Chapter 4. Harvey's Shopping Mission

When darkness surrounded the place, Lucasta fell asleep after listening to Samson telling some fairy tales.

After he pulled the blanket over her, he quickly left the castle to meet Maris.

Today is the beginning of the month and it's also the day when Harvey will deliver the necessities to them.

Samson needed soap, toothpaste, shower gel, and dried blood, and Maris needed more than he needed.

She needed flour, olive oil, salt and sugar, and even candy and milk for the owls that were raised by their owners like human babies.

"Hello, handsome vampire guy." Maris laughed happily as soon as she stepped out of the castle gates.

"Yeah. Maris, tell Harvey to buy more of these for me."

Samson said as he handed Maris a piece of paper.

Maris took it and glanced at it, she realized they were all essentials for a child, strawberry toothpaste, milk, candy, cake, chocolate, flour, cornstarch, salt, olive oil, notebooks, books, pencils, crayons… and even mosquito repellent.

"Are you going to tell Harvey about the fact that you adopted a human girl?" Maris asked while reading with her eyes.

"No, I don't want him to worry." Samson shook his head.

"Oh my gosh, what about me? I am also worried about you." Maris looked disgruntled.

"Because you live across from my house, I don't know what to do. Ah, don't move too fast in front of Lucasta in the future, okay? You also stand from above and throw yourself down."

"You're afraid she's surprised and scared, right?"

"No, I'm afraid Lucasta imitates, children are kings of imitating."

Maris smiled reluctantly and waved goodbye to Samson. Then she disappeared for a moment.

Perhaps from now on, both she and he must live as exemplary adults in front of Lucasta if they want the little girl to become an angel.

Under the moonlight, the black luxury car seemed to be shinier. But the man with the angular face and platinum hair typical of a pureblood vampire standing with his arms crossed next to the car was much more sparkling than it was.

He is Harvey, a two-thousand-year-old vampire who has been living as the manager of the Star Corporation for almost nine hundred years since it was a tiny company.

When Harvey saw Maris's red dress peeking through the bushes, he quickly went around and opened the trunk of the car, taking the bags and placing them on the grass nearby.

When Maris was not in the mood to raise an owl, he only needed to bring her and Samson enough dried blood for a month.

Almost ten years ago, she wanted to have some pets and the unlucky animals she chose were owls.

"Harvey, did you know that your hair is brighter than the moonlight?" Maris walked over to Harvey and handed him a piece of paper full of words.

"What is this? Maris, are you taking care of all the animals in this forest?" Harvey frowned slightly when he saw what he needed to bring here the next day.

"Ah. The owls had grown and proliferated. They brought their mates from all over the place to the castle, and I was forced to take care of them all."

The vampire girl opened her eyes wide to lie because she understood the eyes were the windows to the soul. If she didn't look directly at Harvey, he would immediately suspect.

After all, he was two thousand years old, and she was just over a hundred years old.

"Strawberry flavored toothpaste, pencil. Maris, did you secretly give birth?"

"No, no, no. I just like the owl. Owls need to brush their teeth too and pencils are for me to draw on their eyes to make them look even more ferocious. I like that fierce look."

Maris quickly explained.

In this forest, it's only her and Samson. Could she give birth to a child with him?

She was afraid that her feet hadn't even reached his bed before he had grabbed her and thrown her out.

If the love between the two of them could arise, it wouldn't take a hundred years.

Harvey nodded slightly and opened the car door, and got in. He did not forget to tell Maris to come to the edge of the forest at eleven o'clock tomorrow night because he was busy attending a party with the senior staff of Star Corporation and could not come to give her things early.

The car quickly sped away and left the deserted road to return to the busy city.

Unlike Maris and Samson, Harvey easily integrated into the human world without revealing his true identity during the past two thousand years.

He always calculates the time to appear in the sunless hours and the important thing is that he doesn't put his love on any girl.

He doesn't let anyone have close contact and meets regularly to realize the difference between him and humans.

"Isn't that person Aurora? Why is she here at this hour?"

After questioning himself, Harvey turned on the car's turn signals and pulled over to the side of the road.

Aurora was Samson's friend and Harvey got to know her through his introduction.

