Chapter 16: Bring Her Back
These past few days, Jasmine had been deliberately making her presence known to Anna. The struggle in Anna’s eyes grew more intense with each passing day, and the maid who had injured Jasmine kept looking like she wanted to say something but held back. Jasmine knew that Anna would likely succumb to her guilty conscience and come clean, revealing everything. So she waited patiently for Anna to speak.
However, she hadn’t expected that while Anna’s struggle was genuine, she had also been summoned to the doctor’s house after Adele visited him. Just as Jasmine had guessed, the swelling on Anna’s face was indeed from the doctor’s beating.
Upon seeing Anna, the doctor flew into a rage, raising his hand and slapping her hard across the face. The strength of an adult vampire was something a maid like Anna couldn’t resist. The force of the blow sent her crashing to the floor, hitting the table on the way down. Everything on the table clattered to the ground, and pain shot through her waist from the impact.
As Anna crumpled to the floor, clutching the tablecloth, she tasted blood in her mouth. She knew she couldn’t spit it out. If the doctor smelled blood, she wouldn’t escape being drained today.
She hated the feeling of being drained. No human would enjoy it. It felt like being a fish pressed against a chopping board, watching helplessly as someone raised a cleaver, ready to strike. All she could do was wiggle her tail, unable to even struggle.
The moment Anna was struck, the human maid standing in the corner, covered in bruises but forced to remain standing, flinched slightly. A flicker of sympathy crossed her eyes, but she remained silent, like a lifeless doll.
The doctor stormed over, grabbed Anna’s hair, and yanked her up like a rag doll.
“Anna, my dear Anna, how could you be so foolish? Why didn’t you investigate the identity of Jasmine’s master? She’s not like the others. Her master is definitely not some weakling, some declining minor noble. Her master has great power. In a hundred years, I might have to grovel at her feet. Because of your incompetence, I almost…”
The doctor didn’t finish his sentence, but tightened his grip on her hair, forcing Anna to look up. Her cheek quickly swelled, resembling a steamed bun. The doctor tutted. “Poor Anna, if you had done your job properly, you wouldn’t be treated like this.”
Anna had actually investigated thoroughly, otherwise, she wouldn’t have worked so hard to make Jasmine the doctor’s prey. Among the three new maids who had arrived this year, Anna had only pushed Jasmine towards the trap because she knew exactly who Jasmine’s master was.
The fact that Anna could protect so many human maids and use the doctor’s name to keep the vampire maids in the servants’ quarters in check proved that she was no fool. She had even managed to extract information about Jasmine’s master from the vampire maids, learning that Jasmine’s master was a high-ranking noble from the Thirteen Clans.
If Maid White, as a mere maid, was so arrogant, then the young mistress of the Blake family would definitely not allow anyone to defile her property, right? The doctor, by making such a move, would surely anger Miss Blake and be punished, perhaps even expelled from the school.
That was why Anna had done all this.
But she didn’t understand how the doctor had obtained this information. As far as Anna knew, the doctor shouldn’t be interested in humans like them. He would naturally assume that Jasmine was the maid of a declining noble, and that’s what he had initially thought.
Anna never dreamed that the young mistress of the Blake family would actually dote on Jasmine so much that she would personally visit the doctor’s house, ostensibly to express her gratitude but actually to issue a threat.
“I’m sorry, I’m truly sorry… I’m just a maid. I have no way of knowing their masters’ information… It’s my fault… Doctor, I’m sorry, it’s all my fault…” Although she was puzzled, Anna quickly took all the blame, lying to the doctor’s face.
The doctor snorted. “I knew I couldn’t expect too much from lowly humans like you. But then again, how could you, a mere human maid, know her master’s information?”
The doctor returned to the sofa and sat down. He pondered for a long time before regaining his usual gentle demeanor. “Anna, look at you, your face is so swollen. Quickly, take her upstairs and treat her properly.” The human maid agreed, taking Anna upstairs for treatment.
They didn’t talk upstairs because vampires had excellent hearing. The doctor downstairs could hear everything they said on the second floor. However, they could communicate with simple gestures. The maid pointed at Anna’s cheek, and Anna shook her head. The maid sighed in relief.
The maid gave Anna a complicated look. Anna was puzzled, not understanding what it meant until the maid handed her a note. Anna unfolded it and saw the message: That maid’s master came to see the doctor. She seemed very concerned about the maid.
