Midnight bites episode 5 – 6
🩸MIDNIGHT BITES
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{ Quest For Her Blood…} 🩸
By; Holland Cisca
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Chapter 5&6: DEBRIEFING.
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Arya came to work as early as 6am the next day. She still couldn’t stop pondering over the previous night event.
The fact that Mr Raines, her boss was a vampire. And Nicole appears to be his feedbag.
She was going through some files but her mind wasn’t completely in what she was doing that she didn’t notice the elevator door open.
“ Miss Stark, you came earlier than I expected.” Adrian said as he approaches her desk.
“ I keep to the rules of punctuality.” She stood up, “ Good morning, Adrian.” She greeted.
“ Good morning. Are you done with those?” He asked, pointing at the files on her desk.
“ Yes, only a few remains. Do you need them so urgently?” she asked.
“ Not really. But I’ll need your help.” He said.
“ Anything.”
“ I have a meeting to attend, but I won’t be going anymore.”
“ Okay…”
“ I need you to help me collect the doc-mentary form from the hoster, Priya Sayeed. You just have to let her know you work for me.”
“ Okay. Do you need me to go there now or…?”
“ Now. It’s just thirty minutes from here.”
She nodded. “Got that.”
She started to pack her desk, taking the few files which she was done to his office. On leaving, he stopped her.
“ And…” she paused, turning. “ meet me in my office by seven tonight, I’ve got somewhere to show you.” He said.
“ Is it part of the night duty?” she asked.
“ No. Until then, I’ll explain it to you.”
Arya left still in thought, but she didn’t let it so much bother her. If it wasn’t the night duty stuff, then could it possibly be… the vampire stuff?
She boarded a taxi to the complex building downtown. Priya Sayeed was one of the most popular fashion designer in the city.
She owns almost three fashion companies in Texas and two at Austrialia, and two more at Asia. She was everyone’s role model, and more yet to be.
Arya stepped out of the taxi car, staring at the tall structured storey building. She can’t believe she was finally going to meet with the famous Priya Sayeed.
She made her way in. Gasping softly as soon as she walked pass the entrance door.
The interior section of the building was another definition of paradise on earth.
“ Excuse me,” one of the workers approached Arya, “ how may I help you?”
“ I’m looking for Ms. Sayeed. I was sent to collect some stuffs from her.” she replied.
“ Please, follow me.” She esc-rted her further into the building until they got to a door made with brown and a mixture of golden colour. “ Please wait here.”
She waited for what took like a minute before the young lady appeared again. “ Please come in.”
“ Thank you.” Arya walked in while the young lady left.
Priya was sitting adjacent to the glass windows. She had a big cigar in one hand and the other held a glass cup filled with red liquid.
“ My name is…” Arya wanted to introduce but she cuts her short.
“ Arya Stark, I know who you are. Adrian told me you were coming.”
Arya sighed in relief, she won’t have to waste her time going into introduction. “ Yes. He said you were going to give me some doc-mentary forms.”
She stood up from here chair, puffing on her cigar for the last time before dropping it into a small glass cup.
She gently placed the red wine on the table too, moving to a different table more w¡der and bigger than the one had dropped her wine.
She opened a drawer, taking out an envelope. “ Here it is.”
Arya went to take it from her, opening the envelope a little bit to see what was in it. “ That’s all he needs.” She said, returning back to her chair.
“ Any thing else?” she asked, seeing as Arya kept standing in the same position.
“ No. Nothing else.” She took the envelope with her, making her way out of the complex building.
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~ RAINES CORPORATION COMPANY ~
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Arya walked into Adrian’s office, it was empty. She dropped the envelope on his desk, returning back to the lobby.
Nicole walked out of the elevator, “ Ms. Stark?” she called.
“ Yes.”
“ Do you have the form with you?” she asked.
“ It’s in the boss’s office.” Before Nicole left to Adrian’s office, she threw Arya a deadly glare.
Poor Arya didn’t understand what the look was for and why she was actually staring at her in that manner.
It’s probably going to be because of the event of last night which she didn’t see as her fault.
Nicole walked out to Adrian’s office, she took the file with her leaving back to her office using the elevator.
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After work that day, Arya packed her stuffs, heading to Adrian’s office. He was on a phone call when she got there.
And she waited for him until the conversation was over. “ Ms. Stark.”
“ Yes, sir.”
He stood up, adjusting his collar and his tie. “ You ready?’ he asked.
She nodded her head. “ Yes.”
They walked out of the building to where he parked his car. She stood while he reversed his car, stopping to let her in.
