Carnivals: Claimed By The Deranged Alpha Prince [BL]-Chapter 54: Inconvenient Situations

Jules’ pov

I wouldn’t be staying away from Kai just because Blaze asked me to though. I mean, am I supposed to?

Kai has been nice to me since I could remember. He has always looked out for me every damn time, and so far, he’s the nicest predator I’ve encountered in the entire school.

And Blaze claimed he was dangerous.

Thinking about it right now made me realize how ironic and ridiculous that statement sounded.

"Here you go, Jules." Kai called out, pulling me out of my thoughts. He was holding out a cup of coffee to me, one which I accepted with a small smile.

"Thank you." I breathed out as I took a sip of the caffeine.

"Of course. Do you feel better?" He inquired, sounding and looking genuinely worried.

And this is the person Blaze claimed was dangerous?

It didn’t even seem logical for Blaze to think he can dictate who I can see and not see. Although, I’m certain I’d never be able to say those words to his face because well, he was Blaze, the same one who had effortlessly controlled a bunch of predators in my presence, without any effort. One whose name is enough to cast fear upon anyone.

While I’m just, well... I’m just a magic-less Labyrinth, or in this case, a helpless, spineless Jules.

"I feel better now, all thanks to you." I informed him, flashing him another smile.

As I took another sip of the coffee, he got up and closed the distance between us, choosing to sit in the empty spot beside me.

The unexpected close proximity caused me to choke on the coffee in the next second and I silently cursed myself out as I balanced the coffee on the side table in order not to end up doing something mortifying like spilling the rest of the coffee.

"You alright?" Kai asked and when I continued to cough, he began to gently pat my back, making me very aware of how the space between us right now was very little.

Once I finally stopped coughing, I flashed him an embarrassed, watery smile. "Sorry about that."

He huffed and snickered a little. "Don’t worry about it."

Now that I was no longer coughing, I felt super aware of everything happening around me. Like how loud the clock was ticking, how fast my heart was racing, and how Kai’s hand was still on my back.

I cleared my throat after a little while, shifting in my seat, but when Kai’s hand suddenly slid across my back to hang over my shoulder, I ended up choking on air.

This time, all Kai did was let out an amused laugh. "You’re so cute, Jules."

"Uh, thanks?" I whispered, unsure of how else to respond to that, but Kai didn’t seem to mind. Instead, he tugged me closer to him until my heartbeat slowed to a stop.

I could feel panic bubble in the back of my mind. Being this close to Kai, combined with how he was staring at me right now, they all clearly meant one thing, and I wasn’t sure of how to deal with that realization.

Kai was a cool, kind and awesome predator, but I didn’t want to have something like that to do with him.

I was still lost in my thoughts when his voice drifted into my ear.

"Jules."

As I glanced in his direction, his hand shot out and cupped my chin. My eyes widened and a lump formed in my throat. As I blinked at him, so many thoughts ran through my mind at once.

"You’re so beautiful, Jules." He whispered and color tinged my cheeks as I whispered a high pitched ’thank you.’

As he leaned towards me, so did my heartbeat accelerate, pounding loudly against my ears. A conscious part of my mind, one that usually couldn’t stop thinking about Blaze, urged me to pull away, but it didn’t feel like I could control my limbs right now.

Before the distance between our faces could be completely eradicated, a phone ringtone went off, rock music disrupting the warm, cool atmosphere in a heartbeat.

As Kai stood up to get the ringing phone, I heaved out a relieved sigh and picked up the lukewarm coffee, choosing to hold it between my hands like it was some sort of armor.

When Kai arrived, he took his previous seat and held a phone up. "My dumb roommate left his phone behind."

"Oh." I mumbled quietly and he hummed.

"Speaking of roommates, how’s yours? Was he by chance the reason you rushed home from our dinner last night?" He asked and I shook my head in response even though color flooded my cheeks because I couldn’t believe that he was able to hit the nail on the head just like that.

