Harriet was walking down the hall when he saw Heath and Miriam coming back from somewhere. She walked faster to greet them, but immediately realized something was wrong.
"You're back. I didn't see you anywhere since yesterday. Where have you been?"
Heath sighed at Harriet's question.
"If you knew they were here, why didn't you do anything?" he asked.
"Who? Mother and His Grace the Grand Duke?" Harriet asked back. Heath nodded. But then he saw the woman's smile. "Yes. I heard they're here to watch the eclipse that will happen in a week."
Heath knitted his eyebrows. "And you believe them?"
"Yes," Harriet answered gently. "There's no single reason not to believe them."
Heath stared at his sister intently. He knew she had somewhat made peace with their mother, but he was still mad and worried. What if something happen because they were here?<
Heinrich didn't know the women were having a sleepover party. When he asked the servants about Miss Zircon's whereabouts, they told him to come this way. He then met Ezekiel on his way while he was going to give Ezra something he bought with Heinrich this morning. Zaha... he thought he could see Arai's face for a bit, just like Liam who wanted to see Harriet beside him. So they came together after solving problems together all day. And Heath, he was honestly felt left out. "Look, being caught looking for our wives and ladies while they're having girls' time together is embarrassing enough. Let's mind our own business," said Heath. "And why are you even here?" Ezekiel asked Heinrich. "You're looking for someone?" Heinrich couldn't answer immediately. He couldn't say that he was going to clear up Penelope's misunderstanding. "I'm just... nothing." "What usually gentlemen do in their free time at the Euclase Continent anyways?" Zaha asked. "I'm not sure. Card games...?" Liam chuck
"Isn't it going to be a solar eclipse in a few days?" Ezekiel asked, pulling out his card and replacing it with another from the deck.Heath glanced at him, but then came back to his own card. "What's about it?"He was still worried about the purpose of his parents' visit. If it was for sightseeing, the solar eclipse might be a good reason. He thought that they were here for the twins, so he doubted it."We heard when we were walking down the streets. The solar eclipse is like a 'wishing to a shooting star' event in the north," Heinrich chirped in while fixing his cards.Four out of five men glanced at the oldest person in the room, Liam. He finally responded while exchanging one of his cards, "Yes, it happened every couple of decades, so it is a fun rare event. Lycans worshipped the moon, and when it covered the sunlight, it became a wishing event."Heath closed his hand by putt
"Okay, don't stare at me like that," Penelope sighed. "I'll just ask you something because it seems like I'm the only one inexperienced here."Harriet chuckled, and the others turned at Penelope, waiting for her question.The woman furrowed her eyebrows together, showing a serious face. "Tell me, what usually is the sign that you had sex last night?"The other four tilted their heads. They looked confused as to why this woman asked them this question."Can you please... just answer me?" Penelope didn't put off her solemn face. She was dead serious, and it somewhat looked funny."Okay, I think the most noticeable one is the marks. But maybe it's just me and Miriam, because our husbands are Lycans, and they bite a lot..." Harriet said in a half-laughing voice."And maybe the next will be your waist, and sometimes everywhere else... it felt really sore afterward
"Can we... speak?" Ezekiel asked. "But, I'll go if you don't want to."Hearing Ezekiel's request, Ezra glanced at everyone in the room. She felt bad about leaving her friends for her lover.That was when Harriet suddenly raised her voice."Arai, Penny, tell me more about what happened in the capital. Your Highness, can you grab us some snacks?" she asked.Ezra's eyes glimmered brightly. She exclaimed cheerfully, "Of course!"The woman walked out of the room, grabbing Ezekiel's hands away. Seeing her, the other snickered, but they didn't say anything.Ezekiel covered his face with his hands. He never thought that it would be this awkward and embarrassing to call his own wife from her friend group meeting.They walked away from the room and came to the nearby garden. But Ezekiel who had calmed himself immediately noticed the thin nightgown
The night deepened.Ezra and Harriet were lying beside each other on the wide mattress on the floor, surrounded by their fast-asleep friends.Harriet took this moment to finally ask her about something that was bothering her for months. "There is something I want to ask you, Your Highness.""What is it?" Ezra yawned, staring at the ceiling to force herself to sleep."Do you feel something weird these couple of months? Something weird with His Highness, maybe?"Ezra looked at her with a puzzled expression. The others were all asleep except for the two of them and a gentle cold breeze blew through the room."I don't understand what you mean," she said slowly. "His Highness has been acting normal as always. Except..."The blue-haired woman said while touching her necklace."Except that he suddenly..." the woman's face sl
"Are you ready?"Six men and four women stood in silence in a quiet, big hall. Liam was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the hall, and in front of him was Zaha, standing facing him.The other people were also nearby, but they stood a bit far away because they didn't want to disturb them.It was the day Liam started his last treatment. His recovery was near and right in front of their eyes."I'll start," Liam said to Zaha as he began his own treatment.Golden <Aura> enveloped his body, and slowly, his eyes closed.Suddenly, the air thickened, and everyone's breath caught. The others could feel a tightness in their chest as Liam closed his eyes."His <Aura Mastery> is already this good when he only learned <Aura> for a couple of months?" Ezekiel muttered, and Heath beside him felt the same feeling. They were terrified
Three days and four nights later, Liam's soothing <Aura> subsided in the break of dawn.But it was not over yet. Soon, he would start the final stage, which Zaha assumed to take just a couple of hours but would be the most difficult.The clear consciousness he kept for three days and four nights straight started to heighten. And the sharpness of his senses to the outside world began to dull.Now, he got focused entirely on himself. Then, finally, he came to the state of visualizing.At the end of those critical hours, the number of people in the room increased. Harriet, Miriam, and Heath came, and not long after, Heinrich followed alongside the Old Duke and Old Duchess he met outside the hall.Inside the hall now was the same member of the three days before, gathering together.Ezra came in the morning to see how Ezekiel and Zaha were doing after a slee
The man did it one at a time, little by little, yet fast and precise. Strand by strand, fiber by fiber, Liam created his heart back. He was drowning in an ecstasy of creation while designing a complete vital organ with the perfect interpretation of his lover's heart.He remembered the way its muscle contract and relax. He remembered the feeling of its beating. He remembered the pumping of the blood and the flow after it. He remembered the sound and the harmony within it with the rest of her body.It was the perfect kind of heart.Her heart.And he wanted it as his too.The process became quicker. The tissues and fibers of the heart muscle the man created became more complex. Finally, it intertwined within itself, allowing blood to pass through and creating functional chambers to pump them to the rest of his body.He created a perfectly matched heart for himse