Chapter 16

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"And then what happened to the both of you now? Why all of a sudden she hated you so much?" Ully asked after he listened to Edmond's story back from the nineteenth century. 

Abang na abang naman si Ully na malaman ang sagot. Bahagya rin siyang nalungkot matapos pakinggan ang kwento ni Edmond. Seeing how Alycia hated him because after all before it all came to this situation, she was a human.

He shrugged off. "I guess it's what I did to her. She has an absolute beauty that she has still now, but she was filled with anger that's why her aura changed."

"That's just... sad," Stella sighed and stood on her feet, walking towards Chloei and Keonne. Humalukipkip naman ito. "So, anong gagawin natin sa mga palakang 'to? Hindi dapat sila makaalis ng bahay na 'to nang may nalalaman."

"I know a way," Edmond suggested.

"Are we going to kill them?"

Napasinghap naman sina Chloei at Keonne. Nagpanic naman ang dalawa at binabalak nang sumigaw pero dahil nakabantay si Pell sa kanilang tabi ay hindi na nila ginawa pero pinipilit nilang tumakas mula sa pagkakatali sa kanila sa upuan.

"Please don't kill us," pagmamakaawa ni Chloei, mangiyak-ngiyak pa ito. "Promise! Hindi namin sasabihin sa iba ang nakikita namin ngayon. Pakawalan niyo lang kami ng buhay."

"Nagmamakaawa kami," dagdag ni Keonne, nanginginig pa ang boses nito. Ni hindi niya ngang magawang lingunin ang dalawang bampira sa harap nila. 

"You should've never followed us here in the first place," ngisi ni Stella. "That's the consequence of you being so nosy. It's something you should've never done."

"Okay, that's enough," Edmond said, parting Stella from the reporters. Nakahinga naman ng maluwag ang dalawa but they were still terrified ngayong nakaharap na nila ang isa sa mga bampira. Pinalapit naman ni Edmond si Pellegrino kay Keonne habang tumapat naman ito kay Chloei.

Tinitigan lamang ng dalawang bampira ang dalawang reporter habang may binibigkas na mga salita. Mayamaya lamang ay nawala na sa paninging nila Ully, Stella, at Elius ang mga reporter. Hindi nila ito napansin dahil mabilis ding nakabalik ang dalawa mula sa kanilang kinatatayuan.

"How did you guys even do that so quick?" Ully was astonished. "I know that's dumb of me to ask but damn! Gano'n pala kayo talaga kabilis!"

Stella patted Ully's shoulder. "Masasanay ka rin, don't worry," ngisi pa ng dalaga.

"That's one of our abilities," Edmond said. "Being a vampire came along with some supernatural abilities, but we don't know how a vampire acquired it in the first place. We just know we can do it. And the other thing we did to those two, it's called compulsion. It can be done by hypnotizing them and can make them forget what happened."

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