Chapter 1

The girl who was barely eleven, sobbed at her father's gravestone. Her father was the only one she had. Her mother left them for another man. She loved him so much and he left her. She didn't know how it happened. She was sleeping peacefully on her bed few days ago when a cop called her and informed her that her father was murdered. Her whole world shattered. She didn't know what to do and where to go. Her father had scratch marks on his chest. When the post mortem report appeard, the doctors declared that the death was caused by a wild animal.

"You'll catch cold" a husky voice said. she turned her head to find Cassius. Her father's friend. "i want to be alone with my dad" she replied and turned to her father's gravestone again. "Felix was a great man. I respect him" the grey haired man said. she never understands why his hair is grey while he still looks like someone in his early thirties. "let's go back" he offered. "I have nowhere to go. you can leave now" Bianca answered staring blankly at her father's gravestone. "You can stay with me". she didn't expect this. She never talked to Cassius nor tried to know him. why he cares about her? she looked at him. he reached out a hand for hers. "come with me". Right now, he looked like a light in her dark world. At first she hesitated. but held his big hand eventually.

"I'll give you a better life. I promise"

She felt all of her sorrows gone as he said those words. he has no idea how she is feeling now and how much his words relived her. few drops of tears fell down from her eyes. she smiled and nodded. "thank you".

"here's your new home" he said looking at the big mansion as they got off the car. she was surprised. she never thought he's that rich. the mansion looked old but had a beautiful garden. but the strange thing was there were a lot of bats. there are lots of similar things between him and her father. both of them had a strange liking towards bats and things almost hundreds of years old.

inside of the mansion, there were a lot of old paintings of his family. she was mesmerized by the decorations. "Follow me" he simply said. it was neither an order or a command. She did as he said. he led her to a room. the room was the odd part of this mansion. the room was very pretty. She was very fond of white. The room was painted with white. Had everything she liked. "This is your room". She stared everything present there. her face lit up. she couldn't believe she was going to live here. "you can do anything you want. but be careful you won't cause any harm to this place" that's all he said with his usual emotionless face before walking away.

"you can have anything of them" the man said to her. they were sitting face to face to each other in the dining table. The hall was big. like a castle. but everything there was Black and Red. Weird. Cassius himself always wears black or red. she began with the fried egg. "you like it?" he asked. she simply nodded. "okay. I'll tell them to make it for you everyday". "Thank you". she paused. "Thank you for everything". She'll always be grateful to him. "there's no need to thank me".

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