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*A thousand and twenty years later.

Gabriella Monet POV

It happening tonight, I had always dreaded this day and now it has come to a realization. I had no option in this because it has to come to pass. I'm Gabriella Monet, a black long-haired girl. I'm 5ft2inches tall but I never considered myself as been short. I have unique obsidian eyes which I got from my mother. I just turned 20 three days ago and now it's happening; the path to my destruction.

I cried as I thought about what's was going to happen in few hours to come, I checked my time a few minutes ago and it was already 5:30 pm. In thirty minutes the auction guards would be on their way to every human's house well if you could call it house. I never for once consider our house a home because it was nothing but a tent. Five houses had to share a bathroom which I found Irritating.

My mother, Melissa walked inside my tiny room and sat beside me on my bed, my tiny bed. "Gabby my child" my mother pat me on the back and tried to console me. No one can console me, absolutely no one.

"Mum I can't believe I will be sold off tonight, to the vampires. Mummy, they will rip my heart out"

"Don't say that honey" my mother shushed me and embrace me. "You won't die as long as you obey them. I was once in your shoe gabby" she told me but I continued to cry.

"Mum, don't say that, I will never obey them. Have you forgotten? huh! they killed daddy and took Annabella away." if she thought I was going to obey them then she must be mistaken. "Mum please don't let them take me away. Please mother"I begged her and buried my head in her lap.

"I'm sorry love, there is nothing I can do my pretty daughter. This is our fate, our destiny. "She cried and brush my hair gently with her hand.

We were still bonding when a knock sounded on the door. I cling to my mother's clothing to stop her from going to the door but she pulled away from me and went to the door.

"Good evening sir" I could hear my mother greeting the guard assigned to our home.

"I'm here to take your daughter Gabriella Monet to the auction that's is taking place tonight."The man informed in a hoarse and hard tone. If a voice could kill then everyone would probably be dead by now.

"Yes I'm aware, she is in her room. Gabriella! Gabriella! "My mother called my name, I played deaf and didn't answer her.

Let her keep calling till the world ends.

The footsteps entering my room confirmed that the guard was in my room. I looked up to him and damn he was tall, Like a freaking giant. "Gabriella Monet, it's time to go now," he said and walked towards me.

"Don't you dare come near me or I'll kill you" I threatened. The man raised a brow at me like I was stupid or something.

Who threatened a man twice her size?

The man pulled my hand and pushed me outside the room. "I'm not here to argue little girl" My mother handed over my suitcase to him and that confirmed she wasn't going to help me.

"Mum, what are you doing?"I shouted. My mother turned away as I was pulled outside by the guard. I kicked and shout but the guard was too strong. "Mum, mummy, mummy"I shouted but I was already dragged towards a car and shoved into the car like a bag of potatoes.

"You need to have some manners girly or you won't last a day in your master's house."The man commented.

"Go to hell idiot" I replied.

The man gave me a long look before entering the driver's seat and drove out of our tiny house. As the car moved, I looked through the windscreen and thought about how humans are subjected to slavery. How they struggle daily in the hands of the bloodsucking monsters. They took us from our homes and sell us to the royals or vampires who were rich enough to bid on us as if we're items. As if that wasn't enough if a human died in her master's hand, they are thrown out and left for the vultures to feed on.

Once a girl or boy attained the age of Twenty, he/she would be taken to the auction house to be sold as blood, pleasure, or house slaves. They call it the law of the land, a law that's had been going on for a millennium. Then once we reach the age of 25, we are given the chance to marry the person we loved. They are doing it for their good, they just want us to multiply, and getting married was the only thing they could do for us to multiply. That's was how my dad and mum met. Well, my dad died three years ago. He was killed because he refused to give my sister away.

The image of that night was still vivid in my memory. I could remember how my dad slumped to the ground as they drain his blood. After that night, I made up my mind that I would never obey the vampires even if I had to die. I was snapped out of my thought when the car door opened and the guard pulled me out of the car.

"Come down slave" he pushed me out of the car. I almost fall to the ground but, I stood my ground. He grabbed my hand and pulled me inside the auction house. It was a skyscraper of no more than ten floors. The guard dragged me inside the building and took me inside the elevator. We took the elevator to the eighth floor and When we got outside the elevator, he pushed me forward which I found annoying.

"Don't you know how to treat a lady fool" I yelled and he slapped me. Well, I wasn't expecting him to do that.

"Have some manners girly or you rot in a dungeon."

"Well, you sound really stupid right now"I replied.

He groaned and pulled towards where some boys and girls were seated. I looked around and then I finally understood that this world we are, is the world of vampires. The girls were separated from the boys. I didn't sit but stand in a corner to look into the faces of everyone. The boys were unhappy while most of the girls were grinning and whispering about getting picked by a rich vampire. They were heading to their doom but they were oblivious of what is yet to come.