Chapter 12. Kevin Helsing

Next morning…

The sun was slipping through the window meeting Eva's shadow. Illuminating the room, warming everything around. 

Eva got up from her seat with happiness radiating from her beautiful green eyes and stretching out her body.

Although tired from all the work she had done the previous night, she was happier and more enthusiastic than ever.

In a few hours, she had completed more than fifteen projects and jobs with high rewards on the darkweb that she had not been able to do before. The real task was not to finish them, as she could do it in a few hours, but to not attract too much attention from other recruiters or odious hackers trying to compete with her. 

She was not prepared to deal with them for now. Her priority was to gain money, lots of it. 

As her powers were not complete, and she couldn't rely on only human blood to survive, she couldn't make harsh decisions and bring unwanted attention. 

Looking at her bank account now, she had more than fifteen million. But that was hardly enough to satisfy her greed and needs. She wanted more.

"What should I do today?" she sighed and walked up to the window, enjoying the sunlight. Though she was a vampire, she had lived as a human for twenty years in this era. Some resistance to the sunlight was engraved in her skin. 

Even more, last night she had satiated her hunger with the blood of the three idiots and the mansion maid. It was more than enough food for the whole week, or so she thought. 

Maybe Percy will need more… but he will have to wait. 

She straightened her back and breathed with closed eyes. 

"Who is coming…?" she whispered as she smelled the young blood getting closer. Even with all of that perfume, the faint aroma was delicious. 

Then the broken door opened at that moment and two young women entered and looked at Eva with confusion. 

According to her memories, they didn't belong to that dorm. Their names were Teresa and Sandra, or something. They had previously asked for Eva's tutoring services before.

"Where is Amanda?" asked one of the girls. She was Teresa thought Eva. More arrogant and domineering than the others, and, also a fan of Jason. "Did you hear me?"

Eva just shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know, she left the room with Jason, her boyfriend."

"Her boyfriend?" Teresa crossed her arms over her bulging chest with a smirk on her face. "That idiot couldn't be his girlfriend even if she wanted to."

The other young woman, Sandra, tugged her friend's arm to make her shut up. Everyone knew Amanda's reputation; she was not someone they could offend. Her parents were rich and her older brother owned a company in the construction industry. However, it was said that they were mafia.

Eva looked at them mockingly. She didn't have time to play with little girls just a few years old. They looked like sprouts compared to her who had roamed the world for centuries. Of course, that didn't mean she would spare their lives if they messed with her. There was no more pity for any human in her heart.

She turned around ignoring them. There were many things she had to do that day and even though she had all the time in the world, she didn't want to waste it on lesser beings.

But the two young women didn't seem to want to give up.

"Hey idiot, where is she...?" Teresa continued but her friend stopped her again. She showed her the phone; there were several messages and photos on the school forum. It seemed that they had found Jason and Amanda in the cafeteria lying together without clothes. "What the hell?!"

Eva somehow knew what was happening, her control over the couple had stopped a few hours ago and she had seen the security cameras of the cafeteria. It helped test the scope of her mind control and current powers. They were working pretty well; however, she had a long way to go to reach the level of her previous life. 

The two young women turned around and left immediately without saying another word. 

Teresa, the arrogant girl, looked at Eva once more with narrowing eyes. She was surprised at how different Eva looked, but she didn't have time to dwell there. Jason was with that bitch, Amanda. She couldn't let that happen. 

Eva's cell phone rang when the two girls left. It was strange, she looked at the device curiously while an unknown number appeared on the screen. The small device was the only thing she could save from Percy's stomach. 'Damn creature,' she thought as she answered the phone. "Hello?"

A man's voice responded on the other end. "Am I speaking with Miss Eva Reed?"

"Yes, who is this?"

"I am the officer in charge of the investigation at Hart Mansion. My name is Kevin Helsing, could you spare me some of your time for a few questions?"

Eva smirked. She didn't think they would find the maid's body that fast. "Yeah, what's going on? Have you captured the animal yet?"

