Rose who had came back saw from outside the carriage that stopped in front of the house, immediately knowing it was the carriage that Dominic had used to leave. She quickly pulled the scarf over her body, running toward the door and rushing to see him. Dominic had just stepped out when he saw Rose running with a big smile in her face, “You’re home!”“I’m back,” Dominic chuckled as he hugged her, taking in her small body to his embrace. After noticing how she was silent, Dominic raised his eyebrows, “Did you missed me that much?”He had asked the question to tease her, not expecting for Rose to actually nod her head quickly in conformation. “Are you really worried about me visiting the Orders?” Dominic hushed her by kissing her forehead. “Darling it’s alright. Nothing had happened, see?”Rose nodded when in truth the thing she had worried the most wasn’t his visit to the orders and they posed the least danger to her eyes. She was more anxious as she had made her mind to tell the trut
Dominic felt as though his heart had been pushed into a cold black ocean. He stared still at Rose, feeling angered but more than anything broken when he saw how Rose had turned into a mess. Her tears were spilling out from her eyes, her lips had turned bloody as she had been biting on it. Her hand and her entire body was trembling to the point that it felt as though she had took a dip in the ocean during a cold winter.Pulling her closer, Dominic rested her head on his shoulders. He hugged her wordlessly, letting her cry on his place as he had no more tears to shed. “Cry it out,” Dominic said to her ears. “Cry it out. Don’t worry. Let it out, let everything out.” Rose sobbed. His kindness only caused her heart to ache even more. How.. how can there be anyone who would hurt him? Such precious person.. such person!Rose tightly held to his back, her words came out broken and in breathy gasps as he cried out, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.. I’m—”Dominic who couldn’t hear her plea
Rose who felt relaxed after spilling the truth was glad that there was no negative reaction from Dominic. She knew he must felt a stormy emotions inside him right now and she was correct. But with their body entangled on the bed in a hug, that was enough to put them to rest together, to keep their tired heart a little pause from the fast moving world. Meanwhile, Mona who had locked herself in her room was in the middle of an experiment. She placed a blue colored liquid into a transparent glass beaker. Her eyes stared how the color quickly switched when it touched the red water.“I think I can do this now,” she murmured, pulling the flask of thick blood which she had stolen from Starvos without his notice. She recalled how she had tried to deceive Starvos to steal his blood and was certain that there would be no more chances for her to take his blood without his notice. “That’s why werewolves are troublesome,” whispered Mona. “But if I messed it up now, I would be royally fucked,” s
Rose reached out her hand to hold on to Dominic’s. They then stride toward the house, looking around to find how on a closer look the neighbor houses were empty. Rose gulped, wondering if there was even anyone alive near them.As she entered she found the dark couch with the main chair settled right in front of it which belonged to Hannah Maury who had taken a seat on it. Hannah Maury stared at what’s in front of her which was a teacup. Seeing that Rose and Dominic had entered she smiled, offering the seats in front of her with her hands, “Come over.” Rose felt uneasy with her smile but Dominic encouraged her by leading them both to the seats. As they sat down, Hannah Maury hummed for a long time, waiting for Starvos and Mona who later entered and seat near the chair on her left. “You asked what I wanted?” Hannah Maury questioned, softening the curves of her lips. “I wanted knowledge.” Rose bite her lips, “Do you also form a contract with a demon?” Hannah Maury looked at Rose and
Hannah Maury went silent hearing her words. A small laughter slipped from her mouth that began to get louder and echo all over the room. She pushed her hair to the back of her head and looked back at Rose with her shoulders still shaking, “I can’t do that. Just because I want a successor doesn’t mean that I want to die now either. I want someone who can continue my legacy after I die, not me wanting to die.” Rose sighed plainly as her green eyes rolled aside. The lights from her eyes had disappeared, giving her the coldest look on her face that Dominic had never seen until now. “Well then that means you won’t have a successor,” Rose looked at Dominic, whispering, “Are you ready?” Dominic knew this was her sign to fight. He smiled and whispered back to her, “Even if the sky fall, I will be here facing it all with you.” Rose smiled, then turning her face to Hannah Maury whose face quickly morphed into a wretched expression as anger turned her beautiful face frightening to be looked
“I would say that you are insane,” Starvos chuckled as he saw her hand moving forward, causing the sharp thorn to be thrown to his side, almost piercing his shoulders. “But I am also insane.” Mona who had been holding to his hand from the side, continue to shut her eyes, whispering a magic spell without breaking a single breath. Starvos’s eyes fell on her who didn’t stop the spell, “Are you sure this will work?” “Of course if you are indeed a strong as you proclaimed yourself to be, this magic will for sure protect you,” Mona whispered to him, “But remember not to use this recklessly. I’ll take care of the thorns and you take care of hers.” “Well plantation had never been my forte but killing humans are,” Starvos grinned and when Mona released his hand, he cracked his neck, stretching his wrist that he felt ache a little. “Come here you bitch. I need to make sure you feel the same pain Elizabeth went through.” Hannah Maury still hold herself together even as she was against the tw
Hannah Maury stared at her blankly as though shocked and didn’t expect what she had heard. “What did you say?” She quickly demanded for Rose, her granddaughter to repeat her words. “I think you don’t know how deeply that black magic had gotten into your heart. I had heard it from the Master how people who had used dark magic and summoned demon will have their purest heart colored in black and corrupted by the devils’ thoughts,” whispered out Rose who had brought up the truth. She walked closer to her grandmother, her eyebrow sloping gently. “Grandmother, did you really had called up the demon because you wanted knowledge? Wasn’t it because you wanted a power to avenge yourself who had been betrayed?”Hannah Maury who had never been scared of people ever since she had acquired her power took a step behind, appearing shocked by Rose’s sharp yet honest words. Rose smiled as she understood now what was wrong. “Grandmother, why did you marry grandfather? You don’t like him, you still lik
Hannah spoke with a small laugh in her voice, “Tell me then Rose. What is it that you are scared of?” Rose didn’t reply to her, knowing this was the way for Hannah Maury to take advantage of hers. Rose held Dominic’s hand and Hannah’s eyes fell right at their hands that tightly grasped each other’s. Her lips purse and her eyebrows raised sharply. She then said, “I see… it is quite a simple answer, isn’t it? You told me yourself that you don’t want to lose him. Meaning that man right beside you is your weakness, am I wrong?” Rose’s jaw tick but Dominic held her hand tighter, “Calm down,” he whispered to her. “You are playing to her tune.” Rose pulled herself together again, agreeing with his words that she was falling to Hannah’s trick, knowing the woman wanted her to suffer. Hannah ran over her fingers from her neck which was wounded by Starvos. With one swipe the wound disappeared. Rose frowned as she noticed it was another type of black magic. The more black magic Hannah used,