RAT NIBBLES

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Astrel had leaned down and licked her blood. The moment her blood touched his tongue, he tasted its rich texture and the indescribable sweetness it held, compared to the blood he had ever tasted in all his immortal life.

Vilian's eyes turned wider, and her eyebrows were arched up witnessing the turn of events. She furrowed in pain, and her eyes fell on the sight in front of her.

Astrel held her knee in a tight grip. Though it was painful it gave a mix of ticklish feelings, as he sucked every drop of the blood on her knee that slipped from her wound without letting even a single drop go to waste.

She watched his pink tongue run around and up to her wound, and when it reached her wound, his tongue disappeared inside his mouth before his mouth sucked the blood. The pain in her knee didn't reduce one bit, but right now her cheeks were burning brighter, brighter than the light that passed through the windows as it entered her room.

Blood pumped faster in her heart, her heartbeat louder, and she felt faintish.

When his tongue tickled she jerked backward and tried to pull away her leg, only to be stopped by his hand tightening around her lower thigh. A trickle of shiver ran down her spine with fear.

She silently prayed to god that the vampire would not drink her dry until the last drop of her blood nor sink his fangs which peeked out when he sucked and licked the blood from her knee. The movement of his tongue on her knee was gentle, and his lips soft as they brushed against her bruised skin every now and then to capture her blood that refused to stop bleeding.

As she looked down at him he opened his glowing blue eyes as they met hers, and her lips were parted.

A strange unknown hunger awakened all over Astrel the moment he got to taste her blood. It felt intoxicating that it took a lot of restraint for him to draw away from the rich blood.

He gave wound one last lick gazing through her eyes as if looking into her very soul. Vilian's heart squeezed from his burning gaze and the pain she felt, along with her face painted red with embarrassment.

Astrel ran his tongue across his blood-red lips and over his pointy fangs, savoring the remnants of her intoxicating blood he had just drunk. It looked dark and dangerous with the way he looked at her now, and she gulped down the lump that formed in her throat softly not leaving his eyesight.

Vili's eyes moved to look at the bloody nail that had been pulled out from her knee.

"Let me take it from here. T-thank you for removing the nail..." her voice trailed, as she saw Astrel picking up the cloth and ripping a piece of it.

She tried to keep a straight face in front of the vampire. She had read that sucking and drawing blood out of humans was not new when came to Vampires and Vampiresses as they were used to such a lifestyle.

Astrel didn't bother with it as he gave a nonchalant and stood up but didn't look away from her brown eyes that looked dark as her wet hair which she had bothered to dry created a shadow that fell on her face. He walked towards the patio door.

Meanwhile, Vili sat on the chair in front of her and took the smaller piece of cloth, and she as she dipped it inside the water bowl, squeezed the water off the cloth, and dabbed it over her wound. It was already licked clean by the vampire but she did it just in case it might cause any other infections.

As if reading her mind he said, "That won't be necessary. The corrosive has been taken off. Just band-aid it with a clean cloth and make sure not to let the wound expose before it heals. You know what I mean, little kitty."

"You mean to say that you sucked off the poison?" She asked as she held the unbelievable expression.

Astrel didn't bother to respond to her so she looked back at the half-done bandage on her knee and continued to wrap it before tearing the end of it and tying the ends to secure it.

She was surprised to know that he did it to suck out the poison but she misunderstood that he had taken her injured knee as his very opportunity to suck the blood from her body. She had expected to sink his fangs but she was proved wrong. Maybe he wasn't bad as she perceived him to be. Maybe he wasn't cold as everyone had presumed him to be. As she thought so a small smile graced her lips as she stared at him

"Stare a little more and I'd assume you had already fallen for me," he said with a smug look.

There he goes... Not a minute passed by as she thought he was tolerable he had started to taunt him again thought Vili and rolled her eyes. The version of good man turned into his demon self

"Don't be surprised by it. You're not the first to fall for me," he said as he winked at her.

Vili's face turned sour at Astrel's remark. Her expression brought him a chuckle. "So... easy to taunt... What an amusing little kitty you are! So fierce and ready to pounce any minute." He said as he chuckled louder.

"Shushh, will yuh?! someone's gonna hear us," she said sternly pressing her index finger over her plump lips.

Her action made his eyes linger over her lips for a little while causing her to bite her lips unintentionally.

"Don't you dare do that!" he said as he came to stand in front of her and just like that he disappeared. One minute he was there and the next minute he was gone.

She waited for him to emerge out of nowhere like he use to do any other time but he didn't come again. She shook her head as she sighed and glanced down at her ragged state. Her dress was hanging from every side. It looked more as if a rat had nibbled her dress. Lily would go crazy if she were to see the dress. Not to say her state. She'll faint the next minute she sees it.