Vampire Love

Six - Immunity

Alana slowly opened her eyes. She let out a sigh as she registered her body snugly tucked into her soft, soft bed. It was a wonderful, calming feeling. She never knew that her bed was so.. So not her bed!

Alana's eyes flew wide open as she surveyed the room she was in. She didn't recognize this room because it wasn't her room! Where was she? How had she gotten here??

"You're awake."

Alana jumped as she heard the voice. She knew that voice. But it wasn't possible. That couldn't be Lucious Heron.

She sat up on the wide bed and allowed her eyes to register the dimly lighted room. It was then she saw him, seated on a sofa right in front of her. He was shirtless and looked like he had just come out of the shower. He looked.. Incredible. Shut up!

"Erm... What.. What am I doing here?" Alana asked in a low voice.

"We can start with you actually telling me what you were doing outside your house at midnight?" He said with a raised eyebrow. He looked almost angry. Why would he be angry at her? What was even going on in her life since she met him? She was supposed to be the angry one!

Alana mused as the events of the night before came back to her memory. So it had truly happened? She had truly been chased by a shape-shifting monster that had almost eaten her alive?? She remembered how he'd been cut into two by the man in front of her. How had he known that she was there and in trouble?

"First tell me how you found me? How did you know I was there at that time?" Alana frowned, her eyes questioning as she glared at him.

Lucious chuckled, standing up from the sofa and moved towards her and eased on the bed. Alana unconsciously pulled herself deeper into the bed as he came close.

"You could say I've been stalking you. But I knew I had a good reason to. You almost got yourself killed. Had I not been there, the demon would have eaten you." Lucious stated as-a-matter-of-fact.

Alana's mouth hung open. He was right. She was lucky he'd been there to save her. "Thank you. You saved my life."

"I was wondering when you were going to have the decency," Lucious said with a small smile at her.

"Decency for what?"

"To say thank you for rescuing you." He replied, the smile wider.

Alana glared at him. "I still have questions. How do you know that it was a demon? And how were you able to kill it so easily?"

Lucious sighed and moved closer to Alana. So close that Alana could smell his soapy/manly scent. She felt the air in her lungs dry up as she waited for whatever he was preparing to do.

"You are just a young girl who moved here to have a normal life, but what you saw would change your life."

"Well, it can't be unchanged. So you could as well explain it to me." Alana said in a demanding tone.

Lucious smiled at her and raised his hands to her face. He gently stroked her cheek and looked deep into her eyes. Alana was drowning in those black pits and she didn't know how to get out.

"You're so beautiful, it's almost unbelievable.." She said before she could think better of it. She quickly clamped her mouth shut but she knew it had gotten out, judging by the expressive smile on his face.

"With my power of compulsion, I will make you forget. That way, you'll be safer." He said, his fingers still caressing her chin gently. He had this sad, but determined look on his face.

Alana didn't know what that meant but she just couldn't bring herself to react. It was like she was completely frozen. With a determined gleam, Lucious grabbed her face and brought it closer to his. She could see the deep color of his eyeballs and every pore on his face.

"You will do as I say." He commanded, still staring heavily at Alana. "Starting from this second, you will forget about everything that happened to you last night, you will forget what you saw, you will forget how you got here, and you will go home and stay indoors."

They stared at each other wordlessly. Lucious looked at her, waiting for his words to have the effect of compulsion on her. Usually, after a person had just been compelled to do whatever he told them to do, their eyes would retract, shut themselves and become a dark pit before they would blindingly nod their head as a sign of them being compelled. Lucious was still waiting for this to happen to Alana.

"Why would you think that I'll just forget all that has happened? Was that supposed to be a request or a command?" Alana asked, her eyebrows turned down in confusion.

Lucious sucked in a breath. She wasn't compelled. It didn't work. He steadily jumped up on his feet, desperate to take a little space from her.. Whoever or whatever she was.

In all of his years as a vampire, he'd never had his power of compulsion fail on any human. Not even the ruler of the entire state. He realized that if she could not be compelled, it meant trouble. It wouldn't take long for supernaturals to find out about her abnormality.

Even without the abnormality, she was already being hunted just a few days of her arrival in the area. Lucious remembered when he'd first met her, there had been something about her. Something that made him wary of her. Yes, she was completely human, the sweet tingly scent of her could testify to that.

But apart from that, she'd seemed like she was hiding something.. Dangerous. Something that was likely a threat to him and his kind. Now he understood his wariness of her and why he had immediately run away from the conference meeting. Her mind was immune to him and his kind.

"Hey.. Is something wrong?" She had gotten up from the bed and now stood in front of him. He held his breath as his eyes scanned her soft features.

"How old are you?" He asked, his voice formal and distant. Although, yesterday, the moment he'd left the meeting, he'd asked his men to provide every information they could about her, the uploaded and even the hidden one. Nothing had seemed abnormal, and she was supposed to be 23, but he couldn't be sure of-

"I'm twenty-three years old." She replied, stopping his erratic thoughts.

"Oh.. You have any family?" He asked again.

Alana paused to stare at him, unsure. "Well... No, I don't." She was lying, Lucious noted. "It's just me," She finished with a nervous chuckle.

"Who is the 14-year-old boy staying with you then?"

Alana's eyes widened and her mouth hung open. "What? How-how do you even know about my..?"

"I know things about you, Alana Dyson. And I know in fact that you're lying through your teeth right now." He told Alana, a smirk on his fine lips.

"Look, I know that you're my boss's boss at work, but I don't see why you should know personal things about my life! So yes, I lied. And.. I have to go. Thank you for saving me from..." She raised her hand up in an attempt to explain what it was, but failed.

"Whatever that thing was. But I have to go home now. My brother will be looking for me now."

With his jaw clenched, Lucious turned to her. He needed to approach the situation with caution. He gave her a warm smile.

"You will need to go by transportation. Let me drop you home?"

Alana glanced at him, hesitation clearly written all over her face.

"I'm not one of the monsters, if that's what you are wondering."

"I... Suppose I could use a lift. Thank you, Mr Heron."

Lucious nodded wordlessly with a broad grin.

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