"If death is painful for you, I would face it head-on."********Nemesis was enough word to proof his deep hatred to the lady. He looked at her and at once, that hateful expression disappear from him in a blink of an eye. The change on his face was so quick that Rose almost doubted she had seen him boiling anger inside of him."I suppose I can tell the rest of your story," Dominic unfolded his hand and moved away from the door, making his way to the red cushioned couch in the room. "Let me see, if your aunt was asked by my mother to have her daughter married to me, she must have been threatened by her as well. Knowing what those people have to say about me—"Rose's heart flinched on his words. She recalled how everyone had mentioned to her of how the first son of the duchy was cursed. That person was Dominic.Dominic pulled one side of his lips wider seeing her guilty expression. Even though she wasn't the one to share the gossip, she seemed to be feeling upset for him."Your cousin r
Rose was uncomfortable by the amount of thing she couldn't do on her own. Opening the doors should be done by the servants but one thing she felt most discomfort was by the gazes other servants gave to her. SomewhereShe learned to ignore their curiosity gaze and entered the dining room, greeted by the sight of three people, unlike her first assessment that there would only be two people, the duke and the Duchess, there was another young man who sat with his legs crossed on the chair next to him.Lady Ashely smiled when seeing her, "Dear Rose, come here. How was your morning?"Rose hesitated sitting next to Lady Ashley but walked and took the seat gratefully, "It was great because of your hospitality, I had an extremely good sleep, thank you your highness."Her green eyes slowly travelled on the Duke who sat on the end of the table, beside his wife. His eyes were glued on his dishes as if it was the only thing that mattered to him. Wanting to be polite, she greeted, "Good morning, you
Rose didn't know what he meant by his warning. She followed the Lady who had always been smiling widely. Walking through the wide and sparkling hallway, the woman asked, "How do you find staying in the castle by far, Rose?""It's a beautiful place, Lady Ashley," said Rose with a smile. The woman turned and nodded her head at her compliment."I don't want to bring this up as I am worried you are still traumatized. But do you think you are alright after yesterday's accident?" The woman looked at her with curious eyes."It still frighten me when I remember it, but I think I should be alright soon, thank you for your concern," though Rose reminded herself not to look too tense, she couldn't help looking like a rigid block of ice cube.The lady came near her, "Of course, that how it should be. I understand it is still difficult for you to fit in but you should not worry, everyone here welcomes you with open hands and Dommi seems to be fond of you very much. He isn't someone who could get c
Rose left the Lady before the evening. She took the chance to take a fresh breath of air for herself. Sauntering outside and around the hallways, she kept her eyes on the paintings on the walls.It was an oil painting of all the family members of the duchy. Rose saw the lady standing beside the duke. The duke had the same exact expression as he did in the supper earlier where his face showed no emotions. There was the younger brother and from the features, she guessed the picture was made not long ago.There were more portrait of the family but Dominic was not in the portrait which intrigued Rose. It was a family picture and yet as if he wasn't a part of the family, Dominic wasn't anywhere in the portrait.Rose continued to look over the portraits, wondering which wall have what and if it was possible to find a single portrait of Dominic."Shush!" From afar, Rose heard the hushed scream from the opposite end of the hallway. Curious, she walked nearer to the place, seeing the two maids
Rose prepared the question in her mind and Dominic who stood as if he had an upper hand to the small gamble he had offered, was much more in ease compared to her.She didn't back down, bravely asked her first question which she considered thoroughly, "Do you dislike having lunch together?""By together I assume with my family?" Dominic asked her. His black eyes stared at her intently. She nodded her head slowly, answered by his grin. "If you know my reasoning I am certain you would agree for me not to have any lunch with my family. Yes, I do dislike them.""Why?""Shush." Dominic placed one finger over his lips. "It's my turn now."In heat of the moment, Rose forgot their deal and at once nodded her head for him to go on."How did you arrive here? There was suppose to be another girl who should have taken your place," Dominic was certain it was a coincidence that Rose became his bride when she had saved him only a few weeks ago.With the experiences he had gone through in his life, he
During the day, Rose spent her time sauntering around the castle to know her way around the place. She didn't want to feel as if she was locked inside a large doll-like house. While Rose was uncomfortable with the gazes the servants threw and after the remarks she received, she didn't want to bend her head down as she had done nothing wrong.Dominic was gone by the time it was afternoon. She thought with such a large house, the place would become lively but it was the complete opposite. The duke left and Rose didn't bother putting her nose by asking where he was. Lady Ashley remain in her room while the younger brother of Dominic was gone from sight.Rose, now alone, sighed. She felt that the smaller a house was, perhaps the livelier it is.Standing near the garden, her eyes sparkled when she saw the roses that bloomed all over the place. The sweet fragrance made her smile blossom and she continued to walk, admiring the flowers around her.She noticed that the flower in the red color
