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“Eh if I were to tell a story, right? It’s like I’m not guessing here Maria Celiza.” He promised.

I sighed. “Fine. There are men as much as kiss me. It kind of looks ten years older than me.” I said.

“Tsk! Did I mention that something bad happened to you! What happened? It’s good that you escaped Jusko! Men are really greedy for flesh!” He shouted.

“Shh! The strength of your mouth!” I whispered to her.

“I escaped because I stepped on the first man who approached me,” I said.

“Wait, tell your story from the beginning.” He promised.

“Didn’t I go home? I brought my belongings, there was my change of clothes, I was going to change at the chin, someone called me a man, he said I left my handkerchief, you know I don’t like handkerchiefs,” I said from him.

“Me! That’s the trend right now Liz! They said you left a handkerchief and then covered your mouth so you wouldn’t lose consciousness!” Shout it out.

“What else can I do?” I asked her. It nodded.

“Then I saw three men running towards us. I stepped on the one holding my wrist with stiletto heels so I ran, I went down the stairs to escape because the elevator took a while to open, I called you and Kendra’s case didn’t answer. “I promised.

“Until I fell on the stairs, I left my belongings there and the cellphone. Instead of them getting me, I ran to the first floor and finished,” I cut to myself.

“Then what?” she asked.

I swallowed.

“Ayun n-I escaped.” She’s still looking at me. She doesn’t seem convinced by what I said that I escaped.

“I’m really sorry Celiza, don’t worry I’ll tell Kendra and I’ll find you using it. Did you tell Tita? I should have accompanied you last night!”

“Hays. I’m really sorry. Those rich old people are crazy! You’re so beautiful!” He said angrily.

“O-okay Miranda. Then don’t make a lot of noise in the shop. Let’s go to work,” I said.

Fortunately, I don’t have school today. I can work all day.

“Uhm … Mocha cake then chocolate milk shake.” Said by the woman in front of me.

“Mocha cake then chocolate milkshake, that’s all ma’am?” I will ask. It nodded. I gave him the number and he looked for a seat.

“Good afternoon, what’s your order sir?” I smiled.

The man was wearing shades and a hat, also a sweater.

“Black Coffee,” he said.

My forehead furrowed at that familiar voice.

I let it go and maybe I’ll just dream again.

“Black coffee, that’s all sir?” I asked while smiling.

“Uh… And I want to talk to you.” It removes eye shades.

My smile faded when our eyes met.

“W-what are you doing here?” I stuttered to ask him.

I can’t believe he is here!

“I came here to talk to you,” he said.

This is what I’m saying, yesterday we met again and now he’s here.

What is he doing here? How did he know where I was going to work?

Who will be next? What will Halle and my friends see before? Or that annoying Aira?

“Why? For what?” I questioned him. Kian turned to us, giving the order. He noticed that I knew the man in front of me.

“Can we talk somewhere else, Celiza?” he asked.

“We’re talking Toci.”

Is he going to collect the debt of my family from his?

“Please?” He pleaded.

“What town, why did you take so long to order !? Please hurry, I have a walk!” Shout of one in line.

“Here’s your number, you can sit while waiting for your order,” I said then took a customer’s order.

People around him stare, perhaps because of his eyes. He also took off his hat and let his blonde hair shine in the sun. There he stood on the side, where the sunlight hit him.

I took my break and read behind the kitchen. Damn it. I don’t want to face Toci at all. I wish I could get inside this book so I don’t have to face anyone from my past.

Adrasteia Meranza has always been fascinated by blood sucking vampires. She knows everything about them. She is clever, attractive and valiant. It’s her last year in college at Colmillos University at Colmillos Town. Her library is full of books about vampire romances. The thought of a strong, masculine and attractive vampire taking her allure her more to adore them. Her fantasy is to be devirginized by one of it. She invests her time in reading books, romanticizing about them but then Adrasteia realizes that the town where she grew up is owned by vampires. She found out that his long time schoolmate, Asmodeus Vointeroz, the majestic, serious, stout and masculine guy is one of them. It’s her chance to finally lost her purity and fulfill her sex fantasy. She asked him to take her but to her disappointment he didn’t agree with her. She felt so bad about it that she even met his fellow vampires just to persuade him but she ended up meeting his whole clan.

