The Hunt

𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞

Since Deimos was a vampire his sleeping pattern was different from mine, he can't exactly adjust his sleeping schedule for me and I understood. I checked the clock on the bedside table and saw it was 9 pm, wow, we've been at it for 4 hours, the girls were probably sleeping already.

"Shit, I forgot about the boy's contract." He sat up, the sheets bunching on his waist, muscles flex as he moved. It was a sight to see. He looked like a wet dream for every girl out there and mine. He was mine. For now.

I was sitting outside my balcony, watching the view of the Golden Gate Bridge, snapping my fingers and the contract appeared in front of him. He grabbed the contract and ran a hand on his tousled dark hair, I loved that he didn't hesitate to say yes to Taran when he doesn't even know the kid. Everything was happening too fast but it felt like we've been together for years.

"His name is Taran," I said as I took a sip of my Thai tea.

"Family?" I watched him read the contract from my bed.

"Religious mother," I only said that.

"Ah, shit." He frowned, reading out the contract. Everyone knew cambions never had the easiest childhood, finding out that your child was a half-demon, half-human was not something you'd expect from a one night stand or any scenario. All Deimos needed was a pair of glasses and I'm sure I'm going to jump on his bones.

I took a bite of a butter cookie that I grabbed from the kitchen. "This contract looks like adoption papers." He looked up at me, cocking a brow.

I shrugged.

He stood, not caring if he was naked, walked towards me until he was in front of me, tempting me with his gift. "You should Bound him, for your safety." He leaned against the railing, his shaft semi-hard even with the chilly air.

Bounding someone was like putting a filter on someone, preventing to do or say you don't want them to reveal. Taking your free will or something like that. "No need to use a Bound, I can suffice to the Blood Promise."

Blood Promise was the Blood Signature I used on my contracts, Blood Promise was verbally committed. I snapped my fingers and the contract disappeared.

I was only wearing my silk robe and I still smell like sex and Deimos. My new favorite fragrance. Goodbye Chanel N°5, hello my new personal Eau de parfum.

I kept looking at his dick, it twitched as if knowing that I was giving it attention.

"Come here, Handsome," I said, beckoning him.

He stepped closer to me and smirking. Moving fast, I flattened my hand against his crotch, pressing hard on his shaft. His length was just about the right height for me as I was sitting in my chair. I kissed the semi-hard erection and it twitched under my lips. "Fuck," he whispered.

His fingers tangled my hair, staring at me with adoration. "Now, be quiet. I don't want to wake the others." I whispered, my lips touching his shaft.

Deimos's jaw clenched but didn't say a word. Leaning into him, I closed my eyes as I approached his cock; then, I parted my lips and let the tip of my tongue out, resting it against the tip of his cock and allowing the saltiness of his pre-cum to coat my tongue. I took my time, flicking my tongue, and using it to circle the fat head of his cock. Tilting my head sideways, I then run the tip of my tongue down the length of his shaft; when I finally get to the root, I placed one hand under his balls and start massaging them.

Guided by instinct, I opened my mouth as wide as I can and sucked one of his balls in, allowing its full weight to rest over my tongue. I do the same with the other one, wrapping my lips tightly around it as I keep on lapping with my tongue, and only then do I go back up his shaft.

This time, I went beyond his tip; I opened my mouth wide again, allowing the tip of his cock between my lips, and then I started lowering my head over his length. His cock pushed down on my tongue and against the inside of my cheeks, filling me in such a way that I can't help but imagine how it'll feel to have him inside my pussy, fucking me like a wild animal.

"Mm," I started to moan as I pushed my mouth down, rolling my lips over his shaft until I felt the skin at the base of his cock. I don't even know how I've managed to fit all of his long inches inside my mouth, but I pushed through and do it. I held my position for a few seconds, feeling the tip of his cock throb against the back of my throat, and then I started bobbing my head up and down as fast as I can.

"Fuck, Cerise." Deimos groaned, his grip on my hair tightened.

I don't even bother with building up a rhythm; I just sucked him violently, ravaging his cock with my mouth. He has both his hands on my head but, instead of guiding my movements, he remained still, feeling my swaying motion as I gobbled up his huge member.

