Chapter-56

The very next morning, everyone in the mansion was running here and there to prepare for Victoria’s 45 days visit to the vampire's kingdom. ​​

"Thank you, Neptune. Because of you, I was able to drift into the parallel sleeping." Victoria mumbled, grateful to Neptune, who had helped her earlier with the idea of how she can still enjoy this last night with Alexander. She knew that if she wouldn’t sleep, then Alexander will also make an effort to stay awake with her for the rest of the night, which was already taking a toll on him, given how he has been barely sleeping for the last ten days when she was in the coma. Not to mention these last two days, where he didn’t sleep for even a single minute.

So it was necessary for him more than it was necessary for her.

Daniel Neptune had told her that if she tries, then she can activate all her powers at once in her mind, which will allow her to temporarily sleep with all her powers and mind still awake. It will appear as if she is sleeping to outsiders with her calm brain and heartbeat, but her mind will be active all the time, which will prevent her from slipping into the subconsciousness that a person slips into when he is sleeping.

Though this was just a false sleeping, since she wouldn't be able to relax like in actual sleeping and her mind will be more strained, it was worth giving a try.

However, the toll it took on her was clearly visible in her eyes that were slightly red now.

"I am glad that you found it useful, but we are not doing it again, okay? Your eyes shouldn't be this much red. You have clearly strained yourself a lot last night. I told you to be easy on yourself and practice it for 2-3 hours only, didn't I? Why don't you ever listen?" Neptune said, his brows squinted as he cupped her cheeks and bent down to look into her eyes.

"I am fine, okay? Don't panic. You can help me heal when we are alone. Let's go back." Victoria said, and Neptune could only sigh at her words, knowing all too well that she won't listen to him anyway.

Capturing her hand in his, he stopped her before bending and kissing her forehead, catching her off-guard in the process.

Chanting some words that looked like a spell, he opened his eyes before removing his lips from her forehead.

"Are you feeling any better?" He asked.

Nodding her head, she looked at him confused, her eyes demanding an explanation for his actions.

"I have transferred some of my dark energy to you, which will help you heal. Your powers can heal your physical wounds perfectly, but for us witch, the healing of the mind needs special herbs that I don’t think we have time to give you. So till then, my powers should do the work. I will take them back once we are in Ashton’s kingdom, and I arrange the herbs for you. You do realize that your brain needs healing too? Right? Because I think you are a little bit dumb as you never listen to me." Neptune said with a serious face, making her eyes go wide.

"Are you by any chance making fun of me?" She asked, and a quick flicker in his emotions was enough to tell her that he was indeed making fun of her.

"You are so mean. I am not talking to you!" Victoria said, walking out of the door of her room, and Daniel followed her, laughing at her cute little angry face.

Reaching the hall again, Victoria was surprised when she saw more than ten big boxes lined up in the center of the hall.

Well, wasn’t Alexander too fast? She was gone only for 20 minutes, and he was able to ask everyone to pack this much in such a short span.

"We have got all your necessities covered, do you think you will be needing anything else?" Alexander asked, his face laced with concern while he looked at the boxes.

"Alexander, this is too much. I am going there to save my life, not to live there for eternity. I am sure Ashton must have prepared these things already. It's not like I don't want to take these things back, it's just these are too much. All I need in this is your support, love, and care. I don't need these materialistic things." Victoria said, finally holding Alexander's hand, who stopped to look at her before releasing a shaky breath.

"I am sorry. I am just too anxious. You are right, taking these things with you will only get your path discovered." Alexander said, realizing his own mistake.

Clapping his hands, he asked the maids to take back the things before looking at Neptune, who had an amused expression on his face.

"Well, I am glad that you realized it on your own, or I would have to break it to you later and break your heart in the process," Neptune smirked, making Victoria chuckle at their childish banter before she pulled on Alexander's hand lovingly, making him look at her with adoration and love in his eyes.

"I think, I am going to wait outside for you, Victoria. As much as I love to be with you, I think I will pass this mushy-mushy goodbye." Neptune said, and when neither of them looked at him and made a move to stop him, he sighed loudly before walking out of the mansion.

"You take care of yourself, okay? Not for a second, and I mean for a single second, let anyone walk over you and tell you to do anything that you don't have the hurt to do.

We are doing all of this for your happiness and safety, and if you feel like you need to push yourself too much for this, then we drop it. We will think about another pathway to solve this thing out.

Always remember that no matter if anyone stays with you or not, anyone supports you or not, anyone loves you or not, anyone cares for you or not, there is a man here in pearly Canines who loves you enough to leave his throne for you." Alexander said, cupping Victoria's cheeks in his palms sweetly, making her eyes water.

"I know. I don't have a doubt regarding it." Victoria said before standing on her toes and kissing Alexander's cheeks, making him smile.

"I know you can't take anything with you. Anything that can help them trace you, but can you take this bracelet with you?" Alexander said before he took out the bracelet that he had someone custom-made for Victoria only.

It had both of their names initial on it.

On the inside of the bracelet, the name Ale-ria was written, and on the outside of it, the name Vic-der was written.

Smiling at the beautiful emerald bracelet, Victoria placed her hand in Alexander's arms, quirking her brows before motioning for him to place that bracelet on her arm himself.

"I love it." She said, hugging him one last time.

Swirling her hands in the air, she brought out a crystal that witches use and placed it in Alexander's hands.

"Use it to communicate with me. It is an ancient method the witches used to use to communicate with their loved ones before this telepathy thing was invented by us. Anything that could help to catch me will be taken away from me and instantly destroyed. However, this crystal has a specialty." Victoria said before swirling her hands in the air again.

"Here, can you see the shell around it? It is bound to you. So if anyone even as much as dares to stare at it for more than what will be considered okay, or tries to chant any spell on it, it will burst into thousands of shards. So I will recommend that you keep it hidden and covered with a dark-colored cloth and only unveil it when you'll have to use it." Victoria said before roaming her hands on the crystal one last time so that it will recognize her easily whenever she'll call on to him.

"And what if you want to talk to me when you are free, and I am not in the room. What will I do? Should I keep it with myself all the time?" Alexander asked, his eyes still on that crystal.

"You won't have to. The crystal will record my voice, which means whatever I need to talk to you, I can record my voice, and it will be played to you like a recorded voice, and you will come to know that the crystal has a message from me by hearing a clinking sound from it. Every time you hear a clinking sound coming from the crystal, either it means I am there to talk to you, or I have a message for you.

And for your case, every time you will try to communicate with me, a magical window will appear in front of my face, which will instantly tell me to talk to you because you are kind of online." Victoria explained, making Alexander nod though his expression was still laced with confusion.

"Huh, I know it's hard, but that's all we've got for now to hang on." She sighed before hugging Alexander, who didn't waste a single second in reciprocating the hug.

"Victoria, we need to go. You know we are not using our teleporting powers. It's a long ride." Neptune shouted from outside, making Victoria sigh before she pecked Alexander's cheeks and went out of the mansion hand in hand with Alexander.

Let the new journey towards the Vampire's kingdom begin.