My Perfect Revenge: Flash Marriage With My Vampire Tycoon-Chapter 155: – Twenty Five Years Ago –

"What are you saying sorry to me for? What the hell are you trying to say?" Viviana turned and stormed back to the bed. She gripped Nikolas’s arm. "Get up, Nikolas! Nikolas, get up or I’ll never speak to you again. I’ll get my things and I’ll leave, and y-you will never see me again. You better get up, I-I-I’m not joking."

But Nikolas didn’t move. He was as motionless as ever. The reality was starting to slip in, and unable to swallow it, Viviana’s eyes rolled to the back of her head and she fainted, almost hitting the floor if not for Lucian who was quick enough to catch her.

He lifted her into his arms and left the room, shutting it with a grab of his feet. He made his way back upstairs where he met his mother who was quick to get up from the sofa.

"How is she... Oh..." Her words trailed off at the sight of Viviana who was unconscious.

"She’s not taking this well."

Lucian gazed helplessly.

"What do we do?"

"Bring her to the guest room to rest. I’ll try to talk to her myself when she wakes up."

He nodded in agreement, taking Viviana over to the guest room where he put her down into the bed and pulled the duvet over her. He stared at her teary face for a few moments before he shook his head in sympathy, turning and leaving.

Loredana on the other hand, stayed behind, taking a seat on the one man sofa next to the bed.

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Three days passed by in the blink of an eye, and finally, Viviana woke up. She blinked her lashes apart, stared at the ceiling for a few moments, before turning her head.

Her gaze landed on none other than Loredana who’d been by her side all these while.

"You’re awake," she said.

Viviana pushed herself up into a sitting position on the bed. She remembered everything and as the tears welled up again, she pulled her legs to her chest, and buried her face in her knees.

"How do you feel, child?" Loredana asked.

"I am so tired," Viviana cried out. "I am so exhausted. I am so tired of crying. My head hurts. I feel so... I feel so tired."

The woman gazed at her. "I’m sorry."

No response.

"Child—"

"Why is he that way? His body was warm, so he’s not dead. Then why wasn’t he waking up?"

Loredana stood up from the chair. She approached her and sat down next to her on the bed. Then she began, "In our kind, there is something called a berserk mode. Though it is only strong ones that can fall into that mental state and yes, it is very dangerous, because aside from the sun, it is another thing that can kill us. It gives you this incredible power where you transcends the earth itself, but it also kills you. That is what Nikolas went into."

Viviana looked at her. "What...?" She could still recall that day, everything that had happened. How Nikolas had acted and looked like a man who’d lost himself.

"The stronger the berserk mode, the lower the chance of surviving it."

"W-what are you trying to say?"

Loredana took a deep breath. "You see this thing that led to this outcome, while it looked like a normal event, it is what you would call the calamity of fate."

Viviana stared at her in confusion. "Calamity of... fate?"

"Yes," Loredana continued. "We vampires are created from an obsession. An obsession that is specifically called loyalty. When we are given a mate, we cannot reject them, nor can we choose another over them. Take it as being tied to one with no choice to leave. But of course in ninety percent of cases, we all tend to love our mate because they are curated exactly for us and made to be very compatible with us."

She said, "Now as for Nikolas, his case is a unique one. Complicated even. He had a mate in the past, but we never got to meet her actually because she died too soon and suddenly after they met. My dear son couldn’t handle the heartbreak, so for a hundred and fifty years, he was in a deep sleep that he couldn’t wake up from. Unless under one condition."

Viviana gazed hard at her.

"It was unless his mate existed again. And yes, immediately it happened, Nikolas woke up."

"When was that?" She asked.

Loredana responded, "Twenty five years ago."

Surprise flickered in Viviana’s eyes. She furrowed her brows. Twenty five... years ago? It couldn’t be her. The mate he was looking for. Because if it was, what was this calamity of a fate thing?

"He’d been looking for some time now," Loredana continued. "That is until he met you."

"Me?"

"Yes. You are not his mate and that is what made it all the more confusing. He forced himself into a deep sleep because of how much he loved this mate of his. How could he then fall so deeply in love with another woman who wasn’t his mate?"

Loredana’s brows were furrowed. Even she was confused.

"We have no clue what happened or why he ended up falling in love with you. Nikolas knew the calamity of fate would come for him, but he wouldn’t give you up. He was stubborn about it, disregarding the fact that the more he fought to be with you, the angrier he made fate. And look what has happened."

Her face stretched into a bitter smile. "There is not even a one percent chance that he will ever wake up again. The state is similar to when a human goes into a vegetative state. They are neither alive nor dead."

"And the thing is..."

"...If he hadn’t tried to fight fate, if he hadn’t been stubborn about you, none of this would have happened. But dear child—" Loredana reached out her hand, tucking the loose strands of her hair behind her ear. "—I don’t blame him, and neither do I blame you. You have suffered a lot. And you see, I loved my husband so much, and it wasn’t even because we were mates. Their father was everything to me, body and soul. He was all I had. And I know that if for once I had been in my son’s shoes, I would have done the same, to be with my husband, even if it kills me. Those are the things we do for love, child."