Asmodeus is so annoyed with Adrasteia that he unwillingly agrees to her condition just to stop her from spreading rumors about them, even though no one would believe her, some will still try to know the truth and he doesn’t want anything to be revealed to humans. But before he agreed to her condition he suggested that they should let it come out naturally and not force it while they’re waiting to be both aroused to get into it. They spend most of the days together hanging out with Asmodeus’ brother Silvhari and Silvana who’s also they’re friends. Until at one point when they are alone in the middle of the forest, things get hot and they end up doing it. Asmodeus taking Adrasteia’s virginity. He can’t believe how strong she was that night to take him all in, considering the fact that he’s a lot more stronger than her but he is also amazed how strong she is as well like she’s one of them, or it’s just her fascination about vampires that makes him think like that about her.

After that night, it happened again multiple times, in the bathroom or their school, on the sink, on their house and almost everywhere but they’re favorite spot is the forest. All those joyful things that happen to them became dreadful when Adrasteia found out that the reason her father is not is because of an accident itself that happens at the moment when she was born. The accident happened in the middle of the road, her mother almost lost her in a miscarriage but a group of vampire saw them, they asked for help but they will only give it to them in one condition and that is for her father to become one of them. Her father loved her more than anything so he agreed to it even though her mother didn’t. She wanted both of them to be alive and with her but she didn’t have a choice. Turns out the vampires that saw them that night are Asmodeus’ mother and Silvana’s aunt, who happened to fall in love with Adrasteia’s father the moment he saw him. Asmodeus’ mom revived Adrasteia, the reason why she has flaming locks of hair and different eyes than humans. Her fascination about vampires is more than just about the novels that she read, it’s because deep inside she knew she’s one of them.

Soon enough her mother found out that she’s seeing Asmodeus and asked her to break up with him but she doesn’t want to even though she found out the whole truth. Adrasteia’s mom begged Asmodeus to leave her daughter alone because they already got his husband who died because of a vampire hunter. She wants Adrasteia to leave without the pain knowing how she was brought back from that accident. Even though Asmodeus falls in love with Adrasteia already, he doesn’t want her to be in that pain forever, he doesn’t want her to be blinded by love. For the last time, Adrasteia’s mom let her meet with Asmodeus but she didn’t know that’s gonna be the last time they’ll meet because Asmodeus removed her memory of him and everything about them, even the truth just to keep her safe. She pleaded for him not to remove her memory but Asmodeus is certain about it.

Three years later, Adrasteia is in another place which is far from Colmillos, she has a government job, which she finds boring but still works on it. She’s still living with her Mom and her mom never said a word about vampires to her. She burned all of her vampire novels and even the paintings she made before. She’s always updated on when it’s going to be a full moon because she’s doesn’t want Adrasteia to look at it, afraid for her memory to comeback or trigger it, she always want her to be in their house or go with her best friend Alessandro that she met on the same job. He is giving her hints that he likes her but she ignores it and she made it clear that she only wanted him as a friend and he accepted it but he didn’t give up until now. Adrasteia wants to go back to Colmillos because of Alessandro who also lives there. She didn’t know that it’s his home town because he doesn’t see him there often but he seems familiar to her. Adrasteia’s Mom is needed by her friend who got into an accident and she can’t leave her, Adrasteia took that chance to ask for permission to go back to their hometown. After a lot of begging for her to go back to Colmillos, her Mom agreed but only let her stay in Alessandro’s house and never go to the forest. Adrasteia went back to her hometown with the help of Alessandro and Alta, her childhood friend.

Everything is the same as what she remembers. She met Alessandro’s parents and they liked her. On the second day I went to the mall. A lady bumped into her, she was confused why the lady was so shocked to see her but she shrugged it off and left. On the third day she wandered near the forest and found the same lady who bumped into her but this time the lady was happy to see her and even introduced herself to her. It’s Silvana, though she kept an oath to never see Adrasteia again, she can’t stop herself. She became her friend before and what happened with they’re family is awful and she can’t help but feel bad about it. Adrasteia felt that she knew her, like she’s her friend, then they hung out all the time. Until a mysterious guy saw them who made Silvana uncomfortable. The next day she hasn’t seen her again, she’s worried for her but she’s wondering who must be the guy, he also looks familiar to her. Everything was familiar to her when she came back. She found out that Alessandro is a vampire hunter when she saw a room in their mansion full of vampire daggers, arrows, bows and everything to kill a vampire. Even a piece of clothing. She doesn’t know why she didn’t feel scared seeing it, she’s terrified of who Alessandro will use. Somehow she didn’t know why she felt connected to it. One night she sneaked out of their old house and went to the forest, she saw Asmodeus.

