Miranda sat close to the window in Desmond's room gazing at the scenery below.
After their little chase, Desmond had taken his bath and left her alone in the room. he had asked the maids to bring some food inside the room before locking her up in the room.
Miranda didn't mind staying inside the room alone, she knew she was safe inside this room than anywhere else in this castle filled with blood suckers.
Miranda was glad Desmond had removed the chains binding her legs before she woke up, she couldn't imagine wanting to relieve herself while still bound.
She decided to take a bath as she had nothing else to do and Desmond wasn't around. She didn't know if he would have let her used his things.
She left the window and entered the bathroom. Her eyes went wide immediately she entered the bathroom, she had never imagined a person's bathroom could this luxurious, although every single thing inside was black it only added to the beauty.
The bathroom had black marble floors, the walls were tiled black as well. There was a very large black tub that could contain about 4 adults and a rack that held only black towels.
She took off her thin white dress and walked deeper into the bathroom
"What's this for?" She muttered looking at the shower at the other section of the bathroom.
A village girl like Miranda had never seen a shower, people from her village usually got water from the local well in their small village. she had only seen a faucet like the ones in the bath tub when she worked as a maid for a rich family not too far from her village, even then her employers bathroom wasn't this big and luxurious and the tub they had wasn't this big and had only one faucet unlike Desmond's whose tub had multiple faucet.
Miranda didn't last long working as a maid for the family because the woman of the household feared Miranda would bewitch her husband because of her unusual silver hair and piercings blue eyes.
Miranda had cried and cursed her silver hair for her misfortune. Getting a job with a good pay was difficult,and she had lost it so easily because of her stupid hair. Her mother had consoled her saying her hair was a blessing .
Miranda decided to soak in the tub instead of touching something she didn't know how to use. She didn't want Desmond to 'accidentally' kill her for destroying one of his things.
She half filled the bath tub, then added a liquid soap she had found close to the tub.
She sat in the tub and shivered a little because of the cold water, she washed her long silver hair and sat inside the tub for a while before rinsing her body and draining the tub.
She used one of the black towels to wipe her body dry then wore her thin white dress as she had nothing else to wear.
She ate her leftovers and took a quick afternoon nap
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Miranda's eyes snapped open when she had the sound of the door opening,she sat up groggily to see who had entered the room as it was already evening and the room was getting dark, and it was Desmond much to Miranda's dismay.
Desmond moved closer to where Miranda sat on the bed, his eyes gleaming with mischief.
" Why does it look like my white swan isn't happy to see me? You didn't even greet your master, I think I have been spoiling you too much" Desmond said putting his hand against his head dramatically.
" Don't you think you deserve some punishments" Desmond teased.
Miranda scrambled out of the bed at the mention of punishments. Even though he looked like he was joking Miranda was sure this deranged vampire was a hundred percent serious.
" Welcome back master" Miranda said bowing her head.
" Hmmm, just welcome back? Aren't you going to ask if my day went well?" Desmond pursed his lips in displeasure.
' No, I don't care if your day went terribly' Miranda screamed inwardly but said a different thing out loud.
" I hope you had a pleasant day master" Miranda lied through her teeth.
" No I didn't have a pleasant day" Desmond sigh dramatically
" I went to get my money from a count who had been owning me a huge sum of money for a while now. He promised to give it to me in a month's time with a lot of interest and ofcourse I agreed, what kind of loan shark would I be if I say no to profit? Anyway I went there today and he refused to open the gates when he saw me" Desmond sat on a nerby couch while Miranda still remained standing
He continued " anyway I broke the gates to his mansion and killed every guard who tried to stop me, which I enjoyed very much " he grinned.
" I also killed the guards who didn't try to stop me because why not? why didn't they open the gates when they saw me?"
Miranda eyes widened in mortification. Why was he talking about killing people like it wasn't a big deal. She looked at his dark clothes and saw they were stained with blood, she didn't see it earlier because it was already getting dark plus he wore black clothes.
Miranda's face paled in fear. This man was very dangerous, he had killed a lot of vampires all by himself and he wasn't even guilty about it. That only meant he had killed a lot of people in the past not to care about it.
" I found him in his office cowering in fear and I killed him by tearing his head off his shoulders but then after killing him I started having regrets, why didn't I collect my money before killing him? The only thing he has left is his dusty old mansion which is now under my name" Desmond concluded with a sigh.
Miranda could only look at him in disgust, this man was insane and heartless and why would anyone even borrow money from this insane vampire?
" Don't look at me like that, the count wasn't innocent. I searched the mansion and saw that he locked several girls in his basement and was abusing them. I might not be the nicest but I would never force myself on an unwilling girl, I am quite the gentleman" he bragged.
" As of now the castle guards are returning the girls to their family now. Imagine if someone like me didn't exist, this kingdom would have been doomed" he grinned.
Miranda frowned. It seems like the count really deserved death, the pity she felt for him a while ago was totally gone. It seems like the count and the guards really deserved to die because she was sure the guards were aware of what the count was doing.
Desmond stood up from the blood smeared couch and walked towards the bathroom
" I'm going to take a bath, light the candles in the room before I get back. We'll be going down for dinner tonight as the king is furious because I killed the count" he chuckled shutting the door behind him.