12 It Was Unexpected at First Sigh (2/2)
A smile so blinding blossomed on her face in response. ”It's been too long older brother.”
His reality broke into a million pieces when heard her confirm it. He inwardly started to curse his bad luck as the first person to run into since returning home would be the dirty rag of his father's. Not only that he brought Temple home in attempts to curry favor with. He hoped that now she wouldn't say any useless things.
”You changed so much, I couldn't recognize you!” He said in a brotherly tone that almost fooled Ana. But Ana remembered bits of this man when he was in the estate, he was no better than their father. She could tell whatever he said was a lie to showcase amongst outsiders. If his friends weren't around then it would be Winston ordering his personal servants to humiliate them while he watched. Ana couldn't help remembering the horrible encounters they had with Winston. He would sit and flirt with a few maids that he personally trained for his pleasure as he watched them being tormented for his amusement.
Ana vowed if she was ever lucky as her older sister, she would beat him up and make him regret being alive. She knew her thoughts were childish, but it's one of the few wishes she ever had in her small life. Nisha felt Ana's hatred for Winston and sealed it within her aura. She didn't want others to see her little sister in a vulnerable state of mind. This was a new experience for her to see Ana burn with such rage than to cowry in fear afterward. She could only smile at Ana's display of cuteness. Nisha was curious what expression would her cute little sister make if she knew everybody who harmed her would die an extremely violent death. None of them was fit to be reborn underneath her blessing.
”I have, it's mainly due to my master. I see that you remain the same after so many years.”
Nisha's comment sounded harmless and endearing when she talked to her other brother. But to Winston, Nisha's words hit a sore spot. He and his sister went away to advance their studies and cultivation. While Fiona approved dramatically, he, on the other hand, was average. He could even feel his progress becoming more difficult as time passed. Thus his only true footing was being born a male which was favored in society and having a talented younger sister. He uses those things to his advantage. People in the academy flocked to please him to get close to his sister and his family name. It satisfied him greatly that he was the gatekeeper to his noble family and his sister that would pave the way for him in social circles.
Winston gritted his teeth as he forced himself to smile. He actually started to regret bringing Temple to his home. If he wasn't here, he would torment the girl senseless in the ways he trained his pleasure maids. Before he can lose his temper, Temple appeared one step ahead of him.
”I never knew that the Westhaven family had such a treasure at home.” The man named Temple said with a slight smile on his devilishly good looks.
It was now Nisha's turn to feel shocked. Temple was able to simply execute a style of movement that was impossible for a mortal. Even Fiona's speed of running away didn't match this man before her. Not only that she felt a strong force emitting from his body. To Nisha, it felt like Temple was an embodiment of the sun. The searing heat that radiated of his body made her want to encase herself in ice.
She has never had this feeling before even when she was burned at the stake a few times during the eras of monster hunting and the Salem witch trials. She was immune to heat since she was an old vampire, but this feeling almost made her weak to her knees. Nisha extended her delicate hand in greeting to Temple, she wanted to probe him. And in return, he took her hand to kiss it.
Temple was wearing a pair of black leather gloves that had strange symbols etched into that gathered particles of yellow light. It looked course, but when she felt it with her own hand it was soft to the touch, and the material was very thin. She didn't feel much besides the extreme warmth of his hand, but when his lips touched the back of her hand it was electrifying. Even though her body looks on the surface unfazed, she knew that her overly heated up nerves were firing off signals that gave her the urge to take a bite out of him. She controlled her vampiric urges and withdrew her hand and hid them. Temple flash her a simple smile that was divine to the mortal women in the hall. He too also hid his hands behind his back.
Only Temple's attendant was able to see his master's hand trembling, while he used his other hand to suppress his uncontrollable reaction. His attendant was startled and knew that the fifth miss of the Westhaven household was what his master was looking for.