Rose was told not to think much about the death which she witness by the maids but she couldn't help but rethinking the sight she saw.She wondered how can anyone manage to see the gore as a normal occurrence? It was because she knew she couldn't.And Dominic…Rose had seen him as a person full of smile and confidence. This wasn't their first time of meeting and after many exchange, she could tell he was similar to an onion. No matter how much she peeled the skin of the onion, there would always be a layer below him, hiding his core which is his true self.It made her question what side of Dominic that she truly knew about.That night at the dinner, Rose glued her eyes close to her plate. She could feel the burning gaze coming from Dominic. Unlike at the time of the breakfast, Dominic was now sitting in front of her. There should be lady Ashley, Shaw, and the duke with them but each of them had some prior agenda to attend.As if— Rose thought in her mind— that the family was avoiding
Josephine wouldn't said it aloud but she had always brood over her flaws. She knew that she was not as kind as her mother, father, and sister perceive. Deep inside her, she always find herself being jealous over her younger sister, Rose.Rose was a girl who would always put up a smile when meeting people. She wasn't noisy but eloquent with her words and a great listener everyone love to turn to during all moments.Josie would sometimes feel that her parents place more concern over Rose compared to her and after the great selfless sacrifice Rose had made for their father, she felt completely useless. It was as if she had turned into such a terrible person for not agreeing on marrying the Duchy's first son compared to Rose who had done it willingly.Her mother put up a smile when looking at her but the doubt in Josie's heart was wide, causing her to doubt all the people she saw.When Rose had left the house, Josie was glad for one thing. The attraction that she noticed Jayden had for Ro
The guests had filled the entrance of the castle faster than how a fire would spread. Colors filled the white walls as not a single place inside was missed from being decorated. Some of the guests gladly greeted Dominic and his wife, Rose. They had acknowledge her soon and even called Dominic “duke”. As soon after the incident, Dominic ruled out is father’s death and take over the duchy, being the new ruler of his fief. “Congratulation on your marriage, I apologize for being late with my words of happiness, Duke Dominic,” said one of the guest, Mr. Hanggs. “It’s nice to see you too, madam Rose.”“Pleasure to meet you,” Rose greeted the man’s words back. “How is the land now to you, Mr. Hanggs?” Dominic asked the wise man who seemed to be quiet. “It does feel different now. I gradually found people who could suddenly fill empty barrel with water as miracle instead of fearing them. I’m also glad to see how wise our King is as he had rooted off all the corrupted royals. Now Essex fee
The ground shook and the impact of the explosion launched both Dominic and Rose backward. When Rose couldn’t hold him tighter anymore, she almost slipped from his back and fell. Seeing that, Dominic changed to his human form, capturing her body even though he was on air and shielded her in a tight hug as they roll down across the cold floor with a harsh thud. Both Shawn and Gallahan was thrown backward. They tried to nail their feet on the floor to no avail as the extreme explosion would had destroyed the entire land if not because of the shield that Gallahan had perfected for years from his life. The entire world turn black for a moment and by the time it turn brighter again, Shawn saw Gallahan who had sprawled across the floor and Balbazor who had been reduced into a scorched human corpse. Even after that however, Balbazor didn’t stop moving. He crawled with his body like a snake, disregarding how his fingers had been turned into ash. No one could ever see his features anymore, o
Gallahan faced off Balbazor alone. It was a crazy feat to not even die after receiving the harmful attack that was made to eradicate humans and Gallahan’s performance so far have shocked everyone including Balbazor himself. “You are agile,” commented Balbazor. “But if this tentacles weren’t around me, I would have destroyed you in seconds by now.” “Making excuses now? When you killed my family with your curse, you were extremely silent. I’ll put that mouth of yours to rest too,” Gallahan quirked a smirked, urging anger and fuming Balbazor. The ancient demon opened his mouth again but this time, Gallahan had a smarter option. Rather than shielding himself, he rushed forward. Balbazor smiled, thinking how foolish this human is for coming on to him face to face but he was startled as he saw Gallahan had dodged his previous explosion attack. This time, Gallahan murmured a spell and a sharp blue light appeared from his hand which went straight directly to Balbazor’s thick neck. The an
