Chapter 22: What She Sacrificed for Love

The sky was dark and merciless as it whipped the land with its powerful lighting and roared with the mighty thunder. The rain poured like a barrage of arrows piercing the sinful land as if smiting its corrupted residents while the winds howled brutally making the trees bow and the buildings crumble to their very foundations. The terrible storm spared nothing, not the ants that hide under the earth, nor the bears that slumber in their caves, and certainly not the men who merrily exploited the land.

One castle standing remotely from civilization withstood the punishment of the gods. The proud structure stood firm and unmoving no matter how hard the wind howled nor how terrible the sky screamed with murder, the dark stone walls remain intact and the towers persistently held to protect its master and his beloved as well as the hundreds of undead roaming inside its halls.

Adrian roamed the corridors of his home to keep his mind occupied. To keep his mind away from a certain thought. A terrible thought that must never be realized. A terrible thought that must never be executed. He bit his lips and pounded against the wall of the castle that so affectionately protected him and his predecessors. He can feel his hunger consuming his body and soon it will also consume his mind.

The storm raged relentlessly outside of his castle, more intense than anything he had ever seen before which prevented him from leaving and looking for his meals. It has been two weeks since he last tasted the blood of humans and now he's experiencing withdrawal symptoms combined with his intense hunger.

For the most time, he only slept inside his coffin to ward off his hunger and avoided seeing Ruby as much as possible. He had sent out numerous ghouls to hunt for humans but so far none of them returned. He's beginning to lose hope. If this continues on he will have to consume his own blood which will lead to him being a complete monster as vampire cannibalism often tends to be. If that happens he will endanger Ruby and maybe make her suffer for all eternity. That thing won't happen. He will put a stake to his own heart before he ever harms his beloved.

He held on to the wall as his head swirled with hunger. Endure it just a little more.

"You have a delicious meal on your table and yet you don't eat it. How stupid can you be, brother?" Adrian turned on his back and glared at the person

"What are you doing here, Lancelot?" he spat at the intruder.

"I'm here to bring you back to reality, brother. You've been starving yourself for weeks, too afraid of hurting your little pet, and taking a small bite. Even though she is a fountain of delicious phantasmal blood. Really brother, I didn't think that you'd fall so low as to love a Pe-."

"SHUT YOUR MOUTH, SCOUNDREL. If you ever suggest such a thing I will not hesitate to kill you!! Even in my current state, I can still destroy you!!" he warned, summoning his sword and pointing it to his brethren.

"Ooohhh, terrifying. I would like to see you try." Lancelot replied in sarcasm.

"But don't say that I didn't give you anything." Lancelot threw a vial at the Count who caught it effortlessly.

"Blood mead?" Adrian guessed looking at his brother with a stern face.

"Yes, it can satiate your hunger for a while and don't worry I didn't tamper with it. I really pity you brother. You were the one that received the shorter end of the stick just because you were born first. Auntie Elizabeth also preferred you more that's why you were the one to inherit all these riches and curses. It must have been torture to be trapped in her castle where she used to torment you along with all the girls she had raped and tortured. I wonder if you still hear the voices of the damned screaming in your hallways. But I wonder more what your little flower will think when she sees your face. Do you think she'll be repulsed or do you think that she'd jump from a turret just to get away from you?" Lancelot voiced with a devious smile. His words dripped with a lethal venom that aims to torment his mind and trigger his anger.

A starving vampire with anger is uncontrollable. Senses will all be gone once he falls for his brother's manipulation and he might harm his Ruby, his precious gem, his sweet sweet angel. No, he will not be angry. Anger is for the weak. Adrian Vladimir is not weak. He will not revel in Lancelot's words. He will keep his beloved safe. He will not take a bite of his beloved even if it means that he starves. And so he shall because he is strong and endurance is the virtue of the mighty.

"You have overstayed your welcome. I think that it is best for you to leave." Adrian said with finality in a low cold voice that offers no warmth nor recognition of family.

"Farewell, brother, and may you come to your senses." The earl said before turning into a cloud of bats and departing. Adrian looked at him with loathing before turning away.

Now he had done it. He had done the most blasphemous of deeds. He had hurt his beloved. His Ruby.

Blood dripped from his mouth as Ruby stared at him wide-eyed and fearful. His body shook as he returned her gaze afraid and guilty.

In the midst of lovemaking, Adrian had bitten Ruby's neck and drank her blood as he orgasmed inside of her. She moaned in pain and whimpered his name, looking at him with a betrayed look. By doing that, he made her nothing but a livestock which he can feed or fuck or both. He pulled away in guilt, looking at her with mournful eyes as if silently begging her for forgiveness.

He turned to leave but she grasped his hand and pulled him back. Ruby hugged him placing his head against her breasts and whispering words of comfort and forgiveness into his ear. Adrian started tearing up for some unknown reason he cannot explain, complex and heavy emotions swirling in his head and heart all because of her kindness.

"It's okay. My heart, my soul, and my body are all yours. You've taken care of me in my darkest moments and never left me. Now it's my turn to return you the favor." Ruby pulled away and wiped his tears away.

"Here, you may taste me. Even if you end up killing me it's alright. I have all my love to give and you won't run out of it anytime soon. My love is not fragile." She presented her body to him in all her nude glory and he shed tears as he accepted her blessing. An unholy being accepting the kindness of a goddess. He doesn't deserve her. No mortal man nor an immortal one deserves the kindness and love of such a being as pure as she. She's beyond sweet, she's beyond kind, she's a being unfathomable by the limited mind.

Adrian was dumbfounded for a moment before standing up and making her lay on the bed. He climbed on top of her and pushed his manhood inside of her trusting ever so carefully inside of her warm and tight sex. He parted her hair and bit her neck eliciting a moan of both pleasure and pain from her lips. He drank her blood slowly at first before turning into large gulps. His penetration also intensified.

Her blood tastes magnificent. Better than any elf or human he's ever tasted before. And the fact that he's eating her while pounding her insides is turning him on more. Ruby had shown him what true love is going as far as sacrificing herself for him. His mind is blank of anything but her taste and her pussy. He wants to cum inside her as she dies in his arms. Her life will complete his love and her blood will satiate his hunger.

He can sense her life fading as their lovemaking progressed. Ruby became more limp under him and her white skin turned paler, her lips losing their rosy color. His dick exploded, penetrating inside her womb just in time for the last semblance of life to vanish from her features and her heart stopped beating.

That was the first and the last time that Adrian had hurt Ruby. The storm passed and the ghouls were able to bring back food for him. Their relationship was never the same after that but instead of the incident breaking them apart, it had made their love stronger. Adrian could never forgive himself for killing her and feeding on her kindness and innocence but Ruby always forgave him saying that she never regretted what they did because she loves him more than her own life.