Vampire Diaries 41: The Perfect Time

"I am speechless seeing you tonight," said Jack. He squeezes my hand gently as he helps me to stand right next to him.

He looks into the way where Mother and father seated with the noble vampires. The crowd raises their hands and praises the sacred name of the King.

Jack lifts his right hand as he clenches it. In an abrupt, the crowd stop and halt from the things that they're doing.

"I, the King of this empire, who is brave to reveal the peculiar vampire who has to steal my heart from me!"

The crowd burst into laugher when they heard the King says it. "Who is she, Your Highness?"

A deafening stillness for a moment. Jack stares at me as he takes a deep breath. "She's here! Standing next to me, wearing an elegant and royal dress that only belongs to a Queen! Tonight, I am here to present to you, the woman who saved me from following my father to the world of mortals!"

Jack seems to be comfortable and certain. No one could ever stop him from marrying an ordinary vampire, even the Vampire Lord.

"Thalia Hackensen!"

A deep voice echoes when Jack utters my name. Women and men scream the King's sacred name, "Hail the Vampire King!" said the hundreds of vampires who stands before us.

"Tonight, a valuable and influential vampire is here with us! A vampire who has made this empire well-known and lead his people until this day. A vampire who has lived for thousands of years to seek justice and umpire!"

My heart flutters while listening to him. "It must be the Vampire Lord!" I whisper but he grabs my waist closer to him.

"Jack," I said, widening my eyes on him.

The crowd screams and giggles when they notice that I was shocked because of the King's action.

"Are you ready to meet him, Thalia?" Jack asks me while smiling sweetly. His eyes wander around as his gaze turns into the right embankment. There's a royal seat from afar until a vampire comes out with the royal guards behind him.

Abruptly, the crowd, Thalia's parents bowed their heads and fall their knees before him.

"Who is... who is he?!" I ask him out of my curiosity. Jack leans over as he shortly bites my left ear. "He is my father– the Vampire Lord."

His voice was calm and deep but my entire system stops from functioning. My heart suddenly halts from beating and my tongue step back instead of the utter ring a word.

"Welcome to your beloved Kingdom Father!"

Jack and Valmer walk towards him and bows. The Vampire Lord promptly look into my way with a sweet yet meaningful smile on his face.

"My beloved sons, my heart was filled with joy when I look at you tonight!" He said, cupping Jack's and Valmer's faces.

However, I am alone standing at the opposite side. Fortunately, Emilia comes nigher as she whispers, "Hey! You seem like a little girl who saw a monster!"

"I am! An–and I couldn't believe that I've seen and met the powerful and well-known vampire of all times!"

"But, I suddenly remember a man who has the same features as the Vampire Lord!" I murmur while glancing at him, without blinking my eyes and breathing.

Father courageously step forward to honour the Vampire Lord. He falls into his knees for the nth time and said, "I am pleased to see you again, Lord Voltaire." He smiles at him as if they know each other for so long.

"Wait," Emilia abruptly grabs my arm. Without a warning, she tries to catch my gaze and she did it! "You seems to be surprised when Lord Voltaire comes out! I... I don't know but I have this instinct that you act like a different Thalia that I know before?!"

"You must act carefully like her, Thalia. You don't know what the Vampire Lord capable of."

"Emilia!" I clench my fists upon attending to her warnings and advises. I tilt my head sideways while starting at her cold and dead eyes. "I am trying to be like her, but I can't pretend until my last breath!"

"You should accept the truth that I've transmigrated into this body of a vampire! I am Thalia, a Princess from a past life!"

I tell her the truth without realizing that my fangs abruptly shows up. My glowing and serene eyes turn cold and aggressive as my fingernails begin to change.

"Calm down, Thalia! You are transforming!"

She hurriedly grabs my arm out of the crowd. "Not here!" Emilia stares at me angrily.

"Who is the lucky vampire who has stolen the King's heart?"

Out of the blue, Emilia stops pulling me away from them as we all heard the Lord's question.

The royal guards immediately walks towards us and said, "Emilia, why are you running with the King's beloved?!"

"No! Your speculation is wrong!" Raising my voice at him catches a few of the vampire's attention. It echoes around that makes them quiet.

"She's right! We are not running away!"

"Thalia!"

"Thalia Hackensen!"

Vampires hail my name to the Vampire Lord. They clap their hands as it blends to the drums and horns.

"Where is she? Why is it that you are keeping her, Jack?!"

"I am not, My Lord. But I'll accompany her and show the woman who caught my heart," said Jack who holds his chest as he bows his head before him.

No one has the right to meet his gaze but his sons are the only exceptions.

By then, Emilia reaches for my hands and accompany me to the man who smiles from afar.

"It's the perfect time to meet my father, Thalia."

Jack opens his palm as Emilia lends my hand to him. She pinches my waist discreetly, "Don't break her heart, Your Highness." said Emilia with a playful expression.

I gulp repeatedly, seeing the King before me who have everything he yearns for.

A prominent and good looking vampire will be my man until the end of the entire empire.