Anna stared blankly at the note for a moment, then opened her mouth and swallowed it, leaving no trace behind. After her wound was treated, she went downstairs and left the doctor’s house. She had been waiting for the day when Jasmine would be bitten, but as time passed, even the calmest person would be plagued by self-doubt.
Moreover, there was someone by her side who was even more shaken. The maid who had injured Jasmine stopped Anna. The two of them stood at the end of the corridor on the second floor, where no one would pass by. The maid lowered her voice. “Anna… Are we really going to do this? She… she’s innocent too.”
“This is the only way to get rid of the doctor.”
The maid struggled for a long time, but she couldn’t bear the torment of her conscience any longer. She blurted out, “But… but Jasmine is innocent. Didn’t you say you wanted to protect us…?”
Anna’s pupils dilated, her expression changing rapidly. She had said she would protect them, protect all the human maids.
She had protected the humans from the vampire maids, and the only ones who were actually drained by the doctor were Anna and the maid who lived in his house. Before she came to this school, those maids had been drained not only by the doctor but also by the vampire maids in the servants’ quarters. It was Anna who had protected them.
Today was the day for Jasmine’s second dressing change, and it was also the day the doctor had decided to make his move. By now, Jasmine should have already gone to the doctor’s building. The maid tugged at Anna’s clothes, her eyes filled with unease. “And… what if the doctor isn’t held accountable, and instead, Jasmine faces her master’s wrath? What will we do then…?”
Anna couldn’t bear to think about such a scenario. The maid continued, “We… we can find another way, but let’s not involve Jasmine. Jasmine is innocent. She’s just come of age, she’s a year younger than us! She’s like our little sister!”
Anna gritted her teeth, shook off the maid’s hand, and walked away without looking back. The maid shouted after her, “Anna, where are you going?!”
“I’m going to bring Jasmine back!”
Anna finally caught up with Jasmine. Seeing Anna appear before her, Jasmine felt a sense of relief and smiled slightly. “What’s wrong?” Jasmine was mischievous, asking knowingly, her eyes twinkling with amusement as she looked at Anna.
Anna had run all the way here and was still panting. She grabbed Jasmine’s sleeve, just like the maid had grabbed hers earlier. Jasmine knew that Anna was a good girl and wouldn’t disappoint her. Look, now Anna was standing before her, stopping her from going any further.
Actually, Jasmine had been a little disappointed today. After all, until now, Anna hadn’t come to find her, seemingly determined to carry out her plan. Her intentions were good, but if the victim wasn’t Jasmine but an ordinary human, it would be like sending them to their deaths.
Adele was a special case. If Jasmine were an ordinary human and had been bitten by the doctor, Adele would definitely be furious and seek revenge. Other students wouldn’t do the same. They wouldn’t go to such lengths for a human maid. Just look at the other human maids who had been drained. They also had masters, but their masters didn’t care, they remained indifferent.
On the one hand, their masters had fallen from grace and couldn’t confront the doctor even if they were angry. On the other hand, even in the eyes of their masters, they were just disposable objects, unimportant.
But then again, even if Adele was angry and sought revenge against the doctor, the matter would likely be brushed aside in the end. Adele herself couldn’t defeat the doctor. In the end, Adele was just a newly matured vampire, no match for him.
Even if she complained to the teachers, they wouldn’t intervene because it wasn’t Adele herself who had been bitten, but just a human. What was there to fuss about?
In other words, Anna’s plan was doomed to fail from the start. It would only add another victim and wouldn’t change anything. Perhaps in time, after several decades, when Adele was powerful enough to crush the doctor to dust, she might remember this humiliation and seek revenge. But by then, the current human maids would be too old to even walk, and most likely already dead. Humans who were regularly drained of blood could never live long.
Although vampires did manage the health of humans to some extent, it was definitely not as regulated as blood donation in Jasmine’s past life. They would drain blood whenever they wanted, as long as it didn’t affect the young and strong. As for the elderly… well, their blood wasn’t tasty anyway, so there was no need to keep them alive until old age.
By then, the doctor would have already harmed countless human maids, and even death wouldn’t be enough to atone for his crimes.
Logically, that’s how things should have unfolded. But because of Jasmine, everything had changed. She was so powerful, so powerful that she defied the laws of this world. She could easily crush an adult, higher-ranking vampire to dust.
Jasmine had actually planned to confront the doctor today, to see if the human maid would finally ask for her help. And then, when daylight came, she would end the doctor’s life, letting him enjoy a bit of sunshine before he died.
But she hadn’t expected Anna to stop her.
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