"No, we are still looking into it. Did you know Miss Martha Nuvell, the maid who was murdered yesterday morning?"

"I think she was one of the servants, I don't recognize them all nor do I know their names. Mrs. Roberts should know."

"Did you hear something strange the night before or that morning? The guard at the entrance, Mr. Gibran, told us that you arrived at the mansion at dawn, after your accident..."

"I had a terrible headache that night, I took some painkiller pills that night and slept like a log. I didn't hear anything."

"Did you not hear the barks from the dogs? From what the servants tell us, they were making a racket that morning."

"The pills I took were quite strong, Inspector Helsing. I only know that when I woke up there were a lot of people walking around the mansion. I barely found out what happened to the maid, it's something terrible."

On the other side, the orange-eyed man frowned. He had seen the video of the bicycle accident and had spoken with Mrs. Torres. He had also followed the cameras from the road where Eva had walked until reaching the mansion, she seemed to be badly injured.

Her explanation of taking painkillers pills seemed to fit her situation, but the fact that she had walked out of the mansion effortlessly the next day was strange.

"Is there anything else, Inspector Helsing?"

"No, thank you very much for your cooperation."

"Well, have a nice day, officer."

She hung up the phone immediately. Now that she remembered, that mansion was a problem, and its owner even more. 

If she wanted to go on with her life the way she wanted, it was better to divorce that man immediately, and thus get a little more money as alimony.

***

Meanwhile, in the dorm manager's office, Amanda and Jason, already dressed and aware, were looking around with confusion and a hint of anger in their eyes.

"Did you take drugs?" asked the dorm general manager, a man with gray hair and a big mustache. 

Amanda shook her head in denial. "No… I've never tried drugs in my life. I don't..."

"You can do a blood test if you want," Jason replied with annoyance. He didn't remember anything from the night before, after fucking Amanda. Everything suddenly went black. "Check the cameras in the dorms."

Jason crossed his arms and looked at the manager in frustration. "What are you waiting for? Do it now!"

His family was one of the most powerful families in the city, and his parents always gave him everything. However, that did not mean that they could shut up all scandals, especially ones as big as that one.

At least a hundred people were in the cafeteria that morning, filming and taking photos of their naked bodies. It was humiliating.

He would do anything to destroy the person who did this to him, find him or her, and put him through the worst of hell.

The manager looked at the young couple. They were both famous on the campus, for their wealthy and powerful families and for their arrogance. 

Right now, the young woman was shaking and crying, while the young man was dangerously calm but fury radiated from his eyes.

"We've already reviewed the footage, Mr. Sane," the man told them and flipped the screen on his desk. In the video, they could see the naked couple leaving the room. First Jason and then Amanda, they looked strange as if they were hypnotized, and didn't seem to respond to anything.

"What about before?" Amanda asked. "Someone could have entered."

"There's nothing," the old man said and rewound the video. 

The hallway was empty and dark, it seemed as if a lamp had failed at that moment and everything had gone dark until Amanda and Jason came out of the room. 

"The pertinent blood tests will be done and the case will be referred to the disciplinary board and the student council. Discuss the situation with your parents. For now, you are suspended for the rest of the week..."

"You can't do this to us!" Amanda screamed. Her parents will kill her when they found it. "We didn't do anything wrong!"

Jason looked at the man. "Do you know who I am?"

The manager just leaned back in his seat. "Your family is famous Mr. Tyrell, but you know very well that no one can break the rules imposed by BlackRose, not even your parents. But you can try if you want, although not here with me but with the school board."

Jason didn't say anything else. It was true that he couldn't fight against the school administration. There were hidden powers on top that no one dared to ignore, not even his family.

"You may leave," the dorm manager instructed them.

Left alone, the old manager continued to watch the recording, and then another, of the dorm's entrance. Mrs. Mayer had been found there, paralyzed. But like the previous footage, there was a shadow that obscured the camera and turned what was happening into interference.

He took a deep breath thinking carefully, and caressed the golden ring on his little finger. "I have to notify the clans..."