He was stunned to see her but she doesn’t know why his eyes are longing for something. They talk for a bit, she wanted to talk to him more but Asmodeus cut her off. There’s something about the guy that pulls her in so she doesn’t stop that night. She’s always going to the same spot in the forest, she’s hanging out with Silvana and she will always look for Asmodeus until he talks to her. For some reason he hugs her for a long period of time, she doesn’t know why she feels like home when she is in his arms. Like a road that she’s taken before but somehow forgot how to take the way on that road. One night when they are talking, Adrasteia can’t help but kiss him. She walks away because she’s ashamed of what she did. On the way out of the forest, her head aches so bad that she can’t even open her eyes until all her memories flashback to her.

She knew what happened to her but she decided not to tell anyone, she’s sure Asmodeus would erase her memory again. She broke up with Alessandro when she found out that he had a plan to kill all the vampires in the town, specifically the Vointeroz, Asmodeus clan. She doesn’t have a choice but to tell it to him and confess that she got her memory back after the kiss. When they’re about to go back to the Vointeroz manor they saw Alessandro. They confronted him and Asmodeus, Silvhari and Alesandro fought. In the end he is defeated. All the vampires in the town are safe. Asmodeus and Adrasteia get back together, she decides to stay with the Vointeroz and live as one of them to finally embrace what she is the second time she was born. All her life she’s living a lie, now she’s free from all those lies. Both of them took an oath to only use sexy lies in love, not in their lives.

Miranda came over to the counter and helped quite a lot of people because it was noon. “The man is familiar? Was he there last night? Do you know him?”

I just ignored it and focused on work. I have also been at the counter for over an hour.

“Hey! That yummy guy is looking at you!” Miranda. I turned my gaze to it.

Miranda’s right. He’s staring at me.

So it hasn’t left since before?

“Go ahead, Celiza. All right, then make a scene here in the coffee shop. You’re mad at Mrs. Hernandez!” He threatened.

No. I will not talk to him. I’m not bitter about our past relationship. I just don’t really understand why he’s here.

“Hey! That’s Architect and Model oh! I saw it here in my news feed on fb. Tommy Christmas Alberson! International model! It says here that there is a project in the Philippines so it’s here. Maybe you’re visiting Celiza? Or is that waiting for you, are you sweet?” He said angrily.

If so, is he also a model? It’s okay with him because he’s handsome and tall.

I can’t live to always avoid him. The world is small for me because everything in my past is coming back.

“Miranda, you’re here first. I’ll just talk.” I promise. I saw the smile on Miranda’s lips.

“What do you need?” I asked straight. I just sat down but that’s what I did.

“We can’t pay the debt to your family yet. But I’ll try to pay it off soon ---”

He cut me off. “I want to help you.”

“I don’t need your help Toci.” Because there is definitely a replacement I.

“Look, I know it’s been years since your scandal. People won’t notice. Come on Celiza, I want to help you.”

“Why are you doing this Toci?”

“I heard what happened to Bliss and Tito Alfredo.”

“What if you found out what happened to my family? We’re done years ago Toci.”

“I know … Even if we’re done you’re still a friend to me. We grew up together. I want to get back to you Celiza… Aunt Agnes is yours.”

“I can’t see you working in a cheap ---”

“Don’t you dare Toci.”

“Oh come on, Celiza! I want to help you, okay! I feel bad for you. It’s my fault, I taught you to be like that! I ruined you. I ruined your life! If I hadn’t forced you to use that nerd --- “

“Shut it Toci. I-I forgot all that. I moved on already. I’m happy with a simple life---”

“No you’re not. You’re not fit for this job.”

I am silent. Waiting for what he would say next.