Rose woke up not long after. She felt dizzy and her head ache as though someone had puncture her head with a nail. She tried to look at her surrounding, but her fever made that opening her eyes was painful for her.Turning around, she had notified the man who had stayed with her like a watchdog, protecting her and caring to all her needs. Dominic didn't miss how she struggle, her small moans didn't slip from his notice as he had always kept a close eye on her.Cold hands that settle on her forehead lessen the heat filling her head, making her more comfortable."Sleep more," Dominic whispered. He caught sight of Rose was shivering and pulled the duvet to cover her carefully."I… it hurts," whispered Rose. She felt she had spoke some words but couldn't process what she said. "Dominic," she called."I'm here," Dominic whispered. He couldn't reply to her first words as he couldn't do anything to lessen her pain. "It would be alright. Sleep more and I promise you the pain will disappear wi
Josephine walked around the garden with deep frown knitting on her forehead. There was only worry that filled her heart also self hatred and guilt.After Rose's disappearance, Dominic had came back alone with Rose on his arm. The man hurried to bring her to his room and tend to her wound, this was everything Josie heard from the servants.They mentioned there was a lot of blood covering Rose. Since her little sister was younger, Josie recalled how Rose could easily caught illness. She was born with a weak constitution and she couldn't imagine how much pain Rose was going through now.It made her to reflect on all her doings. Even though she was fueled with jealousy that her sight was clouded, Josie was taught with kindness by her parents. To protect her younger sister was the responsibility of the elder child. But Josie still couldn't contain her jealousy when she thought how Jayden loved Rose more than her.But reflecting on her past action, made her painful aware of her egoistic nat
If there was anyone who knows the most of the dark histories that the castle posses and its ugly truths, it would be Veronica. More than anyone in the castle, she could perceive people's truest desire by her eyes.Her aunt, Lady Ashley only wanted wealth. But Veronica also noticed how her aunt wanted a position for herself, a position where she would be on the top of the throne, where everything was hers.Like her, Shawn had followed his mother's unending greed. Veronica disliked how Shawn would always pretend to be the kind man he wasn't while painting Dominic in the bad light, despite the truth where the beast was him.It appears that with his wicked ways, Shawn had managed to convinced Josephine that he was a good person. In truth, he wasn't."Good afternoon, I'm sorry, I didn't quite caught your thin presence in the room," Veronica openly showed her dislike through her words but Josephine was oblivious as the lady had kept a very tender smile on her lips.Shawn chuckled that only
Rose nodded her head gently. She was met with Dominic's eyes. His burning gaze could kill her and bring her back to breathe on his air. Her hands held each other as she looked at him, "How many people know of this?""Not a lot," he started, "My late mother, my father, Cain, and you."Rose tilted her neck, "I thought Lady Ashley knew," she whispered, receiving a shake of his head."She witness a simple silhouette from me on my werewolf form to scare her enough to death. The rest are unspoken theory which they put two together to create a bigger picture," Dominic responded to her words tenderly. If one had ever seen him spoken, they would be surprised to the first ever gentleness he uttered from his lips. "Veronica, Shawn, and some others only guessed.""I see," whispered Rose to herself. It was why people had rumored him as a walking curse. She looked at him who was sitting on the side of her bed, pity spreading in her heart. Knowing how he had been avoided and feared for being cursed,
As Rose took in the information about Dominic's curse, she couldn't find a way to break his curse, not when she knows nothing about curses. Dominic spoke, "There were rumors that people bearing the same curse as me was spotted a few time across Essex.""That would mean they would also know about your curse," Rose concluded. "We have to find them." As she paused, she recalled, "The accident which occurred in my village, they also spoke about witnessing a werewolf."In the past, she had brushed the thought aside, thinking it was only a hoax. But now that she knew Dominic was able to change his form, she kept in the possibility that there might be more creatures than humans living amongst them. But then again it wouldn't be easy knowing how they would be orcastrized if they are known to be a werewolf."I had my men searching for the evidence, but we found nothing," Dominic responded. He noticed how Rose's head sunk in disappointment and rested his head on the crown of her head, "Don't wo
All of a sudden, a loud laughter came from Shawn. Rose arched her brows, looking at the man who had held his stomach as though he was about to burst from his unreasonable laughter."Brother your jokes has never failed to be funny. But I don't think these people share our taste of jokes.""Maybe they don't understand yours," Veronica answered.Claudia cleared her throat, "Let us not get sidetracked by other things and discuss the reason for our visit today. As I am sure you also know, Master Dominic. We are here in accordance to the recent attack on your mother.""Step mother," Dominic responded. "I have two mothers and I cannot overwrite one of them. I have very special memory from each of them.""I didn't expect you to have such a heartwarming relationship with Lady Ashley," Aston responded. "It's said that the step mother is always a thorn to their step children and likewise can be said, especially when there is a crown in between.""Not every step mother is a thorn, my step mother
"Are you implying someone in the castle had betrayed you, young master?" Aleks questioned. He didn't had the doubting tone that the other two had, but instead a concerned one."It's a possibility. Considering that this castle is too big for even a human like me to cover," Dominic appealed. "But if you would do your job and help me find the person responsible in this, I would be more than happier."Both Aleks and Claudia looked at each other. "I will promise to take a loot at that matter. I will be frank, the true reason why he had came here is due to an anonymous which requested us to investigate the accident that had terribly happened to Lady Ashley," said Claudia.Aleks added, "If anyone knows this matter, it is time for you to speak out. Any lies will be judged according to the rules of the high authorities." His eyes narrowed, "The sentence of lying could go as severe as death sentence."Rose's breaths hitched but not because she knew she had lied. She managed to keep her nerves t
Dominic's eyes narrowed which Rose didn't fail to notice. He was also surprised to see the amount of wounds on Shawn's body as well as all others.Aston seeing this asked, "Is this the wound inflicted by Young master Dominic?"The question was more of an accuse to Rose's ears rather than a question."It's made by my mother," Shawn responded, calm and chill, "My mother had been someone who couldn't control her anger. Instead, her anger controls her. Everything she did was spontaneous and it hurts people around her. I am note excluded in that list. Although I have never suffered worse than my brother."It was almost unsettling how convincing Shawn sounded to Rose. She could believe no lies were uttered from his statement and added with his confession it made it seemed as though he was one of the victims of Lady Ashley."That is…" Aston couldn't answered and looked at Aleks for help but the man didn't spare a glance at him.Instead Aleks spoke, "I have heard enough of your witness and yo
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