Rose felt as though she was walking in a daze as she made her way toward her room. The sky was dark and she was grateful that her flushed expression wasn't seen by Dominic.As she made her way to her room, Rose passed by the few painting hung on the wall. She stared at the one portrait of a golden full moon. There were snowflakes falling from the dark sky behind the moon and while staring at it, Rose couldn't help but feeling that the moon reminded her of Dominic.The golden glint on his eyes that often appears when emotions swallow him had the same glare hue of the moon portrait.Rose still had many secrets left unanswered from Dominic. Normally, this should waver her trust for him, but it didn't.She couldn't explain it with words. The amount of trust she subconsciously gave to Dominic was immense that she was surprised to it by herself.Was it because Dominic had saved her? From those danger that lurks around her?Rose couldn't explain what emotions she had rushing in her heart. Bu
Dominic in his room could hear every noise that people made in the entire castle. With the darkness appearing, lesser noise filled his room, enabling him to listen clearly to the people who he want to listen too.Hearing Rose's statement, he felt his heart thumping in joy. Opening his eyes, Dominic placed his hand above his heart, feeling the odd way of thumping that his heart was experiencing from.Rose, Rose, every words she said never fail to bring a new side of him that he never knew exist in him. Happiness and joy, the worries and deadly anger he hold when he thought Rose would die from the arrow earlier, this exaggerated emotions he didn't dare to name was new to him.Cain knocked on the door. Even without him asking who it was, Dominic knew it was his subordinate. "Come in," Dominic said, his husky voice sounded a little hoarse as he hadn't been talking for a while.Cain entered and looked at him who rested on the couch with his arm covering his eyes."You spoke too many unnece
"Miss Josephine," Shawn greeted with a lovely smile, making the girl flinch as she didn't expected his appearance near her room.Josephine quickly pulled herself and smiled politely, "Young Master Shawn.""I thought I had told you that calling me Shawn is alright?" Shawn offered the girl his seductive smile. He knew that compared to Dominic, he was less handsome but it was what made him more approachable than Dominic at the same time. He believed when it comes to seducing woman, he had the upper hand.Josephine nodded awkwardly. She recalled yesterday after seeing Josephine brought away by Dominic, she became concerned. Josephine could see her sister's nervousness and as much as she wanted Jayden for herself, she didn't want her sister to be hurt at the same time.Shawn who had seen this tipped her a little, saying, "Oh that's terrible."Josephine's eyes fell on him, questions filled her eyes. Shawn appeared as if he was talking to himself but he continued to speak, "Dominic is a terr
In the afternoon, Rose was invited by lady Veronica to have a small talk during their afternoon tea party. The lady had been kind enough to invite her and Rose was glad to be with the woman's presence in absence of Lady Ashley's appearance."I will help you with the tea," Rose offered when she saw Lady Veronica appearing inside the room with a tray of teapot and teacups."Please, Lady Rose, take a seat," Veronica quickly offered. "There might be things I don't know, understand, or could do, but serving tea is something I learned by myself. Also, I like to offer you a brew of my tea. It's something I always dreamed of if I have a sister."Rose watched Lady Veronica brushing her pink cheeks shyly. Rose's smile widened, "I don't mind."Walking to the seat, Veronica pulled the teapot, letting the warm reddish brown tea to fill the dainty cup. "If you are born in the noble house, there are certain things we, ladies, are restricted to do," she explained. "Brewing tea, cooking, cleaning. Som
"They say that an obedient dog would know who to bark at and wouldn't bite their master's hands, I expected you to be one of those obedient dog," Lady Ashley raised her hand and clenched them into a fist in front of her. "I never had expected you would become another pain to my neck."Rose held her hands together when the servants around Lady Ashley moved, catching her hands side by side. Rose swatted the servant's hand but the head of the servant came in front of her and delivered a loud and searing slap on Rose's cheeks.Her head was turned to the right by force. Determined, Rose swatted the maid's hand and pushed them away. Lady Ashley who saw this ground her teeth, her anger becoming more visible, "Slap her again!"Rose tried her best to protect herself. She was alone while there were three servants around her. Things were worse for Rose who rarely fought with people, things were looking sour to her when the servant closed tight the door behind her.She managed to dodge the first
Dominic who came back to the castle walked passed by the gate, jumping down from the stallion after the long ride in haste. With Cain's absence to find out more of the foggy forest, another servant had came to assist him but the servant was shocked when Dominic had turn a blind eye to his existence, marching straight to the castle without a moment of rest.Before he came home, Dominic received the small letter sent by Cain using the pigeon. In the letter, it warned how Rose had overheard another of Ashley's plan to kill him.Knowing Ashley, Dominic's current and biggest worry wasn't the fact he was near the mouth of danger yet again, but Rose's wellbeing. The moment he thought what would happen to Rose if Ashley found out her little finding filled him with an immeasurable rage.All that's matter now is Rose's life. Dominic rushed inside the castle, when his sharp nose could smell a scent of blood. The scent of blood filled his nose. He had always possess the strong sense of smelling a
Around his shoulder, there was trace of the warm tears. Rose couldn't hold her cries and hearing how she often tried to stifle down her tears, Dominic couldn't bear to push her into answering his questions.He took her waist nearer to him and coaxed her to stop crying, "It's alright," he whispered, repeating the two words again and again like he never did to others before.Rose who felt anxious and stressed easily fell asleep on his arm before she could realize. Dominic pulled her body slowly when he confirmed how she was asleep. The rim of her eyes were red, urging the anger on his heart again but he know this wasn't the time for him to entertain his ire.At least not yet.Pulling her body closer, Dominic settled one of his arm under her knees and the other on her back, carrying her on bridal style with his firm arm and carried her away from her room.The servants who had been near the room, wanting to help the maid who had fell on the ground and covered by puddle of blood, could onl
Dominic raised his hand, smiling as he saw the fright coloring Ashley's face. He stepped slower and closer to the woman. Ashly who was too scared to move shouted, "Help me! Help me!"Her eyes frantically demand for help from her servants but instead, they flee leaving her behind much to her annoyance. Only the housekeeper wasn't able to move from her place, as if afraid in doing so will only notify Dominic of her presence."Have any words?" Dominic questioned soundly but his eyes were bleak without an emotion or a sound conscience that Ashley could put her trust in."You will never win over me!" Ashley yelled. "You would never!"Without heeding to her words, he continued to walk. Ashley crawled behind while keeping her eyes on him. She refused to look pathetic to her very last moment. Everything she counted on was all for this moment!"Even if I die, no one will accept you!" She threw the words from her mouth urgently, knowing the sore spot on Dominic's heart. But Dominic looked at he
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