Julian's POV
The Red Moon Ceremony had begun and as usual, we were all influenced by the crimson moon's spell. Our lust heightened the moment our eyes gave contact to the moon and we removed our inhibitions to satiate our carnal desires.
Standing by the foyer of the VIP private room, I watched the pathetic creatures having an orgy below me. Humans were no different as they were either joining the fray or taken against their will.
"Julian," Heidi's sultry voice whispered behind my ear, her bare breasts pressed against my back. "Make love to me." She nibbled my ear as her fingers roamed around my chest.
Even without the Red Moon, this she-wolf was already obsessed with me.
"Move," it was not a request.
She pulled away immediately knowing that defying me meant meeting my wrath. I walked with confident long strides without a single glance in her direction.
"J-Julian, wh-where are you going?!"
"To find the mother of my future heir."
"What? You're still into that?" She scoffed as she crossed her arms, covering her already naked bosom. "You've been searching far and wide for years yet you haven't found her. Your "fated mate" must have been born in another life. Why are you looking for someone based on the vague words of the prophecy?"
I stopped my trail then turned to give her a glare.
"You dared question me, wolf?" My tone now laced with contempt.
She paled when she realizes she crossed the line. "N-no, Julian, I d-didn't mean to—"
She gasped then wheezed like an invisible being choking the life of this pathetic pup. Beads of sweat gathered on her face as she fought back the lack of control she had in her body. Through the reflection of her teary eyes was my hand raised while gripping in a form of choking someone's neck.
I was responsible for doing that. I could control her blood at whim and right now I was squeezing the blood vessels running inside of her. It was one of the perks of being the Count from the pure-blood High Vampire.
"S-Stop, p-please, it h-hurts. I'm s-sorry," she begged, her voice hoarse as tears streaming from her eyes. "F-forgive me…forg-give…."
Her body collapsed with a loud thud before I released her.
"Pathetic," I uttered in disdain as I headed out of the VIP suite.
Startled at my abrupt exit, Noah, my second-in-command, turned to face me. He's wearing the dark shades that repel him from the effects of the Red Moon. "C-Count?"
I sighed. "I don't sense my fated mate here at all." At this point, I'd become numb to this surrender.
"How can it be? We have invited everyone, even the chosen humans, to this party!"
"This is the last place I haven't stepped its soils to find her. Yet, her scent doesn't linger…" I paused. "Perhaps I haven't searched enough. I haven't been thorough as of late."
I wouldn't waste my opportunity tonight. She had to be out there! My fated mate wouldn't miss such an opportunity of a grand Red Moon festival like this!
"B-But my lord, the effects of the Red Moon, w-wait!" Panicking, he called out, eyes widening while gazing at my retreating figure while my feet walked down on the spiral staircase with each hurried step.
"My lord!"
"Who do you think I am?" I muttered to myself with a slight smirk. "I am Julian Czarnel, the last one of my kind of the High Vampires…this Red Moon doesn't faze at all."
The pheromones were strong. The smell of their unique scent of their blood reached my nostrils and I felt a bit nauseous. Every inch of this function room was intoxicated with sex.
I just needed to concentrate and feel her…smell her unique scent that should be right for me. I shut my eyes, my heart beating for a moment as the sounds of their moans and gasps became inaudible.
She should be here. She had to be here! Or else the last place I've never been to was that vile Slumber Hound—
"Let go of me!"
My eyes fluttered open, looking around desperately until—
I caught sight of her.
A human girl dressed with the tackiest blue bodice dress was being held by one of the male wolf. Her long, dark high boots were a mismatched to her dress and she was oddly carrying a dirty, ripped backpack.
Yet, despite her odd sense of fashion, the human had a beautiful slender body as the bodice dress emphasizes her perfect hourglass curves. If only I could see her face as her long wavy flaming red hair was all I see from my view.
"I have you know, I am the infamous Audrey Hepburn! I won't tolerate this harrassment!" She yelled as she attempted to pull her arm away from the wolves.
And now with her futile escape as two wolves grabbed her wrists and they started to feel her up, she kept yelling in fear as she continued to struggle.
Just then, my eyes widened as I felt her pain and fear. My feet moved on their own as I shove the wolf away from her.
"W-who do you think y-you–?!" His anger immediately diminished when he saw me, eyes widened in fear. "C-Count—"
"Move."
Now, wrapping my arm around her waist, it brought an electric jolt to my body.
When she turned, my breath hitched, my usual dark gray eyes turned red. I probably had succumbed to the Red Moon's spell but I didn't care.
Not after seeing her up close.
I couldn't stop looking at this small human: pale skin with large doe bright green eyes and fuller red lips, her striking red hair was messy and unkempt, obscuring her natural hue of rose-red cheekbones. She wore no make-up and that's what made her…beautiful.
No, the word itself wasn't enough to describe such raw beauty.
Yet, she's human. Her scent gave away that she didn't have a single ounce of vampire blood in her.
I should have pushed her away, disgusted by the fact that the woman I was looking for was a human girl.
Yet...
Like I was being hypnotized, my heart beat faster like I was under the spell like those around us.
My hands lifted to place her warm cheeks on their own—
"H-Hey! W-what are you doing?!" Fear genuinely showed in those eyes. "Y-you can't do this to—!"
I shut her up by claiming her lips, savoring her taste.
A foreign feeling gushing through my whole body and it reached right to my already hardened cock.
This human…this feeling!
Without a doubt, she was the mate I had been searching for decades.