Conquering His Cold Heart

294 Rest Well

“What are you waiting for, you idiots!” Romulus shouted as soon as he saw Herald looking at him and taking a step towards him. “Finish him already!”

Both of the werewolves who were unfortunate enough to have heard Slayer’s screams earlier had no choice but to charge at the scary-looking vampire and defend their alpha from the intruder.

Herald stood right where he was even when he saw both of the werewolves sticking their claws out and coming at him from two separate directions.

One of them was aiming for Herald’s heart while the other was aiming to bite his neck.

When the two of them leaped in the air at once, Herald hovered in the air and flew backward. Those two almost collided with themselves. But they somehow managed to use each other to land on their feet.

And when they were about to jump again, Herald shot himself forward and grabbed both of those werewolves by their collar. Then he flew straight past Romulus and towards the wall.

“Arghhhhh!” Both of the werewolves got slammed against the stone wall so hard that they could feel their internal organs rupturing inside their chests.

Romulus, on the other hand, was drowning in fear upon seeing that vampire flying around in the dungeon, killing his pack members as easily as killing bugs. And the reason why he was scared wasn’t just because of that. It was because he was seeing his strongest man lying unconscious on the floor, probably after facing off against this very mysterious vampire.

When Herald dropped both of the werewolves to the floor, both of them started to cough up blood. They weren’t in any state to get up on their feet and fight Herald again.

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“Let me put you off of your misery,” Herald gritted through his teeth and slowly landed on his feet. He was about to finish both of them when he heard loud knockings on the door.

“Alpha! Is there a fight going on?” Someone asked from outside.

Romulus finally snapped out of his daze upon hearing that voice. He looked over his shoulder only to see the vampire looking back at him. Both of them kept on looking at each other without moving a muscle.

The people outside were now starting to bang on the door thinking that their alpha was really in some big trouble.

“Alpha! Please, answer us! Are you okay?” Someone kept on asking, desperate to hear alpha’s voice.

But Romulus didn’t dare to speak. He was very much aware that the moment the vampire would decide to attack him, he would be far from being okay.

Herald slowly turned to face Romulus, ready to attack him. The people outside were close to breaking down the door and he didn’t want to kill more than what was necessary. He was there for Romulus. And Romulus was standing right before his eyes. So, he thought of finishing the alpha quickly and escaping.

Romulus, on the other hand, was looking for an opportunity to run away from the dungeon. The way that vampire was giving a death glare to him, something in his head asked him to run as far away from this vampire as he could.

If it was any other vampire then he wouldn’t have left a chance to relish the kill. However, he could already tell that he wouldn’t be a match for this vampire.

Thus, he slowly turned his head to look at his one and only escape route.

Herald could read what was in Romulus’ mind because of the way he was looking at the stairs instead of facing him.

And just when Romulus raised his foot, Herald said in a low growl, “You shouldn’t have turned your back on me.”

Romulus felt his heart sinking when he heard that cold threatening voice. His ears instantly caught the swooshing sound and within a spilt second, rather than running toward the stairs and leaving his back open for attack, he turned to face the vampire.

He turned right in time to block the hand that was coming right at his heart. He grabbed that vampire’s hand and opened his mouth to bite.

“Old trick!” Herald scoffed mockingly and punched Romulus right in the face with his other hand.

“Argh!” Romulus took several steps back and held out his clawed hands in front of his face so as to guard it against such direct punches again.

Romulus suddenly felt some warm liquid trickling down his nose and pressed his palm on his nose to see what it was. “Blood!” he widened his eyes in shock.

“Blood?” Someone exclaimed from outside. “Alpha! Wait for us! We are close to breaking this door down. Please hold on for some seconds.”

Herald let out a satisfied smirk when he smelled the sweet scent of the alpha’s blood. “It’s unfair how even a bitter person like you has this sweet-smelling blood in you,” Herald mumbled and immediately leaped to finish off the alpha before the other werewolves would start to crawl in.

Romulus deflected the attack of the vampire and leaped backward.

Herald instantly closed the gap between them and threw another punch right on Romulus’ nose and mouth.

Romulus groaned and snarled at Herald while showing his bloody fangs.

“Disgusting!” Herald wrinkled his nose after seeing the bloody teeth of Romulus. “But I like it that you look this disgusting.” He smiled and muttered while flicking his claws, “I wonder how you will look when your whole body is covered in your own blood.”

“Why the hell are you after me? And who the hell are you?” Romulus shouted in an attempt to stall Herald until some meat shields broke into the dungeon.

Herald suddenly got all serious when he heard that question from Romulus. He slowly started to close the gap between him and the alpha.

Romulus slowly backed off until his back got pressed against the cold wall of the dungeon. He sharply inhaled as he got startled when he felt that cold on his back.

Herald liked seeing that fear in Romulus’ eyes. He glared at the werewolf and replied in a throaty whisper, “All I wished for was to live a really peaceful life. And I wanted the same thing for the person who is very dear to me. But you dared to ruin that peace for the both of us. So… you are going to pay for that grave crime with your life.”

He looked into the soul of that werewolf he hated and whispered, “Rest well, you arsehole.”