Chapter 1 The Curse

The baby was crying miserably, like her soul being torn apart; blood was everywhere, and was dripping on the ground, on the tree and on the wall. She was surrounded by numerous people who were both laughing and crying, and in the meantime they were jumping to bite her.

Tasha couldn't say anything.

She woke up in fear with this endless bad dream again, her back sweaty.

She leaned against the tree, feeling very exhausted, and after dealing with her father's funeral with her families, she wanted to stay alone for a while, but unexpectedly, it took her a whole day to be alone.

Tasha thought of her mother's scolding, and she wondered whether she should go back to the small attic. In her family, her father was the only one who treated her nicely, and now he was shot dead accidentally yesterday.

Her mother and her elder sister Madonna must have been worried about their future life, and her mother was always partial to Madonna, so she would definitely order Tasha to drop out from school and to earn a living for the family.

Her mother said this with hatred several times, "Why would our family raise a monster like you?"

Tasha was different from others.

She always dreamt about something passing by her, and that thing told her in a hoarse and tedious voice that she would join them, sooner or later.

Her father would kiss her when she went to bed, apologizing that she should ignore what her mother said, and saying that she was a very unique girl.

However, she found out surprisingly that a drop of her blood would make the flower wither in the room, and her mother happened to see that.

"Monster."

From then on, she was a monster, in her mother's mind.

Tasha stood up and realized that there was a forest in front of her.

Different from the trees beside her, this forest was very dense and the tree trunk was huge, so there was not a ray of sunshine in it.

But she was sleeping in front of her father's graveyard, and it was a wasteland yesterday.

"Hey, did you smell it? A human girl."

Tasha walked into the forest slowly, and she seemed to be able to hear the whispering from the distance.

It was so dark, and she couldn't tell what the scent was, either a scent of dampness because of no sunlight or a scent of grass.

"So…delicious…"

At this moment, Tasha was surrounded by two men, and they were moving very quickly, like the man in her dream, and now they were encircling around her.

"Unbelievable! A real human girl."

One of the men laughed confidently, his eyes deep and bright, and all that made him look like a ruffian, and what he said scared Tasha a lot.

"Little girl, you smell tasty. Do you mind being bit by me?"

Actually, Jerry had quitted sucking human blood for a while, and he said that just to tease with her, but surprisingly, the girl shook her head strongly and she wanted to run. So a puff of wind spread the delicious scent from her. Her body scent was very fragrant.

Jerry restrained himself, but indeed he hadn't tasted human blood for a long time, so his eyes turned red by smelling this delicious human.

Eyes turning red meant that a vampire wanted to suck blood. The redder, the greater urge a vampire had.

Tasha was very frightened, and she fell down on the tree trunk, shaking her head.

But obviously the two men couldn't control themselves now, because their eyes were turning scarlet.

At that moment, in the air, Tasha was forced against the tree trunk, and as Jerry got closer, she could see Jerry's face and his red eyes. His handsome face now became savage, and his vampire tusk touched her fragile neck.

Tasha couldn't breathe in great pain.

The vampire tusk almost pierced into the skin, and Tasha was afraid that her struggle would hurt herself more, so she didn't yell and struggle.

"Jerry."

Someone said calmly, and suddenly the air became cold too.

Jerry looked up, and his eyes were becoming normal, with red fading. Tasha felt relieved again, and she was brought to the ground again, so she managed to breathing again.

"Sir?"

Tasha calmed down and looked at the man not far. He was tall and slender, and he looked very handsome with a plain trench coat.

"How long have you quit sucking human blood? And now you couldn't control yourself?"

"I almost hurt her, but I didn't in the end."

"You didn't because I mind-controlled you."

Jerry felt embarrassed, looking at and praising the man nicely. He even made a serious promise that he would never make the same mistake. So the man finally forgave him.

"You two can go now."

"What about her?"

"Just go."

Jerry obeyed the man, and vanished suddenly, while Tasha, absent-minded, saw Jerry disappearing. No one knew what Tasha was thinking, and then she heard the man ask a question.

"Did you feel scared?"

Tasha turned around, and nodded her head innocently.

"He is not a bad guy."

Tasha kept nodding her head.

The man sighed, asking, "How did you get into this forest?"

"I don't know. I didn't see it yesterday but it showed up today."

The man looked at her, thinking and then saying, "Your body…What is special with your body?"

Tasha gave a second thought, and told the man about her blood. He didn't seem surprised at all, and he nodded, asking, "Anything else?"

"No."

The man looked at the girl in front, and she looked young, so it was difficult to tell her age. If she didn't say that she was going to be a high school student, he would think that she was a junior school student. She looked down, and her eyelashes were shivering like fragile butterflies, because she was scared or nervous.

But the man knew that she trusted him.

The man sighed, touched the girl's head nicely, and then explained slowly, "Human cannot get into the forest without help. So there must be vampire gene in your blood.Do you want to stay here?"

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Tasha wore the school uniform given by Mr. Clinton, but she was too thin, so even the clothes of the minimum size seemed too big for her.

She didn't want to go back to her 'home' anymore.

There were mice and cockroaches in that small attic, and also there were harsh scolding and orders from mother and elder sister, and she hated all those.

She recalled what Mr. Clinton asked in the forest. "Do you want to stay in this castle? There were a lot of vampires here, but most of them had quitted human blood or are at least trying to. They are just like humans, with various characteristics."

Except that she felt a little dangerous.

Tasha made a quick decision, and she took a deep breath and nodded.

She said yes not just because of the injustice she endured, but also because of a curse on her. That was a curse especially on half-human-half-vampire kid.

She would die before 20 years old, unless she could find a witch to break the curse.

Maybe someone could tell that she was half-human-half-vampire by her special talent, but no one knew the curse, except her and the one who cursed her.

'I want to live.' Tasha said to herself.