Shades of Love, hima [tools of titans ebook txt] 📗

animal, a low snarl escaped from her throat, she lurched forward following the scent. The smell was different from all other animals and Nikki wanted it so much…

Ethan saw Nikki following a trail, he joined her and was shocked to hear faint heart beat of a human somewhere near and Nikki was following the heart beat. He suddenly stepped in front of Nikki and grabbed her hands to turn her back before she did something wrong… Nikki growled when Ethan dragged her back. She could feel the pulsing beats and the smell…She growled at him and screamed for release. Ethan didn’t let her go…her eyes began to glow red when the smell lured her towards it.

She found it hard to ignore the burning ache in her throat; she slipped off from his grip and ran towards it. Ethan lunged at her pinning her to the ground…Nikki let her inner demon take control, she ripped his hands away from her, he pinned her to the ground using brutal strength. She threw him away from her; Ethan caught her before she could make a move. She struggled under his weight but soon gave up, Next thing was almost a blur, Ethan was trying hard to restrain her and she bit him in rage. His blood flowed through her mouth, it was not as good as human blood but it sated her hunger. She sucked him eagerly; she could feel a mix of emotions flowing through her that she couldn’t point, a funny feeling ran through her as she sucked on him. Ethan let her as she wanted but she wouldn’t stop and Ethan could feel all the strength slipping away from him.

“Nikki…You are hurting him…”The same voice echoed in her mind. She ignored it in her frenzy. The voice grew more urgent and pleading…”Nikki….”It shouted, Nikki blinked and found Ethan lying in her arms dripping in blood. She panicked and shrieked at the top of her voice for help. The whole Reed’s family heard Nikki screaming. They ran to her aid and found Ethan lying on the grass dripping in blood; they helped him up as he stared at Nikki who was wailing hiding her head in her knees.


“Ethan…how are you feeling?” Jane asked concerned. “Jane…It’s not like vampires get sick. Just a bag of blood than I’ll find my strength…”Ethan said standing up from his bed.

Jane nodded, she can be fussy mother sometimes, Ethan thought. “Hey, bro. Feeling alive…?” Felix smirked walking into the living room. “What happened back there…?” Carl asked. The whole Reed’s family joined except for Nikki who stayed in her room moping about what she did.

“She caught the scent of human while hunting; I tried to stop her…” Ethan replied curtly. He didn’t know why they were asking when they knew what happened.
“Don’t you think there is something that we are ignoring…?” Eva quipped. They frowned at her.
“She is been able to stop herself from going wild which is impossible for a new born vampire…”
“She is right…” Rachel agreed.
“Last time when she fed on Ben she said something like Ethan was here…She kept saying that…It was like he helped her to stop…” Ethan was thinking out loud.

“I heard that too…I thought she was again daydreaming.” Eric supplied. “Maybe she has good control over her senses…” Rachel said. They nodded.
“We’ll find out about that in time…Ethan I want you to go to her…She wanted to talk to you…”Carl said.

Ethan wanted so much to be there for her but he couldn’t see her crying, it tore his heart apart to see her like that and do nothing. Ethan saw her lying on the floor crying…as soon as she saw him she ran into his hands.

“I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to do it…” She cried. “I know…Don’t worry about it.” Ethan replied meekly.
“I’m really sorry…If I could do anything to make it up to you…”She asked peeking at him from her blood stained face.

“One thing…I don’t want to see you crying anymore at least try not to cry…”he said wiping away the marks of blood.

“You know if a vampire cries it’s not a good sight to see all the blood flowing from his eyes…” he chuckled. Nikki smiled at him.

“It’s not vampiric to cry…”She said mimicking Eva’s voice. “Oh! You remember that…”Ethan asked. She nodded.

“Making fun of me…?” Eva scowled. Nikki made an innocent face, “I’m not falling for that little sis…”she said.

“Carl…wants us in living room.” she said and disappeared. Ethan helped Nikki up and both walked into the living room hand in hand. The Reed’s were happy to see them together.

“What’s it, Carl?” Ethan asked a very disturbed Carl.

“I got a call from the vampire elders…it’s been over 100 years since vampire Knights society is formed so they thought of celebrating it. They invited our coven for the celebration. It’ll be two weeks hence…”

“I can understand if you don’t want to come but…” Carl said eying Nikki and Ethan at once. “Why wouldn’t I want to come…?” Nikki asked. Carl was surprised that Nikki actually considered going.

“You thought I would want to be left alone…” Carl nodded. “I wanted to but I can’t hurt my family anymore…”Nikki was cut off before she could say anything, Rachel hugged her fiercely. “Thanks…sis.”

“What was that for…?” Nikki said smiling. “For considering us a family…”Rach winked.

“I thought we are a family…” Nikki frowned. “We are a family but it’s good to hear from you…” Jane said giving her a light hug.

