My Perfect Revenge: Flash Marriage With My Vampire Tycoon-Chapter 151: – NIKOLAS! –

Lucian instant;y froze like an ice popsicle. He slowly lifted his head to look at her. "W-what do you mean?"

"She wants Nikolas to be put to sleep. Massimo has—"

He shot to his feet immediately and grabbed her, carefully pulling her to her feet as well. He left the rooftop with her and they went down to the last floor of the manor where they met Loredana seated in the living room, head thrown back against the sofa and eyes fixed on the ceiling.

Her face looked expressionless.

"Mom."

Loredana slowly tilted her head to meet his gaze. "Lucian."

"We can’t put Nikolas to sleep. Not yet."

"Why? I don’t understand—"

"Mom, Nikolas has a wife," Lucian said. "And she’s at the hospital right now, righting for her life."

"What are you trying to say?"

Lucian balled his fists. "She has every right to see him before he’s put to sleep. She needs to see him for the last time. You can’t take this moment away from her. She is unconscious for now, so let’s wait for a few days. Once she’s ready to be here, we’ll bring her and she’ll see him. He’s her husband. It would break her to know she didn’t get to the man she loved before he was put down to sleep. I mean, once that is done, you know that the coffin cannot be opened again, not unless by Nikolas himself and that is if he wakes up. Which the chances are not even up to half of one percent now."

Loredana gazed at him. She rose to her feet and slowly approached him. "Lucian, it is not that I don’t want that poor girl to see her husband but rather that I feel for her. I know she must have loved him a lot to fully accept who he was, just like Francesca did you."

"She does," Lucian added.

"And do you think she’ll be able to endure the idea that this might be the last time she’ll ever hear Nikolas speak again? Breathe, smile, look at her? The last time he’d ever hold her in his arms?"

Loredana gave a bitter smile.

"I know what it felt like when your father died. The pain I went through. And I don’t want her to experience it. It could... it could break her, Lucian. Grief is a terrible thing."

Lucian cast his gaze downward. He knew she was right and couldn’t argue with her. But even still, he gave a faint smile, shaking his head. "She needs to see him, mom. We owe her that. It’ll hurt more if she doesn’t. This is the man she loves."

———

York sat in the bar, drinking over and over again.

Seated next to him was Caterina, the half witch, half a vampire. She was drinking as well, her face painted with a sour expression. "Nikolas doesn’t listen. Ever. At all. Once he decides on something, he’s never going to change his mind. Now look what has happened."

She drank half a bottle.

"I warned him," he grunted. "I told him what I saw, how bad it was going to be. But he wouldn’t listen to me. The calamity of fate isn’t something you anger because it’s going to do so much damage that is irreparable."

York looked at her. His eyes were blurred with warm wetness. But he wasn’t crying,

Caterina slammed the glass cup down on the counter. "That human wasn’t his mate. His real mate was out there, but he was so obsessed with this human that the mention of my idea had him acting like a mad man. If he’d broken off their relationship, none of this would have happened, but he refused. We’re not like those wolf creatures who have it so easy when it comes to this mate of a thing."

"They could abandon their mate and choose another without even rejecting them, but it isn’t the same case with us. Our existence is bred from the obsession of loyalty. That’s how we exist and therefore, turning your back or abandoning your mate is not a thing we can do without consequences. We are the embodiment of loyalty," she grunted.

"Nikolas is a stubborn man," she continued, shaking her head. "He defied the sun, but that didn’t mean he could do the same to fate. It’s a whole different case. And it’s already impressive that humans survived."

York ran his fingers through his hair. "I heard that the survival rate of a vampire after berserk mode is less than half a single percent. Is that true?"

"York." She looked at him. "Weak vampires can’t even go into berserk mode. Why? Their body is not strong enough for it. Only strong ones, like Lucian, Nikolas, their mother. Ahh, that man Tasso. They are the only ones who can attempt this berserk mode. But the stronger you are, the worse it’s going to be. Nikolas is only weaker than his mother and currently I don’t think there is any of our kind out there stronger than his mother. So do you understand how strong Nikolas is? His berserk mode defied and obstructed the sun itself. What do you think?"

"He’s not going to survive it, will he?"

"No." She flat out said, "If his mother were to go into berserk mode. It could possibly reshape this world. That is how deadly strong she is. And that is the reason both Lucian and Nikolas are afraid of her. It’s relieving that she’s a very gentle and sweet woman. If not... Hm."

"There’s no hope then?"

"No." She shook her head. "I’m not that delusional."

—---

"NIKOLAS!"

Viviana shot off the bed so fast, the pain that rippled through her had her falling right back into the bed, groaning in so much pain. "Ah! That hurts!" She reached over her shoulder. She couldn’t move that arm and touching where she’d been shot, she found that it was starting to bleed again.

But she didn’t care. She wanted to see Nikolas. Glancing around, Viviana pulled off the drips connected to her, as well as the tube she had in her nose. She could barely breathe, but she pushed herself off the bed, only for her legs to give out.