KAIST:
It has been a month since the banquet where I had becoming acquainted with the mysterious and haughty daughter of Count Jeteris. Since then, I had been doing my best to find out about what she said.
“Pelle, is there anything you have to report to me today,” I told my secretary, who also happened to be my loyal escort.
“Unfortunately, sire, there’s nothing. Count Abell has been doing his business as usual. He is meeting traders and business partners in the morning and then going home in the afternoon to his wife.”
“How about Lady Jeteris? Is she doing anything suspicious?”
“No… Ever since she started working alongside Count Abell, she hasn’t done anything out of the ordinary so far…”
I tossed Pelle’s report at the top of my table in the study. “Very well. You may go.”
“Alright, sire.” He bit his lower lip for a while before bo
KAIST:Dahlly’s dream was to become a doctor. In the past, I had somewhat discouraged her to pursue it because I thought she was frail, and I didn’t want her to waste her health on too much studying.However, after what happened in our engagement and during our last talk, I realized that I may have been part of the reason why Dahlia felt caged. When we were together, she did not get to do the things she wanted to do. She was always restricted, always controlled.Perhaps the surest way into her heart was to become a more supportive person to her, and that’s what I shall do starting just about now.“Come on. Let’s go to the investigation site. I’m sure you can find plenty of clues that could help us there.”Just as I thought, the smile on Dahlly’s face when I said this was priceless.It took us less than thirty minutes for me to help her on my horse and gallop our way towards the crime scene.
DAHLIA (WALKING WITHIN CORLION’S MEMORY):Seeing the great, black werewolf before me, I immediately fell into my knees and started to beg.“H-Have mercy! M-My daughter, she needs help! Have mercy!”I tried to cover Cara’s head further, shielding her from the massacre that was happening before my very eyes…At the background, I saw countless vampires being slain by werewolves left and right. They were shooting blessed arrows towards my kind, turning them into ashes in an instant.I shivered. This wolf before me had no blessed arrows anywhere within range, but I knew he could still snap my head away in a second with his sharp paws or those raw, jagged teeth of his.“Please… My daughter is still young! Let her live!” I begged the wolf before me.He only looked at me with a fierce stare. Suddenly, I felt my heart ac
DAHLIA:My heart stilled as Kaist’s words sank into me…He was right. That wolf bearing a dark violet rune on his forehead could only be a wolf from the Shadow Rune Pack.But how can that be? Didn’t the whole pack go extinct twenty years ago? Did they not mysteriously vanish out of thin air over night? Why would they reappear now then and wreck havoc towards those they allied with before?“I-It doesn’t make any sense, Prince Kaist… Why would the Shadow Runes return, and why would they attack their own allies?”Kaist’s face was also distorted in disbelief. “I don’t know too… But whatever their reason was, we must investigate further. For now, can you keep this a secret, Dahlly, even to your husband?”I looked around and realized that I was the only one outside of the palace’s official people who had witnessed what the memory projection crystal contained. Kaist wo
DAHLIA:It can’t be, right? That black wolf couldn’t possibly be my husband!“What on earth did you do to Dahlia? Where did you take her,” his voice thundered.“We just went for a stroll. She felt sick on the way back,” I heard Kaist said in response.“Prince Kaist, I pray there won’t be a next time to this surprised excursions of yours, especially not after my wife comes home feeling dreadful like this!”Tristan turned around. My head felt slightly dizzy again, and I closed my eyes.“Dahlia, are you alright?...”I opened my eyes in response to his voice. It was still my Tristan, but this time, the look in his face had already softened.“T-Take me to the bathroom please…”He nodded his head, and in a few minutes, he eased me down gently on the tiled bathroom floor.I threw out the rest of whatever was in my stomach by the sink.
TRISTAN:Dahlly was behaving strangely… Just now, did I hear her request correctly?...“Show me your wolf… Let’s mate together in your wolf form.”“Dahlia,” I said, unable to hide the surprise in my voice and perhaps in my whole face too. I thought she’ll end up laughing and telling me it was all a joke, but she went closer to my right ear and swiveled her tongue while biting on it lightly.“Let me see him… Let me see your wolf.”“Dahlia… Are you sick?” I ran my hand into her forehead, but it was useless since my hand was already wet.Dahlly’s flushed face came into my view again, her seductive lashes fluttering beautifully. “Don’t you want it?... Don’t you want to make love with me?”Damn it, of course I did! Her sultry voice alone was making me weak all over as she spoke.I have not held her in my
TRISTAN:“Ah, Tristan…”I licked every inch of her exposed skin from her face down to her neck, her bare chest and her navel. I trailed kisses to the whole length of her legs, making every inch of Albus’ fur stiffen in excitement.“Tristan…”Dahlia opened her eyes once more, but I gently covered them up with my paw.“Don’t peak, love…”I was afraid that once I look at Dahlly’s lovely face directly, I shall lose all my senses again, and she’ll only end up being scared and haunted by the memory of my wolf’s gruesome face forever…She held her hands against my paw, however, and placed them against her chest.“Look at me… I want to see you…”How can I argue with my lovely wife who was being bold like this for the first time? She had casted a spell over my heart that I cannot counteract despite all my effort
TRISTAN:I gasped for air as soon as Dahlia said those words to me, and I found myself bolting upright in bed.It was pitch black now. I couldn’t see a thing… What happened?Suddenly, a pair of arms wounded itself around my waist. I looked at my side.After a few minutes, my eyes had begun to adjust to the dark. It was Dahlly’s slim arms alright, and she’s asleep.Damn it, that dream felt far too real!‘What happened,’ I asked my wolves.‘What else? You dozed off in pleasure,’ Arthur said wryly.‘And?’‘And what now? How can I possibly know what’s going on after we fall asleep?’I looked once more at my wife sleeping innocently beside me… It really was just a dream, right? After all, wouldn’t Dahlly have run away if she really saw the rune in my head?However, something dawned in me earlier when Dahlly and I were in
TRISTAN:After that fatal incident at Lagros, I just couldn’t trust Samalah to be solely in charge of the rogue attacks we were organizing against the nearby vampire villages.I had already told her time and again that the only purpose of the attacks was to frame Count Jeteris as the mastermind. We weren’t there to kill anyone… if we could. We just have to make it seem very threatening, and that’s it.Unfortunately, Samalah’s wrath sometimes had no bounds…I wasn’t part of the council tasked to investigate Count Jeteris’ crimes, but word has gotten out that several vampires had already been killed due to continued attacks under the group calling themselves as the ‘Falcon Wing.’We weren’t the Falcon Wings, of course, but if this is what will cause his downfall, we’ll gladly pin it down on that blasted group he had formed years ago…Samalah and I certainly did no