"You don’t need to pretend, Jules. I know how Blaze acts, how territorial the asshole is..." As he spoke, I slowly remembered him promising me he’d tell me what he knew about Blaze when next we meet.

On bringing said promise up, Kai leaned back in his seat and downed the rest of his drink. "You really wanna know what I know about your roommate?" He mused and I nodded at once.

"Okay then. Firstly, Blaze and I are actually... related." As soon as those words left his mouth, my eyes almost popped out of their sockets. An expression which made Kai snicker in amusement.

"You are?" I whispered, still unable to believe my ears, because apart from them being polar opposites, nothing about their lifestyles and personalities were similar in any way. Blaze has a lot of power and well Kai isn’t even a special student to begin with.

"You’re probably wondering how he’s so powerful and I’m not. That’s because we’re cousins, and I had the opportunity to be a special student from the onset, but I refused, because I didn’t like the unnecessary attention that comes with being a privileged student. I only wanted to go to school like a normal student and work my way through it like every normal student out there are doing."

"Oh." I whispered, feeling completely awed. Suddenly, I saw him in a different light, and it made him appear undoubtably cooler to me.

"Yeah." He huffed out.

I leaned further before continuing this time. "So, you grew up together?"

He snorted while waving his hand. "Of course not."

"Blaze has always been different from everyone since he was a kid. I didn’t get to see most of him while growing up even though I was always in the same building as him most of the time, because he was always locked away."

My eyes widened in shock this time.

"What?" I whispered.

"His father– my uncle, locked him away most times because he said Blaze was dangerous... like a ticking time bomb. The few times I was able to see him while we grew up, we didn’t speak. The one time we spoke, he almost choked me to death. His therapist back then said he has a lot of constricted anger in him even before he was born, but that didn’t make a lick of sense to be honest."

"Oh wow." I whispered in disbelief, unable to comprehend what I was listening to.

So far, it sounded like something was wrong somewhere, because it doesn’t sound like locking your child away is gonna be much help, if something had been indeed wrong with him. That’s probably why he grew up angry and dangerous.

I felt a pang in my chest and I realized that I was feeling pity for Blaze. For someone whom I’ve heard horrendous tales about.

Perhaps, something was wrong with me too, because since when did I start to feel compassion for monsters?

—-

Kai saw me off to the elevator, and I waved at him before the doors slid close. Once alone, I slumped against the wall while still thinking about the conversation I had with Kai about Blaze.

Minutes later, I was on the first floor once again, because I wanted to get something to eat before heading upstairs to the room I share with Blaze. A quick glance at my phone showed it was past eight.

Not too late, right?

I said to myself as I kept walking forward, but as soon as a featherlight whoosh of air passed my side, I stiffened at once.

A vampire.

Before I could scream, a hand was settling over my mouth as a hard body positioned behind me.

"Make a sound, I dare you." The voice sounded very familiar. Fear gripped my mind, trippling in waves when he threatened to snap my throat moments later if I didn’t quietly follow him out.

Once outside, the vampire led me to the side of the building, to a corner where the lighting was dim and where security weren’t positioned at.

Once a second person emerged and the one behind me shoved me to the ground, I realized that this were the two vampires from the welcome party, who had forced me to dance with them and had talked about how I had smelt nice according to Malachi, back then, they had also suggested they head to the restroom along with me when I wanted to escape their grasps.

Panic flared in my mind and I tried to scream but a sharp slap across my cheek prevented that from happening, just as one of the vampires straddled me, hand encircling my throat.

"We’re gonna have a little fun with you first before taking you to our master, hm? This has been long overdue anyway." He drawled out, laughing darkly and backhanding me again when I tried to scream.

The second vampire crouched beside me and shoved two fingers in my mouth, causing me to gag. I aggressively bit on the fingers and got another slap across my cheek in return.

"Stubborn bitch, and here I thought you were gonna make this easy for us." The first vampire snarled and then he tightened his grip around my throat until I couldn’t breath, until everything became hazy.

"Have a lovely sleep." Was the last thing I heard before unconsciousness pulled me under.