Silver Threads-I

“I… will check on it,” Mona responded. She should be happy and on her feet jumping with joy as finally the curse she had wanted to erase had met its end.

Yet… she couldn’t feel happy. Before, as she didn’t know about Rose, she wouldn’t have cared too much if Rose would suffer from a curse because she had formed a contract with a demon. She believed that the only way for Rose to achieve her happiness, considering it as a win- win help from her.

But now, she felt as if she was the one who had pushed Rose to the corners, wondering if she was the bridge that had caused Rose to hold the demon’s hands and form a contract.

“You are not happy?” Rose then questioned. Her green eyes looked at Mona but the latter felt foreign to her gaze.

“I am.. happy,” Mona answered but bigger than that happiness was pure guilt. “You should be careful from now on, Rose. The demons, they would always whispers you ideas that you should never listen to. They will try to push you deeper to the black magics whic