Elijah’s throat constricted and she swallowed hard a second time.
The first time was when Shadow pulled her into the room while Samuel was dealing with Persephone and Hades. She had no choice but to stare at Shadow who was pacing around the entire room, trying to distract herself from pouncing at Elijah.
In the punctuating silence, Elijah took off her clothes one by one and kicked them off on the floor while Shadow was obliged to pick them up wordlessly and placed them on the table.
Elijah could feel the girl stinging gaze on her neck as her hand traced along her throat and flashed her shoulder seductively.
“Are you sure you don’t want this?” Elijah tilted her head sideways, exposing the already exposed shoulder.
Shadow tucked them in after slipping on her loose robe. It took a couple of minutes for her to prepare herself physically and mentally to meet whoever was standing beyond that door.The guest room door.Their temporary chamber.CLICK!“What the likes of you doing here?” Shadow said in an arrogant tone as she opened the door.Her sound was arrogant and all-knowing even before she looked who was behind the door. However, her excellent sense of smell suggested that she knew who was there.“Your Excellency Shadow.”“Sir Edmund. It’s been a while.”Edmun
“Let’s not lie to ourselves, shall we?” Hades pursed his lips acting like he was a cute ancient god.“Ugh.” Shadow hummed under her breath. “I’m not aware that my enemy has so much faith in me. This is new.” She said in a touch of heavy sarcasm.“It is what it is, darling.” Persephone looked at her as if she was the cutest thing in the world.“Anyway, continue. Do you want to know anything about your early payment?”“My father’s biography or is that too much?”“Your father’s biography? Hmmm…” Shadow stroked her chin while think
As Conan and Dionysus stomped off the ground, Shadow’s attention was focusing on Hermes, Perseus, and Hercules.She straight liked a pole lamp before raising her fingers. “Tell me, what is your desire?”Hermes flinched. The dark aura permeated through the area. The sinister aura pushed them to the ground as if her aura had them in a chokehold. Their lungs were working hard to pump all the oxygen, nothing came out nor came in.“Help… help… help…”“Can’t breathe…”Huuk~ huuk!”Hercules crawled on the ground, one of his hands tried to grab the end of Shadow’s pants, Hermes scratched his throat in
“Are you sure?”“Yes. She has taken forever.”“It has only been one night. I’m sure she is fine.”“... follow me.”Still, in the woods, Dionysus and Conan were actually waiting for one kilometer away. By standard - according to Dionysus - she needed 24 hours alone with her subjects before they could find her.And, today was her second day.Well, one day and a half to be exact.So, Conan had no choice but to search for her when she still didn’t escape through the route that she had promised. Hence, he had to find her in order to give her complete rest.
“Ugh… go… run… ngghhh…” The man in the room raised his head and glanced over his shoulder. “...Ru… Ru… run… love…” He stopped his hand from signing the documents. “... can’t… die… you… love… my love…” The man turned his body to have a better view. His jaw was clenched hard, sometimes it moved back and forth. The vein on his hand popped out as he gripped the innocent pen firmly. “... ru… Am… ru… my love… don’t… die…” that hand stretched in the air with a hitched breath echoed in the room. The man cupped his chin and stared hard. “What are you? A pervert?” His friend that was also in
Shadow groaned weakly. Her head felt like she was struck with a brick. It was throbbing like crazy. Her eyeballs under her eyelids a few more times. Cold cotton disinfected swept across her body. “Ugh…” She winced. “It’s okay. Nothing can catch you.” A voice answered her. “Pain…” “I know. It will be okay.” “... okay…” Shadow answered. “Thank you… Amino…” She didn’t have to open her eyes to see who was next to her, diligently tended her wound. “... you know it’s me,” Amino said in amusement. “Never will not.” “Interesting.” Amino replied
“Where is she? Where is she? Where is she?” Elijah paced around Shadow’s office while biting her nail.“Sweetie…” Samuel tried to stop Elijah from biting it but he had nothing to offer.“It’s been two weeks. Two freaking weeks!” Elijah’s voice erupted as a silent volcano erupted.“Chill- gasp!”Amel learned to shut up when Elijah sent a fierce glare at him and instantly looked away. His eyes desperately pleaded for Samuel to intervene.Samuel just shook his head, his face told him that there was nothing they could do but to stay quiet.“Chill? Chill?! Huh?” Elijah shouted at Amel.
The atmosphere inside Shadow’s chamber was chaotic. Everyone was busy doing something in every part of her room. Shadow couldn’t understand why they were inside there.“Why…”She was forcefully shut her eyes by Elijah and Samuel that laid at each of her sides in the bed. They were hindering the doctor's and healers' work at one point. Still, they were still stubborn enough to be next to her like donkeys.“Her wounds have completely healed.” One of them expressed her astonishment a few moments later. “It was a shocker considering the trace of heavy wounds were still existing.”Elijah sat on the bed, right next to Shadow and frowning. “Elaborate.”“Ye- yes