“Another freak in the Reed’s household…”Felix smirked. Eva punched him playfully and gave a hug to me. “I thought you are going to take forever to change…”Eva whispered into my ears. “I promised someone that I would try to change from now on…” She said remembering how she talked to her Ethan in her dream after that incident in forest. He had pleaded her to be the Nikki he always loved and he also threatened her that he’ll watch over her and if he saw her moping around, he would never talk to her.

“We have so much to do then…” Eva quizzed Rachel.

“Shopping…”Rachel clapped her hands with a childish grin on her face.

“Shopping trip…It’s going to take forever…”Eric said slumping on to the sofa.
“Yeah…Bro. These girls why do they waste time shopping…” Felix said slumping next to Eric on the couch.
“What else for…? To impress boys…”Nikki smirked. “I didn’t know that even vampire boys are dunce…” Nikki laughed.

“Boys will be boys…” Eva laughed.
“I get it…”Nikki laughed.

“Get dressed…I’ll be waiting for you in the car…”Rachel said shoving Nikki towards her room. Nikki finished dressing when she heard a knock on the door. Ethan was standing at her door. “Take this…”He said handing her a gold card. She frowned at him. “Carl said he would get a card for you until then you can use mine…” he said. “Thanks…”Nikki gave a quick hug and hurried downstairs where Eva was waiting. Ethan couldn’t get used to the electric currents that passed in him whenever she hugged, he sighed as he saw her hurrying away from him. He joined his brothers in the living room watching news.

“Feeling alone, huh?” Felix smirked. Felix is the big guy among three of them but still sometimes he was more like a kid; teasing others and having fun by bullying.

Nikki and her sisters spent the whole day shopping; Nikki enjoyed dressing up and picking dresses for her sisters. They didn’t allow her to use the card Ethan gave, they paid it for her. The shopkeeper thanked them of course wouldn’t he? The three sisters brought dresses like 10 for each of them and Jane.

“Where do you get all those money from?” Nikki asked staring at the shopping bags that filled the entire back seat except for her.

“We all had savings from our human life, Carl was a successful doctor for over three hundred years, we don’t have to spend money on food besides Carl is a coven master and very important member of Dark knights society so it gives him position and money…” Rachel explained.

“I thought you spent money on the blood bags…” Nikki thought out loud. “Not until you came…We used to go regular hunting instead of living on blood bags but after you came we couldn’t go hunting without exposing ourselves to you…” Rachel replied. Nikki felt a wave of gratitude and love towards them. They loved and cared for her.

Nikki sat silent for a few moments and remembered something that she thought to ask. “What’s dark knight society and who are the elders…?”
“Dark knight society is formed by rules and regulations, mainly to stop brutal killing of humans and to eliminate any rogue vampires, it was Carl’s idea. Elders are the first vampires in this world.” “One of the elders is a Reed…” Eva boasted.

“Who are rogue vampires…?” Nikki questioned. “Rogue vampires are those who kill humans for mere fun and who use black magic…”Rachel replied. “You mean to say as if in Voodoo and all…” “Sort of…”Rachel replied.

Nikki was cut off before she could ask anymore. Eva thought that she should get to know this world little by little; it may disturb her to take it all at once. May be she is right…Nikki thought.

By the time they reached home, Nikki fell asleep. Ethan heard the car honk and rushed towards the front door, Eva and Rachel were trying to take the bags from the car, Ethan walked to the car and saw Nikki sleeping in the back seat peacefully, and he realized how much he missed her in the 10 hours she was away. He carried her back to her room careful not to wake her.

By the time he walked to help his sisters, Eric and Felix were helping them to get the shopping bags out, “Have you looked at how much stuff they brought home…?” Ethan heard Felix remarking in his mind. He smiled at him.

“Wake up, sleeping beauty…”Nikki could feel Rachel’s voice pulling her away from her dreams of Ethan. She hissed at her. “Come on… We have so much to do, girl…”she said. Nikki yawned lazily.

“Get up…”Rachel pulled her away from the bed. “You sleep like a rock…”Rachel complained. “Jealous…” Nikki smirked. Rachel smacked her on the shoulders and scolded her to make it quick.

“Good morning, guys…”Nikki said climbing down the stairs. Rachel came in carrying a glass of blood.
“Hey, from now on there will be no blood bags only hunting…” Nikki said eying Rachel. That caught everyone’s attention. Nikki felt their questioning stares.
“What..?I thought you like hunting rather than drinking from blood bags…” Nikki scowled at them. “We are just getting to know you’re freakier side…”Felix laughed.

“He’s just saying that you’re surprising us every day with new changes…”Eva smiled.
“Why the hell did you wake me up so early…?” Nikki asked turning towards Rachel.
“9.30 isn’t early…sis…”she laughed. Nikki glared at her.

“Shopping…?” Rachel said. “I thought we shopped for the whole team…”Nikki smirked.

“We didn’t shop for the boys… They are too lazy to go shopping. They requested us to do their shopping…”

They were hitting the road, for the second time to do shopping. Eva and Rachel took the whole time to shop for Felix and Eric saying that