Esther and Brent had been standing close to the garden, watching Tasha and Evarius. They could not hear anything but they kept a watch in case things got out of hand and intervention was needed. When nothing happened, and Tasha texted them that she was leaving, they followed her and made sure she had reached home safely.
Now, they are driving home.
Esther and Brent enter the mansion. It seems empty. Probably, no one else is back yet. They walk up the stairs, and when they reach Brent’s room Esther says, “I had a wonderful night.”
“Me too. Thanks for coming with me.”
“Again, thanks for inviting me.”
“And again, you look gorgeous.”
Damion keeps standing in the same spot. Did Lilia have sex with Tyrus? She chose Brent and now Tyrus. Why not him? What is so wrong with him that she can’t choose him? Initially, he had thought that she had chosen to go with Tyrus because of the awkwardness between them, but now it didn’t seem like it.Damion doesn’t know what to do. Should he stay up all night to see if Tyrus comes out of Lilia’s room? Because he needs to know. He needs to know that what he is thinking is true or it’ll keep eating him up. Although the truth also might gnaw at his heart, still, at least he would know it’s the truth instead of cooking up stories in his head. Wait, he could go to Tyrus’s room and check if he’s there. If he is not, well...He crosses the hall to reach Tyrus’s room. He slowly turns th
“She’s right,” says Brent, “what if the magic asks you to do things you don’t want to, or what if it is too taxing for you and you just can’t do it? You are still learning, after all. You realized that you are a witch just a few days ago.”“He said that all the instructions about the process that originally created vampires and other things have been written down and I can read those,” says Tasha. “So, you think I should just ask him to hand over the instructions or the book whatever it is, and see what it is all about.”“Yeah,” says Lilia, “that sounds right, and anyway it’s not like you can do the spells tomorrow even if you get to know about them, it’ll probably be a long time before you learn something of that magnitude.”
“Your father? Carl texted you?” Lilia says in shock.“Yeah. A min ago.”“How does he even have your number?” Tasha asks.“No idea. He is resourceful.”“What does he want?” Asks Lilia.“He wants to meet me tomorrow.”“But why?”“The message doesn’t say, but I think we can say it's because of the ritual. Has to be. There’s no other reason he would reach out to a son he has not seen for a decade. He knows now that only I can give him the third ingredient.”“Don’t go!” S
The waiter comes back with the coffees while Damion just stares at Carl with a blank expression and then when the waiter leaves, he says, “I have no idea what you are talking about.”“Do not lie to me,” says Carl through gritted teeth.“I am not. I have no idea what The Valkyrie Opus is. I have never heard of it before.”Carl thinks that if Damion is lying, he has to be an excellent liar because it is hard to fool him and to him, it doesn’t look like he is lying.“Is that all you wanted to know?” Damion asks as he sips his coffee with a supremely unconcerned expression.“If you are telling the truth then, yes.”
Damion does not say yes immediately because something is bothering him. He does not want to commit to something before thinking it through. Also, there are certain things he wishes to clarify.“But how do you know I can get to it? What if my father has it?” Damion asks.“You mean Carl?” says Evarius.Damion is surprised that Evarius knows who his father is.Evarius notices the surprised look on Damion’s face. He smiles and says, “I have done my research well. I know Carl wants the book, but if he could get to it, he would have it by now. The fact that he doesn’t mean that you have it.”“I don’t have it.”“But
Everyone is silent for a few seconds then Lilia says, “I think you should. Unless anyone has a good reason for you not to do so.”“I agree,” says Esther, “and anyway, who is to say Evarius won’t start threatening us if we don’t do what he says?”“Right,” says Brent, “also, for now, it isn’t harming anyone. So, I think we are good to go for now.”“Okay, then. I’ll go and get it.”“Yes,” all of them say together.“Where is it anyway?” Lilia asks.“On an island. Would take over two hours to reach the shore and then some more to reach the Island. I have never b
Tasha and Damion meet at 6:15 in the morning the next day.“Uh- there’s an addition in the plan,” says Tasha.“What addition?”“Evarius is coming with us.”“What? Why? Did you invite him?”“Why would I invite him?”“You seem to like him.”“I don’t like him,” says Tasha, annoyed, “and he invited himself. What was I supposed to say? No? It’s not like we really have a choice where he is concerned.”“Very well. One more pair of eyes would do and anyway, it’s because of him that we are going there at all.”“Yeah.”A few minutes later, Evarius joins them, and all three drive out of the city where Tyrus joins them too. Finally, the four of them start their journey to the shore. It takes them about two and a half hours to reach there. Then, they compel a boatman to lend them his boat and set sail for the island.*After breakfast, Adeline leaves the house. She walks to the old auditorium where she had met Nadia for the first time in decades. She is going to meet her again. The anxiety about l
As Evarius and Tasha are walking and looking for trapdoors, Evarius chances a glance at Tasha now and then when she is not looking. They might think that the reason he has come with them is to keep an eye on them, but the truth is that he has come so he can spend some time with Tasha. He doesn’t need to keep an eye on them, he knows that they will get the book. To that point, there is no issue. The issues will begin only after that. He sees Tasha sitting on her feet and clearing leaves, twigs, and dust from a spot on the ground.“Anything there,” he asks her.“Uh... no... I thought there might be.”She gets back up and says, “How are we going to find a trapdoor that has obviously been built to remain hidden in such a huge place? I know when compared to other islands, it’s a small place, but it’s still huge.”“We’ll just have to keep looking, I guess.”“That desperate to die, are you?” Tasha says, raising her eyebrows.“You have no idea,” says Evarius smiling, “come on, let’s look that