Her Soul and His Blood novel Chapter 21

Zella started staring at the new face. He motioned her to sit. But she stood still not knowing what to do next.

"Who are you ? What do you want ? Where is my brother ?"

" I know that you have lot of questions to ask. All your questions will be answered." he leaned towards Zella and whispered in her ears, " by the real master."

"So Hance must be the real master." Zella said smirking her face.

After hearing this that stout man laughed loudly. His sound echoed in that room which gave Zella a paranoid experience.

"Who are you?" She asked him again.

"Im Benjamin Parker, the Marquis of Vampires, soon." He extended his arm.  Unlike others' his fingers were thin and frail, shaped by prominent phalange bones and knotted where the joints curled around the ends of each long and short bone in his hands. There was no muscle tone or fat definition and his skin was only the layer of dust so fine over the polished white underneath.

Zella's hands were trembling with fear, she doubted whether to shake his hand. For a moment her fear forced her to shake his hand .

"Please tell me where my brother is ? I beg you." She pleaded him.

"He will be safe here."

"But he was bleeding and injured."

"Don't worry, his blood won't be wasted. It will serve its purpose. To fulfill the thirst of the young ones."

"How dare you ?" She tried to hit him but caught by two bodyguard vampires of him.

They held her from both sides. She tried to untangle but failed. The anger flowed through her vein. She closed her eyes and opened it. Her eyes started sparkling. Some kind of power developed over her. She moved her both hands which was caught by two vampires. When she moved her hands they both are thrown away and they hit the window. The glasses of the window broken and pierced through their necks.

She saw them die. She moved towards Mr.Benjamin, with her full power on. She caught his throat which is a cardinal error. He struggled to escape from her hands, the red stone made her more powerful, the thought of her brother's death made her even more powerful.

He started choking, he put his fangs out, tried to loosen her arms. But the echo of her name made her to move back from killing him. It is Hance, he is holding someone who is tired and hanging down in his hands with a spot of life on his body.

"Zad..." Zella screamed.

"Leave him or else your brother will die in my arms."

Zella went backwards, the sparkle of her eyes diminished. She saw her brother injured and bleeding. He is weak and barely even able to open his eyes. They tortured him and beaten him. Zella's heart ached with the site of this.

"Please, don't Hance. He must be hospitalised, he is losing lots of blood."

"Yes if you cooperate with us. Hance take him away. And Zella if you don't then forget about your brother."

"What should I do ?" Zella kneeled oh her leg and begged him for her brother's life.

"Give me the red stone." Mr.Benjamin said. She raised her head to see his face.

"I will do anything for my brother." She cried.

Mr.Benjamin laughed at her apathetic situation. He motioned Hance to go. Hance went away dragging Zella's brother with him.