TRISTAN:
I galloped towards the edge of the plain leading to the Great Temple where I could smell my Dahlia’s scent.
In the past, I had loved this walk from the forest towards the temple where my father would regularly burn an offering to the Moon Goddess Selene.
Now, this same path was packed with vampires, attacking me from left and right. It was a hard fight. I felt like I was a bug trying to battle out hordes of ants to get to the other side.
The more I stayed here, the more endangered Dahlia could become.
Suddenly, I heard a voice roar. “Get down!”
My instincts kicked in, and I followed it. As soon as I ducked down, bolts of fire started to rain down on my path, burning the Blasted Ones that crowded my way.
I looked back sharply to discover a non-familiar wolf. It was golden brown with a stone in its head that shone like the midday sun.
So this was how Kaist’s Shadow Rune wolf looked like. He must have already acce
TRISTAN: Irvan, that scoundrel that caused Samalah to get into an accident and had caused Dahlia’s agony, was a conjurer! Perhaps that was why they had left the dead bodies here instead of burying or burning them. It wasn’t just for show after all. The animated bodies started to close in on us. I thought it would be easy to defeat them since they were dead. However, they have the faces of people whome we had once seen or knew… It was a bit fortunate that most of them were just people whom I have casually met at Talandor, but I could only imagine that this battle must be too hard for Kaist. As we tried to knock out the dead bodies, the dragon bones swoop down on us, trying to pick on the flesh on our back. Even without a rider, the dragon bones were agile. This was really a dangerous thing. I just finished hurling a corpse somewhere far away, when suddenly, I looked up to see a dragon bone aiming to pluck my eyes away. I
DAHLIA: I was in a dark and suffocating place that I can’t even see my own hands and feet. I tried standing still, but nothing was happening, so I decided to move around. I started calling to my wolf. ‘Eva!’ Again, I shouted, ‘Eva!’ There was no answer. I was running wildly, or at least I thought I was. No one can say that this was all happening in my head. Goddess, I couldn’t even see if my body was still intact! I tried to touch my cheek just so I could verify I am still alive, still seeing, still feeling. The last thing I could honestly remember was King Helion Cosco drinking the blood off my neck. I felt around my neck. There weren’t any wounds of any form of punctures. Am I still existing in the real world, or is this all just a dying person’s dream? Just then, I heard an anguished voice. “Dahlia!” It was the voice I had longed to hear for a long time. “Tristan!” I started ru
DAHLIA:“Dahlia, I have confessed everything to you before. I don’t know how much you remember of it after your accident though, so I am sorry for hurting you again,” Tristan began.“It was true. I casted a spell that was why the mate mark appeared in your body after our first night together. I was sure you were not my mate, and I was not yours. I casted a different spell on myself a few years ago to suppress finding my own mate, so I was confident when I approached you.”“However, the more I stayed beside you, the surer I had become that you were my destined mate… There wasn’t any day that I didn’t regret doing that…”Tears flowed from both our eyes. I knew it from my memory. We did have this conversation before, but it was still heartbreaking to hear Tristan’s side of the story.“When you had switched appearances with Samalah, I was foolish enough not to recognize you
Hello! Thank you so much for coming to this journey with me in Revenge of The Shadow Heir! I started this story with a completely different story arc in mind, and I can't believe I've already reached the end of Dahlia and Tristan's love story. I dedicate this novel to the person who inspired me to take on writing again (and write romance stories, which wasn't really the genre I honestly saw myself writing).Here's to more meaningful memories together, sweetie! :). And to all those who have ever dreamed of being a writer or of being anything else - chase that dream! You were made to lust after it for a purpose. Glory to God always! I might take some hiatus after this story, but I assure you this won't be the last I will write. Thanks a lot again, dearests, and happy reading! - Ellie Love -
SEVENTH MONTH OF YEAR 992. DAHLIA: “I dragged myself through hell just to make you suffer, and I’ll make sure you really suffer!” These were your bitter words to me, my dearest Tristan, the words that had finally woke me up and shook me awake for what you really were. You said you’ve only come to me for revenge – to see me spill the blood that have been spilled similarly by your pack, by your own people, but did you not see that I was also one of your people? I am your wife now, your other half… Do you really think so poorly of me that you’d rather see me die and wither away like this rather than save me? When I accepted your hand back then, I admit that I was scared… I have never known what love was like. I had never known what freedom was like too, and you had given me those choices when you extended your hands towards me. “Dahlly,” you said, calling me softly by my childhood name, “Dahlly, come and run away with me. Come with me… Yo
THIRD MONTH OF YEAR 992, A FEW MONTHS BEFORE THE TRAGEDY.DAHLIA:“Waah, mama,” the little girl wailed as I applied the ointment on her wounds. I tried to be as gentle as I could, but it didn’t seem to work much.“Mama, mama, it hurts!”I bit my lips. My heart hurt a lot seeing this small child weep in front of me. I soothed her in an attempt to make her feel better. I still needed to apply the rest of the ointment and patch the wounds afterwards, but I see it will take us more time to finish up in this state.“Don’t cry, baby,” I said as gently as I could. “We just have to put a little bit more medicine, and we will finish up so that you can play, alright? Just a little bit more…”She evaded my attempts to put the medical salve by writhing and thrashing about. I knew I should have eased the pain away when I first applied the ointment…“Don’t cry, Ay
DAHLIA:“Good job, everyone. Now let’s go home,” I told them after finishing up on today’s charity work.Everybody was tired, but they were all smiling. Once everything has been cleared away and the supplies were safely loaded back into the wagon, I boarded the carriage with Lina, and we journeyed back together to the mansion.“Lady Dahlia, how long are you planning to give these free medical services along the poor men’s villages,” Lina asked.Lina was only two years older than me, and we grew up together. She was almost like a sister, but even though I loved her to death, I always hated this side of her – the side that occasionally spoke so harshly against the poor and the common people.“Whatever do you mean, Lina? I’ll do this forever,” I said.“Surely you don’t mean that, right, my lady? How about when you become the queen? I don’t think you will either
DAHLIA:This was it. I was going to die in this manner. I closed my eyes and raised the dagger as high as I could.I waited for the sharp pain that the fangs of the wild rogue would bring, but it didn’t come. I opened my eyes slowly.That’s when I saw it – a great white wolf that was double my human size! He was clutching the rogue’s neck with his teeth, and his immaculate fur was drenched in blood.The second rogue fell upon his side, but a swift swipe of his paw hurled him violently away somewhere.Who was this wolf? Why was he attacking these rogues?I tried to look closely at him, but I don’t recognize him at all. Was he part of Kaist’s guards? If so, Kaist himself must be around here somewhere…At that exact instant, my nostril was filled with an extraordinary smell. It was the scent of lemons and the wet woodlands.I immediately recognized it as the scent of the great, white wolf