The Crown's Obsession

Music Recommendation: Sweet Brutal Suite by Jeff Ruso

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Vladimir snapped his fingers and the pain slowly subsided, and Laurence heaved for air.

"I am all in when it comes to hurting and killing people, but you. Useless fucking piece of shit who I would more than happily slice you with the butcher's knife that you get in the living world. How dare you think that I will let you off that easily?" Vladimir's eyes darkened, while his voice turned cold.

"What have I done to you?!" Laurence demanded. He raised his head to look at Vladimir with his face contorted in agony as he felt a sudden shock of a bolt of thunder hit his body.

Vladimir took a threatening step towards the useless man. "You stole my beautiful daughter from me. You killed her, and now you ask me what you did to me?" the Devil ran his tongue around the front of his teeth, and said, "You don't remember which one, do you?" Vladimir sneered before he raised his leg to kick Laurence below his jaw, sending the vampire to fall on the ground.

Laurence fell on his back, groaning in pain as he felt the pain spread from his mouth to his entire face. As he tried to get up, he touched his mouth to see blood, and he huffed. Not knowing who this stranger was, who had kicked him, Laurence tried to apologise as he wanted to get out of this place,

"Look, I don't know what I did in the past, but I am very regretful for it."

Vladimir nodded his head, stepping towards the low life again, this time he used his hands to punch Laurence straight at his nose and they heard the bone crack.

"Fuck!" cursed Laurence.

"Yes, you should have thought about it before you fucked up her life," responded Vladimir, and he pulled the useless insect by his shoulder before dropping another punch, this time across Laurence's jaw.

"How dare you use and throw her as if she was nothing?" demanded Vladimir, and he plummeted his fist straight into Laurence's face. "My daughter Constance," glared the Devil at the low life who staggered away from him.

The previous King's eyes widened at the name of the woman whom he had bedded.

There were various versions of why the angel fell from Heaven, telling how he was consumed by greed of power and was a heartless person, a devil who showed no mercy to any being, but it was not wholly true. Like any other creature who had the ability to feel, the Devil had fallen for a woman and had a daughter. The woman had died, but he had continued to protect his daughter. Keeping the child away from any ill eyes or harm from the people who could get back at him.

Since he had turned from angel to a devil, and to live in the living world, he had turned to a vampire, where his body expected him to take rest and recharge itself so that it wouldn't break the vampire's existence in him. Who knew that his curious daughter would fall in a trap that was placed by this filthy creature.

"Y-your daughter?" asked Laurence with wide eyes.

Vladimir's facial expression turned passive with not a single emotion coming to pass through it. And though he looked like he was not bothered, he brought his hand up to snap his fingers. Suddenly a coil of hot burning iron wound itself around Laurence, and Vladimir heard the man scream and shout.

"AHH! NO! STOP IT-AAH!"

His screams filled the Grand Hall. The demons who were walking near the Grand Hall didn't care as it seemed like their Master was having fun.

"AHH!!"

"Did you stop when my daughter begged you to not kick her out of the castle?" Vladimir's words were still calm, and he looked at the black walls, where one of the torches holding fire burned brightly like his ire.

The useless vampire, who was screaming, for a moment his eyes flashed through the time he had spent his time with the woman named Constance. Somewhere in the back of his head, he could hear her pleading voice.

"Guards! Throw this woman right this instant!" ordered Laurence's mother.

Tears streamed through Constance's eyes. She shook her head, unable to form words as she was shocked with the sudden change of behaviour from the people around her.

"Please, don't send me out from here," Constance begged Laurence's mother and then looked at Laurence, where he stood away from her with his hands crossed against his chest. "I don't know what I did to upset you, but please forgive me!" she pleaded, looking back and forth between him and then his family members. Big drops of tears fell from her eyes uncontrollably.

His mother sighed as if she was tired of hearing Constance's whining voice since they had broken the news about her not to stay in the castle anymore.

"Did you forget the difference between you and us? You are not fit to stand next to my son and you can't have a future with him," said his mother, raising her eyebrows at Constance. "We belong to the royal family of vampires. He's the King, and you, you are no one but a poor girl. Did you really think that I would let a girl like you marry him?"

Next to his mother, his sister Rosamund snickered. "Dreaming is good, but you should only dream about what you are capable of," commented Rosamund, supporting her mother's words.

"Sister Rosamund," Constance beseeched.

She approached the vampiress, but Rosamund turned her head away. She then went to the King's mother, bending down she caught the Queen's legs.

"Please, don't send me away from here. I love Laurence. I will do everything I can and will keep him happy," pleaded Constance.

"What part of my words did you not understand and decided to ignore it? My son has chosen his Queen, who will bring great affluence to this land. You were just his passing amusement. Don't think that my son loves you," and when Constance didn't let go of the older vampiresses legs, the woman kicked Constance. As they were at the top of the stairs, Constance rolled down and fell on the hard ground. "Now leave this place, unless you want to be punished for crossing your limits! Guards drag her out of here!"