Sold To An Alpha

"Oh... hey Julia." Mr. David half smiled as he saw the young woman and slowly put Emily down. "Thank you for looking after Emily while I was gone." He chuckled softly, and Julia nodded. "You are welcome. She's such a sweet girl. I enjoyed babysitting her today." She smiled charmingly, nodded, and shifted her gaze to Emily.

"Daddy, we baked some cookies! C'mon, let me show you!!" Emily grabbed her father by the wrist and pulled him towards the kitchen. Then she climbed up a small chair and grabbed a cookie jar on the table. "Here it is." 

Mr. David received it from her and examined the cookie. A wide smile spread across his face and he slowly nodded while turning back to glance at Julia, who stood by the kitchen door with a simple smile on her face.

"This smells good." He chuckled softly and gently brought Emily down from the chair.

They spent the rest of the day with Julia, per Emily's request for her to stay, and finally, when she slept off and was tucked into bed, Mr. David decided to see Julia off.

"It was nice spending time with you guys, and I must say again that your daughter is such a lovely, sweet girl." A wide smile spread across Julia's face, and Mr. David nodded at her with a smile visible on his lips. "Thank you... She really likes you a lot. " 

"Yeah... I noticed that too." She chuckled softly and awkwardly bade goodbye to Mr. David before leaving.

Mr. David stared at her disappearing back for a while before he turned around and walked into the house, shutting the door behind him.

He strolled towards Emily's room and sat down on the bed beside her. He leaned down a bit and kissed her forehead before switching on her unique lantern, which emits luminous blue color. He stood up from the bed and walked towards the switch and turned off the light, leaving only the unique lantern on. 

He glanced at his daughter one last time before proceeding towards his own room.

He stepped in and shut the door, then strode towards the bathroom to have his shower. It took him a few minutes before he was done and dressed up in a blue robe, then moved towards the bed to grab his phone.

He unlocked it and the first thing that popped up on the screen was the photos he took at the Cathryn's mansion.

His eyes narrowed into a thin line, and he turned around to walk towards his table in the room. He pulled open the drawer and grabbed a key under the books inside, then shoved the drawer back and proceeded out of the room.

He ambled further down the corridor and pushed open a brownish-colored door, then stepped into the room. He shut the door behind him and slowly strolled towards the white-colored wall. He glanced at a picture of his mother hanging on the wall and slowly brought it down, revealing a curly steel handle.

He turned it and, with a creak, an unknown door attached to the wall opened a bit. He ambled towards it and pushed it open, stepping into an unknown room. 

The door shut behind him, and he turned around to gaze at a massive library with long shelves and hundreds of books in them. 

A half-smile spread across his lips, and he began to stroll towards a particular shelf that was shorter than the rest. He skipped the books on it and finally stopped before one that had a brown, thick cover with ancient symbols on it.

He hurriedly grabbed it and moved to take his seat on a chair at the table in the room. 

Mr. David dusted off the cover of the book, then blew on its back and dropped it on the table. He slowly opened the book and was surprised to see that the papers were still as fresh as ever, with no wrinkles on them. It had been a long time since he opened this book.

He was a young boy then when his weird father, who doesn't talk to people, gave him the book. He was skeptical at first about taking it but eventually did. Even if his father wasn't someone people liked and visited, he still loved his father, even more than his mum, because he was always there for him, unlike his mother, who only complained about how hard they made her life be or how regretful she was about marrying his father.

A low breath left Mr. David's nose, and he sat down on the chair. His father had died when he was fourteen and he was eventually sent to stay with his aunt Magrida, who was quite nice to him, although her attitude did change towards him when her son, who was just as old as him, came back from overseas.

His Aunt Magrida stopped sponsoring him in school and made him work for his school fees. The only thing that saved him at the time was that he was as tall and poised as an eighteen-year-old even though he was only fourteen. He had jumped classes back when he was still living with his dad as a result of his high 1Q, so one could say he graduated quite fast at the age of sixteen.

He chuckled, recalling all this, and slightly shook his head. It was really a great thing that he works in a big hospital now and can give his daughter the kind of life she wants and not one as miserable as his.

A low breath left his nose and he turned his phone to view the photos of the corpse. He flipped through the book and finally halted at page 556. "Mythic Creatures!"

Dragons,

Centaurs,

Manticores,

Imps,

...werewolves, and vampires...

He instantly halted on that page, and his eyes narrowed into a thin line as he stared intently at the pictures of these two creatures. 

"Vampires and Werewolves"

Vampires √

"Creatures of the night from folklore that subsists by feeding on the vital essence of the living and survive on human blood..."

His eyes trailed down and he continued reading, then halted to stare at the image again. "Nails...Fangs...." He gazed at the nails for a while before turning the pages to read about the werewolves.