“Clayton, wait!” Sonya tried to catch the rushing steps of Clayton. “I don’t know why you got salty as I told you about Richard, the heir of the Cardinals!” She explained but it seemed too ludicrous having Clayton stop his steps and hang on to what she tried to say. They were walking along the small path.Clayton kept walking and put his two hands inside his jeans pockets.“Listen!” She ran after and stopped in front of Clayton, making him halt from walking. “It sounds silly to you but I need to find out the history of Rose Duville, Wolf Hügel, and her relationship with the eldest son of August Cardinal!”She sighed as she found Clayton turn his head away and grit his teeth.“You can find it out by yourself through Uncle Hengel’s handwriting journals!” After staying in a few seconds of his pause, Clayton inhaled deeply and aimed his thrusting glare at Sonya who was standing in his way. He slid aloofly his body to move, trying to walk away from Sonya, and continued his stroll to the ca

Miss Claudia came out from the other room; she took an old big book that was kept on the shelf inside the room where Sonya and Clayton were waiting for her. But then again, she returned to that room as she was busy mixing some herbs that she read from an old big book.As Sonya tried to peek into the room from her standing place, she could see some ancient herbs were put in some closed jars and some artifacts, some masks with various expressions to the most horrific expressions were put on the shelves, some dolls were kept in some glass cases and some of the unborn animals were put inside some closed jars. The light inside the room was fawningly dim. She took a deep breath. She glanced at Clayton.“How do you know this shop? Did Auntie Caroline tell you about it?” Sonya was drowned in her curiosity and made her voice in a lower tone. She didn’t want Miss Claudia to become more suspicious.“Uncle Hengel took me to this shop several times! When I was a teenager…” Clayton pulled down his

“Jackson said that you fell asleep in the kitchen, Sonya!” Auntie Caroline bailed a conversation while they were having dinner.Sonya twisted the spaghetti with the fork, she paused to put it into her mouth. She looked at Mr. Jackson who sliced his meat.Auntie Caroline munched the spaghetti but she kept staring at Sonya. Her stern stare at Sonya showed some reasons why she did sleep in the kitchen; Auntie Caroline would dislike finding out someone doing something at any improper place or inappropriate time.Sonya sighed. She didn’t have any idea where she should begin to tell Auntie about her falling asleep manner that afternoon.Clayton cleared his throat. He took a sip of his wine after taking a bite of one slice of meat from his dinner plate. “We are going to visit the forest, Auntie. I mean both of me and Sonya, won’t we, Sonya?”Sonya took some sips of water while her eyes were looking at Clayton. “Clayton needs a company to explore the forest and I need some fresh air, Auntie!”

Clayton sighed. He cleaned the jeans and t-shirts he was wearing from dirt.Sonya wiped her face with her backhand. It could be seen that she was still in shock about what happened just now. 'Like a dream in broad daylight!' She put one hand on her waist and circulated her gaze around her. Heavy rain only occurred in the Sacred Land while outside the area was dry as if there were not any single raindrops fell.Clayton took her water bottle from her backpack and gave it to her. He was staring and moving his body around to examine the sites. It was so quiet only the voice of rustling wind that human’s hearing sense could capture. No birds were chirping, no sounds of the rupturing twigs as wild bunnies or wild animals stepping on them. They didn’t even see butterflies flying in the weeds.Clayton tried to calm himself as he took a seat on the boulder, otherwise, he was only sitting on it for a few seconds before getting up and flashing every inch of the boulder with the torch of his phon

Clayton sighed as he checked his cell phone. Jacqueline sent him a message.‘I need to see you, Wölfe. I arrived in the nearby town. I am staying at The Paradise. Meet me there!’ He read the message from his cell phone that he directed the phone below as he didn’t want to draw any obvious attention from other persons who were having breakfast in the dining room.He sipped his morning coffee. He seemed hurriedly finishing his breakfast, a sandwich with hams and as usual without any veggies. He put his gadget into his pants pocket, then he zipped it up.Sonya stole a look at him as she sipped her coffee and munched her tuna sandwich.“Auntie, I won’t stay in the cabin tonight!” Clayton leaned backward on the chair and wiped his mouth with a napkin. “I have a meeting and appointment with a particular friend!” He inhaled and smiled at Auntie Caroline who stared at him.Sonya smirked. “Particular friend, huh?” she whispered to Clayton and beamed.Auntie Caroline didn’t respond with any wor