I could feel him coming, he was tense and—

A feminine scream echoed in the wind, I pulled away and without thinking, I jumped over the railing, the land cracking the ground and ran over to the spacious backyard, not caring if I just ruined good landscaping.

I headed straight for Eulia's pond, worried that someone had touched her wrong. That I couldn't protect her. Deimos ran behind me, I can feel him.

Barefoot and only wearing my robe, my eyes adjusted to the dark until I saw the sparkling waters of her large pond.

"Eulia!" I whisper yelled, not giving a fuck about the silk robe and diving towards the pond. I had the workers made it deep, so she could swim freely.

The cold water shocked me as I pushed around the kelp that Eulia added, and struggled to find her. My lungs burned for air but I ignored it. Damn, how I wish I could be like Eulia or Verena right now. I looked for the familiar white blonde locks until I saw her figure in the corner, her silver eyes widened at the sight of me. "Cerise!" She swam towards me, her dress almost blended with the water.

She grabbed me and hoisted me towards the surface and when we broke to the surface, I let out a loud exhale, my lungs still burning but recovering.

"What happened?!" I asked as I checked her for any injuries.

"Cerise, what happened?" I felt Deimos pulled me from the water and gave me a once over. He was wearing his dress pants but it wasn't zipped.

My teeth were chattering but I pulled away from him to face Eulia who was now sitting on the rocks, closer to us. "Someone was here, red eyes." She whispered as she stared amongst the trees, fear coated her words.

Red eyes. I knew those eyes.

He was here.

I contained all my fear and grabbed Eulia's face. "I know how much you love your pond but can you sleep inside the house for tonight?"

I should have built a damn indoor pool.

"Of course, I do not mind." Eulia stood, dripping wet like me. She grabbed my hand and shockingly, Deimos's too, dragging both of us towards the house in a hurry.

I stared at the trees, looking for those familiar red eyes, how did Laurent enter this realm? Was he given permission? No Royal Member could visit here unless we were permitted to.

Unlike me, I ran away. It happened in such a haste that I only brought my notebook. The passage was left unchecked and I took the opportunity to run from my responsibilities.

The smell of the summoning mark reached my nostrils, smoke, ash, hellfire, and his scent. Brimstone and a hint of sandalwood.

Asshole wasn't allowed here then, someone had to summon him. He won't last here a day then, much less than 3 hours, depending on how strong the summoner was.

Once inside, I slipped my hand from hers, Deimos tried to remove his but he looked like he was afraid he'll break her. Eulia had that effect making others care for her wellbeing.

When they were out of sight, I sliced my palm with my claw and drew the family crest on the wall. I chanted the words to ward off him, I've gotten desperate, proclaiming this land with the family crest meant any relative of mine could enter this land without my permission but blocks every other royal family unless permitted. If this blocks Laurent for a day, so be it.

I watched as the blood shone and disappeared on the wall, satisfied, I went to follow them, hearing their voices with the other girls.

"What the fuck happened back there?" I snapped as I flung the doors opened in the room where we conduct our meeting and saw that most of the resident girls were in there minus Taran.

Deimos stood on the side, leaning against the wall, arms crossed on his chest. Half-naked in the sea of women who were in their nightwear. Observing us.

"The wards didn't alert anyone," Bellona said, wearing a Panic! At The Disco oversized shirt and fluffy pink slippers.

"The wards must be duped." Veda suggested, rubbing her eyes.

"There's no way Massimo could do that," Karina, a naga shiter, said.

My eyes turned to pitch blackout of anger, my girls realizing how this intruder pissed me off big time, stood straight, and jaws clenched. "Bring the cambion," I snarled, leaning with my fist against the table.

I was blinded by fury, that's how Laurent affects me, I rarely lose control and last time was Aiyana's funeral. Wynona's wraith form ran past the walls and soon, we all heard Taran screamed, scaring the shit out of him in the middle of the night.

We saw Wynona appeared in the room in her human form, followed by Taran. I didn't wait for him to settle before I was on his face. "Did you fucking summon him?" I spoke in Demonic.I had a tight grip on his collar and pressed him against the wall.

"What? Who?" Taran didn't show his fear but his eyes betrayed him, I almost applaud him. Eyes spoke louder than words.