“Brother, are we not related?” Young Shawn’s voice echoed against his ears. Dominic looked down at the child that had overheard the conversation of the adult. Gently he wrapped his fingers around his brother’s little ones and gave him a gentle smile, “Does it matter? Nothing will change even if we aren’t related, you will always be my brother.”Back to the present, Dominic found himself yelling at Shawn’s name as Balbazor had thrown a powerful magic at them. Rose’s eyes snapped open, showing the glistening green eyes of her had changed into purple. At the same time she uttered her spell, the wall broke. Dominic took no chance. He jumped from the staircase, landing down his two feet as a wolf and ran after Shawn. Surprisingly, Gallahan had stood in front of Shawn, shielding them both from the explosion. “I told you to stay away child!” Gallahan yelled to Rose who had rebuilt the wall.“I can help you ease the miasma,” she said, convincing the man only to see him frowning in disagre
When Dominic and Rose arrived at the foot of the door, they found that the glow of purple light had stopped and was quickly greeted by the roar of a monster. “It’s Balbazor, the ancient demon,” Rose explained, jumping down from his body. Dominic shook off his fur and turned into his human form, standing right beside her fully clothed. Although there are other pressing matter she couldn’t help and pointed out, “You can be clothed now?” “Hm?” Dominic looked down on himself, “Right I got taught by the other werewolves how to do that the last time we met.” Rose smiled, thinking how surely the relationship between him and his father had evolved into something closer where they could teach and talk to each other eye to eye. Seeing the progress, she felt moved. “Well what is with this Balbazor?” Dominic pushed the door open for her, they both entering the mansion only to feel the ground beneath them shaking. “He is the ancient demon who had formed contract with the first sorceress. She
Gallahan wasn’t daunted by the fact that Balbazor was more than fifth fold of him, looking even bigger and monstrous. Shawn could feel that demon had no pity or hesitation on him, willingly killing anyone who stood on his way. For a moment Shawn questioned how he could ever kill this monstrous being in front of him, finding it abhorrent that his entire instinct yelled that killing it would be close to impossible. Even coming near the monster he could feel the brimming heat that would burn his skin. “Shawn,” Gallahan called his attention to make sure the younger man wouldn’t feel daunted and eaten alive by his own fear. Shawn then watched Gallahan who in comparison seemed to be eagerly waiting for this chance to come his hand. It was something he had been waiting for a long time… finally he could avenge the death of his family who all ended due this demon’s twisted curse! “I want to kill you, you won’t even believe how much I have been looking forward to this day. My heart is beati
Dominic’s silver eyes also noticed the swirl of purple glow from the black mansion and turned his head again to the view before him. “What did you and the Master talked about?” Inquired Dominic while they run through the forest. “I told him that I will do something about the demon inside Isaac if he could help me end my curse but then he surprised me by saying that he doesn’t need help.” Rose responded. “I trust him.” “I do think he is someone who wouldn’t hurt his fellow sorcerer, you weren’t wrong in trusting him,” Dominic encouraged her. “But that sound too good to be true. He always ask people for payment if he help them.” “He did ask for something, he said to continue fooling my demon, Babylion,” uttered Rose. “I asked him why and he told me so he could use Babylion to kill that ancient demon in response.”“So this entire charade is because of him.” Dominic narrowed his eyes. They can’t seem to trust the Master completely, that man would do anything if it means to fulfil his
Shawn’s eyebrows furrowed as he saw a bright purple glow appearing from the room where the master and Isaac had fought in. As the master’s hand had been touched, Isaac had fulfilled his promise to erase the curse that plagued the Master. This should have call for a celebration regardless of the Master’s wish of never leaving the cave. But by fulfilling Isaac’s promise, the demon in him finally demanded for his reward and that reward was… for him to manifest into the world inside his body!When something suddenly clicked in his mind, Shawn bubbled out of anger.“Damn it! Damn it!” Shawn yelled, finally realizing the big mistake that he made by trusting that damn sorcerer king! He rushed out of the room, questioning everything that the sorcerer had done. He first of told him to imbue his magic on the crystal ball as if doing that would help. He said that by calming Isaac, he could convince him to drive out the demon inside. He also claimed that he wouldn’t kill Isaac thus why he had
Rose could feel the dark magic that entered her skin, crawling in such a disgusting way that she wanted to hurl but she couldn’t. There was something that was stopping her from moving and she couldn’t understand it as it felt slightly different when compared to the demonic magic that he uses on her. “Rose, make my life more colorful, won’t you?” Whispered Babylion. “Now go and betray your beloved. I want to see his face twisting in pain. From your memories, he seemed to the most fun to mess with.” Rose wanted to say no, she wanted to yell and disagree with Babylion’s words but she couldn’t move. She then had the sudden idea to play by what Babylion wanted and nodded her head slowly, agreeing that she would betray Dominic while her eyes turning unfocused, looking exactly similar as to someone who had just been bewitched.“Good, now play with me.” Back to the present, Rose run through her thins hands between her hair and pushed the golden locks to the back of her head, she sighed hea