“ It’s probably not what your’e thinking, Ms. Stark, and like I said, you aren’t on night duty… for now.” He assured her.
Arya’s heart was almost out of her mouth until he said those. She was becoming scared around him. The fear of seeing a vampire, and not just that, who turns out to be her boss.
And the fact that he just read her thoughts?!
“ Is she a vampire too?” She asked, referring to Nicole.
“ No. But she wants to become one.” He said.
“ Will you make her turn?’’
“ Though she is so desperate to become one, her blood won’t accept the bite.”
“ What happens if her blood doesn’t accept the bite?” she asked again.
“ It’s either she dies or she becomes a Feral.” He answered.
“ What’s a Feral?” she asked, inquisitively.
“ They are creatures formed from a clanless vampire or posssibly humans whose blood doesn’t adapt to a vampire’s bite. It take a day, most times a night before they become this… Feral.”
“ Is there a body, you know like the government who controls every activity of the vampires?” She asked.
“ Yes. There are six councils, each councils has it’s own clan. And when things goes wrong, they discuss about it, mostly concering the clanless.”
“So, who are this councils?”
” Kamilah, Lester…”
” Whoa…” She gasped, surprised.
” Priya…”
She cuts in, ” Hold on a sec, you fu*king kidding me? Priya is a vampire too?”
He nods with a ” yes.”
She recollected earlier that morning in her office. The red liquid in the glass cup. Could that mean it wasn’t just wine?
” The rest of the two, you’re yet to know them.” He said, making a left turn.
” And the sixth… you’re…”
” Yes. I am.”
” If you don’t mind me asking, how old are you? Twenty eight?” She guessed.
” You need more than that to guess. I’m 410 years old.” Her eyes flew open in surprise. ” I turned in the year 1620.”
” You look more… younger than that.”
” That’s one quality of my kind. We have the ability to live for a century or more and likewise still look a lot younger than humans. It’s probably one fun about being a vampire.”
” So, why are you taking me to the library?” She asked, changing the topic.
” I think it’s time for the debriefing.” He frankly said.
” Wh… what’s debriefing?”
” I’ll let you know when we get there.”
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They got to the national library, stopping at the entrance gate.
” What are we doing in a library? ” She asked, ” I remember coming here during my last session in highschool. I can’t believe it still looks new and… poor thing, it’s closed.”
” Not to us.” They went to a corner, Adrian brings out a key card from his side pocket, he looks at Arya. ” We the councils have our own private entrance. If you don’t mind…”
Arya takes her eyes off while Adrian types in the password. ” My apologies, Ms Stark, it’s a private entrance.”
” It’s okay.”
They made it further into the library. There were lots of books stored in each shelves.
The library still beared the same looks, only a few renovations were made which actually didn’t affect the original structure.
” Good evening, Mr Raines.” Said the library keeper.
” Good evening, Mr Kent. This is Ms Stark, my assistant. Ms Stark, meet Mr Kent, the library keeper.” He introduced.
He stretched out his hand for a handshake, ” It’s a pleasure to meet you, Ms Stark.” she held it, returning the handshake.
” You too, Mr Kent.”
” So…” Turning his gaze to Adrian.
” You know why I am here, ”
” Is this part of the… debriefing stuff?” She asked, eyes staring at the two gentlemen.
” Yes.” Adrian replied.
” Shall we begin?” Kent walks close to her, staring deep into her eyes.
” Hold on, what are you trying to do to me?” Looks at Adrian, ” Are you trying to erase my memory?” She questioned.
” Is that why you felt free to tell me about the Vampires while in your car, because you knew you’d do this to me?”
” Ms Stark, this is the only way to protect you. If the other vampires finds out you have a little knowledge about my kind, they’ll come after you.” He explained.
” They won’t find out. It’s only if I tell them.” She refused.
” Look Ms Stark, vampires aren’t like humans who needs investigation to find out what they are after. We can just read through your mind and get what we want without even letting you know.
If there’s anyway to keep you safe, it’s only if you accept to this. Trust me, it’s for your own good.”
Arya thought for a while, then nodded her head. ” Okay. I’ll do it.”
She took a deep sigh, exhaling heavily.
Mr Kent went ahead with the process which took about five minutes. After he was done, her let go off her.
” It’s done.” He said to Adrian.
Adrian didn’t take his gaze off Arya who stood unconsciously like she was gonna pass out.
” Ms. Stark?” He called.
She turned to look at him, her pale eyes staring back at him. ” Adrian, what am I….” He grabbed her before she could make it to the ground.
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To Be Continued…