Alliance

[Trinity's POV]

"Is that all?" I asked Lady Catherine. She was still shackled on the bed while I took a seat on a chair next to her.

The two guards watching her cell were fast asleep, all thanks to my spell, so I didn't have to worry about them.

She looked at me with her blue eyes, liquid and languid. "Yes . . . I don't remember much about his face . . . but he was a handsome man with beads of golden hair."

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. All vampires were handsome except maybe for those who turned rogues. They were monsters than anything else.

A handsome man with golden hair. There were plenty of them, but there could only be one with long hair that reached his shoulder. If my hunch was correct, then . . . I might have found a perfect doll.

"How . . ."

"Hmm . . . ?" my attention spun at Lady Catherine.

"How are you going to cure me of my thirst?" There was begging in Lady Catherine's eyes and forlorn in her voice when she asked.

I interchanged my crossing legs and leaned closer to her. "You can't smell, nor are you attracted to my blood, aren't you?"

Lady Catherine shook her head. "I thought because . . . you're a witch."

I chuckled. "You don't seem to have any encounter of witches." My face scrunched. "That charlatan was an exception since she was faked."

Lady Catherine's eyes shone, brimming with hope. "Then . . . you can really cure me?"

"Not cure you. Just enough to stop your thirst until you get used to it."

Died hope in her eyes, and her tears slid to her pale cheeks. "I thought that . . . I can finally turn back into a human."

"You can't. No amount of praying nor voodoo and rituals is going to turn you back. Whether you like it or not, you're a vampire now."

Lady Catherine's chin trembled, and she broke into tiny sobs. "Then Benjamin . . ."

"Is much safer here. Sooner or later, the one who turns you will take you away."

Lady Catherine's eyes glowed bright red with her furry, and her fangs came out as she snarled. "That bastard! I will rip out his throat and drink his blood to the last drop."

Then her eyes went wide, and her fangs retracted. "I . . . I-I'm sorry . . . I didn't know what came over me . . ."

"Hmm . . . though you are beautiful in your docile human form, I think being vampire suits you more."

Her eyes stretched wide again before they looked dead as she stared at the ceiling. "I'd rather be dead if I couldn't feel Benjamin in my arms . . ."

Fat tears rolled on her cheeks as she sobbed. "Because of him . . . I could no longer caress my son . . . or at least stay a second with him without thirsting for his blood."

I placed my chin on my palm, elbow resting on my crossing legs. "I told you it's not going to be like that. In exchange for your cooperation, I can make it so that you can still embrace your son and visit him whenever you want."

Lady Catherine huffed a laugh that was devoid of hope. "But I will still be a vampire."

"That but can still hug and kiss your son without turning him a vampire or . . . live the rest of your life with him as a vampire."

"Never," hissed Catherine, fangs baring. "I'd rather drive a stake into my heart than turn my son into one of those abominable accursed creatures."

I smirked to the side and murmured under my breath, "You'll be surprised once you live with them. They're more abominable and accursed than you think."

Tears blurred Lady Catherine's eyes once more. "Do I have a choice?"

"None. As I said, you're already a creature of the night. For you and your family's safety, it was best that you plan your death and say your goodbyes.

"Besides, being a vampire, with your newfound powers, you can visit your son anytime you want, and with my potions, you can embrace him and be with him without lusting for his blood."

Lady Catherine was silent for a moment before she stared at me in seriousness. "How do I know that you're not another charlatan?"

I grinned from ear to ear and took to my heels.

"It's amazing how a pouch of Aconite and some spices can repel a vampire's thirst and smell. You didn't even notice that your son is with us the whole time," I said and took the sleeping toddler into my arms and showed him to Lady Catherine.

She gasped in surprise before her expression melted into blurs of tears and croaked, "B-Benjamin . . ."

"Don't worry. He is still asleep." I placed the toddler on top of Lady Catherine's bosom, and she went still like a corpse.

"You can breathe, you know," I chuckled. I was not worried, for Lady Catherine already took the Blood potion, and the Aconite pouch pined on Benjamin's pajamas was repelling her thirst and kin sense of smell.

A silent sound of slow breathes from her, and Benjamin turned the soundless night into a peaceful time between mother and child.

"Well . . . have we got a deal?"

". . ." Lady Catherine kissed her child's head. Her tears streamed down on the soft side of her cheeks before she stared at me with her bloodshot eyes.

"What do you want me to do?"

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