"We both know who," I whispered, Deimos was here. He can't learn about this.

His eyes widened in realization and spoke back to demonic. "No, I wouldn't. No offense but he scares me more than you. I wouldn't want him near me."

"You know Demonic." I felt everyone's eyes on us, none of them understood what we were saying.

He nodded, "Marco taught me well."

"Give me the list of names of the people you worked with, now," I ordered him in English, my eyes bleeding back to my blues.

"Of course," he nodded, I snapped my fingers to give him a paper and pen.

Taran began scribbling while I faced the others. I needed to formulate a plan to have night shifts here but I didn't want to risk someone's sleeping schedule and have them sleeping on the job.

Deimos, who have gone quiet the whole time, spoke. "I'll have my men watch over you during the night."

I grimaced, not wanting to add more vampires to this, more people knowing what's going on in my house. Deimos must have seen or known what I was thinking, added, "Priamos will pick the better and loyal ones, Matthias will also keep watch on you girls."

His Six, some of them were dating back to renaissance and with rumors that one of them might have a Royal blood in their veins, Beelzebub's bloodline. I wasn't alive by the time the Princes decided who were their chosen family and the others would be discarded here in the human realm. It was my mother's time, well, mostly grandmother's but mom was a child back then. From what I've been told, Beelzebub was disappointed with the Vampires and how human they looked like. So he denounced the Vampires' right to claim the throne and gave it to the Ghouls.

The Family of Vampires, the denounced Royals, left without a protest and started their empire here. The first generation of Vampires were royals, turning humans like them and at the same time, birthing heirs with their family. Incest was a thing back then, believing that only the pureblooded, the ones who carried Beelzebub's blood should be royals and the created vampires were deemed to be commonfolk. Was Deimos a pureblood? Maybe not, incest wasn't their thing anymore. He probably had a tiny fraction of royal blood.

From what I gathered Deimos's father ruled California and the Alpha Prime when he died, Deimos, as the oldest inherited the title and throne, starting his reign for over centuries which was pretty impressive he managed to control all of that with the past wars going on.

"I'm sure your people are busy, we can handle this."

Deimos didn't budge, "Let me help you, I want to, Cerise."

Tempting but too many untrustworthy, "My girls—"

He cut me off, which usually doesn't happen to me when I'm like this. "Are sleepy. How are they going to do their work in the morning when they're awake the whole night?"

I gritted my teeth in frustration, he was throwing a lot of good reasons. Some of my girls might be even tired from their contracts to patrol at night.

"Fine!" I rose a hand in exclaim and sighed as I saw the smirk in his face. That smug look on his face was tempting me to teach him a lesson.

"Before they step foot in this house, I'll personally speak for them. I don't give a shit if your guy vouches for them. I'll talk to them." I said, glaring at Deimos.

He shrugged nonchalantly. "Fine by me."

Now, I have to be careful under my own house. They'll all report back to Deimos on what's goes in and out of this house.

Taran cleared his throat and handed me a paper full of names, I want to scream at the top of my lungs, too many names, too many targets and so little time. I'm still hunting that group that Stefan told me and now this.

Bellona, one of the girls who personally knew me said, "I'll have the girls with me hunt down these names, you handle the others with Wynona. I'm sure the girls would love to join the hunt." She smiled weakly, Bellona had the right to be wary, no one knew who was Laurent. They were going in blind.

Even though, they signed the contract I wanted to let the girls have their own free will, something I don't have back home.

The girls nodded, we were only a small group of women, not even reaching twenty, Verena, who as a Siren love to hunt for prey, smiled as if she relished the idea of hunting again.

"If the targets reach outside the state, water elementals—yes, including you, Verena, you should let the others do it. I'm not willing for you to be stuck in the middle of Kansas looking for the ocean." I said. Not a good idea for them to venture out of San Francisco. I prefer them to be near the coast.

"We're not that dumb, Cerise." Verena huffed.

"Just checking," I joked but I was still serious, I couldn't afford to lose them; they were like my sisters.

"If you see any intruders in our land, report to me immediately. Don't engage them." I ordered.

I don't want to lose my girls to Laurent.

Not again.