To be more precise, Samson was friends with Aurora's parents and he was even friends with her grandparents.

"Harvey." Aurora smiled and left the bus stop, walking to the side of the car that had just stopped.

"Hi. Who are you waiting for?"

"Ah, I just broke up with my boyfriend and he left me here." She shrugged and replied.

"What number is he?" He asked as he opened the car door.

Like so many times before, Aurora quickly got into Harvey's car.

She didn't know what fate was, but every time she broke up with her boyfriend, Harvey appeared by accident.

Over the years, she indulged herself in quick love affairs after her confession of love was rejected by the handsome man next to her. The simple reason was that he only saw her as a friend of a friend.

"I don't even remember." She smiled faintly, closed her eyes, and leaned back in the passenger seat.

When the car arrived in front of the department store, Harvey stopped.

Maris urgently needed supplies for the owls tomorrow night, so he needed to prepare in advance because going shopping in the morning or noon was impossible unless he wanted to be turned into black coal.

"Wait for me a moment, I need to buy some things for Maris." He said while unbuckling his seat belt.

"I'll go in with you."

Aurora also unbuckled her seat belt and got out of the car.

The last time she saw Maris was twenty years ago when her parents were still alive.

Maris was brought to Aurora's house by Samson in a state of multiple injuries, losing a lot of blood and completely losing the ability to heal herself, forcing her to recover by treating a human.

That year, Aurora was just a six-year-old girl. She could only hide behind the curtain and watch in fear.

"These are all for children. Maris is married, right?" Aurora asked while choosing.

"Is not. She is raising a flock of owls. The owls were raised like babies by her."

The two of them discussed and selected the items displayed on the shelves, causing the store staff to assume that they were a couple shopping for children.

After Aurora put everything Maris needed in the basket, she got two more bottles of wine for herself.

It's not because she just broke up with her boyfriend that she wants to drink, she drinks because she wants to gnaw at the pain that the man next to her has unintentionally brought her.

Love is inherently voluntary and should not be forced. She understood she couldn't force him to love her.

"If you are in a bad mood, don't drink alcohol. You will lose control. Wine is a luxury drink, you should only enjoy it a little." Harvey looked at her and said.

"Then I will drink it tomorrow." Aurora winked mischievously.

"I have a party tomorrow. Do you want to come with me?"

This is the first time Harvey has invited Aurora to be his companion, and this makes her happy, but in that joy is an accompanying sadness.

Perhaps he just wanted to comfort her, to put her in a bustling atmosphere so that she could forget about her ex-boyfriend.

But did he understand they meant nothing to her at all?

Maybe from tomorrow, she won't look for a replacement for him anymore. After all, no one can replace his image in her heart.

"What time will the party start?" She asked.

"Seven o'clock. After we come back from the party, we will stop at the edge of the forest to give Maris things."

"Aren't you going to go into the castle and visit Samson?"

- Unnecessary. I will go there at Christmas like every year."

Because Aurora was thinking about tomorrow night's date, she didn't know that the pureblood vampire had exchanged two bottles of wine for two bottles of cow's milk.

By the time she found out, he had already swiped the payment card.

"My wine."

"Drink milk. Are you going to the party with the president of Star Corporation with a ramshackle appearance?"

He grabbed the bags from her hand and walked to the parking lot.

Aurora pursed her lips, crossed her arms, and followed him.

He didn't accept her to become his girlfriend, so why does he still care about her?

Did he know he would make her even more delusional?

It's hard to turn a one-sided love into a casual friendship.

During the ride, Harvey and Aurora didn't say another word.

Aurora felt like she was floating on the road.

She wanted to prolong this moment so she could be near him longer. However, that was just a dream.

After fifteen minutes, the car stopped in front of her house.

"Please put on pretty makeup, we'll have to dance together." Harvey poked his head out the car door and said.

"Yes, old man, I will do as you told me to do."

Aurora's feigned politeness made Harvey freeze. It wasn't until she entered the house that he could move.

What is this girl talking about?

She dares to call him an old man when his current appearance is only thirty years old.

"Yes, I'm an old man, so what? How can you disparage the man you once confessed your love to?"