draining at once and the feeling was swirling straight into my head.

I knew I should try to get myself under control but I think I was past caring at this point.

I was about to sink my now elongated fangs into the throat of the guard leader when the doors suddenly got burst open and in walked a few people who smelled like the guards I was currently dealing with, making me figure out that they were also from Lord Klaus.

I dropped the guard to the ground and lifted my head at the set of new people, even though it didn't seem like they meant any harm.

"Lord Klaus would like to have a word with you, Miss Mara." One of the men spoke up after a moment.

"I didn't kill Layla, if he'd just give his permission to allow me to explain myself to him, he'd be able to see that I had no hand in her death," I responded almost immediately.

"That's exactly what he wanted, he'd like to listen to your explanations." The man continued after a moment.

"Really?" I asked and they all nodded their heads.

"Alright then, I won't be chained like a criminal, right?" I asked as I began to make my way toward them.

"Of course not, lord Klaus just wants to have a word with you, that's all." The man responded instantly.

"Alright, let's go." I decided. I was a little bit skeptical about accompanying them, but I had a feeling lord Klaus wasn't going to relent until he gets me– and since he had decided to listen to my explanations, it was enough reason for me to push the unsure thought out of my head.

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 As soon as we arrived at Lord Klaus's premises, I was expecting to be escorted to his quartets, but instead, I got overpowered unexpectedly by a whole lot of guards, and I was unable to materialize because of some kind of spell around this particular premise – and to my utmost shock, I got thrown and locked in a silver cage.